" Who was it?"

" Seems like Lee Min Ho-ssi made a sly move."

" Such a coward, playing with the brakes then! His style indeed."

"How shall I proceed, Miss Park?"

"Let him be for now; I will deal with him myself."

When she learned of the devious role Min Ho was playing behind her back and causing her harm, she began to see him in a new light; it's not that she was unaware of him before, but that he went so far as to try to kill her was undoubtedly an unexpected move on his part.

She thought his best would stop at forcing their marriage the way he did, threatening the late Mr. Park through his father when Park faced some financial difficulties at the time he first created Park and Kim holding, which name was THE PARK and CO. Min ho's father helped his son by arranging a huge some that he provided to the needy Park as a loan. When the latter wasn't able to pay it back, he forced the marriage of his son with Katarina at the young age of twenty-two years old, despite the twelve years age gap the duo had, resulting in the loss of a relatively high amount of shares that Katarina claimed back after the partnership with Seokjin, as a result of the success of the Holding and the subsidiaries.

Such a sly fox.

A fox in love.

" your request has been taken care of; we just need it to arrive in a few months, Katarina-ssi."

" Good job, Taehyung; let me know when everything is ready."

Katarina had her ways when it came to Min Ho; However, she never imagined he'd over-step his boundaries the way he did; the woman, as far as her life was intact, knew for sure that such delicious revenge needed to be only her's, not for anyone to take care of, not to share with anyone.

That's how revenge should be served on a very well-decorated dish.

However, now more than ever, she needed her mind to be free from Min Ho and the world. The match of the century was just around the corner, and Jungkook wasn't acting wise the way he was supposed to.

That drove her crazy, to say the less.

Jungkook was like a wild horse, challenging to ride without proper training and taming sessions; he also needed one of the best in the field to ground his rebel character at once; obviously, she was the only one who could deal with such a pain in the butt and to help her in her mission, there was no one but his son.

Now that the heart that needed the child was within her reach, Jungkook had no choice but to comply with what she asked; it was the least he could do for her if he knew how to be grateful; the woman rolled over to find a compatible donor as if that in itself was not a difficult task, the heart had to come from a child donor, which was almost impossible to find, and when you combined compatibility and the size of the perfect organ for the recipient, it was certainly a daunting task to accomplish.

Jungkook had to give her credit.

But only if he knew it from the beginning because Katarina had never revealed this truth to him, not before the end of the first round and certainly not before he had pulled himself together.

The healthy diet of proteins and healthy fats, the many hours he had to spend in the gym, and the various tests he had to undergo each time, such as the anti-doping test and some other health-related tests, exhausted the man, and one couldn't blame him.

Since the signing of the contract by both parties, in the presence of Seokjin and Katarina's legal team led by Jung Hoseok, her right-hand man in legal matters and illegal business, who was a figure far too similar to that of a consigliere of the Italian mafia, Katarina moved Jungkook into her penthouse in Yongsan-gu so that she could monitor him from a comparative perspective.

Drafting a contract that would protect both parties and safeguard their mutual interests was an easy task for Hoseok; what was a bit risky was how to get rid of it without upsetting his boss; in other words, how to get rid of any clauses that might corner Katerina.

Although such a thing had never happened before, the man couldn't help but scrutinize every detail; after all, his life depended on the satisfaction of his picky customer.

When Katarina entered the penthouse, she was shocked by the broken glass of various ornamental vases and some cups and bowls; the house was a big mess; it seemed as if a typhoon had hit the house; the pillows on the floor, some special artworks and portraits she cherished were now hanging on the floor, some of them torn.

What a loss for the artwork.

The wild man finally lost his temper; the guards could barely stop him from destroying the house over their heads, yelling at them and shouting various expletives; she stood in the corner with her body leaning against the wall, acting very calm.

She seemed to be amused by the sight; it was as if she were watching a teenager going through puberty; she couldn't suppress the smile that had unintentionally settled on her face.

A strong man like him was definitely her ultimate style, a wild man, someone who could overpower her and handle the woman she was.

That smile couldn't last long, though, not when her gladiator decided to almost attack her before being stopped by Taehyung, who appeared out of nowhere.

Luckily.

"It's okay, Taehyung; I'm fine."

"But..."

"You can wait outside; I'll call you if I need to and take out the guards with you."

Katarina was trained in all martial arts; she could defeat a man in seconds. But she never liked to use her fists to solve problems; she preferred words and reason; after all, the woman was right; it was better to communicate with words.

" Listen, this situation is driving me crazy; you better give me all the details before I go crazy."

" Why so angry, Jungkook-ssi? Calm down, let's sit down."

"I don't want to sit down, and you better explain this to me, Katarina."

" I'll give you ten minutes to calm down; I'll be in my room in the meantime."

" Katarina, you better open your mouth; why is my son still a hostage, huh? Why can't I meet with him freely, even though I signed the damn contract?"

With calm steps, without an ounce of fear, she stepped closer to the enraged beast, looked the man straight in the eye, quickly pulled out the snub-nosed revolver she carried on her hip, pointed the gun at his head in one swift motion without breaking eye contact, turned the hammer back and declared the gun ready to fire while her thumb was firmly on the trigger.

"This is the last time you'll address me without an honorific name, Jungkook-ssi; next time, I'll decorate your forehead nicely with a crimson color."

Jungkook froze at her words; his eyes didn't leave hers for a second, just as hers did; the tension was muscular, a mixture of feelings inexplicable to both of them facing each other, a mixture of disgust, lust, anger, attraction.

Magnet.

After retrieving her weapon from his head, she calmly made her way to her room while reattaching the weapon to her waistband; with a soft sigh born of annoyance at the moves Jungkook kept making, she slammed the door and went into a hot bath to relieve her now tense muscles.

