Chapter Twenty Two: Coffee For Your Nerves

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"But why does he want to speak to me?"

"Lei, I don't know." Namjoon wracked his brain for any reason that Si-Hyuk might need to see them both. "You haven't left the apartment alone right?"

"No Joon."

"Did you tell anyone about me?"

"Just Liz and she wouldn't say a word to anyone."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, I'm sure!"

"Your friend Jackie?"

Leila slapped her thigh in aggravation. "Did you forget I signed an NDA and violating it would literally bankrupt me?!" She prayed to God Liz hadn't mentioned anything to anyone or she'd be living on the street once she got back to New York.

Then what the fuck does he have to talk to her about?

Had Mia not been in the car, Namjoon would've had Do-Yun speed to the building for the meeting. When they finally made it and they were escorted in, he noted how uncharacteristically empty it was. Aside from the security, the entire building had been emptied of employees.

"What the fuck is going on?" Namjoon scratched the back of his head and glanced over at Leila who seemed just as shaken up.

Eventually they made it to the waiting room where the members all sat around the black sectional with worried faces. That put him even more on edge.

Mia squirmed in Leila's arms, dying to get down, and when she was allowed, she ran straight to Jungkook. His expression changed only for a moment as he held out his arms to her.

"What's going on?" Namjoon asked looking at the members. They all exchanged concerned looks and Jimin pulled his phone out.

"Hyung." He scrolled for a moment and rose from the couch to hand Namjoon his phone. "Someone photographed Leila and Mia in the building." Namjoon looked down at the phone to find a picture of Leila with Mia on her hip the day he had her picked up from the rain. His heart dropped and he ran his hand through his hair tugging tightly at the roots. He scrolled to the next picture and it was them again, the day he was planning on sending her home.

Leila needed to take some classes in Korean immediately. "What happened?" She grabbed his arm, but he pulled away.

He couldn't breathe. This was bad, this was very bad. He had seen careers end over speculation alone and Mia was not a speculation. She was very much photographed in the flesh. "So they know then? They know th-"

"That Mia is Si-Hyuk's love child? Yes." Jimin tucked his lips behind his teeth to stop himself from laughing. Someone else in the room snorted and then everyone started to slowly crack into laughter and literal tears.

Leila noted how everyone's demeanor had changed from a worried one to dying of laughter. V was covering his eyes, laughing so hard that his whole body was shaking but no sound was coming out. Yoongi was the only one who wasn't, there was a visible smile on his face, but for the most part he was keeping it together.

"What?" Namjoon looked around confused. Jimin beckoned him to give him back the phone and he tapped the screen a couple times while trying to contain his amusement. He handed Namjoon the phone back with a whimper escaping his lips from trying so hard not to crack up.

Who Are These Mystery Woman And Child?

Read the tabloid on the article Jimin had handed him.

A source tells us she is 'Hitman' Bangs mistress and the mother of his secret child.

"What?!" Namjoon yelled scrolling through the article. That only earned more laughter from the peanut gallery. "What source!?"

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