CR vs leader

Previously

…With a desperate surge of will, Alex pressed the call button again, then held the phone, and the ledger, close. They braced themselves against the cold brick wall, the stench of garbage and fear filling their lungs. The light was upon them. The footsteps were closing in. The story, the truth, was about to break, one way or another. Alex closed their eyes for a fleeting moment, a silent prayer on their lips, not for their own safety, but for the city, for the justice that was finally within reach. The shadows loomed, but in Alex's hand, a small, leather-bound book pulsed with the weight of a city's reckoning.