Silhouette | JJK BOOK 3

Chapter Twenty: Ache

Beth managed to fight off the last enemy that was hiding upstairs in the four rooms she could see. In each room she looked in, there was no sign of Taehyung anywhere. She tried to listen to see if she could hear anything, but all she could hear was the chaos that was happening downstairs.

She went back into the first room and started to search for any hidden walls, she had to check every bit of detail in every room.

But the only thing she could find were empty boxes of match sticks.

As for Lydia, her luck was even worse. Two men vs herself was hard work but the training Namjoon gave everyone she took them down pretty well. She doubted herself, be she succeeded!

She made her way, noticing three rooms at her side which she had to pass another hallway to get to. The candles helped guide her to the first room to check, she opened the door to be met with piles of wet boxes from the hole in the ceiling.

But nothing suspicious could be found here, she made the decision to look into the next room but she felt something was wrong.

All they were fighting were random men... where were her parents and Adelia?

Hayley found her way to her side pretty easily, but her side was full of enemies. Every time she killed one, another one came to attack.

But she never gave up, she eventually took down every single one that was guarding this part of the house and walked over to the remaining rooms to get checked.

The first one has already been opened by one of the guards that came running over to her, she opened the creaking door slowly to see nobody was in here. She sighed, closing the door again to move on to her next one, as she held the doorknob, it wouldn't budge. The metal door wouldn't open for her.

She twisted and pulled, but it just wouldn't open.

"It must be locked?" She whispered to herself, she looked around to see if she could find anything sharp that could unlock it or break the door.

She searched the last room to see a room full of leftover weapons.

"Bingo."

Hayley grabbed a rusted axe from the floor and a pocket knife from one of the boxes that were on the table and quickly ran out to go back to the metal door.

She timed herself. Someone could come any minute, and she needed to be back in 2 minutes to meet Lydia and Beth again. This was her last hope.

She grabbed the axe with two hands and hit the doorknob, she watched it fall off as she noticed the door was indeed locked, from now it was easy to unlock. She grabbed the lock and ripped it away from the door, which she smiled seeing it worked.

Hayley pushed the door forward to be met with darkness.

"Hello?"

Hayley looked behind her to see a candle sitting on one of the shelves in the hallway, she took it off the holder and went back into the room. When she hit the back of the wall, she found him. Hayley's heart was pounding, she had found Taehyung.

Taehyung laid on the floor, not believing what he was seeing.

"Is it really you?" He cried.

"It's me, baby, we are here, do you know how worried I've been?" Hayley kissed him on the lips while giving him a tight hug.

"Me too, we need to get out of here fast!" Taehyung said, trying his best to get up.

"Have they fed you?" She hurriedly asked.

"Barely," Taehyung mumbled.

"Don't worry, let's get you out of he-" Hayley stopped speaking as she raised her eyebrows looking at Taehyung, "What is it?" He asked.

Taehyung's heart shattered into a million pieces as he noticed blood starting to pour out of her mouth as she collapsed onto the floor face first. Taehyung screamed as he held her into his arms, "Hayley! Come on, now isn't the time for playing," he cried.

The candle Hayley was holding now got picked up, Taehyung shakily looked to see Adelia's face next to Taehyung with the candle close to her face revealing who it was.

"Come on Taehyung, I told you we were ready for this." She chuckled, walking out again as she just left without saying anything else.

Tears left Taehyung's eyes as he kept Hayley in his arms, he heard her gasping for air as he felt the object at the back of her throat. He couldn't bring himself to look at the damage.

"Please keep breathing for me baby," Taehyung cried, "I need to go get someone."

"Stay with me." She chocked, "Please, I just need to have you here with me."

"Namjoon can try to save you or your dad can try to save you, please just let me find someone," Taehyung begged.

"You're too weak yourself, It's okay, I'll be okay."

Taehyung felt her hand caress his cheek.

"I love you Taehyung, I really do."

"Please don't let me go,"

Taehyung sniffed. "Please don't leave me."

Her hand slowly became weak as her fingertips slid down Taehyung's neck onto his chest, that's when Taehyung felt nothing, she exhaled her last breath, she became numb as did he.

Taehyung never knew what to do, he never wanted to move, he wanted her to just wake up, he wanted to spend the rest of his time together with her, he just wanted Hayley.

Taehyung took her hand and kissed it one last time, "I will be back, I will kill them myself. I will get revenge for what Adelia has done to you." He growled getting up leaving the room.

A guard came running up to him as Taehyung spared no mercy and ripped out his heart before he could even touch him.

"No more fucking games."

Taehyung made it to where he heard voices,

"She never came back, she promised she would I'm sure she's with him, she has to be?" Beth questioned.

"We haven't come across Lucas, Hannah or even Adelia yet, we have got time to find Taehyung and Hayley now let's g-" Namjoon cut himself off as he noticed Taehyung standing at the doorframe.

Everyone stood up watching him, "Taehyung?"

Namjoon smiled, "Where the hell have you been? Are you hurt? why is your shirt covered in blood?"

As the room was still silent Jin and Hoseok came running into the room.

Taehyung looked down to see his shirt had dyed to a crimson red, the pain in his heart worsened, he couldn't say anything, all he could do was look at Jin as more tears formed.

Jin quickly looked around noticing his daughter was the only one that was missing. Jin stared back at Taehyung hoping what he was thinking wasn't true

"No!" Jin choked out, kneeling onto the floor.