Chapter 71 - Miracle (2/2)

Sean panicked as Max left. He had impulsively followed this man down, but how was he getting out?

Sean peeked out from the closet and noticed that Max was gone and Jackson was in the bathroom, so he quickly took the opportunity to reveal himself to Halia.

”Psst!”

Halia heard a sound and quickly looked around confusedly. All of a sudden, she noticed a hand waving at her from the storage closet.

Her heart quickly skipped a beat. She was sure that it was only her and Jackson in the lab. Was she seeing things?

She had watched horror movies before. Wasn't there a movie about a clown waving at kids from the gutter? Was this something similar?

Halia rubbed her eyes and opened them wide. The hand was still waving. Then, slowly, a person emerged from the shadows.

But, Halia was even more shocked than seeing a ghost when she realized who it was.

”Sean, what are you doing here?” she whispered, just enough for the man to hear.

”I followed Max,” he replied.

”Are you OK?” he asked as he pointed to her foot.

Halia quickly got up on her feet and ran over to her handler, ”It's fake. I'm trying to distract Jackson from building the bomb. He's a good guy, I don't want him to walk down the wrong path.”

”But, we need him to lure out Remy!” Sean said.

”I don't care. I promise I'll help you find another way to lure Remy out, but I'm not sacrificing Jackson.”

At that moment, Halia heard the toilet flush and knew that Jackson was about to come back out.

She quickly told the password for the secret entrance to Sean and ran back to her seat.

Sean looked at Halia with concern. This wasn't right? Had she gotten too personally involved with her target and forgotten her identity? Even if Jackson gave up on this one deal, he was still a criminal. They had plenty of things they could still charge him for. Did she really think he could just leave the past behind and lead a normal life?

Not unless there was a miracle!