Louis runs out after Ada zipping up his pants and adjusting everything. He catches up with her in the parking lot. "Hey why did you run off like that?" he asks when he catches up to her.
"I didn't mean to interrupt you. You can go back in there and finish up your business." Ada says trying to look away.
"I'm done. We're you looking for me for any reason?" He asks Ada when he noticed tears in her eyes.
Ada tries to stay strong but she suddenly breaks down. "My father. He's in trouble. He's... He's... He's been taken away by a group of men who won't let him go unless I pay his gambling debt. But I don't have $25,000 right now. I don't know where to get it and the strip club won't loan it to me. I don't know where to go." Ada cried leaning into Louis's shoulder.
Louis suddenly doesn't know why but he wants to comfort Ada and hold her tight. He embraces her in his arms and says, "I can give it to you right now. Just let me know where your father is." He says to reassure her.
Ada looks at him disbelievingly. "Will you really loan me the money?"
Louis nods, "No interest either." He says joking to lighten up the situation.
"Thank you! Thank you!" Ada cries throwing her arms around him to hug him. Louis feels this tingling feeling inside himself. He noticed Ada's excitement and couldn't help but feel a little excitement himself.
She led him to her father's captors, who were none other than Alex's men. Ada pointed to the warehouse they had her father in. "They're in there." She pointed.
Louis held her hand to reassure her. He recognized the territory to belong to Alex Fong. Right when they entered Louis saw a man being held up by a rope. He was badly beaten. His face was swollen like a purple ballon. His body had deep cuts and scars which resembled burnt liver. There was a stench of blood around the warehouse. It was obvious they did a lot of torture in that ware house.
Louis walked in and was greeted by Nicky Wu, Alex's most faithful follower. "What brings a Wong brother here?"
Ada notices her father hanging by the rope on the ceiling of the building. She starts to cry and scream, "Let my father go."
Louis pointed at the man hanging on the rope. "The man up there is what I'm here for." Louis walked straight up to Nicky. If you want 25 grand I can give it to you tomorrow."
Nicky chuckled and ordered his men to lower the rope. Ada ran to him crying and screaming. "Father, are you okay? She asked. He was barely able to talk and he seemed as if he couldn't breath. "What have you done to my father?" Ada hollered at Nicky.
Nicky glared at Ada then turned his attention back at Louis. "I trust a Wong brother can bring me a little sum of 25 grand." He said and motioned his men to leave with him.
Louis walked over to Ada. Ada was crying with her father in her arms. He's not breathing, he's not breathing. I think he's dead. Help! Help him!" Ada cried hysterically.
Louis immediately picked him up and put him in his car. As he drove crazily to the hospital he noticed Ada's sincere care for her father. Louis just kept driving and trying to get them to the hospital on time. They admitted her father and when the doctor came out hours later informed her that he was severely injured but was going to live. Ada felt a little relieved and Louis held her to reassure her.
"Thank you." Ada said once more to Louis. "This is the second time you have saved me from a crisis. I really owe you."
"No problem, just glad I could help you." Louis says with genuine sincere.
Ada nods her head, "Thank you. I mean it."
Louis nods to let him know he understood. Louis no longer has desire for sex with Ada. She is no longer a challenge to him. For some reason he believes she's different from all the girls that are after his money. He feels a special bond to Ada.
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Nnadia rushes to see Ekin. She impatiently waits for him at the Dragon lounge. He enters glad to see her. Right when Nadia sees Ekin she rushes to him.
"What's going on? Is something wrong?" Ekin asked worried that Nnadia has found out about Steven's gambling habits or what he said about her a few nights ago.
Nnadia slaps Ekin across the face. "How dare you do such a thing to Steven!" She screams.
Ekin was astonished. The slap to his face was painful not to his face but to his heart. "What was that for?" he asked.
"All Steven wanted was to borrow some money for me! I can't believe you asked him to give me to you as a down payment and you would even give him a million dollars! I thought you were different from your rascal buddies, but I guess you're just like them. I don't need your filthy money or any of your help!" Nadia yelled.
Ekin straighten himself up. "Did Steven tell you this?" he asked calmly.
Nnadia didn't answer him. Instead she started to walk off. Jerry and Michael blocked her. Nnadia shook her head and looked at them disgustedly.
