PART 2 “Take It Off. You’re Marrying Me.” The Mafia Billionaire Saw His Secretary’s Ring… and Started a War That Shook Manhattan
PART 2
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“Go on.”
She placed the tablet against her chest like a shield.
“I’ve been offered another position.”
For several seconds, the office seemed to hold its breath with her.
Outside the glass walls, Manhattan continued beneath a pale October sky. Ferries traced white lines across the river. Cars moved between towers. Somewhere forty-seven floors below, a horn blared, too distant to be heard through the insulated glass.
Adrien’s face did not change.
“What position?”
“Executive director of the Carter Education Foundation.”
He knew the foundation. Vale Holdings had donated to it twice, although Lily had never asked him to. It had been established in her father’s name after his death, funded initially by a modest life-insurance settlement and maintained through years of fundraising dinners, scholarship auctions, and stubborn determination from Lily and her mother.
Adrien folded his hands on the desk.
“I thought the foundation couldn’t afford a full-time director.”
“It couldn’t before. We received a private commitment last month.”
“From whom?”
Lily hesitated. “An anonymous donor.”
His gaze hardened almost imperceptibly.
“How large?”
“Large enough to fund operations for five years.”
“And the donor asked for nothing?”
“Nothing that I know of.”
Adrien looked away, toward the windows. His reflection floated faintly in the glass—a dark, motionless figure imposed over the East River.
“When would you leave?”
“The end of January.”
Three months.
She watched him absorb it without moving.
That was what Adrien Vale did. He took news into himself and gave nothing back until he had decided what it deserved.
At last he said, “You’ve accepted?”
“Not officially.”
“But you intend to.”
“Yes.”
The word escaped more quietly than she wanted.
His eyes returned to hers. “Why?”
She had prepared answers for this too.
The foundation mattered to her. Her mother needed help. The work would honor her father. She wanted a new challenge. All of those answers were true.
None was the whole truth.
Because every morning she entered this office and measured her day by his voice.
Because every night she left knowing he would never ask her to stay for any reason that was not on the calendar.
Because loving Adrien in silence had begun to feel less like devotion and more like disappearing.
“It’s time,” she said.
His jaw shifted.
“That isn’t an answer.”
“It’s the one I have.”
He studied her with the same merciless concentration he brought to acquisition documents and hostile boards. Lily wondered whether he could see her heart behaving badly beneath the calm lines of her dress.
“Have I given you reason to be unhappy here?”
“No.”
“Has someone treated you improperly?”
“No.”
“Then I’m asking again. Why are you leaving?”
Something inside her strained against years of discipline.
She wanted to tell him.
She wanted to cross the space between them, put both hands on his desk, and say, Because I have loved you through nine hundred mornings, and you keep looking at me as if I am the one thing in your life you can afford not to see.
Instead she said, “Because I would like to have a life that belongs to me.”
Silence descended.
Adrien’s expression did not fracture, but something behind it did.
Lily saw it. Only for a moment.
Then the man Wall Street knew returned.
“Three months is sufficient for a transition,” he said. “Prepare a list of candidates to replace you.”
The words were clean and businesslike.
They hurt more than anger would have.
“I already have.”
“Of course you do.”
There was something strange in his voice, but before Lily could understand it, he turned back to the computer.
“You can go.”
She stood there for half a second longer, waiting for him to say anything else.
He did not.
Lily left the office and closed the door with the same care she used every day.
Only after she reached her desk did she realize her hands were trembling.
That evening, rain glossed the sidewalks and turned the city’s lights into long, liquid streaks.
Lily stood beneath the awning of a small Italian restaurant in the West Village, checking the time while taxis whispered through the wet street.
“Still exactly seven minutes early.”
She looked up.
Graham Mercer was approaching with an umbrella tilted over one shoulder. His smile was familiar enough to return her, for an instant, to a college courtyard in spring—the two of them twenty-one, full of plans, and certain the future would wait patiently for them to make up their minds.
He had changed since then.
The unruly hair was shorter now. His face had acquired sharper lines and the quiet fatigue of a man accustomed to difficult clients. His charcoal coat was expensive without being showy, and he carried himself with the unhurried confidence of someone who had learned that he belonged in important rooms.
“You remember that?” Lily asked.
“You were seven minutes early to our first date.”
