They had built their whole comfort on a lie about where the money came from, and they had spent that comfort insulting me at their own dinner table.

I owed them nothing.

I had, in fact, already given them far more than nothing, for years, and they had never once known it.

Chapter 15 — The Elevator Doors

At that moment the executive elevator doors slid open behind Alejandro, and Stephen Miller stepped out onto the marble, with Richard Vance at his shoulder, and me beside them.

The entire lobby went dead quiet, the way a room does when everyone in it senses at once that something is about to happen.