Bieluvr, you'll have to stay tune. Things are not what they seem. Kate doesn't know everything either. How will Tim be able to rescue Brianna and Uncle Jin? I was tempted to add a juicy scene just for Sarn but this is not the novel to do it. I wanted to keep it somewhat clean and classy.
[SIZE=12pt]It was a dark and warm night as Kate got out of the taxi and headed towards her condo. There were plethora of emotions running through her mind. The sight of seeing Uncle Jin in that state drew of the heart strings of Kate. He was like a real uncle to her and it was painful to see him suffer like that. In the back of Kate’s mind, she had to find a way to rescue Uncle Jin from the dreaded cell he was in. But the confrontation that she had with Brianna bought great joy to soul. It was the first time Kate was able to release all of her anger and frustration at Brianna for all of the ill treatment she had to endure. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]Everything was normal as Kate opened the door to her condo. The bright neon light of Shenzhen was beaming outside of her window and the street felt like it was flowing with lava of gold. As Kate sat her purse on the crouch, a dark figure with a mask on approaches her from behind. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]“So the dragon has shown its fangs,” said Benny.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]“Who are you? And what do you want?” replied Kate. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]“It will depend if you give me the correct answer.”[/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]“I don’t answer to mass intruder.”[/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]Benny walk towards Kate as she backpedaled next to the television set. “Then we are going to have to find out,” smiled Benny.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]Tension was in the air and the friction between the two was undeniable. Benny reaches to grab Kate’s hands but she counters him by squeezing the pressure point on his hands. The temporary pain from the hold allows Kate to wrestle Benny to the ground with his arms twisted back. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]“Who sent you here?” said Kate. “Is it my father? Or are you just a thief?”[/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]Benny was mum. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]“Answer me,” said Kate, as she applies more pressure on his twisted arm.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]Out in the shadow came a figure Kate instantly recognizes, it was Tim. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]“Bravo, Bravo,” said Tim. “You deserve an Oscar for your performance.”[/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]“Tim,” shouted Kate, as she rushes to give him a hug. “You’re alive. How are you?”[/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]But he did not reciprocate any emotions toward her. He was ice cold and Kate could feel that there was something wrong with him. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt] “What wrong?” asked Brianna.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]“Cut the bull,” said Tim. “I know who you are.”[/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]“You know nothing about me,” she cried. “All you know is Ms. MacCathy.”[/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]Tim orders Benny to stand guard outside the hallway as he backs Kate up towards the window. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]“Your tears won’t work this time. Does the Red Dragon ring a bell?”[/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]“If you don’t mind I ̶” [/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]“Then who could have betrayed us on that day,” yelled Tim. “You and your father were the only two who knew of our plans.”[/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]Kate was terrify. This was another side of Tim that she had not encounter before. He was rough but there was also extreme confidence oozing out from him. “It wasn’t me,” [/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]“I’m not going to ask again,” as he drags her by the wrists to the kitchen. “We can make this easy or hard. It depends on you.”[/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]“All right. I just told my father but I don’t know who he spoke to,” pleaded Kate.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]“What are the Red Dragon?”[/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]Her silence and reluctant to look Tim in the eyes was all he needed to find guilt in her. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]“How could you do this to us?” asked Tim. “I trusted you. I thought you were different from other girls.” [/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]“I…I…I had no choice,” said Kate. “I grew up in the Red Dragon. My father is a member before I was born.”[/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]“Everyone has a choice in life. You can choose the wide path or the narrowed path. Choices also have consequences.”[/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]“I was born into the Red Dragon.”[/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]He walks toward the fridge and grab a bottle of water. “It is not too late to choose a new one.” [/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]“I just can. They will surely kill my father for my betrayal of them.”[/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]Tim became angry again as he throws the bottle of water to the wall. “It’s your choice. Now where is Brianna, her father, and Uncle Jin?”[/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]“I would only tell you if you promise not to be with Ms. MacCathy.”[/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]“No deal. You’re not in a position to negotiate with me.”[/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]Kate smiles. “I would rather die at the hands of the person I love than to see her happy.”[/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]“You poisonous viper. You still don’t know what true love is,” said Tim. “You possess no quality of love at all.”[/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]Kate torn her blouse open. “What is it that she has that I don’t?”[/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]“The question isn’t what she has,” said Tim, as he closes her blouse. “It is what you have that she doesn’t.” [/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]“What do I have?”[/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]Tim stares Kate right in the eyes. “Selfishness, deception, extreme jealously. Do I need to go on?”[/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]“I just want what’s belong to me. She stole you from me.”[/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]Tim shaking his head in disgust. “You don’t own anything. What you need the most is ̶ humility.”[/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]“Save the lecture for someone else. I have chosen my path,” said Kate.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=12pt]“Good luck because that path will lead your to destruction, said Tim, as he walks out the door disappointed in himself in not finding the whereabouts of Brianna and Uncle Jin. [/SIZE]