Chapter 220: Professionals
Author: Nathan Emorey
last update2026-07-27 23:06:35

Kirill Sorokin did not like his employer.

He had made this clear at the first meeting, in a hotel suite in Geneva, when Mark Epstein spread photographs across a coffee table and talked for forty minutes about destiny. Sorokin had listened. He had eaten two of the small biscuits that came with the coffee. Then he had said, "Your fee is good. Your reasons are stupid. I will take the fee."

Epstein had laughed like it was a joke between friends.

It was not a joke. Sorokin had worked for governments
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