The Invincibles-KTH FF (BOOK II)

-EIGHTY FIVE-

I pulled the phone from his ear and spoke into the receiver. "If you truly love us, come home. Let me bring you home."

"If I came home, I would only hurt you and him. I need to fix me," she whispered. "I love you so much."

"I love you t—" My voice broke. "Y/N, don't do this."

"I..." she tried to say. "Tae, Ivan is a code name for someone in the government. I saw his name on the guest list for Senator Kim. I think it is Ahn Doeun."

That was all I heard before silence rang out on the other end.

"Y/N?"

Silence.

"Y/N?"

Silence.

"Wife, answer me!"

I didn't want her to be gone. I couldn't handle her being gone. It felt as though my body was too heavy to stay upright on its own, like the world was crushing my lungs. The phone, like everything I held dear to me, slipped out of my hands. When had everything gone so wrong? When had I failed? How could she just leave? What had happen to her?

"Taehyung."

"WHAT!" I yelled so loudly that Eunwoo jumped before letting out cries, and part of me wanted to join him. Taking him into my arms, I wrapped myself around his tiny body. "I'm sorry, kiddo," I whispered into his ear.

"Son," My father stepped in, "The police have a warrant out for your arrest. They will be here in thirty minutes. We need—"

"Make sure all our rooms are secured and I'll be out in twenty-five minutes. Send Mother in."

"Taehyung, you can't be—"

"Goodbye, Father," I said to him, taking a seat in the rocking chair. Staring at the big eyes looking back at me, I tried to think of what I was going to say to my son.

"Your mother and I are starting this parenting thing badly," I told him when the door closed. "But we'll make it up to you, I swear. I hope when you're my age you look back and all you see is us, that we didn't miss anything. Rule number six: sometimes in order to win, you have to lose."

He smiled and for a moment, and it was like he could read my mind. He reached out for me and I kissed his hands as I cradled his little head.

"Don't worry, you'll never learn them all. I think my father made them up as he went." I rocked him until his eyes drifted closed.

He was another thing I didn't want to let go of. Placing him back in his crib, I fixed my suit and brushed my hair just as my mother walked in, fire burning in her eyes.

"Your father says you've lost your mind."

I kissed her cheek. "I don't want Jisoo to touch him. Jin either, for that matter. Please, keep him safe until this is over, or I get out, whichever happens first."