Heartless

{11}

Not too long after Taehyung was thrown in the basement, and Dong-Wook made his way up to her room, Runa slowly moved around and blinked her eyes open, seeing a blurry figure sitting close by her and another at the foot of the bed, along with a comforting weight on her chest.

"Cookie?", she mutters, her vision starting to clear when the dog nudges her face with its nose, and her memory floods back in.

"Runa? Are you ok?", Dong-Wook says, coming to her side and cradling the side of her head with his palm.

In response, she groans at the ache throbbing in her skull and feels uncomfortably dehydrated. After clearing her throat, she starts to sit up on the bed with the help of Dong-Wook who holds her while Jungkook adjusts the pillow so she sits upright.

"Thanks, I just need some water and I'll be fine", she mutters, not wanting to speak so loudly because of how bad her head pounded.

The underboss quickly grabs the water bottle from her nightstand and hands it to her, also grabbing the ice pack that slipped off her head and held it against her temple. After gulping the whole thing down, she takes a deep breath and carefully moves around, making sure that there are no major injuries and everything is working alright.

"You might have a concussion, we should probably get you to a hospital just to be sure", Jungkook says while standing up so Dong-Wook could sit in his place.

She shakes her head at that and begins petting Cookie who lays her head in the woman's lap, "No, I've had a concussion and this is just a headache, nothing serious."

"Are you ok though? Do you feel sore?", the underboss asks, worried to hear an answer that wouldn't ease his mind or heart.

But her smile tells both men that she's alright, "He didn't hurt me too badly. Speaking of, did he escape?"

"Yes and no. He went to his cabin and now he's in the basement tied up."

"Good, we should talk to him then", she says while moving to sit at the edge of the bed and that makes the underboss stand up with his hands on his hips, putting the ice pack on the nightstand.

"I don't think so. You need to stay in bed. You might just have a headache and a bruise but you need rest. We don't need you passing out on us or anything", Dong-Wook says with a firm expression, but of course she stands up and doesn't listen to him, going to her closet to get appropriate clothes to change into as opposed to the pajamas with blood stained on them.

"Seriously, Dong-Wook I'm fine. Just a bump in the head is all. We need to question him and find out if somebody put a hit out on me, or if he was alone in this."

While she closes the closet door to change, the underboss glances over at her bodyguard who remains silent and in his usual stance. So he sighs and gives up on arguing with her because he knows that regardless of what he says to her, she'll do as she pleases.

She then emerges from the closet in a simple black outfit and jacket, her hair tied back in a bun and she grimaces at the bloody wall, but not out of disgust. She was disappointed in herself for not finishing the job and now she was suffering the consequences. Meaning a throbbing headache that spread to the front of her skull and made her eyes strain.

"No matter what you say, I'm not getting back in bed unless this is dealt with. We can't risk it", she says and he just shakes his head at her, knowing how stubborn she is and she smiles triumphantly when he gestures for both her and the bodyguard to follow him.

"Follow me, I locked him in one of the rooms."

Cookie followed them and they walked down the staircase and through the living room towards the basement. She noticed how closely Jungkook stood by her and when she tried to look into his eyes to see what he was thinking, his gaze remained forward and he didn't glance her way.