The CEO’s Pet Cat

“Lena, I want to talk to you about something.”

Asher didn’t care if Riina answered, he didn’t until she could hear, and that was enough, he wasn’t afraid that for a while Riina wouldn’t respond. “Perhaps you can guess exactly what I’m here for today, so I won’t hold back and tell you straight, I received an anonymous letter a few days ago, and the content, it’s about you.”

Lena gave another soft “mmm”, only in the corner where Asher couldn’t see, her flirtatious almond eyes widened with a stern gleam in them.

“He specified that you asked him to do something five years ago and he made it happen, and he’s a little short of money right now and wants you to lend him some money to spend.” Asher finished, seeing little reaction from Lena, and then tried again, “I had thought it was just a very ordinary scam, but afterwards it hit me that Mia lost her baby, that was the year.”

Lena turned back in feigned confusion and spat with a deliberate slur, “You suspect me?”

Asher shook his head and said, “Why? I was just hoping you could help find this scammer, after all, no one’s happy when there’s always a bad guy watching from the shadows.”

Riina turned her head away again, quietly enjoying Asher’s constant banging, her head working in high gear as she was silent for a long time before she seemed to run out of words, “It’s nothing, just say what you need me to do. But can you tell me the details of how you found out about the fraudster?”

“Nothing process, it was just that one day out of the blue, that letter just appeared on my desk.”

Thinking that Asher was hiding something from her, not knowing that Asher had made the whole thing up, Lena asked, “Didn’t the person who sent the anonymous letter leave some contact information or something? Then even if we promised to pay him, he wouldn’t know about it.”

The answer to that question was one Asher had prepared long ago, his eyes twinkling but thankfully invisible to Leena, “He didn’t give contact information, what scammer would be stupid enough to leave his own phone number? He did leave an address though, said to have the money delivered there.”

“Where is it?”

Lena’s voice was very urgent, something that probably didn’t even register with her, but Asher noticed and ignored it, instead answering in kind, “Reason Second Street, the dark alley by the lake cottage.”

Riina had little spirit left to please Asher after being tossed around so much, and she was more worried now about the anonymous letter incident Asher had mentioned.

Asher leaned back onto the bed, sneering inwardly, mocking Leena’s feigned blandness at the moment, as he decided to add more fire to Leena.Upstodatee from Novel(D)ra/m/a.O(r)g

“Lena, that letter didn’t say exactly what happened five years ago, but he demanded that I go to that place, to tell me personally, and to trade that information for the money he wanted.”

Asher’s voice was heavily nasal and sounded preoccupied, his voice a little husky and dark after the pleasure he had just had.

Riina buried her head in Asher’s arms, pretending to be dazed but actually widening her almond eyes, eyes filled with tension, as she asked in a careless tone, “You haven’t gone right yet?”

Asher laughed softly, “Not there yet, let’s do it again, you look beautiful today.”

He could almost expect that at this point Lina would be too distraught to have the heart to do it again with him, and now that everything had been inquired about, it was time for Lina to go, right?

As he expected, Leena got up and grabbed her phone from the bedside table, pretending to check the time, and looked back to Asher, “Sorry Asher, I just remembered I have a little something else to do, so I can’t stay with you, can you rest yourself for a while?”

Asher answered her with a soft brow, “Okay, go ahead.” The deliberately disguised tenderness did not go unnoticed by the woman who had let love blind her, and Lena appeared to be happy to get dressed and open the door and leave.

Listening to her footsteps fade away, Asher’s thin lips pursed, the monstrous anger he had suppressed in his heart vented out, and the contents of the bedside table were swept to the floor with a crash, shattering into pieces that could no longer be put back together.

Asher had basically been able to determine that Mia’s miscarriage five years ago did have something to do with Lena, but decided to go ahead with the original plan just to be on the safe side, and to know just how far it had to do with Lena.

He fished his phone out of his pants pocket and sent a text message with a sultry look in his eyes, the curve of his lips condensing recklessly.

