Chapter VII: Looting
Hot water sprayed onto Angel's snow-colored skin, flowing over the curves of her mesmerizing body.
She faced the current, closed her eyes, and tried not to think about what was about to happen soon.
But it still happens, and it happens almost every night.
Tonight's guest was the type she hated - ugly, fat, rude, and treated her badly.
In just the few minutes he had walked into the room and into the bathroom, the man had already made a very bad impression on Angel.
She doesn't expect any respect for herself, but she is also a human being, and she also has feelings; She just hoped that people who treated her as an object or an animal would at least not show it on their faces, and that she would feel better even if it was for the occasion.
......The water stopped, and Angel pressed her hand on her towering chest and took a deep breath.
She wrapped herself in a towel and told herself that it was just another normal night...... Don't expect anything, don't reveal any real feelings, go out and do what she has to do, then take the money and go home, it's as simple as that.
After a few seconds, she adjusted her mood. Her professional "business smile" instantly appeared on her face, and then, wrapped in a bath towel, she opened the bathroom door and walked into the bedroom outside.
"You've been washing long enough."
In the bedroom, Angel was waiting for this sentence.
But this sentence did not come from the mouth of her guest tonight...... Because her guests were now gone.
There was another person in the room, someone Angel had only met the previous night.
"You...... You ...... you" The expression on Angel's face collapsed in a second, she stared at Jack who was standing against the wall with wide eyes, muttered incoherently a few times, and then reached out and pinched her arm, "Ouch! It's not a dream! ”
Jack didn't complain about her actions, but said calmly: "Where's your phone?" ”
"Wait!" Angel looked at him, "Tell me first, where is my guest?" ”
"In the closet." Jack's response was succinct and to the point.
"Huh?" Angel was stunned, "What is he doing in the closet?" ”
"I put him in there." Jack's answer was still succinct.
When Angel heard this, she suddenly thought of something: "Slow down...... The wardrobe is so small, he's so fat......" Thinking of this, she took a half step back, squinted at Jack, and said, "I said...... He's still alive, right? ”
"Probably." Jack's answer...... Well...... You get the idea.
"What do you mean? Who the hell are you? What do you want to do? Angel said loudly.
"There are some things that I need your help with." Jack's tone didn't change in response to the other person's reaction, "Earlier, the phone you used when the person who asked you to 'serve me' contacted you...... It should still be there, right? As he spoke, he gestured with his eyes to Angel's bag on the bedside table, "I just looked at it, and the one you brought today doesn't seem to be ......"
"What! Did you rummage through my bag? Angel didn't even hear him finish, so she stepped forward, opened her satchel, and quickly checked it.
It didn't take long for her expression to soften, for her things were still there.
"So......" Jack said when he saw that she was almost flipping through, "...... that phone of yours."
"It's in my house." Angel replied angrily and closed her bag.
"So...... Do you take a different phone with you when you go out every day? Jack asked again.
"Of course." Angel replied, "The phone rang while I was working, what an amateur." ”
Jack didn't answer the stubble, but was silent for two seconds, and then said, "Put on your clothes." ”
"What are you doing?" Angel asked.
"I'm going to your house." Jack replied.
"Hey...... Mr. Rose. Angel raised her voice and said, "Do you understand the rules of our business?" How could I take a man back to my house? Besides, I don't even know your name. ”
"If the name 'Angel' is as true as the gun I have on me, then we still have a conversation on this topic." Jack replied coldly, "Now, before I lose my patience, get dressed." ”
Hearing this, Angel's face also sank.
Jack is right, like "Mr. Rose", "Angel" is a fake name.
Dealing only with people who have interests with her every day makes her almost forget about before she became "Angel...... Who you really are. But when talking to Jack, she doesn't have to act, because Jack doesn't need her to play and isn't her guest.
Perhaps because of this, every time Jack uses words to pierce the window paper and pull it back to reality, she feels extremely lost.
"I'm wearing it, I'm wearing it, I'm wearing it, I'm wearing it, I'm wearing it, I'm wearing Two seconds later, Angel stood in front of Jack, ripped off the bath towel on her body, and then glared at Jack with an angry expression, while putting clothes on her body, and cursing in her mouth, "Neurotic, everyone lets you take it off, and I want to call it alone." ”
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Fifteen minutes later, Jack was in Angel's car.
