Chapter 116: Video

Those were the words I wanted to say, but instead, I pulled my checkbook and pen from my bag.

"How much?" I asked, raising an eyebrow when Tanner chuckled softly.

"Money won't do, Miss Miller," he replied in a cold tone. "Just make sure you find the truth in whatever you're investigating... so Evangeline can finally be at peace." "Got it," I replied. "Anyway, do you like my cousin?"

I'd been dying to ask that since our college days.

"No," he answered quickly. "But I do want her to be happy."

His sincerity was undeniable. The tone of his voice was so heartfelt, it tugged at me.

But I didn't believe he didn't like Evangeline. His eyes lit up when I mentioned my lovely cousin.

He stood, pointing to the card in his pocket. "I'll have this ready by tonight."

"That fast?" I raised an eyebrow.

I was expecting it to take days... but by tonight?

"Trust my skills the way your cousin does," he said before walking away.

I PACED back and forth inside my unit. I started working on other tasks, but I eventually stopped when I realized my focus wasn't on any of it.

My mind was wandering somewhere else. Could it be a bluff?

It was already ten in the evening. I should have gone to bed instead of waiting for Tanner.

Suddenly, my phone rang. It was Tanner.

"I thought you were all talk," I greeted him, making him chuckle.

email," he instructed. "Your personal email, not

my personal email except for my close friends.

you-" I stopped

hacker. Why was I even surprised he'd figured it

for it. I would've

shook my head, wondering how Evangeline managed to recruit someone like Tanner into her organization. They're opposites in some ways, but oddly similar

sat at my study table and opened my personal email. There it was-the document Tanner

file was heavily encrypted. No wonder he felt confident sending it through email. He made sure only

sound. It wasn't muted before-it was just that the voices had been so faint,

Shortly, the conversation began.

wanted to enter politics," my

across from Senator Windwood, legs crossed, leaning back on the couch,

"Once you're in, no one will dare oppose you." He held a glass in his hand-probably alcohol. They were drinking as they

couldn't imagine the lives of the citizens if he

father took a drag from his

hesitation, picking up a glass of alcohol from the side table and

dealings. The Greensmiths were highly influential, even internationally, especially in Britain. Among all of us, Haze was the wealthiest. That's why he could do whatever he

too early for that, sir," Senator Windwood said, and I

might have their illegal dealings like us, but they genuinely cared for their people. They wouldn't harm

saints. They still had their dirt-but

worst were in

asked,

should start by running for senator,

to be the president of this country. What's

face. It wasn't much, but it must've stung. I could see why he was angry-he hated

the same. We both despise

like you doesn't believe I can achieve them?" Simon

Windwood was busy brushing the ash off his face. So, Simon grabbed

couldn't help

Simon's

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