Y/n shuddered at the loud sound that echoed in the room after the door was shut close behind seungmin. Her quivering eyes immediately shifted on to taehyung that were filled with questions. She had looked at him with her heart filled with fears in hope to get some sort of assurance from him. But for the first time ever she wasn't able to find assurance in those eyes. Cause for the first time ever she saw perplexity in his eyes. Cause for the first time it seemed like he won't have any answer to her questions. Taehyung was still very much blankly staring at the door from where seungmin has left. Y/n could see that bids of sweat droplets had formed on his forhead. Seeing him in this state, her shaking hands anxiously went to grab the water bottle to pour some water in the glass but she ended up spilling the water on the floor which had eventually brought taehyung out from his trance. His eyes went to her and immediately became embarrassed. Hastily he attemted to reached for her.
Taehyung : Y/n are y-
Y/n : Sit down Tae.
Y/n spoke calmly despite of how fast her heart had been racing.
Taehyung : Y/n I-
Y/n : S-sit down.
She firmly repeated and made him sit on the chair while Taehyung too quitely let her do so. She then grabbed the glass again and despite of shaking visibly , she somehow still managed to maintain a straight face and pour the water properly in the glass this time before passing that to taehyung. Reaching towards his neck she took his neck tie to loosen it around his neck and uttered the words which he was needed to hear.
Y/n : I'm fine Taehyung.
Taehyung glanced up at her and somehow looking at her face was easily able to ease the crease of his forehead. With a simple sentence of hers , his breathing began to become normal when the door of his chamber slammed opened again. Out of instinct y/n found herself instantly standing Infront of taehyung's chair to shield him without knowing what was the danger but relaxed immediately after seeing jungkook and Jimin rushing towards them. Their hair were disheveled as they dashed in but stopped immediately after seeing them. Meanwhile taehyung too had stood up after placing the cup down when jungkook spoke while panting heavily.
Jungkook : Everything is okay right?
Taehyung remained quite instead of answering his question so jimin took another step forward and spoke to break the silence of the room
Jimin : What should we do now Taehyung?
Taehyung's eyes moved from jimin to jungkook who took had been looking at him, waiting for his answer.
Jimin : Taehyung-
Taehyung : Can you drop y/n at home first?
Jimin : But Tae-
Taehyung turned back and started to pick y/n's coat from the back of the chair as he continued
Taehyung : She'll be going at her parents home. Drop her there.
He spoke while making y/n wear her coat back on. Meanwhile she quietly followed his gaze. She had wanted to stay with him. She didn't want go when her head was filled with questions. She didn't want to leave when he was looking like this. Not when his face has been drained away from it's colour. But it seemed like he wasn't ready to talk now.
Fixing the collar of the coat, taehyung grabbed her bag and handed that to her.
Y/n : Taehyung-
Taehyung : Y/n....
Calling her name he interrupted her. He then gave a light squeeze on her palms and said
Taehyung : Don't worry. It was nothing. I can manage it all. Hmm...?!
Y/n stared back at his eyes while hesitantly nodding her head.
Y/n : Yes.
Taehyung : Hmm ~ tight smile~ Good.
He then averted his gaze onto jimin and continued.
Taehyung : Drive safely.
Jimin sighed and nodded his head and before leaving the room he told y/n with a hesitant smile.
Jimin : I'll get the car. Come out when you are ready.
Y/n weakly nodded her head and glanced at taehyung for one last time before walking out from the chamber.
Jimin was now driving them towards y/n's parents home. But the car ride was remotely silent. Jimin's eyes were only focused on the road while y/n's head was kept low. A part of her was eager to ask jimin as they too seemed to know what was happening in the office. But she didn't knew if it was right for her to interfere so she just remained silent while fidgeting with her hand when she heard jimin clearing his throat that made her look up at him.
Jimin : I know you have lots of things going on your mind....
Y/n hesitantly smiled while nodding her head.
Y/n : I do... I do have questions on my mind. It's just- it's just I don't know if I have any right to ask them.
Jimin smiled softly at her answer and said
Jimin : You can ask. I'll try to answer truthfully as much as I can y/n.
Her tongue brushed over her lips nervously before she asked
Y/n : Who was that guy? His face seemed bit familiar but I'm not sure really. I may have been mistaken-
Jimin : You are not. You may have seen him on TV.
Y/n : TV?
Nodding his head jimin continued
Jimin : Yes, you have.... Yun seungmin, son of Yun Seunghan.
Y/n's eyes widened at the name making her grasp while jimin continued
Jimin : Yes. That Yun seunghan who is running for the mayor elections this year.
Jimin stopped his car at the red light and glanced back at her who asked.
Y/n : How did Tae got involved with him?
Jimin : You don't follow his news paper daily right?
Y/n's lowered her gaze to hide her embarrassment. These days she had barely been able to grasp a hold on her own life let alone think about what is happening around her. So she didn't had any idea on what was happening around.
Jimin : He published an article on him. Few days ago.
Scratching her index finger with her thumb she replied
Y/n : W-what was it about?
