Chapter 147: Chapter 147

Brianna saw Lucien coming back with a tray of food. He had trays in both hands, and although they were not so heavy, Brianna stood from her seat to assist him. She intentionally calculated her steps with the distance and her speed. She was going to get a closer look at the person she had her eyes on. The person was not where Lucien would be passing by, but she could get closer this way compared to her vision from her seat at their table. She guided Lucien to another table nearby her target.

“Hey, I can handle this…” Lucien was going to shoo her back at their table from earlier, but he saw Anna wink at him. He quickly bit his cheeks to keep his lips from cracking foolishly. He cleared his throat and asked. “Do you wanna change spots?”

Lucien was clueless that Brianna had already found the person. He just thought maybe Anna wanted to have a view from a different position.

“Yeah, we should sit here,” Brianna took one tray off Lucien’s hands and walked ahead of him to a table only three tables distance from the person she had her eyes on.

Lucien followed Anna’s lead. He also sat across to where Anna would choose to sit. They had their meals. But he never noticed Anna looking around. He casually looked her in the eye to ask her without saying anything. He did not want to spoil any plans she had in her mind.

“I found her,” Anna casually answered.

Her tone was too nonchalant, while Lucien was almost blown away. But he did not show his honest reaction. She might see him as a fool if he did.

“So, you were right, then,” Lucien murmured before he took another bite of his food, nodding his head as he looked around, leaning his back to his chair leisurely.

“She is a woman in a wheelchair,” Brianna whispered when she noticed Lucien was discretely searching for the person she was talking about.

There was only one woman in a wheelchair visible to Lucien. He also looked behind him to see if there was someone else in the direction facing Anna. But none! He was even more astonished to realize that Anna chose to sit with her back to the person.

“You mean, the lady in a purple shirt with a silk scarf of the same color?” Lucien asked again.

Brianna just nodded her answer as she was chewing a mouthful of food.

“Do you want to talk to her?” He asked again, cautiously.

Brianna took a deep breath after swallowing the food she was chewing and replied.

“I do, and I will. But not here, and not now. I want to know if this person is genuine or if she is a trap. I will give her a visit when I get satisfied with the information I am about to find out. So we will keep an eye on her first. Get a facial recognition and check her file.”

Her team, as well as Jack, heard everything Anna was saying. Her words were already considered as commands to be done. Jack was checking the background of the person. He traced the surveillance cameras that captured her through rewinding the file, looking for a clean image to use on facial recognition programs from all databases he could hack.

Blake was already distributing assignments to his men on what to do as soon as Jack informed them of the results of his research.

“Brilliant idea!” Lucien agreed. But only after he heard Anna’s reasons. He felt it would have been easy to speak to the person since she would not get to run away from them with her disability to walk. He was ignorant to forget that this might, indeed, be just a trap to lure and deceive Anna. He was thinking, with Anna’s capabilities, along with her cleverness, she would boldly walk to speak to the woman in a wheelchair.

But she did not!

She amazed Lucien again with her wise thinking. Like a tiger, she was keenly eyeing her target but with utmost discretion that the target itself was absolutely clueless. And with the woman’s direction towards Lucien, he could see the lady clearly.

She was in her middle ages. She was elegant, with her clothes, countenance, posture, and aura. She was elegantly sitting on an expensive lightweight foldable wheelchair.

“I am still in awe at how you could tell it was her among all these people around us in here,” Lucien murmured, looking at his food as if he was talking something about its taste.

Brianna did not know what to say. He wasn’t asking either, so she did not answer. Instead, she tried to analyze some things that she noticed.

“She won’t be here alone. But she had no one sitting with her at the table.”

“Maybe, she asked her company to sit separately. She might not want to have anyone around her when she meets with you,” Lucien replied.

But as Jack was listening to their conversation, he corrected Lucien’s answer.

“She has someone with her. It’s the young lady seated behind her at another table.”

What Jack said made Brianna think again. Brianna could see the old and young lady from the mirror on the wall. She nodded.

“If I were you, I might have been too excited and asked the lady everything I wanted to know as soon as I saw her,” Lucien chuckled. “Your patience is absolutely amazing.”

Brianna smiled faintly.

She was aware that if she made her steps, even just a beat rushed, the big break she had found about this case would not be put into good use, and she won’t get the best result she was after. She just had to make sure she was asking the right questions to the right person. So, although she was almost a hundred percent sure it was this woman in a wheelchair she was made a contact with, she was still giving room for the doubts and making a thorough background check about this person.