After we had returned to the villa, I sat alone on the sofa with a cigarette stick between my fingers. My expression was calm, but my emotions were a little more turbulent than that. Frankly, I was still recovering from the bombshell that had been dropped on my lap a while ago. Never in a million years did I imagine that a girl I ran into by chance would be involved in such a massive web of intrigue and danger. The SOF, the Apocalypse, the Spark project, super batteries, and technology that could actually revolutionize the field of energy as we know it… These terms had not existed in my brain an hour ago. Now, I could hardly shake them out of my head. To think that frail yet tough girl would become the target of an international criminal organization. To think that her life was i