“I was ten minutes early. You were three minutes early.”
“Which made you seven minutes early from my perspective.”
“That logic is why you became a lawyer.”
He laughed and kissed her cheek.
It should have felt natural.
Mostly, it did.
Graham had returned to New York six months earlier after nearly a decade in Washington. He worked in the real-estate division of Mercer, Lowe and Finch, the law firm his grandfather had founded. He had reappeared in Lily’s life at a charity dinner, carrying two glasses of sparkling water and remembering that she hated champagne.
Since then, there had been coffee, dinner, a Sunday walk through Central Park, and a cautious easing into something neither of them had named.
Inside the restaurant, candles glowed in small red glasses. The air smelled of garlic, warm bread, and basil.
When they sat down, Graham studied her across the table.
“Bad day?”
“Why?”
“You’re holding the menu upside down.”
Lily looked down.
She was.
“I’m expanding my perspective.”
“Vale?”
Her fingers tightened around the menu.
Graham had never hidden his opinion of Adrien. He considered him brilliant, dangerous, and too accustomed to being obeyed. Lily usually defended Adrien with more intensity than prudence.
“Not everything is about Adrien Vale,” she said.
“No,” Graham agreed gently. “But your bad days usually are.”
She lowered the menu.
“I told him I’m leaving.”
Graham’s surprise was genuine. “You did?”
“This morning.”
“And?”
“He asked sensible questions. I gave sensible answers. The republic survived.”
“That wasn’t what I asked.”
Lily looked toward the window. Rain moved down the glass in wavering threads.
“He accepted it.”
Graham was quiet.
Then he reached across the table, not touching her hand, only resting his own near it.
“You wanted him not to.”
The words were not accusing. That made them harder to deny.
“I wanted to matter,” she said.
“You do matter.”
“To the company, perhaps.”
“To him.”
She gave a small laugh. “Adrien does not confuse reliance with affection.”
“Are you sure?”
“Yes.”
It was the answer she needed to believe.
The waiter arrived, and the conversation shifted. Yet later, as they shared a slice of pear tart, Graham asked about the foundation’s anonymous donor.
“Your mother still doesn’t know who it is?”
“She says the paperwork came through a private trust.”
“Has anyone reviewed the conditions?”
“There are no conditions.”
“There are always conditions.”
Lily raised an eyebrow. “You sound like Adrien.”
“I’ll try to recover.”
But Graham’s expression remained thoughtful.
“What?” she asked.
“Nothing. I’ve just seen charitable gifts used to obtain leverage. Especially when waterfront property is involved.”
“The foundation owns one narrow building in Red Hook.”
“And the land beneath it.”
“Which is worth less than the building’s repair bills.”
“Today, perhaps.”
A small uneasiness touched her.
“Why would anyone care about the foundation’s property?”
Graham took a sip of water. “The city is reconsidering the South Harbor redevelopment zone. If the proposal passes, every parcel near Pier Nineteen becomes valuable.”
Lily had heard the phrase South Harbor that week in three different meetings at Vale Holdings. Adrien’s real-estate division was assembling a consortium to bid on the project.
“Are you working on it?” she asked.
“Adjacent to it.”
“That sounds carefully vague.”
“I’m a carefully vague man.”
He smiled, but the smile arrived a fraction too late.
Before Lily could press him, her phone lit up beside her plate.
A message from Adrien.
Need the revised Singapore figures before nine.
Lily stared at it.
Graham did too.
“You told him you were leaving,” he said.
“I’m still employed.”
“It’s eight-thirty.”
“He needs the figures.”
“He has an entire finance department.”
“He asked me.”
Graham leaned back, disappointment passing across his face so briefly she might have imagined it.
“Of course he did.”
Lily silenced the phone.
For the rest of dinner, it remained facedown.
She still sent Adrien the figures from the taxi home.
The weeks that followed settled into a strange, careful rhythm.
Adrien treated her exactly as he had before.
That was the problem.
He dictated correspondence, reviewed schedules, and handed her negotiations that required absolute discretion. He expected her to notice what others missed and to correct problems before they acquired names.
But the moments between them changed.
He no longer asked whether she had eaten during late meetings. He stopped leaving his office door open while she worked at her desk. When she brought him coffee, he thanked her with a politeness that felt more distant than silence.
