Chapter 96: Money Talks, Liora Listens
Back in the car, Elias sat with his head lowered, quietly wiping his glasses as he replayed the entire encounter with Victoria Frost from beginning to end.
Nothing about it bothered him.
[Are you sure there's no problem?]
System Theta sounded far more shaken than he was, almost as though Victoria had looked through the system too.
Elias laughed under his breath. Sweetheart, there's nothing frightening about this. She knows what I've been doing because I was never especially careful to hide it. If someone wants to investigate, they'll find things. That's all.
Liora knew even more than Victoria did.
Giselle, by contrast, had not bothered to investigate him properly because disdain came too naturally to her. And Serena… Serena trusted her sister too much. She had no idea Liora had already been slipping through her defenses in broad daylight.
Elias did not find any of this unusual.
In fact, it felt almost routine.
