Damn it, I was naked in front of him. Seeing his smug look made me so angry that I went to him as fast as I could to try to get my panties back. He raised his hand above his head on purpose, and I had to move closer to reach my underwear. I realized we were too close when my chest bumped into his strong chest muscles."We shouldn't be this close," I whispered.Then Frade realized something and gave me back my underwear. I was about to leave when he took my hand."I'm sorry. I was just trying to play a joke on you," he said."Frade, I think you know very well that I am going to marry your brother and you are going to marry Sarah," I began to regret agreeing to play such a childish game with him. I should say no when he suggested swimming."We should keep our distance," I said sadly. "It's better for all of us.""Sorry." Frade looked at me apologetically. "I didn't mean to offend you. I just wanted you to be happy. When you smile, I feel happy."“You should say that to your fiancee,” I
"Liv, where are you?" I asked over the phone. "Liv, are you okay?"But the phone hung up. I tried to call her, but there was only voice mail. An ominous feeling came over me, and I clutched my phone in bewilderment."What happened?" Frade asked."My friend, she just called me for help," I said in a panic. "I think something bad happened to her. Frade, you have to help me.""Calm down, Eva." Frade came to me and put his hand gently on my shoulder. "Do you know your friend's home address? We can go to her house right now."I calmed down and thought. I immediately remembered that Liv had told me that she was attending her mother's funeral, so she would be in her mother's hometown. But what if she's already back?"I know where she lives," I said to Frade. "Can you drive me to her apartment?""We're leaving now," Frade thought. "I think we need help. Give me a minute to call Mark and get him to help me."The waiter came to the door with a nice plate of sushi. The kimono-clad waitress looke
"Come on, we can talk in the room," Frade said, pushing open the bedroom door. I followed him into the room.Now everything in the room was so familiar that I remembered that when I first met Frade at the bar, he had knocked me out and taken me to the hotel. I woke up in this suite. I remember the chandelier on the ceiling and the smell of lavender on the sheets."Eva, you may speak now," Frade said, interrupting my recollection and forcing my thoughts back to the present moment."It was Mikeal who took Liv. He wanted the flash drive." I decided to tell Frade the secret, "Mikeal is my father in name. He did illegal business with my ex-husband. Their dirty dealings are recorded on a flash drive. My friend Liv had the flash drive. I had planned to use it to get back at my ex-husband and my father, but when I got to Liv's apartment just now, the drive was gone. Frade, I want you to help me.""So, the flash drive was a fatal blow to both the Moors and your father?" Frade said in a low voi
"Jenny, she's the financial manager of Ron's company," I said. "She must know something about Ron's illegal business.""Then we have to find her as soon as possible," Frade said. "Give me information on this woman, and I'll have Mark look into her right now."Just as Frade was about to leave the room, I stopped him."Frade。""What?""Thank you," I said to him."Don't forget our agreement," said Frade with a smile.Then Frade came up to Mark, and he told Mark to immediately contact the hacker to look into Jenny's background. Mark hesitated for a moment, then he opened his e-mail to find an investigation file on Jenny."Boss, I thought you asked me to look into this woman before," Mark said. "See, here's everything I found out about her.""When did this happen?" Frade thought. "Are you sure I asked you to look into her? I don't even know her."I immediately gave Mark a look, and he quickly explained, "It's me. I remember you once asked me to investigate Moore's employees, and this woman
"Why did you betray me?" I asked my first question."Sorry, Eva." Jenny almost cried, "Gina found out about my embezzlement and she threatened to expose me and send me to jail. So I had to agree to work with her, and she wanted me to tell Ron that you wanted to kill her. And she wants me to pin the embezzlement charge on you.""That sounds like a good way to help Gina get rid of me and get someone to take the fall for you," I scoffed. "But you didn't think I'd live, did you?""Eva, I've always thought of you as my good friend, and that's the truth," Jenny begged. "Please let me go.""The truth is that you and Gina conspired to kill me," I continued. "Second question, how much do you know about Ron's illegal operation?"Jenny gave me a timid look, and then I saw a flicker of hesitation in her eyes. She was thinking. This is a common failing of all finance managers, who are timid but weigh the pros and cons even in times of crisis."I don't know much. Jeff usually gives me the statement
"It's too dangerous." Frade frowned. "Why do you have to go to your ex-husband's house?""Because the most important weapon is hidden in Ron's computer," I decided. "I have to go."I remember Ron always used a computer in his study with a password when he worked from home, and I'm sure it had information about him and Mikeal smuggling weapons."Time is running out, I must go." I must gamble."I'll go with you," Frade said firmly."No, you have to help me get Gina out," I said. "Mikeal wants Gina, and if he doesn't see Gina, he's probably going to hurt Liv."An exchange was the last resort, even if I knew it was a trap, and I had to go for Liv.“Where exactly is your sister?” Frade asked.I told Frade where I was holding her, and he looked shocked when he learned that Gina was being held in the basement of the Logan family's abandoned factory."Your fiancé is in charge of that factory now. I'll have to find a way to get in," Frade said helplessly. "Unless you call him and tell him to l
So I quickly leaned over and put my ear to the woman's heart and listened to her heartbeat. The woman's heartbeat was extremely low, indicating that her life was in danger. She must be taken to the hospital at once.Then Frade called me, and I hung up instead of answering. Then I looked at the nightstand and found a cell phone that I assumed belonged to the woman.I used the woman's cell phone to call 911, where I gave Ron's home address to the officer who answered the phone and told the police that someone was injured and that we needed an ambulance immediately. After hanging up the phone, I found a white towel in the room and wiped my fingerprints off the phone before putting it in the woman's hand.I used my phone to delete the security footage from Ron's house before I left the room. When I came downstairs, the woman who had just vomited was still lying on the floor. So I went to the backyard as fast as I could and climbed over the wall.I stood by the side of the road clutching m
Gina hit me so hard on the head with a heavy stick that I nearly fainted. Gina put her hands around my neck. I almost choked. I tried to free myself from her hands, but she suddenly became as savage and powerful as a mad cow."You ruined me," Gina said viciously. "I'm going to kill you."Gina squeezed my neck tighter and tighter as my legs struggled to move. When I could hardly hold on. I put my hand into the shoe with the military knife. I tried once and almost touched the hilt. On the second attempt, the knife finally came out, and I slashed it at Gina's neck.She screamed and touched her neck, and I kicked her in the stomach. Then her body fell to one side, and I got up as soon as I could.Then I felt a sharp pain in my stomach. I looked down and saw a circle of blood on my clothes. This must have been from the fight with the fake Liv. But I couldn't care less about the pain, because Gina grabbed the thick stick and swung it at me again.This time I fended off the stick with my arm