"No. I can't do that"
Shin rejected once again.
"Why not?! You were prepared to make a deal with me before all this. Remember?"
"That deal never materialized. And I never took your money. There was no deal."
"Then I can give you the money now. 15 million Won advance payment. 200 million once I sort out the house."
I was ready to put everything I could possibly cash out. I was staying at Shin's safe house in Paju anyway and I could probably move out of the flat in the city and get some deposit back. Break the savings account. Take out some loans. Sell whatever little coins and stocks I meddled with.
"Money is not the main issue here." Shin didn't even bother looking at my way as we drove through the night back home.
"Then what is it?"
"You are asking to do a job on a former client. That is just not something we do."
"But he wasn't your client!"
I was getting desperate.
