Chapter 180
Seoul, Korea
Gwangjin District
Without a word, they both climbed in the backseat of the car and buckled their seatbelts.
“That actually went better than I thought it would,” Lucien commented to himself, pulling his mobile phone from his pocket then texted Will, Lula, Evie, and Kita to let them know what happened and that Chairman Hu needed to be brought in right away.
Even though Lula told Lucien to drop it, and that this wasn’t part of their job and it was none of their business what or who their clients had sex with, Lucien couldn’t drop it.
If he were in their positions, he’d want to know the truth, so would his siblings. Lula didn’t want the extra work, Lucien knew, so that’s why he was heading it up with William so Lula was out of the loop.
The texts he got back confirmed Will was already working on it since he was doing things he shouldn’t have been while Lula was out picking up Kita and Rain with their parents.
Will would hack the local police system and put an arrest warrant out for the semi-conscious woman they left on the floor of the apartment. That way, she’d be picked up by the police tonight before she could try to sell the scandalous story of Myo Mi-Sun having a bastard half-sister she hid from the public.
Lula would arrange for Chairman Hu to join them at the hotel so he could be briefed and check on his son and new niece. And Kita would need to tell Rain what transpired.
When Lucien got in the car, he didn’t say anything and put it in drive then pulled away.
“I am sorry,” Dae-Ho said after a stretch of silence, wiping away the tear that rolled down his cheek.
Pan Jin shook her head. “For not letting me electrocute her first?” she asked with a smirk.
He chuckled. “Yes, there is that I suppose. Next time, I promise you can use nine of the ten charges on her first,” he said.
“I’ll hold you to it,” she warned.
“My little sister would,” Dae-Ho teased with a smile but it quickly fell. “I’m sorry I didn’t know you existed. If I did, I would have fought for you, and fought to save you from her. She was a horrible mother.”
“She was, but now so much makes sense,” Pan Jin said. “What happened with Rain’s father?” she asked; it wasn’t public knowledge so she didn’t know as a super fan of Myo Mi-Sun’s. “Is he really my father?”
Dae-Ho made a face; he didn’t know what happened.
Lucien shrugged from the front seat. “I don’t know what happened either,” he said since he knew Dae-Ho didn’t know. “Chairman Hu might be able to fill in the blanks, but I can confirm you and Dae-Ho are half-siblings, and you are not Chairman Hu’s daughter. I strongly believe, and your mother just confirmed it in not so many words, that you and Seon Rain share the same father.”
“Because of our eyes and photographic memory you already deduced that,” Pan Jin surmised, putting the piece together.
“That, and you look like twins when your guards are down,” Lucien said with a small smile. “We didn’t know. I didn’t realize it until we got to Italy and you mentioned that matching skill you and Rain both possess.”
“That’s why you shined the light in my eyes, to see the olive coloring,” she said.
Lucien nodded.
“And that is why you kept pulling our hair out when you didn’t think we knew you were. You were trying to get a hair with a follicle attached for DNA testing,” she said.
Dae-Ho glared at Lucien. “You could have just asked. I thought you were making a voodoo doll of me because I wouldn’t stop trying to seduce you when I was single,” he complained.
Lucien chuckled. “Sorry. I was told to drop it by Lula, and that it wasn’t why we were hired, but I couldn’t. No one deserves to have that kind of home life, and if I can save someone from it I will. Besides, William had already orchestrated some rather disturbing and impressive contingency plans in order to free Pan Jin from the shackles and abuse regardless of you being related or not. I reeled him in, but no longer can I keep him from taking care of it in a way that he sees fit. Case in point, the police are on the way to your apartment to arrest your mother on a warrant he made up and put in the system.”
The two in the backseat looked at each other with wide eyes.
“Remind me to never pissed him off,” Dae-Ho said, and she nodded her agreement.
“Should I be scared of what those plans were?” Pan Jin asked. “I mean, it’s very sweet of Mister William to do that for me, but now I’m scared.”
Lucien chuckled. “Will protects those he feels are worthy of his protection. He has a job for you if you want it, so does Mother, and Chairman Hu… You are in high demand, President.”
Pan Jin was taking this surprisingly well, and that made Lucien nervous. Usually when women were given world shattering and altering news, they got emotional and freaked out.
Pan Jin was strangely calm.
There was no doubt she and Seon Rain were sisters.
“If you are worried, talk Will about it and go from there,” Lucien said. “Why aren’t you freaking out over this revelation?”
“Good question,” Dae-Ho said. “Why is that?”
Pan Jin smacked him in the leg. “Don’t go all annoying big brother on me,” she complained. “Growing up, when I was twelve or thirteen and in school, girls used to tease me and accuse me of trying to be like Myo Mi-Sun. That I would lighten my hair so it was the same shade as hers, or wear colored contacts so our eyes would match, or got plastic surgery to be the low budget Myo Mi-Sun. I didn’t see it when I looked in the mirror, and I never tried to look like her, but looking through the pictures of us from the red carpet and our vacation… Yeah, I clearly see it now. She does, too.”
Dae-Ho gasped. “No! Rain knows?! How do you know?” he asked.
Pan Jin blushed. “Because when they joined us after their two days alone, I accidentally called her Rain. I apologized, of course, and she told me that when I was ready to call her sister.”
Lucien nearly drove off the road in shock.
And that didn’t happen often, especially when he was behind the wheel.
If Seon Rain knew, then why didn’t she say something…
“Kita told her,” Lucien said. “Damn it. I really wish my brother knew how to keep things from her, but apparently he tells her everything.”
Dae-Ho sighed. “Yeah, Cousin has that effect on people, especially your brother. I’m more worried about Dad’s heart. Can we ease in to telling him?” he sheepishly asked when Lucien pulled around to the front of the hotel instead of the parking garage.
Chairman Hu was already there, standing out front, waiting for them.
When Dae-Ho helped Pan Jin out of the car, Chairman Hu hurried over and hugged them both, tears staining his cheeks.
“I am so, so sorry,” he stammered, alternating kisses from Dae-Ho’s head to Pan Jin’s.
And the composure the two had was gone the moment they were in a father’s loving embrace and begging for forgiveness for something he had no control over in the least, and that knew nothing about until he saw the pictures from their vacation.
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