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there to make sure everyone survived the celebration.
And now every one of them had a weapon pointed at a child.
Lorenzo lifted one hand.
Slowly.
Palm open.
Fingers spread.
“Stand down,” he said.
His voice did not rise. It did not have to.
“Nobody touches the child.”
The guns lowered a fraction.
Only a fraction.
But in that world, a fraction was mercy.
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