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Chapter 138

Author: Paola Yu
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I had ignored all the warnings. I had gone to the final lengths with Angie, who had blackmailed me into escaping with her. If we didn't run away together, she wouldn't give me the key database for the operation—the one she'd stolen out of "love" for me. So, I ran. The rest was history. We were caught, and I was tortured as they suspected my real identity, but I was saved just in time.

My agency had forced me into retirement, and my family had pressured me to settle down, thinking this whole thing was just a reckless affair that had spiraled out of control.

Would I give them the satisfaction of bending to their will? No. Never. The day Leona died was the day the last person who could ever give me orders was gone. Since adulthood, I had lived pretending to follow orders, all while pursuing my own agenda.

The plan was simple—at least as far as it could be. I would wear this disguise of a reformed businessman and establish a life in a new country. The fact that I happened to buy into th
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