Nnadia fought through the crowd of people running out. Ekin was standing outside the restaurant but there was more commotion as people were running frantically around the casino. They were afraid everywhere would burn also. Ekin noticed firefighters entering and evacuating the building.
Then for some reason, he ran back into the restaurant. He searched frantically for Nnadia and soon found her coughing and struggling to get out of the inferno. He ran to her and helped her up. The two of them forced their way out of the inferno as Nnadia gripped something tightly in her hands.
When they were finally out and safe Ekin helped Nnada sit on a chair. He shook his head and asked, "What's so important you had to go risk your life to get?"
Nnadia coughed as she held out her hands to him to show him what she was holding, "All these insurance papers, agreements, and contracts are vital to not only me rebuilding my restaurant but also to my employees." She flipped through some more documents. "These documents are vital to the survival of all my employees if they are jobless because of this fire."
Ekin was amazed. He was more impressed with her. Her virtue had initiated him to trust her. Her beauty and elegance had captured him. Her intelligence and charm mesmerized him and now her honor and determination has conquered him. She was the perfect woman in his eyes. She was the one he needed by his side, a woman with virtue, honor, determination, intelligence, beauty, elegance, and charm. If she was willing to sacrifice her life for these matters she was a survivor. Living in the harsh Triad world, his woman had to posses these traits.
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A beautiful sexy woman who doesn't look a day past 25 comes to bail Annie out. She claims to be Annie's family. Frankie looks at he name on the paperwork and says, "Okay Shi Qi, follow me."
Right when Shi Qi sees Annie she yells at her, "You crazy little girl, if you dare do something stupid like this again I'll leave you in to rot in jail!"
"You're not my mom you don't have the right to yell at me!" Annie screams at her while they're leaving.
"Thank goodness your mom is dead or else your menacing behaviors would have killed her!"
"Shut up bitch!" Annie screams and slaps Shi Qi in front of Marco and Frankie.
Frankie raises his eyebrows, "If I were you, I'd leave her here." He says.
Marco looks shocked and tries to nudge Frankie to not say anything. Shi Qi seems very angry but takes her money out to pay for Annie's $150,000 bail. Frankie and Marco look at each other disbelievingly.
Annie walks up to Marco and says, "Be careful where you put your gun next time. Don't get a hard on because it can cost you your life." She said with a mad expression.
She turns to Frankie and says, "Officer Lam, if I were you I wouldn't try to keep me here. You might fall in love with me and lose you life too." She smirks as she walks out.
Shi Qi follows her and says, "Wait for me!"
"Crawl home bitch!" Annie sneers back.
Shi Qi pauses and says, "When you get home I'll make sure your life is hell."
Annie turned around and looked at her angrily with a glint of malice in her eyes. "Who do you think my father will side with?" she asked forcing Shi Qi to the wall. Shi Qi didn't dare say a thing. "I thought so." Annie said triumphantly as she continued her way out of the police station.
Frankie and Marco look at her. Frankie raises his eyebrow. Marco looks confused. Shi Qi looks at them and angrily leaves the police station following Annie.
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Louis ran after Ada but he didn't find her. She just disappeared. He goes back into Sapphire and questions Kristy about her behavior earlier. Kristy sneers at him. "Are you worried your precious slut won't fuck you if she's hurt?"
Louis gives Kristy a mean stare. Kristy smiles and walks around him as she whispers into his ears, "You could have had the best, but you rather have the fuckin slut that won't give. We're through." She said walking away.
Louis tried to grab her hand to pull her back. Nobody dumps a Wong! The bouncer that usually protected Kristy blocked Louis. Louis glared at him and immediately punched him. The two stared fighting.
The bouncer made an uppercut and punched Louis's mouth causing a deep cut in his mouth. Louis was furious and made a high punch to the bouncer and then low kicked him in the groin. Following he pulled the bouncer in towards him and rammed the guy into his knee. He picked the guy up and punched him vigorously across the face.
Kristy smiled as she walked away. She didn't care about Louis or the bouncer. She was entertained just by their behavior. She got her things and left for the day as they were still fighting.
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It was another day and again the Triads were meeting in their usual place, the conference room on the 3rd floor of the Chinatown Plaza. There was conflict between the Triad members about the trading of Drugs within another's territory. Alex and Francis were interfering in each other's territories.
"Fuck you!" Francis shouted at Alex. "You're fucking cunts think they got shit, tell them to step up!" he yelled.
