At Yu Building.

  That morning, Craig looked at Noah suspiciously as he drank his coffee with him……

  "Stop looking at me like this…" Noah grunted with flaring nostrils. Craig shook his head and commented, "So Luo is your type of woman? I'm surprised you spent that much for a woman…"

  Noah's face could not be painted as he hissed, "Why are you here, anyway? Don't you need to be somewhere with Gale?"

  "She's still at Mike's office and their discussion is serious, so I thought to see you while I was waiting for her to finish… So tell me? What's the real deal between you and Luo? I thought I'm your only friend…" Craig mumbled. He was dying with curiosity, but he knew that the more he asked the more Noah would zip his mouth.

  "Stop prying Craig." Noah scoffed. He was obviously not in a good mood.

  Noah heaved a sigh of relief when Craig stopped bugging him and finally left his office. He still could not believe how he ended up in Luo???s trap. Something in her was pulling his great interest, and he hated that feeling because he was getting distracted most of his time, not to mention how he lost that millions in vain.

  When he woke up this morning, Luo was already gone, leaving just a note behind to call her anytime he wanted her to SLEEP with him.

  "What a clever woman!" he beamed wryly. The woman double crossed him and he was stupid enough to let it happen. He himself wondered why as well.

  He was in that thought when his intercom buzzed, and Dina informed him of an unexpected visitor.

  "Sir?" he heard Dina waiting on the intercom.

  "You can let her in, Dina…" Noah answered.

  Noah then looked at the woman he despised the most, entered his office for the first time. As usual, she had that smile ready for him even though he looked so pissed off.

  "I brought you some things and I hope you like it." she said pertaining to the paper bags she held. Noah only signaled her to sit.

  "Is that all? You could just let any helper bring it over or I will appreciate it more if you won't actually bother to visit and bring anything at all." he said.

  Marlyn was already used to how Noah was harsh with her. Nothing was new, so she already expected cold treatment like the usual.

  She still managed to give Noah a genuine smile as she grabbed an invitation card and put it on the table in front of him.

  "My birthday is coming and I hope you can come to the party along with Brione, Noah," Marlyn said with a timid smile. Noah scoffed, wondering how long would the woman try to act like someone who was good and kind when he was well aware of how dark and rotten her insides were. She might look kind and very elegant from outside, but her inside was definitely rotten.

  And from where did she even get the confidence to barge into his office like that and give him the freaking invitation?! But then an idea suddenly came to him so he muttered, "I will bring friends over…"

  Marlyn's face brightened as she beamed. "Sure, son… You can bring them all." She took it positively and was glad as?she stood up and added, "I will leave you now and will not take too much of your time."

  Noah looked at her in disgust as she walked out from his office. After she left, he called Dina and instructed, "Next time she arrives like that, tell her I'm not here."

  *****

  Meanwhile, Luo already received the DNA result she requested after Vin managed to obtain a sample from the man who was said to be her father, and her face darkened as she read it. As she expected, everything was a lie.

  "That bastard! How dare he!" she barked as she ran out from her office. She wanted to kill the man for deceiving her. She went inside her car and quickly drove back to his house.

  But to her disappointment, he was not in our house. A woman passing by saw Luo shouting the man's name from the door.

  "Excuse me, Miss…" the woman said.?Luo stopped shouting and turned around to look at her.

  "Are you looking for Cain?" the woman asked, and Luo nodded.

  "He's not inside. Something happened, so I heard they rushed him to the hospital last night?" the woman informed, seeing Luo looked was desperately shouting his name.

  "Do you perhaps know what hospital?" Luo asked, and the woman nodded, then told her to which hospital Cain was brought.

  She immediately drove to that hospital and looked for him.

  "Cain Ticke.'' She said the patient's name, and she was directed to the ICU section. When Luo arrived at the nurse station but she was too late.

  "I'm sorry, Miss. Do you know the patient? He died this morning, and no one has yet claimed his body." she heard the nurse explained.

  "I'm a friend. How did he end up here in the hospital?" she asked.

  "He had an attack while drinking outside. A concerned citizen rushed him here. They looked for his house and family and found no one…" The nurse stated.

  Luo then required an autopsy for his body. For some reason, she felt like everything happened so suddenly for him to die just like that after all his lies to her. She signed all the papers for the man's body as his guardian. She slumped in the nearest car as she waited for the processing to complete. She felt like she was back to square one.

  Cain Ticke was not her father, but why would he lie to be her father? One fact remained, though… He was the man who left her at the doorstep of her parents.

  Maybe she should not pursue looking out for her biological parents? Maybe it was a sign for her to stop the nonsense curiosity of hers. She felt so down that she wanted to get drunk after that.

  Yet at the back of her mind… it piqued her curiosity more…


  "The hell with my curiosity!" she mumbled in irritation.