As if what he had experienced wasn't enough, Jungkook went to her room and sat on her bed until she finished her bath; the man was risking his life, to say the least.

But it was necessary; he had to understand his position in the chess game she was playing.

As she stepped out of the shower, covered only by a small white towel, Jungkook could not help but admire her hourglass figure; the towel doing its best to protect her lower body while revealing a view of her cleavage drops of water gently running down and finding their hiding place in the center of her chest, the man tried his best to control his hungry self.

No reproach to him.

It had been ages since he last had a woman between his arms, and now he had a beautiful, nearly naked woman right before his eyes. At the same time he forgot what a naked woman looked like before the scene that was now unfolding before him, he was a man with needs, but the life he led forced him to satisfy his hunger with his calloused hands rather than the warm walls of a woman.

What a loss of his youth, he was a man any woman would dream of; he lacked for nothing; he had a very well-built body, which he owed to years of intense training in the army, and a beautiful, charming face with delicate lines in a solid, masculine appearance, but unfortunately his financial situation did not allow him enough luxury to pay a whore to warm his bed, nor enough to engage in a serious relationship with a woman, not when he had other expenses that were emptying his pockets, not to mention the fact that no woman would accept a poor man who had a child to trunk.

He could not deny that he visioned her in his firm grip, between his arms; he wanted to crush her, to ruin her until he reached the peak of his long-held climax, not love he wanted to make with her because what he felt for her was not close to affection, he wanted to prove his masculinity by controlling her at least at that moment.

That was what he thought it was.

Was it like this?

"Either you are overly persistent or stubborn, Jungkook-ssi."

His presence in her room, while she was half naked, did not really interest her; after all, she was not a woman to be intimidated by a man; if anything, it was the other way around; she just waited for his answer to her sardonic question.

" I want to know the whole truth; that's my right, I think."

" And I believe I told you to calm down so we could have a civil conversation."

Jungkook decided to gather all his courage; he was blinded by his overflowing anger, his frustration; she was stalling him to satisfy his curiosity, which was already getting the best of him; he had been patient for so long, even when he was forced to participate in a contest whose terms were not completely clear to this day, and how could they be? When no one explained to him the essential details, not even on the contract he signed, he could find answers to his many questions.

The man has his reasons, and that is a fact.

He approached her angrily, his eyebrows furrowed, and just as he glared angrily at her, he grabbed her shoulders tightly with his big hands and pressed her body against the wall behind her, close to her vanity, so that her delicate body hit hard against the cold wall. He never raised his hand against a woman, however; this time, he was about to do just that.

" Instead of stalling, be honest; you definitely have me in the palm of your hand."

" Do not do anything you'll regret right after Jungkook; you do not want to test me."

Every word she calmly uttered only increased his anger, made his blood boil in his veins; he only began to see red; he wanted to bury her on the spot, he pictured in his mind how he could do that, and he imagined how he would return to his miserable but mundane life, where his biggest worry was his son, without being forced to take part in any crazy affairs between rich people who played him around like a puppet.

He had already witnessed enough of this nonsense.

He grabbed the first vase over which his gaze quickly fell and smashed it against the wall, benefiting from her now-closed eyes from the loud noise created by the sudden smashing; he crouched down and took a piece of the broken glass to hand; he aimed directly at her neck without hesitation, threatening her carotid artery, he knew exactly the point that would bring her final death.

" Brave enough; I must give you credit for that."

" I can kill you now and take care of your dogs later."

"Jungkook, I may have said that you are brave, which is a fact. But I must also say that your stupidity is unparalleled."

" If you want to run your mouth, you better tell me some details."

Jungkook was blinded by his emotions, which is a wicked act in his current situation; he forgot what kind of person he was dealing with, he should have calculated better, and he needed a reality check; certainly, he was not fit to be a rival for her, letting emotions play him in front of a person who had none was a big mistake.

While he was busy trying to force her to speak under the threat of a shard of glass from which he was bleeding due to his firm grip, her hands were already moving sinuously to her dressing table, where she kept a full midazolam syringe that she had already prepared when she entered her room in anticipation of such an outrageous scene from him. During the time she spent with him, she began to read between his lines, as if in a book she had memorized; to tell the truth, behind the ambiguous aura he gave off was a simple man, at least to her, thanks to Taehyung and Jimin who had done enough research on him, another reason for the medicines she kept is for safety, in case she was attacked in her house, or just in case her opponent made her overpowered, as in the ongoing case between her and Jungkook.

She could have fought him off, if it wasn't for his feat, but he chose the dirty option, so she decided to let him taste his poison more gently until he collected himself.

" Do you think I can not take out a woman in seconds? You misunderstood me, Katarina Park."

" You did, Jeon Jungkook

In response to the unexpected movement, he dropped the glass to the floor; his vision was blurred by the medication, his balance weakened with each breath, and she stood there looking at his stumbling body with a sinister grin on her lips.

She rolled her eyes at the trouble he was causing, disturbing the peace of an evening she had planned to spend with him quietly in the penthouse, perhaps talking over a glass of wine. She crouched down to catch up with his body, which froze on the cold floor because the muscles had lost strength from the injected solution.

" Now you are going to forcibly calm down, which is not what I wanted. But the decision is always yours, and I follow Jungkook."

Her voice echoed in his ears like a distant sound; he could barely keep his eyes open as they grew heavier with each passing second; as he watched her figure walk away, he tried to grab her leg, and in response, she kicked him hard on the shoulder, causing him to hiss in pain, a pain that faded as the last bit of energy left in his body dissipated.

" Sleep, I said. Do not be so stubborn; I do not want to hurt you."

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