Femme Fatale: The King's Deadly Temptress Chapter 232: Problems Over the Same Man

The Young Mansion was located in the northern area outside of Harbor City and it was more or less the sa as how Katherine rembered it would be when she was younger.

Her family hadn't lived in it as they had their own house in the suburbs, South East of Harbor City. However, they visited Chairman Young many tis before and seeing the whole place again made her feel nostalgic every ti.

The Young Estate was not as vast as the Park Estate as Katherine recalled the last ti she had dinner with Damien and Nana but the Youngs had a bigger mansion. The mory made her silently sigh, cursing herself for thinking about him again. It seed as though whatever she did, everything just reminded her of him.

She walked out of the mansion with Chairman Young next to her.

"Are you sure you don't want to stay? We have plenty of rooms and it would be really nice to have you here," he said.

Hooking her arm with his, Katherine felt guilty. "Sorry, Grandpa I'm just not ready to live in such a huge house like this. And I still have so things that I need to do While the place is really nice, it's just inconvenient for to travel back and forth."

Also, ever since news about her ca out, she had been anticipating attacks to co in left and right. She couldn't lure her enemies to the Young Estate.

"I see is this part of those things you said that you can't tell yet? You know for a number 5, this doesn't seem like one. Weren't you supposed to tell things and then I will keep it a secret for you? That's how it works as far as I could rember."

When she went to see her grandfather a few days ago, she had a hard ti telling him the things that were only on a "need to know" basis which wasn't a lot. It pained her that she couldn't be outright honest with him but it was the only way she knew to keep him safe. The less he knew, the better.

To keep things simple, Katherine told Chairman Young that she was working on a project that she couldn't tell him yet and that it was vital to keep so things regarding her identity under wraps.

To lessen her lies, she told her grandfather that her mories were still quite patchy and it might take her more ti in order to rember everything. He was very understanding and he no longer asked her details about her whereabouts. It was more important to him that she was back in his life.

"You just have to trust with this, Grandpa. I promise, when my project is done, I will tell you all about it." Katherine forced a smile. She would definitely tell her grandfather. As for when, she had no idea.

"Fine Even I live with secrets myself."

She gasped. "What secrets?"

"Aha! I won't tell you unless you tell yours," Chairman Young teased, a playful smile danced on his lips as they walked towards a car.

"Fair enough," Katherine mused.

"Always take care of yourself, pumpkin." He held her hands in his and squeezed them. "I expect to see you here after lunch tomorrow. Okay?"

"Always am." Katherine gave him a kiss on the cheek before she got in the backseat of the car that her grandfather's assistant Frank was driving.

She had to keep her profile low for now despite wanting to ride the motorcycle which was why Chairman Young insisted on driving her back and forth the city and the estate. When they arrived at the city center, it was already six in the evening. The sun had set and the sky started to darken.

"Frank, can you stop here? There are so things that I need to take care of." Katherine waited for the car to stop and when she got off, she went straight to a very crowded area.

As usual, she was wearing dark-colored casual clothes and she blended in the crowd quite easily. In a very subtle manner, she looked around, trying to see if soone was following her but didn't find any.

Katherine didn't want to risk it, so she circled around in random directions while pretending to shop around just to get the feel of the place. When she was sure that no one was watching her, she entered an alley and opened a backdoor to a building that led to her apartnt on the top floor.

When she arrived at her place, Styles was busy with his computer while Alia was nowhere in sight.

"You're alone?" she asked, sliding into the seat next to him.

"Yeah, Falcon's scouting the periter of the venue tomorrow. How are you? Are you nervous?" Styles stopped his work and glanced at her.

Katherine revealed a half smile and just as she was about to answer, Alia entered the apartnt, her eyes looking almost like Damien's except softer.

"You look stressed," Alia placed so paper bags on the table that contained their dinner for the evening.

"My grandfather invited Damien tomorrow," Katherine blurted. She even surprised herself that she ntioned it right away.

Alia's hands paused from taking out the contents but she recovered quickly. "I see. Will that be a problem for you?"

Katherine swallowed before answering. "No, will it be for you?"

"No."

"Good."

Nodding, Alia concluded, "So there will be no problems then."

Half lies... But they didn't need to talk about it.

The two won were not exactly chummy but they were quite civil. Because of their strange connections with each other, they decided to just focus on the sa goal so that they could work efficiently.

Styles, who already started eating his food, shifted his gaze from one woman to the other. "Okay" he said hesitantly. For a person who was only watching the won on the sidelines, he found the pair interesting. They had problems over the sa man.

"Anything on Shadow?" Katherine turned to Styles, trying to change the subject so she didn't have to deal with how awkward it was just now.

Snapping his fingers, Styles quickly typed on his laptop and showed his screen. "Oh, check who I found"

Katherine and Alia leaned forward and studied the photos, zooming in to see a clear view of the person.

As soon as the pixels softened and the picture beca clearer, Katherine knitted her brows. "Looks like I'll be expecting Chris tomorrow," she said as she stared at the photo of him inside a car crossing the state and passing through a toll gate.

Katherine felt a mixture of excitent and anxiousness. She'll be seeing Chris soon and she didn't know whether to strangle him... or strangle him.

Alia placed a hand on Katherine's shoulder, slightly squeezing as she reminded her, "We need him alive."

Without removing her gaze on the screen, Katherine revealed an evil smirk and her eyes darkened as she hissed, "Believe I need him alive for all the things I plan to do to him."