The car she drives is ordinary, reliable but unobtrusive; It can be said that ...... And it doesn't fit in with her.
For a woman like Angel, the first thing people think of when they see her is luxury cars, villas, all kinds of luxury goods, and a big-shouldered and round-waisted nouveau riche walking on the red carpet with her waist around her waist.
But Angel doesn't have those, she is very low-key after "work".
She drove an ordinary car and wore conservative, cheap clothes; She usually wears sunglasses and a cap to eat at cheap restaurants; Except for cosmetics, her other daily necessities are sold at reduced prices in the supermarket...... Compared with when she was "working", she was like two people in life.
However, the neighborhood she lives in is not bad, it is considered a middle-class territory, the security is very good, and her family is also independent. After all...... She herself is considered a "luxury", and it is too dangerous to go in and out of the unsafe area all day.
"Can you duck down? Mr. Rose. As she was about to drive into her neighborhood, Angel said to Jack.
Along the way, the two of them barely spoke, so at this moment, she suddenly made a request to Jack, which surprised Jack.
"I don't want my neighbors to see me taking men home in the middle of the night and chewing my tongue everywhere." Seeing that Jack didn't move, Angel added.
If it was the Jack from four years ago, he wouldn't have paid attention to the other party at all, but now Jack ...... After thinking about it for a few seconds, he slid off the passenger seat and curled up beside Angel's lap.
"None of your neighbors know about your profession?" Jack asked casually after hiding.
"Of course not." Angel replied, "If anyone knew what I was doing, I'd have to move out...... I had been recognized in my former place, and within a week the women had started throwing garbage on my lawn, the men had created all sorts of opportunities to harass me, and there were even three or five people who had tried to break into my house during the day, and I don't know what would have happened if I hadn't found out in time and ran through the back door......" She said these words with a calm look, as if she was used to this kind of thing, or even worse, "We do what we do, once it is known, That doesn't even count as a person in the eyes of others, even if I am raped first and then killed one day, in the eyes of those so-called serious people, it is deserved and taken for granted, and some people will even feel happy......" She paused again, "So...... I'm more careful now than the ones who live around me...... Middle-class couples who are usually sanctimonious, but in fact roosters and dogs, mess with male and female relationships, and are extremely boring, should be much more careful, after all...... It's a hassle to find a house again. ”
By the time she said this, her car had already driven into her garage, and when the garage door slowly closed, Jack leaned out and got out of the car.
"When I find out what I want, I'll leave without anyone finding out." Jack said as he closed the car door.
"I wasn't going to send you either." Angel turned off the engine and got out of the car, and replied weakly, "I don't want to have anything to do with you anymore." ”
The two quickly walked through the door between the garage and the house and entered Angel's home.
It is a typical community house with two floors, the first floor is the kitchen, living room and toilet, and the second floor is the living room.
The moment she touched the light switch, Angel was dumbfounded.
She instinctively opened her mouth to scream, but Jack pulled her in front of her and covered her mouth.
"Don't make a sound." Jack lowered his voice and whispered these three words in Angel's ear as his piercing gaze scanned the tumbled room in front of him, and his hearing extended to explore the spaces around him that had not yet come into view.
The two stood silently in silence for a minute, and after a minute, Jack let go of his hand: "No one is here, the intruder should have left." ”
Angel, who had broken out of his arms, didn't say a word, and ran upstairs in a panic, straight to her room.
Jack didn't rush to follow, he probed on the first floor again, and after confirming the route and method of entry and exit of the intruders, he went up to the second floor.
Angel's bedroom was warmly decorated, with a kind of innocence and delicacy that did not match her age, and even though the room had been turned upside down at the moment, it was still possible to see the owner's intentions.
"Shhh...... Uh-huh......"
Angel was sitting on her knees on the floor sobbing when Jack entered, with a medium-sized storage box in front of her.
Judging from the situation at the scene, the box was originally hidden under the floor under the wardrobe, but at this moment the floor has been pried open, and the contents of the box are gone; All that remains, there are only a few photo frames that have been smashed, as well as ...... A rose wrapped in plastic paper.
"Lost your phone?" Jack's first reaction was this.
