Louis is admitted into the hospital. Everyone's wounds are mended and treated. Ekin is still in denial of Nnadia's death. Frankie looks at the report and notices what Marco had typed ahead of time. He throws the report against the wall.
Annie looks at him, "What's wrong?" she asked.
"Marco already prewritten that Simon, Francis, and Alex were the heads of the attacks and shootings. How did he know that?" Frankie explains what he read to her.
"Daddy?" she said in denial. "No. Do you think Marco had something to do with the attacks?" Annie asks not trusting Marco. "I don't believe my father had anything to do with it. Believe me or not my father wouldn't attack knowing I was in the building." She says trying to convince him.
"Possible, it's a full report and in it Marco included my name as one of the deceased." Frankie replied ignoring the topic of her father in order to keep the peace.
Annie nods with a frown. "That's why he wanted you to kill yourself." She concludes.
"I wonder what else he's planning." Frankie asked curiously.
"I don't know. He's such a scary man." Annie says and leans into Frankie who embraces her.
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Joey, Stephen, Nic and Kristy are sitting in the emergency care. They are getting their wounds bandaged and taken care of. After the nurses were done Kristy gets up to immediately check on Louis.
"You've really fallen for him haven't you?" Joey asks as Kristy passes her.
Kristy halts in her steps. "I'm just checking up on him." She replies.
"Remember what Ling Jei and Fun Jei told us?" Joey reminds Kristy that they can?' fall in love with the Wong brothers.
Kristy nods. "I remember but can you honestly tell me that Ling Jei was able to do that? She fell in love with Ekin! You know it! She died saving him from the billions of bullets that shot her!" Kristy cries angrily and sadly at the same time as she thought of her sister's death and her concern for Louis..
Joey shakes her head. "I don't believe Ling Jei is dead." Joey said determinely. She was still in denial.
"She died in front of our eyes. We have to accept that." Kristy says trying to convince her younger sister to face reality. She herself couldn't believe it but she knew they had to face reality especially since their reality was so harsh. Their life had been so hard and they've suffered so much. Nnadia's death hurt Kristy but she had too much to think about with her worry for Louis and concern for Ada's safety.
Joey look down without speaking. She didn't want to face that Nnadia had died or that Ada had gone missing. She had never really been that far from her sisters before. Kristy continues to Louis's emergency operation room. Joey looks at her. "You're still going to see Louis?" she asks softly.
"Can you honestly tell me you haven't fallen for Nic?" Kristy questions back.
Joey is silent. She cannot answer. Kristy continues to leave. Joey is sitting by herself in the emergency care. Stephen and Nic have just been bandaged up by the nurses and now come to sit besides her.
"Are you okay?" they ask her simultaneously.
Joey nods her head. She looks at both of them. "I'm sorry." She says in reply
"Nothing to it." Nick replies with a reluctant smile to his face trying to ease the tension but he didn't find anything worth smiling about not after all they've been through.
"We're okay?" Stephen replies trying to ease the tension.
She noticed their intentions. "Thanks." She said softly.
They all knew what that meant. She was sorry she couldn't chose between them and they were telling her they were okay with it. Then she thanked them for understanding. The three of them sat there silently staring at each other. Joey was thinking of where Ada could possibly be. She was worried beyond belief. She also wanted to see Nnadia's body otherwise she would never believe Nnadia died.
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Louis was admitted into the regular hospital rooms. Luckily his heart was not on the left like normal people so he wasn't shot in the heart just in the chest. He was going to make a quick recovery but still had to stay there for further checking. Kristy stayed by his bedside. When he woke up that night he jumped from the bed calling for Ada. Kristy woke up besides him.
"She was captured by Nicky." Kristy reminds him as she helps him sit up.
Louis looks at her a little relieved that at least she was there. "Are you okay?" he asked with concern.
"Thanks for caring." She responded happy that he cared about her.
"I guess I've always cared," he replies holding onto her hand to reassure her. He always cared about her but he didn't realize how much that care was until recently. Although now he had Ada in his heart, he couldn't deny knowing the truth brought him more fogiving of her seductive schemes. Or maybe it was the lust and desire he had for Kristy. He was confused and still didn't know.
Kristy then remembered that Louis and Ada had a relationship not her and Louis. She gets up quickly and asked, "Are you thirsty or hungry? Let me get you something to eat." She says clumsily getting up from the chair besides his bed and trips falling on top of him.
They are face to face and Louis remembers how crazily she made him feel when they first met. He recalled the exotic dance routines she performed that drove him crazy. He leaned closer to her and brought her lips to his. They kissed passionately but this time different from the other occasions he used to kiss her. He kissed her with not just desire and lust but with emotions and feelings. He wraps her in his arms as he presses her closer to him.
She takes his lips and falls into his charm. She's so close to him she accidentally touched his wound which makes him jolt back in pain. "I'm sorry." She says after noticing what she has done.
