Joycee’s Reviews > Into the Deep > Status Update

I braced for impact in case I was wrong, as if that'd do any good to fight a blast and fiery inferno.

jumped to conclusions. I was an idiot.

I'd have done the same thing. We're used to people breaking our trust and our hearts. I'm not mad at you, only sorry I couldn't clear the air last night.

"Lo lamento." A deeper form of regret than lo siento

You didn't just touch me, Alejandro. You undid everything he broke.

kindly remove your head from your @$$ so I can go back to being the grump on the team. Not a fan of sharing the spot with you.

He's a ghost operative from Stratos ... and Mitch is going to use Eden as leverage to get to me.

[Mini spoiler!!! Twisty-turny ... never mind the whole Hollis backstory.]

My family has been accused of hiding everything from the maps of Atlantis to the Ark of the Covenant.

So what you're saying is you're a little Indiana Jones, James Bond, and Lara Croft all mixed up into one?

my parents relocated us here when I was three, but they kept all their other estates around the world active.

I didn't stumble into spycraft; I was raised in it. My family has amassed priceless and sometimes questionable relics, one of which is coming in handy for this auction. The invitations were secured because of it.

We're part of the first intelligence networks that existed centuries before agencies and their acronyms. We even helped design MI6's cipher system.

But we don't serve just one country. We serve order. And we also store secrets. Our vaults make the Smithsonian look like a gift shop.

My family ... we're legacy operatives with titles across multiple empires going back over six hundred years. They've advised the Medicis. Funded exploratory work for da Vinci. Even smuggled artifacts out of Constantinople before it fell to the Turks and became Istanbul. My lineage was granted special diplomatic status by the Vatican in the 1600s, a status that was never revoked.