Coming out from the ladies', Jasmine was still confused over Rosa's warning for her. Be careful of the people around you? What did that mean? It was such a generic warning, she didn't know what Rosa could be referring to.

"There she is!"

Jasmine looked up and saw Estella waving at her. She smiled and waved back as she made her way over to their table.

Stephen noticed her distracted look and lightly touched her arm, "Are yer okay?"

She snapped out of her thoughts and looked at Stephen, "Hmm? Yeah… I'm fine…"

"Yer don't look fine. What's wrong?" He asked
"Nothing. I'm just hungry. What did you get me?" Jasmine said

Stephen looked at her suspiciously for a while before reaching to take a sandwich off the tray to put in front of her.

"Tuna and cheese melt." Stephen said
"Yum. I'm so hungry!" Jasmine said

She picked up the sandwich and unwrapped it, taking one half out.

That afternoon, after the trip to the zoo, Stephen and Jasmine brought the exhausted Estella back home. Since Mrs O'Malley didn't come over, Jasmine went to tuck Estella in. Just as she stood up to turn around, she saw Stephen leaning against the door frame.

"Were you standing there the whole time?" Jasmine asked
"Not really… Maybe about 5 minutes…" Stephen replied

Jasmine chuckled and shook her head as she lightly pushed him away from the frame to close the door behind her.

"She is pretty exhausted so I think she will be sleeping throughout the night." Jasmine said

Feeling Stephen's eyes on her, she looked up, only to meet his intense gaze.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Jasmine asked
"Yer hiding something from meh." Stephen replied
"We've only started dating and you're becoming those kind of boyfriends." Jasmine said

Stephen changed his stance and looked a little embarrassed.

"Sorry… Occupational hazard." Stephen said

Jasmine smiled, finding his protective and inquisitive side endearing. She figured that keeping the Rosa thing a secret might affect the new, budding relationship between the two of them. Sighing, she reached for his hand and led him towards the sofa.

"I need to tell you something." Jasmine said

Stephen looked at her, "What is it?"

"Today… At the park… I met Rosa." Jasmine said

"What?!" Stephen said, raising his voice all of a sudden

As if he could hear Estella waking up, he made it a mental note to lower his voice.

"Why didn't yer tell meh?" Stephen asked
"I wanted to tell you but Estella was with us and I didn't want you to become all angry and law-abiding like you are now." Jasmine replied

He sighed and ran his fingers through his hair. Jasmine slumped into the sofa a little, thinking that this might have somehow been pretty important to Stephen and she might have ruined their new found relationship.

"I'm sorry. I should have told you after I met her. But, it wasn't like I got her contacts or something." Jasmine said

She looked at him but he didn't look like he was interested in replying her. She sighed and stood up, picking up her trench coat in one hand.

"Look, I'm sorry that I kept it from you and I'm sorry that this didn't work out. Tell Estella I had a wonderful day with her and would like to do it again. That's it. I'm off." Jasmine said

Before Stephen could stop her, Jasmine had left his house. As soon as she was out of the house, she put on her trench coat in anger and walked out to find a bus of some sort. Lucky for her, just as she reached the bus stop, the bus came. After boarding it, she sat down and it suddenly hit her that she may have just ruined everything.

She mentally smacked herself on the head, knowing that she shouldn't have become so defensive when clearly; she was at fault for keeping the Rosa thing from him. He is the head detective of the case and she should have told him.

Just as she was thinking of how to salvage the situation, her phone started ringing. She pulled it out of her bag and hit 'answer' without even looking.

"Hello?"
"Hey, baby sis. What's wrong? You sound upset… Did that lobster head bully you?"
"What? Lobster head? No. Randy, he didn't. *sigh* It's complicated."
"Complicated how? Enlighten me."
"Randy… Can we not do this over the phone?"
"Wh—"
"Jas? It's Steph. Randy was getting a little red in the face so I took the phone from him. Anyway, we're at the restaurant."
"Okay… I'm just probably 2 stops away."
"Alright. We'll talk when you get here."
"Yeah."

