Dark Embrace [Hoseok FF] [SOF Prequel 0.2] ✔

Chapter 24

Anya's anger at the intrusion got pushed off by the title Hoon Chul had used.

She looked at the man who comfortably went to be seated and leisurely said, "I know you cannot trust me, and truly, how can I blame you for it? The way you have suffered, you have only ever seen me help the person who was your offender."

His eyes were clear of any deceit, his body posture relaxed, "I am trying not to appear to be threatening to you, My Princess. I truly am going against my benefactor because I want to take you away first. I am sick of not being able to save you, sick of just standing uselessly while you keep suffering. Will you at least give me the chance to hear me out?"

Her mind raced at lightening speed, straightening out all that she had heard and the implications.

Hoon Chul was Hoseok's older cousin brother who he trusted with not just his own life but with hers as well. That brother, had obviously harbored ill feelings against Hoseok, may it be due to the injustice he perceived was committed by him to her.

If that would have been the case, then the misunderstanding could be easily cleared up. But, his words regarding a benefactor being involved meant it went deeper than just a common misunderstanding.

I want to take you away FISRT implied something was going to happen. Something, involving him and aimed at Hoseok. Which meant, Hoon Chul was plotting something.

He approached her as a common enemy was shared, thinking her to be suffering.

Keeping aside the manner of address, Anya decided to play along his misconception, wanting to find out the entire picture first, because this was betrayal.

A betrayal that Hoseok would not be able to foresee.

Swallowing a little to wet her suddenly gone dry throat, Anya decided to not think before she found out the whole situation.

She went forward stiffly, "Since the day I was brought to the house, you obeyed him. You bought the letters I did not want. You did not help me the night he took me away from that Inn. You made sure I could never escape, you even made sure of it for the five days I could." She sat in front of him, her face masked in distrust. "Tell, me, what are you saying? Why should I believe you?"

Hoon Chul looked pained, he shifted on his seat, regret plain on his face, "I had to do those things against my will! Every single of the time you mentioned were the times that I kept looking at you, wanting to somehow convey that-"

"Please understand, the way I am living my life right now, empty words will not convince me." Anya stood up, "If you are over here to trick me and then tell your General things that would make my life more miserable than-"

"NO!!" Hoon Chul stood up too and rounded to where she stood, blocking her way, "NO! no. I am not. Time is short for us, let me start again My Princess? Please?"

"Why do you keep calling me that?" Anya asked.

Hoon Chul closed his eyes shaking his head, "A lot has happened to you. A lot has been done to you. Things you should not have suffered." He coaxed her into sitting down again, then began.

"Hoseok was born in the family of Jungs with a bad omen." He sat down too and began with a distant look on his face, "The day he was born, the backyard of our house crawled with snakes. We should have killed him then."

Sighing, he looked at Anya, "My mother was married to my father after he had suffered an accident which left him paralyzed. When the house wanted a child, a discreet affair began between my mother and Hoseok's father. I was the result of it. The connection after that was supposed to be withered, but they were too in love with each other.