The Bonds Between Us

Chapter 11

In a dark alley, at the end of the building, stood a guy with a black hoodie covered half of his face and cap. He licked his dry thin lips very seconds while playing with his phone.

"You're here, Gloss." A voice came along with a tall lean figure. The new guy also had a black cap and a mask on hiding his features except his bright eyes which belonged to the young chief.

"What do you want to know next?"

"Just a slice of a cake. We can't have a whole meal for now. But I know you can get us that small piece."

"It's somehow out of my hands but...I think I can provide you that slice."

"Count on you. Anyway, did you kill him? I'm sure you're not into that thing."

"I didn't. One of my bodyguards knows my word clearly, he didn't do it. But I'll check again."

"Thanks."

"I want to show you something. Get in." The Gloss leaded the way into a dark room, pushing back his hoodie and took off his mask but left his cap on. Jungkook did the same scanning eyes around. It was supposed to be a small room but there was a way leading them down to the underground hall which full with loud cheer of the crowd for two boxers who were fighting to death. Their faces covered with blood, the sweats dropped like rain through their tone bodies earning the louder cheer from the audience. Jungkook eyes landed on one of the boxer.

"He's the one. You may use him as a trace. And he would lead you to the one you wish to get." The gloss said looking at the boxer. Jungkook nodded.

"I'd like to have his name."

"I'll send tonight."

Out of the blue, a loud sound of g*n was heard and everyone started to scream. Jungkook and the Gloss made a fast move toward where the sound came. Everything was chaos suddenly, some left and some stayed.

On the floor, laid a b****y body beside the exit door, the criminal nowhere to be seen. The cheif and Gloss could only watched as they couldn't reveal their identities.

"Move away! Move away!" A group of g**g ran in quickly and a man who likely the boss came in. Jungkook eyes him carefully and quickly turned his eyes away as that man scanned everybody there.

"Who witness the scene?" He shouted and no one dared to step out. And there, the door opened and polices ran in quickly.

"Damn!" The gloss cursed moving back and Jungkook followed him.

Both of them separated the way while Jungkook went back as a chief.

"It was reported earlier that the man was shot in his head and died on the spot. The criminal ran off and we're looking into it. The witnesses seemed to be scare to tell us. So we can't point out anything yet." One of the police reported as Jungkook examining the dead man thoroughly.

"..."

"The victim's name is Choi Hyunhwan, 30 years old, an unemployed since 2 years ago. He used to be a boxer but was qualified because he used drugs during the game. Nowadays, he lived with his boyfriend or I could say Girlfriend...."

"What do you mean by boyfriend or girlfriend?" Jungkook asked standing up and Woohyuk approached him with his notebook.

"He's gay and his girlfriend is actually a man."

"Oh, I see." He nodded and waved the policeman off and Woohyuk bowed at him.

"How did you come here so fast, sir? I can't even make it in 10 minutes." The assistant asked.

"I was around the area."

"You have such hawk eyes."

"They don't have CCTV around, probably because it's illegal. We can't get the criminal that way. After all it's a revenge thingy. Dig into Choi Hyunhwan's background, list down the problems he had and who he had with then give it to Mr. Jang. Let him contact his family and I'll see you after this." The chief gave commands and went out of the place.

His phone rang as he got into his car. He suddenly remembered something when he saw the caller.

Because of the works, he forgot that he promised his wife and his son to have lunch with the family. Yet, he couldn't make it again.

"Ne..." He picked up and smiled after hearing her soft voice.

"I'm sorry, Rin." That's all he could say.

'You forget it again. And you don't have to pick me up because I'm going to stay at your house tonight with Daehan..."

"Wae?"

'You know why and I'm mad at you this time.' She hang up and he sighed. Look like he needed to find a strategy to pacify her after that. She's not easy to talk to when she's mad.

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Hyerin's POV

I let out a big sigh as I put my phone down. Instead of going to have lunch with his family, I went to nearby restaurant and had lunch alone.

Daehan wanted to have lunch with us because he knew that he couldn't go home with us that day. Poor our son. Maybe we'll make it up at dinner although his father couldn't make it.

Like I told him, I planned to sleep over at his house. So I'll spare sometimes to go home and brings some clothes after lunch.

I was waiting for the taxi as the time almost run out. I had to go back and forth though.

Suddenly a car stopped in front of me and the window went down.

"I know you're in hurry. May I give you a ride?" That guy again. I ignored him and looked at my watch.

"Come on. It's not like I try to do something bad to you. I just want to help. Don't worry that I'm trying to hit on you. I already know that you're taken and have a son." He said smiling. I looked at him for a while before nodding.

