Seeking Outside Help

But Ezekiel Sims was like most clients: seeing his demands shot down left him dissatisfied. Still, he kept his emotions hidden and merely spoke in a sinister tone.

"I'm paying you to solve problems, not to tell me this can't be done and that can't be done. Understood?"

"Yes, boss! I'm working on it." Amalia Mameed soothed her somewhat unsettling employer.

She had not taken this job purely for the money. Amalia Mameed still remembered the hardships she had endured all too clearly.

In fact, she had also been secretly considering one thing: how to save herself before she was silenced...

Aside from the increasingly frequent dreams foretelling death, the reason Ezekiel Sims had lost control of his emotions was that several people in the information Amalia Mameed had just provided truly resembled the three women from his dreams.

But those three women had all worn blindfolds or partially concealing masks in the dreams, making it somewhat difficult for him to confirm their identities in reality.

After being troubled by this dream for nearly thirty years, he had finally found clues in the real world. How could he not be eager to confirm the targets? Ezekiel Sims wished he could immediately verify their deaths and resolve his crisis.

Perhaps... eliminating all the suspects would be an acceptable solution.

He recalled the background information he had just seen. None of those people came from families he could not handle. Even if some came from moderately wealthy families and could afford lawyers, they did not have enough influence to dig him out.

Ezekiel Sims had originally planned to hire assassins to resolve this long-standing problem.

But each target required a bounty. Even after his screening, there were still nearly ten suspects in total. Hiring assassins for all of them would cost quite