"You make me sick, you and your scoundrels!" she said looking back at Ekin. "To lend woman money, she has to sleep with you. Well I rather die a million deaths or be soaked in acid before I come even a foot close to you!" she said grabbing a cup of alcohol from the waiter walking by and throwing it at Ekin before she ran off.
Jordan was about to stop her but Ekin shook his head. "Let her go."
"Why? She just dissed you." Jordan asked confused.
"She probably doesn't know the truth." Ekin replied. Jerry brought some towels to Ekin. Michael ordered someone to get a new suit from one of the stores at the bottom floor of the casinos.
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Nic attempts to locate Joey again fruitlessly. "This is the fourth freaking night you've waited here!" Sam screams. You're not going to find her."
"Shut up!" Nic yells irritated. "Let's go!" Nic says out of annoyance.
As they were heading back towards Las Vegas Boulevard, Nick noticed Joey in a Taxi next to his car. He screams to Sam, "There she is! Follow that car!"
Sam immediately follows. Nic is excited jumping up and down in the vehicle. "I've finally found the little bitch! Oh I gotta make her pay!" he said joyfully.
"If she finds out you're after her, she's just going to run away again." Sam says.
Nic thinks about it. "If that's the case I'll just win her over the easy way."
"How's that?" Sam asked with a raised eyebrow.
"I'm going to use her and dump her. After I'm done with her she'll be putty in my hands." Nic said as he clenched his hands together.
"Are you sure it won't be you, that'll be putty in her hand?" Sam said teasingly. "You're already so crazy for her right now." He added.
Nic gave Sam a mean stare, "Shit up and drive!" he said as if it was an order.
Sam chuckled and followed Joey. They ended up arriving at a hospital. Nic and Sam look at each other and shrug. Nic gets out and follows Joey while Sam parks the car.
Joey runs into the hospital and straight to the cashier's office. She pays them a sum that looks like $5,000. Nic is astonished. Joey fills out some paperwork and then thanks the nurse as she takes a deep breath. She continues into the elevator. Nic becomes indecisive if he should follow her or not but then is afraid of losing her so her jumps into the elevator.
Joey becomes startled and holds her purse close to her. Nic moves closer to her to look at the floor she pressed on the elevator. He noticed it was the 10th floor. He presses the tenth floor also. Joey leans back somewhat fearful of him.
Then the elevator jolts and Nic ends up losing his balance and falling on top of Joey. Joey pulls out a can of pepper spray to spray at Nic but end up missing him completely and spraying the wall. She tries again and sprays the floor next to Nic's eyes.
He jumps up noticing it was pepper spray and backs up from her. "Hey I just tripped. Get over it!" he says.
"How do I know you're not just some pervert!" Joey declares still holding her pepper spray at him. But really she didn't even know if she was holding it right.
He chuckled and said, "I think you're holing it wrong. If you spray it, it'll get you."
"Don't mess with me!" Joey said rather jumpy. She tested a small spray a little lower and it did spray out towards her. She let out a sigh of relief that she didn't spray it again when it could have blinded her. She calmed down a bit and lowered the pepper spray back into her purse.
Nic smiled that he had convinced her he was harmless. Joey noticed his smile and said, "Don't get any ideas or I'll have my mace out and ready!" she said.
"Hey I was just relieved you put that thing away. We're in a hospital! I couldn't try anything. Only crazy people would." He said.
Joey noticed his point and became calmer. They arrived on the tenth floor and Joey got off. Nic followed her and even walked into the same room as her. "What are you doing following me?"
"I'm not following you. I'm just visiting my grandfather." Nic replied walking to the old man on the bed.
Joey crossed her arms. "That's my grandfather." She said sternly
"Opps." Nic said as he started off to the other bed in the room. "It's this one then."
Joey shook her head, "That's my grandma!" Joey said harshly.
"Did they change my grandpa's room?" Nic asked pretending to look shook.
Joey shook her head. "My grand parents have been in here for a month, so you might have the wrong room." Joey said motioning him to get out.
Nic turns to leave the room and then walks off to the nurse's station. "Excuse me, How much does it cost to stay in the hospital for a month?"
The nurse gave him a glare. "What's your sickness?"
"I don't have one. I just wanted to help my friend pay but she keeps saying that she can handle it, so I wanted to know how much was able to handle it."
"Which friend is that?" the nurse asked with a smirk on her face.
"Room 1045." Nick replied.
The nurse flipped through her files and replied, "Oh the Yung Grandparents are paying about $875 a night each person."
