Author's POV
Daejun was smiling in satisfaction as he heard the information given by his men. His attention was turned to the door when a lady came in.
"Good job, I know I can count on you," he uttered while curving a big wide smile.
She tossed her hair while flashing him a smug smile. "I better get my rewards, it was real hard to seduce him," she remarked and sat beside the husband.
"Well I guess nothing can stop you," he scoffed.
She huffed. "Well with some money, I paid the employee to send him some stuffs that could make him sleep," a proud smile curved.
Daejun clapped his hands in amusement. "I know I can rely on you, honey," he said.
"Well about the rewards, you don't have to worry," he crossed his legs. "You will get how much as you wanted," he smirked.
The lady smiled in amuse. She liked the sound of that.
"So what is your next plan?," she asked.
Daejun shrugged. "They are not living together anymore I see, so it is easier for us to you know take the kid away," he replied.
"Ray," he called out the man who was standing behind them.
"Yes, Sir?"
"Just go on with our next plan, the sooner it is the better it will be," he demanded. "I would not waste any times to get my money."
Ray nodded upon hearing the order from his boss. "Alright, Sir," he replied before walking away from the room.
"Are you sure he can make sure the plan will go well?," she asked while watching the guy's back disappeared from her husband's office.
Daejun nodded. "Of course, he has been working so long for me," he said in confidence.
"But what would we do with the kid after we got the money?," he turned his head aside when the wife asked.
She lifted one of her eyebrows. "You wanted to take care of him?," she asked, doubt in her voice was obvious.
Daejun scoffed. "No," he retorted. "It was like the reason why I left them before," he continued, not believing what he just heard.
She shrugged off. "I know. So what are we gonna do with him?."
"We need to at least convinced them that Taeyong really wanted to live with us so let's keep him for few years," he uttered. "After that, we will just drop him back to his mom or something? I don't care," he said.
The lady nodded. "But what if he go to the police? We will be dead," she said.
"I will make sure he would never do that. That kid is not that brave anyways," he replied.
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"Taeyong?"
Jaehyun arched his eyebrows in confusion to be seeing Taeyong in this kind of state. He was always zoning out with those troubled expressions on his face.
He sighed deeply and placed his hand on the latter's shoulder. "Taeyong? Are you okay?," he shook the latter gently.
"Huh, what did you say?," Taeyong startled from his thoughts and saw Jaehyun staring at him in concern.
Jaehyun exhaled sharply. For sure, there was something troubling his minds.
"What's wrong hm?," he asked. "Do you want to share it with me?," he stared at him softly, ensuring him.
Taeyong released a heavy sigh. He was not sure if he should but he knew he could trust Jaehyun about this. So he ended up telling him everything.
"I'm sorry, I just need to get this off my chest," he let out a low chuckle, hiding his pain behind his own smile.
Jaehyun was surprised to be hearing the words from Taeyong and half of his heart was not believing it either.
He shifted closer towards the latter. "Don't be sorry, you can tell me anything," he softly uttered that. He could see the stain of tears on those cheeks, he knew how much Taeyong cried because of it.
Taeyong slowly landed his head on the broad shoulder beside him. He just wanted to, he needed a support now.
It was filled with deep silence between them afterwards. Neither wanted to break the silence by talking and chose to savor the moment for now.
"What...do you think about it?"
Taeyong's voice was the one breaking the silence.
"Hm?"
Taeyong lifted his head and looked at Jaehyun. "Do you believe he did that?," he asked him. looking at him with his hopeful eyes.
Jaehyun took a deep breath himself.
"Honestly, I don't," he announced. He always saw how much Kai loved Taeyong and cared for him. Sometimes even more than caring for himself.
He witnessed all of that.
He was sure Kai was a good person and there was no way he would do such things. Moreover, things like these. There must be something wrong with it.
"I could see how much he cares about you and your mom," he said. "He loves both of you, I can say that," he curled a smile while stroking the features in front of him.
Taeyong lowered his face. He was thinking the same way as well but still-
"I think you should give him a chance to explain everything," he slowly said, tilting his head to meet the other's eyes. "Okay?"
Taeyong nodded as he flashed him a small smile. He knew what Jaehyun said was all truth and they should have listen to him.
"It's getting late now," Jaehyun said as he stood up while looking around.
He reached out his hand towards Taeyong. "Let's go, I will walk you home," he smiled fondly towards him.
As much as he wanted to be with Taeyong longer, he didn't want to make his parents worried or they would no longer let them go out.
Taeyong reached for his hand and stood up.
"It's fine. I'm not staying at home at the moment," he replied as they were walking.
Jaehyun frowned. "Oh, so where are you staying?," he stopped walking and looked at Taeyong instead.
"Uhm well, we told dad that we are staying at grandpa's but no we don't want to make grandpa worried about us," he told. "So we stayed at Mark's for a while," he said.
Jaehyun nodded. "Well then let me walk you there," he mentioned.
Taeyong smiled as a reply and they began to walk.
"Oh, can you wait here for a while? I need to go to the toilet for a while," Jaehyun suddenly stopped, pointing at the public toilet near them.
Taeyong nodded. "Sure," he answered and shook his head while chuckling to see Jaehyun scuttling away.
He made his way towards the bench and plopped down to wait for Jaehyun. He took out his cell phone and played with it.
But his mind was still thinking about all those things happening right now. He hoped everything would be fine, just like before.
Please. He only wanted that.
As he was focused on his phone, he could feel the presence of someone behind him. He turned around to see a few men standing behind the bench he was sitting at.
Shit. What was happening?
He turned to the front to stand up but two other men blocked his way from the front. Damn it. He was trapped for sure.
"What do you want?"
"You will be coming with us," one of them said.
Taeyong could feel his heart was thumping loudly. He was scared as hell for sure but there was no way to escape.
Shout? There were no one around them at the moment.
He was just hoping Jaehyun would be here any moment. Before they could do anything but as soon as he felt the grip on his arm, he knew there were nowhere out.
"Let me go!"
Jaehyun exhaled in relief as soon as he walked out of the toilet. He approached the place he promised Taeyong to meet but to his surprise he was not there.
"Taeyong?"
He yelled out to call his name. But there were no response.
Oh no. Where did he go?
He looked around the place to look for him. There was no way Taeyong would only leave without telling him first.
His eyes caught the sight of something on the bench. And yes, it was Taeyong's cell phone. So for sure he had not went home.
The figure of Daejun suddenly crossed his mind. He remembered Taeyong telling him about that guy, how he wanted Taeyong to stay with him but he refused every times.
He ran around trying to found him but his sight was nowhere to be seen. He started to feel very scared right now, this was really not good.
He took out his phone and dialed a number.
"Hello?"
"Hello, Mark? Is Taeyong there with you?," he bombarded him with question as soon as he picked up the call.
Mark was dumbfounded with the sudden question. "No, he is not back yet. Isn't he is supposed to be with you right now?," he asked back.
Jaehyun frustratedly ruffled his hair. "Yes, but he is suddenly gone. I can't find him anywhere," he replied.
"What?! Where is he?!"
"I went to the toilet for a while and when I'm back, he disappeared. I thought he went back home but looks like not," he said.
He started to feel guilty instead. Like it was his fault.
"Okay right now, I will tell his mom about this," Mark said.
Jaehyun nodded. "Sure," he said and ended the call.
He sighed deeply. "Taeyong, please be fine."
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