Lily told herself this was better.
Professional boundaries were healthy. Separation would make leaving easier.
Instead, each new inch of distance became a thing she noticed.
At home, her mother watched her with the patience of someone who had raised a child inclined to hide wounds until they stopped bleeding visibly.
Elaine Carter lived in a narrow brownstone in Brooklyn Heights, surrounded by books, potted herbs, and framed photographs she moved so often that pale rectangles marked the walls where they had been.
On the Sunday before Thanksgiving, Lily found her mother in the kitchen attempting to make pie crust without consulting the recipe.
“You’re using salt instead of sugar,” Lily said.
Elaine looked down at the jar in her hand.
“That explains why the first pie tasted philosophical.”
Lily took the jar from her.
Her mother’s forgetfulness had become more frequent over the past year. Nothing severe, the doctors insisted. Stress. Grief that had never entirely left. The normal carelessness of a woman in her early sixties who slept too little and did too much.
Lily tried to believe them.
“Sit,” she said. “I’ll finish.”
Elaine obeyed, watching as Lily worked butter into flour.
“Graham is coming for Thanksgiving.”
“He told me.”
“He calls you?”
“He’s polite.”
“So is the man who maintains the furnace. I’m not inviting him to dinner.”
Lily smiled despite herself.
Elaine rested her chin on one hand. “Are you serious about Graham?”
“I don’t know.”
“Does he?”
“Probably.”
“Men usually do when women don’t.”
Lily rolled the dough more firmly than necessary.
Her mother’s eyes softened.
“Is this about Adrien?”
“No.”
“That was quick.”
“Because it’s true.”
Elaine looked toward a photograph on the shelf. In it, Lily’s father stood in front of the old foundation building, one arm around Lily at age ten. Thomas Carter had possessed a warm smile, an untidy mind, and the habit of carrying index cards in every pocket so he could write down thoughts before they escaped.
He had died when Lily was nineteen, after his car left an icy road in Connecticut.
The loss had divided her life into before and after.
“I met Adrien once,” Elaine said.
Lily stopped rolling.
“What?”
“Years ago.”
“You never told me that.”
“I’d forgotten until recently.”
A chill unrelated to the November air moved through the kitchen.
“When?”
“After your father died. Adrien came to the house.”
“He would have been twenty-six.”
“Something like that.”
“Why did he come?”
Elaine frowned, searching her memory.
“He brought a box.”
“What box?”
“I don’t remember.”
“You don’t remember a member of the Vale family showing up after Dad’s funeral?”
“Your father knew many people through his accounting work.”
“He never worked for the Vales.”
“Not directly.”
The answer came too quickly.
Lily set down the rolling pin.
“Mom.”
Elaine rubbed her temple. “I may be mixing things up. It was a terrible winter.”
“What was in the box?”
“Papers, perhaps. Or books. Adrien said your father had left it with his family for safekeeping.”
“Where is it now?”
“I don’t know.”
“You don’t know?”
“I was grieving, Lily. Half the house went into storage when the mortgage became difficult. Some things were sold. Some were lost.”
Lily stared at her.
All her life, she had believed she knew the broad shape of her father’s history. He had been an independent forensic accountant who consulted for shipping firms, insurance companies, and city agencies. He had disliked discussing his clients, but there had never been a reason to connect him to Adrien Vale.
“Did Adrien ask about me?”
Elaine looked down at her hands.
“Yes.”
“What did he ask?”
“Whether you were safe.”
Lily’s breath caught.
“Safe from what?”
“I don’t know.”
The front bell rang before Elaine could say more.
A moment later, Graham entered carrying flowers and a bottle of wine, rain shining on the shoulders of his coat.
He greeted Elaine warmly, kissed Lily’s forehead, and made himself useful without being asked.
The questions remained in Lily’s mind throughout dinner.
Twice she nearly asked Graham what he knew about her father’s connection to the harbor redevelopment. Both times, she stopped.
She was not yet certain why.
On the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, nearly everyone left Vale Holdings early.
By eight o’clock, the forty-seventh floor was dark except for the lights in Lily’s office and the lamp behind Adrien’s desk.
A storm pressed against the building. Rain rattled the glass, and clouds erased the tops of neighboring towers.
Lily was reviewing final candidates for her replacement when Adrien appeared in her doorway.
