Page 82 of Billionaire’s Promise

“No.”

“Why are you here? Why aren’t you with Kai?”

“Mr. Li wanted me to take care something.” I knew that I was the something he meant.

“What about Clare?”

“Mr. Li.”

My theory was correct. Kai indeed had someone watching over me. Not just anyone, but his most trusted bodyguard who hadn’t left his side since he was a boy after escaping from his kidnappers.

“Is Kai in danger?” I asked. Dave stared at me, face blank.

“Say something.” I demanded.

“I don’t know.”

“Have you called him?” Dave didn’t need to play the game of chicken with his boss.

“Yes.”

“And?” I knew his English wasn’t good, but it had started to get annoying having to fish words out of him.

“No one answered.”

“Try something else.” I barked, “call your other team, the team in China, or his mother’s team, what about Jenny’s team, and Lucy’s team? Who else has a team of people watching them? People like them can’t simply be gone right? They are being watched all the time. It’s practically impossible.”

Dave let me finish without interrupting me. As much as I liked that about him, I hated him for losing Kai. “Dr. Bennet.”

“June.” I corrected him.

“Ju–, Dr. Bennet,” I let it go as he clearly couldn’t bring himself to call me by my first name. “I called my sources. They all said, don’t know.”

“So,” I paused. That only meant one thing. “Kai’s in danger.”

* * *

Dave wanted to have me checked out by a doctor, but I refused. So stupid coming from a doctor. I could have suffered a concussion or worse. But I didn’t care.

I felt perfectly fine.

After further questioning, I found out the reason Kai left. Jenny and Lucy went missing. They were last seen at a Japanese hair salon up town. Their CCTV showed the two women were escorted into an SUV by four suited Asian men. Dave recognized one of them, an ex-vet who served in the same unit as him. These men worked for Jenny’s husband, that much was clear.

There were no bodyguards by their side at the time. Clare was told to wait in the car. The girls told her that the salon had their own security. It was an upper-class salon frequented by the rich and famous and they wouldn’t let anything happen to their clients. Clare wasn’t convinced at first, but she turned giddy when she saw a few of her favorite A list movie stars inside.

Their words were true though. To a certain extent.

They were taken outside the hair salon, as soon as they stepped out of the door. Everything happened so fast. The ladies were supposed to call Clare when they were done, so she could go and pick them up. But they didn’t, they must have forgotten.

Clare and her team chased the car for quite a few blocks, but the kidnappers eventually escaped.

I couldn’t imagine all that happened during my lovely lunch with Kai. I couldn’t help but wonder, if Kai had picked up his phone during lunch, would it have made any difference?

Kai, Clare and a few of his team left for China – the only possible place Jenny’s husband would have wanted her.

“Wait, are you saying after all that happened, there are only you and two other people left in this country?”

He hesitated. “Yes.”