Chapter 116 The Trap Tightens

The following days were a blur of strategy meetings and hushed conversations, all centered around the same maddening question: how had we missed it? The answer felt just beyond our grasp, as if the scammers were playing a twisted game of cat and mouse with us, always staying one step ahead. Despite Kai’s steely determination and the intense efforts of our team, the truth was simple—we were in the dark, and our enemies knew it. Back at home, Kai was quieter than usual, the tension from the ongoing investigation gnawing at him. Every evening, we would sit down to dinner, the table surrounded by an air of unease that none of us could shake. Lily would chatter about her day at school, and Michael, still too young to understand the gravity of what was happening, would play with his toys, blissfully unaware. But the strain was clear in Kai's eyes, in the way he would barely touch his food, his mind clearly elsewhere. One evening, after another exhausting day of trying to piece together the