After an hour of forced resting,where Alicia wanted to rush to the doctor and Ryu made her lie down,Al and Ryu left the office hand in hand.This was an unexpected surpries to those working there.Not because it was Ryu Long doing the hand holding,but because usually in the past,they had maintained a professional att.i.tude.Many noticed that Alicia's pallor was still pale and she had looked sick as she walked slowly.Was something the matter with her?Everyone wondered.After all Ryu Long had stayed away from the company as well for so long to be with his wife.

Unaware of people's wild imaginations,Ryu drove Alicia to the doctor's clinic.The doctor was a kind lady in her 40's.She pa.s.sed Alicia a home test and aaked after her medical history.Once Alicia left to take the pregnancy test,the doctor turned to Ryu and mentioned that the previous miscarriage could be a problem.After some time had pa.s.sed and Alicia did not come back outside.Worried, Ryu went to knock on the door.When there was no answer,he was about to knock on the door again when Alicia opened the door from inside.She looked at Ryu with a smile in her s.h.i.+ning eyes.Relieved after seeing her and the pregnancy test that had tested positive,Ryu held her hand and brought her outsude.The doctor then prescribed a few iron and folic acid medications to Al and sent them for a blood test advising to follow up weekly.Alicia was worried about the travelling that they had done would have affected her baby but the doctor a.s.sured her that all was fine.

On the other side"

Mi Rae and Neil met at the hotel that Mi Rae had chosen,near her office.As was Neil's habit of skins.h.i.+p and friendliness,Neil came in and after giving her a friendly hug,sat opposite her.After ordering food for an army,he turned to look at her.Mi Rae was staring at him.In an awed voice she asked him,"How are you able to eat so much.With the heavy breakfast we had this morning,I feel nauseous even thinking about food."This statement caused the person sitting behind Mi Rae to almost choke on his food.Though Mi Rae did not notice,Neil did.Without saying anything Neil gestured her to be quiet and went to look at the hostess requesting a private room.The hostess agreed without hesitation and they moved to another room.Only after they had moved did the person on the other table dare to move.This person was Attorney Zheng's colleague.He had come here earlier as soon as the lunch hour started to hold the table for his colleague frinds as well.A few minutes after Neil and Mi Rae had gone inside,the other 5 people came upto the table.They sat their friend sitting at the table staring blankly on some spot and they worried for him and teased him.Once the food had been ordered the colleague dropped the bomb,"I saw Attorney Zheng just now..with a man...and I think he must be her boyfriend."The others turned to look at him in shock and disbelief.They refused to believe him.He explained the entire situation even going so far as to tell them how he had eavesdropped on their conversation.One of these people was Zheng a.s.sistant and after hearing that her boss had spent the night somewhere else,she also chimed in how her boss had messaged that she would be late this morning but had managad to reach on time.Since they were already there,they decided to wait out for them to leave.Everyone wanted to see the ice queen's boyfriend.The guy would have to be some thing wondrous to be able to handle all that ice.

Inside the VIP room,the two discussed their plan of action and all the evidence that Mi Rae had collected.Neil looket her in admiration and said,"you are sneaky."

Mi Rae just thanked him.They disagreed on one important thing only,Neilbwanted her to take the evidence to the law while Zheng wanted to use the evidence for her gain.She did not wish to file a case.She wanted to get her revenge and leave.But Neil had always been idealistic.He tried to convince her to go the normal route.She wouldn't get as much compensation bit their reputation would be soiled.

Mi Rae however was worried about her own reputation.The backlash could ruin her hard earned goodwill as well.They discussed the pros and cons heatedly and would have fought,but Mi Rae stepped back and asked for some time to think.She needed to consider the evidences and their acceptability in court.Evidences could be rejected and witnesses could back out.Adding in the fact that Neil was already handling a high risk case like Onita's,she did not wish to take too much of his time..

The two of them then came out together and that is when Neil remembered the favor that she was supposed to pay back.So holding her wrist,he brought up her hand and placed an envelope in her hand.Looking at it she asked,"What is this?"

Neil looked at her and then the offending envelope in her hand.If Al had not been the one to give this to him,he would have thrown them away."We are going to be partic.i.p.ating in a month long cooking cla.s.s.These are the vouchers for that.!The first one is tomorrow.Be prepared."

Mi Rae stood in the middle of the restaurant frozen in shock at having been enrolled into cooking cla.s.ses without  her permission.She did not want to learn how to cook!Neil understood her reaction and with a hand on her back guided her out of the restaurant lest she explode there.Escorting her to her car,he explained the situation to her reminding her that she owed him and Al.Narrowing her eyes at him and claiming that she never liked being indebted to other people,she agreed to go and received a smile and pat on the head for her agreement.

Where outside,the two people had made peace,the inside of the restaurant was abuzz.O