The Villain's Wife (Book 2)

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The Peak

When Taehyung received the signal, he immediately checked the location of Lisa's phone. After realizing that he was already inside the house in Daegu, he tried to access the camera's inside. The fact that the camera's were now pointing at the walls immediately made him frown. When he tried to access the past recordings, the only thing that he could find was that someone had moved the cameras, after that there was nothing. He immediately dialed Sehun's number. No answer.

He then dialed Seulgi's number. No answer.

With a dark look on his face, he started to check the nearby CCTV's footage only to discover that they too had been moved and some of them were even destroyed. Something must have happened! He pursed his lips before he continued to find ways to access the previous recordings of the footage. After a few seconds of deliberation, Taehyung tried to hack the satellite so he could use it to access and watch the bungalow where Lisa was currently at.

...

"Eh?" Harringfort raised an eyebrow when he saw that Lisa wanted to change two cards. The thing was... this is not just some two cards. Lisa actually exchanged a pair of eights. He widened his eyes as he stared at Lisa's stern face. Smiling, he immediately thought that Lisa decided to discard the pair of eights because he thought that Harringfort had a low set of cards.

Too bad.

Harringfort eyed his set of cards and beamed inwardly. He did not have low cards. In fact, he had a pair of nines, an ace, a three of spades and a five of diamonds. A while ago, he wanted to trick Lisa into thinking that he discarded his queen of hearts and ten of diamonds because he was aiming to have a hand of cards with a lower value. Guess it worked, he thought.

Now Lisa immediately discarded his pairs so he could have a low number of cards too.

"How bold," Harringfort pretended to turn serious at the sight of the pairs. He felt his hands sweat, his heartbeat racing as he thought about Lisa reaction once he found out that Harrington was going to choose, 'higher' instead of 'lower'.

"You can bet now." The dealer uttered.

"President Manoban... why don't you make the first bet."

"Two chips." Lisa laid two of the chips.

"Just a million? Really?" he smirked. "Raise. Let's make it twenty chips. For ten million."

As expected, his bold move changed Lisa's face. "What? Scared now?" Harringfort taunted with the same smug smile on his face. His hand then made its way into the chips, "President Manoban... Really, both of us know that this is not a game of chance." He gave a small shrug before he started playing with two of the chips using his fingers.

"Call." Lisa said. "And raise, total of eleven million."

"Really? What makes you think that you can win against me, President Manoban?" Sarcasm laced his voice. "I remember LM Capital just opened a branch in France. Isn't that too... wonderful? I was originally planning to send some flowers to congratulate you. Then I realized... you only succeeded because of your wife. Of course I could not really send her some flowers without ... making you angry right?"

"You talk too much." Lisa's words made Harringfort frowned.

"And you are too arrogant." He hissed. "Don't forget- "

"Are you going to kill me despite signing your so-called game contract?" When Harringfort did not respond, Lisa continued, "I thought so. You really should stop talking too much and focus on the game."

Harringfort scoffed in response. He hated the fact that he could not hurt this man. No matter what happened, no matter how much this Lisa antagonized him, he could not hurt him simply because he was one of them. Just like Jennie, Harringfort could not hurt Lisa because he was already considered a member of the organization after old man Yu passed away. He gritted his teeth in silence. "I call and raise. Thirty million."