The Million-Dollar Heart by Rebecca Ryan

Noah joined the ranks of RST at seventeen, but by nineteen, the organization had splintered into GTO and CK after Jasper’s devastating raid.

Assigned by F-Poison to infiltrate the Vanguard Agency as a mole at twenty, Noah figured he would bide his time, draw Vanguard’s attention with GTO activities, and then slip back into the shadows of his true allegiance. But what he thought would be a brief chapter turned into nearly six decades—a lifetime invested and now, seemingly, lost.

“Tell me, Noah, in all the years you’ve been undercover in Vanguard Agency, what’s GTO given you for your troubles? I’m genuinely curious. Heck, I haven’t even caught a glimpse of the big boss’s face. Have you?” Quincy asked with a cocked eyebrow.

Noah’s frown was subtle but present. “You talk too much. When’s my ride getting here?”

Quincy stepped back, a hint of apology in her voice. “Sorry, Noah, your ship isn’t coming.”

Noah turned, startled, only to be greeted by the dark mouth of a gun barrel.

“Master, there’s no escape now,” Vance said solemnly, gun in hand, a trace of sorrow in his eyes.

Instinctively, Noah stepped back, but another gun pressed against the back of his head.

“You know I don’t move so fast anymore, Master,” a familiar voice stated from behind him.

Noah exhaled heavily. “Let me guess, there’s one more?”

As if on cue, Karen stepped out from Noah’s side, her gun aimed at the man she once revered like a father.

“It’s been a long time, Master.”

Noah’s gaze met Karen’s. Her face, one he had not seen for years, suddenly before him, gave him a moment of stunned pause.

“All these years, and you haven’t changed a bit, my little apprentice,” he reminisced. “Back then, you and Daphne were the only girls among a sea of rowdy boys. Those were the days…”

A cold voice interrupted from behind. “My mother couldn’t make it. I’m here in her stead,” Anna said, her tone as icy as her words.

scanned his surroundings before settling his gaze back on Karen. “Anything else you want to ask, Karen? I’ll tell you whatever

her gun

with your own hands, did you ever think of the bond we once

brief pause,

of you my own. You were merely stepping stones

hope that his master was not a traitor. Noah had carried

was thought dead, it was Micah who first sought out Noah, sharing his suspicions of a mole within the

end for so many years, at most reaching the

had never suspected Noah. Everyone else, but

friends, his aloof nature meant he would do almost anything to achieve his goals, even if it meant hurting those around him. Noah had been the

failed, he had his doubts about Noah. However, that was soon dismissed after

be the very reason

breeze that ruffled

Yorick, found a kindred spirit in Ulysses, but to Noah, she had given the regard one would have for a

a stranger’s bed, it was Noah who helped her

he was,

fate, Noah sat down, checking his

here to flush out F-Poison? Sorry to disappoint, but even if you’ve turned this young lady

smirked. “Master, you taught us to hit the

a tracking virus. Once you opened it, your phone was compromised. Every device near you now pings back to

expected of my apprentices. And Micah,

you’ve been waiting on? They have trackers

Martinez detectors got approved so suddenly. So, it was a trap. Seems like we were too

for you,” Karen said firmly, her gun steady. “The bomb on your belt is already disabled.”Books Chapters Are Daily