Chapter 161

• AMARIS POV
• When Theron told me Lazaro had secured the evidence we’d been hoping for, a wave of relief nearly knocked me off my feet. I was close to tears. It felt like we had finally found the critical piece of the puzzle. The next day, Lazaro reached out to his contacts in the FBI, and just like that, the wheels began turning.
• Soon. That word kept echoing through my mind. It should’ve felt reassuring, like the promise of justice, but instead, it only stoked the anxious storm already brewing inside me. Doubt clawed at the corners of my thoughts. After everything Theron and I had endured, it seemed far too easy to have gotten that recording from the informant. Maybe I was being paranoid. Maybe I’d just become too jaded to trust good fortune. Still, I couldn’t shake the unease. I needed answers. I needed to be ready for anything Chun Kit might throw at us.