Everyone knew the photographer was EM, which made it even more exciting. She was getting famous for her photos.

Matthew's team was quite efficient, and delivered the design sketches for Erica's new studio. The next step was to figure out decorations.

Erica didn't really care about that. She just needed to make sure everything went smoothly. Matthew didn't need to worry about the decorations either. A group of interior designers were responsible for that.

The members of the Violet Eagles had been dispatched to the 45 or so docks in the city. They were keeping tabs on them for about a week before they found something unusual at one of the docks. It was a smaller one, and a historic site to boot.

When Erica received the phone call from her associates, she was playing hide and seek with her four kids. Everywhere in the villa was fair game

-upstairs, downstairs, didn't matter. Damian was busy trying to find his mother, who was hiding. When he heard her phone go off, he knew where she was. He found her in the 2nd floor collection room.

“That was too easy, Mom!" Damian said. Holding her hand, he walked downstairs with her.

"Yes, you're so smart. I love to be beaten by you!" said Erica with a big smite.

“Ha-ha! You're smart too, Mom," Damian said.

When the mother and son arrived at the first floor, Erica told the kids, "I have something to deal with now, so Mommy can't stick around.

You can play a little longer and after that, you need to go upstairs with the nanny and sleep, okay?"

The four kids answered at the same time, "Okay, Mommy!" This wasn't their first rodeo. Plus, they were getting bored with hide and seek.

They were only playing the game to make their mother happy, anyway

Their mom suggested it, and they went along with it. They had other things they Liked to do, like board games or coloring.

After making sure the kids were good, Erica changed her clothes and left the villa in a hurry.

There was already a car waiting for her at the gate. She got in the car, and Edward was waiting in the passenger seat. He snapped to attention and gave her his report.

“There was nothing unusual about the manifest. Just several tons of wing powder. But there were several attacks reported around that area. Our people found that if someone got too close, they got jumped. If our guys hadn't had to use the bathroom and found those thugs hiding, they could have easily walked into a trap."

There were people Lurking around the boat? What was so important they were willing to attack others to protect it? There was definitely something unusual.

The dock was about an hour's drive from the Pearl Villa District. When they arrived, the dockhands had almost finished unloading the goods.

They had seven or eight trucks loaded up with goods. They were ready to enter the city.

Erica's car stopped at an inconspicuous spot on the roadside. Erica, dressed all in black, got out of the car first. They weren't about to do anything stupid. It was dark, yes, and the others guarding the boat hadn't left yet.

She quickly climbed to the roof of the car, took the night vision telescope from Edward and scanned the dock.

The view at night was not that good, but thanks to the lights on the dock, they could just barely see people moving over there.

The Last group of people got in the same minibus and followed the other trucks, intending to leave the marina.

Erica still wanted to see the people left on the dock, but suddenly a loud roar came from off to the side.