QUOTE : I cut right to the chase. “Someone is backstabbing the people who saved your life, and I won’t have it.” Marcone raised his eyebrows. “Please explain.” I told him about Thorned Namshiel and the coin. “I don’t have it,” Marcone said. “Do any of your people?” I asked. He frowned at that question. Then he leaned back in his chair and put his elbows on the arms of it, resting the fingertips of his hands together. “Where is Gard?” I asked. “Reporting to her home office,” he murmured. “I will make inquiries.” I wondered if Marcone was lying to me. It wasn’t a habit of his, but that only meant that when he did tell a lie, it was all the more effective. I wondered if he was telling the truth. If so, then maybe Monoc Securities had just acquired their own Fallen angel and expert in magic and magical theory.