The Bangtan Wall

Never Show Your Weakness

After punching the man in the face, RM storms out of the room and passes the two guards and the armored woman. He is almost blind with rage.

Sora comes chasing after him. The guards start to follow her. "Mr. Kim, stop!" she shouts.

He stops. He knows he is displaying a loss of control in front of them. Her calling him Mr. Kim snaps him out of it, reminding him of his example as a leader: 'Never show your weakness, never.' And his family was his weakness.

She reaches him and smiles up at him coyly, asking, "Love, leaving so soon?" She holds onto his arm tightly and walks him to where she can be alone with him.

The guards have gone back to their posts. They were worried because they had never seen Mr. Kim so angry before.

Sora opens the door to one of the rooms in the hall. This is her private suite and office, plush and luxuriously furnished, evidence of her successful syndicate.

RM runs his hand over his face and hair, apologizing, "I'm sorry, baby. I didn't mean to lose control. It's just that I'd seen what he did to Lorrie and knew what he had planned to do."

She interrupts him by placing a finger softly over his lips. "Trust me, my love, I wanted to castrate him, but I will save that for another day."

She softly looks up at him and asks, "So you still consider her family then? I thought she and Jimin broke up last year."

RM takes a deep breath before telling her, "They did stop dating publicly, and the company created a scandal over the breakup and gave the media new rumors to chase. But Jimin and Lorrie never stopped seeing each other. Their bond is as strong, if not stronger, today as ever."

Sora, in surprise, says, "Well, damn, even I was fooled, and that's hard to do."

He nods in agreement yet confesses, "Sorry I kept it from you, but I had to. In that, I had no option."

 He grimaces, then says, "The interference from her family almost tore them apart. They had to start seeing each other in secret."

Suddenly, his head snaps up, and he shouts, "Oh My God, NO! He wouldn't dare!"

He grabs Sora by the shoulders and, in a panicked voice, says, "He must have found out they were still seeing each other."

Sora wraps her arms around RM, leading him over to the couch. She says, "Baby, come sit with me. There is more you need to know."

While RM sits, she pours them a drink and saunters over, handing one to him. He gladly takes it and gulps a swallow or two. 

"Baby, no, stop," Sora says as she reaches out to cover his hand, holding his glass. "Slow down."

He sits his glass down. After taking a couple of sips, she sits her glass beside his.

With a heavy sigh of frustration, RM runs his hand over his face and asks, "Tell me what more I need to know?"

Sora scoots close to him, drawing her legs under her, and leans on him as he places his arm around her.

"That man is her father's third in command. He recently pulled a big job for him that others failed at and were dismissed permanently if you know what I mean." RM nods as he pulls her closer to him.

"Her father made millions thanks to him. From what my sources found out, he promised the man anything he wanted, within reason.  Apparently, his daughter was 'within' reason." 

RM gasps in disbelief, "Lorrie!?"

Sora nods and continues explaining everything she has learned: "She has become a dangerous liability to his syndicate because she knows too much. He always hated her for not being born a boy, and the fact that she wanted nothing to do with the 'family business' enraged him."

Taking a deep sigh, she tells him even more, "He wanted to be rid of her, terrified she would give information she knows to The Bangtan Wall. So when the opportunity came up, he took it. He knew his third in command had been lusting after Lorrie since she turned thirteen. Giving her to his third in command as payment seemed the best way to get rid of her without actually killing her himself."

She reaches for her glass, downs it, and then sits it back on the table. He takes hold of her arm as she reaches for his drink and asks, "Love, what is it?" 

She looks up at RM, her eyes getting a little misty, and he pulls her close. She says, "Baby, hearing that man say he was given her as payment for a job well done made me remember things I would rather forget."

His body stiffens with anger as he recalls what had happened in her past. As his rage increases, she senses it.

She caresses his face, trying to calm him. She says, "It's okay if we get angry. Sometimes, it's justified. We have to remember who we are."

He gently kisses her cheek, saying, "You are correct, as always, my love."

 She continues, "If they find out how upset we are over what they did to Lorrie, then it shows them our weak spot, our family."

RM nods and kisses the top of her head. As he inhales the scent of her hair, he says, "If we do, they will come for them harder and more often."

She leans up and straddles his lap seductively, saying, "Speaking of more often and harder."

RM chuckles and quickly complies as they both escape the reality of their organizations.