Heiress Unmasked: Shaking the World With Geomancy novel Chapter 1239

Seemingly noticing her curiosity, Benjamin decided to come clean after some thought. "I suppose you can call it a superior-subordinate relationship. I'm… Considered part of the agency now."

Shannon was taken aback. She didn't expect him to be so truthful all of a sudden but quickly thought of something. "Since when?"

He recalled the time. "Sometime after I got struck by that fire lightning."

She seemed to have understood something. Not long after the fire-lightning incident, Benjamin went on a "business trip" in Jamborough. Since then, his golden light faded for the first time.

"So, does the Special Security Agency have something to do with your two-time fading of the golden light?" Shannon suspected that they had utilized his golden light for some purposes.

Benjamin wanted to answer no, but when faced with her serious look, he recalled the hundreds of heavenly lightning above Harrisfield Village. In the end, he changed his words. "You can say so."

He looked into her eyes, slightly doubtful, and sighed helplessly. "The connection between the agency and me can't be explained in just a few words. But I can assure you I'd never lied to you before that."

He was truthful when he said he didn't know about his golden light.

Before he awakened his identity due to the fire lightning from the Divine Power, he truly believed he was just an ordinary person—someone who was helpless whenever he wished to help her.

Shannon listened as Benjamin spoke seriously with a deep, dark gaze. Frankly, she had never suspected him.

When she first met him, he appeared completely ignorant about mystic arts. That kind of innocence couldn't have been faked.

Even if he might've pretended from the get-go, from her understanding of him, she knew he wouldn't put his effort into something like that.

She gazed at him and caught a glimpse of anticipation in his eyes. After a brief pause, she pursed her lips and answered, "No."

She no longer had anything to say. Even if she did, her earlier frustration had pushed those words aside.

Benjamin simply looked at her, but his feelings remained indecipherable to her. Despite tracking every changing emotion on his face, she still couldn't deduce whether he was disappointed or feeling something else.

For some reason, his stare made her feel nervous. After pondering, she stated, "There is something."

She turned to him and told him about a decision she had just made. "I'm joining the Special Security Agency, too."

He could keep his cards close to his chest for all he wanted, but she could also investigate the truth herself.