Lahat ng Kabanata ng A DANGEROUS AFFAIR : Kabanata 51 - Kabanata 60

52."You sold us a couple of mock-ups!""Do you really think you can con us because of your reputation?!""Veronica Morgan, show yourself! Don't hide away from us!""Rip-offs! Let's see how your business survives after this case reaches the court!"A crowd gathered outside Qui Vive Pearls, Japan building. Raising placards and posters, they staged an angry protest.The guards outside the company tried to keep them at bay by setting up barricades."This is live, ma'am. What will we do?" Evie glanced at her.Veronica's gaze did not move from the laptop. She rubbed her finger on her lip for a while, silently thinking."Ma'am, the situation may escalate. They won't listen to me. They only want you."The customers refused to speak to any employee from Qui Vive Group, demanding for Veronica Morgan instead."That's expected," she said calmly. "If they want an address, they'll get one."Outside the building, the protesters were getting violent. A few of them were hired to cause havoc and ruin

54."Sir, I'm so sorry. We tried all we could but Veronica Morgan played smart. With such a generous compensation, no one was willing to press charges."They failed to ruin the negotiation and returned to their master with bad news.Diego had already seen the broadcast. He wasn't surprised. Veronica had always been smart and manipulative.Not to mention she was one lucky vixen."It's only natural for people to accept a generous arrangement. It's not your fault if she came up with an irresistible compensation offer," smoothly, sounding calm and collected, he spoke into the phone.'Veronica can only use that sweet brain of hers for long but she's not smarter than me.'"She might have won this round but we'll get her in the future. My next plan is completely fail-safe."Slowly, the car rounded to the corner and stopped. Inconspicuously parked across the street, no one noticed the black Rolls Royce.Diego lowered the window. Across the street, reporters gathered outside the main building

56."Here, ma'am. It's so beautiful and incredibly lucky. Just after I hung it there, you woke up. Isn't it magical?"Unbeknownst to Evie Young, the lady holding the emerald was lost in a trance, struck by fear.Her face paled the moment she held the pendant in her shaking hands.If there was a better way of saying, I FOUND YOU, it was through this pendant.Never leaving loose ends, she was very careful and hid herself from the monster. How on earth did he find her after many years?Veronica grasped the sheet under her as fresh fear dawned on her. When the clown handed this pendant to her that evening in the parking lot, she did not take a good look at it.Now that she recognized it, she realized the grave mistake she committed by ignoring it."You know, it's been in my house for months. My mum found it in my laundry and returned it so I brought it here."Evie thought Veronica was silent because she was dumbfounded, stunned by the beauty and distinct craftsmanship of the pendant. So,

58.It was like hitting two birds with one stone.Arrow's men were at the counter drinking when two guys showed up, bawling about some matters.While ordering their drinks, they spoke about their boss and the problems they had to deal with.One of those problems was Spence Darkwood. In the club, they talked carelessly about him, unintentionally slipping a clue about his location to the listening ears of Arrow's men."Spence Darkwood escaped to Philadelphia a week after Jackson disappeared. That's why we couldn't find him in New York.""Their boss sent him there himself so they don't his current location. They only know he's in Philadelphia.""Their boss sounds like a smart bastard," Arrow reckoned. He purposely kept his men in the dark about Spence's new hideout.If anyone got them, they wouldn't be able to give information that they didn't have. In the end, it would be a waste of time."But that's not the only thing we got," the second man said, smirking hard."We got into a conversa

60."Would one of your enemies target me again? Possibly kill me this time?" She demanded fearlessly.His illegal businesses were not a secret to her. Two years ago, she witnessed her brother crack open her kidnapper's head with an axe.Ivan did not know but the other kidnapper placed a camera in the lobby where the action took place.At that time, the Chinese men kidnapped her to get revenge over some mafia murder Ivan was responsible for.The best target was his sister. They were going to rape and kill her as revenge for the death of their brother.Ivan went crazy, pulling all his resources to find his sister. He rescued her from the kidnappers before they could harm her.When he encountered the first kidnapper in the lobby, he engaged in a fight with him and ended up slashing his head, unaware of the surveillance camera in the lobby.Before that, his sister adored him. In her eyes, he was the perfect brother figure with a successful career.Their bond was unbreakable.Ivan might ha