Ava quickly got up from the bed and went to the bags on the table. She briefly looked around the room and saw an enlarged picture of Ace when he was a young boy. There was a woman with him in the picture and from the resemblance, Ava instantly knew that she was his mum.She realized that this was Ace's bedroom in the house and began to wonder if he had cameras monitoring her movement. She told herself that it did not matter since she would be gone before he realized it. She began to check the bags and was surprised to see that Ace had left his phone on the table. She looked at the door and wondered if she should lock it. She decided not to as it would only make her seem suspicious.As she checked the bag of clothes that the sales girl had given to her at the mall. She took out the content one after the other and noticed a black short with something in its pocket.She quickly took it out and saw a small, white nylon with a white powdery substance in it. There was a note in the pocket

Richard sat down and stared at Danny with a serious expression on his face. Danny sighed, "after how urgent you sounded the last time we met, I thought you would have left for Thailand by now.""There's a guy called Red Blaze," Richard replied. "he has Ava believing that he is working with me and they are attempting to escape tomorrow night from Scorpion. I am afraid that this guy is an enemy of Scorpion and is merely trying to use Ava to get to him. I have no way of reaching her which means that I have to be two steps ahead of Red Blaze. If he succeeds in rescuing Ava, I need to be there to rescue Ava from him.I don't know who this Red Blaze guy is but since you are working undercover, I'm sure you can easily find out about him for me. Just ask your contacts. I need to know where to find him.""There's no need for me to ask anyone," Danny replied. "Red Blaze is famous and his lair isn't necessarily a secret. The only problem is, you won't make it in there if you are not a gangster.

After spending some time in the dining, Ava and Ace went back into the bedroom. He took out a bottle of wine from his fridge and opened it. He took out two glasses and filled them to the brim. Ava did not want to drink because she was worried she might get high and ruin her plans.However, Ace was staring at her with so much love in his eyes and she knew that it was an important day for him. After hesitating briefly, she decided to share in his joy and accepted the cup of wine from him. After drinking for a few minutes, he went to the carton and took out his coke. He poured some of it into a piece of paper and went back to the couch where he was sitting before.He placed the paper on the table in front of him and began snuffing the coke using his index finger. Ava sat on the bed watching him. Her heart was racing as she knew that her moment of escape was nigh.She still drank from the cup in her hands and did everything she could to not look suspicious. Ace was staring at her intently

EARLIER IN THE DAYRichard parked his car by the street and stayed at the top of a building from where he could get a clear view of Red Blaze's lair with his binoculars. His day had been quite a busy one. From the moment they landed in Bangkok, he had been running around trying to understand the roads that led to Red Blaze's lair and Black Scorpion's Gang house.It was also not an easy task for him to gather about two hundred officers and give them instructions on what to do. Damon had been quite helpful and involving him in the mission was a very good call, without that, he would never have made it to where he was because even the car he was driving was bought by Damon.With each passing moment, he realized that Damon was good enough for Ava and genuinely loved her. It hurt him to imagine the both of them together because he initially hoped that rescuing Ava from Scorpion's grip would give him the opportunity to get back his love but now he knew better. He did not have the kind of m

As he lay on the ground, Richard regained consciousness a while later and heard noises around him as well as his phone ringing. He recalled everything that had happened so far and his eyes instantly shot open. He saw a few people surrounding him. When they saw him open his eyes, two of the men helped him up from the ground and wanted to take him to the hospital.Richard shook his head, "thank you very much. I'm grateful to you all but I'm fine."He wasn't fine actually. His head was in a lot of pain and so was his body but he kept thinking about Ava and her situation. She was counting on him to save her and he could not let her down.He got up and staggered toward the road, much to the surprise of the people around him. Ignoring the blood which was dripping at the back of his head, he stopped a taxi and got in after telling the driver where he was heading to.He took out his phone which kept ringing inside his pocket and realized that the screen had been badly broken. He answered the