Burning Passion

CHAPTER 124: SEARCHING for NIKKI (Three)

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"Ahh… my ears! I felt like my eardrums exploded!" Mark complains. Everyone took out the small gadget on their ears.

"That hurts!" Everyone is groaning.

"What the hell, Theo! What is this?" Daichi grabs Theo in the collar. He cannot believe this guy made a move toward Nikki.

"Where did you get that humor, Mark?" Kier once again yelling from the other line.

"It was a rumor, and I never believed it, so I didn't tell you guys!"

The incident during Michelle's birthday party disturbs them but ignores it. Now, it seems things are getting clearer, possibly… Nikki never has a boyfriend ever since. Then, this guy came back to the country.

"What is this, Theo?" Daichi repeated his question.

"I need to find Nikki as soon as possible. Can we focus on that first? I'm worried about her badly. She's pregnant." Full of sincerity, he confessed. Finally, he said it. Now he prepares his face to receive a punch from Daichi.

Meanwhile, everyone takes silent, contemplating what's going on, whether what they hear is correct.

"Theo Shang! What the hell?" Daichi is still holding him by the collar and tempt to punch this guy.

"Brother Daichi, this is not the right time to fight with each other. We should focus first on searching for Nikki and Aunt Lucy." Matt is trying to convince the guy. He holds Daichi's arm to calm him down.

Kier sighed from the other line, then stated coolly. "Matt is right. We better concentrate our energy and anger to investigate everything why Nikki disappears."

"But it is an important issue for me!" Daichi insisted. His shock and anger haven't abated yet.

"Stop acting like a child. Nikki and Aunt Lucy are yet in a dangerous health condition. We must find them sooner." Now, from yelling, it was Kier who was relaxed.

"Kier is correct, Daichi." Shun helps to convince the guy. They knew him very well. He was the nosy one, but nothing could compare to his concerns for the girls.

"Damn it! It doesn't mean you promise uncle Seth to marry his daughter. You will crawl your way to make a move to our Nikki!"

"Oh, what is this? What promise and marry? Is this true?" They were mumbling.

"I wish my memory came back to remember everything." Theo sighed. "I want to remember. I want to find her to tell her the truth and everything. The reason I made a plan to kidnap her and bring her to Hiryuu Island and I need your help."

"What the hell, Theo!?"

"It's actually my birthday gift for Nikki. To bring her out to the island."

"That's right, Nikki is turning 25 in the next two days!"

"But someone already kidnaps sister Nikki! However, it's not a bad idea. Maybe I should kidnap Lena, and we get married secretly?" Mark said, grinning to himself as he was alone. No one would hit him on the head.

"Shut up, Mark!" Everyone yells at him.

"Ouch! It hurts on the ear!" That was a joke, though. He knew Kier would yell at him again, but then, he received everyone's scolding.

Not that long, Daichi cooled down his head and said, "Okay. Let us continue working now."

"I found something odd in the video," Dylan reported afterward.

"What is it, Dylan?"

"In the locker room. A woman came in, spoke with Nikki, then she left a bag."

"Go on. What happens next?"

"The woman left, but another woman pushed a cart and entered the room. She knocks on the washroom, the one Nikki occupying."

"What happens next, Dylan?"

Everyone is eager to hear further.

"The camera does not focus on the washroom area, so I cannot tell what happened, whether Nikki opens the door. But the cart still there in place close to the cubicle door Nikki occupies. But I cannot tell if Nikki opens the door."

"Can you fast it forward?"

"I'm doing it now," Dylan replied, then he went on. "Nikki not coming out. The woman left with the cart. Half an hour had passed, and Nikki did not come out yet. She never comes out from the cubicle, is what I am concluding."

"But no one there when Theo and I check out the room," said Matt.

"What kind of cart is that Dylan?" asked David to his younger brother.

"It was a storage pushcart."

"No way!" David exclaimed.

"What is it?"

"Maybe everything is a setup."

"You are right, David." Shun concurred. "While we are all keenly following the conversation between Kevin and Garry Shang. Kevin Hale has planned out everything."

"Damn it! They got us!"

"Nikki possibly was inside that cart. They threatened her, the reason she went along with their plan."

"Where did that woman go after then?"

"She went to the laundry area. Left the cart, and then she entered the elevator."

"Can you tell which floor she stops?"

"I'm on it!" Mark scans the records. "8th-floor! She entered room 8021!"

"Anyone check room 8021!" Daichi ordered the security team to search the suite.

After 10 minutes, the security found a few female things.

"Wait, that woman is one of our trainees like Nikki!" Kier remembers every employee working in the hotel as he is the one preparing their contracts. He memorizes everyone's faces.

"Then, Nikki knew her?"

"That is for sure, Theo," Matt replied.

"Her data, how about it?"

"I'm scanning the files of our trainees," said Kier, typing on his laptop. "Okay. She graduated from Polytechnic College of Mainland City. She had good grades and was recommended by Senator Lu's daughter, who owns a restaurant."

"I want that restaurant to investigate," Shun ordered.

"I'll contact an agent." Matt quickly responded to the boss's command.

"Is she possibly working with the Senator?" Theo mumbles.

"She must be! Could it be that she is a spy?" Mark seconded.

"That for sure. Now we have new leads." Daichi believes. He takes out his phone and dials Dale's contact number. "Dale, send people to locate a certain woman. We want her, and someone should visit her family for investigation."

"Understood, boss!" Dale responded.

"Her family is living outside the city," Kier added more information. "Mark, can you run her social media posts?"

"Copy! I'm a genius with it!" Mark dives the web to get information, and in a minute, he has results. "It appears she has a good lifestyle like she always went on partying. Shopping, and even out of the country vacation."

"Is she someone's mistress? Her family only lives an average life. They were poor and living in rural areas." said David. He also helped with the investigation of their new leads. He has access to all the government records, especially the National Security data.

"She must be Senator Lu's woman!"

"But Senator Lu arrives late?" Shun ponders.

"Can this be possible that Kevin Hale and Senator Lu are trying to push Garry Shang for a crime he did not yet commit? That was my perception," said Matt.

"It appears that way." Daichi concurred.

"So, Kevin Hale and Senator Lu possibly already partnered with a scheme, and they set up Garry Shang?"

"Maybe to frame him up?" Dylan's conclusion to the picture. After analyzing what happens today. Kevin Hale outsmarts them.

"The reason Kevin Hale requested a dinner over Garry Shang's manor," David's perception.

"We should not forget about Aunt Lucy! They kidnap her so that Nikki would go with their plans." Matt added.

"Damn. As expected of the Lawrence Brothers!" Mark commented.

"Shut up, Mark," said Rudolf.

"Eh? Don't dishearten, cousin. When it comes to computers, we are a reliable one! Right, brother Shun?"

"Yeah. You are all good at certain areas."

"Compliments from the boss!"

"Shut up, Mark!"

"Ouch! Stop yelling!"

"All right, listen up!" Shun gets everyone's attention. "Someone sent an agent to watch at Garry Shang's manor and Senator Lu's mansion." Shun's orders. "Also, it's getting dark, everyone doubles the search!"

"Roger!" they responded at once.

"Let me handle the agents to look out, brother Shun," said Matt and make a phone call to the SIS Headquarters.

"Thank you, Matt."

"Everyone, listen up! I finally have an answer!" Dylan announced.

"What is it, Dylan?"

"I figure out how Nikki gets out of the hotel."

"How???"