Chapter 20: Fate and Karma

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"Hurry!" You demand of Taehyung as you put on your shoes and coat.

"I'm hurrying," says Taehyung with a smile.
"But they're not going anywhere."

"I know!" You say. "I just can't believe it."

"The moment I saw the picture I knew it was him," Taehyung assures you.

"I thought it was a picture of you!" You say still feeling like a dolt that you didn't recognize your own son.

"If I wasn't me I probably would have also thought it was a photo of me," says Taehyung throwing on his blue peacoat.

"He looks just like you!" You say happily as you head toward the front door. Just as it opens and Namjoon comes in.

"You're supposed to be bringing the car around," says Taehyung.

"That's my fault," says a voice from behind the bodyguard. "I insisted that he bring me right inside."

Taehyung's brow furrows as he looks at Namjoon in confusion. "You let someone in the house?"

"Also my fault," says a handsome young man stepping from behind Namjoon before the bodyguard can get a word out. "My badge usually does that."

The young man takes out his ID and shows it to us. "Detective Choi Yeonjun," says Taehyung reading the cops badge.

"I know that you're headed out but I need to speak to you both," says detective Yeonjun.

"About what?" Asks Taehyung with a frown.

"Her husband," says Yeonjun nodding toward you and your heart drops. Your sins are catching up with you at the worst possible time. That's how fate and karma works you guess.

Taehyung is displeased as he takes the detective into his office for the interrogation.

"It's not an interrogation," detective Yeonjun insists but you don't believe him. "I'm just here to follow up on the missing persons report you made on Cole."

"So why do you need to speak to me?" Asks Taehyung. "As you can imagine her husband didn't like to check in with me."

Yeonjun laughs, "I would think not.... It's just she didn't mention you."

"What's there to mention?" Asks Taehyung.

"That she has moved on and is living with another man... a powerful man," says Yeonjun.

Taehyung smiles. "Are you here to help her find her deadbeat husband or make a name for yourself?"

"Make a name for myself?" Asks Yeonjun.

"Let's not play games detective," says Taehyung.

"I mean you're right," says Yeonjun with a nod. "Taking down the head of the Kim crime family would make me a name but I am also committed to finding her husband. I don't think the two events are mutually exclusive."

"You're barking up the wrong tree," says Taehyung.

"Her in-laws don't think so," says Yeonjun.

"My in-laws?" You ask.

"They also filed a missing person report," says the detective. "But while your report alluded to him walking away on his own, their report alludes to foul play."

"They barely cared about Cole when he was in Seoul and now that he's left they're blaming me?" You ask.

"The thing is... they don't think your husband left," says Detective Choi Yeonjun. "They think your mob boss boyfriend had him killed."

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