CHAPTER 274
Author: Pen thinker
last update2026-04-30 14:58:33

Without wasting another second, Raymond literally wasted another moment. There was something almost poetic about that contradiction —the way a man who prided himself on efficiency, on precision, on the cold and calculated execution of every single task he had ever been assigned, stood there beside his car for just a breath longer than necessary, staring at the pale afternoon sky as though it owed him an answer. His jaw was tight. His eyes were the kind of still that only comes to a man who has
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