After Stephanie said 'good-bye', they both hung up. Within 10 minutes, Jasmine reached the restaurant. Entering, she saw her best friend wave at her from a booth in the corner.

"Hi, you!" Stephanie said, moving in to give Jasmine space to sit.

Jasmine smiled as she sat, "Hey guys."

Randy looked at her and put his glass of beer down.

"Ready to tell me what's going on?" Randy asked
"What do you mean what's going on?" Jasmine said
"You were saying it's complicated over the phone?" Randy said

Jasmine sighed as Stephanie said, "Something to do with your date?"

"Yeah… I kinda like ruined it." Jasmine said
"You ruined it? What do you mean?" Randy asked
"My landlady came to find me at the Phoenix Park zoo today. And I didn't tell Stephen about it until just now when we brought Estella home." Jasmine replied
"Wait, what? She came to find you? Did she hurt you?" Stephanie asked

Jasmine shook her head, "No. She didn't. She just came to get me to leave Dublin until this whole thing ends."

"Well, I agree with her. You should leave Dublin and come back with us." Randy said
"You don't understand, Randy. I've got a pretty good life here. I'm head curator! I could never get an opportunity like that if I was back in the States." Jasmine said

She looked at her brother, "I got this job with my work performance and I worked really hard to get where I am. I'm not going to let this stupid case mess up my life."

Randy looked at his sister and could only smile, seeing just how alike their personalities are even though they are not related by blood.

"Alright, baby sis. Whatever you say. But, I'm going to stick around for a while until this case closes, okay?" Randy said

Jasmine sighed, "I can't stop you, can I?"

Randy smirked, sipping his beer, "Not a chance."

"And I'm sticking around too. You ain't getting rid of me either." Stephanie said
"Fine… But… The two of you can't be just living in the hotel for the next I don't know how many days…" Jasmine said

She saw her brother smile as he put the glass down on the table.

Jasmine narrowed her eyes at her brother and her best friend, "You've already gotten a house, haven't you?"

"Yes, we have." Randy said, "Surely you didn't think that your brother would just come over for a visit, right?"

"Well, it slipped my mind. I forgot my brother was a trained CIA agent who changed to a white collar desk job to not make my sister-in-law worry." Jasmine said, sarcastically.

Randy chuckled, "You don't have to worry about Sam… She's worried about you too. In fact, she's the one who told me to stay with you till everything blows over."

"So, we are to move in to the newly rented house tomorrow!" Stephanie said
"And where is it located?" Jasmine asked
"Downtown Dublin. Closer to your workplace." Stephanie replied
"We'll move there tomorrow. For now, let's eat!" Randy said

Jasmine smiled and nodded as they dug in to the food that the waiter had brought over while they were talking.

After dinner, the three of them headed back to the hotel. As they walked through the lobby, they were stopped by the receptionist.

"Miss Garcia?" She said

Stephanie looked at the receptionist, "Yes?"

"There's a gentleman waiting at the sitting area over there for about 2 hours now… He's looking for a Miss Jasmine Orton and he said she's acquainted to you." She said

The four of them looked at the sitting area and saw a slightly fidgety Stephen sitting at the sofa.

Stephanie looked at Jasmine before looking at the receptionist, "Yup. She is. Don't worry. He's a friend. We'll go over now."

The receptionist nodded in relief and walked back to her counter. Stephanie looked at Jasmine and she merely shrugged.

"What's that shrug for? Go talk to him." Stephanie said
"Forget it… He's probably here to yell at me again…" Jasmine said
"He doesn't look like he's here to yell at you." Stephanie said, looking at Stephen.

Jasmine sighed, "Let's just forget it and go up. He'll probably leave after a while."

"I don't think he'll give up that easily. Go hear him out. He's waited 2 hours for you already. Don't you think you should give him a chance to talk when you shouldn't have kept that information from him?" Randy said

Jasmine looked at her brother, "Since when were you on his side?"

"Since I realized how much this detective cares for you. If it was me, I wouldn't wait 2 hours." Randy said

She looked at Stephen, who obviously was starting to feel uncomfortable due to the constant stares and looks he was getting from the hotel guests and staff.

