Chapter 45: Three Months (Part 2)

Chapter 45: Chapter 45: Three Months (Part 2)

Catharine was one of the few places in Jake’s life where he still felt uncertain in a way money could not smooth over.

They had grown closer gradually over the previous three months, not through grand declarations but through repetition, presence, and the kind of mutual ease that only formed when two people genuinely liked each other’s company. She studied finance too, though she carried it differently from Jake. Where his relationship with the subject had become increasingly sharp and predatory, hers remained curious, grounded, and touched by a belief that finance could still be about institutions rather than warfare.

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