Alex was calm as he replied, "Brother Francis, I don't want to cause trouble between our arrangements but you need to realize that your men messed with my men in my territory. What's your explanation for that?"
Francis snicker, "Your fuckin rascals weren't cooperative. What you expect my men to do? Beg?" he said sarcastically.
Leon observed and spoke, "Your men still shouldn't have shot Alex's men."
Alex looked at Leon and nodded then he looked back at Francis. "How are you going to take care of this?"
Francis held out his hand as if he was going to give Alex something. Alex observed but didn't move. Suddenly Francis pounded a small knife onto the table top. Nicky Wu, one of Alex's dedicated followers immediately reacted, pointing a gun at Francis. It caused a domino effect where Leon's follower, Hawick Lau pulled out his gun also followed by Chris, Michael, Jerry, and Stephen.
Simon looked at everybody and tried to calm them all down. "We're all brothers here. Who need to pull out guns to resolve such little conflict."
Leon nodded. "Yes I shall be the first to withdraw." he said motioning Hadwick to lower his weapon. Hadwick did as Leon told him to. Slowly everyone else started to drop their weapons.
Ekin turned his attention to Francis. "What was that about?"
Francis laughed mockingly. "Here's a blade. Tell me who's head you want and I'll cut it down." He said sarcastically at Alex.
"I don't want no wasted lives, none was hurt on my side but hospital bills 3 million sound reasonable." Alex said.
"The fuck!" Francis screamed.
Leon nodded, "Yes that sounds reasonable."
"Shut up you gay fuck!" Francis screamed. Leon shook his head and looked away.
Jordan intervened. "Simon shot his followers straight cold, can't you handle something like that?" he challenged Francis
Simon was upset that Jordan brought up the subject. "Jordan, I don't fuck your wife and talk about it, you shouldn't bring up the past."
"Hell with you fucker!" Jordan said picking up his gun to shot at Simon. Stephen immediately was ready to counter attack. Simon sat there calmly. Ekin tried to hold Jordan back because he didn't want more trouble. Louis tugs him to sit back down.
Louis turns to Simon and says, "I fuck his wife and daughters without his knowledge so don't get upset." He said looking at Simon.
Simon was outraged but he smiled and said, "You must have been fucking yourself because I don't have a wife or a daughter." Louis was now outraged.
Leon tried to calm everybody down. "We're all brothers, let's be calm."
Ekin turned the conversation back to the drug deals. "So 3 million sounds reasonable." He said looking at Francis. "You destroyed part of his territory and raided it with drug dealings."
Leon agreed, "...and you hurt his men" he added.
"Fuckin shit!" Francis said getting up from the table. He snapped his fingers for his men to bring the money. Within 10 minutes the money was brought in a suitcase and delivered to the conference room. Francis threw it over towards Alex and left annoyed.
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Later that night Louis goes to Sapphire again. This time he doesn't see Kristy. He wanted to teach her a lesson from last time but finds out she doesn't work there anymore. He walked the room looking for his other interest which was Ada. He caught her on stage and eyed her. She was to his eye like what candy was to his mouth, sweet and hard.
Ada saw Louis and as soon as her act was over got off stage and ran to change. When she finished Louis was waiting outside of her changing room. She saw him and gave him an evil stare as she grabbed her coat and walked out of the building.
Louis smirked liking this challenge. There was nothing a Wong couldn't do and he wanted to conquer her. He went to grab a beer but decided to take his concentration off her as he eyed another sweet candy on the stage.
This girl was just as sweet and tempting as Ada but she was sexier. The way she moved her body drove him crazy just watching her. Different from Ada her technique was more erotic and sultry. She took off everything but refused to let the men touch her. He asked Anthony who she was and he told her the girl's name was Chingmy Yau. She just came from China and was willing to do anything for money. Louis smirked and ordered Willy to send her to his VIP room.
Louis waited for her and right when she entered she got to work. She was obviously a professional. She didn't bother to talk to seduce like Kristy did. Her mere talent of pleasuring Louis drove him mad as he enjoyed her luscious body.
After his fun with her he did his usual of leaving. Unlike Kristy she didn't show any care. She just grabbed her satin slip dress and put it back on as she walked out. When Chingmy saw that he was leaving the building she smirked and made a phone call.
He walked into the parking lot and was surprised that Ada was barely walking to her car. He smirked and decided to follow her. Suddenly a man jumped in front of her and Ada wrestled with the man. Louis immediately helped Ada out of this crisis.
