Mute Girl The Series : Rose Thorns

"What's the price?"

"Like I told you, nothing much. Just consider it as you owe me a favour and you'll repay me when the right time comes."

"Alright." She easily agreed to the deal as her life was at the risk. She had abundant things to do and promises to fulfil hence she couldn't die the moment she left this mansion. Although she was one of the influential people in West City, her current power couldn't beat those gangsters from that South region. Therefore, she must seek help from people that was on par with those gangsters and the man who sat in front of her right now probably the best person that could protect her life. This man was able to sneak into that private town and escape from it unharmed had proven his ability to be her protector.

Seeing how fast she accepted the deal, Noah couldn't help but to smirk in satisfaction. Finally, his target had fallen into his hands. One down, three to go. He then pressed the intercom button and ordered the receiver to enter his office. In less than one minute, someone knocked the door and with Noah's permission, a man in a formal black suit came into their sight.

"This is Agent F5 or you can call him Robert. That's his alias. With him guarding your life, you don't have to worry about anyone tries to harm you. He's an elite agent from Maxwell Training School. I believe you've heard about that school before. There'll be more agents ensuring your safety from afar." assured Noah as he trusted the quality of agents that Maxwell Training School produced. Most of his men were hired from that school and under Nick's teaching.

Convinced with Noah's arrangement, Casey then excused herself with Robert followed her closely like a bodyguard. At first, she felt weird but thinking about her life at the stake, she forced herself to get used to his presence.

As for Noah, he was happy that he had achieved his goal today smoothly. Unknown to Casey, he had twisted some part of his story to patch up some loopholes and made the story seemed more believable. This was the trap he set up to pull Casey onto his side. Actually, those pictures that photographed Casey's daily activities were from his own archive. He purposely misled Casey into believing that she was being watched by Russell Stafford and his minions. But his suspicion on Zavier's private sources was true. Even his grandpa said that the location given to him was actually a trap.

Ring! Ring! Noah's mobile phone was ringing. The screen showed a the house number of his parents' home- West Wing Mansion.

"Master! We have detected an attempt of unknown figures trying to break into the house one minute ago." It was Butler Jones that made the call. His voice clearly showed an emergency as he spoke fast under one breath.

"Gather everyone at the dungeon and then activate the seal button."

Tut... Tut... After receiving the order, Butler Jones ended the call. A single second couldn't be wasted or else, the intruders could get into the house if they were one second late. The seal button would tighten the enforcement at all the entrance checkpoints and prevent anyone from entering or going out of the mansion. The intruders, once the button was activated, would get blocked wherever they were in that house. At the same time, an emergency alert would be sent to the assigned security agency to request for assistance.

Noah couldn't get to his late parents' home on time because the journey would take at least one hour if he drove his Bugatti at its maximum speed from his own mansion back to Central West land where West Wing Mansion was located. During that one hour, a lot of unpredictable things might happen therefore he must prioritise his servant's safety first especially Butler and Madam Jones who had been working with his family since his late parents' time.

As he was speeding on the road, his mind carefully analysed the possible people that sent those unwelcomed guests to West Wing Mansion when he wasn't around. His main suspect was the owner of those digital files that he has stolen from the computer at the secret laboratory few days ago. They wanted to get back those files as to get rid off the conclusive evidence of their illegal activities. But Noah and his special scout team had gone there with face masks so how did they know it was him that stole the files ? Thinking of this, Noah's suspicion grew stronger. Someone from Casey's side had alleged alliance with the other party and exposed his identity.

That spy must have known his heroic action in saving Hannah Douglas from dying and also the email that was sent to him. Was it Zavier? Or his private informants? Or Noah had been lied by Casey with her acting today? Or could it be another third party that he didn't pay attention to?

This whole matter was getting complicated. With Mia's adopted parents suddenly came back to life after two years buried 7 feet in the ground and now closely involved with that Stafford guy, Noah had the difficulty to connect all the clues he had gotten so far. At first he thought that the main target of this case was the Douglas family because of the upcoming election campaign however things got messy when Casey Hugh and the Wilson couple were also part of this chasing game.

The Wilson and Douglas family along with Casey Hugh were key pawns in Noah's strategy but then someone had touched them all which alerted Noah of this one possiblity. The Mastermind behind this mess knew that Noah was targeting all these people hence might have planted more traps to intentionally cause disturbance in his plan.

The one that benefitted from his failure was the O'Ryan but Noah had never appeared in front of Mayor Williams O'Ryan directly face to face ever since he returned to this country and all his previous attacks were smooth without revealing his true identity. Therefore, the O'Ryan had yet to be aware of him. Plus why did O'Ryan want to sabotage his own junior, Martin Douglas? Or maybe Noah was overthinking about this whole matter and the involvement of his targets in it was just a coincidence?