XIX. Her

I pressed back on the mirror, gulping, "Ahjussi, you're too close."

"Mischief," my brother yelled, holding Ari who was as pale as both him and Dai-Jin, and a quick look at the others told me they were all pale. "Did someone tell her to do that?" He hissed.

And when I finally realized what they were implying, I felt all my blood draining from my eyes, anger burning on my veins, "You can't be serious," I hissed, feeling almost violated, "it was an accident. You can't seriously think someone caused the accident just to get rid of my family."

"No storm could have done that," Dai-Jin whispered haunted.

Shivers ran down my spine, "Ahjussi," I warned him.

"Ajumma," he grabbed me by my shoulders, and even through the layers of cloths, my skin caught fire where his big hands touched, "no storm could have caused that accident. No… natural storm."

"That's what I meant by saying we didn't know if it was really an accident, Sera," my sister told me, and I could tell they were all thinking the same thing Dai-Jin was telling me. "We didn't know how that could be connected, but ever since you told us four days ago that they died in the train access, we've all been restlessly trying to get through the bottom of it. We initially thought they could have targeted the most powerful people in the train, but now? Now that you are telling us she,"

"My mom and my grandparents were the most powerful people in the train, Ari," I told her, haunted, and feeling absolutely stupid by being so blinded by my pain that I couldn't see the obvious, a normal storm really couldn't have done that. But then how…? I don't get it.

"What?" Diego gasped. "They were?"

"We know your mom was a hacker, but what about your nonni?"

I blinked, "Didn't uncle Daniel tell you?" Everyone bounced their heads negatively. "Have you ever heard of the Fehhasey Conglomerate?"

To my dismay, even Dai-Jin got so stunned he felt down in front of me, his body towering over, "Your family worked with the biggest empire of Eurasia, ajumma?" His jaw dropped.

"They own Prada, Saint Laurent, Bulgari, and more fifteen luxury brands, they are beyond billionaires," Adèle gasped.

"Not just fashion," Diego exclaimed. "These people have business in almost all subjects, hospitals, medicine production, all kinds of vehicles from cars to boats and planes, agriculture, beverage factories, cybersecurity, and even contacts in the government internationally speaking."

"We a part of a multibillionaire conglomerate, we all know about them," my brother exclaimed, in shock. "But no one knows who they are, their security is as tight as ours, if not more. No one knows the boss."

"Well, you do now," I chuckled anxiously and they all froze.

"What do you mean, ajumma?"

I pointed to myself, "Me. I'm the boss."

The ones who were standing all fell down, jaw dropped. "WHAT?"

"Fehhasey. Fe stands for Felicity, H for Hector, Ha for Harmony, Se for Serenity, Y for the Y at the end on the three women's names," I said it in the easiest way possible. "It was initially the Thson and the Choi groups but they united as one when harabeoji and halmeoni got married. Thson being Nosht backwards. Harabeoji and halmeoni first name it Saranghoi, but after eomma and my aunt were born, they changed it to Fehhasey. All of the employees and people who met them, signed an NDA to keep their identities a secret, which is why their death didn't make national new, but I had to hold a 3-day-long funeral because of the amount of people who came to pay their respect to them. Uncle Daniel took care of everything."

"Eomma is the one who build the cybersecurity around us, strong enough that it's pretty much unbreakable. She was a prodigy genius from childhood and graduated at MIT at 17, she projected that on me. And as she taught me how to hack since I was a toddler, and she was a severe teacher," which I used to call Snape when she wasn't around, "I am skilled at it. Do I love it? No, but I'm good. Which is how I broke into your security. It was a good one, but God… full of breaches."

"If otou-san heard you say that, he would have a stroke, ajumma," Dai-Jin mocked. "He's the head of the cybersecurity."

"Oh," I felt my skin burning. "Now, that's awkward. Sorry for the virus I threw at your system, I couldn't let you track me down so easily."

