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Chapter 39 - Bad Blood
Aian pulled up on his scooter outside the newspaper office he freelanced for.
He was ready to drop off the photos he had taken the night before to his editor. If he was honest, he wasn't sure the photos and article would make it to print.
Generally, politicians would bribe the paper to stop the press from running the article. There wasn’t enough evidence to take into the police to press charges, so the only thing the paper could do was slander the name and reputation of the person caught in the photos.
It irked Aian to no end that taking the bribes was considered a legitimate source of income for some of the paper. It felt as shady as the people he caught in his viewfinder but he couldn't do anything until he had more concrete proof of misdeeds and corruption.
He dithered over which photos to hand in for the good part of the night before finally giving in and calling Kalvin.
It dug at his conscience; he was a photo jou
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