Chapter 106 - The Rose Again (1/2)

Right after she hung up the call, Lily's alarm rang and alerted her. When she was about to get out of the room, she heard footsteps approaching the lab. She found it weird to hear Lin Que's voice coming from down the hall because he always spoke in a low volume. Her phone vibrated and a text notification from Lin Que popped up saying, ”hide.”

”F.u.c.k! Hide where? There's nowhere to hide....” Lily could only hide behind one of the stations, but it was definitely not a safe place to be in. Just in case her phone makes any noises, she set it on silent mode and covered her mouth.

Lin Que and Alan stepped into the lab looking for something. Alan was distracted by the stacked reports on his desk as he searched for the one file that he needed to scan to a patient. Purposely, Lin Que left the door opened and looked around to see where Lily was hiding.

When he spotted her shadow from one of the stations, Lin Que pointed towards a different stack of files from across the lab, ”maybe the file is over there.” Listening to his advice, Alan nodded and walked across the room. While Alan had his back towards the door, Lin Que signaled her to leave by pointing towards the exit.

Lily used this opportunity to get out of there and ran as fast as she could to Lin Que's office. She inhaled and exhaled heavily with her arms on her h.i.p.s as she coughed dry air out of her throat. ”Geez, almost died in there from a heart attack. So this is what being a spy feels like. Thank god I have no talent in that area.”

After 15 minutes later, Lin Que came back to his office to find a lipstick stain on his mug and the content inside of it gone. A sticky note was stuck to his computer screen, ”Thank you for the water and everything else, Mwah!” She left her lip signature on the note before she had left his office.

He sighed, ”this girl always makes me worried. Let's see...hmmm?” His phone vibrated, and dozens of voice messages were sent from her side. She explained to him everything that happened while she rushed to where Susu and Chen Mu were located.

Lin Que's response to her mountain stacked messages was a simple one, ”turn your GPS location on.” If she stayed and waited for him, he would drive her on his own. Actually, he had already expected her to be gone by the time he got back because that was how her personality was.

She shared her location with him indefinitely and told him to keep his eyes on Alan. Lin Que already knew what she would want him to do when that report comes out, so he prepared a surprise visit to the lab for a second time.

Meanwhile, Lily drove her car and dialed Susu's number again. Chen Mu picked up immediately and gave her their address since they weren't sure how safe she currently is and they needed to double check the pills to make sure that it was really Susu's medicine. Within half an hour, Lily arrived at Chen residence.

When she walked in, she saw Susu looking overwhelmed and trembling slightly on the couch. Although Chen Mu and everyone else had tried to distract her, but nothing helped. Lily pulled Susu in her embrace and whispered, ”don't worry, nobody can harm you. We won't let anybody do anything to you.”

Susu couldn't think of any reasons about why Shen Wen and Tian Yuo would steal her medicine. No matter how she thought about it, things only grew creepier. During the time that they were waiting for Lily's arrival, they asked Susu to think carefully about her relationship with the Tian family. The more she thought about it, the more her head started to hurt.

Susu had her eyes closed while Lily comforted her. Suddenly, her eyes widened, ”Repeat what you just said.” She looked up, and Lily slowly repeated her words again.

”Again.” Susu shut her eyes as she focused on the warm tone that Lily used. After Lily repeated for her words for the third time, Susu gasped, ”I remember where I heard that from. I remember now!”

Ariana scratched her head, ”we all remember too because she just repeated the same words like five times.”

”No, no , no. I meant that I remembered when I was little, my mother whispered that to me. She always said that she would protect me and won't let anyone hurt me. That was before she disappeared. My mother was never around during the day and always visited me secretly at night. She said my dad didn't like her going outside, so she stays at a place where he couldn't find her. It was our secret!”