My Mother Left Me At Sixteen Until Years Later She Came Back For The Inheritance

doing everyone a favor.

Marvin did not touch the folder.

He did not look at it.

He reached into his briefcase instead and produced a second envelope, cream-colored and heavy, sealed with red wax. On the front, in the bold aggressive typeface Elliot had used for documents he considered final, were seven words:

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