Siana

"Cain"s woman? Siana, I thought you would be smarter than that."

Hearing his words, Siana didn"t know whether to laugh or cry. Did the man think she didn"t deserve Cain? That she wasn"t good enough? Or did he maybe also believed that Cain was an as.e.xual? Or even a gay? She actually wondered whether the smart man from before always lost his cool, like now, whenever the talk concerned his sons. She actually found him slightly similar to Cain in this aspect: he also became such an unreasonable person whenever the topic concerned her.

Looking at the worried father, deep in her heart she felt slightly bitter: had her parents ever protected her to such extents?

"It is up to you to believe me or not. But I have no reason to lie to you."

Jason studied her expression while looking straight into her eyes, as if trying to see her thoughts, her soul. On the foot of his bed, Mark remained as quiet as before. However, after the stillness didn"t subside, he finally decided to talk,

"Siana, why did you connect the "Black Lily" and dad"s infertility?"

Sia took a note of Mark"s collected approach towards the matter. It seemed like Mr. Jason held more insecurities regarding this issue than his son. It was quite commendable.

"Cain told me about the task you gave them, and both of us came to the same conclusion that the information should be of detrimental value for you to go to such lengths as to involve two outsiders. As it involves hacking, we pretty much guessed that your target from the beginning was not Luke but rather Cain."

Though Jason was still impatient, her careful and calm a.n.a.lysis actually made him loosen up a bit. Her a.n.a.lysis. .h.i.t the bullseye. His senses started to slowly come back to him and a feeling of guilt quietly invaded his heart.

Not minding the changes in his expression, Sia recalled the events of the night, explaining why they suspected that the information they were seeking to retrieve could be exactly this one. Of course she skipped the parts of his indecency though it made her face turn red from times to times.

"I planned to tell you from the very beginning as, in case you need help, 15 days may not be sufficient for us to find clues on this particular group. If we know what we are looking for we might also find some possible suspects to narrow down our search. Though I don"t know much, but from the way Cain put it, I understand that we can"t allow the next in line Herondale to become the head as that would also affect the underworld and possibly even the emperor selection. We are basically allies who have mutual benefits in this case, so I hope for your collaboration."

Jason remained silent for a while, trying to make heads or tails of the situation. Siana"s argument made sense but he still couldn"t conclude whether she lied about her relationship with Cain or not. If she was truly his girlfriend rather than his underling it would mean that she just cared about her man rather than tried to suck up to her boss. Also, her form of speech seemed strange to him, so he decided to question it,

"Why are you speaking in plural? Even if by any chance Cain is your boyfriend it"s not like you are the one doing the search."

Siana"s lips curved into a teasing smile when she saw the man"s stubborn dejection towards her. It seemed like she had to be completely honest to him to win his trust back.

"Well, I use "we" rather than "he" as now I am involved in this matter as much as him. My codename is Q, and I am the number two hacker. So you could consider yourself hitting the jackpot as not only is number one hacker going to help you find that group but also the number two."

After being deadpanned by her the two men simply sat there in a daze. Even in their wildest dreams they would have never imagined the girl to be the irrefutable number two who was almost the same level as that monster Cain. Moreover the girl even claimed to be his girlfriend? If it was really the case wasn"t this couple a bit too scary? One had the support of half of the military, had strong business standing, was the best hacker alive and, moreover, was currently fighting for the position of the head of the underworld, while the other was one of the best neurosurgeons in the world, was a well known scientist and also turned out to be the second strongest hacker? What more secrets were they carrying with them? Even if they weren"t a couple just the fact that they possibly worked together was already something to be wary of.

If she was telling the truth, did it not mean that these two monstrous geniuses were actually willing to help them? Why? What was their objective?

However, Jason was a hard nut to crack. He wouldn"t believe everything just anyone told him. If he did, he wouldn"t be the man he was now. Though deep down he believed her, he still required hard proof to ensure the credibility of her claims.

"It"s hard to believe you, however, there is an easy way to check whether you are lying or not."

He immediately motioned Mark to pa.s.s his phone, which Mark quietly did. Without explaining his actions he made a call to one of his contacts and put the phone on the loudspeaker.

Cain was currently trying to find links between the places and people sabotaged by "Black Lily" when his phone suddenly rang. Looking at the caller ID, he first felt surprised but then could already more or less guess that it had something to do either with Sia or Archie.

"h.e.l.lo."

His voice betrayed none of the thoughts he had. He wouldn"t give away any of his thoughts if he didn"t talk at all.

"Hey Young Dragon. Your answer now will decide whether a doctor named Sianna Illes will live or die. So -"

Before he could finish his threat, Cain basically roared into the phone, his voice sending chills to anyone who heard it,

"Dare to touch a hair on her head and neither you nor your family would be spared!"

The father and son pair felt astonished to the extent that they forgot about responding. It was Siana"s mellow voice that diffused the heavy air,

"Cain, calm down. He just wanted to check whether I am really your girlfriend or not."

However, Cain was not someone to be so easily coaxed when her life was on line. However, his voice became much calmer than before,

"I am on my way to the hospital. Get someone to come and walk me to the room. Don"t switch off the call. And keep talking to me."

Not paying attention to the two flabbergasted men whose jaws literally dropped to the floor, Sia started speaking softly,

"Cain?"

"Is everything really alright?" he sounded extremely worried: a state no one was used to seeing him in.

"Darling, you know that your cool image has just shattered to pieces?"

"Tsk," he clicked his tongue, "as if I care about such things. You are the only thing that matters to me."

"Hey, stop being so cheesy: you are still on the loudspeaker."

"That"s better then. They shouldn"t mess with my woman. I am at the Hospital door by the way, who is meeting me?"

Mark quickly volunteered to go bring Cain up. For G.o.d"s sake, he was so full with their public display of affection He wanted to escape being attacked any further. He really needed a break. A long one at that.