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“And what is the truth? Are you some new age messiah or are you just a phenomenally accomplished con man?”

“The very fact that you still have doubts is reassuring. You think it’s possible I’m really a spiritual leader?”

“Stella Connery had been a herald, and Luke had always been a man to pay attention to signs and omens.”

“A cult leader with a republican conscience,” Rachel muttered. “What next?”

“Here would be a battle that would test his rusty skills, prove that there was no one immune to the power he could exert, when he chose to focus it.”

“but it rang with truth. Or at least, the truth she wanted to believe.”

“But even across a crowded courtroom she could feel the poisonous strands of his charisma, like a spider’s web reaching out toward any stray creature who wandered in its path.”