ƒreewebηoveℓ.com
While minding her own business, Raine just received a tip from trusted allies that she planted within her uncle’s forces that her Uncle Yun was planning yet another attack against Xander Yang that day. As such, she never spared a single moment in letting Xander out of her sight.
Xander suggested a joint treat for both his and Yera’s employees involved in the confidential project of merging the two hospitals. Raine sighed. It was surely going to be a pain to monitor him later.
After office hours, everyone hurried to the meeting place. It was a private dining restaurant and bar with karaoke and other indoor activities. The entire venue was exclusively hired for the whole night for Yera and Xander’s team. The dinner was sumptuous, and everyone was having a good time with ample alcoholic drinks of various shapes and sizes. Not to mention the loud blaring music that everyone could sing and dance to without inhibitions. After all, both Bosses even encouraged them to do so, wanting to make sure that everyone enjoyed their time to their heart’s content.
As expected, Rui didn’t spare a moment to guard Raine and stay beside her.
"When will you stop annoying me?" Raine hissed at Rui. She was getting really pissed off because Rui was preventing her from protecting Xander.
’This is fun...’ Yera, who silently observed what was happening, thought amusingly to herself. Seeing how dark Dr. Yao’s face was becoming, Yera smirked as the doctor stood up, making Rui also do the same.
"Don’t tell me you’ll follow me inside the restroom too?" Raine snarled with a raised brow.
"Why not? Go and I’ll wait outside..." Rui casually chuckled. "Haha! Like, did you expect me to say that? Of course, not... I’ll be going to the restroom to pee. Can’t a man do that as well?"
Raine smirked and sat. "Then I suppose I’ve changed my mind. I will just stay here. You go on ahead."
Seeing her back down, Rui also returned to his seat and said, "Then I’ve changed my mind too..."
Everyone who witnessed the exchange all agreed on how weird both of them were behaving. The venue was good due to the number of activities to do inside, including roulette, darts, and even billiards as one enjoyed various alcoholic drinks.
Raine, it seemed, had had enough of being watched by Rui. Irritated, she stood up without saying a word. Predictably, Rui followed.
It was almost midnight, and everyone had already left. Xander and Yera made sure that their employees would be home safely since everyone was drunk, so they had assigned a car service to bring everyone home.
"Dr. Yang, can you take me home instead?" Raine asked with a pout. She acted as if she was drunk, causing Xander to give Rui a look. Nodding, the latter then grabbed Raine and pulled her inside his car.
Raine profoundly sighed as she sat in Rui’s car. She already knew of her uncle’s plans, and being inside Rui’s car would be one of her alibis in rescuing Xander. He had already started driving the car on the road when Raine asked, "Can we stop in that convenience store? I’m thirsty."
Acquiescing, Rui steered the car to the side of the road and said, "Alright, I’ll get you some water."
But before he could get out of the car, Raine stopped him and said, "Ah, that’s alright. I’ll get it myself, so wait here. I feel like going to the restroom too."
Rui only nodded. As soon as Raine was out, she quickly got inside the convenience store that also served as one of her hide-outs.
"What’s the movement of the truck?" Raine quickly asked ss she immediately grabbed her helmet and started the engine of her motorcycle.
"This is too dangerous. We can just facilitate anyone to tell Xander to get away from that spot!" Tyrone scolded from another line.
"We can’t afford that because my uncle will know that I planted spies on him! We can’t use anyone from our men too, since Uncle will find out that it’s me who’s saving Xander. This is the safest way not to get my uncle’s attention against me!"
"I told you, I’ll do it instead!" Tyrone exclaimed.
Raine smiled, "Didn’t you know that Uncle has his eyes on you already? Once he finds out that you, by any means, made a move against him, you’re dead meat. And please don’t exaggerate. This is nothing compared to hunting mutants!"
As this was happening, Yera and Xander were waiting outside at the side of the road for their driver. It was there that Xander noticed a motorcycle rushing towards them, constantly honking its horn as well as blinking its lights at them.
At the oncoming danger, Xander quickly pulled Yera back inside the resto-bar, but it was already closed. So instead, he grabbed her hand and shouted, "Run!"
The road was clear, and there was no one around except for his security team. However, they were a bit far to come to their aid due to the speed of the motorcycle.
The two ran for their lives, only stopping when the motorcycle stopped honking and passed by them. By that time, his security team was already with them, and Xander shouted, "Follow that motorcycle!"
Immediately, one of his men went back inside the car and followed the motorcycle. Xander was panting hard as he checked on Yera, before looking behind towards the resto-bar. They had managed to run a considerable distance away from it.
It was then that a truck happened to hit the spot where she and Xander were standing earlier. The scene shocked Yera to her core. Coupled with the ensuing explosion, it was a wonder how they managed to avoid such a fate somehow.
"Oh my God!!!" Yera gasped in terror.
Meanwhile, Raine had a tail behind her, so Tyrone yelled, "Do something with those bastards!"
Raine had assigned him to stay with Xander no matter what, so he couldn’t afford to move and aid Raine, who had threatened him that she would kick him out if he dared let Xander out of his sight. It was ridiculous. He was too annoyed that those bastards were still running after her when she just saved their Boss’s ass!
However, Raine seemed not to be bothered by it at all as she calmly reminded Mia and Levi, "Secure the CCTV footage in the convenience store. Make sure there are no discrepancies in my alibi."
"Yes, Boss."
*Bang! *Bang!*
"Shit!" Raine cursed as the bodyguards opened fire at her.
"What’s wrong?!" Tyrone exclaimed from the other line. He was uneasy because he, too, could hear the gunshots.
"Those lousy bastards are firing at me," Raine ground out. "Do something, Dylan, or I might end up killing all of them!"