Well, that’s a risk, Starbucks is owned by Lillith through proxy agents.
Not sure I want to compete with her. She’s not really “good” with competition.
Maoo is correct in his statement.
At the end Tom shapechanges to a variant of his human self to talk to Talarius…which is when he gets stabbed.
However there is even more evidence of this that is exposed by the recording that you basically have to wait for in Book II
(which is not really on the site)