True Love Waits

Chapter 1404 End Up As Matthew's Wife

As soon as Erica opened the fire door, several pairs of eyes looked in her direction.

She closed the door behind her as if nothing happened. A waiter came over immediately and asked politely, "Excuse me, can I help you?"

Erica was dumbfounded for a moment, then flashed him a charming smile. That was when she remembered she wore a mask and he couldn't see her face. "Room 205, please!" The waiter led her to Room 205. When they passed by Room 206, three bodyguards in black snapped to attention and looked alert.

After entering Room 205 without incident, Erica was relieved by the voices of her henchmen greeting her one by one.

Taking off her hat and mask, Erica asked the people in the room to have a seat. Once everyone did as they were bidden, she asked softly, "Found anything yet?"

"Not yet. I heard them talking about a dock, but we don't know the location or what's going on there. Check out the photo, Erma." One of her minions handed his phone to Erica.

Erica enlarged the pic he took, the result of clandestine activity. She looked at it, but didn't recognize anyone. When she was about to give the phone back to the man, her gaze fell on a particular woman in that photo.

"Wait. Who's that?" She immediately enlarged the photo and re-centered it. Erica looked carefully at the woman holding a man's arm. The woman looked familiar, but she just couldn't figure out why.

She spent more time looking at it, and the longer she stared, the more the woman resembled Noreen.

She gave the phone back to the man, took out her own and called Chantel. "Hey, it's me. You busy now?" she asked.

"No, I just finished a shoot. I'm on my way back." Chantel leaned against the back of the seat wearily. She'd taken on too much work to handle. Fortunately, the day after tomorrow was her day off. She could visit her son.

"Any idea what Noreen is up to, by chance?"

Hearing her mention Noreen, Chantel shook her head and said, "When we humiliated her on the cruise ship, Noreen and I have become mortal enemies. I haven't even so much as bumped into her in forever." She really hadn't given her a second thought. She had no clue what TV shows she was on or interviews she gave.

"Here's the thing I ended up at that bar thanks to the intel my brother gave you. Our people snapped a pic of the group. One of them looked like Noreen, but I'm not sure. She wore shades, and it was dark out. I figured you might have more contact with her than I do," Erica explained.

Gifford told Chantel where this group of thugs was, and she told Erica. It was a rather efficient information pipeline.

someone look into it." With something to take her mind off show business, Chantel

nodded, "Ask my brother. Your hubby is pretty

answered, "Let me have a

I can't wait to find

confirmed that Noreen was one of those people in the photo, things

the two ended their call, Chantel asked her agent first, "Do me a favor. There's an actress, Noreen, that I want to talk to. Can you find out what she's doing

guarantees." The agent made a

no choice

twice before someone picked up. "It's me. You home now?" the

answered. Chantel was a little nervous talking to him. "I

breath. Finally, he asked, "You've been busy lately. When do you

I'll be there the day

Now what do

Chantel pushed away the excitement and nervousness in the bottom of her heart and asked, "Do you know Noreen?" Gifford thought for

tease him, "She's the 'it girl' in the

Why should I know who she is? And why do you care?" Gifford asked in reply and thought she was just being funny. He didn't run in those circles. The only big star

it's not like that. Fine. I just want to

a little

big star right now, her full name is Noreen Xia, and she's 35. That's really about it, but IMDb is bound to have something on

right. I'll call if I

Did I disturb

"Little late for that, isn't it? I

blushed. "I was really nervous. After all,

take care of herself. If anything happens to her, I end up as Matthew's wife!"

I'm sure he'd spoil you," Chantel said, not

be serious. I think we've

be quite clear about it. "You can prove it to me the day after tomorrow.

"Okay."