The Broker's Shadow
The name hung in the air like a curse. I sat in my office, staring at the wall. Julian Voss was across from me, his face pale, his eyes hollow. The man I'd broken out of Blackwood. The man who'd been a monster. The man who was now my only ally. "The Broker," I said. "Tell me everything." Julian leaned back in his chair. His hands were shaking. I'd never seen him like this. The man who'd once ruled Hellsmouth with an iron fist was now a shadow of himself. "The Broker is a ghost," Julian said. "No one knows who he really is. No one knows what he looks like. He operates through proxies. Through networks. Through fear." "How do you know about him?" "Because I was one of his proxies. Before the coma. Before everything. He was the one who put me in power. He was the one who gave me the res
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