Across Midtown Manhattan, in the steel-and-glass tower of Hale Industries, Victor Hale was staring at an eight-by-ten glossy photograph. The picture showed Damien Steele stepping out of a black Maybach outside La Lumière, his large hand resting possessively against the bare lower back of a stunning young woman in a burgundy silk gown. Other photographs on the mahogany desk showed the same woman leaving Steele's residential penthouse at 8:30 on…
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