A PRICE FOR MIDNIGHT SUCCESS

Previously

…Lena offered a small, almost imperceptible nod. "Then the tunnels await, Elias. But be warned. Once you step into this darkness, there's no easy way back to the light." He took a deep breath, the damp, metallic air filling his lungs. The fear was still there, a cold knot in his stomach, but it was now mingled with something else – a burning curiosity, a nascent courage. He was no longer just a courier. He was a witness. And witnesses, he was beginning to understand, had a price on their heads. But they also had the power to expose the truth. The crossroads of fear had brought him to the edge of a precipice, and he knew, with a certainty that chilled him to the bone, that he had to jump.