Colby picked up the recorder, gave it a quick look, and then set it on the table next to him.


    Gina, clearly on edge, pleaded, "Everything I''ve said is true. I was cornered! Mr. Colby, if you let me go, I swear I won''t breathe a word..." Colby cut her off with a cold, "I trust the dead more than the living."


    Gina''s face went even paler at those words.


    "But I''m willing to give you a shot at staying alive," he added.


    Hearing this, Gina quickly blurted out, "I''ll do anything, just please don''t kill me!"


    "Come here."


    Colby''s voice was calm butmanding as he spoke those words. Gina, not daring to disobey, approached him cautiously.


    Before she could process what was happening, Colby had already injected her arm with a syringe.


    Seeing the needle mark, Gina''s eyes filled with terror. "Mr. Colby! Have mercy! Please, spare me!"


    Anyone who had spent time overseas knew exactly what this drug was. Colby had built an untouchable reputation with it. He never used it on his own people, only those who he suspected might betray him. The drug required regr doses, or else it caused excruciating pain, like being pierced by a thousand needles.


    Gina never imagined Colby would use such drastic measures on her, just a girl caught in the wrong ce.


    "I despise betrayal, so this is the only way I can feel secure," he exined.


    "Mr. Colby... I''m not one of them, you have to believe me! I don''t want to die; I just needed the money. I was just doing a job! I didn''t mean to get tangled up with you!"


    No matter what Gina said, Colby''s expression remained unchanged, as if she were nothing more than furniture.


    "I don''t like repeating myself, and I''ve already told you that once, haven''t I?"


    "Y-yes, you have..."


    Gina didn''t even dare to lift her head as she nodded.


    "What did they send you here for?" Colby pressed on.


    Gina bit her lip, then confessed, "They... they sent me to try and seduce you, to record our conversation, and snap a few pictures. Even if I didn''t seed, it didn''t matter as long as I got one or two shots of being here with you."


    "Is this the Spellman family''s n, or is it your boss''s orders?"


    "Mr. Donny is my boss; there''s no one else. Whatever Mr. Donny asks, I have to do it. So..."


    Gina knew better than to hide anything from Colby.


    "Once you walk out of here tonight, do you know what you should say?"


    "I do... I do!"


    Gina nodded frantically,


    "Once out, I won''t say a about what happened


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    "If you don''t obey, I have ways to make your life a living hell, got it?"


    "I understand... I do."


    "And what are you going to say once you leave?"


    "I-I''ll say that I seeded?"


    Gina cautiously lifted her head, trying to read Colby''s reaction.


    Colby picked up the recorder, erased


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    "The recorder''s gone, but we''ve taken our ''rtionship'' to the next level, got it?"