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CHAPTER 141

Author: Rejoice Ezeh
last update publish date: 2026-05-02 23:02:08

They had been talking for an hour before Nyla asked the question she had been building toward.

Sophia had been answering questions methodically — about her father's network, about the parts of it she had seen from inside his firm that didn't appear in Dominique's server, about the individuals she had observed over two years of working as Harmon's eyes. The information was useful. Specific. The kind that had the texture of firsthand knowledge rather than documentation.

But Nyla could feel someth
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