She Was the Treasure All Along novel Chapter 648

Loyce leaned her head against the concrete wall. "Just wait out today, Hank. That's all."

"What's so special about today?" Hank asked. "The trial starts tomorrow."

Loyce smiled softly into the dark. "Today is the day my trial begins."

At exactly 10:04 PM across every time zone, the world’s most iconic, heavily populated intersections—places usually flooded with bright, flashing commercial advertisements—suddenly experienced a massive glitch.

When the clocks hit 10:04, every massive billboard froze. A second later, a deafening screech of static blasted from the city PA systems.

It happened so fast the control rooms were completely blindsided. By the time they realized they were under a coordinated cyberattack, they were locked out. Every major digital screen on the planet had been hijacked.

The ear-splitting noise terrified the crowds below. Pedestrians stopped dead in their tracks, covering their ears and staring up in confusion as the towering screens went pitch black.

Then, the screens flared back to life.

It wasn't a commercial. It was a raw, unedited video.

The backdrop was the luxurious living room of the private villa. Corinne stood in the center of a group of sharply dressed billionaires, her face contorted in an exaggerated, mocking expression of deep sorrow as she mimicked her own public speeches.

"My friends!" her voice echoed through the massive speakers in the squares, dripping with nauseating sarcasm. "We must realize that every wild animal is a treasure! When I see those poor rhinos slaughtered for their horns, when I see elephants fall for their ivory—"

The look of sheer contempt on her face was a terrifying contrast to the angelic, tear-filled persona she presented in her conservation ads.

Around her, the young billionaires burst into laughter.

The video captured their horrifying, casual banter as they bragged about the rare animals they had hunted down that morning.

Watching the faces of these untouchable elites, the confusion in the squares instantly morphed into pure, unadulterated rage.

The video kept rolling.

It showed Dorian carrying a bleeding Ayla into the villa. It showed Corinne coldly suggesting, "Grind her up with the wildebeest meat and feed her to the hyenas tomorrow." It showed Sandro and the others grabbing hunting knives and walking toward the unconscious child, while Jennifer stood by, trembling but doing nothing to stop them.

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