𝓒𝓸𝓵𝓭 𝓐𝓼 𝓘𝓬𝓮 [𝕮𝖍𝖆𝖊𝖓𝖓𝖎𝖊]

24

I fell asleep making this chapter
*scratches my head*
Never mind that
Enjoy reading guys
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She expected her to fight back. To tell her to go fuck herself, that she wasn't walking back into Kai's sick world no matter what the cost,they could find some other way to get him. Wasn't that what their job was? saving the good guys, killing the bad?

But she didn't. "And what did you tell them?" she asked, her voice deathly calm.

"I told them you'll do it. We'll have a sniper there, and the moment he gets a shot he'll take it. All you have to do is stay calm."

"I'm very calm," She said. "Just answer one question. Why were you so sure I'd do it? Because I'm in love with you?"

She flinched, the first real blow she'd ever managed to inflict on her, and she told herself at least she had that much.

"You aren't in love with me," she said flatly. "You're much too smart for that. You know the difference between great sex and true love. Though maybe I'm wrong, you didn't know where your clitoris was."

She was fighting back, but she couldn't embarrass her. She was beyond that point. "Then why did you think I'd do it."

"Because you're a foolish, sentimental woman who thinks she can make a difference in the world. In fact, it's for the same reason you made a mistake of thinking you might be in love with me, because you're emotional and romantic and you think you need to be in love to have great sex."

"At least we've graduated from 'nothing special,'" she said coolly.

She ignored the comment. "You'd do the right thing whether it kills you or not. That's why you didn't take the out I gave you back on the island and make for the bunker, but went back to try to save Kim Jongin's sorry hide. And look what it got you. The man wants to kill you, to get back his lost pride because we scuttled every plan he had."

"And you're going to let him." It was a statement not a question.

It wasn't enough to get a rise out of her. "No. There'll be people all around you, even though you won't see them. Someone will take Kai out before he gets within ten feet of you, and then you can live happily ever after in your fancy New York apartment."

"Don't you think Kai will have thought of that? Won't he have snipers as well?"

She didn't deny it. "We're professionals. We do this for a living and we know what we're up against. If I didn't think we had a very good chance of getting you out alive I wouldn't have told them you'd do it."

"A very good chance?" she echoed. "How touching. And when is this all going to happen?"

She shrugged. She was talking this about as well as she'd expected, maybe even better. She was accepting the inevitable. With the bonus that she now hated her for betraying her. "Tomorrow sometimes. He's made the initial contact, set the terms. He'll let us know when and where it'll go down."

She looked smaller, sitting on the rumpled bed in the plain clothes she'd bought her. Smaller, more vulnerable, and she wanted to shout at her, tell her to say no. They couldn't make her do it, they couldn't make her do anything. It didn't matter what she told them, in the end it was up to her and she knew it. All she had to do was say no.

"All right," she said. "On one condition."

"There are no conditions. Either you do it or you refuse."