Chapter 274: Not a False Accusation
The woman in front of him went rigid.
Elias had not even touched Serena Blackwood. Her body had not moved. Nothing dramatic had happened on the surface.
Yet she looked as if lightning had struck her straight through the spine.
Elias burst out laughing.
"Look at her face."
System Theta saw it too. It captured, with painful clarity, the faint green cast that seemed to pass across Serena's expression.
Had its data gone wrong again?
But System Theta had no time to check. Elias could laugh. It could not. Panic ran through its voice.
[System Theta: Host, w-what are you doing?!]
Why had he suddenly blown himself up in front of Serena?
Had Yvonne Quinn actually hypnotized him?
No, impossible. That made no sense. If Yvonne's hypnosis had really worked on Elias Kane like that, the Bureau could have shut down half its disaster files years ago.
System Theta looked at Serena's expression again.
Her face had definitely gone green.
And those eyes…