"It's okay." He replies. "I should be the one sorry. I don't even know where Ada is and here I am kissing another woman." he said hitting his head into the metal part of the bedside. The thought of Ada almost killed him. Ada's whereabouts were unknown and here he was kissing another woman, worse of all it was her sister! "Stupid, stupid." He said repeatedly.
She immediately stopped him. "Don't!" she yelled. "You need to make sure you're ok so you can save her." she insisted. "Please don't hurt yourself." she pleaded. Louis looked into her eyes and could see the genuine concern she had for him. He nodded to comply with her.
She changes the subject back to food again. "Let me get some food for you." she says running out of the hospital room. She's very excited and feels very giddy about his care for her but then realizes Ada is still missing and here she is trying start a relationship with Louis. She felt so much hatred for herself at that moment.
Louis leans back in his bed thinking of the kiss he just shared with Kristy. He smiles as he thinks of how passionate that was. Suddenly he realized it was the way he felt when he kissed Ada.
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Ekin is badly injured but refuses to part with Nnadia's body in the hospital. He sits besides her unwilling to leave. The nurses and doctors try to persuade him but nothing works. Ekin takes out a few hundred from his wallet and hands it to them to leave him alone. They don't take the money but leaves him alone for a while.
After almost 9 hours Ekin gets up, washes his face, and regains all his rationality and harshness. Nnadia's death makes Ekin more furious at Simon, Francis and Alex. Now he even thinks of a plot that will even go against Frankie! He decided to use Annie to bring down Simon. He's willing to do anything to avenge Nnadia icluding risk his own life!
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A week later... Jerry has waken up from his coma. He calls for Ekin who is already at the hospital because Louis who was shot. Ekin and Nic rush over to see Jerry. Jerry immediately hears about Jordan, Sam and Michael's death when he wakes up. He's outraged and wants to make sure the people responsible are dead.
"How are you feeling?" Ekin asked rushing into the hospital room.
Jerry looks at Ekin dumbfounded. "I'm sorry I couldn't save everyone. Who told me to be so useless." He blames himself.
"It's okay. It's okay." Ekin tells him. "You made it alive. That is important."
"Where's Louis?" Jerry asks worriedly.
"He's okay, just recovering." Nic replied with a smile.
"What happened?" Jerry asked. Nic and Ekin explained everything that happened after the attack on Jordan's Mansion.
Then Jerry said, "I have something to tell you about the attack on Jordan's Mansion."
Ekin and Nic looked at him. "It wasn't only Francis, Alex, and Simon." Jerry replied.
"Who else was involved?" Nic and Ekin ask eagerly.
"It was..." Jerry said as he was cut off by Stephen who walked into the room.
"Louis is trying to leave the hospital to look for Ada." Stephen informs Ekin and Nic.
Jerry immediately points at him. "Him, he's one of the attackers on Jordan's mansion that night!" Jerry shouts pointing hysterically at Stephen.
Stephen steps back somewhat recognizing Jerry from that night. Ekin glares angrily at Stephen. It's not like he was ever close to Stephen. He only accepted Stephen because he was Joey's boyfriend and a friend of his brother, Nic.
Nic shook his head. "This can't be." he thought to himself. "What else has Stephen done?" he wondered to himself.
Ekin jumped up and grabbed Stephen by the collar ready to kill him as he got a gun. "What the fuck did you do?" Ekin asks holding the gun to his head.
Stephen is pretty calm. He expected this reaction from them once they found out. "I accompanied Nicky and Chris the night of Jordan's massacre." Stephen truthfully replied.
Ekin pulled the gun ready to shoot. Then Nic stopped him, "Dai Guo, I'm sure Stephen was forced to." he says trying to help Stephen. No matter what happened he knew Stephen must have done it to protect Joey. And since Stephen did see him as a friend Nic felt the need to protect him even though his good friend Sam was killed too.
Ekin punched Stephen across the face. "What reason do you have?" he questioned angrily.
Stephen fell back against the wall. "Everything I've done was to protect the woman I love. I don't regret it and if you want to kill me, go ahead."
Ekin kicked Stephen in the stomach, back, and legs a couple of times. He was angry with him but couldn't blame him. He would have done anything to get Nnadia back alive and well by his side too.
"Dam you! Fuckin shit!" Ekin screamed beating on Stephen, who didn't fight back. He was somewhat ashamed of what he did but he wouldn't admit it. Because Stephen didn't fighting back Ekin knew Stephen was sorry for what he did.
Nic could only stand by and watch. He didn't know what else to do because he knew Stephen deserved the beating so he didn't want to stop Ekin from the minor revenge of Jordan, Sam, and Michael's life.
Jerry suddenly realized what Stephen said when he came in. "Where did Louis go?" he asked Nic worriedly. "I thought he was still injured."
Nic's expression suddenly changed. "Stop!" he said to Ekin. "Stop! Let Stephen explain where Louis went first."
Ekin stopped beating on Stephen. "Where's Louis?" he questions.
