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Chapter 80

Author: Joe Michael
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The cameras stayed locked on him, the journalists pens noting across notepads, some typing on laptops. The officers sat forward, their silence heavy. Inspectors leaned against the walls with arms crossed, as though they already knew what Rico was about to spill but wanted to hear it from his own lips.

Rico drew a breath. His throat felt raw, his eyes dark pools of exhaustion and fear. Yet there was something else, something deeper — relief. The kind that came when a man had carried boulders of secrets for too long and now, finally, had the chance to set them down in front of the world.

“I ran far,” Rico started, voice trembling, “after I killed Sandro Danso. I didn’t even think, I just ran. My legs moved faster than my mind could. Kroos… if he found out, he would’ve killed me before dawn. That man didn’t forgive mistakes, not the smallest ones. And this wasn’t small. I had shot someone so powerful right hand, one of the most feared men in the city. I was done for.”

The room shifted. R
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