Chapter 12 - She is back 

-4 years later-

-At the main airport-

The main airport was usually full of people but Francesca, Sophia, and Jennifer used Francesca's private jet which made them come back a bit earlier than planned. They got their suitcase and were on their way out when Francesca accidentally bumped into a man when she was talking to her best friends Sophia Zhou and Jennifer Collins. She immediately apologized without giving a glance to the person she pumped to and before he could react she was gone with her best friends.

"Pfft bro this is the first time you let a hot woman bump into you, and she didn't even look at you," said Mark and tried not to roll on the ground laughing like a three-year-old.

While the other man which was no other than Kevin chuckled while staring at the direction Francesca went. "She is finally back."

Francesca, Sophia, and Jennifer went outside and saw surprisingly elder Shen and assistant Yu waiting for them.

"Pa! How did you know we arrived?" asked Francesca as she abandoned her suitcase to give elder Shen a big hug.

"Captain Yixing sent me a message." said elder Shen and hugged her back.

"Hello, Grandpa Shen!" said both Sophia and Jennifer and hugged him.

"Hello girls, so how was the flight?" asked elder Shen.

"It was fine, we slept a lot," said Sophia and gave her suitcase to assistant Yu.

"Let's go home aunt Diana made a lot of food." said elder Shen. Both elder Shen and assistant Yu could see that the girl's eyes sparkled when Elder Shen mentioned food.

Elder Shen's white Bentley GT parked in front of Shen mansion and everyone left the car. All the maids, butler Gu, and aunt Diana came out, as usual, to welcome them back. Francesca was about to go in when suddenly something black and white jumped on her which made her fall down.

"Ahh, Lulu it tickles..hahaha," said Francesca as she tried to get Lulu off her.

Lulu is a Siberian Husky (dog) that looks like a mini wolf with no pointy ears. Elder Shen secretly bought him when Francesca was back from a holiday because she mentioned that she wanted to have a dog and he of course chose Lulu which is a trained dog, so he knows when danger comes.

Lulu got off her and lied on his back so she could pat on his stomach. "Why do you sound so spoiled ha little guy?" Sophia and Jennifer soon joined them and patted on Lulu, he enjoyed the attention especially when his favorite human was the one that patted him.

"Everyone, the food is ready." said aunt Diana.

The girl stood up and went to the bathroom to wash their hands before they came back and saw the whole dining table full of food. It was mostly seafood like crab legs, shrimp, mussels, lobster, sausage, red potatoes, and corn on the cob in a savory beer broth. They happily sat down and ate and shared funny/embarrassing stories of their 4 years studying business in London together.

"Talking about that, Francesca was so clumsy that she bumped into a guy at the airport too." teased Jennifer and everybody laughed.

"I didn't see him okay, stop teasing me Jen," said Francesca fake crying.

The girls were happily spending time with elder Shen after they were done eating until around 8 pm when they all decided to explore the city together. Elder Shen was already sleeping since it was a habit of him to sleep early. The girls went upstairs to Francesca's room to get ready. Francesca was wearing a tight short sexy black dress that was showing her beautiful figure, while Sophia wore a short navy blue strapless velvet dress which looked phenomenal on her, and last but not least Jennifer was wearing a white heart two-piece dress that would make any guys fall for her. They all wore a thick black coat and 5 inches heels to complete the look. They went downstairs and told butler Gu that they wanted to explore the city and will possibly sleep at the nearest hotel that the Shen corporation owns.

The girls went out to the big garage and smiled, 8 different sports cars with different brands were parked nicely in front of them. Francesca, Sophia, and Jennifer loved to race against each other and would therefore rather drive themself.

Francesca picked the red Lamborghini Huracan LP 610-4 that elder Shen bought for her on her 19th birthday, while Sophia and Jennifer shipped their cars over to Z- city which was a yellow Porsche 911 and a rapid blue Chevrolet Corvette C8.

They drove around the city for a while before they decided to race up to the hill. Once the traffic light turned green they all started to speed up. The road up to the hill was a bit dangerous so no one could drive past Jennifer. They parked their car and walked over and sat in front of their car looking at the beautiful view of Z-city.

"I won so one of you guys has to pay for the drinks later," said Jennifer smirking.

"That's not fair, the road was so dangerous," said Sophia crossing her arms.

"Forget It I will pay for it later," said Francesca expressionless.

"Then let's go!" said Jennifer cheerfully and got in her car.

Sophia was looking suspiciously at Francesca when she suddenly became quiet but couldn't ask when Jennifer suddenly pressed the horn in her car. Sophia gave Jennifer the "I-will-kill-you-later-for-scaring-the-shit-out-of-me" look before she entered her car. Francesca walked to her car and opened the door. "The game starts now".

The girls decided to go to a popular nightclub to have fun and found the most popular one located between Z-City and C-city. Which was a 35 minutes car ride. They decided to check in on the nearest hotel which was a hotel owned by the Shen corporation, they parked their cars and walked over to the nightclub. The girls had already booked a VIP room before they came in and the employer that worked there showed them the way to the second floor where all the VIP rooms were located. They got the biggest VIP room near the VVIP room.

