Time slowly ticked past. The coffee grew.
cold and was exchanged for a fresh cup as
Anna spent over an hour waiting at an
open-air cafe at Victoria Harbor.
“Could she be too afraid to come?”
The thought occurred to Anna, but she
soon dismissed it.
She had never met Wendy before, and
Wendy had always kept a low profile as
she spent all her time at JW Company.
However, based on the brief exchange
they had on the phone just now, Anna
could tell that Wendy was no ordinary
woman.
There was no way she was too afraid to
come.
After a moment’s hesitation, Anna picked
her phone up again and made another call
to Wendy.
However, she received a notification that
the number was unavailable. That made
Anna feel even more uneasy.
After hanging up, Anna made another
phone call.
“Help me find out if Wendy Schuler,
president of JW Company, left her
residence at The Westin this evening.
Also, get me her current location.”
Her call was returned about ten minutes
later.
The expression on Anna’s face turned
uglier and uglier after she answered it.
“The car was abandoned on the roadside,
the driver was shot and is in a coma, and
Wendy is missing!?
“It’s the year 2001 now. Harbor City is no
longer the gangster-run city it once was,
but something like this could still
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