"Alright. I'll go." Jasmine said

She watched her brother and her best friend head up in the elevator before she made her way over to Stephen, who was now looking at his hand to avoid the odd looks he was getting.

"Hey." Jasmine said

He looked up and immediately stood up, "Hey. Yer back."

"Yeah… The receptionist told us you were waiting here for 2 hours…" Jasmine said
"Ah… Ah was waitin' for yer." Stephen said

Jasmine nodded, "So I've been told… Is there a reason why you're here?"

"Ah came to apologize. Ah shouldn't have gotten so worked up about the whole situation with Rosa… Ah just didn't want anything to happen to yer." Stephen said

He sighed, "And, mah main purpose of comin' 'ere was to tell yer that ah don't want that to ruin the relationship that we were havin'…"

He rubbed the back of his neck nervously, "Ah know ah'm not the ideal kind of guy that yer want to call a boyfriend but ah know that ah can change if yer need me to."

Jasmine shook her head and said, "No. I don't need you to change. It's my fault for not telling you and I should be the one apologizing to you. I shouldn't have been so defensive when I knew that I was in the wrong…"

She looked at him, "I'm sorry…"

"Should we just forget this happened and go for another first date?" Stephen asked, "This time without Estella?"

Stephen smiled and hugged her tight, happy to have another chance with her. As Jasmine was hugging Stephen, she opened her eyes to see William's assistant and Rosa at the bar. They were both wearing sunglasses and although it could have been mistaken for someone else, Jasmine knew there was no one else in the whole of Dublin who had platinum blonde hair like William's assistant.

"Hey, you okay?"

Jasmine looked up to see Stephen looking at her worriedly, wondering why she was spacing out after he let her go. Deciding to keep this to herself, she nodded.

"Yeah… I'm fine. Just feeling a little tired." Jasmine said
"Come on then, ah'll send yer back to yer room." Stephen said

Jasmine nodded and as Stephen took a hold of her hand, leading her towards the lifts, she glanced back at the bar where she saw the two of them but, they were no longer there.

"Camacho, where's Primo and Epico?"
"They went to check out the leads that Miguel gave us."

He stood up from his chair and looked out the window, "Aye Rosa… Where do you think you can run to, senorita?"

Just then, the door opened and Camacho stepped back, seemingly unnerved by the people who just entered.

"Uh… Hunico?" Camacho said

He turned back around and stepped back a little in shock before regaining his composure.

"M-Mr Rodriguez…" Hunico said

Alberto smiled, "Hunico, hombre… No need to be nervous around me."

He looked at Camacho, "Camacho, you're looking stronger than the last time we met."

Camacho smiled nervously, unsure of what to do. He stepped back as Alberto made his way over to Hunico's chair.

"Ricardo." Alberto said

Immediately, his right-hand man, dressed in a tuxedo and bow-tie hurried over to pull the chair out for him to sit.

"So… Where's Rosa?" Alberto said
"We have our men out there looking for her now." Hunico said
"She may be hiding out but we'll find her." Camacho said
"We have some of our men at the airport making sure she doesn't leave the country." Hunico said

Alberto touched his chin thoughtfully, "Good… Good… But…"

He signaled for Camacho to come closer to the desk and Camacho did. With his hands on the table to support himself, he leaned in close to Camacho.

"That's not enough."

As soon as Alberto said that, he took the letter opener that was in the pencil holder and stabbed the table, just missing Camacho's middle finger by 0.01cm. Camacho froze, not wanting to move for fear of losing another finger.

Alberto stood up and looked at Hunico, "Find Rosa. I don't care how you do it, I want her found."

"Yes, Boss." Hunico said, frightened but not showing it.

Alberto straightened his jacket and walked over to pat Hunico on the shoulder.

"Keep me updated. I expect good news soon." Alberto said, "Or next time, I wouldn't miss more than Camacho's fingers."

Understanding Alberto's threats fully, Hunico nodded and Alberto pat his back one last time before walking out the door Ricardo opened for him.