"We got a letter sent to Louis's room from Simon to meet at the old warehouse 30 minutes off the 15 north freeway. Simon said he had Ada and if we wanted to see her alive we had to go there. Louis, Kristy and Joey couldn't wait and left. Joey told me to come back and inform you two." Stephen explained.
Ekin and Nic looked at each other. Ekin had promised Nnadia that he would protect her sisters. This is exactly what he was going to do. Even worse was that Louis was already badly injured. "Let's go!" Ekin said to Nic and Stephen. "Jerry you stay here to recover." Ekin ran out and informed his men to look after Jerry. They all nodded in compliance.
As they left Jerry finally remembered what he was going to tell them. He tells one of the men guarding him to inform Ekin but when the guy reached the front of the hospital Ekin was nowhere in sight. Jerry calls his cell phone but no response.
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Simon is waiting on the second floor of the abandoned warehouses. The location was loaded with molded wooden crates and rusty metal carts. Louis rushes in with Kristy and Joey. When they entered a musky oder filled thier lungs. The area smell worse than a rotten fish market. Simon smirks as he sees them.
"Where's Ada?" Louis asks worried because he truly does love her.
Simon orders Ching-Yau to bring Ada out. Ada doesn't look hurt or anything. She has a gag on her mouth so she couldn't say anything. Her hands were tied behind her back.
"ADA!" Louis, Kristy, and Joey screams.
"Let her go!" Louis demands cluching his fist.
"I really pity you Wong brothers. You know perfectly well that this slut originally wanted to destroy you and yet you can still love her. If she can betray me then she can betray you." Simon laughed raucously.
"I'll do whatever you want just let her go!" Kristy pleads.
Simon chuckles at her. "You should be happy if I kill your pathetic sister. At least you'd have that asshole over there all to yourself. Why don't I give you a gun and you blow her brains out?" He said trying to get Kristy to turn on Ada.
Kristy shook her head. "Never!" she yelled.
Joey tried to plead also. "Please father!" she begged. She had called him father so many years it was just routine. 'You said you loved us and cared about us. Please let Ada go. I'll do anything." She said hysterically. She already lost Nnadia she couldn't lose Ada either.
Ada fought to scream but the she couldn't because of the gag. She shook her head frantically hoping they wouldn't fall for Simon's trap.
"How dare you still call me father!" Simon shouted. "I saved you from those kidnappers and this is how you repay me! If it wasn't for me you'd all be fucking whores living in dirty wreaked up homes. I gave you a chance, I gave you a life." He yelled.
Kristy shook her head. "It was no different than what those men did to us. Even though we lived in luxury wewere still whores! We were hired con-artistes! We had sex with practically ever man you wanted to destroy and manipulate!" Kristy yelled in their defense for their betrayal.
Simon sneered "Well, I guess you win some, you lose some. Life can't be perfect." He said mockingly/
"Okay let's get to the point." Louis said frankly. "What do you want us to do?" he asked.
Simon threw a gun at Louis. "There is one bullet in there. Each of you shoots each other once aiming at the head and when one of you dies I'll let Ada go." He remarks.
Louis shakes his head. "What's the point of that? I can give you everything the Wongs own. The casinos, strip clubs bars, lounges; EVERYTHING!"
"I want one of your lives." Simon replies coldly "Especially for one of you to take the other's life.? He laughs despicably.
Kristy picks up the gun. "Shot me first." She tells Louis. Ada jumps, kicks and tries to scream through her gag knocking the wall and shaking her head. Ching-Yau has a hard time holding her down.
They all look at Ada. Kristy nods and says, "It's okay as long as you're safe." Louis looks at the gun then looks at Ada. He takes it and points at Kristy. Ada is still shaking her head and jumping up and down. She can't bear to see this happen. She knew Simon would go back on his words anyways.
Louis prepares the gun and pulls the trigger abck slowly. Right before it clicks, he aims the gun at Ching-Yau. The first shot actually was the bullet and it shot an unexpected Ching-Yau who instantaneously fell to the floor in pain from being shot in the chest. Ada fell off the second floor because Ching-Yau lost grasp of her. Simon knows Ada is his only getaway and immediately tries to catch her but only gets the rope that's tying her hand behind her back.
Louis tries to shoot the gun again but there are no more bullets in it. He grabs his own gun to shoot at it but misses since Simon is swaying it. Joey and Kristy has run towards Ada trying to reach for her and pulls her down but she's in between Simon and her sisters.
Sson Ekin arrives with Nick Stephen, Frankie, and Annie. Ekin holds Annie hostage. Simon quickly pulls Ada back up using all his strength. "Let Annie go!" he demands.
"Only if you let Ada go." Ekin replies.
Annie is willing to be an exchange item because she knows her father would not harm her and she also doesn't really want to harm Ada or any more of the sisters. She knows her father has done a lot of things that they cannot forgive.
Ekin steps forward to give Annie to Simon. He comes down the stairs to give Ada back to them. Simon realizes if he gives them Ada back he wouldn't be able to escape. He looks at Annie to signal to her what he was thinking. Annie understood his intention.
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