☀︎︎𝙇𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙃𝙞𝙨 𝘾𝙞𝙩𝙮 |𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘥|✔︎

|Chapter 20: Phthartic Game|

Ae-ri's P.O.V

It's been one month since Jeongguk brought us back  home. Home!
I can't do this again. I'm falling for him harder. I was always in love with him but now it's getting stronger and I am falling harder than before.

This can't happen. If I stay here for more time, it will be difficult for me to go away from him, from my Home. "Remember Ae-ri, remember the reason you ran away from here in the first place. One month is enough  for him to bond with his daughter. I need to get out of here" I mumbled, "As soon as possible"

Author's P.O.V

A few moment later Ae-ri went to Jeongguk's room seeing Sky sleeping soundly with her father. She quietly moved towards the left side of the bed  and held Sky in her embrace, patting her back so she wouldn't get up from her sleep.

She closed the door without making any noise and went down stairs, looking left and right to see if anyone was present here. In the meantime Sky got up. "Mama where are we going? Where's Dadda?" She asked, rubbing her eyes, trying to open them up.

"Baby I told you before that dadda has a lot of work and he's busy--" she said in the softest tone while Sky looked at her confused. "--So dadda is again busy and has a lot of work to do. So, we are going back to our house again"

Sky looked at her mother sadly, shaking her head, "No mama, I don't want to leave dadda. Sky won't disturb dadda when he will do his work. Sky doesn't want to leave--"

But Ae-ri wasn't ready to listen to her. She just wanted to get out of here as soon as possible. "Sky baby, we need to go. We won't be staying here." Sky eyes got teary.

Sky has always been really fond of her father and now when she met him, she didn't wanna leave him. She's really attached to him. The thought of leaving him and going back made her cry.

Sky tried to get down from her mother's embrace. Ae-ri let her down.
"Mama please, I won't leave dadda!" She was being stubborn. And Ae-ri just had one thought, running from here without getting caught.

"Sky don't be stubborn. I told you we are going from here, so we are!" She told her daughter sternly. Ae-ri pulled her. And she started crying loudly and screaming No, no!

I happened for the first time that Sky was being stubborn and going against her mother's words. Hearing those screams Jeongguk ran down, panicked and worried, thinking that his daughter got hurt. And the rest of the boys followed him down stairs, thinking the same.

Reaching down they saw Sky's tears stained cheeks breaking their hearts and a fuming Ae-ri. Sky continued screaming and that was the last straw for Ae-ri. She couldn't control it anymore. She was overwhelmed. Scared, nervous, panicked, tired, emotionally drained.

"Jeon Haneul!" She screamed and for the first time she called her by her full name. She was always soft with her and always called her Sky. She raised her hand and Sky got really scared. She didn't hit her, just raised her hand. Sky stopped crying. Her eyes wide seeing her mother raising her hand which made her more scared and started sobbing, making her more angry.

Jeongguk quickly moved forward and took Sky in his embrace. The poor soul was really scared. She couldn't comprehend what happened a few minutes ago. Jeongguk caressed her back trying to calm her down.

"I don't wanna leave you dadda! I don't wanna go away dadda!" She continuously mumbled hugging him tightly. Jeongguk kinda understood what happened here.