SEVENTEEN

Chapter 9

Chapter 9

"What do you mean that this is your family?!" Seungcheol asked Wonwoo. After the great big bombshell that he just dropped a minute ago he just went quiet. Jihoon and Seungcheol just looked at each other in awe. The people that they're after now are Wonwoo's family? I mean they knew beforehand that Wonwoo came from a family of money and stuff, but they never knew that they were criminals or anything. "It's just like I said to Hyung, that's my family's crest, I should, I've spent my whole childhood staring at it." Wonwoo told them. "My parents run one of the biggest loan sharking rings in the country." Seungcheol and Jihoon just looked at him. In all of the years that they have known Wonwoo they've never told him this fact about himself. All that he would ever say about his nuclear family unit was that they never got along and that they were always assholes to everyone he was friends with. "I'm going to tell the two of you this right now since you're giving that 'look.'" Wonwoo told them sternly. "I don't want any pity or anything alright, my parents are criminals and even bigger assholes, I was finally to leave and get out from underneath their thumb when I met you guys. I've never regretted that decision and I'd do it again in a heartbeat if I had to."

The confession stunned the other two in the room. They knew that Wonwoo's family was very different compared to their own but they never thought it was that bad. "If you need to talk about this, you know that you can come to anyone of us ok Won?" Seungcheol told him. "Thank you Hyung, but I'm over it, I just want to know the info that Jihoon found so we can figure out where to go from there." Wonwoo told them. "Well, Hoon, what do you have?" Seungcheol asked him to change the topic of conversation. "Not a whole lot actually, all that I've managed to find on their files and pull from the drive it seems like they were partners with La Fonte." Jihoon said. "And by the amount of money that went back and forth between the two parties they are or well were in very deep with him." "Yeah, that sounds about right, my family is really good at making 'charitable contributions' to people." Wonwoo told them. Jihoon hummed at that as he continued to click some more keys on his computer. "Well, I looked into more of your parents' contributions and I'd say that it's a good guess that they're the ones helping him out with all of the money laundering." Jihoon told him. "That's as far as I've gotten with it, I've spent most of my time leaking info and figuring out the mob contacts." "Do you think that your parents could be involved with any organized crime?" Seungcheol asked him. "I don't know, but it wouldn't surprise me if they were." Wonwoo told them.

The three of them just sat there for a few minutes before one of them talked again. "So, what are we going to do about them?' Wonwoo asked him. Seungcheol took a few minutes to consider his thoughts before answering. "I'm not sure yet to be honest with you Wonwoo." Seungcheol told him. "We'll have to look a little bit more into this before we come up with any concrete plan." Wonwoo nodded his head in understanding. "Ok, well if you need any information then just come and ask me, I've spent years hacking into their software and stuff, I know how their system works." Wonwoo said. "Thanks Won, but you don't have to do that if you don't want to, I'm sure that Woozi could find it on their own." Seungcheol told him. "Yeah I can start working on it now," Jihoon paused when Suengcheol slapped him on the back. "Ok I can look into it tomorrow when I've gotten some sleep and see what we can do." Jihoon told him. Wonwoo nodded his head. "Ok, I think that's enough excitement for today, it's time to turn in for the night." And with that all three of them turned in for the night.

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Seungcheol rolled his neck as he walked into his bedroom. He let out a pleased groan as he felt his neck give a satisfying pop. But he had a small smile on his face as he saw his two lovers asleep on the bed. It looked like they were snuggled up together under the blanket that Joshua's mother gave him for his last birthday. It was a cute site that just melted his heart. If Chan were there he would politely and loudly tell him that he was whipped. But he didn't really care, he was in love so sue him. He quietly walked past the two others who were asleep, and towards the bathroom to wash up. About 5 minutes later he came back out again and walked over to the bed. As he got to his side of the bed he caught a glimpse of the bedside clock. It read 2:03 am. Man he didn't realize that it would take that long.