The Binding Angel || Tzukook

16

The first time she was moved to the general ward after she got her consciousness, she felt lonely. Fortunately, she was laid with the other three patients on the ward so she wasn't really lonely. They were also cancer patients and they were growing closer to sharing their condition. But still, the hospital is different from home, she missed her only daughter. The scenes of them playing, cooking, laughing, and crying in the small house they owned, kept repeating in her mind.

The condition was different she should lay her back in the hospital and her daughter only visited her in the meantime, she felt lonely, right after her daughter and a child on her embrace, left her. She looked outside the window seeing the dark sky to distract her mind from longing for her daughter.

There was a time when the silence on the wards was broken with the voice of clacked shoes coming closer to her bed. The appearance of a man-made her turn into a person. He was standing in front of the bed, bringing a bucket of flowers. He took a bow to her showing politeness.

The first time she saw him, she didn't even know him. However, after times looking at him deeply, she finally recognized him. A familiar face she always longed for too, staring at her with a glimpse of a smile.

"Son.." her face turned into a smile seeing the person in front of her. He put the flower on her bedside table and took a seat beside her and gave her a warm hug.

"Eomo-nim... have you felt any better?" He mumbled between hugs. He ended the hug after a while and sit on the small chair beside her.

"I am better now..." she rubbed his hand lovingly. "Where have you been? Have you met Tzuyu already?" She asked him feeling excited meeting him after years. He turned silent and gave her a faint smile without replying to the questions. "You've grown up this well, I almost can't recognize you." she patted his cheek lightly.

"Thank you, Eomo-nim," he whispered.

"Why are you sad son? Something bad happened," she asked him again realizing his saddened face after times she came to her. However, he remained silent. "I understand...then why are you coming here after so long," she asked him when suddenly he turned his head down and sighed deeply.

He started telling the story about him after he chose not to visit Tzuyu's mother and Tzuyu at that time. He told the whole story which started unwrapping his new healing wound. Hearing such unpredictable accidents, Tzuyu's mother was speechless after hearing the whole story and brought him to her embrace tightly.

"Aigooo... Son." her eyes started to well and caressed his head with love.

"Don't you say that..." he nodded lightly to her unfinished words in her hug.

"I think Tzuyu will understand what you had done." He buried his head even more feeling down.

"I can't, Eomo-nim... I was the one who left her first... I don't have the confidence to face her like before." He sighed deeply with his blank face.

"Aigoo... How pitiful you are, my son." she caressed his back softly. "Everything will be fine, Son." she patted his back as Mother did on her son as she did in the past.

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Tzuyu opened the apartment door lightly with sleeping Yeojin on her shoulder. She closed the door slowly, in case it would wake the CEO. Her eyes roamed the room looking for a woman that came early in the morning. Suddenly, her eyes laid on the plastic bag she knew that morning. The seal of the plastic bag also remained closed.

"He didn't eat the porridge," she mumbled slowly with her eyes landed on the CEO's bedroom which was closed tightly.

Tzuyu went to Yeojin's bedroom and laid Yeojin on her bed. She opened Yeojin's jacket slowly and shoes not to wake her up before she put on the blanket on her tiny body. Tzuyu rubbed her hair slowly and left her in silence.

Tzuyu went to the kitchen cabinet and opened the plastic bag. The CEO didn't even touch it. She warmed the porridge she made that morning and brought a bowl of it. She went to the CEO's bedroom to check his fever.

She opened the door slowly and took a peek before fully entering the room. The bowl of porridge she made in the morning was empty.

Other than that, there she found a body lying on the bed helplessly. He was sleeping soundly with the blanket covered up to his waist. She came closer and checked his temperature with her palms slowly. His face remained pale and the beads of sweat still covered his face.

Naturally, she took the towel on the table and dabbed his face slowly, cleaning the beads.

"Daepyo-nim." She shook his body lightly to let him awake. He opened his eyes slowly. "It is time for drugs." She whispered. He obediently sat with his back against the head of the bed.

Tzuyu started feeding him in the morning. The porridge was empty in no time with her help.

Tzuyu's hand took water and handed him the drug with it. He gulped the drug in a minute and laid his body on the bed again feeling weak.

Tzuyu helped him to get good sleep again by caressing his wet upper hair slowly. After she was sure that he was already asleep, Tzuyu cleaned the bedside table and brought it to the kitchen sink. She washed the dishes when suddenly she felt the burned muscular hands wrapping her from behind.

"Don't go..." his hot breath caused by fever, touched her nape giving a shiver sensation like he did last night. "She is nothing." He added managing his hot breath caused by the fever. Tzuyu knew what he was pointed out about.

However, he wasn't the one who should clarify that. It was normal though. Seonhwa was his back then, and she didn't have a right to do with their personal.

"Why?" she mumbled and his hug tightened.

"I'm scared that you might doubt my feeling." He snuggled his head on her shoulder seeking her warmth.