True Love Waits

Chapter 1414 A Living Hell

Noreen invited Erica out to coffee. Since they weren't friends, Erica doubted her intentions. 'That's strange. She must have some kind of ulterior motive. What's she up to?' Erica thought for a bit. She shook her head decisively. "I'm sorry. ZL Group owns too many coffee shops as it is, most of them mediocre. Whenever Matthew is at home with me, he grinds the beans so that I can have a fresh cup. I'm really not in the mood for coffee right now.

Even thinking about going out to the average cafe makes me hurl!" Noreen was furious. 'Listen to her! She's literally bragging about her rich husband!' Despite that, she continued, "Coffee not your thing? No problem! There's a teahouse nearby..."

"No. my husband owns tons of tea factories. After the tea is picked and packed, the bags of tea leaves are piled high like mountains in our warehouses. I never want for tea. But I feel bad for you, Miss Xia. You have to go to a public place like a teahouse to drink tea? I would have thought a famous actress like yourself wouldn't have to do that. How about this? Since you've been so nice to me, I'll ask someone to send you a few pounds of our finest tea, so you can see how the other half lives," Erica offered.

Flames of fury were burning in Noreen's eyes. "Honestly, you're just a terrible bitch!"

"What? A bitch? Moi? Miss Xia, why are you acting like this?" Erica said, pretending to be hurt. "I offered you some of our best tea, and you call me names? Wow! Just-wow. I'm not sure what bug crawled in your panties, but that's no reason to take it out on me!"

"Erica Li!" Noreen was so angry she forgot that she was a public figure. Her rep could be damaged by losing it like this. She strode over and raised her hand to slap Erica.

But before she could do anything, a bodyguard came out, gripped Noreen's wrist tightly and threw her to the ground. He was anything but gentle.

Noreen fell to the ground awkwardly, and her eyes were full of defiance. "Erica Li, you'll pay for humiliating me like this! I'll make your life a living hell!"

Erica walked past the bodyguards, squatted down and looked at her with a smug grin. "Oooh, I'm shaking in my boots, Aunt Noreen. Don't worry. After we're done here, we're done, period. Find another photographer. Maybe they'll be okay with being slapped around."

Then she stood up and got into the car.

After the car left, her agent helped Noreen up.

Looking at the car zooming away in the distance, she took out her cell phone and dialed a number. "Hey, it's me. I messed with Erica just now. She shouldn't suspect a thing."

piece on the other end, she nodded and

disappeared from her rearview mirror. She took out her phone and dialed a number. "Send people to every dock in the city. Yeah, you heard right. I want detailed reports on every

photos she shot today. She was annoyed just looking at them.

Work is work, and I shouldn't bring my personal feelings into it. I

collection of Noreen's photos caused quite a stir after they were

even more exciting. She was getting famous for her

quite efficient, and delivered the design sketches for Erica's new studio. The next step was to figure out decorations. Erica didn't really care about that. She just needed to make sure everything went smoothly. Matthew didn't need to worry about the

the Violet Eagles had been dispatched to the 45 or so docks in the city. They were keeping tabs on them for about a week before they found something unusual at one

her four kids. Everywhere in the villa was fair game-upstairs, downstairs, didn't matter. Damian was busy trying to find his mother, who was hiding. When he heard her phone go off, he knew where she

easy, Mom!" Damian said. Holding her

beaten by you!" said Erica

smart too,

the kids, "I have something to deal with now, so Mommy can't stick around. You can play a

"Okay, Mommy!" This wasn't their first rodeo. Plus, they were getting bored

playing the game to make their mother happy, anyway. Their mom suggested it, and they went along with it. They had other things they liked to do, like

and gave her his report. "There was nothing unusual about the manifest. Just several tons of wing powder. But there were several attacks reported around that area. Our people found that if someone got too close, they got jumped. If our

were people lurking around the boat? What was so important they were willing to attack others to protect it? There was definitely

was about an hour's drive from the Pearl Villa District. When they arrived, the dockhands had almost finished unloading the goods. They had seven

the car first. They weren't about to do anything stupid. It was dark, yes, and the others guarding the boat hadn't

the roof of the car, took the night vision telescope from Edward and scanned

but thanks to the lights on the dock, they could just barely