'Golden Mary'

Part 7

"Forget about that," Hyukjae said sticking his money into his pocket, "what are you going to do about the 'Golden Mary'? You said you were going to go after it."

"Ah...I did say that, didn't I?" Donghae asked. "But I don't know where it is."

"Why don't you just follow the people you heard it from? They're still around, aren't they?" Hyukjae suggested.

He and Donghae turned to look at each other without a word.

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"South Korea's Web Packaging assets increases by thousands over a two-day business inquiry," Seohyun read aloud as she scrolled down the 'Breaking News' column of articles.

She leaned forward onto her desk, chin in her palm. Thirsty she reached for her cup of water and gulped the rest of it down before leaning back in her chair. It was no good. She'd spent more than half the day in her room researching whatever she could for her and Victoria's sake, but she hadn't found anything. At this rate, they would have to keep going down the list Kangta had sent them through email. They'd been without luck so far and they'd only been able to infiltrate two houses unsuccessfully.

Seohyun turned around to glance out her door. That was right. Luhan had grown up in a luxurious household that she had been forbidden to visit. His father owned a large business that she didn't even know the name of and even Luhan didn't like talking about it. She only knew that it dealt with exporting stuff abroad and involved many business trades. Ever since young Seohyun disliked dealing with business-inventory things etc. The talks, the meetings, the presentations, all of it bored her. There had been one time when she'd walked with Luhan to the front gate of his house and she'd run into his mother then. A kind woman she was.

Of course, if Luhan's family was so big he must know some of the biggest business tyrants. Why hadn't it occurred to Seohyun to ask him in the first place? She felt so dumb all of a sudden before lugging herself up to her feet. Trailing down the short hallway she stopped by the door and glanced into the closet sized living room. Luhan was currently listening to his mp3 while shaking his foot about eating away at something Seohyun assumed Victoria had bought him. She couldn't help but roll her eyes wondering why Victoria even bothered to spoil him.

"Yah," Seohyun started.

Luhan continued shaking his foot unaware of her presence. Seohyun groaned wondering why she even bothered with him and slammed her fist against the wall. When Luhan turned to look at her she reached a hand out to pull out his earphone.

"Ah...ow!" he cried putting a hand up to his ear. "That hurt!"

"It wouldn't have hurt if you were listening," Seohyun shot back. "Turn your music off, I need to talk to you."

He scowled at her before obeying.

After setting aside his mp3 he turned to look at her, "What?"

"Since your father's a businessman, that means you should have met some of the biggest business owners, right?" Seohyun leaned against the frame of the door crossing her arms over her flannel shirt.

Luhan shrugged.

Seohyun rolled her eyes, "Name a few of them."

"Why?"

"I'm telling you to give me a few names." she said almost gritting her teeth.

She had to say, even though her's and Victoria's personalities were a bit different there was one thing they had in common, the way they controlled their tempers. They just tended to unleash it to its max when they felt it rising inside. Maybe that was what helped them cooperate as a team.