Reborn in the Enemy's Embrace

Damien was looking displeased as he stood outside of the room. But all his words got stuck in his throat when he saw that I was looking worse to wear.

After a while, he said, "This place has already been exposed. You might want to consider moving to another place."

"Genome Society’s informers are everywhere in this city. We’ll still get caught sooner or later even if we leave, "I calmly said as I walked out.

Damien caught up with me, clearly anxious. "Are we going to sit here and do nothing, then?"

"Do nothing?" I scoffed. ’Only fools would think that we’d sit here and do nothing."

Damien was clearly irritated by my sarcastic comments. He had never been a person with a good temper. He would’ve lost it early on if he were talking to the "Sophia" from before.

But the tables had turned now. He remained quiet even if he was fuming, knowing full well that I could easily kill him. If I didn’t succeed the first time, I’d make sure to get it done the second.

He took a deep breath and asked me gruffly, "What are you planning to do?"

"You’re a businessman. You’ve been managing the Coleman Group well over the years, and Miguel’s business acumen and genes have really shown through your work." I looked at Damien as I leaned against the wall.

"Now that Dexter and I are already exposed, and you’ve intervened when Genome Society wanted to take us away... How about we use this opportunity to strike a deal with the mastermind behind Genome Society?" I asked, looking at him. "Dexter and I can be your bargaining chips."

Damien could take the opportunity to approach the mastermind, pretending to strike a deal. Our goal was to expose their true intentions so that we could find a countermeasure against them.

Genome Society was now in a desperate bid for survival. They couldn’t care about their other projects and laboratories anymore-they just wanted to capture Dexter and me to get their hands on the results of the reincarnation project.

With that, they could regain their wealth and even shift the social order.

That was why they would definitely be willing to meet Damien for talks. It would all depend on whether he had the guts to follow through.

"Sophia," he gritted out. "You really want me dead, don’t you?"

Of course, all collaboration carried risks. Damien would be playing with fire.

By pretending to be swayed by money and power, he would be putting himself in danger as he negotiated with the mastermind. They might kill him on the spot if they did not trust him.

I raised my brows and asked, "Are you scared? Are you calling it quits now?"

Damien gritted his teeth. "You’re really..

This was supposed to be Dexter’s job. He realized that I had been anxious when Dexter was doing something so dangerous, yet I was now encouraging Damien to do it.

He was probably wondering if his life wasn’t worth anything to me. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

"You’re being way too obvious about your favoritism," Damien said, angrily averting his gaze.

"Aren’t you stating the obvious?’ I chuckled coldly. Who else would I play favoritism on if not my own husband?

I said, ’I’ll just get someone else to go if you’re scared. Just admit it if you’re scared. Stop toughing it out if you can’t do it."

Although I was provoking him, Damien was a prideful person. The reason he was attentive to Juliet back then also had something to do with those around him who had egged him on.

His expression darkened from my provocation. He said, ’We’ll be in trouble if we don’t deal with Genome Society."

He was right. We were all in the same boat now we would be in danger anytime if we didn’t deal with their mastermind.

"But how am I supposed to meet the mastermind of Genome Society?" Damien asked, frowning.

Even if Sarah was released after 48 hours due to lack of evidence, how was he supposed to meet the person backing her up when she couldn’t even meet them herself?

"There’s someone..." I gave it some thought before continuing. "Him taking over a laboratory in the desolate area means that he has already passed Genome Society’s test. This person is very ambitious, and that’s why the mastermind chose him."

"You’re talking about..." Clearly, Damien still did not figure out who it was.

"That person is Jimmy," I replied.

Jimmy had been laying low after Genome Society’s laboratories were sealed, rarely showing himself in public.

"I heard that he has taken over a few of his father’s companies. Even though the Black Group didn’t go to him, his business acumen is still impressive," Damien said.

He was aware that Jimmy had been making his mark in the business world recently.

I said, ’Then start approaching Jimmy to work together. You need to convince him of your grand plan so that he’ll bring you to meet the mastermind."

Jimmy was also a sly fox. Only by convincing him that Damien was a self-serving opportunist who wanted to rebuild a grand, powerful "new world’ through the reincarnation project would he think he had found someone who shared his ambitions.

When a group of ambitious people came together, they often felt a sense of mutual admiration in finding a kindred spirit among themselves.

As such, it was now time to put Damien’s acting skills to the test.

"Go on," I said, waving a hand at him.

"You know I’m not good at putting on a show," he said, clearly still struggling with accepting it.

"Forget about acting. Just be yourself and it’ll come across perfectly." I waved my hand in dismissal again, feeling somewhat annoyed.

Damien was about to retort but stopped when he saw my irritation. He walked out sulkily, turning to look back at me when he recalled something.

He said, "Genome Society doesn’t conduct experiments without a reason. Have you wondered why they created Ashton and Xan?"

I had indeed wondered about the reason behind their existence before this. ’My mother wanted to provide me a way to have my descendants with Dexter in order to compensate for the fact that genetic clones can’t have children."

Damien said, "But they’re essentially experimental subjects of the only project in the cruise’s laboratory. Do you think Genome Society would’ve put in so much money and effort in maintaining them and the project if it’s just your mother wanting to make up for her personal regret?"

He was also wondering about the value of Ashton’s and Xan’s existence.

I fell silent.

Before this, I suspected that Sarah wanted to let Floyd and herself take over Ashton’s and Xan’s bodies through the reincarnation project. However, since Ashton was a product of the combination of Dexter’s and my genes, an isolated gene chain had been formed.

It was impossible for both of them to reincarnate into the bodies of the two children.

"I’ll get to the end of this issue. This villa was exposed when Sarah got caught, but they wouldn’t dare to return so soon. You can focus on your task instead," I said, wanting him to put on a good show in front of Jimmy.

Fuming, Damien curtly replied, "I kept him safe for you. Give me a call if anything happens."

He left right away after that.

I looked at the patrolling bodyguards in the courtyard and fell into contemplation.

Damien’s question was certainly worth giving some thought. What was the reason behind pouring their money and effort into creating Ashton and Xan?

"Let us meet Dad." Ashton came over when he saw me standing in a daze.

I looked at him with raised brows. "I’m not done fooling with him yet. I’m not letting you see him for now."

Ashton clenched his fists angrily and said, "That’s my father!"

I rolled my eyes and turned to head upstairs. "And that’s my husband."

I still had to go and cheer Dexter up.