Chapter 164 - Getting Past her Past (2)

Lina's eyes widened. Something to tell her too? Did he know something about her life that she did not? 

She stood and walked towards him. 

"What is it?" she asked, her hand slowly clutching his sleeve. She wanted this painful night to be over. 

She wanted them both to bare it all. To be partners for real this time. 

"After Victor abducted you from that cafe, and gave you all that information, I was determined to find out who he was and what his ties to you were. Since you did not remember, I had to conduct my own investigation to keep you safe." Shen began to explain. 

"And what did you find?" Lina asked, eager to know what he had stumbled upon about Tachi. 

"We used ageing and facial recognition software to track his movements caught at any location going back as far as we could...and he was sighted with Senior twenty years ago in Country A" 

Lina thought about it for a second. Tachi must have been sixteen himself at the time, twenty years ago. He must have been assisting Senior on a mission in Country A.

"He must have been trained during that time by Senior" Lina pondered out loud. 

"That makes sense," Shen continued, "because we looked at any major events that took place in that region and area on that day and we found something significant"

Shen sighed. If this had anything to do with Lina's childhood trauma that Dr. Yoshi had warned him about after she awoke from her coma, he would be opening a can of worms that could hurt his wife yet again. 

But she had to know the truth. She had the right to confront everything that had happened to her. 

"There was a massive fire at the home of a couple who was working for the cyber security department of Country A. There were no survivors. No foul play reported either. But they were rumored to have been working on something highly secretive that could have gotten them killed and made to look like an accident" he said, finally having let the cat out of the bag. 

Lina slowly came to an understanding, she found herself shiver slightly, skin covered in goosebumps. 

She sat down on the bed again, slowly, contemplating the highly improbable coincidence. 

"I was six then. I can't remember where I came from before I was given to my aunt. She never talked about my parents. I have no memories prior to coming to Country J. But in my dreams, those were my parents! And they were burning!" she cried out, as her eyes swelled with tears yet again. 

What a night it had been. Her heart had been shattered and pieced back together time and again, just to be shattered again. 

If Tachi and Senior had been there, and if that couple in the fire were really her parents, and they were working on something that could cause political problems and hurt important people, there was a high probability that The Agency was assigned to terminate them. 

Shen reached out and held her close to him. She still hadn't remembered. But her dreams, and her 'sessions' with Dr. Hayama, if that was even his real name, and shown her snippets of those suppressed memories. 

"Shhh my angel. I know it hurts. I know you want to know. Let's do it together. They think you're weak, that you don't remember them...that's why Hayama tried to get close to you. There must be something you have that he's looking for" Shen whispered. 

Lina thought about what he had said.

That's true. Why wouldn't they finish her off if they had already tried to for wanting to leave The Agency? What card could she possibly holding that caused the Boss himself to meddle with her. 

But if the Boss was already involved, that meant that Shen was also in the direct line of fire. Not even she could single-handedly protect him from Boss and Senior. 

They were beasts. They were cold, and lacked empathy. And they were intelligent beyond measure, and had trained for years in deadly arts of combat, poisons, chemicals and technology. 

How could she protect her husband? How could she make sure every hair on his head remained intact. 

Lina felt her heart sinking, losing hope and panicking at the thought of having to untangle the mess that was everywhere around her. 

But she had already begun to put in motion something that could save Moshi Corp. But to add The Agency targeting them would be difficult to maneuver. 

She had to fight for her husband. It was too late to back out now. 

"I won't let him get what he wants, darling. He cannot know that I have my memories back. I have to keep going to the therapy sessions. I need to let him feel like he has control, so I can find out what he's looking for." she said, determinedly. 

Shen's heart was in his mouth. After everything he knew, how could he let her go back there! But if they found out that she had her memories back or became suspicious, they would definitely try to capture her to torture or kill her. 

He could not let that happen. He had to keep playing this game until he could hide her away somewhere nobody would be able to lay a finger on her. 

Both husband and wife were calculating how to protect one another. Both were suffering inside, at the thought of losing the other. 

Lina knew what he was thinking. She touched his cheek and leaned in to plant a passionate kiss on his cold, soft lips. 

"I promise you, we are in this together. I won't let anything happen to you, and I promise to let you protect me too" she whispered. 

The hen-pecked husband could never resist his wife's open advances. 

That night, they didn't sleep. 

Shen took Lina as she was, as who she really was. He finally made love to the woman who he loved, but had never really known. But the woman who was now truly his, body, mind and soul.