Chapter 202
Seoul, Korea
Hotel’s Athletics Center, Vann Pool
Kita sighed, shaking his head; how Rain was completely unfazed by what just happened was beyond him. His wife was nearly killed, was shot at and injured, and yet she was smiling and giggling.
It had to be shock.
“Taking the Princess of the Imperial Family hostage and using her as a human shield was ingenious and, I hate to admit, arousing in ways that should be criminal,” Kita whispered, caressing her cheek with his thumb. “Do not tell my mother that, she will boast of me being in her image even more if you do.”
Rain smiled, getting on her tiptoes then caressed his lips with hers. “Your secret is safe with me, Husband. Once this mess is cleaned up I promise to help you with the arousal my evil side caused,” she promised.
“I appreciate the offer, Wife, but you need stitches,” Kita said, eying her arm again. “It will scar if we seek medical attention here. The best are seeing to my brother so we will go to the hospital for care. It will be safer that way.”
“Buzzkill,” Rain grumbled with a pout then looked to the other side of the pool where Wei was groaning, trying to get to his feet. “I think we both need stitches. Call hotel security and have them detain that trigger happy b*tch and I will deal with this one,” she said, looking at Suiko. “I fear her pet just put Japan and the Imperial Family on the NIS’ sh*t list.”
“Why do you say that?” Kita asked, curious.
“That nice young man is a big Myo Mi-Sun fan, and his name is Han Wei,” Rain said, motioning towards the guard sitting on the deck of the pool in a daze; the back of his head was split open and he was concussed.
Kita handed her his gun. “Understood,” he said.
The Senior Agent from the NIS that was assisting in the bombing investigation was Agent Han and there was a striking family resemblance.
“I will help you hide the body if needed,” he said through clenched teeth, eying the groaning woman on the deck next to them.
Kita was even more irritated than he was before because they needed the NIS at the moment to help process the bombing site and to trace the explosives used.
If this little incident causes the NIS to take over the investigation completely, kicking the family out of it, that would complicate things greatly. Hacking the NIS database would cause problems if they were caught, and the NIS was already apprehensive about having William Lee of all people in the vicinity of any computer in their country.
Rain smiled, taking the gun from him. “You aren’t helping how turned on I am getting with all of this action and excitement,” she pointed out.
He wagged a scolding finger in her face. “Only shoot if needed, not for fun… That is not one of my mother’s lessons,” he said, making a face, causing Rain to giggle. “Safety is off.”
“Hurry and we’ll head out,” she whispered before caressing his lips with hers again.
Kita nodded then hurried to the other side of the pool to secure Ryo and relief her of her weapons.
Rain looked to the groaning woman on the deck of the pool. “Now, what to do about you,” she said, squatting down next to Suiko. “Wake up!” she said, slapping her cheek.
Suiko slapped her hand away. “You will be punished in unimaginable ways for this,” she sneered, struggling to open her eyes.
“No, I won’t,” Rain said. “You tried to kill me. You hurt an innocent guard in order to get at me, and I should kill you for that. I am very protective of my fans,” she mused, resting the gun on her knee.
Suiko looked from it to her. “That is Kita’s gun.”
“Yes, it is,” Rain agreed. “It was a gift from your father for his decade of service to the Imperial Family, but it was not nearly compensation enough for the mental and emotional abuse you put him through.”
That was a very loaded statement.
Suiko sat up and backed away from her. “Ryo!” she shouted, looking for her annoying pet.
“Effortlessly Kita took her out,” Rain said. “It is just you and I here, and a bleeding, confused young guard with ties to the NIS.”
Her eyes widened.
That, would be a problem.
“You will pack your things and return home to Japan,” Rain said. “Kita is no longer your concern. He has moved on and found happiness, for the first time in his life, and that isn’t going to change.”
Suiko glared at her. “You know nothing,” she hissed.
“I know more than you could imagine when it pertains to my husband,” Rain retorted.
Suiko’s eyes widened.
“No longer is Kita Yasuhiro on the market,” Rain repeated, so nothing was lost in translation. “Your father, the Emperor of Japan, has blessed our union and has accepted me into the family as a niece in heart. I am under his protection, especially from his own family. What you did, that warrants a demand for atonement.”
Suiko scoffed. “My father would never choose you, a foreigner, over his own daughter,” she sneered.
“Maybe, but he would choose Kita and his happiness over the hateful and vindictive nature of his daughter,” Rain retorted.
That, they both knew with absolute certainty.
Kita was the Emperor’s favorite when it came to all of his nephews and nieces, regardless of being blood or not. And if Seon Rain was truly under the Emperor’s protection and he blessed their union, that meant Suiko would be disowned.
“Are you truly married?” Suiko asked, eying the simplistic band on Rain’s finger.
“We are,” Rain confirmed. “It was a very private church ceremony, only his baby brother and brother in-law were there to witness us exchanging vows. Thankfully, the priest spoke Latin.”
“And you do?” Suiko asked, giving her a look.
Rain smiled. “Amor vincit omnia (love conquers all),” she said with a sheepish smile. “There was a role I did that had extensive Latin in it when I was seventeen. Kita gave me a picture perfect wedding, making it as close to my favorite Hollywood rendition of Shakespeare as he could.”
Suiko shook her head; the Kita Yasuhiro the young woman spoke so passionately of was a stranger to her. Even as kids, Kita Yasuhiro wasn’t a happy child; he never smiled, never laughed, and was closed off and distant.
But the Kita Yasuhiro that Suiko has seen since he took the assignment in Korea isn’t the same man she forced to be at her side for a decade. He was a stranger to her, one she wanted nothing to do with.
“Huh,” Suiko said, just realizing that the man she wanted, the one that she thought she was in love with since childhood, isn’t the man he really is. “Do not tell my father of this misunderstanding,” she said.
Rain shook her head. “I have no interest in starting a fight within the walls of your home. I will ask my husband to overlook your most recent indiscretion,” she said, getting to her feet, the gun in her hand pulling Suiko’s attention. “But I will not be so kind on the next,” she said in a level tone that sounded eerily like Kita.
Suiko’s eyes widened.
“If I were you, I would distance yourself from your pet,” Rain said, as more of an afterthought. “This will come back on her if you do, and Kita will support that. If you do not, Lula will put you both down for what Ryo did to William. Goodbye, Your Highness,” she said with a slight nod of the head then headed to help Wei get to his feet so they could get medical attention.
Suiko scrambled to her feet. “Wait, what did she do William and Lula?” she demanded in a panic.
Rain looked over her shoulder at her. “Know that your ignorance will be the only thing that saves you from Lula’s wrath. Try to remember that,” she warned.
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