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Props and Stages.

Author: RomanWrites
last update Last Updated: 2026-01-05 03:31:17

Chapter Seventy: Props and Stages

The interrogation room at BSI was too bright, the kind of fluorescent light that made everything look cheap and sickly.

Zhedya sat perfectly still in the hard plastic chair, his tailored suit looking wildly out of place.

A severe-looking lawyer with a sharp bob sat beside him, her fingernails tapping an impatient rhythm on the metal table.

Across from them, Detective Miller looked tired. And Zhedya was playing on that.

"Detective, this is beyond absurd," Zhedya said, his voice a calm, reasonable ripple in the tense room.

"It's a violation of my human rights. You've held me for days based on the word of a man you, yourself, have been trying to pin as a serial killer.”

“A man who is, by every account, profoundly disturbed. Where is your evidence? Where is the logic?"

His lawyer leaned forward. "My client is a respected businessman and philanthropist, not a character in one of your crime shows.”

“We demand an immediate psychiatric review of this 'Loui
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