Chapter 140

LUNETH "Ask your husband to drop the suit, and I would back off, delete the evidence and be gone forever," she says. She says it as if she were going to run away, but I knew very deeply that if she tried to pull out of Maljore's plan, she was going to end up dead because she is going to be a danger to everything Maljore has built. "Is that what you want?" Her response is too eager. "So where are you going to disappear to?" I ask but do not wait for her to respond. "The afterlife?" The words drop from lips in a harsh coldness. "Luneth...what are you saying?" She managed to stutter out as her hands tapped on her thighs rapidly. "I will just be going away from here," she adds, and this time I laugh. I get up and begin to pace the room. "You must think that this life you stepped into is as easy as that, don't you?" She looks at me as if she were ready to learn something new. "Listen because I am only going to offer this to you once," I say, and she looks at me. "I can't drop the suit." "Lu