Chapter 43: The Final Offer

Vance Calloway's emergency meeting took place, at his request, in the newly reunified cellar — a choice Wren suspected was deliberate, a way of making his final pitch surrounded by the very thing he was asking them to give up. "I'll be direct," he said, setting a leather folder on the same barrel Alden's ledger box had once sat on in Wren's memory, "because I respect you both too much at this poi...