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"If I were younger, I’d ask you to dinner." Graham Whitmore said it almost as a joke. At 49, the millionaire had spent his whole life building an empire and putting love off for later, until the day he walked…

The slap cracked beneath the glass dome of the Lakeshore Conservatory before the string quartet could cover it. Clara Whitmore’s head turned sharply to the side. Her tiara slipped a quarter inch and a thin line of blood slid from…