'Golden Mary'

Part 10

"Are you sure? It might not be safe."

"That's why I'm going," Victoria said, "to see if he's safe or not."

Seohyun let her eyes fall onto Victoria's cup of coffee.

"Then what should we do next?" asked Seohyun. "The other houses might have the same kind of alarm we triggered last night. It's going to be a lot more dangerous."

"Dangerous or not, the 'Golden Mary' needs to be found," Victoria said chewing away as if none of it mattered at all. She turned to look out the window, "The 'Golden Mary' is a dangerous thing anyway, it would only make sense if it belonged to someone who can set booby traps and shoot a gun."

Seohyun couldn't tell if Victoria was just mocking the key or if she really meant it. No matter what, Seohyun could no longer measure the capacity of its strength any more. She suddenly wondered if their mission could be fulfilled after all, especially with so many events happening in between. Would outsiders be able to stop them? She and Victoria weren't just robots but normal human beings as well. They wouldn't be able to stop bullets or run past anyone without being noticed.

What also worried Seohyun was about Luhan's connection to those big business tyrants and how she was going to fit Siwon into her life. Would she be able to see him again before she completed the mission? What about after?

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He grabbed onto his cardigan, readjusted it a bit, before smiling at his own reflection in the mirror. Feeling excited he left his apartment and flagged a taxi outside. At last he arrived at the promised destination approximately right when his watch clicked 12:00. Donghae readjusted his cardigan again and glanced in through the large clear windows to see that Victoria was already there. He stared at the long hair trailing over her shoulders and watched her take a sip of her coffee before he started toward the door.

Pulling it open he heard the cashier shout out a greeting to him. After ordering, he grabbed his coffee and walked over to Victoria's table. His heart slightly skipped roughly three beats when his eyes landed on her face. It felt like they were so close. He was simply so ecstatic just seeing her.

"Shall we just get down to business?" Victoria asked looking at him. "I don't want to do small talk."

He smiled, "Yea, it's fine."

"Who are you, really." not a question. "You've not just helped me once, but twice, why? And why were you in Hong Chong Il's home that night?"

How would she react when he told her he was a cop, but a thief? Would she dislike him? Act like she didn't know him? He worried, Donghae was suddenly feeling very vexed.

"Would you despise me or would you hate me?"

"What's the difference?"

"By despise, I mean would you look down on me, by hate, would you intensely loathe me." he defined.

Victoria remained quiet.

Donghae suddenly released the cup of coffee he realized he'd been clutching onto the whole time, before sliding his hands off the table. As they fell onto his lap he tightly clamped them together nervously.

"I don't have a normal job, don't have a steady income with a promised wage, but my job is a self proclaimed one," Donghae began. "I'm really nobody, I'm not a cop either. I lied about it, sorry."

Victoria frowned at him, "But you were with them..."

Donghae felt his lips fall apart to explain but didn't know where to begin. He hesitated, let his thoughts flow through, and tried to fix them into a logical order. Would she understand if he told her?