Then his phone buzzed. A DM from the client, a man named Victor with a polished LinkedIn photo and no profile picture on Upwork.
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His phone buzzed again.
Arjun didn’t feel relief. He felt the cold slide of a cage door clicking shut behind him—one lined with gold.