Am I Hearing Jealousy Here?

"Are you finally gonna ask a favor?" Luke smiled and asked after remembering their first team up.

"I really don't have that much time, could you send me all the files regarding Mario Barbers and his whole family. If there are cases related to them and such."

Luke whistled upon hearing the seriousness in the voice on the phone. Pianist had always been playful around them but this time, it seems that someone have crossed his bottom line.

"Don't worry, I'll investigate those matters myself, I just don't have that much time so I needed your help."

Luke laughed, this person was so sure when he made a deal with them, but when asking for the favor he still chose to be the one asking the favor.

And not them doing him a favor.

"Don't worry, those cases became cold due to the fact that Barbers family are quite connected to Cooper Empire, sometimes Cooper would even step up for them."

Luke shook his head in disapproval. He really hates how sometimes those royal families throw their weights.

"Well, he might suddenly disappear though."

"Hey you said you'll follow the law. I never forgot that."

"I'll follow it if the people I'm after does the same."

"Pianist, I can't give you the info if that is the case."

"Sir, I can take it myself if you don't give it to me. Would you be able to hunt me down then?"

Amber was leaning on her motorbike as she spoke losing more and more emotions.

"Don't worry, I am fully aware that their sins are grave enough and if I am not mistaken the last death connected to them was of the name, Carl Foster, right?"

"Are you perhaps connected to that person?"

"Who knows, I might be connected to someone else, someone from the past?"

Luke instantly remembered that she had disappeared for three years.

'Could it be because of Mario Barbers?'

With that answer she was able to stir Luke Edwards thoughts away from her connection to Carl.

"Well, I guess this is where I would say that I have no other choice. I'll check it up and send you within the day."

"Thanks."

With that she hang up. Luke could only sigh in defeat as he started his work.

"What happened?" a colleague asked upon seeing him sigh.

He was still excited when he first saw the caller.

"Nothing. Get back to work."

'I guess ten years is very long, it seems he have seen quite a lot for him to change into the person he was today.'

*****

Amber removed her cap and threw it in her backpack before putting on her helmet.

She drove back to a small apartment she had rented, she was not planning on staying there.

But no one still knows that she had come. Even Ashley who called her.

Just as she have arrived and closed the door, a call came through her real phone.

'Having too many phones are quite difficult,' she mused before looking at the caller.

'I guess this is where I'd say that I expected this already?'

"Hel-"

"Why didn't you tell us?"

Her voice was cut short by the caller.

"You do know why I came earlier than expected. And you do understand that since I am doing it, I still don't want them to know that I have come right?"

"Tsk, and if the guards didn't tell me you wouldn't tell me either."

"*chuckles* Sir-"

"Grandfather."

Her eyebrows twitched, before sighing in defeat, "Grandfather, I know the guards will tell you so I didn't inform you."

Gideon felt much better after hearing her call him grandfather.

"Well what are you planning then? You should be coming in a month. But ended up coming too early."

"Carl, became a good brother to me. Plus I already told you, if Ashton were to experience it again he would surely turn for the worst."

Gideon pursed his lips, he felt like he was being berated somehow.

"Yet here we are, I've heard from Ashley that no one could talk to him. He had locked himself up in his office."

"Well, you see..."

"I'll finish this as soon as possible and get back at them, for now, do please watch over him. He might suddenly do something quite stupid."

"I understand- wait, why are you the one giving me instructions? I am older here."

"Yes yes grandfather, you are older but you didn't watch over your grandson properly. You wanted him to be able to learn from his own falls, that is why you left him alone in that company."

"But, you should still have backed him up when the problem regarding illegal possession and shipment was suddenly thrown at them."

"Carl was a good fighter but he still ended up dying during the raid of the police. If I am not mistaken, it was not among the police who killed him."

"He was killed by an outsider who tipped the police about the illegal shipments and possession."

"With all these development and the way Ashton and the others were careful enough, surely this plan of sabotaging them have been going on for quite a while now, maybe years?"

"Well, sometimes weapon dealing are very risky. If it was me, I wouldn't have been able to actually make it big with it before falling. I am amazed they still reached almost ten years."

"And if it was not for a mole within them, then the company would really become really big."

Gideon was shock to listen to her, she was able to piece this informations together?

The incident happened a week ago, Ashton and the other's company are still under investigation.

"You really are like your father," he couldn't help but comment.

"In reality before locking himself up he declared something."

Amber waited.

"If a law abiding weapon dealer company could still be trampled just like that. If the country does not want such improvements in their weapons. Then so be it."

"Everything shall go in the underworld."

Amber laughed, "Oh, then let him be. With the way he turned after his fragile heart was stepped on over and over again. The underworld suites him better, he can unleash everything over there."

Gideon was rendered speechless. It seems that these two are really quite compatible.

Instead of wanting to stop him, Amber actually supports him.

"For a woman to say that a man has a fragile heart," he laughed.

"He was sheltered after all. He may be smart and have seen quite a lot. But Wright Empire was the most upright empire within the world."

"There's not much of inside conflicts and it already came from all of you. He was a warm child, no wonder he could fall for a receptionist."

"Hoho, am I hearing jealousy here?"

"No, I have no plans on falling in love with someone who still couldn't let go of his past."

Gideon could only clear his throat.

Indeed with a loving environment, Ashton grew up to have not experience the most cruel things in the world.

His coldness just came about after what had happened to his first love. And his current bloodlust was because Carl have just died.

It took him a year before he finally started speaking to them after what happened to Madison.

Gideon couldn't help but wonder how will he cope up with what had happened to Carl.

They were together for more than ten years and Carl became a bestfriend and elder brother to Ashton.

"Anyway, leave Barbers to me. I'll make sure that he will pay for what he had done. An eye for an eye."

Gideon decided to trust her with this, as compared to Ashton who was more prone to blood shed. It seems that Amber was more on the rational side.

That night, Amber received another call from Luke Edwards.

"I have sent all the cases connected to them. Mario's wife was the most direct, she was accused of murder but without much evidence, she was freed."

"Can you check all the acquaintances surrounding Jacob Barbers? Those who he met continuously and those he met once in a while."

"Wow, is this a full blown investigation now? Since when?"

"For the past 8 years."

"That's quite long. You would need to hire a private investigator with that."

"Aren't you the police? There should be a lot of investigators within you. I'll just pay for everything but I need the best."

"Say don't you have any friends?"

"If I have would I still ask you for this? I need someone I can trust fully."

With that the call ended.

Amber was just new in Celestial Country, so her best option is the police force close to Luke Edwards.

Luke, on the other side laughed. He then went up to the Police Chief, Lucas Marshall.

The same one from ten years ago.

"Sir, someone wants the best private investigator."

"Why are you telling me that?" Lucas asked in confusion.

Compared to Luke who was in his late thirties, with black clean cut hair and brown eyes.

Lucas was already in his late fifties. A part of his hair was already white but his body was still as fit as the past.

"It's because Pianist was the one who needed it."

Lucas's eyes grew wide, "He had finally called?"

"Yup but it seems that he is currently going after Mario Barbers and his son. Said he was willing to pay."

Lucas rubbed his chin in thought, "Well, since it was not someone among the police force, we are not truly going against the Cooper Empire."

He then nodded, "Go and task Ethan to do what he needed."

Lucas was still grateful towards the Pianist after all. For all those cases years ago.

He remained in his position because of that.

Luke smiled and salute him. Ethan was the best in the who police force.