Jackpot

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After her run-in with Li Feng, Millie was more cautious with her surveillance. It didn’t matter where Li Feng was right then: Millie knew she would be at the movie premiere that evening. Millie’s first idea was to gather the U.S. delegates and put them on a bus to the movie premiere so they could grab Li Feng and have her tell them everything she knew about Arrow’s plans and what he had asked her to do. Millie had a lot of circumstantial evidence gathered from her sources in Macau and within Arrow’s operation, but the last piece she needed was Li Feng, on the record, saying that Arrow was bribing her to lie to Congress about her family’s company.

That plan hadn’t worked because no one was taking her calls anymore now that the testimony was off. She wasted too much precious time trying to pull that together, and now her only option was to go to the premiere herself and try to talk to Li Feng one more time.

The car that picked Li Feng up was not as fancy as she’d hoped, but she got in anyway and heard the thunk of the locks before she noticed Arrow sitting in the front passenger seat. She tried to escape, but the door wouldn’t budge.

“We’re here to keep you safe,” Arrow said. “And we brought you a new dress.”

Arrow handed her the dress they’d picked up from the boutique back to her.

“You can change in the car. We won’t look.”

She hesitated, but as the car pulled away from the pawnshop, she started undressing.

“What are you going to do to me?”

“What I promised. You’ll get to see Sonny Ma killed, and then we’ll escort you to the airport with your new identity and send you off on your new future in the U.S.”

“Really?” She remained unconvinced.

“If I wanted you dead, you’d be in the trunk of this car instead of the back seat,” Arrow said.