"What are you doing here?" Louis questions Ada and then looks at Kristy who is being held hostage under Shi-Qi as a hostage.
"Let me go or your women will be badly injured." Simon threatened Ekin and his brothers. Ekin looks at Nic and Louis then at Nnadia who nods her head. Ekin unwillingly releases Simon.
Nic seems puzzled as he looks at Joey. "Did he hurt you?" he asked worriedly.
"Tell your men to back up!" Simon ordered the brothers. Louis and Nic looked at Ekin. Ekin agreed to back down. Their men backed up and left the conference room.
Simon laughed despicably. "You know what ruins a man. It's when he lets his heart control his reason." He said callously.
"Shut up and let them go." Louis orders.
"Who the hell are you, talking to Simon like that!" Ching-Yau yells. Louis suddenly recognizes her and thinks back to how he met Kristy, Ada, and Ching-Yau at Sapphire. it all seemed like a plan. All the perfect trap.
Simon chuckled seeing Louis's expression. "Before I kill you, I'll explain everything to you." He laughed walking over to Kristy. "I sent her to seduce you. She was supposed to get you to fall deeply in love with her seductive ways but that didn't work. She was like all the other girls you met, just wanted to get fucked by a Wong!" he scorned as he walked towards Kristy.
"So I sent in Ada here." He said walking over to her. "She's the independent, stubborn one filled with innocent. Plus she doesn't want anything to do with a Wong. Does she successfully seduce you? No not yet because you're the worst kind of player. What happens then?" he said grinning.
"I send my own little devil..." He said touching Ching-Yau's cheeks lightly. "...to fuck you and let you fall deeper into Ada's innocent girl trap." He mocked with a vociferous laughter. Louis glared angrily at the sisters and even more resentment at Simon.
Simon continued his march opf triumph as he walked closer to Ekin and Nnadia. "Ekin here I pity even more." He said. "The poor basard even married my precious daughter, my greatest pawn." He laughed.
Ekin gave Nnadia a confused look. Nnadia backed away from Ekin towards Simon and looked away from him. She couldn't look him in the eye. Ekin reached out for her but she refused to acknowledge him. The brothers were shocked.
Nnadia takes a step forward yet Ekin reaches for her arm to stop her. "Where are you going?" he questions her.
"To get my gun." She replies honestly. Ekin, Nic, Louis looks at her strangely. "I work for Simon." She said shaking herself free from Ekin. Ekin was left speechless as she approached Simon, grabbed the gun, and stood next to Shi-Qi who was standing next to Kristy
Shi-Qi then handed Simon another gun. "Now is when you finish them." Simon ordered.
Ekin still had a confused expression. The wife he loved so much, betraying him before his eyes. She stared deep within his eyes as she prepared the gun.
Simon laughs at Ekin even more now. "Did you really think that Nnadia owned Fortunes? You couldn't have possibly forgotten that it was located within Rio, which is my hotel, could you?" He mocked laughing hysterically. "Isn't she a good actress?" he asked teasingly. "She was such a noble, honorable, virtuous woman; everything you were looking for, wasn't she?" Simon mocked.
"You were part of this too?" Nic asked looking at Joey hoping she would say no.
Simon then turned his attention to Nic. "Well my little Joey was only supposed to keep you preoccupied until I kill your brothers but I guess somehow she did a much better job than that and made you fall in love with her." Simon said in a mocking tone. "You know her grandparents in the hospital?" he asked callously. "They're not really her grandparents and after today they're going to die." He said laughing evilly.
Nic was baffled. He wasn't sure what was going on but he could see that Joey was not willing to see him die because she closed her eyes and tears were streaking down her face.
"Now I want you girls to end these pitiful lives." Simon ordered.
The sisters stood there for a second not sure what to do. Nnadia and Ada were perplexed, they couldn't just take Ekin and Louis's lives. Kristy shook her head; she didn't want Louis getting hurt. Joey closed her eyes because she couldn't bear seeing this happen.
"Don't just stand there!" Simon ordered Ada and Nnadia in a vicious tone seeing how his plans were perfectly coming together.
Ada was taken out of her split shock. She looked at Kristy who was now next to Ching-Yau. Then she stared deeply into Louis eyes. "I'm sorry, my sister comes first." She said softly.
Louis was beyond belief. The only woman to ever make him change his heart was now the person who was going to take his life away aiming straight at his heart.
