Born To Bleed - KTH FF (BOOK III)

-FORTY THREE-

He spun me and when he brought me back, he shook his head. "As long as you're alive, your father's only, beloved child, then he still lives."

"I am as much of his blood as I am yours. You're just too arrogant and cold blooded to get it. I have the mind to kill you where you stand."

"We both know why you won't; because you or I will need to walk away. And when I kill you, there will be nothing that ties it to me, so that I can return to a time when you weren't such a pain in my ass," he said.

He was correct, but he didn't know a fucking thing about me.

"Let's say you do win, and that you do beat Taehyung and me, which you won't, what becomes of you then? You'll have no family, nothing. You'll just die."

He laughed and that grin of his drove me mad. "Who needs family when you have the world? You're so weak, so reckless. Shin-hye spoke of you as if you were a force to be reckoned with, but I know now she was as foolish as she was insane. Family means nothing. Look around this room, all of them, each and every last one of them holds me in the highest regard. When I die, it will not be at your tiny hands. The world will mourn my passing. People will come from all over to speak of me in ways no family ever could. Unlike you and your mutt of a husband, I rule without getting my hands dirty."

This time I laughed. "Without getting your hands dirty? Really? These people don't know you. You say I'm reckless? The moment we killed Jihun, you could have walked away."

"There's a balance little girl," he snapped as his dull, brown eyes sharpened. "We will never get drugs off the streets, but there will not be one family controlling it all. Icarus flew too close to sun and perished, don't make that same mistake. Take your precious family and disappear. I'll even let you keep all your wealth."

"I am a liar, Doeun, which means I can spot another liar a mile away. You can take your half-assed deal and shove it up your ass, because even if I were blind, dumb, deaf, and gasping for breath on my deathbed, I'd still tell you to go fuck yourself."

"May I cut in?" Taehyung asked coming up from behind me. I let go of Doeun as if he had shocked me.

"Please," I said to Taehyung, without taking my eyes off Doeun. "Oh and by the way, Icarus burned because he flew during the day. He wanted the world to see. We fly in the darkness, where people are afraid to look."

Taehyung took my hand and we walked away, leaving him standing there.

"Do you want to leave?" he whispered as he led us away from the doors, I shook my head.

"Not even a little bit, you planned this night and we are going to enjoy it, even with that bastard here. We aren't running, not now, not fucking ever," I muttered.

He nodded and drew in a deep breath. "So much for a happy anniversary."

Squeezing his hand, I said nothing more. I wasn't sure what to say, he'd gone through so much just to make this night special, and it had been nice. In fact, until we saw Doeun, I was having a decent time. Not with the women I'd been talking to of course, but with playing cat and mouse with Taehyung. Every once in a while, he would look at me and I could feel it. I had to fight the urge to look back at him.