Lena finished her bowl of noodle first and washed her own dish. She went back and sat at the table as she waited for Kris to finish his food. Kris quickly finished his food and pa.s.sed the bowl to Lena. Lena stared at him confusingly.
"You want me to wash that?" She asked.
"Is that not why you are still here?" Kris thought that Lena did not leave because she was being nice and waiting for him to finish and then wash the dish since he cooked.
Lena did not complain, grabbed the bowl and washed it. She went back and sat on the table. "We need to talk."
"About."
"Andy."
Him... What is there to talk about him? "What about him?"
"I have him turning away from Eva now. But I need to know when you are going to hit Mayor Bai so we can do it together. I also don"t want Andy running wild doing his own thing."
"So what"s your plan?"
Lena told Kris that there were still some unsolved questions on her side of things. She still needed to find the real relations.h.i.+p between Eva and Madam Yang. Kris told Lena that on his side of things, he was ready to take down Mayor Bai. But Kris said that taking down Madam Yang should be something Gary and he should be doing.
Lena was confused why the two men were pus.h.i.+ng her out of the plan but she did not want to ask Kris. She felt like she needed to talk to Gary instead.
Lena put on her slippers and got ready to leave. She turned back to Kris.
"Oh... I almost forgot. How about your mom? Her birthday is on Monday isn"t it?"
"Yeah..." Kris was confident that there was not a speck on Lena that he would not be able to touch... but he does not know about another woman.
"Don"t worry about it. We"ll work it out." Lena gave the big man a pat on the shoulder and left.
Lena went back to her apartment to get some stuff ready for her meeting with Andy. She downloaded some stuff that Noah had sent her regarding Eva and Mike"s affair. She also got the medical record that Tye sent her.
She does not know if she will need to use them all to bring Andy 100% away from Eva, but she will try. Lena knew that she could not tell Andy about Gary being his half-brother because that is something Gary needs to do himself.
Lena needed to play all the cards she has.
Lena texted Andy that she will be coming to his office soon. It was better if they met in a professional setting rather than somewhere else.
Lena parked her car and walked into the tall building. She went up to the elevator and landed on Andy"s floor. Sophia greeted Lena and opened the door for her.
Lena walked in and saw that Andy was standing and looking out the window. He"s going to do that a lot more. He was also going to continue to ask him about what went wrong in the relations.h.i.+p. Lena as been through and done that.
"You sure you are ready?"
Andy turned around and saw Lena. He sat down on his chair and nodded his head. "Yeah. It"s now or never."
Lena sat down on a chair across from him. "The antidote. A friend gave it to me after I got hold of the pills."
Lena did not want to go into too many details. She was ready to lie to Andy but not make an entirely fake story. Keeping a fake story to the real fact as close as possible was easier to keep the story straight for next time.
"So how did I get a hold of the pills? Mike Zhao." Lena observed the changes in Andy"s reaction and saw that he knew something about Mike. "You should know him, the b.a.s.t.a.r.d son in the Zhao family. But anyway, he was a man.... how do I make this sound nicer... a man who can"t keep his pants up."
"Typical of b.a.s.t.a.r.ds.." Andy spoke.
NOT GARY!! Lena screamed in her head. Gary was the exact opposite of Mike. "He approached me, used the pills on me, but I escaped. Managed to grab one for my own testing. I approached him again the next time, strictly for business. I told him I wanted in on his product line so I could get information on him."
"It was that easy.. for you?"
"He liked big b.o.o.bs... what can I say." Lena smiled cunningly at Andy.
Andy was surprised to see Lena in such a new mask. She was always very self-conscious about her bigger body parts than most Asian girls.
"Along the way... I did not expect him to throw the name of Eva in his client list. And not only as a client who pays with money... but payment through something else. And..."
Andy closed his eyes and took a deep breath. "You can continue."
"He told me... she was not even a virgin when he had her. You... didn"t sleep with her yet right?"
"No."
"Okay." Lena handed Andy a memory disk. "These contain the interactions between Mike and Eva. I was not particularly interested in her but more about him. But I organized the data that I have on both of them."
Andy took the disk from her. "Why are you so interested in Mike?"
Lena lied a bit on that part. She was more interested in Eva but put the blame on Mike. She did not want Andy to know she purposely targetted Eva all along.
"My relations.h.i.+p with Ming Zhao."
"What is your relations.h.i.+p with him?" Andy was curious now. Could he be the man that Lena was seeing? It could possibly be Ming. Andy had seen them together at several events before. They were close and happy together.
"I can"t tell you that." Lena smiled. "There is something else that needs to be considered and I know you would know more about it than me."
"What is it?" Andy asked.
"Your mom. No matter how much I try to think about why she accepted Eva so easily, I can"t find any good answers. Madam Yang had always been very strict on you and me... but with Eva... it was like she needed Eva desperately. And she turned into a nice mother-in-law overnight.
And don"t you dare tell me you haven"t noticed it as awkward. Even Hazel got the gooseb.u.mps. Your eyes are opened now, Andy. Tell me, what is it that makes both of them so close to each other?"
Andy paused to think. He knew that Eva and his mom had been very close. He had shrugged it off as his mother finally giving in to his demands about marrying Eva and she just went on with it. But as Lena said, his eyes were opened now.
"A baby." Andy answered.
"A what?"
"Lena, whatever we speak here is just strictly between us. I can trust you, correct?"
"Andy, if I did not trust you, I would not tell you about what I discovered too." She went and held his hand. "You"re not my man anymore, but you are still my older brother, remember?"
"My mother needs a baby."
"Why?"
"No ones knows yet, but my dad has been very sick lately. The Yang business has always been run by the family. If my father pa.s.ses away, the next heir is not my mother nor me. An heir is only chosen if that heir already has a replacement for him. That means a kid. I don"t have a kid and a woman cannot be the next heir. That means my uncle can take the position."
Lena rolled her eyes in her mind. What was with this stupid heir stuff and tradition? The Zhaos... then now the Yangs... Lena does not want to think about what stupid thing the Li family has. They already have a stupid curse, what other nonsense do they need?
"Eva is the woman I love... was. If she can get pregnant, it counts. Even though it does not guarantee it until the baby is born, I will still hold the position until then. Even then, knowing my mother... I can marry a different woman while Eva still has my baby."
Andy"s father is the current heir, but his position can only be pa.s.sed down to his son if Andy has someone after him. This was not to secure the heir position... but to also continue the family line of the Yang family. Having a child means that the heir is not impotent.
"Is your family through kins.h.i.+p or the father"s side only?"
"What do you mean?"
"Like... what if I married you, had a kid but you died. I remarried someone else had a kid with my new husband... would my second kid still be able to be a backup heir to the Yang family fortune?"
"Of course. When a woman married into the Yang family, they take our family name. That is the situation with my uncle now... you remember him, Uncle Sam."
"So even if there is no kid, but lots of brothers, the position can still be secured between the brothers?"
"Yes, but I am the only child."
Andy"s father was Drew Yang. Drew had a brother, Daniel. Daniel married a wife but he died later on. The wife remarried and gave birth to Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam changed his last name to Yang after the Yang elders allowed to accept him into the family lineage through his mother. He has a chance to be an heir because he has three sons.
However, if the backup of the Yang heir has a son or brother, that person would secure the position first. This means that... with Gary alive, Andy does not need a baby... he just needed a brother.