The Love They Never Had: The Nam Mansion

Chapter 59: Umjig-Ineun Gyeheog (Plans in Motion)

"I promise you that I will never let anyone hurt you Yeon, I promised him long ago and now I am making you the same promise that I would always protect his sister, no matter what happened between us...." I promised him, I promised that I would protect his sister...my god, he was admitting it to me right now. And he seemed genuinely disturbed by what I was saying, to the point where he was unaware of the own words that were coming out of his mouth for the first time. He wasn't guarded, he wasn't being cold and distant, he had even pulled me away from everyone instead of having a conversion with me in public like he did most of the time. In fact, he really wasn't pulling away from me at all, even though I had indicated multiple times that it was time to sort out the chaos happening outside once and for all. He was behaving...as if he really didn't have this before. So who was I to break this up, at least for now. Even I wanted to savour this precious moment between us before all hell broke loose when my brother came for me or when I investigated exactly had happened, although I was already starting to get an idea of the events that happened. If he was innocent, would find a way to help them both and if he wasn't...well I would have to come up with a plan for that too, no matter how much it would kill me to do so. And to my brother Hwi, I am sorry for everything I have put you through and I promise you that your struggle will come to an end soon. I will help you no matter what so we can both go home together...

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I had been forced to commit a lot of sins in my past just to survive in this world that I was determined to overthrow on it's head. But it was only now that I had realised that there were some sins that came in such tempting forms and it was almost too easy not to recognise it. But from the moment that this strong and bold woman threw herself into my arms as if I could be her only saviour completely threw me off and it was doing something to me that was making me forgetting everything that I had been through, every bad thing I had to do and even what I did to her brother temporarily. She was looking at me with such a pure look on her face that I really couldn't think at all. In fact, the more that she kept looking at me that way, the more filthy I felt whilst holding her. I did try to push her away from me, but then she just had to put her small and soft hands around my waist and I was completely stuck. There was something happening to my body that I had never felt before and I was afraid that it would scare her off, so what choice did I have but to keep holding onto her. But as I got even closer, she just smelled so damned good and she felt so damned soft that I didn't want to let her go; not now and not ever.

"I know that I can trust you with everything, and I thank you for everything that you have done for me." Such sweet words that were coming out of her pretty little mouth were akin to her pouring sweet honey into my already bruised ears from all of the insults that I had to hear about me from the moment that I was born. And it felt so good, to the point where I could actually feel some warmth around where was supposedly.

"Brother...we should go..." "Not yet! Please god, not yet. Do not let go of me yet." "Brother....what are you doing...?"

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I must have waited a total of 4 hours in the rain before I decided to give up and just go back home to find her instead. I barely had to step foot in the courtyard before I could hear everyone shouting at the pregnant concubine and demanding answers as to why they were not given what was promised to them. And she wasn't equipped to handle any of this at all; the woman who betrayed her own status in the most cunning of ways was now being shouted at by the people that she betrayed with a child in her belly that came form unknown origins. The Young Master...well he wasn't very experienced with women at all, to say the least. Or that was what I thought when I heard some strange sounds coming from somewhere that wasn't far from my quarters. At first I was tried, emotionally drained and completely soaking wet, not that anybody here could tell or even care at all. I was the one who had the servants lives in my hands, and they dared to fear the so-called Young Master instead? I was the one who allowed the concubine to breathe easy despite Yeon's constant threats towards her, and yet she didn't think enough to start catering to me and look after me so I could put in a good word for her for the man who wanted nothing to do with her from the start. But as everyone else in this residence was so concerned with their own problems, then why couldn't I investigate what these noises were and why they were getting louder? It sounded just like...