The Bonds Between Us

Chapter 13

Hyerin's POV

I woke up to find myself in his arms, warm and comfortable. I looked at his tired face and sighed. He worked too hard all these time and I wonder when he would stop for a moment to rest.

Gently, I tried to get his arms off without waking him up but it failed as he groaned pulling me back to him and snuggled into the crook of my neck.

"I have to make breakfast and get Daehan ready for school." I mumbled hitting his arm gently and he pecked my neck before releasing me.

Morning routine went well and after dropping Daehan at his school I told Jungkook about my mission.

"Something fishy about your GM (General manager). If I'm not wrong you over worked because of him many times already." He pointed out and I remained silent. It did not surprise me he noticed it although he said he didn't want to involve in my work.

"Do I need to talk to Junghoon hyung?" He suggested and I shook my head.

"I'm fine with those works and I can handle him. What I concern right now is you and Daehan. I'll leave on Sunday and that day no one can help you taking care of Daehan if you are busy. Eomeonie and Abeoji will take a week off with my parents. Haena unnie and Oppa will go to unnie's hometown. So all the work will go to you." I described and he sighed.

"Don't worry, I'll take care of him well."

"Should I trust you or not?"

"You should."

"Fine." Honest, I didn't trust him. What if he left our son because of work? But what could I do with that? We had no choice.

In front of the building, I handed Ppalgang to Mr. Kim and he bowed.

That day I didn't get to have lunch because of work. Since we will leave for the mission in two days, I had to be ready with all the documents. And I could see how busy my husband was, the TV showed a lot of crimes cases in Seoul. Jiwoon even ran to me with her phone as he somehow appeared on the news, looking hot and serious.

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"Who is he?!!!!" A loud bang came along with his husky voice making everyone in the room to shake. A fierce man looking at his subordinates one by one as they tried to avoid him.

"The only thing I want to see is money on this table but turn out that you lost all of those to a very young chief who just comes here not even a month?" He asked coldly sending shiver down everyone's spines.

"Boss..."

"I asked who is he?!" He growled again and one of his men ran forward with his shaky steps. He put a photo on the table and moved back quickly.

The boss picked the photo up and looked at the photo intensively.

"So young indeed. I'll see him myself soon. One more thing...I wonder how the police knew it that easily? How did they know when we delivered those d**g?!" He growled looking around and no one dare to look up.

"I'll see who is hiding here. And we'll run another one the day after tomorrow."

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It's Saturday, I stayed at home because I had to complete all the work I left over. Jungkook and Daehan were in charged of going to market to buy some food since I was too busy. Let's see how the son and father work together though.

Meanwhile at the mall

"Appa, I want to take that one." Daehan said pointing to a bottle of milk. Instead of giving it to him, Jungkook picked his son up and let his son choose.

"Appa, let's buy Ppalgang's food." Daehan said tugging his father's hand.

"There's no more left?" The father asked and the boy nodded.

"Arraseo, we'll get it after buying all of these, ok?" Jungkook said showing a paper of shopping list from Hyerin to his son and the little boy nodded obediently.

"Good boy. Now, let's buy vegetables."

"Ne." Jungkook took his son's hand and they went to the vegetable sections before going to buy Ppalgang's food.

Happily, Daehan ran up to the pet food store. He jumped excitedly at a big bag of food and Jungkook shook his head. The boy was always greedy when it comes to Ppalgang.

"Oh, annyeong, Daehan-ah." While choosing the food, Woohyun came up to him.

"Annyeonghaseyo, Uncle." Daehan bowed and Jungkook turned to them as Woohyun ruffled the boy's hair.

"So you're her husband? Wah, so this is what they called fate huh?" Woohyun said chuckling. The chief shrugged taking his son's hand.

"I wonder how she's doing. She must miss you every single day. And I still wonder why you took her away from me when you can't even take care of her for the rest of her life." Woohyun continued and Jungkook started to feel uneasy.

"You still think I'm like you." The chief calmly fought back.

"Of course and I'm still keeping a thought of taking something back from you as a revenge." It looked like they were not in a good term at all.

"Don't you dare doing something stupid..." Jungkook warned.

"You're encouraging me, man."

"Ahn Woohyun"

"Whatever...I just feel amaze how I interest in your wife from the first place without knowing who she is to you. But now, I think fate really stands on my side in helping me to involve into your life more often." It seemed his smile bothered Jungkook than his words did. The chief frowned deeply at the guy in front of him.

Between them, there's something complicated. It looked like Jungkook tried not to get into the fight while Woohyun wanted to challenge him badly.

"Daehan-ah, what is your pet's name?" Woohyun turned to ask Daehan who was playing with some puppy in the cage.

"Ne, his name is Ppalgang." Daehan innocently told the older and it worried his father who secretly sighed to himself.

"Wah, what a nice name. You have a great son and a beautiful wife. I envying you already, Chief." His smile really made Jungkook clenched his inner jaws.

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Finally, I had to leave my son for the first time for work. He got up early with us because he wanted to bid goodbye to me, with his teary eyes.

