Chapter 59 · Sister at Arrivals

"Don't move." Jae Min's hand hit the pillar beside my head before I even saw him coming. Close enough that his sleeve brushed my shoulder. "Not until you tell me why your sister's contract got pulled two hours before her flight."

My stomach dropped straight through the airport floor. "Pulled? What are you talking about, pulled?"

"Dubai canceled her visa sponsorship this morning." He held up a folded printout, close enough that I could read the letterhead upside down. Velasco Group. "Somebody made a call. I want to know if it was you talking, or you not talking."

Arrivals at NAIA Terminal 3 doesn't care whose life is falling apart. Trolleys kept banging past us, wheels catching on the tile grout. A kid screamed for his lola somewhere behind the barricade. Somebody's perfume was way too strong and it made my eyes water, or maybe that was something else. I grabbed the printout out of his hand and my fingers were shaking so hard the paper crackled.

"I didn't say anything to anyone," I said.