When The Phone Rings / The Call You Just Made Is

Prologue

The palm holding the phone was slippery. Every time she made a threatening call, even the first time, she broke out in a cold sweat.

She quietly took a deep breath and strained her eyes.

The qualities of a blackmailer are definitely shamelessness.

Selfishness that comes before guilt, arrogance that mocks public authority, impulsiveness to commit, and simple, breathtaking conviction.

Chew it, chew it some more, and spit it out.

“If I open my mouth once, your political career is over.”

A blackmailer is a type of person who cannot move without conviction. So, if I had to do it, I had to finish him off.

Blood oozed from the tongue she had bitten off.

Until she got what she wanted.

Hee-joo knew that her voice had been altered, but she was afraid of the other end of the phone where she couldn’t even hear her breathing, so she bit her fingernails.

“Hurry up, I told you to put it back the way it was! Really shitting on your face!”

“Can a crazy bastard endure that?”

No, more rudely. More vulgarly.

―… … .

Speaking like a real blackmailer.

The other person was quiet.

“Shit, cut it off… … ! That’s why I asked you to listen to my demands first!”

Her pounding heart felt like it was going to spill out of her mouth.

However, in the heavy silence, the click of a lighter opening and the sound of the cigarette end burning were the only answers. It was an unpleasant leisure.

How did she, who had lived without a voice, end up like this?

Hee-joo bit her lower lip.

“If you keep being like this, I don’t know what I’ll do…!”

“Are you really okay with it being revealed? Even if the public points fingers at you?”

The distorted voice cracked as if it was breaking through gravel.

Was it impossible to threaten this man in the first place?

―He’s kind.

The man who has the face of the president and the most expensive mouth.

“… …!”

The only son of the next presidential candidate and the spokesperson for the Blue House trusted by the entire nation.

She froze in shock at the voice that stuck to her eardrums.

Baek Sa-eon.

―Let’s continue to threaten like this in the future, right on time.

Hee-joo, who had lived with her mouth shut for a long time in order to deal with such a man, was struggling every moment.

“What… …!”

―You’ve been late by a few minutes lately. Did you choose another victim besides me?

But I want to get away from him. I wanted to be abandoned willingly.

… … What are you talking about now?

My father-in-law, the next presidential candidate, and my family, the family of newspaper owners.

―I’m just waiting for the scary blackmailer.

It’s already been three years since I got married against my will, being used for their business cooperation.

“… … !”

What was stamped on the humiliating contract was not the seal of the two families, but her body that was exchanged like a hostage.

―If you hit the fishing ground, I’ll get angry, I won’t accept it.

I wanted to stop living a life where I was being teased just for breathing quietly.

I’m the blackmailer, but… … What kind of fishing ground is that?

Even if I become an illegal messenger!

I was speechless for a moment and was dumbfounded. In the meantime, the initiative had passed.

“If you don’t do as I say, I’ll really expose everything! Your dirty and petty past—!”

―It’s not enough to catch me like a rat, but it’s fun to make other people cry.

―Ah.

Hee-joo was dumbfounded and just smiled.

The voice was cold and slow.

―I hate people who are late, and blackmailers are no exception.

The pure white filter crackled as if he was sucking on a cigarette.

―Of course there should be a penalty.

“Huh?”

I unknowingly used polite language.

―What are you wearing now?

The heated cell phone was sticky to my palm.

―I think I’ll start by taking it off.

As you can see, I’m a wife who hides her identity and threatens her husband.

But this man seems to be having an affair ‘with me’ without me knowing.

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