On a crisp, golden Sunday in October—exactly one year to the day since Avery had been cast into the freezing rain—St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Avenue was filled with solemn, majestic splendor for the christening of Aurelie Henriette Sterling. Cardinal Hayes presided over the private ceremony before the high altar, surrounded by the extended families of Delacroix and Sterling, European ambassadors, and close corporate allies. Aurelie wore an antique royal…
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