35
Retaliation
Revenge is only sweet in fiction.
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SECRETS will always be part of human nature. It would be tomfoolery to insist that an honest man is innocent to secrets because no one in the world has been brave enough to face the bitterness of truth and honesty without receiving the whiplash of a sweet old lie.
In that sense, I believe that where lies proliferate, unindexed secrets lie deep and dangerous.
Who else in this city could be my eyes and nose to sift and sniff the holes that might lead me somewhere closer to deceive Vanthor Gu than the gentle storm himself, Detective Six, of the Special City Crime Investigation Unit? Only a few people knew about their night jobs because the seven of them who specialize in the field are discrete and fully dedicated in acting their day
