The Cold Compromise
Luca warned.
“It risks Elias Vance, the professor who wants justice,” Ethan corrected. “It does not make it about Luca hiding. It makes it about the Family’s crimes and Vincent’s role. We turn their violence into the story. We use the truth as our weapon.”
They moved like partners now, the old rhythm returning. They found an empty classroom on campus — one with no cameras, no one in it after dark. For hours, they worked, side by side, the air between them tight with concentration. Luca traced the money in loops and chains. Ethan wrote the explanatory narrative, the plain, hard lines that journalists would need to make sense of the flood of documents.
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