"Stop joking. It's not funny at all," Bella snapped and looked away from Lanny. She'd be a fool to believe in Lanny for her sister was known as someone unable to spit two true words out of her mouth.

"You don't believe me, do you? I have no problem with that. Do me a favor though, take a good look with your own eyes at the people sitting in this restaurant. You will notice that it's full of spies and assassins in ambush. That young brunette with the straw hat two tables away to your left is always watching you, as is the middle-aged man sitting at the last table...