Chapter 201
Seoul, Korea
Hotel’s Athletics Center, Vann Pool
Suiko’s long hair floated around her like a billowing cloud of black in the water. Her eyes were fixed on those of the young woman she was wrapped around, holding down to the bottom of the pool against her will.
The initial surprised was short lived, to Suiko’s disappointment, and the fact Rain didn’t fight back or look scared was surprising. Did the silly little girl not realize that her life was literally in Suiko’s hands?
Why wasn’t she flailing or struggling against her?
It was a certain death, and yet Seon Rain was eerily calm.
There was no fear in her eyes.
There wasn’t even annoyance.
If anything, it was amusement on her face.
That wasn’t right.
They had been under the water for at least four minutes and Suiko was starting to feel the burning in her lungs from holding her breath for so long. But the woman she was trying to drown looked completely at ease and not concerned for her wellbeing in the least.
Was she some kind of mental head case?
Was she suicidal?
What kind of weirdo was Kita Yasuhiro engaged to?!
When the lap clock rolled over to five-minutes, Suiko couldn’t hold what little breath she had any longer and tried to push Rain away from her.
The amused Korean pulled Suiko back and wrapped herself around her, keeping her on the bottom of the pool.
Suiko tried to shove her off of her again, but Rain held on and smiled as small bubbles rolled from her lips.
This wasn’t a surprise to Rain.
She knew that Suiko would try to kill her.
The question wasn’t if, but when.
It amused Rain, in a way, that the means Suiko chose was the one that she wouldn’t succeed with. Evie had said, when Kita wasn’t around to tell his mother no and that Seon Rain didn’t need Evie’s style of field lessons just yet, that when you stop observing the target is when they will best you.
Obviously Suiko stopped observing the target otherwise she would have known that Rain could hold her breath for longer, and that she wasn’t scared of being drown in the least.
Her mother was to thank for that.
Suiko also didn’t realize that Seon Rain was no longer a passive wallflower that wanted to keep the peace.
Now, Seon Rain was a fighter and the villain, and she had no problem with starting a war if it meant standing up for herself and her heart.
It will be a lesson that Suiko will learn the hard way.
When Suiko punched at Rain, to get away from her before she drown, Rain leaned back and her first barely grazed Rain’s chin.
Rain answered the assault with one of her own and slammed her fist into Suiko’s kidney once, twice, three times…
Suiko cried out in pain, the last of the air leaving her lungs in the process.
Rain smiled and hit her again for good measure.
Mauri had shown Rain how to do that while they were on vacation; it was a one on one lesson that Kita was none the wiser to.
There was nothing more Rain wanted than to drown the annoying creature that had tormented her husband his entire life.
But she was better than that, but most importantly, she was better than Suiko.
It wouldn’t be fair to force Mauri to choose between his new daughter in-law and the Emperor that is like a brother to him.
It wouldn’t be fair to force Riku to choose between his heart and honor to his country; no man could so easily overlook the fact the sister in-law of the man he loves killed his sister.
Something shadowed the overhead light before a severe searing in Rain’s arm caused her to lose her hold on Suiko and a cloud of red filled the water around them.
Suiko drifted away from her so Rain grabbed ahold of her hair then pushed off the bottom of the pool as hard as she could, kicking to the surface, pulling the barely conscious woman along with her.
Rain took a breath when their heads broke the surface, and Suiko gasped and choked, barely conscious.
“Unhand the Princess,” Ryo warned, her gun pointed at them.
Rain pulled Suiko into her and used her as a shield. “If you shoot me, we both die. Leave the pool area and I will pull her out of the water,” she said.
Ryo smirked. “I am an impressive shot and can put the bullet right between your eyes then valiantly save the Princess. I will be a hero to the Empire.”
To her surprise, Rain laughed.
“I suppose in your mind they would view you as a hero, but you neglected to notice the security cameras around the room,” Rain said, struggling to keep Suiko’s head out of the water. “Or the seething Eurasian behind you.”
Ryo’s eyes widened a fraction of a second before the butt of a gun smashed into the back of her head with such force it knocked her unconscious.
“You could have saved all of us a lot of time if you just took her out,” Rain scolded.
Kita wasn’t amused.
“Help me get her out of the water,” Rain said, reaching the opposite side of the pool.
Kita hurried over and pulled Suiko out, not bothering to check to see if she were breathing or conscious before pulling Rain out and into his arms. “Are you well?” he started to ask before he saw her profusely bleeding arm. “You have been shot,” he said, just realizing it, and he reached for his sidearm to end this here and now.
Rain looked at her arm then made a face, smacking his hand away from his sidearm. “I think it was a graze more than a traditional gunshot wound. The water’s, I’m assuming, drag force caused it to slow the deeper it went, but because it was a handgun and not a large caliber weapon, it was able to reach the bottom of the pool where we were sitting.”
Kita gave her a look, temporarily distracted from the notion of putting a bullet in Ryo’s head for hurting his wife. “Do I even want to know where you learned that?” he asked, inspecting her bleeding bicep more; it was, in fact, a graze and not nearly as bad as the water and blood loss made it look.
“Your mother,” Rain said with a giggle then hissed when he touched her arm. “The higher the speed of the bullet, the more opposition will be offered by the water against the movement- Ow!”
“Sorry. You need to stop hanging out with my mother so much.”
She blushed. “Why? She is my mother in-law.”
“Yes, she is,” he agreed, his eyes moving over her face many times. “However, her lessons will only help you reach levels of evil world domination that the world is not ready for just yet. Ease into the evil, remember?”
Rain nodded with a pout.
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