AUTHOR'S POV

"I told you that I did not feel too comfortable doing business with that man," Helen said, her nose turning up to her husband.

"You did, didn't you?" Wolfe asked. He could not deny that she had said that, and not once did he take her seriously. He and Thanore had been through a lot together, and it only made sense that they stuck together. If the deal he had made with Luien had gone through, then they would have been sitting on a gold mine by now.

"I did; I always said it, and ...