"Chocolate. Eat that and chill. So I broke the arrangement because your arrangement gives bad luck to this house. My mom consults an expert about organizing furniture in this house, Yumi. He sat down and handed her a piece of chocolate which Yumi threw and threw on the table.
"What bad luck? From the looks of this mansion, it looks like neither good nor bad luck won't come in here! It looks like it's gone right away," Yumi reasoned in an upset manner. She tried her best to act arrogant so she won't lose. If Luke was implying to start a war, she must be in for it.
"Well I guess, you'll be fine if we report your concern to the police." Luke even let out a weak laugh while chewing a piece of chocolate. Meanwhile, Yumi folded her palms and took a deep breath. Luke has been testing her patience like she wanted to scream and curse him and call him names if she could.
"I'll let this pass. Okay, you win. I'll consider this as your coping mechanism because you still have resentment towards me. I can still feel that deep inside, you hate me but you love me at the same time." Yumi kept her straight face while yelling those words at her ex-boyfriend. She wanted to make him feel pissed off just to prove her assumption.
"Why? When did I become a loser?" The tease registered on Luke's face and then attempted to leave Yumi.
She was like the wind that Luke had just passed. Luke went straight to the living room and even mirrored while adjusting his tie. He becomes extremely worried when he struggles to link his tie. He looked around for Yumi but didn't see her. Perhaps he hurt her feelings again with his disrespectful words.
Meanwhile, Yumi was just dumbfounded on one side and Luke couldn't see her. She went back to her room and checked her cellphone.
"There is no lead yet regarding Shiana's location. She still doesn't report to work. She was not in her apartment either. I'm worried about her. I also don't have an idea if she has a boyfriend or not." The message came from Madam Sylvia.
"Don't worry, madam. I'm working on a way to get a lead on her whereabouts."
She quickly regained her senses after she replied. A few moments later, her cell phone rang again. She even thought that Madam Sylvia replied to her quickly. But it turns out that an unregistered number sent her a message.
It was a picture of a crowded bar. Shiana and the unknown men were there. They are sitting and sharing a drink and it looks like Shiana is enjoying being with those guys.
She worriedly called the sender of the message but the number was out of reach.
"Please, get in touch," she said and dialed the number again.
She was restless and losing hope. She was hoping that nothing bad happened to Shiana at this moment. She then consoled herself as she stood up.
While Luke received a message from an unknown number again, it was the same one that called him and threatened his life last week.
"You could never trust that young beautiful woman who's staying in your house," said the text message. Luke winced and stood up from his seat. He immediately looked for Yumi and found her rushing to Mother Lingling's room.
"Hey! Where are you going?"
Yumi stopped in action and turned to Luke who was clearly disgusted by her actions.
"Is it bad to go to Mother Lingling's room? My other things are still in his room and I will just move them to my temporary room," Yumi explained. She looked badly at Luke and left him dumbfounded.
She was still attempting to identify the unknown sender. Nonetheless, she shrugged. She needs to find the innocent girl quickly, and she has a feeling she is in grave danger. She first saved the number to her phone and went in search of the elegant dresses she had left in Mother Lingling's closet. She wore the sexiest velvet blue off-the-shoulder gown.
Yumi will never feel at ease if she won't go to the place where Shiana is probably located at this moment. She was assuming that the sender put her purposely in his trap but if she ignored him, she might regret that she did nothing to save the woman that Madam Sylvia has been taking care of.
She put on makeup and sprayed some fragrance all over her body. She dresses up like a courtesan just to hide her true profession once she goes inside the bar that she intended to visit for Shiana's sake.
Even if Yumi dressed seductively, she kept a mask and will bring her leather jacket. There's also a hidden cutter and a recorder that she has to hide with her for her safety. Yumi couldn't wait for Mother Lingling to go back to the mansion and time was running out for her so she decided to go outside and tried to escape like a prisoner so Luke wouldn't notice her from leaving. But unexpectedly, she failed when she noticed that Luke was walking behind her and chuckled a bit.
"Oh, so you're going to your job as an escort girl. I thought you're leaving that job for good when you applied in Fiery Corp as a hopeful writer," Luke sarcastically began. But there's a part of him that finds Yumi so appealing that he can't take his gaze away from her. He knows her job is dangerous, but he doesn't know how to make her quit, and whatever her job is, he shouldn't have to interfere with it now that they're no longer lovers.
"Yumi, you don't have to be that low. Why can't you just stay here or just serve me instead? I'll double the pay."
Yumi gulped and her shivers went through her spine. She wanted to slap this handsome man in front of her as he was walking closer.
"Stop, Luke…" she whispered and composed herself until she flaunted a gloomy look on her face.