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.

into it." With something to take her mind

my brother. Your hubby is pretty good at sussing these things

answered, "Let me have a crack

find out what

her suspicions were confirmed that Noreen was one of those people in the photo, things would be

Chantel asked her agent first, "Do me a favor. There's an actress, Noreen, that I

guarantees." The agent made a

choice but

phone rang twice before someone picked up. "It's

she answered. Chantel was a little nervous talking to

he asked, "You've been busy lately. When do you get some

booked my flight. I'll be there

what do you

bottom of her heart and asked, "Do you know Noreen?" Gifford thought for a while, but he didn't remember the name. "No.

help but tease him, "She's the 'it girl' in the industry right now. You can't tell me you haven't

and thought she was just being funny. He didn't

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

little more info

name is Noreen Xia, and she's 35. That's really about it, but IMDb is bound

sighed helplessly. "All right. I'll call if

disturb

smiled, "Little late for that, isn't it? I mean, we just had a conversation,

"I was really nervous. After

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

sure he'd spoil you," Chantel said, not knowing whether to cry or

can't be serious. I think we've established which

seemed to be quite clear about it. "You can prove it

"Okay."