Mute Girl The Series : Rose Thorns

The girl was wailing and sobbing her heart out. Such grievance had been stuck in her heart for such a long time and she constantly felt suffocated by it. Finally, she could express her sadness in front someone who understood her pain.

Noah, on the other hand, stood in silence as if he respected this girl for being such a strong person. He let her crying to her satisfaction. Usually in this kind of situation, the man would comfort the lady who was in tears but in contrast, Noah only stared deeply into the girl's eyes.

Was this what he meant as a proper conversation? Unrevealing someone's vulnerability and took advantage of the sadness that person had experienced to gain control over the situation? Using the same tactic as once he had used on Mia, Noah repeated it again. He didn't need to sugar-coat his words and just merely stated the harshness of the reality.

After a while, Hannah's tears and hiccups gradually stopped. Her breathing also got stabilised. Her emotional was back to normal as if the breakdown episode had never happened. Only the wet trails on her cheeks were left seen.

"He...You can find him at West Cliffestocksbeach. It's a small city in South West Land. The area is heavily supervised by his men so people cannot easily enter the city."

"Do you perhaps know some of the people around him?"

Responding to it, Hannah shook her head before answering it in details.

"Whenever he gives me the drugs, only his face is seen. Others will wear masks and their voices are all the same."

"Alright. That's enough. Take a good rest. You can stay here until you're ready to go back home. The medical team will also continue to monitor you to help you get rid of the drug addiction."

Noah made his way to the door and before he vanished behind the closed door, Hannah mumbled something under her breath with her head hung low while clutching the blanket over her tightly.

"Thank you... thank you so much." Her voice was soft but he managed to catch the words she said.

Noah remained solemn as he exited the room. Outside the room, from the staircase, he saw Oscar along with the woman who came with Casey entered the house. He glanced at the clock hanging on the wall downstairs and roughly made the calculation. It took him almost one hour to get the answer out and just in time before the woman came back.

"Mr O'Sullivan!" Elaine warmly greeted him when she saw the man stood at the upper level of the staircase. Quickly she hurried her steps and came near to him.

"How's Hannah? Is she alright?"

"She's just fine. Let her rest well." With that, Noah walked off and headed out of the house. Oscar naturally followed him as well.

Elaine who was left with multiple shopping bags in her hands felt a chill running along her spine. Receiving the semi-cold response from that man caused her to twitch uncomfortably.

--- Vice President's office, Aurora Headquarter ---

Casey reached her office with her confused mind along the way. She still couldn't comprehensively understand the situation and got fl.u.s.tered by the outcome of her visit to Aunt Su's house. Furthermore, she just received the message both from Noah and Elaine. Her focus was shifted to Hannah Douglas's case. Elaine informed her that Hannah had waken up while Noah sent her two blurry names to her memory but she couldn't figure where did she heard them before.

Zavier, her assistant saw her in a daze and decided to interrupt her after seeing her frozen like a statue after an extended period of time.

"What's wrong? She didn't agree to our offer?"

"She indeed declined it but she also provides us with new case. The matter is getting complicated and everything is messed up. As for now, let's not focus on the O'Ryan's matter."

"Huh? Why?" Confused by the statement, Zavier took the seat across Casey and readied himself as to seriously listen to his boss's plan.

"I'll let you know once I confirm the tips that I've got and we have more important task to do right now. Gather all old files that have mentioned West Cliffestocksbeach and tell our informant in South West Land to look for Russell Stafford."

"West Cliffestocksbeach? Russell Stafford? How did these two names suddenly pop up? What exactly are you trying to find out?"

"Do you remember about Superstar Entertainment's previous scandal?"

"Humm... About that Hannah Douglas is it? I thought you've already paused your investigation since there's no recent clue that could help the case."

"I did but yesterday someone from the agency called me for a meetup and we ended up found a crucial clue for the case. Hannah Douglas was overdosed and almost lost her life. Luckily she was saved just in time."

"Wait... what?? She... and drugs?? How did these relate to West Cliffestocksbeach and Russell Stafford? Are you sure Russell Stafford is involved in this drug case? Do you forget who is he?"

"Who is he? Have we came across him before?" That name did ring a bell inside her head but Casey was still clueless about him.

"He's our freaking informant situated in South West Land! Why did you ask our informant himself to look for himself? How absurd is that!"

"WHAT???" Casey's eyes widened in shock. Their informant was Hannah Douglas's rumoured boyfriend! Is it possible that it's just a common name and not a same person?

"Bring me the informant's file, quick!" urged Casey after realising the most significant correlation in this case so far.

"But you know that's against our policy. We can only open the informant's file if we have order from the court." rebuked Zavier reminding his boss of the established standard procedure in their organisation.

"Oh god! Then.. aaaa.. what's the last case involving West Cliffestocksbeach?"

"I don't think we have one from that place. It's a private coastal town city. It's not easy to go in and out of that place. So the information about that place is very limited. But I'll try to pull some strings to find out more."

"Use whatever means but avoid that Russell Stafford guy."

If the Stafford guy was the same person as their informant and Hannah's boyfriend, it meant that the reliability of his information that he gave previously could be biased and Aurora may be in a big trouble if that truly happened.