CHAPTER SIXTY – PLOT TWIST

"This is so much bigger than your plodding mind can conceive, Bautista. I'm not a leader or even a particularly pivotal player, not really. I'm a free radical, one among many deliberately unleashed into the heart of a corrupt, decaying system primed to let us thrive!" Her voice dropped to an intimate murmur, face dimpling with gratification at the scandalized confusion on Sonia and the other's faces. "Why struggle against the inevitable when our network has already metastasized and taken root inside the very institutions you think can contain us? The law, finance, government - every one compromised and infiltrated down to the studs to serve our interests now." She threw her arms out in a grandiose gesture, careless of the fact that the uniformed cops immediately tensed and reached for their weapons. "This is the true genius of our flourishing enterprise, you see! We aren't some ramshackle gang of thieves to be rooted out by your dwindling principles. We ARE the system now - an insu