Insider Trading
Katya shook her head.
Why is it
some people slip through every crack,
while others can't even jaywalk
without the universe keeping score?
Her newest client belonged to the second kind.
He looked guilty
even when innocence sat beside him.
Katya had rules.
First, listen.
Then decide whether fate itself
needed a correction.
His story landed like broken glass.
He had married young.
He loved his wife.
Their child was ill,
and the bills rose faster than hope.
Somewhere, the universe had tilted.
Katya and Tiki had a time machine,
not for changing history,
but for nudging it back into alignment.
Yet every answer carried a price.
Do they save the child
by finding the hidden mutation
before it awakens?
Do they expose Darrin's secret
before it becomes insider trading?
Does Julia discover a truth
that sends her walking away?
Or is the real culprit
someone who hasn't even entered the story?
The timeline refuses to answer.
It only asks riddles.
Some debts are paid with money.
Some with time.
Some with love.
And somewhere between one heartbeat
and the next,
Katya must decide
which future deserves to exist.
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