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Chapter 67: When the Predator Realizes the Trap

Author: Damilare
last update publish date: 2026-03-13 16:40:58

For the first time since the hologram appeared above the marble table, Victor Hale stopped smiling.

It wasn't dramatic, no sudden transformation, no visible collapse of his carefully maintained composure.

Just a small pause in the rhythm of his performance, a microscopic hesitation that most people probably missed entirely.

But in a room full of people who had built empires on reading tiny signals, who had survived decades in shadow economies by noticing when someone's breathing changed or w
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