Rowena Roman

Chapter 6 Mei: Part 06 (Beta)

Mei sat in a booth across from Lao while she kept glaring at Diana who came from behind the bar of the coffee shop and brought two cups of hot coffee. The smell would have delighted her had it not been for the fact of who brought it to her.

"What the hell are you doing here?" she demanded when Diana served them.

Diana looked at Mei with a questioning stare, as if her expression said the reason. "Severing you coffee?"

"That's not what I meant, why are you..."

"Diana!" Han called from the kitchen entrance by the bar. "Stove's ready to use now."

"Thank you Han," she looked back to Mei, unphased by her glare. "I'll be right back, take your time with your drinks."

"Thanks," Lao said in response as he took a sip from the mug that had been offered before speaking softly to Mei. "So that's her then, the girl who broke into your apartment?"

"It is," she said not even touching the drink as she stared at Diana through the kitchen window. "I can't understand why she's here though. Three weeks go by and I think I won't have to ever see her again and yet here she is. I don't like it, she's up to something."

"You wouldn't be the first to think that," the owner named Han came to them as he gave a pleasant smile. "What'd she do this time?"

This time? "She broke into my apartment and rifled through all of my case files."

Han burst into laughter startling the two. "That sounds like something Diana would do. Though all within good reason, she wouldn't steal any belongings or of that nature if anything it was probably for whatever was in your files and nothing more."

"It sounds like..." Lao paused and frowned at the man. "Wait, do you know her?"

He shook his head. "Not personally no."

The two gave each other a questioning look before Lao looked back at the man and spoke. "Then why did you say it sounded like her? And why let her use your kitchen at such an ungodly time of day if you don't know her all that well?"

"Oh I know her, but like I said it's not on a personal level. About two weeks ago or so these thugs show up and attempt to trash the place because I wouldn't let them sell drugs in here. Then out of nowhere this girl shows up and apprehends them. It was five against one, she didn't even back off when one of them pull a gun on her."

"She didn't get shot did she?" Lao asked with genuine concern.

Han shook his head. "The man didn't even get a chance too. She stopped him before he could do anything. She went and hooked her foot along his ankle as she pushed the man back with her left hand and then grabbed the gun with her right. By the time the lad was on the ground she was the one who had them at gunpoint. Of course they still thought that they could handle her but that changed when she shot one of them in the knee. They ran taking their injured friend to a hospital. And ever since then they haven't been back since."

Mei frowned at this; she could understand if one of them couldn't because of being shot in the knee but not the others, logically speaking they would have come back for revenge if they were in some type of gang. Normally by torching the place with anyone who happened to still be inside of the building.

So the fact that these hoodlums hadn't done anything since was a bit of a surprise. "Why haven't they come back then? Wouldn't they attempt again with even stronger force if they failed the first time?"

Han demeanor changed to a slight nervousness. "I know I shouldn't tell you but let's say hypothetically, this place is supposed to be immune from things like this ever since the Sun Yee On came and over took this territory ten years ago. It used to be under the control of another triad group, but that was all taken care of in secrecy, so other than the shop keepers and a select few no one else knew."