My Marriage Counselor (Jimin x Reader)

Chapter 18: Unexpected Visitors (Jimin's POV)

Chapter 18: Unexpected Visitors (Jimin's POV)

"What are you thinking, Park?" The familiar voice snaps me out of my thoughts as I draw my eyes back to the original expensive charlatan... Dr. Kim Namjoon. I roll my eyes at the common therapist vernacular.

"Y/N doesn't understand my need to do this." I think about her soft warm body still in my bed and I smile to myself. A frown soon replaces it. I think about the fact that she's probably worrying that I went to the board anyway despite my promises to her. I stayed true to my word, instead finding myself at Namjoon's office in a building a few blocks over.

"Is it that she doesn't understand or that she doesn't want you doing anything reckless."

"Namjoon, you know I have to do this."

He leans back in his chair and I'm irritated by the look he's giving me. "Why?"

"Because it's the right thing to do."

"Now we're concerned about doing the right thing?"

"What the hell does that mean?"

"You've been sleeping with your married patient for seven months, Jimin. Where was this moral compass then?"

"Fuck you. I know that what I did was wrong, but don't judge me. And it certainly has nothing to do with twelve people who were betrayed on my watch."

"You want to go to the board and explain to them what happened and somehow leave out Y/N and her ex-husband? It's not possible Jimin. You cannot spin this story. There is no way."

"So, you're saying I don't have the obligation to tell the board that a dozen of my patients' privacies were violated?"

"I say you had the obligation to keep yourself out of Y/N's pants." He crosses his arms as he looks down at me over his glasses and I resist the urge to break them- while they're still on his face.

"Okay well that's no longer an option so how about you give me some actual advice and stop with the judgmental bullshit. And for the record, you and I both know that her being a consenting, competent adult that has no plans to sue me for malpractice obviously, in addition to the fact that she will swear under oath that I didn't force her to do anything will all work in our favor. It also doesn't hurt that we're now engaged"

"Really? I wasn't aware that you had made that step."

I smile thinking about the fact that really she made that step. But I keep that to myself, knowing that Namjoon will have a hundred and one things to say about the fact that she proposed to me. "We're in love and we want to start our lives together as soon as possible. Case closed."

"I thought you wanted me to meet her before you went jumping feet first into this relationship?"

"I would love for you to meet her, but it won't change how I feel about her."

"Hmmm." He rubs his jaw in the condescending way that all therapists have been trained to do.

"Can you stop with the judgment already?"

"Jimin, I'm not judging you. I'm being honest. As your mentor, your friend, your shrink, whatever you want to call me... This is not going to be easy. You can't reveal this information and expect it to go away in a few weeks. If this gets out... this will follow you. I assume the board will want you to take some time away, but if and when you start practicing again, it will still be there. The skeleton in your closet that you'll never be able to get rid of. You'll probably be done for as a marriage counselor. What man would want to bring his wife around you?"