Chapter 5

As I plunged beneath the waves, Damien's heart-wrenching scream still echoed in my ears.

"Darling, no! Why did it have to be you?"

But all of that was behind me now. Underwater, I swiftly swam to the submarine waiting to extract me.

The truth was, Damien never knew that this so-called urgent mission had been planned from the start.

It was all designed to catch the mole within our organization. From the moment Damien brought Jolene, that foreign beauty, back to the States a year ago, the organization had been closely watching their budding romance.

As for me, I had never truly left the organization. I was the one appointed to lead this operation to root out the traitor.

The whole training instructor facade was just a cover identity given to me by the organization to facilitate my mission.

Even the alleged kidnapping of the research expert and the supposed plots of foreign organizations were all just an elaborate play, staged by our superiors with hired actors.