Chapter 89
Laila POVThe recorder blinked on the canvas like a little red rat.Reid was already scrambling along the beam. Zane hit the cage door so hard the mesh sang. I went for the machine first because a body can wait and a file cannot.I dropped into the ring, grabbed the recorder, and held it to my mouth while it was still hungry.“Laila,” I said, clear. “I hold the licence. This is my bar. The man in the ceiling is Reid. He stole a pin, bit a rail, climbed my house, and now he records my sex to sell a story. I chose the man on the bar. I choose this wood. If you air this, air my name right.”Then I smashed it on the post until the blink died.Pieces. Plastic. Silence.Reid laughed from the beam, breathless.“Copies, Lai. You know that song.”Zane had him by the ankle two seconds later. They hit the canvas together. Reid’s air left him in a bark. The stamp on his jacket stared up, already old news.“Alive,” I said. “Still. If you kill him on my floor the warrant grows teeth.”Za
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