FALLING FOR YOU!!

Walking Towards The Trap!!

*America*

*The midnight air of Miami hummed outside the sweeping glass walls of the high-rise villa, but inside Lee Luhan's private office, the atmosphere was dead, cold, and suffocating..Luhan sat behind his minimalist glass desk, the single illumination in the room coming from the soft, clinical backlight of a monitor and the ambient glow from the massive candelabra in the corner.. He wasn't working.. He was staring at the photograph of Taehyung, a silver pen twirling with hypnotic precision between his long, slender fingers..A sharp, disciplined knock broke the silence..Luhan didn't blink..He didn't turn his head..*

Luhan(murmured, his voice a smooth, dangerous velvet): Enter..

*John pushed the heavy oak doors open, his usual stoic composure slightly frayed..He didn't wait to approach the desk, stepping quickly across the marble floor..*

John: Boss..We have a massive complication..The first phase has collapsed before we could even trigger our distractions..

Luhan(pen stopped twirling,he slowly rested his hands on the desk, a faint, deeply unsettling smirk playing on the corner of his lips): Let me guess..The street rats in Seoul couldn't handle the pressure..

John(reported, his voice tight): The entire Black Viper group has been locked down..The NSI executed a highly coordinated, synchronized raid on all five of their primary sectors simultaneously.. Hanjae and his top lieutenants were brutally beaten and taken into federal custody.. Their servers, their off-shore transaction ledgers, their communication logs, everything was seized by the state..

*John paused, waiting for the inevitable explosion of rage, the shattering of glass, or the lethal threats that usually followed such catastrophic news..Instead, Luhan let out a low, melodic chuckle..The sound was entirely void of amusement, echoing off the walls like the purr of a satisfied predator..He leaned back in his leather chair, crossing one leg over the other, completely unbothered..*

Luhan(whispered, his smirk widening into a chilling, arrogant grin): Expected..I told you, John, Hanjae was nothing but a weak, desperate dog.. A dog can hunt small prey, but the moment a real wolf steps into the yard, it cowers and barks..The Black Vipers served their purpose.. They kept my doll contained long enough for me to locate her center of gravity..Their removal changes nothing..

John(stepped closer, his brow furrowed with genuine worry): But boss, you don't understand the gravity of the sweep..The NSI didn't just arrest them.. They recovered the cross-border digital financial trails..Their top data analysts are currently deep-diving into the shell companies.. It's only a matter of days, maybe hours, before they compile enough solid evidence to link the wire transfers directly to your accounts here in America..They are building an international case against you.. They will issue a global red notice..

*Luhan's eyes shifted slowly from the photograph of Taehyung to look directly at John..The absolute void of fear in his gaze was terrifying.. It was the look of a man who believed he was entirely untouchable, a man whose sanity had long since been consumed by a singular, burning fixation.."

Luhan(asked, his voice dropping into a dark, rattling register that made the hair on John's arms stand up): Evidence??An international case?? Do you honestly think I give a single damn about a piece of paper signed by a bunch of state-funded bureaucrats in Seoul??Let them compile their spreadsheets..Let them print their warrants.. The NSI is a localized pack of hounds bound by laws, jurisdictions, and boundaries.. I operate in the spaces between those boundaries.. I am the law in my world..

*He stood up slowly, his tall frame cutting a menacing silhouette against the glass windows.. He walked over to the portrait of Taehyung, his eyes instantly turning soft, glassy, and completely unhinged as he stared into tae's printed eyes..*