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She remembered the four bullets Zachary had put into Jeffrey Yates last night. Zachary had been making an example out of him. If anyone dared to breathe a word about what happened at the Wynn family banquet, they would meet the exact same fate.

Because of that, a full night had passed since the banquet, and not a single whisper had leaked into their social circles.

But where was Jeffrey?

Even though she wanted to see the man ruined, he had desperately tried to drag her down with him last night, and she needed answers.

Lowering her eyelashes in thought, she pulled out her phone and sent a text to K.

[Can you track Jeffrey's current location?]

A location was quickly sent back. She put the car in drive and headed straight there.

When she arrived, she realized it was a massive abandoned construction site, the largest unfinished development project in Empire City.

The original owner of this building had crossed Zachary, ensuring that absolutely no one dared to take over the project.

The barren wasteland stood as a morbid monument to Zachary's power.

Cross him, and this was how you ended up.

She stepped into the dark, decaying structure and found Jeffrey in a corner. He looked more like a feral beast than a human being.

He was collapsed on the concrete floor, his mind clearly fractured.

"I was wrong, I know I was wrong. Don't hit me, please don't hit me."

Aside from the four bullet wounds, his body was covered in brutal whip marks.

It meant that after being dragged away last night, Jeffrey had been brought here and systematically tortured.

Whoever did it knew exactly what they were doing. He was barely clinging to life, kept alive specifically to suffer.

Jeffrey curled into a tight ball, muttering endlessly to himself. "Ghosts, I saw ghosts! No, no, he's scarier than a ghost. I was wrong, I shouldn't have gone to the party. I was wrong."

He gripped his own hair, his eyes vacant and unblinking. His pants were soaked with urine.

Jeffrey had lost his mind.

In just one night, a despicable coward like him had literally been tortured into insanity.

Winona slowly crouched down. "Do you remember me?"

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