Episode 75: Unsteady

Lea was feeling hot, tired and exasperated as she patiently waited in the long line for the airline ticket counter.  She looked behind her and now saw the line stretching well beyond the doors to the terminal building, there was definitely an air of panic in the air particularly with all of the military now pushing their way through the lines, sometimes leading people away...

She felt a tug at her arm and turning was confronted by an army officer demanding to see her passport, she fumbled as she tried to open her purse too quickly and it fell to the floor.  Feeling flustered she bent down and picked it, but standing too quickly felt light headed and wobbled unsteadily on her feet.

Given the obvious change in situation Alessio had returned to the airport in the hope of finding Lea, but it had taken him quite sometime because of the traffic choking all the roads to the airport.  He entered the terminal building into the sea of humanity and began scanning the lines to the ticket counters.  

Finally locating her in the crowd to tried to push his way through to her and as he neared noticed that an army officer was holding her elbow and sensing that something wasn't right he forcefully pushed his way through to her side.  

Lea breathed deeply as her momentary wooziness cleared, noting that the officer had grasped her elbow to steady her but not in a friendly way, it was this uneasy feeling that helped clear her head quickly.

After a couple of moments, she pulled her elbow from his grasp just a little too hard and handed him her passport, he began meticulously leafing through the pages, his eyes darting between the pages and her face as he sized her up...

Lea felt an arm go around her waist and turned quickly to find Alessio's handsome face inches from hers, she fell into his arms, hot tears began welling in her eyes...

Episode 74: The Yard

After Phuong's enlightening conversation with John he called the London office to see if they had heard from Lea.  No word, except that there were reports coming out of Bangkok that there was a military coup under way in Thailand.

Surely Lea can't be in Bangkok, she should have been here by now he thought as he tried to piece together the timeline.

He then put in a call to his old friend at Scotland Yard, Detective Inspector Craig Jarvis to see if he could locate her.

"Hello Craig, I need your help.  It's my niece Lea she's gone missing... 

Episode 73: Returning

The next morning Bill awoke early and reached for Mai's naked and beautiful form, he touched her in a way that made her body shiver with goosebumps before rolling her onto all fours and entering her dripping pussy from behind.  He grasped her hips and drove into her time and again at her urgent cries of pleasure, pulling her cheeks wide as his balls slapped at her ever hardening clit.

They collapsed on the bed under the overhead fan dripping from sweat, feeling totally spent Bill realized that this was the first day where he had initiated sex with Mai in the morning since his release from hospital, he could feel his strength returning finally.

He rolled onto one elbow and traced his finger along her beautiful cheek bone leaned in and kissed her passionately, Mai smiled and placing her arms around his neck held him tight.  

He was back she thought to herself...

At breakfast Bill was ravenous and ate more than he had touched in the entire time they been away, "I'm so glad to see you getting back to your old self darling" she said smiling with the double meaning playing on her lips.  They both laughed at this playful innuendo.  

We need to get back to Hanoi as soon as we can Bill said turning toward her, I need to talk to Lea and she should be there by now. 

Given their recent conversations Mai understood completely and asked for the concierge to be sent out to the terrace.  She would make all of the arrangements at once.  

Time was of the essence...

Episode 72: Strong Arm

Over the ensuing days after Anh's release she quickly exerted her influence and reclaimed the Chợ Đồng Xuân as her own.  Trung and his gang had been ruthless as she had ordered and quickly put down any opposition or dissension to the doubling of the monthly tribute after brutally making an example of one or two of the truculent stall keepers.  

She needed to find her equilibrium as she plotted her next move...however, as she pondered her options she discovered from Trung that the head of the Times newspaper had arrived into Hanoi.  Deep down she knew that this would be to her advantage...

Anh not heard from Mai, and rather than risk losing her forever she decided to not push her but rather to wait the Australian journalist out.  Surely they would recall him, especially given the trauma of recent events she thought smiling to herself. It was jut a matter of time now she thought 

And when he's gone Mai will come back to me...