Love Shot - Exo Mafia AU (1/4)

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Kim Yeo-Reom's Pov.

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I became a killer one year after leaving Korea. 

We were chasing a loan shark that had taken money from Xia's casino. He'd pulled a gun on Mi-Young when she hadn't been looking. I shot him twice without even realising what I was doing, my only thought reserved for saving her.

The sub-unit was proud, Mi-Young especially, I could tell by the way she bought expensive meat and good alcohol to celebrate my official joining of the Red Lotus, toasting loudly over the music.

I was surprised though, when that very same night, Xia brought sleeping pills up to my room, her smile as kind and reassuring as warm milk.

It turns out your nightmares become pretty vivid after you take a life. Their souls haunt you up until the point you take another life; then you become haunted by someone else.

Still, it became easier after the first time. Point, aim, shoot. A cycle. That's what I was taught. Everything became easier.

 I grew up afraid of the villains in the dark until I became the villain lurking in the dark. I forgot the feeling of fear three months into my training when I was taught thirteen different ways to kill a person with my bare hands. 

I forgot the feeling of hunger and misery after feasting every night, I became hungry for blood the same way the people around me craved it too.

I had people at my back all the time, one covering my front and one covering my back; I was even assigned my own bodyguard, Mi-No. I was safe here.

But now, Ma-Ra was calling me back.

Xia told me this morning at breakfast; Ma-Ra thought I was ready to come back and face the man that had haunted me since the age of eleven.

I had waited to go back the first few months but then I realised I wasn't going home anytime soon. I had been removed from the equation to make things easier for everyone and no one wanted me in the way.

At this point, I didn't want to go back anymore; I had lived in this casino with these people for two years. They had trained me, taken care of me and covered my back for over seven hundred days but now, the sister that had only spoken to me once since I arrived here was calling me back and I was supposed to run to her obediently.

Mi-Young had told me to stay. She told me to reject the offer and stay on as Xia's left-hand. Mi-No had asked the same of me too.

But Xia had said no; she said I needed to see the situation for myself and then decide if I wanted to come back.

That was how her and Mi-Young ended up walking me to the entrance of a private jet only a few hours later.