Hana's hand twitched against the side of her dress, her fingers dangerously close to her stun gun.
Losing half a million points would instantly throw her right back into a catastrophic, life-threatening deficit when there was only 14 days left, wiping out every single bit of progress she had just earned at the Crimson Court.
There was no way to know if a reward like this could come again in the remaining 14 days.
And the physiological penalty? She was fifteen days pregnant. The absolute last thing her body could tolerate was twenty-four hours of explosive, agonizing gastrointestinal distress while trying to manage a mountain extraction.
The math was undeniable. The fifty thousand point reward would launch her straight out of her forty-two thousand, eight hundred and eighty point debt and leave her with a positive balance.
It was a perfect, lucrative shortcut to get back into the green. It was just a highly annoying asset to acquire.
