"Y/n! I'm telling you, if you don't take this guy away from my eyesight I will kill him!" Jungkook frustratedly jerked back his hair and ruffled them as he glared at Taehyung who looked least bothered about Jungkook's warning.
"Don't you bother. I'll do it myself!" Saying that you reached out to grab Taehyung's neck and glared at him angrily.
"Your hands are too small to choke me." Taehyung blinked his eyes with a blank face while you gritted your teeths in anger and pushed him against the wall again.
"Kim Taehyung! Are you out of your mind? How can Mina Eonnie do that! What does she even have to do with Taeri? And if she really killed Taeri, then why would she agree to be my lawyer and fight for me?!" You held the collars of his neatly pressed shirt, crumpling it in between your fist while he remained unfazed as he stared down at you.
"You'll know that too… first you need to clarify something to me. She told you that all the CCTV footage of that night were destroyed by some intruder, right?" Taehyung asked when you slowly released his collar. "Yes she did told me that! Not just her, even the police told me the same! I will not believe on whatever you say Taehyung! Mina Eonnie cannot do that! She can never!" You bit your lower lip to control yourself from crying.
"Y/n…" Taehyung sighed heavily and reached out to hold both of your hands in his, caressing your knuckles with his thumb.
"I know you can't trust me. You can choose whatever. I know I have made endless mistakes and there are no forgiveness for them. But just this once, please let me handle this case from now on. Just follow whatever I'm saying and you will see that what I'm saying is true. I will prove it to you." The assurance in his eyes unexpectedly pressured and moved your heart and you couldn't help but trust him like a fool.
You looked down and pulled your hands out of his grip before nodding your head. "Y/n! I can't believe this! Are you seriously trusting this guy? How can you?!" Jungkook couldn't help but let out an irritated sigh when you agreed to listen to Taehyung.
"So, now go and hide these cameras in your brother's bedroom. If I'm not wrong, your brother and Mina lives together right?" Taehyung ignored Jungkook's accusation and handed him a few small cameras.
Jungkook nodded his head, a faint irritation still displayed on his face. "Then it will be clear. You just have to do one thing and that is to install these cameras in your brother's room. You can go now." Taehyung told Jungkook with a straight face. Jungkook closed his fist with the cameras stuffed inside it before he looked at you with a helpless sigh. You awkwardly smiled at him and he walked away.
You turned around towards Taehyung who was still glancing at the way from where Jungkook walked away. "What now?" Taehyung looked at you when you asked. "Come with me, now I'll show the real reason why I took you here." Without waiting for your response, Taehyung grabbed your hand in his and walked you downwards into the basement of the club.
There was a control room where several computers were kept. Taehyung copied some files into the flash drive he brought with him. "What are you doing?" You kept standing in a corner, a pout formed on your full lips and your perfectly shaped eyebrows scrunching in confusion, while he just glanced at you with a chuckel and again continued his work.
You rolled your eyes and decided to stay silent. After a while, Tehyung was done and again reached out to grab your hand, "Let's go." Before he could drag you with him, you took your hand back from his palm with a jerk and turned your head away from him when he glanced at you with confusion, "You don't have to always hold my hand. I can walk by myself." Taehyung didn't understand if your words had a different meaning, but they did crumple his heart and he felt a slight ache in his chest after hearing your cold voice.
Since there were more important things he had to do, he decided to jerk away his thoughts and led you outside the club.
He pursed his lips to resist the light chuckle that was dying to escape from his mouth as he stood behind you while you struggled to jump on the other side of the wall. Unexpectedly, your legs were too short and there was nothing to hold with which you could have tried to jump higher.
Seeing that you were not ready to ask for his help, Taehyung shook his head before he hugged your waist from behind and lifted you up on his shoulder.
You were obviously stunned but soon regained your cold face and instantly sat on the edge of the wall. After making sure you were sitting on the edge of the wall completely, Taehyung used his long legs as a benefit and jumped higher to climb on the edge of the wall beside you.
Then you saw him swiftly jumping on the other side and then spreading his arms, just like earlier, to catch you. This time you decided to show no attitude and obediently jumped on him and he catched you effortlessly.
"What are you doing?" You asked confusedly as you buckled your seatbelt after both of you were in his car.
"You will see it yourself." You sat pateintly beside him and he he inserted the flash drive in his laptop before fiddling with some files.
"So, Mina told you that someone deleted the CCTV footage of that night? Right?" You irritatedly glared at him, "How many times do I have to answer this?" Taehyung awkwardly pursed his lips and lowered his head before giving you his laptop, "Take a look at these."
The first footage was of the entrance of the club, where you could see Taehyung walking inside with a very bad mood. The next clip was of a man entering inside the club. At first you didn't recognised him but then you quickly paused it and zoomed on his face, only to find it was Seojoon, Mina's fiancé.
When you clicked next, the next clip was you and Taeri entering inside the club. Then the next clip was you and Taeri carrying the drunk Taehyung till the car, but then Taeri got a call and went back inside the club, while you took Taehyung with yourself in his car.
