Chapter 285 Meeting
At night, the lights outside the casino were bright and the inside was as bright as day. Noisy sounds spread from every green velvet table, and under the bright crystal chandeliers, every face looked even crazier.
Leah was followed by two muscular men. She covered her nose with a handkerchief and hurriedly walked past the gamblers' gathering area and headed upstairs. She met a few women who were wearing very little and were flirting with them. Leah smiled perfunctorily at the women, and a younger brother behind her whistled.
"If you want to have fun here, go ahead. There's nothing to do at night. Barrios has everything. Just don't spend all your money," Leah said to John, who had just whistled, after going up another floor. "Even if I take the share of your turnover, I will watch you starve to death."
"It's okay," John nonchalantly hooked his roommate Henry's shoulder, "Henry, just give me a bite of the leftovers."
"Go away," Henry pushed John away with disgust, "I won't even leave a bone for you."
"Don't stay on the first floor for too long," Leah wiped her nose with a handkerchief and stuffed it into her trouser pocket. She didn't care much about her clothes, just simple and easy-to-walk clothes, but her figure was well-shaped, which added a lot of charm to her. "When your sister Leah was a thug here, she couldn't stand the oxygenation on the first floor. Even if she stood guard for twelve hours at night, she would still be too excited to sleep when she returned."
"Don't worry, I prefer the upper floors where there are more beautiful women." John smiled obscenely, gestured goodbye and walked towards the elevator.
"Aren't you going?" Leah turned to ask Henry, her soft brown hair hanging down to her shoulders, her facial features still sharp, and the murderous aura that had lingered since she entered the industry, making her seem even more oppressive. But then a silver light flashed beside her shoulder, and Leah hurriedly reached out to support her. Her gesture was like that of a mother who was afraid that her child would get hurt, and the oppressive feeling she felt was immediately shattered.
Henry looked at the big sisters who looked so different when they saw their pet snakes, and couldn't help laughing. Then he pursed his lips and said seriously, "What if we get into a fight with Barrios tonight?"
"If a fight breaks out, what can you do alone?" Leah continued to walk forward, nodding from time to time to the brothers who worked here and had worked with her in the past. "We have to go to the big boss's manor tomorrow, so we can only fight tonight. No matter how much we fight normally, we still can't do anything rash tomorrow."
As soon as Leah said this, a group of people came towards her, some of whom were people Leah knew. They came over and first carried away Henry, who was out of condition and struggling frantically, and then made a gesture to Leah to invite him in.
"...Why do this?" Leah frowned. Not only was she not frightened by the scene, but she quickly took out her gun and held it in her palm. She said to her former colleague Alexander, "Do you want me to hand over my gun?"
"Oh, something happened recently, please bear with me," the leader Alexander pushed the gun back and said tactfully, "Go, Leah, the boss is waiting for you, it's okay."
Leah instantly thought of Maggie, who had told her before that she would contact the Piazza family on her own, but there was still a hint of anger on her face. She rolled her eyes, put the gun back into her pocket, and went to Condra Barrios' office alone under the gaze of several people behind her.
During those few steps, she thought about many things Maggie might have done and the reasons why Barrios connected her and Maggie together, and finally settled on the most obvious reason - face.
The Riddle brothers and sisters look alike, and you can tell at a glance that they are related. Barrios had met Della when he came here before. If Maggie came forward to contact her herself...
Poor her, she's in such trouble.
Leah pushed open the heavy door. Barrios was the only one in the office. He was sitting on the big sofa with his legs crossed, smoking a cigar. Opposite him, across a table from him, were cigarettes and alcohol prepared for Leah.
Leah, who had just entered the room, wrinkled her nose and sniffed the air a few times to confirm that she smelled a little fresh moisture from outside. She glanced around and saw a small window at the far end of the room that was opened for ventilation. The casino increases the oxygen concentration to make people physiologically excited and psychologically crazy, but people who run casinos know best the importance of staying calm in chaos.
"Why are you detaining my men?" Leah did not hide her anger and disgust. She walked over and sat down opposite Barrios, crossed her legs and lit a cigarette. "You want to kill me without asking for my permission?"
"I don't want to die that badly, Abend," Barrios and Leah exhaled cigarettes at the same time. In the smoke, he narrowed his eyes, which had drooping corners and looked a little fierce. "But do you want to die? How dare you expose my whereabouts to outsiders?"
