Unexpected Love

67. Blackmail in Singapore

The day before the first concert, Yoongi and I went out for some local food. He asked H if only two of the bodyguards could go with us, he hated the amount of bodyguards needed whenever one of the boys wanted to go out to public places. H agreed as long as he dressed in a way he wouldn't be recognized, and be very discreet, in other words, NO affection displays at ANY moment. On the other hand, Mr. Lee wasn't very happy with the decision, but he let us go anyway.

We went walking down a street market, bought some souvenirs for my family and Aby, and suddenly he stopped in front of a tattoo shop.

— "We should get matching tattoos!" — he turned to me with a big smile and bright eyes.

— "Huh? What? Nooo..."

— "No? Why not?" — he looked sad and disappointed.

— "First of all... here? It looks kinda shabby, uh uh... I don't want some creep leaving me permanently marked with a bad job. Secondly, you could get into deep trouble with H for doing something so impulsively as a matching tattoo with me, and last... let's have JK design a cool one for us, something that will be only ours."

— "Aish! I hate it when you're right, but Ok, we will get one back in Seoul, promise?"

— "Neh, cross my heart and hope to die..."

—"Huh? Why would you die over a tattoo?" — he just laughed as he shook his head.

We kept on walking and found a nice little restaurant to eat. Everything was going fine, but Yoongi got kinda careless and carried away with the nice moment so he grabbed my hand to take me into the restaurant, fingers intertwined. I didn't pay attention to this until we got back to the hotel, to a very angry H, and a completely pissed off Mr. Lee.

— "What did I ask for, hmmm? Dis-cre-tion... and what did you do? Hhmmmm?!"

We were both confused, we didn't know what happened, so we just shrugged our shoulders.

— "Oh, so you don't know what happened? THIS happened! And it did because you wanted to go light on the bodyguards... and I was a fool to agree. Shibal! I should have listened to Lee!"

Lee handed us a tablet with some pictures as H kept grabbing his forehead pacing around the room.

There were several pictures of us, first outside the tattoo shop, a couple more entering the restaurant as we were holding hands, then inside with our masks off, laughing and drinking some wine.

— "Uh oh... " — We both said at the same time.

— "Did you get a tattoo?!!! Of course, this wouldn't have happened if you two weren't acting all love birds holding hands and sweet looks."

Then Mr. Lee spoke with a deep voice

— "Why do you think we always send more than two security guys? Think Yoongi, once you get to a public place, do you see all of them near you?"— Yoongi shook his head. — "No, right? Well, that's because some of them stay behind surveilling the area, avoiding any pictures taken from a distance. But no, you wanted to do things your way, and we were naive enough to let you."

— "And how did you get them?" — I asked H very ashamed.

— "I got them through text message... asking for money, it's a bribe. We already took care of it... of him, for now. But it won't be long before someone starts recognizing you Bella, you guys have been seen together a lot, and one simple careless action can bring a lot of trouble. Yoongi, you know how it is! Shibal!! We're so close to the end! Don't fuck this up!!"

I never saw H so angry, and sure never heard him swear. And if Mr. Lee is known for his hard expression, that day his stare was beyond intimidating.

— "I'm sorry, this will never happen again, I promise." — I was so ashamed, I kept bowing and kept my head down in front of them.

Yoongi stood in front of me, trying to keep me safe from their anger and turned to talk to them

— "Mr. Lee, I apologize for compromising your job and putting you in this situation, I will comply to whatever safety measures you address from now on." — he bowed to him and Lee bowed back.

Yoongi turned to H as he spoke

— "You have every right to be angry H, but at me and only me, don't drag Bella into this. You're right, I know how it is in this business, I was the careless one."

But then got really close to H, and spoke very low in his ear (I still heard him, though)

— "You know I respect you, trust you, and hell! even love you... but you talk to her like that again... you make her feel bad about anything... Anything... I swear you will fucking regret it."

— "Try me Yoongi... go ahead. it's our job to keep you two safe. Maybe you can handle media shit, but she can't, and we will not allow anything that can put her at risk." — H face was burning red, he turned to look at me and said

— "From now on, and for any time needed, you will not leave our premises alone, and you will be assigned with two bodyguards, too."

— "Neh, I'm sorry H." — I kept my head down at all times, and that was making my blood boil inside me.

They both left, H still upset. We went to my room and I started crying nonstop. Yoongi just held me close to his chest trying to comfort me and telling me everything would be alright.

— "I guess my time away in Mexico can help this cool off, right?" — I spoke with a sad, worried tone.

— "I guess you're right. But you need to come back Bella, please don't let this scare you off and give you second thoughts."

— "It won't, don't worry, I'm fine."

At least I thought I was.