It was to keep my two selves apart from each other, so that I would never have to face what I was doing to myself.

Tonight, for the first time, I was going to let them meet.

I was going to bring the woman from downstairs up into the light, into a ballroom, in front of everyone, and I was never going to separate them again.

Chapter 6 — Kingswell

The office below was lit by thin monitors and legal archives and encrypted feeds linking New York, London, Chicago, Zurich.

On the main wall, embossed and discreet, was a logo almost no one in the world would have expected to find beneath a Greenwich kitchen: Kingswell Investment Group.