Nnadia points the gun at Ekin but she isn't able to shot. Ekin observes her and realizes she couldn't shot him.
"Shot them now!" Simon orders as Ching-Yau and Shi-Qi point guns at Joey and Kristy to force Nnadia and Ada to kill Ekin and Louis.
Stephen who has been standing passively can't accept Simon holding Joey hostage. "Joey is mine, you can't kill her." He says defiantly at Simon.
Simon chuckled. "If I can give her to you, I can take her away. If you had finished Nic off like you were supposed to, I wouldn't have to use Joey now would I?" he stated more than questioned.
Stephen is outraged. Nic is baffled, all this time he thought Stephen was a good friend of his. He never imagined Stephen being capable of doing anything like this to him.
Stephen turns to face Nic. "Sorry." He says softly as he prepares the trigger.
Nic looks at him without responding. He couldn't imagine that this was happening. He wanted to protect Joey but ended up being betrayed by her and Stephen. Furthermore he just found out that Joey belonged to Stephen. He wondered about their relationship and how they acted like strangers on Ekin and Nnadia's wedding.
Suddenly Ada shoots her gun straight at Louis's heart, on the left side. Louis falls to the ground instantaneously. At the same time Nnadia also shoots Ekin causing him to also fall immediately to the ground. Just like Ada, Nnadia aimed her gun at Ekin's heart.
"Dai Guo! Ye Guo!" Nic screams running to them. They were laying five feet away from each other on the conference room floor with a pool of blood obviously around their bodies. He looks up at Nnadia. "Ah-So (sister-in-law) ! I can't believe you did this? You said you loved Dai Guo!" he shouted with tears coming from his eyes as he tried to stop the blood coming from his brothers. Nick was losing it completely. First Joey's shock and now his brothers laying there in blood.
Kristy screams as she saw Louis fall and tried to loosen Ching-Yau's grip on her but fails miserably since Ching-Yau was stronger than her and had the upper hand. Kristy yearned to see how Louis was doing. Her heart was in much more pain than his even though he was hurt. Looking at the one you love in such a condition is never bearable. She now understood Ada was serious yesterday when she said she'd shoot Louis if necessary.
Nnadia closes her eyes then turns to Simon opening her eyes again to look straight at him. Simon smirks as he nods his head and says. "Your aim is still as sharp as it could be. You shoot him exactly in the heart."
Then he walks over to Ada who is now very ashamed of what she just did. Her hands are nervous and her heart is beating rapidly "Good job girls." He smirks walking over to Stephen. "Now its time for the youngest Wong brother." He smiled evilly.
Joey looks startled. She stares at Stephen who also looks back at her. She shakes her head. Stephen nods his head. Joey still shakes her head. Stephen looks away and aims at Nic who isn't paying attention because he's more worried for his brother's lives.
"STOP!" Joey yells freeing herself from Shi-Qi's grasp. Shi-Qi lets her go easily without stopping her. Joey runs over to Nic who now looks at her in shock.
"What are you doing here?" Nic questions her. "Get away from me!"
Stephen cannot shoot because he's in pain that Joey used her life to protect Nic. "Why?" Stephen asks with a cold and angry expression.
Joey sniffles as she starts to feel very sad. "All I know is that I don't want to see YOU killing HIM!" She cries.
"Do you love him?" Stephen asks again with a cold expression.
Shi-Qi aims her gun at Joey. Simon puts up a hand to stop her. He's actually enjoying this little show because it would make Stephen, Nic, and Joey miserable. He never cared for Stephen or anyone else for that matter. Other than Annie, his precious daughter, the only person he cared about, nobody else mattered.
"I don't know if you can call this love but if love means you don't want to see the person in pain or hurt then I suppose you can say I love Nic." She said softly afraid of what Stephen might think or say now. "But that would mean I love you too." she added looking into his eyes. "Because I don't want to see you in pain or hurt either."
Stephen took a deep breath and lowered his gun. Simon smirked. "You might as well kill both of them. You can have any woman you want. Joey's just another slut." He sneered.
Nnadia, Ada, and Kristy looked at Simon in anger. "You can't go back on your words!" Ada yelled.
"You can't kill Joey!" Kristy yelled struggling to get free from Chingmy. This time Kristy refused to surrender. She was determined to break free, to protect her younger sister.