"It's only three days, Han-ah." I said to him as he held my hands tight. Jungkook took out my suitcase and put it in my GM's car.

"If you need helps, Hoseok hyung will be there. Just contact him." Jungkook said picking Daehan up into his arms and leaned down to peck my forehead.

"Thanks." I said and tiptoed to kiss Daehan's cheek as he cried softly.

"Behave, arraseo? I'll miss you and Omma will call when I can." I said stroking his cheek and he nodded.

"I'm going. Bye, Han-ah." I waved getting into the car as Jungkook bowed his head at Hwanmin with his sharp eyes that I almost smiled when my GM awkwardly nodded back with his shaky orbs.

"So this is why you married him huh? So arrogant and cold." He started with a smirk.

"Admit it, that you were scared by him."

"Yes, just like you."

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Meanwhile in the apartment, father and son comfortably sat on the couch watching TV with banana milk in each hands.

"Is he a bad guy, Appa?" Suddenly Daehan asked while his eyes on the TV. He was talking about the cartoon he was watching.

"Eo, the mask guy is not good. He's trying to hurt everyone in the story."

"Then anyone that wants to hurt the other is not good?"

"Exactly. So will you hurt the other?"

"Ani, I won't."

"Good boy." Jungkook said smiling at his son who still had his eyes focused on the cartoon.

Daehan was quite docile and thoughtful at such young age. He's also cheerful and friendly to anyone. Perhaps, because of how Hyerin and his family treated him, they were always patient and gentle when it comes to raising the little boy.

They continued to watch until Daehan fell asleep on his father's laps. Jungkook gently patted the boy's head before his phone rang.

"It's me. What is it?" He responded softly while trying to put a small pillow under his son's head.

'Will you come to bureau today, boss?' Woohyuk asked from the other side.

"Do I have too?" Playfully, the boss asked back.

'What time will you come?'

"I'm getting lazy now and I have to take care of my son."

'Everything is ready, sir.'

"Arraseo, I'll be there in 2 hours."

'Ne~' The assistant sang before Jungkook hung up. He sighed looking at his sleeping son. Guess, he had no choice but to bring the boy along.

Two hours later

Daehan happily ran out of his room with Ppalgang behind. He had a set of cute outfit on, red and white with a white pair of sneakers.

(Imagine the boy wearing these)

"We're going to Appa's bureau. We're going to Appa's bureau!" He excitedly chanted picking up Ppalgang as his father came out of the main room.

"Are you that happy?" Jungkook asked noticing his son's wide smiling face.

"Ne, I'm going to meet a lot of policemen. Wah, it is cool." The little boy couldn't control how excited he was as his dimple didn't fade from his cheek at all.

"Then kaja." Jungkook said putting a cap on Daehan's head and they left the house with Ppalgang.

When the father and son got into the station, everyone gasped with surprise. Since it was the first time, they acted like something big was happening.

"Wah, we finally get to see the chief's son? This is daebak." Two detectives greeted them and Daehan bowed at everyone. With his smile, he earned everyone's love.

And while his father was working he sat on the couch playing with Ppalgang and sometimes he watched some songs on his father's phone.

And when he needed to use bathroom, he was told to find it by himself and he did so.

"Excuse me, Ajjussi. Where is the bathroom?" Daehan bowed at a detective before asking him.

"Are you by yourself?"

"Ne."

"Let me help you."

"It's ok, Ajjussi. Just tell me where it is." He softly said and the Ajjussi smiled.

"You're just like your father. There you go." Ajjussi said pointing to where the bathroom was and the boy bowed.

"Thank you so much, Ajjussi."

After using bathroom Daehan walked around the place for a while and some female staff asked him to take selfies until he got so shy.

"Ah, kwiyeowo." They squealed as he bowed and ran away before he got mobbed by them.

"Han-ah, Appa have a meeting. Are you ok staying alone in my office?" Jungkook asked as the little boy came back.

"Ne, I'll play with Ppalgang then."

"If you're bored you can walk around but don't go out, ok?"

"Ne."

"Good." The father got out and little Daehan sat on the couch before picking Ppalgang up to put on his laps.

Time passed by until Jungkook came back from the meeting to see his son soundly asleep on the couch with Cheongcheong in his arms and Ppalgang comfortably laid on his side, also sleeping.

"Aigo, how can he be so cute when sleeping? How adorable." Woohyuk said bending down to look at the boy's face. Jungkook smiled reaching his hand to feel the boy's forehead, afraid that his son was getting sick.

"So what will you do with him? We can't carry him around there." The assistant asked looking at his boss.

"I'll ask one of my friend to take care of him."

"And is it ok if your wife knows?"

"It's not, but she'll understand. She's just afraid that we might bother them too much."

"Are you sure, you want to do this, boss? It's somehow dangerous. Can't we let them go for once?"

"Get ready, we'll start at 6."

"Ye...yes, sir." Woohyuk almost shook his head at his boss' seriousness in working. He's really determined when it comes his duty.

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