Chapter 78: The Moral Dilemma

I stood frozen, Ava’s voice still echoing in my ears. The weight of the flash drive in my pocket felt heavier with every passing second as if the decision I faced was pressing down on me, suffocating me.

Destroy Daniel completely… or take a different path.

I turned away from the window, pacing back and forth in the dim light of my office. The walls seemed to be closing in around me, the silence amplifying my thoughts. Ava’s involvement had thrown everything into chaos. Every plan I had carefully laid out now felt like it was teetering on the edge of disaster.

I glanced at my phone, still in my hand, Ava’s name flashing on the screen with her last call. My own sister, tangled in Daniel’s web of lies and corruption. And now, she wanted to talk. My instincts screamed to shut her out, to trust no one, but a small part of me—a part I didn’t want to admit—hoped she had an explanation, a reason that would make all of this easier.

But I knew better. In this world, nothing was easy.

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