Aboard the private jet bound for Korea.
The city of red earth and its sandstorms receded farther and farther away.
Wearing a Hawaiian shirt, Jeong Gilgaon flexed his newly smoothed arm.
“Madame was naïve. From the moment Mustaine gave her that pet name, he was never going to let her go.”
“Pet name? ‘Pearl,’ you mean? So what about it?”
“Keep up with world history a little, President Hwang. ‘Pearl’ was the nickname of the former Queen of Morocco—the King’s mother. She died when Mustaine was young, so it’s an ache that never healed.”
It was, no doubt, the resolve of young Mustaine to make Lambert his queen one way or another. A son’s resolve hung on his mother’s name isn’t something that breaks easily.
“Thanks to that, I’m the one who benefits in the end.”
With lazy ease, Jeong Gilgaon popped a victory champagne.
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