As we arrived, I found it's rude not to invite him to get in the house. So he also went in and I went to bring a bag of my clothes.

He's not that bad as I thought. He brought me back to the company and left with a smile.

Perhaps, he really wanted to be friend.

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With serious eyes and heavy steps, the chief walked into his office. His expression was not good at all although he always had that look on.

His eyes landed on his laptop before letting out a big sigh. He tried to calm himself down at the fact that he witnessed by his own eyes his wife got into a guy's car and they drove off. He felt his blood boiling and wanted to follow them but his work kept him in as his assistant called for help.

"Boss, you're here." Woohyuk came in running.

"What happened?" He asked pushing all personal matters aside.

"The victim's boy- oh girlfriend is here crying for justice for his or her boyfriend's death. And he doesn't stop if we don't let him see his body. But the problem is his body is being examining."

"So...?"

"He's making fuss."

"Ok, let's see." Jungkook nodded and they went out to the complaints office.

In the room, a crying guy sobbed hard over his boyfriend's death. He looked feminine with that not too small body, a bit muscular and thin torso. He also had some make up on.

The chief opened the door and as soon as the air in the room hit his nose, Jungkook choked hard.

"Wah..." He let out a breathless groan as the guest looked at him weirdly.

"Are you ok, sir?" Woohyuk asked as his boss tried hard to catch his breath.

"Bring...bring me a mask." Finally, he uttered and Woohyuk ran off.

"Are you the chief? Please let me see him. Why he die? Who did it? And why can't I see him now?" All the questions threw on him as Jungkook still needed time to breath.

"Wait...I'll be back." After saying those words, Jungkook got out of the room and breathed out harshly with his hands on his hips, nose and ears were getting red.

"That was too strong. Search the name of that perfume and tell me, I'm not going to buy that one, never." The boss growled before taking the mask from Woohyuk who trying to hide his smile.

"Not funny. Get yourself straight." Jungkook warned before getting in the office again.

His sharp eyes made the contact with the victim's boyfriend as he sat down in front of him.

"Kim Heejae, 32 years old, currently works as a manager in ----- club."

"Ne."

"I know you want to see your boyfriend." He started off calmly.

"Hm."

"But we're examining his body to figure out something. And in this case, we're trying to find out who killed him. So I ask for your cooperation and then we can get the culprit..."

"Yes, anything for you, sir." The chief's eyes went wide a bit hearing those words and saw how Kim Heejae's eyes blink at him. Woohyuk covered his mouth, tried not to make a sound of giggling seeing his boss' reaction.

"Alright, I supposed you understand. We'll try to get the culprit as soon as possible." Jungkook got up.

"Thanks...thank you so much, sir." Heejae cried taking the chief's hand in his.

"You...you're welcome." He nodded taking back his hand and stuffed it in his pocket.

"Send him home, Woohyuk." Jungkook said and got out of the room as the assistant followed with a smile.

"Someone is in love again." Woohyuk laughed hugging his stomach as he found it's very funny.

"Stop it, Woohyuk." The boss growled walking toward the investigation department.

"Everyone, someone finally falls for our chief." Woohyuk shouted excitedly and the rest cheered.

"Isn't it the first time?" They started to tease Jungkook as he took a file from Mr. Lee, the detective.

"Kim Heejae just lost his boyfriend and he needs someone to comfort anytime to give him strength. Don't you all think that our chief can do that role perfectly?" Mr. Lee added and they cheered louder while the chief just quietly read the file before clearing his throat and they quieted down.

"But...tell you something...my wife is a bit scary... scarier and louder than your g*n. You should note that." Jungkook said and left the room as they still continued to tease him. It seemed they had so much fun working together as a team.

Getting in a room, Jungkook's eyes landed on a dead body.

"How was it?" The chief asked closing the door behind him.

"He was hit on the ribs before getting shot. He was also using drugs and didn't have any other problems than that."

"Let's wrap it up then."

"Ne."

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Hyerin's POV

It's already evening and I was preparing my stuff and papers on my desk and ready to go home.

Daehan kept calling and asked when we arrived. He must be missing us badly.

I didn't even call Jungkook because I was in the bad term with him. And I didn't care if he couldn't go home.

"Are you going home, Rin?" Jiwoon asked knocking on the door.

"Yes, I'm going to my parent in law's house."

"I heard Daehan is sick."

"He's better now."

"Good to hear that."

"Let's go."

We went out of the building and I took a taxi.

Jungkook still didn't come home when I arrived. Daehan was so happy to see me and he kept asking for his father.

"Omma, when will Appa come?" Daehan asked walking into the room which I was going to sleep, Jungkook's room.

