Jazlyn and Aisha had been living in a five-star hotel in the center of A City the entire time. They had been posing as two journalists to guise their true identities. Their peers were also assigned different identities while they were staying at the hotel.
Aisha was happily humming a song as she walked through the corridors of the hotel.
"Boss, why did you come back so late?" Jazlyn got up from the bed and ran towards the living room. She asked with a cunning smile, "What did you do after the handsome guy took you away?"
"Haha!" Aisha crossed her arms and grinned complacently. "I won't tell you!"
"Did you do anything wrong?" Jazlyn asked while crossing her arms.
"Do you think I would be like you? Tell me what happened between you and Lucas!" Aisha said, with her hands on her hips.
"Nothing!" Jazlyn looked away as she recalled the entanglement she had with Lucas earlier. "He saved me after I was drugged that night. How dare he shame me for what happened and pester me!" she groaned. "Thinking of him makes me so angry!"
Aisha raised her eyebrows in surprise. "Really? He's not half bad, I see. If he could detoxify such a powerful toxin..." she trailed on her words.
"Boss!" Jazlyn was abashed with irritation. She glared at Aisha and shouted, "Boss, don't ask such nonsense.
Our job is not finished yet." "Don't worry! How can I forget our business? Calm down!" Aisha then sat on the sofa and tapped the space next to her. "Do you know who took me away tonight?" she asked.
"The handsome guy?" Jazlyn pondered for a moment and answered, "He looks familiar."
"Archer Song." Aisha tapped her fingers on the sofa.
"Archer Song ?" Jazlyn was agog. "Is he really Archer Song? Right! It is him! I remember now."
"Damn straight," said Aisha as she nodded along.
"I should have remembered earlier! Last time I read the gossip about him and Frank Liang on the newspaper!" Jazlyn dabbed her thigh and asked, "Boss, did you approach him because of Frank Liang? So that you can catch Corbett in the process? Are you going to take advantage of him? That's awesome!"
Aisha neither frowned nor shook her head.
The two of them talked for a long time until Jazlyn yawned and said, "Boss, I'm going to hit the hay. I was wearing high heels the whole night. God, that was exhausting. I'd rather fight someone than wear those heels again!"
Aisha nodded along. "Alright, I'm going to bed, too."
Afterwards, the duo went back to their own bedrooms.
As she lay on the bed, Aisha tried to remember the unexpected kiss that Archer had mentioned. However, she couldn't.
Jazlyn had just gotten to her room and wanted to get some sleep, but Lucas's image was imprinted on her mind. So, she took out her phone and searched for any information she could find about him.
He really was a doctor, and a famous specialist on cancer.
"Humph..." She snorted. She tossed the phone onto the sofa, and turned over. So what if he was an expert on cancer? Nothing was more important to her, than getting enough sleep.
The following morning, Aisha had gotten up early, and was planning to meet with Mary in the Kary Villa. Then, the two of them would drive to Z City and find out the complete truth of her birth.
With a sudden click, the other bedroom's door was opened. Seeing that Jazlyn was still fast asleep, Aisha shook her head in disbelief. She left a note for Jazlyn before leaving.
"Ah..." After a while, Jazlyn's head finally came out of the quilt. Her hair was ruffled into a complete mess. She sat up with her hands on the bed.
Although she hadn't fully opened her eyes, she felt that something was amiss. It seemed that someone had come in before she had the chance to wake up.
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