"Come on," Leah waved her hand. The little white snake on her body, which she had spoiled, quietly slid to the table and licked the wine in the glass with its long tongue. "If you were really sure that it was me, you would have rushed into my house and shot me to death by now."
Barrios did not refute, but just smoked his cigar in silence. After discovering that his whereabouts were leaked, he made many attempts, but the man appeared in all the whereabouts that Leah might know and those that he alone knew.
"There's a man who knows my whereabouts exactly. He looks a lot like the girl who lived in your house," Barrios said, "but I can't find out any information about him. At least I could find out that the girl was an orphan. I only found out that his last name was also Riddle from the coffee cup he threw away."
Leah understood. Although Maggie's ostentatious face exposed him, his abilities were so outstanding that Barrios had no way to stop him.
"What do you mean by asking me to come here alone?" Leah asked, not noticing her little snake slithering off the table.
"I invited that man. He's coming over and will be invited in soon," Barrios put down his cigar and watched the small spark being extinguished. "The three of us will have a chat together, and then we'll know how many of us will be able to see the boss tomorrow."
If there are one or two, the living people will go and see them.
If there are three people, it means we have reached a cooperation.
"Okay," Leah took out her gun and knife and slammed them on the table. She was used to seeing life and death now, so she was used to death threats. "I don't know much about Della's brother, so I can't give you any information, but I won't betray my boss, and I'm willing to prove it, Barrios."
Barrios looked at Leah, curled his lips and nodded slightly, without refutation of Leah's words, "I know that few people would betray their boss."
“Besides—” Barrios pointed toward the small window, “your snake got away.”
"F*ck!" Leah's eyes widened as she watched the little snake halfway out of the window. She hurried over, cursing as she walked, "Did you see it a long time ago?"
Leah tried her best to catch up but still couldn't catch up. When she ran to the window, the little white snake fell in front of her. She immediately leaned half of her body out and watched the little white snake hit several wall ridges along the way and then fell on a girl.
Although she knew that the little white snake would be fine, after all, it was a magical creature that could still jump around after being shot in the face, Leah still felt uncomfortable.
"Hey! Please bring my snake in!" Leah called downstairs, but the girl below ignored her, and didn't care about the snake that suddenly fell on her body. Leah saw her moving forward with a trembling body, and seemed to be crying as she walked towards someone.
"My future lover is here," Barrios also walked to the bedside, glanced down and whistled, "Doesn't she look familiar? Sina Perea, you still support her cousin."
"Her father is here again?" Hina below disappeared from her sight. Leah turned to look at Barrios. It was a question, but there was no surprise on her face.
"He came on Halloween night. After all, the amount of money he had contributed to me before was enough to get a high-level membership card, which allowed him to receive regular small payments from us," Barrios said with a smile, "Now his debts have piled up to the point where he can't pay them back."
"..." Leah glanced again at the direction where Hina disappeared. She felt a little pity for this naive girl who was targeted, because she had already warned Hina, but she didn't listen. Leah would lend a helping hand many times, but she was also a person who respected the fate of others.
“Take care of my snake,” she finally said to Barrios.
What the two people upstairs didn't know was that when Hina discovered clues that her father was gambling again and desperately chased him to the casino, she ran into Maggie who was about to go in at the door.
"Sir, sir!" Xina never came to the casino after paying back her father. Although she ordered a cheap drink for herself on her 18th birthday in September to celebrate her coming of age, she was anxious to come here again. Her memory was still stuck in the past when she was rejected by the casino because she was underage. So Xina called out to the person closest to her at the casino entrance, "Please help me, take me in, I, I have to go in and take my dad out!"
It was the same voice as Ximena's. Maggie frowned subconsciously when he turned his head. After seeing the face that was exactly the same as Ximena's, with tears constantly flowing down, his brows were still frowned, but his mouth was slightly open, and his eyes were a little wider, revealing an expression of surprise that he had never shown in front of others.
Then, a small white snake fell from the sky and landed on Ximena's shoulder. When the small white snake, which seemed to be out of control, raised its head dazedly to observe the situation, Maggie felt that the surrounding environment had stagnated, as if time had stopped at this moment.
Then "Jimena" in front of him walked towards him crying, the evening breeze blew Maggie's scarf backwards, and time flowed again, but in his eyes, it flowed into the past.