"Are you a genius or something?" My sister gasped.

"Yes?" I turned to her. "You ain't?"

"You probably took 80% of your parents intelligence in the womb, ajumma," Dai-Jin mocked, provoking her, who glared at him.

"Did you just call me dumb?" She yelled. "Condescending prick. Say it directly, if you dare."

"You're not the brightest of us, Acqua," he purred at her.

Her eyes widened annoyed, "You fucking-"

Silas held her before she could slap Dai-Jin, "You own Fehhasey?"

"Legally, I'm the only living heiress, so, yes," I swallowed. "But I don't control them, aunt Sofija does, and now I suppose she answers to me. I haven't been doing that part of the job, though, I threw it at uncle Daniel, because as eomma's best friend and the son my grandparents' didn't have, he knows exactly how their mind worked in business, and he's good doing the commanding stuff. Even if he says he's just a lawyer."

"That ahjussi is full of surprises," Dai-Jin gasped.

"You own Prada!" My sister yelled, finally realizing that.

Sigh, "Yeah. All of my exes used me because of my money. My family warned me, but I was blind and didn't see it. That's why I burned their stuff, because I gave it to them. Well… I confess I went overboard with Drago and I burned thing I did not pay for, but fuck him. He could die today and I wouldn't give a shit, I think I would actually enjoy killing him instead. But he's not worthy, he is but a small fly, and now he knows he shouldn't have messed with me. I do not tolerate backstabbers," I hissed bitterly, nauseated just by remembering.

I turned to my sister, "You were supposed to inherit half of what I did," I pressed my lips together. "Well, ⅓. ⅓ was fully mine. ⅓ was Kit's, which he inherited when his parents passed away, and he passed his money to me, so if you were in the picture, you would get ⅓ and I would get ⅔."

"Speaking of inheritance, you have right to part of ours too," my brother told me. "As dad's older daughter."

Ari frowned, "Wait, you're older than me?"

"By 25 minutes," I grinned. "Per Korean etiquette, I'm superior."

"I'm the youngest?" She beamed, not caring about what I said.

"If that makes you happy," I scoffed. "So… can I go back to Sofia?"

"What?" Everyone turned to me and I almost flinched.

"What for? We are here!" My sister said matter-of-factly.

I blinked, "You can't expect me to live in Chicago!"

"Why not?" Silas blinked. "Your family is here."

"Family is a strong word," I stood up slowly, and when Dai-Jin was going to get up, I pushed him down again. "Stay there a bit, ahjussi, your height is pissing me off. Let me feel tall for a bit." To my dismay, everyone cracked a laugh.

"If I carry you, you will stand tall, ajumma."

My brother slapped the back of his head, "Don'r flirt with her."

"I'm not flirting yet," he scoffed.

"You call that flirting?" I mocked at the same time, and when our eyes met, I instantly avoided his. "Ahjussi's not my type," I lied. "Too tall."

"I'm everyone's type," he countered, almost offended, and by how everyone rolled their eyes, done with him, I think it's not the first time he says something this condescending.

"Who deluded you, ahjussi?" I mocked. "Eomma?"

When the others burst out laughing, he scowled at me, "Ajumma!"

"Abby, you lost it," our brother scoffed, "she's been roasting Dai's ass ever since she woke up. She even slapped his face."

Diego barked a laugh, "I should have recorded, it was everything. We finally found someone able to humble his condescendence down," and that's because it's his cousin.

"No way!" Pravya chuckled amazed.

"This is better than expected," my sister grinned viciously.

"Are you usually this loved, ahjussi?" I mocked.

He scoffed, standing up against my request, "They're just envious."

"Off?" I mocked, glaring at him from head to toe, "I don't see why."

But instead of countering me, the fucker grinned like a devil, in the most sexy way possible, and that told me he knows exactly what he's doing, how impossibly hot and tempting he is, and I did my all not to gulp and stare at his lips.

It's not time for this.