Rebel Seoul by Axie Oh

Author:Axie Oh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
Published: 2017-07-27T22:02:11+00:00

20

Double Date

“You look like you’ve just been beaten up,” Tera greets me when I climb into Alex’s car outside the station.

I scowl at her, except she’s not the one who can read minds.

“No, that’s me!” Ama says. The girls are seated together on the stretch part of the car, while Alex sprawls on the two-seater. I move to the back and squeeze in next to Tera.

I went home and changed my clothing after the fight, and now I wear a gray sweater and black pants. Also a beanie and scarf, the latter of which I begin to unwrap around my neck.

“Jaewon,” Tera says. I hold still as she drifts her cool fingers over my cut lip. “Who did this to you?”

“Just some thugs.”

Her hand lowers. “Where?”

“Why? Are you going to go after them?”

“I could.”

Her expression is serious as she waits for me to name the location of my attackers. Maybe I’m a sadist, because I find the idea of her avenging me really hot. “I’d like to see that, but it’s all right. They got what they deserved.” From Young and his crew more than from myself, but she doesn’t need to know that.

“Why were you fighting?” Alex asks. He’s tapping his finger against his knee, a nervous habit he usually shakes with a cigarette, but for some reason he isn’t smoking.

“I don’t know.”

All three of them stare at me in disbelief.

“You don’t know why you got into a fight?” Tera asks.

I consider telling them about the kidnappings, but I’m still unsure if it has anything to do with the project. I need to get more info, either from Park Taesung, or by investigating the project in the Tower myself.

I quickly change the subject. “How was this possible?” I gesture vaguely at everyone in the car, the fact that we’re all together, alone, outside the Tower.

Alex leans forward and lightly taps Ama’s ankle. She moves her legs, and he grabs four bottles of water from a cold-storage case beneath the seat. He hands one to each of us, then flips the cap on his bottle and takes a long pull of water.

“I could live in this car,” Ama says. She leans over to shift through the case’s contents. “Why is there so much alcohol in here?”

Now it’s Alex’s turn to change the subject. “Like I said in my message,” he says loudly, “my father wanted a report on the development of the project, and to see the girls in person. As it so happens, he’s requested we go to him, since he refuses to step outside his property line as of late.”

“Why not?” I twist open the bottle of water. It’s in a recyclable container that’ll be cleansed and resold at market value. Water this clean is costly.

“The UKL have made multiple threats against his life.”

“Ah, sorry.” I swallow a mouthful of water and wince as it slips into the wound on my lip. I look up to see Tera watching me. I attempt a reassuring smile, but it just pulls on the cut, and I wince again.

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