Jimin : It was about Seungmin's involvement with 2023's money laundering case along with how he is providing illegal substances and other kinds of services to the VIP clients at his hotel in Seoul and Busan brunch. A journalist of ours got a new scope on this and taehyung allowed it to be published despite of the elections being in the corner. His father, yun seunghan is facing backlash ever since the article has been published.
The traffic lights turned green making jimin focus back on the road while y/n tried to process all the things jimin had said. 2023's money laundering case. She has heard about it before but wasn't full aware about all the details regarding it. She had also thought that case was closed . But maybe she was wrong.
Noticing how quiet she has became jimin spoke
Jimin : Y/n... Don't worry. Such things happen when elections are around the corner. Besides it's not the first time we have wrote such controversial articles about influential peoples. And to be honest we are respected in this industry for this reason as we don't conceal the truth.
Closing her eyes she shook his head.
Y/n : You can't expect me to be calm- you h-haven't seen what he was saying. It felt- it really felt like he really could . I don't know jimin_sshi. But it doesn't feels right. He could harm Tae or anyone at his establishment who were related with the article-
Jimin : Y/n- Seungmin can't harm them.
Y/n : How come you are so sure!
Y/n didn't even realise how her voice had started to raise by now as she snapped at him. But jimin still remained calm and said
Jimin : Nothing can happen to anyone in our establishment y/n... Those who write such articles has liberty to write anonymously. None of their names are real y/n. Their personal informations are highly confidential. And taehyung is the only one who has access to them. Seungmin would never be able to reach them. Perhaps it's the reason why he has visited taehyung himself as he couldn't get a hold on the journalist who had wrote the article. And talking about taehyung, Remember what he has said. He really can manage. ~pause~ Trust him. Trust him, that's the only thing he needs now.
Y/n averted her gaze while trying to calm herself. Trust him. Just Trust him... That all she needs to do now.
Jimin pulled the break after reaching their destination and spoke with a smile.
Jimin : Tell your parents that I have said hello.
Y/n weakly nodded her head before getting off the car. Bowing to him she murmured
Y/n : Sorry, I lost my temper back then
Jimin : ~polite smile~ Aniya... It's fine. I understand. Go inside. They must have been waiting for you.
Y/n hummed and turned to leave but stopped again. Turning back she knocked on Jimin's window to open it back again as she asked him.
Y/n : You guys are gonna report it to the police right? He forcefully invaded your property. Taehyung's gonna do that right?!
Y/n asked desperately. But jimin remained quite unlike before. As if he doesn't wants to answer that question. Her voice dropped an octave seeing him uncertain like this and uttered
Y/n : You are not gonna do it?
Biting his lips jimin brushed his hair back from his forhead and answered
Jimin : Didn't the surname ring a bell for you?
Y/n stared back at his face with confusion while jimin continued.
Jimin : Yun seunghan... Yun seungmin... Yun yesoul.
Yun yesoul....Y/n's heart dropped at the familiar name. The name which had been the reason of her insecurities. The name which had made her feel inferior. The name she had dreaded. Yun yesoul.
Jimin : Seungmin, he was our senior at university. Yun seunghan's younger brother.... Yesoul's uncle.
Y/n kept staring blankly at the screen of the elevator, watching it changing from level 1 to 2 and so on. But her mind was elsewhere. The words from jimin were roaming in head.
" Taehyung was really close with seungmin. Thanks to our and yesoul's family. He was like that older brother which he never had. He was someone on whom taehyung used to rely on a lot.... But things fell apart when seungmin started to get involved with the wrong group of people. I don't know the details and I shouldn't be the one saying that to you as well. But they haven't been on contact after that incident..... Taehyung is indeed capable of taking action against him. But he hasn't yet. It could be because of his obligation against yesoul or maybe because he regrets the past. I don't know. Neither I'm in a position to ask him so. But maybe you can.... All I wanna say is that, it's not easy for him to deal with this situation as his personal feelings are getting
Involved in his professional life. I know you will be but yet I'll request you again. Please be patient with him. It's not easy to go against those who were like family to you once"
The door of the elevator opened with a click sound, bringing her out from her trance and to her surprise she came face to face with her mother who seemed to be waiting for the elevator as well. Her mother's eyes widened at first upon seeing her before a big smile crept up on her face as she immediately pulled y/n in a tight hug. Trying to regain her sanity she shrugged all those thoughts off and hugged her mother back. As for a short while she didn't want to think about anything else.
Sniffling her tears away, y/n's mother brought y/n to their house and started hurrying around to get her something to eat. Y/n just stayed at the sofa while watching her actions. Perhaps it's the longest she has past without meeting her mother. Soon she came back with a tray that had a piece of cake and a glass of water for y/n and sat down beside her. Smiling sadly, y/n grabbed the plate and took a bite from the cake. Broadly smiling at her mother she spoke
Y/n : It's delicious Eomma.
Her mother returned the smile and replied
Y/n's mother : It is. Your Appa liked it too.
Her mother lowered her gaze on her lap and continued
Y/n's mother : I thought you wouldn't ever visit us again y/n...
Her voice started to break as she wiped her tears.
