The Devil's Debt
Only hunger.
The file listed his crimes in stark columns—trafficking, extortion, executions of rivals carried out with public cruelty. Girls taken from villages, families erased, children sold. Every account made her stomach churn, her skin crawl with the crawling heat of rage.
For a moment, the anger was stronger than the ache in her chest.
But rage wasn’t enough to smother fear.
Because the further she read, the more she understood.
There were risk assessments, probabilities calculated with cold precision. Numbers that reduced her life expectancy into percentages on a page. The chance of success: low. The chance of survival: lower.
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