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Fabian surveyed Emma and Mikel and for the first time, he felt a certain integrity between them. Despite the whirlwind of thoughts that occupied his mind, he felt a slight solace in the fact that Emma and Mikel were equally wary of Tasha.

Mikel, the most sober and realistic of the group, was the first to speak after the silence. “We’ll need to move carefully. If Tasha is keeping something about Loretta or De Silva, she shall be careless at some point. We just have to make sure that we are there when it happens.”

Emma’s attention was fixed on the bar, her eyes squinted in a pensive gaze. “How about we take advantage of the coming events? As Galsan likes the publicity of such functions, we will create a situation or discussion, which we will tempt her into supporting.”

Fabian nodded but his thoughts were already elsewhere. He used Tasha a little, which he was not comfortable with. She had proven to be most elusive, and it was clear there was a game that one played with her and this was