At the mention of Stella Cameron's name, Sellers Burton's brow furrowed

reflexively.

"Her again? What happened between you two, exactly?"

Karl recounted the whole story of his feud with Stella.

After listening, Sellers remarked, "You nearly ruined her hand. She certainly has a motive to pull something like this."

He didn't offer much more comment and didn't seem to think Karl had done anything wrong. After all, Stella had butted in where she shouldn't have; if her hand had ended up crippled, she would have had no one to blame but herself.

"But honestly," Sellers continued, "I don't believe she has what it takes to pull this off."

Planting contraband on Karl? That was far beyond anything Stella could manage.

And to have Karl locked up for a night, knocked out, and stripped naked on top of it? The whole chain of events seemed simple, but pulling it off would take some serious resources.

Karl's voice turned cold. "Just because she couldn't do it herself doesn't mean no one around her could."

"This is Neo-Vespera. Neville Connolly, Haynes O'Brien, Jasper Wilkinson-any one of them could be behind it."

With the way those three operate, it's unlikely they'd leave any evidence behind. Especially Haynes-he's meticulous, never

in, holding the results of the investigation, a peculiar look on his

"What's

evidence, but everything points to Haynes..." Sherman shook his head,

enemies, but there was still a difference between

could understand Karl being locked up or even beaten. But to have him

another level entirely-petty and humiliating in a way that was hard to

silent, deep

where it was without Haynes' cunning and capability. He might not be a saint,

hesitated, then asked, "Karl... are you

after all,

the type who turned heads wherever he

were people

tastes-it

realm of possibility. '

needed to be certain-was Karl just stripped, or

was an awkward question, but one Sellers felt he had to ask. Better

to the side,

a nightmare to

around the neck of his beer bottle until cracks appeared

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