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Albrecht closed the folder. “What do you want?”

Whitney felt the cold arithmetic of disaster click into place. If Szász’s man intercepted the codex before the sale, she wouldn’t just lose her commission—she’d be an accomplice to handling stolen goods. Her reputation, that painstakingly constructed cathedral of trust, would crumble. whitney st john cambro

“Why are you telling me this?” she asked. Albrecht closed the folder

She paid him in used twenties from an envelope. “Semantics

“Semantics. The codex. O’Flaherty didn’t find it in a basement. He stole it from a private collection in Düsseldorf in 2019. The owner is a man named Viktor Szász. Do you know what Szász does?”

“It’s St. John-Cambro. And the price is ten thousand, cash, no receipt.”

Albrecht opened his briefcase. Inside were photographs: O’Flaherty leaving the Düsseldorf collection. A bill of sale. A sworn statement from Viktor Szász.