His tie was gone. His sleeves were rolled to his forearms. Without the armor of his jacket and the careful lines of his usual formality, he looked younger and more tired.
“You should go home,” he said.
“So should you.”
“I live here.”
“I’ve seen your apartment. It’s larger than this floor.”
“Less efficiently arranged.”
She looked back at the résumés.
Adrien entered and closed the door behind him.
Not completely. He left it open by an inch.
Even alone at night, he remained aware that she worked for him.
The thought should have reassured her.
Instead, it made her ache.
“Have you found someone?” he asked.
“Three possibilities.”
“You don’t approve of any of them.”
“I didn’t say that.”
“You marked one candidate ‘technically adequate,’ another ‘overconfident,’ and the third ‘likely to cry by Thursday.’”
“The third one described you as inspirational.”
“A clear failure of judgment.”
Lily laughed before she could stop herself.
Something changed in Adrien’s face at the sound.
For a moment, they were themselves again.
Then he looked at the résumés on her desk.
“Are you leaving because of me?”
The question emptied the room of everything else.
Lily’s smile faded.
“Adrien—”
“Don’t answer quickly.”
She stared at him.
He placed one hand on the back of the chair across from her desk.
“I’ve considered every practical explanation,” he continued. “None of them accounts for the way you look at me when you think I’m not paying attention.”
Heat rose beneath her skin.
“You shouldn’t say things like that.”
“Why?”
“Because you’re my employer.”
“For three more months.”
“That doesn’t make it better.”
“No,” he said quietly. “It doesn’t.”
The storm groaned against the windows.
Lily forced herself to meet his eyes.
“What do you want me to say?”
“The truth.”
“You’ve had the truth every day I’ve worked here.”
“I’ve had your competence. Your loyalty. Your discretion.” His voice lowered. “I’m not certain I’ve had the truth.”
She stood, unable to remain seated beneath the intensity of his attention.
“You have no right to ask me for something you refuse to give.”
A muscle moved in his jaw.
“What have I refused?”
“Anything that wasn’t safe.”
His hand tightened on the chair.
She should have stopped.
Instead, two years of unsaid things pressed forward.
“You know everything about everyone around you,” Lily said. “Their weaknesses. Their debts. What they want and what they fear. But no one is permitted to know you. Not really. You call that discipline. Sometimes it’s simply hiding.”
His expression became still.
She had seen Adrien threatened by regulators, betrayed by partners, and cornered in negotiations involving hundreds of millions of dollars.
She had never seen him look wounded.
Until now.
“My family learned the cost of being known,” he said.
“And I learned the cost of loving someone who never says the words that matter.”
The confession slipped out between them.
Lily heard it.
Adrien did too.
Neither moved.
His eyes held hers, dark and astonished.
She could have pretended she meant love in some harmless, professional sense.
She was too tired to lie.
Adrien took one step toward her.
Her phone rang.
The sound was absurdly loud.
Lily flinched and looked down.
Graham’s name glowed on the screen.
When she looked up again, Adrien had retreated behind whatever invisible wall he carried inside him.
“You should answer,” he said.
“Adrien—”
“It may be important.”
“So was this.”
His gaze met hers.
“Yes,” he said. “It was.”
But he opened the door.
And the moment ended.
Graham proposed four weeks later.
There was no orchestra, no crowded restaurant, and no photographer hiding behind a plant.
It happened on a Sunday evening in Elaine’s brownstone after dinner.
Snow fell beyond the windows. The Christmas tree lights reflected in the glass, and an old Ella Fitzgerald record played softly in the living room.
Elaine had gone upstairs, claiming fatigue with suspicious enthusiasm.
Graham stood beside the fireplace, turning a small velvet box in his hand.
Lily knew before he opened it.
Her first feeling was not joy.
It was fear.
Not fear of Graham. Fear of the life opening before her and the one that would close behind it.
“I had a speech,” he said, smiling nervously. “It was very persuasive in the car.”
“You practiced in the car?”
“Three times. A traffic officer on Atlantic Avenue may now believe I’m engaged to him.”
She smiled, but her pulse had begun to race.
Graham took her hand.
“I know this year has been complicated,” he said. “I know part of you is still standing in another room, waiting for someone else to call you back.”
Lily’s smile disappeared.
