Lisa
After Jennie and Jin had gone to bed, the team remained in the media room to go over a few things before they turned in for the night themselves.
"Looks like Jennie's warming up to you." Marcus said with a smile.
"She's coming around." Lisa returned, still running on her emotional high. Something had changed in Jennie after their conversation on the balcony. She was still feisty and independent, but she had slowly started to put a little more trust and faith in Lisa which made her feel invincible. Her gestures of trust were small and would probably have gone undetected to anyone who was watching, but those little gestures meant a lot to Lisa. She had allowed Lisa to guide her through the ballroom with Lisa's hand on the small of her back. She tested the waters with the action to see how she would react, but to her surprise and delight, Jennie didn't pull away or question her. She simply moved where she led her and allowed Lisa to take care of her, which was a big step for Jennie.
Lisa, Marcus, and Hoony all eyed Bambam for a second or two wondering if he'd have any comment on how cosy Lisa and Jennie had been on the couch.
"What?" Bambam said with an arched brow.
"No comment Bam? We're all waiting for you to kill the mood." Hoony said, obviously wanting to address the elephant in the room and get it over with already. Bambam gave Hoony a smirk which was a good sign. Bam didn't usually smile when he was about to lose his shit.
"No comment here." Bambam said.
"Reeeally?" Hoony said, folding his arms across his chest, taunting his friend.
"It's not uncommon to become close with a client, in fact on a long term job like this, I think it's a good thing. She's much more likely to confide in Lisa if she feels comfortable with her and if she confides in Lisa, we get more intel."
Lisa's thoughts immediately went to the conversation she and Hoony and overheard in the limo that evening.
"Just keep your dick in your pants, Doc. Harmless flirting is fine, but you fuck her and piss off her dad, our asses get reassigned and the whole op is blown."
Annnnnd there it is. I knew this conversation was going to happen again at some point.
"Got it Bam, no fucking." Lisa said with a sarcastic smile.
"Can we stop talking about Lisa's dick and where it is or isn't going, and start talking about the piece of intel she and I overheard in the limo tonight?" Hoony added.
"Jennie had a run in with Yang Hyun-suk tonight. Turns out Jennie sniffed out a potential money laundering scheme in one of his companies while she was reviewing his books."
"No shit." Marcus said, impressed by Jennie's find.
"She and Jin are going to go over the financial records together tomorrow morning. We're hoping to get a peek at it ourselves if we can, but if I'm being honest, Lisa has a lot more of a chance of accomplishing that than I do. Jennie's comfortable with Lisa in her space and is more likely to include her in the conversation tomorrow. Jin isn't quite used to having a security detail closer than ten feet, much less conversing with him at work."
Hoony is trying to make me look good and I fucking love him for it.
"Try to get eyes on those documents tomorrow, any specifics you can relay back to Alpha is going to be worth its weight in gold."
"Will do Bam." Lisa confirmed.
"Mac you overhear anything during your time with Dara?"
"Not anything of value yet. Just gossip over brunch and a shit ton of shopping. One thing that does play to my advantage is that Dara and her socialite friends don't know that I speak Korean, hell I doubt she knows any of us can speak Korean. But I plan on letting them think that for as long as I can. Maybe one of them will slip up about one of their husband's business ventures." Marcus said.