Unexpectedly, in the next second, Angel turned around like thunder and pounced on Jack: "What the hell is a mobile phone!" My money! My savings! It's all gone! Gone! ”
She tugged at Jack's clothes and roared hysterically, tears pouring out of her eyes that had washed away the makeup on her face, and her beautiful face was distorted with extreme sadness.
After this brief outburst, she went limp again weakly and slowly.
Her body trembled uncontrollably.
She hid her face with her hands in her face, and her crying was mixed with indistinct self-talk: "It's almost ...... As long as I save up for a few more months...... Woo...... That's it...... Cough...... You can pay it off...... I don't have to ...... anymore ...... again"
Jack, don't want to hear her story.
But at this moment, he had heard, seen, and felt.
No personal involvement, no self-persuasion, no more questioning, not much talk – this is what Jack has always adhered to in the past.
But today, he asked......
"Who do you owe money?" Jack's voice was still as cold and unkind.
"What does this have to do with you!" Angel yelled, "I don't have what you want!" Why are you still here? It's my business! There you go! Roll as far as you want! ”
She yelled and shoved and thrashed Jack.
She doesn't need Jack's help because she doesn't believe the other person will help her.
There was also a man who had claimed to help Angel, but after gaining her trust, he took all her savings and disappeared.
People will grow, they will remember when they hurt, and they will change when they remember, so after that, Angel no longer trusts any man.
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Jack is gone, at least ostensibly gone.
He didn't really go far because he didn't want to see Angel hang himself by cutting his wrists or something after he was gone.
He hid in the shadows and listened to the sound of the woman silently packing up her things at home.
He could hear her sobbing, he could hear her tears dripping onto the floor, but he couldn't do anything.
Not only does he not save people, but he also does not comfort people.
Of course, Jack doesn't know how to do anything...... While listening, he was also thinking.
"Judging by the traces of the scene, it was no more than two hours after the incident......
"And judging from the method of invasion and the strong purpose of the search, it is by no means an ordinary empty door.
"Assuming that Angel's men were hired to destroy the evidence, they would have arrived a little too late...... Since they knew her identity from the beginning, there was no reason to spare more than one day; In the twenty-four hours before, they had the opportunity to do this...... Moreover, even the use of 'praying mantis' shows that they don't care about her life or death, and it is better to destroy the evidence while they are in the daytime.
"So...... Is it really Gallo's people who did it?
"Just last night, after I met with Gallo's people at the hospital, until the wee hours of the morning...... Somehow they learned of Angel's clue, and immediately found her address and sent someone over; Angel happened to be absent, so the group searched her house and left after finding her phone.
"There's also ...... such thing as 'taking the target's savings with your hands', which is also like what Gallo's people would do......"
After clearing his thoughts, he infiltrated Angel's house again.
He "didn't knock on the door", in addition to trying to save trouble, he was also afraid that the neighbors would be alarmed in the middle of the night.
"What are you doing again?" When she saw Jack, Angel wiped away her tears and looked up and asked.
At this time, Angel has calmed down, and she is undoubtedly a person who can adjust her emotions very well, otherwise she would not have survived at all.
"I'll get back what you've been robbed of." Jack's tone was still as cold, but it also revealed a sense of reliability, "Until then...... I hope you don't do anything impulsive. ”
"Huh?" Angel almost blurted out, "Get it back?" Where to find it? Liars don't make drafts. ”
"What do you have left, it's worth my deception......" Jack is also very logical and to the point.
"I ......" Angel thought about it, except for the little money she carried with her, but she was destitute, and the house was also rented, and she didn't know where the rent was next month, "I ......" she quickly became angry, "Why not?" As she spoke, she split her legs slightly, crossed her hands on her hips, and posed as a model standing on the platform.
That posture seems to be telling Jack with body language: "Just Chong Sister is beautiful, smooth, and good at work, why is there no value in cheating?" ”
"Looks like you've calmed down, I'm leaving." Jack didn't comment on Angel's actions, just said a few words and turned to leave.
He really doesn't need to say anything, if he wants Angel as a "person", he would have countless opportunities to take it, so why deceive.
"Eh~ you wait......" Angel seemed to say a few more words to him, but Jack was like a superhero in Gotham City, saying that he would disappear and disappear.
"Cut ......" Looking at the empty corridor, Angel raised her hand again to wipe the tears from the corners of her eyes, and stood there alone and read, "Crazy man...... you don't want 'people', and you still want 'heart' to be successful?" ”