He continued before she could speak.
“I’m not asking you to pretend that room never existed. I’m asking you to build something with me outside it.”
He opened the box.
The ring was elegant and old-fashioned—a square sapphire surrounded by small diamonds.
Lily recognized it immediately.
“My grandmother’s ring.”
“Your mother gave it to me.”
“She said it was lost.”
“She found it in storage.”
Lily stared at the stone. As a child, she had watched her grandmother wear it to church and holiday dinners. After her death, Elaine had kept it in a wooden box beside her bed.
It felt less like a piece of jewelry than a fragment of home.
Graham lowered himself to one knee.
“Lily Carter, will you marry me?”
She thought of Adrien in the storm-dark office.
She thought of the silence after her confession, and the weeks since, during which he had not mentioned it once.
He had been courteous. Attentive. Impossible to read.
He had made no promise.
Graham was here.
He was kind. He wanted a family. He spoke about ordinary Saturdays and shared decisions and a house that did not echo when one person came home late.
He was choosing her aloud.
“Yes,” Lily whispered.
Relief transformed his face.
“Is that a real yes?”
She looked at him, at the hope in his eyes, and summoned certainty from the place where she stored all her other professional expressions.
“Yes.”
He slid the ring onto her finger and rose to kiss her.
Lily closed her eyes.
For one suspended moment, she felt safe.
It was not the same as happy.
But it was close enough to be mistaken for it.
At 8:17 on the first Monday after New Year’s, Lily stepped off the elevator wearing her grandmother’s ring.
She had not planned to tell Adrien that morning.
She had planned to send a carefully worded email requesting ten minutes at the end of the day. She had planned to speak calmly and leave before either of them could say something they could not take back.
Plans had always been useful to Lily.
That morning, they lasted two minutes.
At 8:19, she entered Adrien’s office with a folder of briefing documents.
He was standing by the windows, speaking on the phone in Italian.
He turned as she approached.
His eyes dropped to her left hand.
The sentence he was speaking ended in the middle.
Lily stopped.
Adrien said something brief into the phone and disconnected.
Neither of them moved.
The sapphire caught the cold morning light.
“When?” he asked.
“Christmas.”
His face emptied of color.
She had expected detachment. Perhaps a carefully phrased congratulations.
She had not expected this.
“Adrien—”
“Close the door.”
Her heart began to pound.
“Please.”
The word made her obey.
At 8:20, the latch clicked behind her.
Adrien crossed the room.
He stopped several feet away, as though proximity itself required restraint.
“Take it off.”
Lily stared at him. “Excuse me?”
“Take the ring off.”
“No.”
His breathing changed.
“You’re marrying me.”
The words landed with such force that, for an instant, she could not understand them.
Then anger surged through the shock.
“You do not get to issue an instruction like that.”
“I know.”
“Do you?”
“No.” He dragged one hand through his hair, destroying its careful order. “No, Lily, I don’t. That came out wrong.”
“It came out deranged.”
“I’ve had approximately six seconds to discover that you agreed to spend your life with another man.”
“You had three months.”
His eyes closed briefly.
The silence that followed was different from all the silences before it. This one had nothing polished in it.
When he looked at her again, Adrien Vale—the controlled, untouchable billionaire who could dismantle a corporation without raising his voice—looked almost frightened.
“I love you,” he said.
Lily forgot how to breathe.
He took one step closer.
“I have loved you with more caution than honesty,” he continued. “I told myself caution was respect. Then I told myself it was protection. Eventually, it became cowardice.”
She had imagined those words in a hundred forms.
None of those dreams had included a ring from another man on her hand.
“Why now?” she whispered.
“Because I saw that.”
He looked at the sapphire.
“And suddenly every intelligent reason I had for remaining silent became what it always was—an excuse.”
Tears burned behind her eyes, but she refused to let them fall.
“You don’t get to love me only when someone else does.”
“I loved you before.”
“You never said it.”
“I’m saying it now.”
“Now is not before.”
The pain in his face almost broke her.
Almost.
Lily stepped back.
“Graham asked me to build a life with him.”
“And do you love him?”
She looked away.
Adrien’s voice softened.
“That wasn’t an accusation.”
“It sounded like one.”
“I’m asking because your answer matters more than mine.”
She wrapped her fingers around the ring.