"Well this room is not that bad but I still wanna have the VVIP room tho, they even wrote that they had a beautiful view in there," said Jennifer disappointedly.

"I mean we got the biggest VIP room Jen so stop complaining and order whatever you wanna drink," said Sophia jumping in excitement.

While Francesca walked to the huge window and was looking down on the big dance floor with many people dancing to the music. The Dj was playing some famous songs but made his own remix out of it which made it more lit.

"Francesca, what do you wanna drink? asked Sophia and was looking at the menu.

"Hmm, I will try Sazerac," said Francesca and walked to the couch to sit.

"What about you Jen?" asked Sophia.

"I will choose the strongest cocktail they have here," said Jennifer and made her comfy on the couch.

"Okay, then I will order a Long Island iced tea for you and a Negroni for myself," said Sophia and pushed the red button on the table and a bartender came in. Sophia ordered the drinks and the bartender left shortly, he came back with the drinks afterward and a bottle of wine with three extra glasses.

"Eh we didn't order a bottle of wine," said Sophia looking confused.

"Oh it's on the house miss, we give a free bottle of wine to new VIP customers." said the bartender and soon left when he placed the drinks down.

The girls drank and were having fun teasing each other for a while before they decided to go down and dance.

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The VVIP room next to the girls.

"We made a deal worth $300.000," said Mark happily taking a sip from his drink.

"Congrats Kevin." Said Noah.

"Congrats Kevin." Said, Andrew.

"Hey, why are guys only congratulating him? I was there too!" said Mark annoyingly.

"But did you do anything other than sitting in the same meeting looking at the wall," asked Andrew and rolled his eyes.

"I did okay! Can you stop looking down on me?" said Mark angrily and pressed the red button on the table and a bartender came in.

"Find some more beautiful cheeks to me wearing a short sexy dress," said Mark smirking.

"Yes, master Mark." said the bartender and left the room.

"What the fuck Mark? I told you that you can only have one chick in the room, can you fucking respect that I'm a married and loyal man?" asked Andrew annoyingly.

Mark ignored him and started to make out with the chick beside him. While Kevin who sat on the other side of the couch was on his phone replying to some emails minding his own business. Noah on the other hand has been standing by the window for a while now. He was looking down at the crowd who was dancing on the floor. Particularly, his eyes followed a beautiful girl who was wearing a navy blue strapless dress by the stairs. She was accompanied by two other friends as they strolled downstairs. Suddenly the door from the VVIP room was open and not three but five girls this time came in. Andrew stood up immediately and dragged Kevin and Noah out of the room.

"I just saved you guys from major dog food," said Andrew breathing heavily. Noah and Kevin were looking at Andrew before they all started to laugh. The three of them went downstairs and decided to sit by the bar, and ordered their drinks.

It started to get crowded when the girls came to the dance floor. Francesca and Sophia were enjoying themself dancing on the dance floor with other people, while Jennifer left them after she found a handsome guy she could play with. They danced and were having fun when Sophia all of sudden felt someone groping her, she turned around and saw a guy dancing close to her. She tried to move away from him but he came even closer to her. She started to get annoyed and pushed him a bit when she felt him getting closer to her. He immediately grabbed her arm when she was trying to push him and dragged her out of the dance floor. He successfully made it out and was now pinning her to the hallway.

"I have never seen you before. You must be one of those new bitches right? What about you playing with me tonight and I will give you that amount of money you want, hmm?" asked the guy, smirking.

"Who the fuck are you? And don't fucking touch me you motherfucker." said Sophia angrily and stepped on his feet.

«Arrgh you bitch! You dare to step on me?" he grabbed her chin and slapped her which made her fall down. "If you are here for money then act like one." He was about to take money out of his wallet and tossed on her face when someone suddenly kicked him.

"Who the fuck do you think you are doing to my best friend you piece of shit." said Francesca dangerously before she walked over to Sophia to check if she was hurt and saw the red fingermark on Sophia's face.

The guy who was being kicked down by Francesca stood up and tried to punch her but she immediately dodged it and pinned his arm backward but was not quick enough and was instead pushed back. She stumbled back because of her damn heels and was about to fall when she felt a strong arm catching her from falling and before she knew it the guy that tried to punch her got two hard punches from another guy wearing a dark blue tuxedo.

"Noah that's enough! Pako clean this mess up." said Kevin and pulled Francesca up from his embrace. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah thanks I'm fine," said Francesca annoyingly.

"Miss are you alright?" asked Noah and looked worried at Sophia who was still on the floor.

"I'm fine." said Sophia with her shaky voice.

Noah could see just from her look that she wasn't fine and took out his tuxedo blazer and put it over her shoulder before he carried her bridal style out of the club.

"Who the fuck are you guys? Don't you know who I'm? I'm the CEO of the Glow Company." said the guy being pinned down by Pako.

"I don't know who the fuck you are and I don't care either, but don't act like all high and mighty when you sexually harassed my best friend you son of a bitch." said Francesca angrily.

"How dare you call me that? I never harassed her, you bitch" said the guy. Pako saw Kevin clenched his fist and immediately pressed that guy even harder down to the floor which made him yelp.

