Ex Officio (#3 EX TRILOGY)
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The manipulative anti-heartbreaker syndicate, Ex Gratia, has succumbed to Felix's plot to secretly amalgamate it with the ubiquitous Ex Vivo to form a formidable alliance with a malicious plot to take the dating company's influence to a level that will affect the nation enormously - even the economy.
Meanwhile, Akoma wakes up in an unknown location to face a revelation that further cracks her hopes of survival and makes her rethink her decision to trust and love: Poku, her cyborg lover is neither dead nor alive - but something else. The storage device handed her before the cyborg's self-destruct links her to a group of anti-Ex Vivo extremists in the shadows of a falling government who seek to end the reign of the company. They convince her that she is the central player in all the ensuing events and give her a Messianic treatment that upsets a percentage of the group with divergent views.
However, the world becomes a more hostile place for Akoma when her paranoia is triggered by unforeseen betrayals and the testimony of a loved one who returns from the dead.
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