CHAPTER 097
Author: LADY E
last update2025-10-07 21:23:52

Maya snorted, a cruel sound that broke the moment.

“You expect us to trust a man who made a living from our worst nightmares?” she said. Her voice was filled with contempt.

“He’s not asking for trust,” Isaac said, dry as old paper. “He’s offering utility. That’s a different thing.”

Luke, who’d been mostly quiet, closed his notebook and looked up.

The journalist in him had measured everything, the motives, consequences even the angle that would make the headlines stick.

But there was also an ache in his face that Princewill recognized quite too well, it was the kind of hunger that turns revenge into words. “If he turns, the story writes itself,” Luke said, “We expose him and the bureau. But if he lies... if he feeds us crumbs...” He let the thought hang like a blade.

Princewill studied Gavin.

Kahuna, still masked, then spoke sternly “You will help us prove the DIB’s protection,” he said. “Names. Documents. Recordings. You will submit to surveillance. You will not leave the city
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