Y/n's mother : I'm sorry y/n_ah.... Eomma is so so sorry- so sorry for not being a good mother.
Y/n hastily shook her head and engulfed her mother in a hug.
Y/n : Aniya-aniya Eomma. I'm sorry. I'm s-sorry for behaving like that. I shouldn't have said that all. I-I'm sorry. I'm sorry for everything.
Y/n's mother broke the hug and wiped her daughter's tears as she answered
Y/n's mother : Aniya y/n_ah.... You were right all along. And we were wrong all along my child. We were so coward y/n...Even after all these things , you were still the one who approached us first where we cowardly waited for the right time.
Her mother smiled through her tears and continued
Y/n's mother: I saw your father crying y/n yesterday after receiving the cake from you.
Y/n :Cake ?!
Y/n became puzzled after hearing her mother while she chuckled and continued.
Y/n's mother : He pretended to be unfazed but he was really happy y/n. Really- really happy that you haven't given up on our family yet.
Wiping her own tears away she continued
Y/n's mother : I won't ask you to forgive him y/n... But believe me. This time he is really trying. He has started to take anger management classes y/n. Can you believe it!~ chuckle ~ looks like taehyung's words worked like a magic. My gut feeling was right about him y/n_ah... Taehyung is really a nice guy. I'm so happy- so happy that you have him y/n. My heart is at ease to know that you are in good hands. That you have him to rely on.
Y/n couldn't decipher any of the words her mother were saying. What cake?! What words from taehyung?! What does she mean?! Seeing her confused like this, her mother asked her affectionately
Y/n's mother : Y/n, what are you thinking-
Y/n : What did taehyung told appa, Eomma? What are you talking about? I don't understand.
And that's how she found out how taehyung had met his father that day. How he had confronted him for her. How he had sent a cake at their parents home, wishing them happy new year by her name. Sitting on taxi on her way back home, she couldn't help but wonder what did she ever do to deserve a guy like him. To deserve someone who has always been quietly fulfilling all her needs. How could she have ever doubted his love for her! And how could she ever repay this back to him?! She didn't know that. But she knew one thing at least.
And it was that she was gonna stay by his side no matter what, just the way he has been by her side always.
Meanwhile in his office taehyung messaged his temples anxiously while jungkook sat ahead of him.
Jungkook : Are you sure about it? Or do you think we should postpone publishing this article for now?
Shaking his head taehyung replied
Taehyung : No- we will go ahead with it. It's not the first time such thing has happened anyways jungkook.
Jungkook : I know Hyung.... But none of them knew you this personally. We don't know how seungmin might react if he finds out that we didn't take it down instead wrote another one-
Taehyung : Do you want me to treat his case differently huh?!
Jungkook : Aniya Hyung- I just ~pause~ I'm just worried about you. We all know what he is capable off.
Closing his eyes taehyung sighed before answering.
Taehyung : I know...But let's keep doing what we always do kook. We'll see what happens later.
Nodding his head jungkook replied
Jungkook : I'll order them to start the publication right now then.
Taehyung hummed and continued
Taehyung : And increase the amount of security as well. Let's not let an incident like this happen again. And about the list of the journalists working on it, he won't find it. I won't let him.
Nodding his head, jungkook turned to leave but stopped after hearing taehyung's voice which called his name.
Taehyung : Jungkook?
Jungkook : Yes Hyung?
Taehyung : We are doing the right thing nah? I'm not bringing danger on you all by this decision or am I?
Jungkook smiled at him assuredly and replied
Jungkook : Hyung we will always be with you with on whatever decision you take. And as you have said before, it's not the first time. We have dealt with these kind of situations before and we can deal with it now as well. ~chuckle~ Just see how this news blows up tomorrow morning. We will proof them all that why we are different then all the other news paper agencies in Korea by bringing the truth instead of bowing against the power.
Jungkook's determination gave taehyung the courage which he had badly been in need off. Smiling back at his face taehyung spoke
Taehyung : Thank you for trusting me always.
Jungkook chuckled and replied
Jungkook : Just give me a vacation later. That would be better
Laughing at his answer taehyung replied
Taehyung : Sure~ laugh~ Sure, I will.
Smiling broadly jungkook left his chamber while taehyung too started to get his things to leave from work as it's already been quite late. So he started to turn his laptop off before grabbing his coat and other necessities when he saw his phone buzzing on the table. Thinking that this might have been from y/n he quick grabbed his phone. Unlocking it, he saw that there has been few unread messages sent to him through an unknown number. Without thinking much he grabbed his briefcase and clicked on that chat while walking out from his cabin, only to stop after seeing the content of the message.
P.S : Goodness! How long has it been since I had updated. That too a filler chapter. Sorry for this but I needed a filler chapter to explain what has happened really. And talking about the late update, it was my cousin's wedding actually and I have been staying at my grandparents home so I barely had any time for myself. The guests has started to leave yesterday and I was finally able to breathe so I wrote this chapter somehow today and published it. I know you guys may have been disappointed for getting a filler chapter after waiting this long. But I'll try my best to update the next chapter quickly. And thanks again for reading it!
And I missed you all a lot💜
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