The room is silent as they wait to see if anyone’s heard the gun shots. Jihyun doesn’t look at Aria, actively avoids glancing at her reaction even though he desperately wants to. There are no footsteps nearby and the guards outside seem to have been too preoccupied to have noticed the gunshots they’d fired. Determining that they only have a few seconds of grace before all hell breaks loose, Jihyun nudges Jae with his knee.
“Get up. Leave through the window. I’ll go find the others,” he tells him. Usually, Jae would question the authority Jihyun took up but, sensing his friend’s uneasiness, he nodded his head, lifting Jin as he stood.
“You can’t be serious?” Sola asks with an incredulous expression.
“If we leave them here, they die,” Jihyun explains coldly. He sees the pained look on S
