Red Entaries

9 Taklamakan Desert

Joanna was notified of Trevor's survival.

Joanna was on vacation when the horrific night went on, she couldn't bear to see Trevor killed. It was more than luck that got Trevor through the horror of last night. Joanna arrived at Mercy Hospital and began to talk to Trevor after he was released from intensive care. Trevor began to wonder, can she be trusted? Will she not strangle me in my sleep?

"I'm glad you're safe," Joanna said.

"Didn't you say you weren't coming back?" Trevor responded, ignoring Joanna as he received a call from Eddy with his phone-unit. Eddy clarified there were differences between Joanna and his secretary among other things. He even ignored Joanna's apology:

"I'm sorry Trevor, I'm sorry I ever walked out on you. Can we ever get back to the way things were? You know, like on our date."

Joanna stepped back as Trevor sat up in a rage. "Why didn't you ever tell me you had a twin sister—? And that you work as a FBI agent—? Is your real name not Joanna—?"

Joanna opened her mouth in astonishment.

"That the only reason you came back to me is because I'm not dead. Eddy told me about the whole thing just now and how other companies are being blackmailed, and mine is next. He believes, Lorena, um, I mean Joanna, that you are trying to protect me," Trevor was fumed and his feelings were rightly hurt. "I noticed your personality is different, Lorena was more carefree, but you're more mature, which is what I like about you."

"If you're not going to hurt me, then the cat is out of the bag,"Joanna mumbled to herself.

"Trevor, I like you too, but, I don't know what you're talking about, I'm Lorena," Joanna said, trying one last time to hold her cover.

"Fine," Trevor said, "if you don't tell me the truth right now, it's over, you'll never see me again."

Joanna walked away in the corner of the patient's room and began to fiddle with her phone-unit.

"Okay boss, Joanna said, after a quiet conversation. "I'll tell him."

"Listen Trevor," Joanna came over the patient's bed, "things got too personal between me and you, I just wanted to blackmail you, not harden your heart too. Now Laura Rains is a nice girl, you can date her, but, I want you to pay the blackmail, twenty-five billion, what the other companies on the asteroid auction list have paid, then you can get out of my hair if that's what you want." Joanna smiled cleanly.

"Yes, I'm an FBI agent, but, you can't tell no one, or you'll jeopardize the case ," Joanna said evenly. "This thing is bigger than our relationship Trevor. Now, the Mob is coming for both of us and we're dead if I can't pull this blackmail ruse off." Joanna fumed when Trevor was playing with his phone-unit:

"This is my only chance to catch the man in the act who is behind it all. I used to work for his syndicate, but, I drifted from that lifestyle a decade ago."

"I'm sorry that I tried to sleep with you, to blackmail you, to state you had prostitutes." Joanna calmed down.

"So, that's why you wanted to sleep with me," Trevor said, "So you can wreck my reputation that I slept with a prostitute, and, you were going to ruin me feeding it to the media folk If I didn't pay the twenty-five."

"Get lost!" Trevor hid his head under his pillow, "I never want to see you again Joanna."

Joanna ignored Trevor as she released her phone-unit. She picked it back up."Okay, I'll give him time," She looked drawn-out-weeping, "and if the chairman doesn't pay the ransom boss?"