UNSEEN (Male Version)

Chapter 11

I stared at the ceiling of the hospital blankly. The hidden blurry truth slowly became clearer as I met the police almost every day. The meetings with the police and their new findings aroused my nerve. Looking down at my phone I hesitated to give Taemu an instruction that might drag down my own company. The company that my father had built for decades. My heart slowly became stuffed as the police left. It wasn't something that I can imagine before.

'No, I mean...'

I hardly tried to deny the truth that Mount didn't do anything hideous even though I knew Chaeyoon with all her backstories. However, as hard as I tried to avoid that negativity, it slowly showed its truth. The accident that made me like this opened up my mind. And I found the point of all that happened. I slowly lost my confidence that 'Mount had nothing to do with Chaeyoon'.

Not long after the police left my room, Chaeyoon came to my side again and knew nothing about the truth that actually messed up my mind. My mind turned out empty as looking at her. Honestly, I couldn't do anything about this. My promise to her brother is to get her justice but also the future of my company and all of the employees under it. I thought I couldn't choose both.

"Is there any problem that remained unsolved? Why are they coming almost every day?" She pouted slightly disturbed when the police were coming. She got that instinct.

'The unsolved truth... The unsolved truth of her family's tragedy.'

"Nothing," I forced the smile to her.

The worst it, I did it every day in the hospital. Hiding the truth that slowly revealed and let Chaeyoon focused on her pregnancy without knowing any of the newest facts I got to know from the police.

'I am sorry, Chaeyoon-ah!'

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Time passed when I could finally go back to the work in Mount after weeks of absence. Honestly, I am forcing myself to work so Chaeyoon couldn't know the mess that I hid since the accident. I still can feel the dull pain from the fracture sites and it took me minutes to grab myself. If I didn't solve it faster, I couldn't take the way I should walk with. Taking the pill that the doctor had given, I looked at the monitor in my working room that was showing my father as the representative of Mount, Jang Director as the latest representative of Wooden, and the person that was shown to be Chaeyoon's father as the representative of Ridge. I dragged my working chair closer and looked at the data that Taemu had found when I was hospitalized. I got that bad feeling when the picture was shown.

'It's true that they had a good relationship before.'

"So, they are related one to each other before the huge change of Mount and Wooden. And..." I exhaled my breath deeply before continuing the next words which I hope it didn't connect before, "And it happened after the news of Chaeyoon's parents were found to be in a car accident?" I lost my voice when I clicked the next button which was showing the picture of the representative of Ridge passed away's news. And he was the same person from one of the three representatives that looked close to each other.

"Yes, Director..." Taemu replied with a low voice.

"I can't even ask the truth from my father also Go Seokjin uncle. The only one that we can ask is..."

"Jang Director..."

"Uh..." I nodded still being cautious with what will happen next.

"Jang Director left Wooden with a huge amount of money and a residence somewhere in Busan. He retired early and only doing things he loves."

"How can you know that?"

"Since the police caught Shin Woohyun," he hesitated while fixing his glasses before he looked at me cautiously.