HER BELOVED

14

"Mr. Kim!" Jin leaned against the door frame, hands on his chest, looking at his former housekeeper with cold hatred as her gaze sparkled with hope. "Mr. Kim, please tell them to let me go, I haven't done anything wrong!" Jin raised an eyebrow and pushed away from the door frame, approaching the woman tied to the chair. "Nothing bad, huh?" he leaned over her, placing his hands on the armrests of the chair, and looked her straight in the eyes. She truly believed she had done nothing.

"You tried to kill my wife, poison her, and you almost succeeded" Jin reminded her calmly and in an even voice, and Tina's face instantly changed at the mere mention of Nao. "That bitch doesn't deserve you Mr. Kim, she belongs in hell, not next to you!" the girl hissed with such hatred that Jin's throat tightened in disgust. "And what makes you better than her?" he tried to keep his expression indifferent but it was hard, the desire to kill her was so great that his fingers dug into the chair and his knuckles turned white.

"I love you, I have always loved you, I was by your side before her, I will stay by your side after her!" Tina nodded confidently and Jin's eyebrows shot up. "You're wrong here, Tina" a confused expression appeared on the girl's face and she blinked in surprise. Jin watched as her pupils dilated as the realization that he hadn't come to set her free crept into the back of her madness-clouded mind. "So you choose her!" her voice sounded more like a scolding scream than a desperate plea for help.

"Did you expect anything else?" Jin asked coolly and Tina nodded curtly. "I'm sorry to disappoint you then, but you see, firstly, I love my wife and secondly. With her, at least I'll be sure that the children she will bear will be mine and not one of my bodyguards" Tina took a deep breath and looked guiltily at her lap. "I...I did it for you, Mr. Kim, please..." she raised her watery eyes and Jin wondered for a moment exactly how crazy you'd have to be to think that by betraying someone you were doing them a favor, especially if you claim to love that someone.

For a moment he even felt sorry for her. Tina has always stood silently by his side, quietly fulfilling her duties. But just at the thought of what he and Nao had been through for the past two weeks because of her, that regret melted like a snowflake on a flame and turned back into icy hatred. "You will never be on Kim Nao's level, Tina, you will never be as innocent, nor as beautiful, nor will I ever love you, let alone let you approach me or enter my bed. You you're nothing more than a venal whore" he watched with satisfaction as his words seeped into her mind and stood up, smirking.

"You know, a creature as low as you is not worth getting my hands on" he took a step back and nodded at the man behind him. "You will never be good enough to even kill you personally." the man behind him stepped forward and the sound of a bullet being loaded into the trigger of a gun rang out in the dark dungeon where Tina had spent the last almost three weeks. Her eyes widened almost to the point of popping out of their sockets.

"Ah, one more thing" Jin tilted his head slightly. "While you're burning in hell, try to remember what I hate most about claiming to know and love me. Then you'll understand why your life isn't worth a damn to me" he turned and walked towards the exit . "Lie" was the sigh of her last breath, before a shot rang out and the room smelled of gunpowder and blood. Jin stopped for a second and slightly tilted his head, but he didn't turn around, he didn't feel an iota of pity for Tina, if only for the fact that she had betrayed him out of love.

Each of them had at least one weakness and each of them was evil incarnate in their own right. The world was never just black and white, so were people. Kim Seokjin, the oldest, the calmest of them all and the most - dear, he could bear a lot as far as he was concerned. But when someone hurt his family and friends, he had no mercy and the monster in him woke up. And Tina had hurt his wife-family as well as her brother-friend, the combination of the two had killed any chance that she would even be listened to by him. No matter what she had said to him and what he had replied, the moment she had betrayed him ,she had ceased to exist for him and for the world, and how can you regret something that does not exist.