YeJi couldn’t believe this. She got caught. Even worse she got caught in the act. She got caught with a 15k painting in her backpack. She got caught in the crime scene. Life was not good for YeJi.

  The door swung open to allow the decorated police detective Yang BongHwa to swagger his way in. YeJi leaned back as far as her wrist cuffs would let her, Detective Yang carried a pungent odor with him, he smelled strongly of cigars and sweat, it was, to say the least, disgusting.

  “Lee YeJi…” the man said, easing himself into the chair across the table “You’re in a lot of trouble little girl”

  YeJi’s lip wrinkled at the title, she wasn’t little, she definitely wasn’t a little girl. “So?” she asked “What about it?”

  “So your facing hard time, missy”

  She almost growled at that “Don’t call me that”

  “What? Missy?” the pig man scoffed “You’re a Number right? You don’t look like it”

 “You wanna find out?” she spat, standing up, her chair falling over

  The detective staggered back, drawing his gun and pointing it at her. They remained like that until the door opened letting in a woman dressed impeccably in a black suit.

  “Am I interrupting?” she asked

  “Yes..” the detective started

  “To bad”

  “Uh… what?”

  “Leave now. Your presence is no longer required in this room.”

  The pig man looked flustered at the fact that a woman, a stranger no less, was ordering him out of the room.

  “You can’t-“

   The woman had had enough “Detective Yang, please leave”

  The detective was so shocked that he allowed himself to be shoved out of the room.

   After he left the woman walked over to YeJi, setting her chair upright the woman motioned for YeJi to sit down.

  Taking the keys the woman offered YeJi unlocked her cuffs. “Not that I’m ungrateful or anything, but why are you here?”

  The woman straightened her hair before speaking “I’m here to make you an offer, if you accept we can make all this” she said motioning to YeJi and the cuffs “Go away”

  “You can?”

  The woman nodded, smiling slightly “You just have to accept”

  YeJi stared at her hands, deep in thought. She still had unfinished business with her parents, and she didn’t want to go to jail. “Yes” she said, looking the woman straight in the eye.

  The woman smiled “Good choice”