Woman of Intelligence (Book 2 in the series)

Chapter 4 (Part 1)

Riya was in the secret room, doing some research. All her weapons were arranged in one corner next to her fighting uniforms and dresses. Hers and Liang's motorbikes where sitting in another corner. The five computer screens were in the middle of the room. In front of the screens, there was a long wide semi-round desk with a big keyboard. All of Riya's equipment and resources were moved to the secret room. The room was safely secured as it was right at the end of the house. Riya was researching any big investigations that were currently happening in Los Angeles.

So far, she found a number of cases that were related to drugs. Few days ago, the cases were converted into one case. Riya managed to get the name of the person behind those drugs. A drug lord named Antonio Lopez was written in every single case. The cases all came from celebrities, mainly models. Riya looked at her eliminating list and found a name, Sebastian Lopez. She was doing some background information on him. She started typing fast to get to the file. The middle screen popped a small picture of a young Colored man and his personal information. Sebastian Lopez was an American born-Spanish. Antonio Lopez was Sebastian's father but there was information about Sebastian's mother. 

Riya had a gut feeling that this was the case John was talking about. But why did he not want to give Riya the information? Unless, he wanted to verify before sending Samantha and her to Los Angeles. He would go into a tantrum if he found out that he sent his two officers to solve a wrong case. At least, Riya was feeling better that her second mission could be related to this case. But she could not jump to conclusion because she could also be wrong. She just had to wait and see what would happen tomorrow. Riya switched all the screens off to save some energy. She got up from the rolling chair and walked towards the door. She stretched her body while walking. She had been sitting in front of the screens for one hour. She slightly slammed the door and it opened wide for her. She came out of the room feeling slightly refreshed. 

As she was walking down the long wide pathway, she could see some decorations on the floor. She walked faster to see what was going on. There more decorations on the floor as she was walking. They looked more like Christmas decoration. Riya appeared in the big sitting room. Her body was getting excited when she saw all these decorations. It had been a while since she decorated a home with Christmas decorations, like three years. Liang appeared with a big brown box filled with more decorations. He spotted Riya who was looking at the decorations.

"Moods, you are here.", he placed the box of the floor then looked at her. 

She looked at him. "Yeah, I finally know what case Samantha and I might be doing. The case is also my list. As always, I can't jump to conclusions.", she explained. 

"What is it?"

"Drugs."

"Oh, I know that case well. The drug lord name is Antonio Lopez.", Liang rested his palms on the white long four seated sofa.

"Yeah, same one."

"He sell drugs to models who are trying to lose weight to get into perfect shape. Some of those models are movie stars and singers. When I was modelling in Los Angeles, some of the models told me that I should take this specific drug to have a perfect body. I researched it and found out so many horrible things. You can't eat, you get really sick, the drug makes you go mental and you lost so much weight in three weeks. No one spoke out about the drugs that time because they didn't want him to go to prison. You know some companies want their models to lose weight faster than usual.", he explained. 

Riya was disgusted by the information. "Did you take it?", she asked out of curiosity.

"Nope. But I still have the drug. The models used to give it to me but I kept it as evidence. In case I wanted to speak out. I completely forgotten about it until you mentioned it now."

Riya walked towards him. "Well, you must give it to me so I can examine it. If this is the case Samantha and I are assigned for.", she stopped in front of him. 

Liang bent his head to meet her face. "It's a pretty dangerous case. Unfortunately, I can't come with you because Christmas is coming. You know how it is. It's also time for you to travel to other countries.", he was looking at the decorations.

"Mn but if Samantha and I do get stuck, I will have to turn into White Jaguar. And there will be possibilities that I will be calling you to help out with this case.", she also looked at the decorations. "It was really sad to watch those models going through such horrible diets and beauty expectations.", she would not forget those days. 

"Yep, it was and it still is. If you do anything, just call me and I will help you."

Riya was fine with that. Both of them were silent for a moment. They were looking at the decorations while thinking very hard. Riya went to the decorations. She was looking for a Christmas tree. She found three big Christmas trees. Liang was watching her. He was admiring at her more. He had a small smile while admiring her. Riya was picking up a tree from a box. She was using all her strength to pull it out. She managed to lift some part of the tree up. 

"This is thing is heavy.", she said while pulling it. 

Liang shook his head while laughing. Then he went to help her. "You are bold sometimes which is a good thing.", he stopped next to her and picked up the tree with her. 

Riya felt Liang's strength while they were carrying it. They put the tree one side so it was not on the way. Riya was impressed with the power of strength Liang's body contained. She was looking at his abs that were popping underneath his white T-shirt. After staring at his abs, she was looking at the decorations. She started picking some of the decorations to hang on the tree. Liang did the same and arranged the ornaments on the coffee table.