The Mob Boss Wants Forever

Chapter 19: Answers

Yoo blinks. "What are you talking about, Taehyung?" Yoo asks his nephew. "You knew that I had a young son. You sent him Christmas gifts."

"But I've never met him," Taehyung reminds him.

"Not because I've kept him from you," says Yoo."I've invited you to dinner. I've invited you to Christmas and you never show up. If I was hiding my son from you why would you have an open invitation to my clinic and my home?"

"He looks just like me," says Taehyung about the boy who is his spitting image. Taehyung turns the picture to face you and says, "with your eyes."

You're afraid to hope or to believe that you could have found him so easily, but now that you know it's not Taehyung in the picture? You see what he sees; half of you, half of Taehyung - your son.

"Taehyung what you're saying? Makes no sense. Yes, I adopted him, but if he were your son you would have been a teenager when he was born."

"Yes," says Taehyung simply.

Yoo takes the frame from you and then examines the picture. He stares at the picture for some time before he speaks, his voice devastated. "I've seen this face every single day and never realized..." Yoo looks up with sorrowful eyes. "I didn't see..."

"We know," you say, stepping in to be the good cop. "But where did you get this child?"

Yoo looks at Taehyung and says the two words you expect but still stabs you in the heart. "My brother."

"My father?" Taehyung asks for confirmation and you grab his hand knowing that this is breaking his heart even as he must be relieved to finally know.

Yoo nods, "Taehyung your father came to me after our ten year long rift to tell me it was time I became a father. I thought that was crazy as I was a single man and running a busy clinic. But when he showed me Kai I fell in love and I was convinced that my big brother was right and I took him. I thought it was lucky that he looked a bit like me."

"Kai?" You ask. "Is that his name?"

Yoo smiles, "yes."

"We got pregnant when we were in high school. I didn't know until recently, but my father knew instantly and sent her away. He threatened her family and stole the baby away," Taehyung tells his uncle.

"Son of a bitch," curses Yoo as he turns to stare out the window. "Would your father really give me your child? Could he be so cruel to you, to me and his grandchild's?9

Taehyung nods, "he never expected me to reach out to you. He never expected for me to reunite with my high school sweetheart and he never expected me to step out of his shadow to forge my own way."

"Can we meet him?" You ask.

"Yes, of course, you both should come to the house," agrees Yoo.

"Tomorrow," says Taehyung. You gasp at the suggested delay. You want to meet Kai now! You want to look into his eyes and hope to recognize him. "I imagine it's well passed his bed time."

Taehyung is right so you hold in your arguments and promise to meet Yoo at his place for breakfast.

"I feel crazy," says Taehyung as you ride home in the back of his car and Namjoon drives. "Our son was always in reach and I had no idea."

"We should still do a DNA test," you tell him. "It's a little crazy. A little evil... to imagine that your father gave your son to a family member."

"It also makes the most sense," says Taehyung. "It didn't fit that my dad would completely give a member of his bloodline away. He's always been very intense about his future and legacy."