Nic swiftly turned Joey around and slapped her across the face. Joey was stunned. Stephen became very angry and pointed the gun back up at Nic. "Who needs you, you little bitch!" Nic yelled. "Get out of my face!" he hollered hoping to save Joey from being killed. "Who said I ever loved you! I wish I could kill you for what you've done to me and my brothers! I never want to see you again!"
Joey understood his intention but she refused to leave. "When you love someone that doesn't meaning you have to be with that person as long as that person is safe. Love doesn't need to be reciprocated. I only want you to be safe even if you live the rest of your life with another woman." She said as tears came down her face. "You're the one that taught me that."
Nic wanted to push her away even more now but he couldn't. Her words had touched his heart. Now more than ever he wanted to hold her tightly but he couldn't forget her betrayal and scandalous actions against him.
Kristy finally got free from Ching-Yau and ran towards Joey and Louis since Joey was near Nic who was near louis. This caused an unexpected commotion. Ching-Yau quickly aims at Kristy. Simon nods in approval. He has wanted to get rid of these sisters for a year now since he realized they had intentions of rebelling against him. Furthermore, things were getting out of hand. He didn't want anyone including the Wong brothers able to get out alive.
Ada notices Ching-Yau's aim and shoots first but only ended up hitting Ching-Yau in the arm because one of Simon's followers saw Ada and helped push Ching-Yau down. If not Ada would have gotten her heart and killed her instantly.
Simon and Shi-Qi also immediately aim at the four sisters. Nnadia quickly shots Shi-Qi in the shoulders. Simon's followers are now aiding them as everybody is shooting and dodging bullets.
Ada takes another attempt at Ching-Yau but she dodges successfully running over to Simon. Kristy grabs Louis's gun and shots at Simon. Stephen protects Joey still. Joey is who he loves and even though he didn't understand the concept of letting go the one you loved he truly did love Joey.
Unexpectedly, Ekin gets up, grabs his gun, and fires at Simon! Nic reacts quickly also shooting Simon in the arm. Exactly like Ekin, Louis sits up startling Kristy who is sitting next to him. He notices her reaction and gives her a wink. She is overly excited and forgets the environment she in as she wraps her arms around Louis.
"I'm so glad you're ok!" Kristy yells. Ada watches unaware of how to feel about their interaction.
That's when Shi-Qi took the opportunity and aims at Kristy. Ada notices and grabs his gun shooting at Shi-Qi but Nic didn't stop ShiQi in time. Louis is back in the game as he pushes Kristy down taking Shi-Qi's bullet in the right arm.
Kristy screams. "Why did you do that?" she yells. "I'm not worth it! You shouldn't sacrifice anything for me." She cried trying to stop his wound from bleeding. It was disgusting and blood was gushing out all over her hands. She took off her cardigan trying to tie up the blood.
Shi-Qi didn't dodge Ada's bullet in time either and was shot in the leg. She falls to the floor. Simon runs over to drag her towards him and Ching-Yau. Ching-Yau and Shi-Qi are shocked that he actually saved Shi-Qi instead of letting her rot and die.
Joey runs to Nnadia as Stephen guards her. Joey gets another gun from Nnadia and they all shoot at Simon, Ching-Yau, and Shi-Qi who were aided by Simon's men to make their way out of the conference room towards their cars.
Ekin and Nic run after them shooting wildly at the three. It didn't matter now they wanted Simon dead. The four sisters were also determined to take his life away at that instant. Everyone was full of anger and rage.
Shi-Qi tries to shoot Nnadia. Nnadia slides across the table and kicks one of the chairs to block Shi-Qi's bullets. She twisted her arm doing this. Joey falls onto the floor, rolling three times before she get back up to shot Shi-Qi. Shi-Qi gets hurt again in the left arm. Ching-Yau makes a flip and shots back at Joey. Joey falls hitting her shoulders against the wall but Stephen protects Joey and shots Ching-Yau easily in the arm. Ada lunged off the balcony from the conference room to the bottom floor trying to shot them.
Nic scrambles to shot Simon. Ekin slides down the stairs to follow Simon faster and takes the opportunity to shoot him but misses because Simon uses Shi-Qi who is already badly injured as a shield. Shi-Qi dies slowly trying to hold onto Simon's face. She looks disappointed at Simon who tosses her dead body away because it's now useless.
