The plan was easy enough to hear and understand, but difficult to act on. Like all espionage operations, it needed quickness, precise timing, and most importantly deception.
Jordan’s footsteps were weightier and firmer than before. After what he had heard, how could he not be? When his entire life, the people he looked up to, the people who raised him, and the people who are now capable of dispatching all of them were people that he can’t trust.
Finch, who for a long time, acted as her surrogate mother. He had never once doubted her. Though sometimes, like that of a mother, he would become too… motherly and embarrass him publicly, he now knew what was real, and what wasn’t.
He had a hard time swallowing it. How does one comprehend the fac
