'Golden Mary'

Part 18

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"Are you sure he's over here?" the bigger man asked from behind Victoria as he glanced at the old tin garbage bins overfilled with garbage that had yet to be dumped.

He clamped his nose shut and followed Victoria down the alley she remembered Donghae had stolen her into the first time they met. She discovered it was actually a neat alley hidden from the view of anyone else. The brick buildings surrounding them gave her better cover, but wouldn't give her enough space to move around in. However, she figured she wouldn't need a large space to get this finished.

"Why are we stopping?" the man asked when Victoria decided she'd gone far enough.

Turning around Victoria took a glimpse of his face again. She'd need to take off those sunglasses of his if she wanted a better view of his face. Victoria figured she could to that later though, first she needed to ground him. Taking quite a few steps back, Victoria glanced down at the dirty ground covered in some kind of liquid she couldn't define and groaned at the fact that she'd have to clean her shoes later.

Pushing the thought aside she started a cartwheel and could hear the man say, "Hey, little girl, I don't have the time to be watching your little ballerina tricks."

"Ballerina, my ass," she hissed before going forward at a slight speed.

Ushering all her might into her feet she spun forward doing one full cartwheel before landing on her hands again. Perfect, she'd done the right estimation. As one of her foot inclined forward, she purposely bent it and allowed her right foot to come down as fast as it could. A loud grunt came from him when her foot jammed into his shoulder. Kicking her foot back she used him as a jumping board and landed on the opposite side behind him.

When Victoria turned around she found him already on his knees and used her foot again to push him over. Climbing over him, she turned him around, pried off his cracked sunglasses, and placed her lower arm at his neck.

"Who are you? Why are you looking for Luhan?"

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"Oopf!" the thin man slid back.

Before he could topple over his own feet Seohyun reached for whatever she could grab of his shirt, linked a foot around his ankle and pulled it forward forcing him onto one knee, dragging his other leg out. In just a mere moment she'd forced him into a painful split still tugging at his shirt forcing his upper torso forward. The stretch in his muscles were too much for him to handle and he could only scream.

"Please, please, it hurts! Please let me go!" he cried.

Seohyun tightened her strength on his shirt. She'd learned that sympathy could only get her killed in such moments. If she even showed a slight weakness her opponent would only take advantage of it.

"Who are you? Who do you work for?" Seohyun interrogated. "And why are you looking for Luhan?"

"I...I can't say..." he let out another scream shortly after when Seohyun used her foot to push his bent leg further back forcing him to do a real split this time.

"So...do you understand the situation right now?" Seohyun hissed. "What do you have on Luhan that you're searching for him?"

"Uh...just....j....just he's interfered with work..."

"Work?" Seohyun felt one of her eyebrows fly up. "What work?"

He didn't answer leaving her no choice but to tug on his shirt again. This time he howled fiercely.

"Please, please!" he begged.

"Who, then, do you work under?" Seohyun questioned.

"Cha...Cha Tae Sung, Cha Tae Sung!" he screamed.