The next clip was, Mina entering inside the club. Your eyes widened the moment you saw her. You instantly paused the video and zoomed the screen to clarify that it was really Mina.
How can it be? Didn't she told you she was out of town with her fiancé when all of this happened? You continued to click next and the next footage you see was two guys carrying you in their arms and taking you back inside the club.
You covered your mouth to suppress the loud gasp while the tears still escaped from your widened eyes as you noticed this is how you were shifted inside the club again. The next clip was of inside the club. You could see Mina washing her blood stained hands in the washbasin outside the girl's bathroom while her fiancé stood behind her stiffly.
When she turned around, she looked no different from a psycho killer. Her face was also splashed with blood drops and she was dead serious as she glared at her fiance who looked here and there silently.
Then after talking, both of them were seen entering inside the bathroom and then they didn't came back. You understood they probably flew away from the windows in bathroom.
The next clip was again of the entrance where you could see Taehyung entering inside with cops. Then whatever happened, you were a witness of it so you didn't had to see anything else.
The file closed and the screen became blank, just like your mind. You couldn't make out whatever happened that night after seeing those videos, but the thing you were now certain of was that Mina lied.
She had been lying to ever since the start. Not just her, her fiancé was also involved in Taeri's murder case. When you saw her cleaning her blood stained hands, you were sure that it was actually Mina who stabbed Taeri that night.
But why? Who called Taeri that night that she prioritised that person more than Taehyung who was drunk? And why did Mina killed her? What does she had to do with Taeri?
"Here…" you came out of your daze when a white, clean and slightly scented handkerchief came in front of your face. You tilted your head to glance at him who was looking at you with teary eyes and pursed lips, as if resisting to do something that might anger you.
You knew he wanted to hug you. So does what you wanted him to do. But the current situation between the two of you was stopping you and him to take any step closer to each other that might again create another chain of misunderstandings.
You silently took the handkerchief from him and wiped your tears. "This… what does this mean? How can she..?"
Your throat choked as you tried hard to supress your tears while Taehyung beside you, clenched his fist on his thigh as he sighed and reached out to pat the back of your head. "That night, when you and Taeri were taking me to the car, Taeri got a call from her crush. Her crush, was Jeon Seojoon…" Taehyung nodded his head when he scanned your confused appearance.
"She didn't liked to tell everyone about her private life. Actually, I didn't know about it too but I knew that the one she liked was a businessman. Then, that night when he told her that he saw Taeri in the club taking me with her, Seojoon called her to come over to him. Taeri was very happy that her crush was finally approaching her so without thinking anything, she went back inside the club again." You calmly listened to whatever he was talking. As he continued to reveal everything, all your confusion seemed to be sorted out.
"Then, I don't know how Mina got to know that her fiance was cheating on her. She too came to the same club. When my parents got to know that Taeri was still inside the club, they send their hired man to kill Taeri. But when he reached, Mina had already killed Taeri because she caught her fiancé kissing Taeri. I also have footage of him taking advantage of Taeri's crush on him that night. In anger, Mina killed Taeri and then warned Seojoon that she can kill him too. He was a coward and was just playing with Taeri."
"After killing Taeri, they left her dead body in the club and sneaked away from the bathroom. While, the guy who was hired by my parents told them that Taeri was already killed. My parents were happy so they didn't cared whoever killed Taeri. Their plan was to get you and me into an accident and then shifting your unconscious body to the club so that they can blame everything to you. They knew you were the most easiest target they can use. No one would be there to defend you. So they did it."
"When I woke up after the accident, I remembered that you and I got in an accident. But, then I got a call from my mom and she told me that you have killed Taeri. I didn't knew anything so in anger when I reached the club, you were sitting there with a knife in your hands and Taeri was dead. So just like everyone, I also believed that it was indeed you who killed Taeri…" Taehyung guilitily glanced at you while you were staring down at your lap, still trying to process everything.
"If you already have so many proofs, then why did you send Jungkook to hide those cameras into Mina and Seojoon's house? You could have showed these footages to the court instead.." you asked confusedly.
"Well, this is all what I have analysed after watching all these videos. I still want Mina to confess her crime and I know she would bring that thing up in front of Seojoon anytime as the type of oppressive girlfriend she is. Once we record her voice, we will be able to prove you innocent…" since you were silent, Taehyung continued,
"Mina purposely chose to take over your case and get on your good books so that no one will doubt her. She used her money to hide all these footages from the court but thankfully I was able to get into touch with some of the honest police officer who told me that these footages were still inside the club's control room. Mina also knew about the conflicts of my family with Taeri. So she used it as a weapon to save herself and her fiancé and put all the blame on my parents…"
"And about my parents… I have already caught the man who was hired by them to kill Taeri. I have recorded his confession to later show to the court and punish them." You glanced at Taehyung who was this time avoiding eye contact with you. You knew you couldn't understand his pain right now.
First he lot his sister and got to know that it was actually his own parents who planned to kill her, and now he had to get them behind the bars. He must be feeling so pressured right now. You silently considered for awhile before reaching out to keep your palm over his clenched fist.
To be continued…
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