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"Who is that woman?" Alex asked as he scrutinized the image on the screen.

Lara also took a step closer.

"Monique La Rose." Neon said the name with a thick french accent.

"I know her." Lara quickly added.

She looked at the two men. "She was there that day, her name is monica." Lara said.

"What has she got to do with all these?" Alex asked, still not comprehending anything.

Neon ignored Alex and turned to Lara, "how many girls did you see that day?" He asked.

"Three," Lara replied quickly. "No four, including Claire." She corrected quickly. "There was Monica, Claire and Ines or Inet... something like that." She said, "I bet there were others in the other room, just guessing." She shrugged.

"Do you mean this?" Néon said, referring to the next image on the screen, displaying a beautiful blonde woman.

"Yes, yes, that's her." Lara confirmed.

"Ines Roger." Néon said.

"What have they got to do with all these? Alex asked, seemingly lost. He was not comfortable with the conversation that much, Bec he knew that it was such a delicate page in Lara's life, but he was surprised how supportive she was, displaying unmeasurable intriguement.

"These three girls, including Claire, jointly run a brothel with Mike." Neon broadcasted. He did not wait to give Alex the time to process the information, he continued. " Maybe you and Mike have a beef, but kidnapping Lara was not his idea." Neon turned to Alex, who was still in deep thought.

"What do you mean?" Alex asked.

Lara facepalmed herself, given how unbelievably shallowly witted Alex was right now. Somehow she had gotten used to Neon's presence or rather, she had just temporarily forgotten who he really was and she was flashing red again.

Neon stared at Lara who was no longer struggling to morph into Alex.

"It means that your ex-girlfriend kidnapped me!" Lara was the one to answer his question, in an inpatient tone.

"Oh!" Alex exclaimed.

"I was able to recover a phone recording of her giving the specific order to kidnap you, and others, on monitoring you." Neon added.

"Let me hear it." Alex quickly said, taking a step forward anxiously.

"Nope, it's not important right now." Neon said plainly. " What matters is that, I've got enough evidence to slam both Mike and Claire behind bars without bail until trial."

"Hold on, why was she ordering guys to monitor me?" Lara asked, completely deterring the boys from their topic of discussion and probably preventing a potential squabble.

"And what about his weapons dealings too?"

"Well, they probably had to do a clean survey to be sure that you were their target and probably the right time to get you." Alex explained.

"Yeah, probably that." Lara agreed.

"He is already under investigation for kidnapping you and attempted rape. We could not actually prove that he sent those guys to pick you up because the guys denied working with him." Neon added.

"Darn loyalty!" Lara cursed.

"He pays his workers well, trust me, they'll take any hit for him because they know that they would be compensated with a hefty amount of cash." Alex said.

"Oh! And now things just got complicated because your proof actually points Claire as the masterminder of my kidnapping and Mike was just her pon." Lara reasoned out.

"Yes." Both men replied.

"Then how is Mike gonna go down then?" She asked.

"Like I was saying earlier, he is under investigation for kidnapping and attempted rape, we just need to sway the detectives to the direction of his dark life, they'll do the job for us." Neon explained.

"You might have to testify in court though." Alex brushed his fingers on her jaw and said softly.

"If I have to, I will." She replied with absolute resolution.

He smiled, especially at how much determination she had in her eyes.

"You know that you are the hero of the story right?" Alex Smiled warmly.

"What did I do?" She asked ignorantly.

"This dumb head," he said referring to Neon who just rolled his eyes at Alex and listened quietly, " could not figure such a trivial clue for almost a month." He frowned at Neon.

"And he claims to be the smartest individual in the whole world." Alex taunted.

Lara giggled.

"You should be careful what you say to me, you are in my territory...I might make you disappear." Neon threatened passively.

Lara chuckled.

Alex scuffed. "Empty vessels make the loudest voice."

Neon shot a quick glance at the other man, shook his head and led the couple out.

"You should stick around for lunch." Neon suggested when they got back to the living room.

"Of course, were you thinking that we were on our way so soon?" Alex asked.

"I wasn't even talking to you, I was talking to the lady here." Neon fired back. "I do not cook for men."

"Blah blah blah, I stay where she stays." Alex said childishly, "what do you say?"

He turned to face Lara by his side, and again she had frozen and was completely red as she locked her eyes on a picture posted on the wall of Neon receiving a Noble's prize award.

"I guess we'll just stay for lunch then." Alex turned back to Neon and said.

Neon nodded.

Both men walked into the kitchen and left the petrified Lara to have a moment of soliloquy.

"You know she'll pass out when she realizes that you cooked for her?" Alex said to Neon as he reached in the fridge to get the required veggies.

As usual, Alex's Job was to do the chopping while Neon did the cooking.

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Hey dear Readers,

I want to end the story here. If there are any loose ends that I have not tied or maybe, if you wished for it to end in a particular way other than this, comment and let me know.

I'll probably release one or two more chapters.

Normally I had stopped writing at this point, but I have one or two ideas to add in order to end the book. So since I'm still doing some writing, let me know what you think so far and what you expect too.

Oh and maybe there'll be a sequel too.