Your Guise Is Slipping, Miss Pearl

"You seem pretty sure of yourself, Mister Andrei. We'll see who's going to be in trouble."

Pearl glanced sideways, and suddenly, about twelve strong-looking men in black appeared. "Grab them," she commanded.

The men rushed toward Andrei at her command.

Andrei, caught off guard by Pearl's backup, turned pale. "Where did these guys come from?"

"I left a trail on purpose. They've been tracking us for a few days, and now they've found us," Pearl said with a smirk. "Now it's your turn to face the music." Aside from looking much stronger, the men outnumbered Andrei's group, causing Andrei to plead, "This is all a big misunderstanding. I just came here to see you off." Esther burst out laughing.

"You're a terrible liar." Pearl raised her brows. "If you were really just seeing me off, you'd act like it."

Frantically, Andrei pulled out some hundred-dollar bills. "Will this cover it? It's all I have." Although it hurt him to part with the money, he thought it was worth it to save his skin.

Pearl instructed her men to take the money and then tossed it to the ground. "Who do you think you're trying to bribe? Money isn't what I want."

his money thrown away like

at the mountains. "I want you to free all the

trapped.

If we take them back, the villagers will be

this, you shouldn't be the

men threatened Andrei with

do it," Andrei

Finnegan to the hospital, and I'll go with Richard to free the captives," Pearl

it," Esther replied, though she looked worried. "Just

with Finnegan, Pearl and Richard headed

around nervously, as if he was waiting for something

was up to something, told

women had been

the villagers. Those