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A shaky voice answered, sounding nothing like the self-assured tone from the night before. “I'm sorry. | just
called to tell you we quit.”
Josh went still. “What did you say?”
He glared at nothing, voice low. “You're walking away from a job worth millions?”
“Money means something, but staying alive means more,” the caller responded, barely keeping his fear in
check. “There’s no sense in having money if you end up dead.”
A bitter laugh escaped Josh. “You've got to be joking. Or maybe you're trying to squeeze more cash out of me?
Brad is the biggest coward I've ever seen. What's there to be afraid of? Are you really scared? You all call
yourselves Oiscoll’s best assassins? You sound like amateurs running a scam.”
The voice dropped even further. “Believe me, no one wants to take this job. I'm not lying.”
The line went dead.
Josh tried calling back, but a new alert popped up. Every cent he paid for the hit job was suddenly returned.
He thought for sure it was just a tactic to make him raise the price.
But as he stared at the full amount sitting in his account, he could only sit in disbelief.
He tried contacting a string of other underground groups. Every the brought up Brad’s name, the call was
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He could not understand what was going on. Even when he doubled the offer to a million, nobody would budge.
At last, after a long pause, someone finally explained, “It’s not about
“The cash. We just value our lives more.”
Keeping his voice low, Josh asked, “What are you talking about?”
The answer cquickly. “You don’t get it? Taking that guy out wouldn't be hard. The real problem is someone
powerful is protecting him.”
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Josh was caught off guard. “Who's protecting him?”
He stopped for a second, suspicion clouding his face. Then he asked, “Are you talking about Daniela?”
“I never said that! All I can tell you is nobody's willing to take this job.”
A sharp beep cut through the silence as the call cto an end.
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