Ada is shocked to see Louis there helping her. The man is beaten unconscious and Louis calls Frankie to come handle it. As they wait for Frankie, Ada looks nervously at Louis and says, "Thanks." She says softly.
"What was that?" Louis asks with a smirk on his face.
"Thank you." She says again a little louder but still very softly.
Louis jokes with her again as he asks, "What? I can't hear you." He said with his hands cupped around his ears positioned closer to her.
Ada looks uneasy and starts to walk away. Louis runs after her. "I heard you." He says as he catches up with her.
Ada looks sternly at him. He looks at her and says, "I guess we got off on the wrong foot." He says trying to reconcile himself with Ada. "How about I introduce myself, my name is Louis Wong." He says holding his hand out.
Ada smiles and shakes his hands. "Hi, my name is Ada Choi." She smiles.
Louis believes he has won her over and smiles triumphantly. But then Ada says, "I'm thankful you helped me but I rather not have anything to do with you in the future."
Louis looks at her surprised. A woman doesn't turn down him down he thought to himself. "Why?" he asked.
"Because you are a Wong." Ada replied walking away.
"What's that have to do with anything?" Louis asked.
Ada looks at him sternly, "If I'm not wrong, you're Louis Wong. Your brothers are Ekin and Nic. You guys are part of the Chinese Triad here in Las Vegas."
Louis was impressed. "A girl that knows my background, that's really rare."
Ada continues. "I don't want a messed up life, I just want to have normal life, so I rather not know you or your so called business."
Louis challenges her. "All women who work at Sapphire are after the chase of wealth and power, you're no different."
Ada was insulted, "I am not a trashy woman after the gains of wealth, power, or men like you, Mister Wong!"
"If you're not like every other woman, you're in the wrong place."
"You're wrong; I am in the right place. I need money and there's no other place than a strip club that a girl like me can get money."
"Then you admit you're after money!" Louis said thinking he has cornered her.
Ada nods but looks at him with sadden eyes. "Yes but I need money to pay back my father's gambling debt and my education." She replied. "I'm not after money for my own personal gain."
Louis was impressed but wasn't sure if he believed her. He nodded and asked, "So how much does your father owe and to who does he owe it to?"
"None of your problem, I'll handle it."
Louis was getting more interested in his challenge. She was not typical. He was going to persist for more answers but Frankie and Marco arrived. They took down their reports and arrested the man who was still unconscious.
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Ekin tries to invite Nadia to dinner with him again. Being around her relieves his stress from everyday triad work. Nnadia is stressed out over her plans for remodeling her restaurant and rejects his invitation.
"Everyone has to eat." Ekin says to convince her.
"Sorry Mister Wong, but I really have a lot to do." Nnadia says as she hands a document to one of her employees. "The reconstruction will be finished in a month, I'll invite you out to repay you for loaning me extra money on top of the 200 grand." She said busily trying to finish up her business documents.
"Its okay, really just take your time." Ekin said.
"Thanks, but I really rather get everything done so I can pay you back. The faster I built up the quicker I can pay you back."
Ekin was about to say something when a man came walking up behind them. "Here's your dinner." The man announced handing Nnadia a bag of to-go food.
Nnadia pushed the strand of hair hanging over her face behind her ears and stood up from the paperwork she was writing on. "This is my boyfriend, Steven Ma." Nnadia introduces the two men.
"Hello." Steven says warmly as he extends his hand for a handshake.
"Hi." Ekin says as he gives Steven a disapproving look as the two men shake hands.
"I heard Nnadia say a lot of good things about you. Thanks for helping Nnadia so much." Steven says with a genuine grin.
"Its funny she never mentioned you." Ekin says rather annoyed by Steven.
"Well, I'm nothing to mention. I can never do anything for Nnadia. I'm glad you have helped her. She needs it." Steven said in a friendly manner.
Ekin looks at Nnadia with disappointment. "Anytime you need help, don't hesitate to ask." He says.
Nnadia nods as she continues flipping through her business documents. Steven gets some food out and playfully feeds Nnadia as she continues working.
Ekin looks at them and says, "I have to go now. I'll see you."
Nnadia doesn't take her eyes off her paperwork and waves bye to Ekin. Steven has one arm around Nnadia and is feeding her with the other. He looks up at Ekin and says, "Bye, thanks for visiting."
Ekin walks away disappointedly. The only woman he ever thought fit to be the one by his side was already taken by another man.
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