"Wow!" Nic says in shock.
"Yeah your friend either has a lot of money or a lot of help." The nurse said putting the clipboard down.
Nic nodded and left the hospital to look for Sam. Now it made sense to him why Joey was stealing so much money but he decided to come back and check if that was really the only reason Joey was stealing money.
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Weeks later...
The morning light slipped in to a dark bedroom between the gaps of the white jacquard curtains. A woman was asleep on a bed composed of white satin and flannel sheets. Even tough her hair hung over a part of her face you could tell the woman was endowed with a beautiful clear complexion.
Another woman walked passed her threw the curtains open, "Wake up Nnadia!" she screamed. "You better wake up lazy butt!" the woman said playfully as she jumped onto the bed.
Nnadia looked up from her sleep and said, "Go away Ada." Ada pulled Nnadia up from her bed and playfully tickled her.
"ok, ok. I'm getting up." Nnadia said laughing as she fell off the bed.
Ada laughed and said, "Yeah you better get up before I come and torture you more with my evil tickling fingers." She joked holding her fingers up as she ran to Nnadia.
Nnadia hurried into the bathroom. "Where are the others?" she asked pinning her hair up to brush her teeth.
"They should be here in a few minutes. I already woke them up." Ada said as she made Nnadia's bed.
Nnadia nodded and ran back into the restroom to brush her teeth. Within moments three other girls came into the room. "Stop hitting me or I'm going to tell Ada on you!" Joey shouted playfully as she was the first to enter the room.
Annie was behind her and whacked her once more on her butt before they both froze because of Ada's stare. "Morning!" they both exclaimed with a cheerful smile.
Behind them followed another woman. She stood still at the door staring at Ada with an evil smirk. Ada crossed her hands and returned the nasty stare.
Annie shook the woman's arm, "Kristy!" she hollered. "Why are you looking at Ada like that?" she asked.
Kristy flung Annie's hands off her arm. "Because she's a bitch!" she said running towards Ada ready to beat on her.
Annie and Joey both looked at each other. Ada prepared herself for Kristy's attack and grabbed the blanket from the bed. Kristy grabbed a pillow from the bed and the two started smacking each other playfully.
Nadia came running out of the bathroom. "How many times do I have to tell you two to stop messing around in my room!" Nadia shouted at Ada and Kristy.
"Sorry." They pouted and gave each other an "opps" look as they hugged each other laughing..
Annie and Joey looked relieved and ran to the bed to playfully smack Ada and Kristy. "You two scared us!" Joey said shoving Ada.
?"Yeah!" Annie said pretending to kick Kristy off the bed.
Nnadia screamed, "You've all messed up my bed!"
The four girls looked at each other and smiled cunningly as they grabbed Nnadia and threw her onto the bed. Everyone was having fun tickling each other, throwing pillows, and wrapping each other in blankets. But they were quickly interrupted by a knock on the door.
Nnadia got up to open it and Steven Ma was standing there. "So what happened?" Nnadia asked him. "I was there earlier with Shi Qi and Ekin saw me."
"Perfect." Nadia said with a smirk on her face.
Ada's phone rang and she picked it up. "What floor are you on?" she asked into the receiver. "Yeah that's where I am, just come to Suite 8888." Ada said and hung up the phone.
Suddenly another figure appeared next to Steven. It was Nicky Wu. "You're here too." Nnadia said and motioned Ada.
Ada got up and walked towards the door. She looked at Nicky. "Did Louis pay you?"
Nicky nodded. "Very good." Ada said.
Kristy stood up and walked over to Ada. "I don't think they'll ever expect it."
Joey's cell phone rings. "Yes, oh I see. Yes he's a friend of mine. Thank you." Joey says hanging up the phone. Nic was asking about my hospital payments. "The nurse that let him know just informed me because she was reprimanded by her head nurse. So she wanted to verify that she gave information to someone that I allowed to have information." Joey said with a grin on her face.
"Thanks, we'll call you when we need you." Nnadia says to the two men. They nod and leave the hotel.
Annie walked over to the bar area and poured some wine into some wine flutes. She brought them over to the girls. "Daddy would be so proud of this. I believe this is something to drink to." Annie says
"I would say so", Annie says picking up her cup, "Cheers to the Lai sisters."
Nnadia, Joey,Kristy and Ada look at each other then "Cheers!" they all said holding up their cups.
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