254 - Spy Games (3)

"Did you read them?"

Leaf 3 stiffened at the accusation, though she wasn't surprised. Miri trusted no one—not even her own agents just as Julius had instructed of her.

"No,"

Leaf said evenly.

"As you ordered. I retrieved them, nothing more."

"Good,"

Miri said, her lips curling into the faintest smile.

"If you had, I would've had to kill you."

The room was silent for a moment, the weight of the words pressing against the air.

Leaf 3 didn't flinch.

She'd heard the threat before, and she knew Miri wasn't one to bluff, even If she wasn't the one to do the killing she could already feel it there was a third presence in the room that she could not see with her eyes...

It was surely him, Death always standing vigile of his precious Miri.