Her Voice 2 [JENLISA]

Chapter 25

Lisa

A few hours earlier

“Would you look at that? The sun has risen from the west. It is a new fucking era,” Jiyong said coldly.

His cigar was between his lips and he chuckled under his breath, staring at the computer screen. “Kang Seulgi just walked through the doors of my estate,” he stated the obvious, sparing me a quick glance before his attention went back to the screen. He looked almost crazed, his eyes bloodshot, his hair oily and messy, and the look in his eyes…something akin to sinister. He was high as fuck, but he also looked completely deranged in the moment.

He was so fucking delirious at the thought that Seulgi had just fallen into our trap.

Seulgi—the King—had just walked into the Devil’s lair. She was about to stare directly into the eyes of Death.

“I didn’t think you had it in you, daughter. I almost doubted you. Almost. But you kept your words. And now…now you have only one tiny job to finish.”

Giddy at the thought, he clapped his hand together and gave me a Cheshire smile.

Beat. Thump. Beat. Thump.

I clenched my jaw, while staying seated, crossing my left ankle over my right knee. My elbows rested on the armrest, and I waited.

I glared at the empty space in front of me.

I waited…counting the fucking seconds in my head. My heart raced and my chest tightened with an unbearable pain.

The door to Jiyong’s office opened. My head swiveled to the right. My sister walked through. Before the door closed behind her, I saw the bodyguards I had sent for her. From when she landed at the airport till here.

But now, their job was done. They had delivered Seulgi safely where I needed her.

The door closed. It was only Seulgi, Jiyong, and me in the room.

Beat. Thump. Beat. Thump.

“Sit, sit,” Jiyong said, a little too joyful, a little too high.

“Jiyong,” Seulgi acknowledged. Her face remained impassive.

Seulgi stood there, her eyes locked with mine. She was trying to read my mind, to look into my soul and see my truth.

Her furrowed eyebrows told me that she was seeing nothing.

Nothing but a fucking blank stare, looking back at her.

Kang Seulgi could read me like a book. Not today, though.

Her eyes darkened viciously before she looked at Jiyong. I saw the understanding flashing in her blue eyes. I saw the way her body tightened at the realization.

When I called Seulgi and told her to make a trip to Thailand, all I said was—it’s business. I quickly elaborated that there was a way I could make both our exportation and importation profitable. To get our cocaine over the border without having to pay a middle man. She didn’t question me. She had stayed silent over the phone. I heard her breathing. Inhale. Exhale. Inhale. Exhale. I heard the wheels turning in her head. Inhale. Exhale. Inhale. Exhale.

I told her we’d have to meet up with Jiyong. He knew things we didn’t and he could help settle this before we took him down as planned.

Then, she had sighed and said, Okay. See you then.

Four words and she had hung up the phone.

I thought she’d question me. I thought she’d refuse.

I thought many things, and right now, in this moment, with Jiyong on one side of me and Seulgi on the other, I almost wished she had questioned me and demanded an explanation. I almost wished she had refused.