—Mabel—

My breath caught in my throat. It was as though someone stabbed me with a hot knife.

I was about to fall when a hand caught me.

Alec.

“Baby, is everything OK?” he asked. “You look frazzled.”

Tears gathered in my eyes. I glanced at Kyu-hun, Ruth, and the agents with us— they stared at me with curious eyes.

I was about to speak when the text burned into my brain:

‘If anyone else knows about this, you'll never see them again.’

I shut my eyes and shed more tears. My ...