Ch. 134: Bonus Chapter — Untold Pains
I tapped away at my laptop, desperate to find any information I could about this Pandora character. She didn't seem to exist in the database, unless she was someone who had been illegally hidden from it. The thought of being outsmarted again gnawed at me like a rat chewing through fabric. I could not stand to lose like that again, to lose to Mr. Anonymous the way I had once done. He had played me, had me dancing on his ropes while Hades chased his calamities. I would stop Mr. Anonymous myself— most preferably outsmart him rather than fight him physically.
It was always a bore to get physical. I thrived on strategy, on manipulation, on weaving webs of deception.
