Stranger's In Love
71|RUMORS

Irene immediately panicked looking around, on top of a tall building there was a person with a sniper rifle who seemed to be targeting Cassandra. Without hesitation Irene immediately pulled Cassandra over and they both collapsed together with the thick red liquid flowing from the sniper rifle's shot.

“Cassandra,” Irene wept hugging the drowning Cassandra with blood continuing to come out of the missed gunshot wound on her shoulder.

Everyone near the parking lot panicked and called an ambulance. Irene looked up at the building again, but the person she suspected had escaped.

“Hold, Cassandra,” said Irene raucously, she was very worried.

Then the ambulance came and immediately took Cassandra to the nearest hospital, Irene accompanied Cassandra and immediately contacted Allan. Irene did not contact Zean out of fear that Zean would be worried that he would be far away in Boston.

“How is it?” allan asked when he arrived at the hospital.

Irene who was sitting limp in the waiting room was staring at Allan nanar. The doctor did not come out of the operating room.

“What really happened?” allan asked again, but Irene still did not react to anything.

Allan ruffled his hair in frustration.

“My answer, Irene,” Allan knelt before Irene begging the woman to answer.

Irene shook her head weakly. “I don't know either, Allan. Doctor still hasn't said anything.”

Allan turned to sit next to Irene. “Try to tell me how the chronology of Cassandra got shot?”

Irene told me everything. At first they came to a Cosmopolitan Hotel grand opening party and met with Gerald and then they enjoyed the party for a few hours, finally they decided to go home. However, while near the VVIP parking lot Irene noticed that someone from a distance was targeting Cassandra, Irene firmly believed the man used a sniper rifle weapon with a special laser that was more accurate in aiming right at his target. And, it looks like the guy was intending to kill Cassandra with just one shot because the guy was targeting the left chest which is the heart.

“Cannot be! Cassandra doesn't even have any enemies, she's not that kind of person,” Allan with heated emotions moved on from her seat.

“Quiet, Allan,” says Irene.

Allan seemed to think for a moment.

“Wait first. The gerald? What Gerald you mean is Geraldine Ricardo?” allan asked, hoping not.

“Yes, she's Geraldine Ricardo. Do you know him too?”

Allan immediately clenched his hands tightly, he looked very angry this time. Irene was getting clueless, what's going on with Gerald? Why Allan looks so upset when he knows Gerald meant it was Geraldine Ricardo.

“I don't know him for sure, but I know some rumors circulating about him,” Allan replied.

“Rumors? What rumors?” Irene asked to know more.

Allan was silent for a while, it seemed like he was hesitant to tell Irene.

“Allan,” call Irene asking for an answer from the man.

Allan sighed then looked at Irene. “I don't know either, this is just a rumor. I heard this rumor from my father, he said some of the people who had done business with Geraldine Ricardo suddenly disappeared without a trace.”

“I don't understand, Allan. What does the rumor mean?What does Gerald have to do with the Cassandra shooting? Then does your father know Gerald?” Irene attacked Allan with her questions. Honestly, he became increasingly suspicious of his brother. Who exactly is Gerald?

“I'm just as confused as you are, Irene. But there must be something that the man was hiding. Somehow I think he is a dangerous man,” Allan said.

“Seeing from the design of the building and its interior taste it looks like your friend is someone who is very classy yes,” Irene said as they were still walking towards the Ballroom.

“You're absolutely right, Irene. He is a handsome businessman with crazy business ideas and capital until sometimes he has to fake an identity or borrow the identity of others to build his business, uh,” Cassandra spontaneously shut her mouth, it seemed like he had just revealed his friend's secret accidentally.

Irene recalled Cassandra's words as they walked towards Ballrom. Irene so thought about where Gerald get big capital for every business venture he opened to the point of having to fake an identity or even borrow the identity of others.

Suddenly the door of the operating room opened, Irene's mind fell open, then Irene's focus shifted to looking at the doctor who had just come out of the operating room. So did Allan who had faced the doctor.

“How is the condition, doc?” ask the doctor.

“The condition is good, after the bullet operation that had lodged in his shoulder has been successfully taken. Miss Damora may take two to three days to recover, ” explained the doctor.

Allan and Irene breathed a sigh of relief, thank God Cassandra was fine. Then the doctors and the suters moved Cassandra to the inpatient room.

“Allan, accompany Cassandra here. I have to go somewhere and I need your car,” said Irene now they are in the inpatient room.

“Where are you going, Irene?” allan asked while giving the car keys to Irene.

“I will take some of Cassandra's needs at the Mansion, such as skincare and others that will probably be needed when Cassandra wakes up later,” replied Irene without hesitation.

Allan nodded. “Ah, yes. Alright.”

Irene immediately rushed away, actually she was about to spy on Gerald. After hearing about the rumors that Allan had talked about earlier, it made Irene's suspicions even higher plus two men in her past reappeared as Ballroom doorkeepers at Gerald's hotel. All this has not been enough to answer Irene's suspicions, she still needs more explanation about who Gerald really is.

Irene drove her car at a normal speed and following the navigation directions to the Cosmopolitan Hotel, she was about to meet Gerald again. But wait, what will he do when he meets Gerald?

“Ah, don't meet, Gerald. I have to find out information about him first, but how can I find out information about him? He is an important person and very influential, it will not be easy to get personal info about him,” Irene thought.

Irene racked her brain, thinking of someone who might be able to help her in extracting information. If it could be illegal information even though it would be very helpful such as transaction information, travel information, even Irene really wanted to tap her brother. Actually it's easy, if he talks about it with Zean. Zean must have many hidden connections because even Zean lives in danger every day.

Zean was the sole heir to the Lorwerth family, many wanting to take him down even kill him. However, so far Zean is still fine because he knows the movement of each opponent through a hacker so skilled that people with special martial skills always protect him from a distance.

“No! Nah! I can't talk about this with Zean. Before proving anything can-can have destroyed the relationship first because of suspicion. I have to investigate it before suspecting it deeper,” Irenen muttered.

Irene pulled over her car and looked for her phone to call someone. He remembered that there was someone who might have many connections to help him.

“Yeoboseoyo, Kim Tae-O,” Irene said in Korean when the connection was connected.

(“Yeoboseoyo, Kim Tae-O,” means “Halo, Kim Tae-O,”)

“Wae, nuna?” sahut Tae-O's. (“Wae, nuna?” meaning “Why, sis?”)

“I need your help. I'm going to Korea to see you, tonight I'm going to fly to Korea,” said Irene to the point.

“Nee, nuna,” said Tae-O and Irene disconnected the connection.

Irene remembers that Kim Tae-O was an amateur hacker, but Irene believes in him she can definitely help Irene. Tae-O is Doctor Kim's cousin's younger brother who is a distant cousin as well. All Irene had to think about now was how to ask Zean for permission to let him go to Korea?