Chapter 489 - Another Attack (13)

25 May, David Hwang's Villa, City K 

Joan followed David into their suite, and secured the door behind them, before joining him on the sofa.

"How did everything go?"

"You saw the photos I sent you through of the dress?"

"I did. You know looking at it, I am not certain?"

Joan reached up, touched her finger to his lips and said "There is one thing I am absolutely certain on Lexi knows what she is doing. The photographs do not do the dress justice, both in terms of the materials used, but the actual design. It looks plain and nothing what we had talked to her about laid out, but it changed once I had it on. But before you ask, the one thing that I am not going to do is let you see me with the dress on, even if it is in a photo. That is one tradition I want to keep for this wedding, given every other one we are throwing out."

"But…"

"I was sceptical about her idea, but the traditional qipao elements, are more in a jacket that covers the top of the dress, that can be taken off if we want to. But I love the effect, so let me have this, please…"

"I know other designers that could do a better job, getting me what I want…"

"David, we had this discussion, I would let you have what you wanted with this wedding, if my dress and my attendant's dresses were designed by the designer of my choosing. I want Lexi."

After snuggling into his embrace further Joan added, "Lexi knows me and to a point is observant. I knew she realised with at the design appointment we had with her that we could not keep our hands off each other. The smart woman has made sure that the dress is such that we can easily protect it throughout the day, if we decide we cannot wait and will be easy to get me out of at the end of the day, despite the appearances that it was a difficult dress to get into."

"I still do not know…"

"Fine, get someone you want to design another dress, but keeping Lexi tied in will help you. Given she will still be in recovery mode from her injuries her husband will be at the ceremony. That will entice John Nang to be there as well. A senior member of the local military base and a police officer who does who knows what at the wedding. When your plan goes into action, what will they focus on. Protecting the civilians who are there rather than immediately racing off to do whatever else…"

"You are thinking about what we discussed?"

"Absolutely. I trust you and will back whatever you decide to do. You forget how long of I have known Matthew Rong and John Nang. I believe I can predict how they will react. It will be to keep those around them safe first, before venturing out and heading to their respective workplaces. How long that will all take, I cannot predict, but every little delay in authorities response will help."

David sat there pondering what Joan was saying. She was already in deep with all his actions. That was good. She had already picked up on something he had not even thought about. Delaying those people who would be involved in the response. Particularly important with those two in City K, given their roles. Maybe, that would mean an adjustment with what was in the works for City K. One attack, rather than two, and some other form of incident around the Church that would keep the two of them there protecting people rather than leaving. Something to explore.

"David," came Joan in a somewhat concerned tone.

"Yes?"

"I am not sure what to exactly make of it. It seemed weird at the time, but then on the trip back Naomi's words did not seem to totally ring true. Matthew and John were in the room for a little bit of time when we were discussing matters, and naturally as they left Lexi, myself and Naomi to await Rachael's arrival they gave the two of us a kiss on the cheek…"

"What the…" came David's angry response.

"Well what did you want me to do, tell them to go screw themselves because you do not want long term male friends even touching me. What the hell do you think that will do. Only make them suspicious of what was going on, as why in the world would I change my long-term behaviour unless something was up," came Joan's angry response.

After a couple of breaths to calm herself down, Joan added "They also did that to Lexi as well as giving her a hug. Naomi, when Matthew went to shake her hand, basically pulled Matthew and then John in for a hug before kissing them on the cheek. A few seconds for them both, but I thought as she let go of Matthew there was a momentary change in her expression. It made me wonder, but as we left she said she wondered what it would be like to f*ck a young looking highly ranking soldier and touching him made her believe it would be great."

"I sense a but there?"

"You know me too well. There was something that makes me question it. With everything we have talked about I wonder if she slipped him something. The only problem with that was that her hands were no more than on his shoulders. They did not seem to go near any pockets to slip him anything."

David tilted his head to the left. If everything was as he suspected with her and passing intelligence to the governmental authorities, that would have been the idea time to do it, because she would not believe that Joan was fully with him. "So, you are saying nothing concrete to act on?"

"Correct. But Master, you know I have higher priorities that thinking of that woman now…" With that Joan turned and moved so she was straddling David.

"Joan, not now, I have two meetings, one with the subordinates who know the most about this matter and the other with another group who we are using to help get things in place."

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