~Dance with me in the moonlight~ || Jung Hoseok [Mafia ff]

Chapter fifteen

Hoseok

What? 

"Don't stand there like a fool. Take her out, Seok!" Yoojin yells. 

Seok. That jerks me. The understanding hits me like a wave. I turn to the woman in my arms. "Jung!"

"I have the car ready, hyung." I hear him in my ear.

"Good. I'm bringing her over. Yoon, you take the lead." 

"Roger."

"Babe." She doesn't move. She stays in her place shaking. "Ria." I try again, but nothing. I take her in my arms and out of the bar. I see Jungkook getting out of the car and opens the door. I place her inside careful. "Take her home." 

"Hyung?"

"I will be back."

"No!" Ria grabs me, suddendly. "No, no , no. They will kill him."

"He deserves it."

"No!" Her hold now in my collar. "No! Not, Hyungsoo! Hoseok...." She is in delirium, I know. But I can't cope with the look on her eyes. Jungkook is as surpised and frozen as I am. Her pain cuts through us and twists the knife in our guts.

"Keep your hands off of Hyungsoo." I say to my men, eyes still hold hers.

"Seok?" Yoongi's anger and frustration shows. Yeah, mine too.

"That's an order." I can see them flinching at my tone. "He won't die by Nemesis." That seems to calm her a little. I hate how she cares for him, when he just betrayed her.

Jungkook places a hesitant hand on my shoulder. "Hyung," He whispers. "She hasn't register the truth. She is confused."

"I know..." I push her inside the car and follows. Gone is my thirst for blood. "Take us home, Jung."

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No-one's

Few hours later

"He betrayed us."

Kenji sighs. "She knew..."

"She always knows more than her heart can take." Nick takes a sip from his glass. 

"How did he escaped you?"

The grip in Nick's glass tighten. "Eric was following him. I had orders to stay back."

"What?"

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"You let him go." Yoojin accuses.

"I won't answer to you for my decisions."

"Eric!"

"Mind your words, Major!" He raises his voice. Yoojin draws back. Eric sighs. "You really  want to know why?" And the memory comes back in mind.

~ "Kill me." Hyungsoo's face is a stone as he faces the gun. "Kill me, Eric."

Eric's conscience shakes. He is really ready to die, he realizes. Suddenly, the man in front of him looks so tired, so small, so old. And Eric feels exhausted. He holds the hand steadier again, and Ria's face comes into view. 'You don't know him, Eric. Not like I do. You don't see what I see. You only see the man in the surface. You never took the liberty to see inside, underneath the mask.' And, it's like, he finally sees a glimpse of it. 

Hyungsoo gives a faint smile. "Go on." He whispers. "I won't run."

Never in his whole life had he felt so troubled by pulling the trigger. He was always well aware of the men standing at his gun's end, of the lives he took without questioning. And never in his whole life had he witness a man so ready to face his death. He wanted to cry, laugh, scream. He didn't have a strong preference. "Did you really?"