“Or perhaps you can give me your legendary accounting book. The girl in exchange for the book, Lothaire.” My thousands of debts to save her? After all those years of toil? Part of him burned to yell, “The book is yours, just let me have her back!” Part of him was still . . . Lothaire. He told himself that he could trace from here, then find Elizabeth in the future, could retrieve her from his enemies. But by all the gods, I want her now!
