Chapter 339: Candi, Nadine

"It was the screamer next door. You slept right through it. For some reason it made me think of the story you told me about an informant you had to pick up after he'd been roughed up by someone. You said the guy screamed and screamed until you thought your ears would bleed." She lifted a shoulder. "That snowballed."

"Into this?" He gestured at the laptop.

She chuckled. "Yeah. Like I said, explaining how I got here would be painful."

Was there another reason, though? He couldn't allow himself to fully trust Candi, even though he wanted to. She had her own agenda, and that was a fact he couldn't let himself forget.

Then there was Metis itself. While they might know all, he couldn't help but think entangling themselves with the organization might be a very bad idea.

But once again, what else could they do?

Chau Phan hadn't been able to tell them anything except that Zhang possibly feared for his life.

"What do you propose?" Quentin asked.