Chapter 223: Disaster
Author: Bella Cruz
last update2025-04-27 23:46:33

Amik laughed, loud and careless, the sound ringing through the room. “Don’t tell me you actually believed what this lowlife just said?”

He tilted his head, smiling as if he had just witnessed the most ridiculous lie of the century.

His words dripped with mockery, his voice full of arrogance. He spoke like a man too sure of the air he breathed, too unaware that it could be taken from him.

He looked around for agreement, waiting for the others to join in, but his laughter began to echo back at him. The room didn’t laugh with him this time.

There was a pause. A long one.

Then a voice snapped through the silence like a crack in glass.

"He was telling the truth!" one of the men shouted back, his voice cracking with urgency, and instantly, every pair of eyes in the room jerked toward the television mounted on the wall.

And just like that, nothing else in the room mattered anymore.

The screen lit up with the red-and-white logo of a news station known for breaking high-priority corporate up
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