Sweet Subterfuge

Lewis helped Kevan pull out a chair, addressing him politely as “Mr. Rogers.”

Kevan thanked him with a smile.

Once they were both seated, Gary spoke. “Our ship will arrive at port tomorrow.”

The ship he spoke of was the one that helped Cody transport contraband things–the one that they had called back at the last minute. Gary had used a lot of effort to catch the mole. He did not subject him to private justice nor did he hand the guy over to the police. He even absolved any form of punishment that could have occurred.

He only had one request–to continue working with Cody and pretend that nothing had happened.

They changed the cargo that was meant to be smuggled into Caldor as flour–smuggling four was not considered a major crime, Besides. they had even declared the flour and other cargo to customs. Although Cody could not be sentenced with just this, he had paid in full for that batch of cargo. With this happening, tens of millions of dollars were gone to waste. If this deficiency could not be made up for, the public funds he moved out could not be covered up in time, so Cody getting sent to prison was going to happen sooner or later.

been arrested. Is that related to this?” Gary frowned, a hint of worry in his face. Even if

answer gave Gary

were arrested because they were exploiting minors.”

news was in headlines not long ago, inciting debate among hundreds of millions of people, and it even sparked a wave of criticism of the current laws that were implemented. Gary was probably not paying attention to Caldorian news, which

Gary’s eyes widened with shock as if he

they were second to none to Cody in this. He had always let them be regardless of what he heard about them. After all one could not

nothing to

just never expected them to have

voice

sort of thing, or did

to get it