Chapter 135

Rose stared at the television screen, her eyes bright with a feverish glow as breaking news footage showed smoke billowing from Substation 12. The explosion had done exactly what she wanted. Chaos. Fear. The perfect beginning to Camille’s downfall.

“It’s beautiful,” she whispered, running her fingertips over the screen as if caressing a lover. “Look at them scramble.”

Herod stood behind her, his face ashen as he watched emergency vehicles rushing to the scene. This wasn’t what he had signed up for. Sabotage was one thing. Corporate espionage, stock manipulation, those were the weapons of business warfare he understood. But this... this was terrorism.

“We’ve made our point,” he said, his voice tight. “The market will respond. Kane Industries stock will plummet. We can...”

“Point?” Rose spun around, her eyes wild. “We haven’t even started.” She crossed to the hotel room’s small table where she’d spread out maps of the Phoenix Grid’s infrastructure. The maps wer