Fake || a kth and jjk ff

|| twenty-four ||

Taehyung signed the check and left the restaurant, then started to pace the sidewalk as he waited for Jungkook. Jin's phone call had left him conflicted. He played it over again in his head, hoping for a better resolution.

Taehyung had told Jin about Seongjin's password and the suspicious email while they were in the dressing rooms at the tux shop. He'd no sooner picked up Jin's phone call than his brother said, "Jungkook's right. The password works on everything... everything but his personal email account. Is there any way you can quiz him to see if he knows of any alternate passwords?"

"No. That one was a fluke, and even if I could work it into a normal conversation, I suspect he wouldn't know. He said it was the password his dad used for everything... so we're screwed."

"Slow down there," Jin laughed. "We may have struck out there, but that doesn't mean I came up empty-handed."

It turned out that Jin had already made more progress in two hours at Jeon Seongjin's office than Taehyung had made in a day. "Don't ever become a detective, Tae," Jin chuckled. "You couldn't investigate your way out of a paper bag."

"Hey, I got the password."

Jin just laughed. "Which you already admitted was a lucky fluke."

"Who did you screw to get what you needed?" Taehyung asked dryly.

"While I'm flattered you think I could seduce someone so quickly during a weekday, and in an office to boot, that's not how I did it."

"So how did you do it?"

"Flattery and asking the right questions."

"That's great. Gloat all you want. What I really want to know is what you've found."

"I think you might be right about Jeon Seongjin being a part of this."

Taehyung's heart sank. He had hoped to be wrong, even though the email seemed like pretty substantial evidence. "Why would you say that?"

"The bookkeeper let it slip that Seongjin has been siphoning money off the company. Thousands of dollars."

"That's no surprise. Jeon Ae-ri spent sixty-five million won on a wedding Jungkook didn't even want."

"Down boy. You nearly jumped down Ae-ri's throat at the tuxedo rental store."

"She deserved it."

"Well, cool your outrage. You need to stay in that woman's good graces."

"Why?" Jin didn't answer and an anxious ball formed in the pit of Tae's stomach. "Jin? Why do I need to stay in the woman's good graces?"

"You can't break up with Jeon's son tonight."

A disarming mixture of relief and dismay washed through him. "Why not?"

"Because the partner's son, Lee Seungsoo, is showing up for the wedding tomorrow. I saw a photo of him in the partner's office with his fiancée."

"Is that supposed to mean something? Do I really care who's on the guest list?" Taehyung was still trying to decide whether postponing his inevitable breakup was a good thing or not.

"Lee's fiancée is the woman I slept with the night the plans disappeared."

"Holy shit."

"Exactly." Jin sounded smug, not that Taehyung could blame him. It was a monumental find. Of course, Jin was the one who'd lost the plans to Lee Seungsoo's fiancée in the first place.

"If Lee Seungsoo stole the plans, how does Jeon Seongjin come into play?"

"Seongjin's been taking so much money from the company that the firm needs this patent to survive just like we do."