Hobi's Mine.

18: Blood.

"TOUCH HIM AND YOU'RE DEAD."

Those were the exact words she said when she appears at his bed side late that night 20 years ago. The rain pours heavily. Wind blows ruthlessly while the lightning draws the dark clouds as the thunder roars.

She looks creepy as she's standing head down looking at him every time the lightning flashes his window. Both her hands held a knife.

No trace of innocence in her. Her presence could kill you already. Her already tattered dress where drench with blood as well as her hair. While her face had these smudge of blood that even the heavy rain couldn't wash it off.

But what scare him to the bone was her eyes. If looks could kill he already did. It was cold, deep and dead. There's no trace of fear in it.

Cold creeps him, shaking him not just his body but his soul as well. The very thought that she could kill him then and there feared him the most.

Things suddenly turns in slowmo. The whole mansion turns upside down. He could hear those constant screaming and shouting. Terror filled the whole house.

They're searching her all over the house. Dogs barking and the sounds of men marching the corridors. He heard Jae cried in fear.

He saw her mother with the rest of the doctors enters his room. They got men in full battle gear positions their guns towards her.

If their mother did not barge inside his room, probably he's already dead. He could see that she's fighting taking all of her will not to let her monster overrides her. She might've forget then killed him right then and there.

Still she waited.

When they took her, she didn't show any protest from, even when the doctors puts her to sleep. Nam Ki Joon on his part manage to create a feasible story to hide his fault and the real reason why she acted that way.

The next day she's brought to their hidden facility in the Philippines. He hides the truth and their mother didn't ask anything regardless of the news she got. Or probably she thought it was only a child's play and nothing happened to the heiress of the clan. But they're forbidden to show themselves for a while until necessary.

But right now he regretted it the most. Why he haven't search for the boy. Her words imprinted his head. A leash that prevented him to do anything. Now she got all the powers. Her abilities and the title she holds it threatens his ultimate dream.

The chairmanship.

He hates the smile on his mother's face. It cannot be denied that she search for the boy and she's capable in a very limited time. She has never smile to anyone like this before.

Only if he hadn't slip his tongue. He got so riled up. He got in range that's why he accidentally told her about the truth of the incident.

"I know what you did to your sister whenever I'm out. But I've never expected you to be this irresponsible and greedy. I was expecting you to help your sister and this family but you didn't. You disappointed me."

These were the words echoes his head. Words she said bitterly before he left that day. It pained him it reaches through his heart. If only she just handed him the position, he might've consider this boy's life.

If he hadn't show that day, she wouldn't have any purpose to begin with. She wouldn't have a goal. She's just a puppet with a string attached their mother's hand.

A machine.

For the first time she got someone she wanted to protect with her life. Even away from his claws or even to their mother. And by protecting him especially at this crucial point of her life, protecting him under her supervision is the safest way possible.