All Chapters of Howl for Justice : Chapter 161 - Chapter 170

After midnight, the city turns on itself. Glass towers shed their daylight brilliance and sprawl into a thousand black panes, each one a cold mirror for the violence beneath. My office is a floating cell above this expanse, nothing but the pulse of my desk lamp and the scratch of rain against the wi

He smiles, but there’s no warmth in it. “She handled the Kovacs bankruptcy. If she survived that media storm, ours will be a vacation.” I push back from the desk and rise, stretching my spine until it pops, vertebrae by vertebrae. “I want a trace on every communication between Derek and Reynolds, a

I scan the first doc. It’s a technical breakdown, all transactional jargon and references to shell corporations. But in the top margin, in Derek’s unmistakable handwriting, is a note: “Final movement, Zurich, window closes 72h post-trigger. No margin for error.” I hand the page to Lucas, then move

I want to smile. I want to rip off his shirt, pin him to the desk, and show him exactly how apex predators negotiate. Instead, I reach for the pen. We both go for it at the same time. Our fingers tangle, knuckles brushing, and the shock is enough to make my pulse lurch. He doesn’t let go. I feel th

“What is it?” he asks, and I hear the hope, the craving for victory. It mirrors my own, amplified by the late hour and the proximity of another hungry soul. I pivot the laptop so he can see. “It’s the dummy shell. Not just the primary—Derek’s got a whole stack of LLCs feeding into the same offshore