"Ha, you even dared to lie when I saw you touching my best friend?" said Francesca and came closer to him before she dragged him up and slapped him back.

He fell down and was taken away by Pako. Francesca was still standing there looking angry from what happened and wanted something cold to cool her down. She saw Kevin holding a glass and took it without asking and chugged in one go and gave it to the bartender who was walking past them. She went upstairs to take her things when she suddenly felt a bit dizzy and used the wall to hold her steady.

Kevin saw the petit woman and ran up to her. "Hey! You know that you just drank-" as he was about to tell her that she just drank the Devil Spring Vodka he got interrupted quickly. "Yeah, yeah - I'll pay you back, just hand over your phone to me," were the words that ran through her lips as he was about to explain what kind of drink she just poured into her body, but decided to swallow his word instead and reached his hand down his pocket, pulling out his phone and extended it to her.

Francesca grabbed it to dial her own cell-phone. As it started to ring from her purse, she took it out just to have his number saved. What did she name him? Devil Spring Vodka. The man widened his eyes slightly in surprise at her action after he realized and got his phone back, watching the lady turn her back against him and walked away afterward.

She suddenly got a headache and had to squat down for a bit. Francesca was about to stand up when she felt someone lifting her up, she turned her head to see who it was and saw Kevin's handsome face.

He looked at her. "Don't move, you're drunk."

She didn't have any energy to argue and closed her eyes. He carried her to the nearest hotel which was the same hotel she checked in before she went to Starry Night with Sophia and Jennifer. They got a luxury room and he was about to place her down on the bed when she suddenly opened her eyes and was staring deeply at him.

"Do I have something on my face? '' asked Kevin, still carrying her.

She puts her hands on either side of his face. "Wow, you are so damn handsome."

"What?"

Her soft lips pressed onto his. Kevin's body instantly stiffened from her action. Francesca slid off his embrace and pushed him down on the bed smirking before she stripped her black dress off and joined him.

Francesca climbed on top of him and started to kiss him again for a while before she slowly moved down to his smooth neckline.

"Francesca...don't," he breathed.

She kept kissing him, leaving big marks, but couldn't continue because his damn shirt was in the way. She tried to take it off him but struggled which made him chuckle.

He took off his suit blazer and threw it somewhere in the room and started to unbutton his shirt one by one. Kevin was on his last button when he suddenly felt Francesca wrapping her arms around him and dozed off, he sighed helplessly and placed her carefully right beside him. He was trying to get up from her but her strong arms were still wrapped around his neck, he soon gave up and laid right beside her.

Kevin looked at the woman beside him hugging him like a pillow, rubbing her face against his chest, and a smile gradually appeared on his face. He quietly picked up his phone from his trouser pocket and took a quick picture of her and saved it as his wallpaper picture on his phone before he slept.

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-The nearest hospital-

Sophia was sitting on the hospital bed being examined by the doctor from head to toe. While Noah was standing right beside her looking worried.

"So is she alright?" asked Noah holding the doctor like a madman.

"First of all, she was being slapped by another person and was not run over by some random car. Second of all she only needs an ice bag to cool her swollen cheek. Third of all why the hell are you stressed over a swollen cheek? I have patients with heavenly injuries and here comes this madman dragging me over to examine his girlfriend's swollen cheek. I'm glad that you're taking good care of your girlfriend. But have you looked around? I have patients that need me, so if you could excuse me. " said the doctor annoyingly before he left.

Noah was standing there dumbstruck. He felt somebody tugged his sleeve and turned his head to the side.

"I told you I was fine," whispered Sophia, feeling embarrassed and walked out of the room.

He followed her and asked her to sit and wait for him as he walked over to the reception to pay when the same doctor that examined Sophia came out of nowhere. "Why are you still here?" asked the doctor.

"I'm here to pay," said Noah confusingly.

"Aiya are you dumb? Why would you pay when I didn't even put a bandage on her? Go to the pharmacist next to the hospital and buy her an ice bag." said the doctor.

Noah was standing there scratching his head looking a bit embarrassed.

"Why are you still standing here? Go!" said the doctor before he walked away.

The nurse there chuckled. "Don't mind him, he is always grumpy."

Noah nodded awkwardly and walked over to Sophia, they left the hospital and went to the pharmacist to buy an ice bag.

"Thank you for taking me to the hospital and for buying me an ice bag," said Sophia as they walked out of the pharmacist.

"Your welcome," said Noah.

Noah and Sophia walked over to the parking lot and found his white Nissan GTR. He opened the door for her before he went to his side.

"Where do you live?" asked Noah as he turned on his Gps.

"I just checked in on the hotel near the nightclub," said Sophia.

"Oh you mean Grand Millenium?" asked Noah.

"Yeah one of the hotels the Shen family-owned," said Sophia.

Noah nodded and drove to the hotel. He was about to go out of the car when they reached the main door to the Grand Millenium when Sophia all of sudden gently held his hand and told him that he didn't have to follow her to her room, and said her goodbye before she left. He was sitting in his car trying to figure out what just happened and felt a bit embarrassed of his action in the hospital.

Noah sighed as he started his car and drove off.