Redefining Protocol: Chapter 18
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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…
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 sheep shit squelched under Toby’s Berluti oxfords. Custom-made, £3,000, now comprehensively ruined. “Christ,” he muttered, lifting his foot and staring at the brown smear across the burnished leather. “Ah,” Guðmundur said. He didn’t stop walking. “Rub it on the grass.” “I’m sorry?” “Your pretty shoes.” Guðmundur gestured at the hillside with one enormous hand,…
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