D.E.B.S (Chaelisa)

17| Exposed

Evil Lair, 22:00

"Oh man you got me bejewelled handcuffs? I love them!" Lisa squealed holding up the handcuffs decorated with tiny diamonds all over. "So that's what you've been working on!"

Chaeyoung smiled, pleased that Lisa liked her present. "It's not much. I was just trying my hand at a little art project thing."

"No painting or drawing?" Lisa asked, admiring the cuffs before a sly smirk made its way to her face. Chaeyoung prattled on, oblivious.

"Kook brought me a whole basket of scrap metal stuff. I thought I might try my hand at doing something sculptural. And you like diamonds so Kook got me a whole box of chipped diamonds that he said has no real use, cos's it's like scrap diamonds. Then Eddie the mech helped me burnish them to give them a new shine and Loony Luiz bought me gorilla glue and...here we are."

"Interesting choice, the handcuffs," Lisa smirked. "I didn't peg you for this type of stuff, to be honest."

"Well it's always good to get hands-on with art. I want to try something bigger next, maybe a helmet?"

"Who said anything about art?"

When Chaeyoung looked confused, Lisa threw her head back.

"Oh bless your innocent little soul, you have no clue, do you?"

"What? Really, what?" Chaeyoung asked, confused.

Lisa merely winked. "We'll get to it one day but for now, just know that uh, to spice up uh, sexy times in the bedroom, some people use something like these handcuffs on each other....amongst other things."

"What?" Chaeyoung gulped, eyes round as saucers. "I...I..."

"Relax, I appreciate them as your art project," Lisa reassured, "and I love that I got my very own custom-made handcuffs with diamonds, they're really cool. So, thank you Rosie, I'm glad you were inspired."

A few days earlier Lisa had shown Chaeyoung the various artefacts and paintings she had stolen from museums, art galleries and even warehouse collections at free ports.

"Super rich people avoid taxes in this way," Lisa explained, "they claim to be collecting paintings but many of them aren't in it because they enjoy seeing a masterpiece hanging on a wall. Most just want to see the price appreciate, they treat the art as a capital asset.

There's a free port in Geneva in Switzerland that is a popular place with super rich people, they got a great system for anonymous and encrypted accounts for anything you want to keep safe. I had an account with them once. I even stored a mini nuclear reactor—"

"What?!"

"Joke. I wish though."

"Lisa!"

"Okay okay I'm kidding," Lisa chuckled. "Okay so, rich people avoiding taxes. Say you buy a 50 million dollar painting in New York, you got like 4.4 million in tax bill. Ship it to a free port and poof! the bill disappears, at least until you bring it back to New York. "

"Neat!"

"Right? Very sneaky if I do say so myself, but neat."

"Until you came along, snatched it and poor Mr Rich Guy lost his money AND his painting."

"I'd like to think I'm doing them a favour, yeah? No painting, no tax, and don't they say you gotta live humble?"

"Says the girl who has a literal Satellite-Enabled Laser Blaster in her lair," Chaeyoung remarked, busy admiring a Goya before moving to a Klimt. "Oh my gosh is that a Rembrandt? Do you have anything by Frida Kahlo?"