“I care about him.”
“That wasn’t my question.”
“No, it wasn’t.”
Adrien nodded slowly, accepting the boundary.
Then he walked to his desk and opened a drawer.
“I wouldn’t have done this today,” he said, “if the ring were the only issue.”
Lily’s attention sharpened.
“What does that mean?”
He removed a slim black folder and placed it on the desk.
“Someone accessed Vale Holdings’ restricted archive nine days ago.”
“What does that have to do with Graham?”
“The access came through your credentials.”
She stared at him.
“That’s impossible.”
“You logged in remotely from your apartment at two fourteen in the morning.”
“I was asleep.”
“Was Graham there?”
Her silence answered.
Adrien’s expression remained controlled, but she could see the effort it cost him.
“I’m not accusing you,” he said.
“You’re accusing my fiancé.”
“I’m telling you what our security team found.”
“He wouldn’t use my computer.”
“Did he know the password?”
“No.”
“Was the device unlocked?”
Lily remembered Christmas night. The wine. The music. Graham carrying her laptop from the kitchen after she had nearly spilled water across it.
A small, cold space opened beneath her ribs.
“What was accessed?” she asked.
Adrien did not answer immediately.
Instead, he pushed the folder toward her.
On the front was a typed label.
SOUTH HARBOR ARCHIVE
CARTER, THOMAS E.
SEALED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER
Lily looked up.
“My father?”
“Yes.”
“You knew he worked with your family.”
“Yes.”
The single word altered the shape of the room.
“You knew all this time?”
“I knew he had consulted for my father. I didn’t know the file still existed until the archive breach.”
“My mother said you came to our house after he died.”
Adrien became very still.
“She remembers that?”
“She remembers a box.”
He looked toward the door, as though measuring how much danger could enter through it.
“What was in the box?” Lily demanded.
“Your father’s personal records.”
“Where are they?”
“Your mother was supposed to keep them somewhere safe.”
“She lost them.”
“I don’t think she did.”
Lily’s patience snapped.
“Stop speaking in riddles.”
Adrien opened the black folder.
Inside was a photograph of a weathered document box sitting on a metal table. Across its lid, in her father’s handwriting, were the words:
FOR LILY CARTER—ONLY IF PIER NINETEEN IS REOPENED.
Lily’s knees weakened.
“Where is that?”
“Our private archive in Brooklyn.”
“You said my mother was supposed to keep it.”
“She returned it three weeks after I delivered it. She said she had received a warning.”
“What warning?”
“She wouldn’t tell me.”
Lily turned the photograph over.
On the back, someone had written a date from twelve years earlier and a reference number.
Below it was a recent security notation.
REQUEST TO UNSEAL FILE SUBMITTED BY: MERCER, LOWE AND FINCH.
Graham’s firm.
Her engagement ring felt suddenly heavy.
“Graham may not know,” Lily said, although she could hear the weakness in the words.
“He may not,” Adrien agreed.
His willingness to concede it frightened her more than certainty would have.
“What’s inside the box?”
“I haven’t opened it.”
“Why not?”
“It was left to you.”
Adrien reached beneath the photograph and removed a sealed envelope, yellowed slightly at the edges.
Her name was written across the front.
Not typed.
Written.
Lily knew that handwriting.
She had seen it on birthday cards, lunch notes, and hundreds of index cards found in her father’s coat pockets after his death.
Her hands began to shake.
“This was inside?”
“Attached to the box.”
“Have you read it?”
“No.”
Adrien placed the envelope in her hands.
For several seconds, she could only stare at her name.
Then she broke the seal.
The paper inside was folded twice.
She opened it carefully.
My dearest Lily,
If this letter has reached you, then the South Harbor agreement has been reopened, and someone believes you possess what I hid.
You do not.
That was the first protection I gave you.
The second was making certain no one knew whom I trusted with the truth.
Lily stopped.
Beneath those lines, her father had written one name.
She looked up at Adrien.
“What does it say?” he asked.
She read the name again, certain she had misunderstood it.
She had not.
“It says he trusted Elaine Mercer.”
Adrien frowned. “Graham’s mother?”
Lily turned the page over.
There was only one final sentence.
Ask Elaine why she changed her name—and why she never told her son that Thomas Carter was still alive when she left Pier Nineteen.
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