However, to Alora’s surprise, Asia started laughing.

“I don’t think he liked me, Alora.”

“How could you say so, Auntie? Some of his actions greatly reminded me of my Appa.”

“Nathan and him are different. Nathan purely loves your Eomma. On the other hand, Frederick is only after my body. Anyways. We better stop talking about him. Go back and watch your Eomma for me.” She told and ended the call.

Ha! He liked her? Asia flashed a meaningful smile on her pretty face. Only her knew what she had done to Frederick when everyone’s not watching.

As she thought of what Alora had told her, she left the washroom and started looking for him.

She didn’t want him to die yet. At least not yet.

Asia went to the direction where Alora told her of where he was currently standing.

Frederick was inside one of the lounge dedicated for players which was currently vacant as of the moment. As she entered, she locked the door behind her and watched Frederick who was looking outside by the window.

“Hey!” Asia called his attention causing him to turn around and looked at her.

“Why are you here?” He asked as she walked closer to him. As she came closer, she smelled the strong scent of tobacco on his body. She looked down and saw the stil lit butt of cigarette on the floor.

“Shouldn’t I be the one who should be asking you that? You seemed to be troubled by something, Master.” Asia whispered the latter part to make her approach to be a little intimate.

And besides, she knew Frederick liked it every time she addressed him that way.

“This is nothing. You should go back. It’s not safe for you to roam around in this place.”

Even Frederick was aware of the bounty being placed on top of her head.

“Hmm. It’s fine. I’m inside this lounge with you. And besides, I’m protected by Grand- Sir Alinsky.” Asia acted as if she was correcting herself.

“That’s right.”

‘And I think given the fact that they knew who I am, they knew that they couldn’t take me down easily.’ Asia continued inside her head.

“Are you okay? You know you can tell me anything. You know you can trust me, Master.”

“It’s nothing Ana. Francais and I just had a misunderstanding.”

“Am I the reason?” She was asking as if she was making a wild guess. Such a good actress.

“How did you know?”

“It’s just my intuition.”

Frederick was silent and so, she continued, “I don’t want to be the cause of your misunderstandings Master. We’re all in this together, right? Without you both, I don’t think I can do this mission.”

“Ana.”

“Master. I like you.”

“Don’t say that. I have been so cruel to you. I even put you on a collar just to manipulate you.” Frederick said.

“Well, I think it’s for the best. I don’t think you meant harm for me when you did that. Maybe my past self was difficult to deal with.” Asia hit the mark when she said that she was difficult to handle that’s why she was forced to wear that collar.

“Master, I’ve been a good girl now, right?” Asia looked at him with puppy eyes.

“Yes you are. In fact, I like it when you’re a good girl.” Frederick liked it when she’s being submissive. Especially when they do things on the bed.

“Really? Then, is there a chance that you’ll like me back, too?”

He was silent and only looked at Asia in the eye.

“I’m not good for you.” At least he admitted that he wasn’t good for her.

“That’s nonsense! You’re going to be my husband. You’re going to win this right? For me?”

“Of-of course, I will.”

“That’s good.” She then gave him a hug and when he was not looking, Asia’s face turned cold.

It was not her plan to make this man fell for her. But she had her own means on how to make even the coldest person to bend for her.

“The only hurdle we have now is Sir Alinsky.”

“Yeah. But don’t worry. Even if you didn’t win the competition, I’d still choose you.”

“You’ll do it?”

“Yes. He’s only the grandfather I don’t really recognize. I’m only trying to please him that’s why I’m always by his side. But I’d choose you over him, Master.”

Frederick listened to her and he felt like he was happy to hear it.

“Are you sure?”

“Yes. I like you.” Her reason was simple. She liked him.

“And I miss you, too.” She added making Frederick to feel turned on all of a sudden.

The room had a bed that they could use if ever they wanted to do it.

“I think we have to go back before they’d start looking for us.” She said however, Frederick was determined to take her.

“Making them wait a little bit would not cause any harm. I miss you, too.” Just then, Frederick kissed her and seconds later, their clothes were scattered on the floor as moans and groans echoed inside the room.

It was a quick make out and s*x session. She felt a little change from him while they were doing it. She though maybe because this man was convinced that he now had feelings for her.

After they were done, Asia hugged Frederick while Frederick did the same thing. She really didn’t expect to hear something from him.

“Stay with me Ana. I’ll protect you from harm.”

If this was real, she’d probably feel touched by his words. However, it wasn’t. Falling in love was even a wishful thinking for her now.

‘Protect me? It’s already too late. You have already caused harm on my body.’ That’s what she wanted to tell him however, she decided to hold back.

After staying in that intimate position, the got up and wore their clothes back. After fixing themselves, they then went back to the grandstand where everyone was staying.

***

When Su Ying arrived in Beijing, he then immediately summoned his people to gather in front of him. As he saw them gathered around in front of him, they then sang their greetings to him.

