CR vs leader

Previously

…Alex stumbled backward, their eyes scanning the room for an escape route, for anything to use as a weapon. The ledger, the proof, was still in their pocket, a heavy weight against their thigh. They had to get it out, had to ensure it saw the light of day, no matter what happened. The attackers advanced, their movements fluid and menacing, honed by experience. Alex knew, with a sickening certainty, that this was it. The culmination of the investigation, the final confrontation. The question was, would they survive to tell the tale? The city’s secrets were about to be exposed, but the cost might be Alex’s very life.