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69. Cold Wind Brings Freedom

Penulis: Monica Wild
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2025-12-04 17:36:41

Winter was biting harder. The grey sky hung low, as if pressing down on the entire city. Snow fell slowly but incessantly, transforming Elysian—and the whole of the outside world—into a cold, silent, and beautiful expanse of white that was somehow threatening.

But behind that frozen landscape, the dark battle was heating up.

Clarisse was shot at the Holt network casino.

Adrian shifts the blame to Vendrake.

The police begin to smell Holt’s drug network.

And—further in the distance—Evelyn Morea
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