Meeting Xue Ningbo's encouraging and expectant gaze, the usually unruly Jax Kane silently shook his head. Quinn Hale, who had earned a second-degree black belt in Taekwondo at the age of ten, looked eager but hesitated to speak. As for Jules Vance, the little fox who had entered Blackwood merely to build the connections necessary to manipulate the business world later, he didn't dare to raise his head at all.
Standing quietly to the side, watching everything unfold, Marcus "Mace" Reed couldn't help but sigh softly to himself.
Since discovering that she had pushed her body's potential to its absolute limit and could no longer achieve better results on the global stage, Xue Ningbo had asked this question every time a new class of recruits arrived. She had been asking it for five years, pos
