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Jungkook is a powerful businessman, London returns, a brutal fighter, and born in a privileged Kim family. One project forced him to work and stay with his enemy, whose secrets he hid for a long time. He has only one piece of a page but wa...
Kang Yeri watched quietly while Jungkook spoke to someone on the phone.
As soon as she got the call from him, informing her that they had been found... she knew.
She had hurried out of her room and then out of the Kang Mansion to jump into her car and blindly drive towards the location he had asked her to meet him.
He had led her into the small plane and sat across from her in one of the seats. Maybe he knew she felt high-strung, so he didn't attempt to ask her any questions or speak with her.
Her heart pounded inside her chest in anticipation. She had been waiting for this moment for a very long time. She had sacrificed so much and even let her aunt dictate to her because of this.
She took in a deep, shuddering breath as nervousness began to slowly take over.
She jumped when she felt a hand covering hers.
"We'll land in an hour. Catch some sleep if you can," he said softly.
She nodded and rested her head back on the seat and closed her eyes.
***
Two hours later, her heart continued to beat anxiously while she trembled in anticipation.
They had landed an hour ago from where they were picked up by a car and driven to a non-descript house in a seemingly residential neighborhood.
First thing she saw as she opened the small gates were the dark- uniformed guards placed right outside the door.
She walked past them hurriedly into the house and stopped short. Her eyes barely glanced at the familiar face of a middle-aged woman who watched her with trepidation. All of her concentration was on the small child who was clinging to the woman. The child's sweet little face looked fearful.
Slowly, Kang Yeri walked towards them. "Leave this room," she softly ordered the armed guards standing on either side of the woman and child. The guards were probably scaring the child.
Even after the guards left, the woman visibly trembled while hugging the child close to her.
The child clung back.
Kang Yeri relaxed her face and put on a smile even though she was nervous. She stopped in front of the small sofa where the woman and child were seated, and knelt down in front of them.
"Hana?" Kang Yeri called out softly, her lips trembling as she tried to continue smiling to ease the child.
The bright green eyes of the little girl peered at her, but she didn't respond.
"Don't be scared, Hana. I'm your-"
"No, you are not!" the woman shouted fearfully. "You are not her mother!"
Anger erupted within Kang Yeri as she looked at the woman who had once been like a surrogate mother to her.
"Hana is my daughter, Bora. I know that you kept her in hiding all these years upon Mimo's orders."
Kang Yeri wanted to grab the woman and throw her out so she could have the moment alone with her daughter. But her daughter clung to Bora watching with terrified eyes.
Bora shook her head vigorously. "I'm telling you the truth. Hana is not your daughter. She is my granddaughter. Your son died seven years ago as soon as he was born."
Kang Yeri's hands trembled as she controlled herself from picking up her daughter and moving her away from the mad woman who helped in abducting her baby and keeping her away all these years.
"Please, believe me. This is my granddaughter. Mimo just lied to you saying she's your daughter."
"Don't lie to me," she said. "I've seen some of Hana's pictures while she grew up. She looks like my mother. She has the same eyes. I know-"
"That's because your mother was my cousin! Green eyes are quite common within our people. That's the reason why Mimo had my daughter and son-in-law slaughtered mercilessly! So she could steal their child and pass it off as yours."
"No," Kang Yeri whispered. "That is not true."
But Kang Yeri knew her aunt was capable of doing that.
"It is true," Bora said in anguish. "I was the one who had delivered your baby. You had lost consciousness during the birth, but I saw with my own eyes that your son was stillborn."
"W-where was that baby's body then?" Kang Yeri asked, her voice catching as tremors slowly began within her.
"The baby was secretly buried in our community's graveyard. Mimo refused to have the usual last rites of a Kang." Kang Yeri felt the air leave her lungs in a rush.
The woman continued talking. "A day later, my daughter and son-in- law were murdered. Mimo summoned me and asked me to take their baby and disappear. She threatened my granddaughter and me with death if I didn't follow her orders."
Kang Yeri just stared, her eyes wide and shocked. Her mind was refusing to accept whatever she was hearing.
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