For a moment, I thought I had misunderstood my mother. The words were too absurd to make sense. My father had spent his entire life protecting me, and somehow, according to her, he had also been protecting the organization from me. I stared at her, waiting for her to correct herself, to tell me she had chosen the wrong words, but she didn't. She simply stood there with tears running down her face, looking at me as though she had been preparing for this moment for twenty-one years. And in that silence, I realized something that frightened me more than the gunfire around us. My father hadn't only been hiding the organization from me. He had been hiding me from it.I asked her what was inside me that could possibly frighten an organization powerful enough to control politicians, judges, businesses and police officers. My mother's lips parted, but no answer came. Adrian stepped closer and told her that she couldn't keep doing this. Every time we uncovered one secret, another appeared be
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