Redefining Protocol: Chapter 9
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A-A+B☼☽☾↔⛶Tommy woke precisely seven minutes before his alarm was set to go off, just as he had every morning for the past twenty-two years. Force of habit, Ainsworth called it. Pathological punctuality, Augustus preferred. The medical term was probably something far more clinical, involving words like “trauma response” and “control mechanisms,” but Tommy had never…
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A-A+B☼☽☾↔⛶The week before publication “One million,” Charlotte said, her voice crackling through Ellie’s ancient iPhone speaker. “Plus royalties.” Ellie nearly choked on her Tesco Meal Deal sandwich, a sad triangle of egg and cress that suddenly tasted like victory. She glanced around the cramped university library carrel where she’d been attempting to salvage her PhD…
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A-A+B☼☽☾↔⛶Strangers bursting into tears upon meeting him had stopped surprising Thomas roughly sixteen years back, right about when he’d grown immune to camera flashes. There was simply a very specific type of person who broke down in tears when confronted with a member of the royal family. As if they’d cracked open some deeply buried…