As soon as Tina finished speaking, both Jared and the driver, Hayden, were momentarily stunned.


    Hayden quickly asked, “Serena, what does this organization do?”


    He knew about those things concerning Vivienne but this was the first he’d heard of this organization.


    “It’s simr to Ice me. They take on various tasks on behalf of their clients, like finding people or things,” she exined. “Originally, Liliosa had asked CK to find her biological daughter, but CK declined the task.”This is property ? of N?velDrama.Org.


    “However, there’s no line CK won’t cross if the price is right. They even engage in human trafficking, like this time when Vivienne helped Mr. White hide Elsa. Vivienne said it was her first time, but it certainly wasn’t CK’s.”


    Hayden realized, “So the baby trafficking cases before were also CK’s doing.”


    “Yes,” Tina said, her expression darkening.


    CK had risen to prominence only in recent years, a few years after Ice me.


    But because they operated without any moral boundaries, they attracted those with sinister intentions who harmed others’ families and lives for their own gain.


    Thus, CK became more popr in the underworld.


    Jared’s deep eyes narrowed, his voice low, “Vivienne imed she was the sole leader of CK, that she handled everything herself.”


    “That’s contradictory,” Hayden clicked his tongue. “She ims this was her first time involved in human trafficking, yet the fact that CK trafficked babies proves otherwise.”


    “She’s lying,” Jared’s long fingers tapped slowly on the car window.


    After a moment, he said softly, “To the secret room.”


    Haydenplied, stepping on the elerator towards the secret room.


    Vivienne seemedfortable here, getting up regrly, spending her free time reading books, newspapers, and watching the news. Her conversations were repetitive and few.


    She imed to be the leader of CK, unaware of who Mr. White was, with all transactions done through corporate groups and Walter’s art gallery.


    Jared entered as Vivienne was looking at a painting, previously done by Tina.


    Hearing Jared, she merely nced slightly, her reaction changing only when she saw Tina.


    “Tina, could I ask you for a favor?” Vivienne asked.


    “Speak,” Tina replied, hands in her pockets, nonchnt.


    Vivienne paused, then said, “I’d like to see all your previous design drafts.”


    Tina raised an eyebrow, “…”


    Vivienne had turned this ce into her own study room?


    Tina smirked, “Sure, but you’ll need to offer something in exchange.”


    “What do you want?” Vivienne’s eyes sparkled when Tina agreed.


    Tina’s eyes twinkled, her smile deepening, “There’s a lot I want. Money? Strawberry cake? Precious herbs? Or…” She paused, looking up, “Information on CK’s leader, ck Dragon.”


    At the mention of ck Dragon, Vivienne faltered.


    ck Dragon was the code name for CK’s true leader.


    No one had ever managed to uncover his information.


    Even Jared, despite having captured her and interrogated her for so long, couldn’t find any details about the leader, despite her ims.


    Yet Tina somehow knew.


    Vivienne looked up at her, “You found out?”


    Tina smiled brilliantly, “Isn’t it difficult to look into the leader of a shady organization?”


    Vivienne pressed her lips together, taking a moment before responding, “Since you’ve found out, there’s no need to ask me. I won’t tell you anyway.”


    Tina pulled up a chair and sat down, legs crossed, looking every bit the boss, “I’m not nning to ask you. You want my designs, so you need to offer something in exchange.”


    Vivienne was silent, then finally looked up, “Let’s change the terms of the exchange to something I can provide.”


    Tina rested her arm on her knee, supporting her chin as she thought, “I don’t reallyck anything.”


    Vivienne, “…”


    Why the nonsense then?


    Tina turned her head, looking at Jared with a light smile, “Uncle, what do you think I’m missing?”


    Jared’s lips twitched, his wife’s knack for infuriating people was always active.


    At that moment, Hayden brought over a chair and sat next to Tina, his maic voice breaking the silence, “My Tina is wealthy; shecks nothing!”


    Tina nodded in agreement, “Not true! I still need to support Uncle; you’re too expensive, I can’t afford it.”


    Jared, “…I’m easy to maintain, a bowl of noodles will do.”


    Tina’s eyes lit up, “That works.”


    Vivienne, “…”


    Enough with the lovey-dovey act!


    It seemed Tina heard her thoughts, turning to look at her, “Though, I really don’t need anything. But my drafts are plentiful, you need them, Tiger doesn’t. You’re no use to me, but Tiger is. What should we do?”


    At this, Vivienne gasped in shock!


    Even her emotions couldn’t stay hidden as she eximed, “You even know about Tiger!”


    Tiger was a code name known to no one else but her, the real boss of CK.


    All tasks within CK were assigned by Tiger, handed down to others.


    And all important information tasks were managed by Tiger directly, given to ck Dragon to execute.


    So, within CK, nobody knew Tiger’s real identity, not even their gender, or even that such a person existed.


    Many things were directly handled by ck Dragon.


    And ck Dragon was her code name.


    Vivienne bit her lip, the shock in her eyes undiminished.


    How powerful was Tina to have even found out about Tiger?


    Who exactly was she?


    Tina continued smiling radiantly, “I know many things, like, five years ago, the person who poisoned my uncle, intended for Sophia, was named Vivienne. And since we came to Ashbury, the several assassination attempts on my uncle, one of them had Vivienne behind it, and more…”


    Before Tina could finish, Vivienne suddenly shouted, “Enough!”


    Her fingers clenched tightly, her face contorted with emotion.


    She had never imagined that Tina would have dug up so much about her.


    If Tina knew, then Jared…


    She turned to look at Jared, noticing him casually ying with Tina’s fingers, his expression unchanged as if he had known all along.


    Vivienne stared at Jared, then suddenlyughed.


    Ha!


    She had schemed for so long, done so much behind the scenes, and yet it was all part of his calctions.


    She had thought her disguise was wless!


    Indeed!


    Her cousin was not like the useless Walter.


    She had almost forgotten that Jared controlled arge financial empire, known to others as Mr. Daryl!


    No wonder everything had gone smoothly before, and this time it had failed so miserably!


    She looked at Tina and Jared for a long time, her clenched fingers slowly rxing, her expressionposed, “What do you want to know?”


    She paused, then added, “You can ask, but I might not answer.”


    Tina looked up at her, no longer wasting words, “Is Crimson Silk in Tiger’s possession?”