Ching-Yau now understands why Simon saved Shi-Qi, to use her as a human shield if necessary. She runs out into the parking lot and jumps into the car. She didn't want to die like ShiQi. Aided by his men, Simon jumps into the car she tries to get away in and slaps her for attempting to leave him there. They drive away together.
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Ekin looks around and realizes everyone is somewhat hurt especially Louis. They rush Louis into the hospital. At the hospital Kristy, Joey, Nic and Stephen are somewhat confused about Ekin and Louis's heart shot and the pool of blood around them. Ekin explains starting from last night when Louis saw Ada and Kristy together.
* : * : * BEGIN FLASHBACK * : * : *
Louis went straight to Ada's house after talking to Anthony at Sapphire. Ada was shocked to see him when he arrived. He was straight to the point. "I saw you with Kristy. What were you doing with her? I thought you didn't like her?" he asked bluntly.
Ada took a deep breath. She knew she had to tell him the truth if she ever wanted to be free of Simon. She hoped he meant it when he said he loved her so she decided to give it a try.
"I have to be honest with you about something." She spoke slowly eyeing each of his reactions. Louis looked at her seriously waiting for her answer. She nervously played with her fingers rolling them around her hands as she continued. "I have three sisters." She said looking at Louis.
"What does this have to do with Kristy?" he asked folding his arms in front of himself.
"Kristy is my younger sister." She replied.
Louis was in shock. His mind was spinning. He didn't know if he wanted to laugh at her for making a joke or strangle her for lying and then he was suspicious of why they acted like they didn't know each other. Now who were her other sisters. Thoughts went crazily through his mind so he fell back into her sofa wondering about what she just said.
Ada sat down next to him and explained. "We were kidnapped from China 15 years ago and forced to do everything our captors made us do. They sold us to people like meat off a meat market. We obeyed fearing for our lives wondering what kind of life we had. We were adopted by Simon, our adoptive father, and he forced us to seduce men into doing things for him. " She finished looking at Louis with tears in her eyes. Her face was pink from the emotions she tried to hide. Her explanation was brief but that was all she felt she had to share.
Louis looked at her and felt the sincerity she was trying to offer him. "Why didn't you try to break free from him?" he asked in a softer tone this time.
"He would probably lkill us." she replied with a forced grin.
"Who are your other sisters?" he asked curiously. His mind was still spinning and he didn't know how to accept this fact.
"Your sister-in-law, Nnadia. Joey, the girl your younger brother is dating." Ada replied afraid of his reaction.
Louis grabbed her by the arm outraged as he pressed her against the wall looking deeply into her eyes. He pulled his arms back and swung it as hard as he could towards her.
Ada closed her eyes to take his punches. She was ready for them knowing fully how much she had hurt him. But was surprised to find out he punched the wall behind her instead.
He pushed her aside and pounded it fiercely. He wanted to yell he wanted to scream. Here he was an idiot who had fallen into a trap set by her and her sisters. He calmed down and after a while sat patiently as forced her to explain the full details to him. After hearing everything he sympathized with Ada and Kristy forgiving them.
He rushed home to tell Ekin the news but found Ekin talking to Nic. He joined their conversation wondering how he would tell Ekin but to his surprise Nnadia showed much concern for Ekin. He decided to let Nnadia explain to his brother. After the conversation in Nic's room Louis took the opportunity to tell Nnadia he knew everything. Nnadia was fully aware of it because her and Ada had it all planned out. She was also going to inform Ekin that night of her true identity.
Nnadia then proceeded to Ekin and her bedroom to explain. "Ekin I have to inform you of my true identity."She says bluntly thinking Ekin would forgive her instantly.
"What are you talking about?" Ekin ask sitting on the bed looking out their double panel windows.
"Ada, Joey, Kristy and I are all sisters." Nnadia starts to say.
Ekin turns around to look at her. "What did you just say?" he asked confused.
"I have three sisters; Ada, Joey and Kristy. You met them at our wedding." She says calmly again. Ekin nods in a confused way as he waits for her to continue.
"We've lived our lives as con-artistes All we knew how to do was lie, cheat, trick, and steal." she paused. "You and your brothers were all part of our plan." she said
Ekin runs over to her and seems upset. He pulls her arm violently. "WHAT?" he asked. His reaction was expected but she didn't expect the look in his voice to be that vicious. There was so much anguish and anger in his eyes. Her heart almost stopped just looking into them.
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