Returning from the Dead: His Secret Lover

Chapter 1232 The Angler And His Prey

Shin lifted the coffee pot once more.

“Aren’t you going to explain things to me?” Sebastian asked.

Shin froze in thought. Several minutes later, he poured a clear, dark brew out of the dainty coffee pot.

“What would you like to know about?”

“Everything!” Sebastian gritted out, barely able to control his patience.

He was understandably agitated. After all, he had been ecstatic to receive the medal and to learn that Shin was still alive. He had even held the medal to his chest through the night.

The joy was, however, short-lived. Sebastian had been horrified to discover that Shin was involved in Eddie’s shady dealings.

The highly-decorated Eddie had had a hand in smuggling firearms and establishing powerful, covert forces, with which he secretly controlled the White House for decades.

Every one of his dirty deeds had Shin’s name on it.

How could this be? Why couldn’t he be a hero who sacrificed himself for the good of his country? Why did he have to band up with some despicable traitor? Is that what truly makes him happy?

struggled to come to terms with

his distraught

Let’s start from the day I finally

of memories overwhelmed

a momentous occasion, given that he had never spoken of these memories to anyone else beyond

up. He still had both his legs then, and he was alone in my room. Eddie seemed excited that I was awake,

empire?” Sebastian asked

nodded. “You heard me correctly. I only found out later on that there were many others like me who Eddie had taken under his wing, though we were more like fish he had

simile he drew was

middle of lifting his cup. He stared at the monk, sensing that something

to a fish? What

powerful back then. I myself was an influential figure

flashed through

correctly, when Janice was on the run, Jonathan brought up a fighter he respected greatly. That must have

both combat and medical skills. He had been the one to

fell into silence at

surgical blade as

that Eddie took you under his wing because of pure coincidence? Did he have Sean go around saving people so they could become his

precisely, he would plan his victims’ downfalls and then ‘fish’ them out of their dire situations. Take Carlos, for example. At his prime, his status was no different than that of your grandfather’s. Eddie was behind Carlos and his troops’ crushing defeat at the Southern lines. He then swooped in to save Carlos by sparing him from a hearing at the military court. After that, Carlos was indebted to