CHAPTER HUNDRED & FOUR

Lei watched understanding wash over Kayla's features. Then shock. Then doubt.

"Why? Why would you even do that?" Her boss asked, rising from her perch on the edge of her desk. In her heels, she towered above Lei who was kneeling.

"Your brothers made me do it. They wanted to force your hand and force you make a mess of the Zhang contract and cause the chairman to cut you out."

Kayla looked at her with new eyes. Her voice was hoarse when she spoke. "They succeeded, didn't they? They took the contract right out of my hands. With your help."

Lei's heart had become a steady pounding in her chest. It beat wildly as if to compel her to pay heed to it.

'Fear,' Lei thought. 'So this was what fear felt like.'

After all these months, it was still a strange emotion to her. Fear was one of the first things that they beat out of you at the academy when you were young.

If the commander found out you had a deep-seated fear of heights, he would see to it that you spent your nights patrolling the high
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