After calling Wayne Silver, Chloe sat on a bench in the hospital hallway, waiting for him to arrive.

She wasn’t expecting to see a pair of expensive, handcrafted leather shoes appear in her line of sight half an hour later.

“Wayne?” She instinctively assumed it was Wayne Silver, but when she looked up, she saw Horrace instead.

He was still dressed in his usual sharp suit, although his tie was slightly loosened, giving him a more relaxed, almost lazy kind of charm. ...