Demonic Pornstar System novel Chapter 706

Chapter 706: Lies!

The blood drained from Maeve Ashbound’s face.

Brittany sat to Alexandra’s left with tears rolling down her cheeks and her eyes swollen red. Trisha sat to her right, jaw trembling, hands locked onto the armrests of her chair with the white-knuckled grip of someone trying to keep herself in the seat. Two A-tier fighters who could kill most living things on the planet, sitting in front of a camera and weeping.

Alexandra looked at Brittany first, and her face opened into tenderness. Open, aching, maternal tenderness from a girl younger than the woman she was looking at, the look of someone who knew exactly where you were because she’d been there.

Her arm reached over and covered Brittany’s wrist, and Brittany’s breath hitched.

Then Alexandra looked at Trisha, and the tenderness was the same but the recognition in her eyes was sharper. She saw the jaw. The rigid posture. The way Trisha was holding herself together through willpower alone, running calculations behind red eyes because the alternative to calculating was breaking.

Alexandra knew that move. She’d done it herself, sitting in a different chair under different lights, doing math on what her life was worth while Maximilian’s threats circled her like hungry sharks.

Her hand trembled when she reached for Trisha’s.

Maeve saw the tremor and filed it. The girl’s composure was excellent, but her hands were telling a different story. Whether that was performance or genuine feeling was a distinction Maeve couldn’t afford to care about anymore.

"No!" Maeve said.

Henrik and Gabriel had gone still beside her.

"The confidentiality clause!" Henrik started. "They signed a-"

"I know what they signed, Henrik!"

Alexandra spoke.

"These girls... Their names are Brittany and Trisha. You might recognize them. Until recently, they were members of the Ashbound guild, serving under Ash Ashbound’s team." She squeezed both their hands. "Their story isn’t mine to tell. So I’ll let them speak."

Brittany wiped her face with the back of her hand and looked into the camera. Her voice came out ragged and wet.

"We signed a contract with the Ashbound guild. In that contract was a clause that made every member of our team financially liable for any losses or legal costs that any other member caused." She swallowed. "We were told it was a safety net. Ash told us it meant he’d carry the weight, because he had the money and we didn’t."

Trisha’s voice cut in, raw but precise.

"He lied. His net worth was never his own. Every Chronos he spent was an allowance from his mother, and when Ash was arrested, the guild zeroed his assets and pointed the contract at us." She exhaled. "Five hundred thousand Chronos each. Seventy-two hours to comply. We were given three days to become millionaires or default into what amounts to indentured servitude."

Trisha looked at Alexandra and squeezed her hand.

"Just like Maximilian Vice used contracts to trap those young boys and girls into silence, the Ashbound guild used a contract to trap us into debt we never agreed to carry." Her eyes were wet but her gaze was steady. "The methods are different but the math is the same if you ask me. You sign because you trust someone, and then the paper you signed becomes the cage they keep you in."

Alexandra’s grip tightened on Trisha’s fingers, and the look that passed between them needed no words.

Henrik slammed his palm on the table.

Trisha spoke into the silence.

"The first call came less than four hours after our meeting with guild leadership." She paused, and the pause was precise. "We don’t know who leaked our situation. But whoever it was had access to the specifics of a private financial meeting, and they decided that two women in crisis were an opportunity."

Maeve’s breathing stayed even and her posture stayed rigid, but her fingers had gone pale against the table’s edge.

"Lies!" Maeve hissed. "This is fabricated. They have no proof that any call originated from anyone connected to this guild! The bitches even said they contacted lawyers! It was them!"

Neither brother responded. Henrik was staring at the screen. Gabriel was looking at the table.

"We need to go back further, though," Brittany said, and she wiped her eyes again. "Because this didn’t start with the contract. It started with orders."

She looked directly into the camera.

"A week ago..."

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Author: Apologies if the Chapters felt a bit short, I’m sick and these past few Chapters have required me to research US law a lot... I hope I didn’t make any big mistake. Thanks for the support