The Traitor's Name
裏切り者の名
A week later, a small card arrived without any return address.
On it were eight strange words in Adam's careful .
Mira understood at once that these were the missing password.
Adam had sent the key before he had been taken away.
That night, with Sofia beside her, she opened the sealed drive.
The truth had been hidden inside a single, heavy folder.
For years, secrets had been sold to foreign governments for money.
Mira's agency had been betrayed from the very top.
Every had been signed with the same private code name.
Then, at the bottom of the file, that code name was explained.
Mira read the real name and felt the room begin to .
It was Daniel who had built the whole secret .
It was her mentor who had sold his country for years.
The man who had trained her was the she had feared.
Daniel had deleted the file, and Daniel had sent the watchers.
He had protected her once, only to keep her quietly close.
Every kind word he had spoken now sounded like a lie.
Sofia gently said that the proof was finally .
"It was Daniel who signed the very first ," she whispered.
Mira had trusted him more than she had trusted her own family.
Now that trust had been turned into a sharp and painful .
The truth was clear, but it had broken something inside her.
She could not stay in a country where he still held power.
The evidence had to be carried far beyond his long .
It was fear, not , that made her decision for her.
Before dawn, Mira chose to run for the distant border.