“Welcome back Sir Su Ying!”

He then looked at everyone and he sat down on his designated seat.

“I called upon everyone to tell you all that I want you to find and bring Nathaniel Bai’s head to me. The person who can do so will win a big prize!”

That was his first order to them the moment he came back from prison.

“Don’t give up on looking for my grandson’s body!”

“Yes, Sir!”

“Also, I want you all to take down KSA! I don’t want that to still exist tomorrow!”

However, someone raised his hand and questioned him, “Excuse me, Sir Su. I think we have to plan this first. KSA is not easy to take down. The Luo tried to do it but failed miserably.”

“Oh! So are you trying to tell me that I have a bunch of incompetent people. Is that it?”

“It’s not like that Sir Su.” The man bowed down his head as he was afraid to anger him even more.

“What’s your name?”

“The surname’s Li, Sir Su.” He answered anxiously.

“They managed to survive because their leader was there. However, now that she’s dead, it’d be easy to beat them.” Su Ying said.

Everyone was silent.

Just then, the leader of the Black Lily team who was sent to help in capturing J spoke to him.

“Sir Su, as a representative of Black Lily, we are willing to offer aid and support always to you.”

“Good! I didn’t build your faction for nothing. Prepare your weapons. We will destroy them overnight.”

“Sir Su. Please reconsider. KSA has many branches world wide. We can’t destroy them overnight.” The man named Li told him.

“Are you underestimating my influence?” Su Ying then grabbed his gun and shot him dead.

Li’s intention was genuine. After all, he was their best asset when it came to intelligence gathering. He was trying to interfere because he wanted him to reconsider.

But his efforts were in vain as he was immediately shot dead on the head. However, Su Ying didn’t realize that the phone inside Li’s pocket were spying on this meeting.

“Now! Who among you here have the same thought as him?!”

Everyone was silent. But in reality they agreed to Li.

After all, they’re in Beijing and they had experienced first hand how strong the KSA’s influence was.

With or without a leader, they moved in a systematic way. It’s not easy to beat them.

But they feared that they’d be shot dead should they speak up.

On the other side, Nathan had arrived in the KSA HQ building. The old one was still under repair after it was ruined by the last time’s incident. Good thing Eunji had owned many buildings in the city and the location was quite ideal just in case an attack would happen.

To protect everyone, they had made it to look like an ordinary office building from the outside.

As they were already informed of his arrival, Iris and Alice welcomed him on the lobby. Iris was now fine after she had stayed for a week in the hospital.

“Brother-in-law!” The two greeted Nathan.

“Alice. Iris. Eunji sent me here.” He didn’t beat around the bush. After all, he still had to go back. The faster he could solve this, the better.

They then walked towards the elevator so they could talk everything out safely.

“How is she?” Alice asked him the moment they entered the small conference room which was surrounded by LCD monitors.

“She’s fine. Still stubborn as always. However, she’s deeply bothered by Jin Jie’s disappearance that’s why I rushed all the way here after.”

“As expected of her.” Iris grumbled.

“She had also met Anastasia. The games had begun and seems like the entire place was under her control.”

Just then, Alice smiled meaningfully.

“Of course. Angelina told me that the company which ELEK Corp. had acquired was the contractor of that stadium/arena. She managed to get the blueprint of the entire building and studied it that’s why she’s very familiar with the place.”

Just then, Alora interrupted their conversation.

“Appa, Su Ying’s back! And he’s after your head now!”

Nathan suddenly became silent which caused the other two to be curious.

“And also, they’re after the KSA now!”

“Really?”

“Yes. I happened to hack on one of their man’s phone named Li. And I have heard them talking.”

Nathan was silent once again.

“Why did they want to attack?”

“I have no idea Appa. I’m still looking into it. The important thing now is we have to be ready.” Alora told him.

And so, Nathan told Iris and Alice about what had happened.

“EJ also had the same plan after knowing that it was them who pushed J to be missing.” Iris pointed out.

“How much intel have you gathered?” Nathan asked her.

“We have gathered enough.” But they’re unconfident about the information they had.

“You sound unsure.”

“We did try our best, brother-in-law. However, we felt that something’s missing.” Iris told Nathan.

“Su Ying’s already out. I’m sure now that he’s free, he’s clearly up to no good.” Alice added.

“Gosh! I hope everything will be fine after this.” Iris said with a sigh.

“We have to work hard to achieve that. We have to make sure to end Su Ying and eliminate all the people helping him so we could have a peaceful life.” Nathan said as he looked at them.

Nathan then grabbed his phone and dialed someone.

“Gather everyone present in Beijing and I want you all to be here at **** in thirty minutes.” He then ended the call without even waiting for the other line to respond.

He then looked at the couple who was looking at him curiously. However, he only responded with, “Don’t worry. I have called for help.”

***