"I'm not sure. He's busy right now, I guess." I said taking him into my arms as he got on the bed.

"Will Appa sleep here too?"

"I can't tell too, Honey. How is Ppalgang?" I changed the topic.

"He's sleeping after shower."

"Did you shower him?"

"Ne, with uncle."

"He must be cold." I noted laying down on the bed hugging him close to me.

"Yes, he kept crying when we showered him."

"Omma is tired. Gonna take a nap."

"Ok, I'll sleep too." He mumbled closing his eyes and I smiled caressing his cheek gently. Pulling him closer and I closed my eyes.

"Appa? Omma, Appa is here!" Before I could drift to sleep, Daehan rose up because he heard his father's voice. I sighed as he got down the bed and ran out.

"Appa, I'm here!!!" I could hear his happy scream after that.

I went down and met his eyes in the living room.

"Let's have dinner then." Haena said clapping and everyone went into the dinning room except Jungkook.

"Noona, give us sometimes." He said walking toward me and grabbed my wrist.

"Let's talk." He whispered dragging me to his room.

"You're going home with me after dinner." He said with his serious tone.

"Don't use that tone with me, Jungkook."

"Just go with me. I don't want anyone to know about it before everything is clear."

"What are you talking about?"

"About you, him and me."

"Aish, jinjja."

"Let's have dinner first." He said and got out of the room.

In the dinning room, the family didn't touch the food yet. I felt bad for making them wait.

"How's work, Jungkookie?" Eomeonie asked.

"It was fine." His voice came out tiredly.

"There's a shooting in an underground place today, you're in charged, right?" Junghoon oppa asked and he nodded.

"How did it happen?" Finally, Abeonim asked. He looked interested.

"It was a revenge stuff. I don't think it will be a big matter. We're tracing the culprit anyway." Jungkook explained and they nodded.

"And will you sleep over with Hyerin too, Jungkook?" Unnie asked while giving Daehan a piece of meat.

"No, and Hyerin has to go with me, too." He said glancing at me as I sighed.

"But you said you will sleep over, Omma." Daehan started to tear up.

"Han-ah, tomorrow you'll go home. Don't cry, Omma and Appa will pick you up, ok?" I said caressing his cheek and he nodded with teary eyes.

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As we arrived home, I headed straight to the bedroom and took shower. I was really mad at him so cold water would help.

"So what do you want to talk?" I asked walking in the living room. He was already in his pajamas, calmly watched TV.

"About your boyfriend." He replied turning off the TV.

"Boyfriend?" My eyebrow joined.

"I saw you and him this afternoon. And it's not strange that it was the same guy from the market. And if I'm not wrong he also had a gift for Daehan on his birthday. Woohyun? Ahn Woohyun." He started to explain and I realized everything.

"Do you need to hear an explanation?" Softly, I asked. I didn't know why I had the urge to explain.

"Go ahead."

"I don't know him. About the gift, we met in the mart that day, it's also the day he knew I have a son already. This afternoon, I was in hurry to take some clothes from home and he kindly gave me a ride. He's not a bad guy after all." I said it all and he nodded.

"Coincident much?"

"It's up to what you think. Sometimes, I need help from the other when my own husband can't even give me time." There's disappointment in my voice which I accidentally let it out.

"Rin..."

"And he only knows how to feel jealous than to be understood." I gave him a cold look before standing up. I was about to walk away but he caught my wrist and turned me to him.

"I'm sorry..."

"I always try to understand you, understand how you love your work, when you give everything to your work and even when you leave us behind for those works, but look like you don't try to understand me at all." I said those words while looking straight into his shaky orbs.

"And at last, you only say one word 'I'm sorry.' And again I'd like to say 'It's fine, I'm used to it already.' Am I wrong?" He sighed as I added.

"Don't you think sometimes, it's too much?" My eyes started to tear up but I didn't let it down.

"I'm really sorry."

"If you plan to say more sorry, keep it later." With my head up, I looked right into his beautiful eyes. He nodded running his hands to hold mine.

"I have to say it and I need to say more about it. Because I still have doubts between us. Because I'm not sure that you're really accepting me...it's hard not to be afraid. So I need to be clear at everything."

"You're pathetic..."

"Right, I am pathetic and it's because of you."

"Tch! That's cheesy." I chuckled avoiding his eyes as he smiled down at me.

"And I'm also thankful to have you, the sexy yet innocent nerd." He reminded and I raised my head to glare at him.

"I love these eyes." He mumbled and I felt his finger on my hair pulling the hair clip away. He freed my long hair down before leaning in for a passionate kiss which I accepted without hesitation.

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