Daniella bit her lips, a bit guilty for using him before and now.
Then, the chief of police emerged from the kitchen, Daniella didn't waste any time and shook his hand while her eyes were focused at his.
She saw his memory, from his wife to his kids and then work.
She beamed happily, she finally found where he was hiding his money. She could see that he has money abroad, but he didn't want to use it to pay Evan.
'Aish! This gambler!' she said in her mind.
She withdrew her hand, took her phone out and went to the bank where the chief was hiding his money.
"Dear, can you get me a water?" she asked sweetly to Marlon.
The man who was smiling like a happy dog nodded and left hurriedly. Daniella went to the bank website and typed his email.
"Put your password on, transfer the money you owe to the Su Bank and we will be out of your hair."
The chief was dumbfounded; he hasn't greeted her neither the man next to her though he looked quite familiar to his eyes.
He switched his eyes between the two, "who are you?" he asked them.
Ken pursed his lips while Daniella smiled, "This is Evan Su's friend," she said pointing a finger at Ken, "and I am his girlfriend and we are here to collect his money."
The man shook his head in disbelief, "I thought you were my son's-" he paused while his face flashed a confused look, "I don't have money to pay him."
Daniella rolled her eyes, she input his password onto the website and transferred the amount, then she looked at him, "you will receive a call from the bank, I will need you to confirm the transfer," what she did was nothing short of supernatural, she's been doing it for years. At first, it was hard but now, threatening people to get what she wants was as easy as breathing.
"No, I will never do that!" his tone was firm but it could not hide the shock and fear in his face.
"Look chief, you can either confirm it or I will take all the money from your account, and we both know you won't be able to report it since it's not clean money."
The chief's face went pale, he gulped hard repeatedly until his mouth felt dry.
"Are you threatening me in my own house!" anger has reddened his face; he took a step closer but Ken stopped him by placing a hand on his shoulder.
"Just do what she wants and we will leave," he still wondered how did Daniella found out about the Chief of Police bank details given that she just found out about the debt a few hours ago.
The chief of police shook his head, and his shoulder jumped tensely when his phone rang.
"Answer it," Daniella said in a low but gentle voice, one could mistake it for an angel voice but the message she conveyed and her method resembled a tricky demon.
With his hand shaking anxiously, the chief answered the call. His ear irked to hear that amount; it was almost the same amount of what he has in the account.
"Yes, I confirm it," he said after confirming the authentication.
Then he put the phone down while his eyes became puffy and red, "happy?" he said in a dispirited tone.
Daniella beamed happily, "yes," with a triumph smile on her lips, she leaned closer to Ken, "Let's go, the market opens at 4am."
Instead of replying, Ken turned around to leave, Daniella tailed him leaving the chief with his shoulder slumped in defeat.
"Dad, where is Daisy?" Marlon asked holding the glass.
"Gone," he said and walked towards the door, he couldn't tell him what happened as the money was indeed not clean.
The chief went to the garden and released all the pit bulls from the cage, he squatted and let the dog smell his hand which still has the extraordinary vanilla scent of the woman who robbed him.
The dog started to bark aggressively; it was so loud that all the neighbors who were living a bit far could hear it as well.
Then, the dogs ran and followed the scent which was leading towards the gate.
On the other side, Daniella heard growling sound as they approached the gate, she turned around only to find four Pitbull angrily glaring at them, their mouths were opened wide as if they were prepared to devour them.
She gulped hard and reached for Ken's wrist, she held it tightly while sweat formed in big pieces on her forehead.
She gulped hard; Ken's face had turned pale after noticing the dogs.
"What- are they planning to attack us?" Daniella asked in a shaky voice. They took a few steps back until their body hit the metal gate while the dogs moved forward slowly.
Daniella looked past the dog and found the chief grinning at them.
"Can you take your dog?" she asked even though the man looked like he released the dogs on purpose
"You trespassed my property, and my dogs are trained to attack the trespassers," and with that, the chief turned around and strode towards the house.
Daniella discreetly poked Ken's arm, she's afraid that any rush movement would make the dogs attack them.
"You want to get a dog, right? Why don't you try to distract them while I escape?"
Ken's eyebrows creased upon hearing it, with disbelief he turned to her, "are you crazy? You're going to leave me here?"
Daniella scoffed, "hey! if you remember, you saw me drowning and you didn't save me, now it's your time to redeem yourself."
Ken went silent, she has a point, he let her drown but he knows to himself that he also tried to save her even though it was too late.
"Aren't you a doctor? Why don't you do something to calm down those dogs?"
The shock made Daniella's lips to part, she was speechless for a moment, "I am a surgeon, not a dog whisperer alright?"
Ken sighed, the dogs were staring at them furiously, when he saw that one of them suddenly took a step forward, he quickly grabbed Daniella's wrist and carried her to his shoulder like a sack of rice while his feet hastened to leave the gate.
He ran so fast that he didn't care about the person he's carrying, he thought she would be light given that she's smaller than him but Daniella seemed to have a weight of Evan, she's heavy but the dogs chasing them didn't want to stop and are determined to devour them.
When they reached the car, Ken put Daniella down and opened the driver seat, she was standing in front of him, he didn't know why but a part of him wanted to protect her. He was about to push her inside when Daniella bent and quickly walked past him.
His eyes widened when Daniella suddenly pushed him inside the driver seat and then closed the door, he looked outside through the window and saw two dogs who suddenly bit her legs but despite her hard condition, she was able to open the door of the backseat and used it to hit the dogs who had their teeth stabbed on her leg.
"Drive!" Daniella shouted as she kicked the dogs with her other leg. Ken drove away when the dogs had finally let go.
"You! stupid damn woman!" he cursed while pumping his palms on the steering wheels.
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