Chaesoo ff - Love Undercover

Chapter 7

Rosè called a cab. She considers the PEN Director George gave her. She drops it into her clutch, looks out the window as the cab passes the Trevi Fountain, couples sitting there, kissing. Rosè looks out, turns away.

She arrives at a safe house. As she gets out of the cab, stares up at the building. She takes a breath, starts for the entrance.

Rosè walks in as Jisoo makes a cappuccino from a machine.

"There you are! I was starting to get worried." Rosè looked at her warily.

"Just doing a little sightseeing." She faked a smile.

Jisoo hands her cup. "Here. You haven't had a cappuccino until you've had one in Rome." She turns away and starts to prepare another cappuccino for herself as Rosè sits and stares at her.

"So ... did you find Russo?" Rosè asked like she had no idea what really happened.

"Yep." Jisoo answered while she's busy making herself a coffee.

"How did it go?" The blonde girl tries to hide her fear.

"Good, not great." Jisoo walks over from where she was.

"But you gave him the battery, right?"

"Not exactly." Rosè's face falls, but Jisoo doesn't see it.

"So you've still got it." She exclaimed.

Jisoo looked at her in the eyes. "I didn't trust him after all."

Rosè wanted to believe every word she's saying. But knowing all the things about her earlier terrifies her. "Do you trust anybody?"

"It's my job not to." Jisoo uttered honestly. Then "Hey, what do you say we take a little break tomorrow and check out the Colosseum?" Jisoo sits across from her.

But Rosè doesn't want to let go of the topic. "You have no intention of handing over the battery to anyone, do you?"

"Not until it's safe." Jisoo said.

"When will it be safe, Jisoo?" Rosè is losing her temper.

"I'll know it when I feel it." Rosè stares at her and makes a decision. There's no place like home.

"Let me see it again." Jisoo raised her brow.

"What?" Jisoo asked.

"The battery. If you really still have it, then show me." Jisoo hesitates, then reaches into her pocket and places the battery on the table before them.

"Hard to believe a thing that small could ruin so many lives." Rosè's hand behind her back, clicking the ball-point pen. Jisoo stares back at her, then looks at her cup. We see what she sees: the cappuccino begins to tremble ever so slightly. She shakes her head, slowly.

"It hurts a lot more than I thought."

Rosè suddenly got concerned. "What?"

"The knife you just stuck in my back."

"You knew?" Rosè wanted to take it back. Seeing Jisoo genuinely hurt by the looks in her eyes.

"It's my job to know." Rosè gets a hold of herself. She made this decision. She must take a stand.

"Don't pretend to be hurt. It's all "just business" to you, isn't it?" She sneered.

"No. Not when it comes to you." Jisoo looks sincere. Rosè suddenly becomes uncertain.

"You killed him. How could you just do that?" Rose got frustrated and confused.

"He was starting to suspect me. He was going to compromise my mission. It was either his life or millions of others. I had no choice." Jisoo raised her voice. That confuses the blonde even more.