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This was a gamble. Rain knew that if she didn’t appear before Alexander as Rain Clayton, it would only
confirm his suspicion that Twilight and Rain were the same person. However, that really didn’t matter right now because tonight, she had the perfect opportunity to plant all the spy cams and bugs she wanted in the vacant lounge rooms using Alexander as cover.
As a part of her plan, she needed Alexander to be engrossed and interested in her, so she continued to deny that she was Rain Clayton and insisted that she was Diana Jones. Noticing how he had been gulping often despite the frown on his face, Rain kept up her seductive dance to keep him captivated. He looked annoyed at her, sure, and yet he couldn’t take his eyes off her either.
Seeing her work, Rain’s smirk only deepened, and she took another daring step closer, her eyes locked onto his. “Will you let me finish my performance now? I heard you paid a fortune for this,” she seductively insisted as she continued to sway her body in front of him. “It’s only natural to let me bring worth to what
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you paid for.”
She would never dare to do this before him as Rain
Clayton. Thankfully, she was Twilight for the night, and she was committed to whatever disguise she used for every case Brandon led that she was involved in.
In front of her, Alexander’s jaw tightened, his patience obviously wearing thin. “This isn’t over,” he grumbled. “I’ll find out the truth sooner or later.”
Rain only smiled in response, her eyes glinting with a mix of amusement and challenge. “I’m sure you will, Mr. Lancaster,” she said, her voice soft yet filled with finality. “But until then, why don’t you just relax and enjoy the show?”
She chuckled upon seeing how his face blushed at her words. She then turned around, after which she heard him grunt to himself.
“Damn this!”
Before she knew it, Alexander had already pulled her to him, making her sit on his lap. His face was now too close to hers for her liking, and her eyes widened
when she felt his lips against hers.
“This… this is not part of the plan!‘ Rain inwardly
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complained as she opened her mouth to speak, but Alexander seized the moment, sliding his tongue into her mouth.
Her body froze on the spot. It wasn’t her first kiss- Paul had been her first–but this felt different. She
found herself drowning in Alexander’s kiss, her breath hitching as a sensual warmth spread throughout her body.
Lost in the moment, she didn’t even realize that Alexander had already pulled her wig off her head, revealing her natural ginger locks. Eventually, he pulled away, staring at her with a smirk. This time, he brushed his thumb over the fake mole beneath her eye, further unraveling her disguise.
Rain was speechless for a moment, staring at him in disbelief. With enough time, however, she managed to let out a scoff at his actions. She had to regain her composure somehow. “You won’t remove that easily. It’s waterproof.”
“So, does this mean you’re confessing then, Rain?” Alexander remarked with a triumphant grin.
Rain’s eyes widened. It was the first time she’d seen
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him smile like that. He had a perfect set of white teeth,
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and he looked unexpectedly charming. Adorable, even.
“No,” she shot back with a frown. “I told you, I’m Diana Jones. You… you’re jeopardizing everything by
mentioning that name here. You’ll put that woman you keep mentioning in danger.”
“What do you mean?! Are we still going in circles here?” he questioned with annoyance.
Rain seized the moment to leap off his lap. She then hastily grabbed her wig from him, quickly putting it back on and fixing it back in place.
“Goodness, whether I am that woman you’re referring to or not, why are you even bothering to find out? What is she to you, anyway?” she murmured, trying to deflect the conversation. She then grabbed a paper bag and handed it to him. “That’s your coat by the way. It’s already clean.”
Alexander stared at her with a deep frown, clearly not satisfied with her evasive answers and how she tried to
change the topic.
Seeing her tactics failing, Rain decided to change directions. “My performance isn’t over yet, but I
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believe you wouldn’t want me to continue. Otherwise…
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you’ll end up-” She paused, her gaze dropping
pointedly to his groin before adding, “-you’ll end up with blue balls, I’m sure.”
It was true. She had felt his arousal while sitting on his lap, and Alexander’s face turned beet red the moment she pointed it out.
“Don’t worry, it’s understandable,” she chuckled. “I guess most men would react like that if a woman danced seductively on them like I-”
“Enough,” Alexander grunted, his face darkening.
Rain quickly zipped her mouth, knowing she had pushed him far enough.
“Rain, get him to sleep now. You only have ten minutes to manipulate their security system,” Rain gulped when she suddenly heard Brandon’s voice coming through the earpiece on her ear. “Let me know when his eyes are closed!”
Immediately, Rain turned around and walked to the bar counter. She then grabbed a bottle and poured Alexander a drink. With a quick motion, she pulled out a small packet from her chest and discreetly emptied
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the powder into the glass. The special drug would knock Alexander out, but he would regain
consciousness exactly nine minutes later.
Walking over to him, she handed him the whiskey.
“Madame Beck will scold me if she finds out I didn’t
offer you a drink,” she calmly stated.
Raising a brow, Alexander grabbed the glass and downed it in one gulp. Rain smiled at him and winked. “I just need ten minutes. I’ll come back to you after that.” She then leaned closer to his ear and whispered, “Once you wake up and find me still not back in this lounge, that means I’m in danger. You need to make a scene and act like you’re drunk and angry while
looking around for me, because if you don’t… I’ll end up dead.”
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“Huh?” Alexander muttered weakly before his eyelids drooped and he slumped back, unconscious.
‘He’s down,” she reported. “I’m heading out now.‘
‘Roger! Be careful,‘ Brandon replied.
With her job now in view, Rain took a deep breath and hurriedly left the lounge. She had ten minutes to install bugs and spy cams in the vacant lounges. She
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wasn’t sure how Brandon managed it, but his elite
team had access to various electronic devices,
including CCTV footage of the club that they could
freeze for a maximum of ten minutes.
Her heart raced as she moved swiftly down the dimly lit hallways. Each lounge door required a security keycard, but she only had ten minutes to bypass this
security.
Making her way through one locked door after the
other, she planted the devices as quickly and discreetly as possible while constantly checking her watch. She then repeated the process in the other vacant lounges.
By the time she was in the last lounge, she was running
out of time.
“Damn it,” she inwardly cursed, noting that she had only ten seconds left.
Quickly but carefully, she placed the final bug behind a decorative fixture before practically sprinting to
escape. However, as she opened the door to leave, Madame Beck stood there with arms crossed and eyes filled with suspicion.
“What are you doing here?”
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