Meanwhile, a man who was wandering the streets of Reason Second Avenue had his phone ringing, and he opened the text message just as he saw, “The plan is on.”

The man’s name was Sun Cheng, one of Asher’s more powerful henchmen, and he snapped the lid of his cell phone shut and hurried his feet into the dark alley by the lakeside chapel, waiting silently in the dark shadows that had been concealed beforehand.

It was not very late in the day, the warm red light was splashing on the earth, the sun that was about to set in the sky hung peacefully, Sun Cheng leaned patiently against the wall, keeping an eye on his surroundings.

But even the best patience was worn out when the sky was completely dark, and Sun Cheng had just pulled out his phone, intending to send a text message to Asher to ask if there was a change of plan, when he steeply heard the soft sound of high heels from outside the alley.

“Ta, ta.” The sound of falling feet was soft and pretty much muffled by the noise of the urban night, but it still couldn’t be hidden from Sun Cheng’s ears, and he was immediately alerted and retrieved his phone.

He heard correctly, the sound of these high heels from far and near, and indeed stopped when they reached the entrance of the alley, the smell of the woman’s perfume slowly wafted in with the night breeze, and Sun Cheng leaned against the wall chestily, without making a sound.

“Anyone?” A flirtatious female voice rang out, the end of her vocal line slightly upturned, tickling the heart, but the tone had a touch of imperceptible coldness to it.

Sun Sung heard by virtue of his voice that this was the woman Asher had asked him to wait for, and for a moment there was a slight excitement, after waiting for so long and thinking that the mission Asher had sent him was going to fail this time, it turned out to be this woman who had more patience than him.

It was so dark in the alley that Lena didn’t quite dare to go in with her head probing, but her heart was about to burst into flames.

Ever since she and Asher split up, she’s been at home trying to figure out what went wrong five years ago, but she hasn’t been able to find the crux of the matter, so she finally decided to meet the alleged scammer at the location Asher mentioned.

Riina recognized the principle of striking first, which she always did, and this time was no exception, and she was going to try to see if she could get rid of this person before Asher had even met him.

Sun Sung deliberately lowered his voice and gently cupped his throat with his hand to make his tone a little harder before agreeing to Lina’s words, “Someone. Riina, do you remember me?”

When Riina heard the voice, she frowned and thought for half a day, but couldn’t figure out who among the people who helped her harm Mia in the first place had this voice, she took a few more steps down the alley and sneered, “Don’t remember, don’t pretend to be a god, just come out and say what you have to say.”

Although the small lakeside building is very lively, this dark alley has been off the beaten track because there have been several robberies and murders, and over time, no one has even repaired the broken streetlights, so the light inside the alley is dim and a bit eerie.

Lina hated this kind of dark and dirty place, but now she had to stand up and bargain with the man in the shadows “You don’t even ask who my grandmother is, is it that easy to cheat me out of my money?”

Sun Cheng covered the light of his phone carefully and sent the pre-typed text message to Asher first before answering Lina’s words, “I won’t say what happened five years ago easily, but my buddy is a bit tight lately, I want to ask you to borrow some money to spend, do you think it’s possible?”

Riina stood at the entrance to the alley, not daring to go any further in, for this was a matter of privacy that she was most reluctant to touch at the moment today, and she didn’t even dare to let the people she had brought near, only to come and try it out herself first, and being alone as a girl in such a dimly lit place, she was still quite worried even if she was no longer clean.

Not hearing any sound from outside, Sun Cheng knew that Riina was thinking, and he continued to lure Riina towards the main topic as per his pre-determined speech, “You must have known that I have contacted Mr. Jun when you came here today, and if you won’t give me the money, I believe he will be willing to do so.”

Although she could not rule out the fact that the person who had helped her with that matter was deliberately hiding his true tone for fear of retaliation from her, but to be knocked out of a huge sum of money without a head was definitely not something that Riina could do.