Chapter 34

Owen watched Aurora in silence for a long time, then quietly asked, "Who were those people, and why did they attack you? Do you know anything about them?" Aurora furrowed her brows, her eyes still stinging from the assault. She hesitated for a moment before shaking her head. "I don't know, and I can't say for sure. I've been through something like this before. Suppose it's just personal beef, I could look the other way. But if there's something more behind it, that's a whole different problem." As she spoke, she allowed Owen to gently press a cold towel against her eyes. She still clutched her briefcase tightly in her hands. "Are you saying you've been through this before?" Owen asked, his voice sharp. Aurora nodded. "In my line of work, you need to be prepared for these kinds of things." She said it casually as if it were no big deal, but Owen understood that there was more to this story than she was letting on. Her mentor was a world-renowned physicist, working on cutting-ed