|THE CURSED FOREST|

21

Sohee sprinted into the hospital, her heart pounding as she desperately scanned the emergency room for Park Jimin.

"Yes?" Sohee asked the patient who was wincing in pain, pressing his left hand.

"I've been having weird feelings in my chest on my left side, left hand ever since I landed in Minosan." Jimin, the patient answered, scrunching his nose in pain.

"Nurse Mina, where is the patient with pain on his left side? The one who came from Seoul..." Sohee asked the nurse moving towards another patient.

"Oh, Jiminshi? He got a call and went outside..." Mina answered and Sohee's eyes widened in fear.

"Outside..." Sohee ran outside the hospital leaving Mina confused who shrugged her shoulders moving on.

The sky was dark and filled with clouds, blocking out the moonlight and casting a gloomy atmosphere. The thunder roared in the distance, the sound echoing around the landscape. The wind blew fiercely, carrying the smell of rain and the promise of a storm.

"YEONJUN!" Sohee sprinted towards Yeonjun who was waiting outside the hospital anxiously, he looked at Sohee panting as stopped near him.

"What happened?"

"Jimin... he... he went outside. Did you see him?" Sohee said, taking a breath.

"No... I looked around the hospital grounds... he wasn't anywhere..." Yeonjun said as gulped with the terrifying possibility.

Both Sohee and Yeonjun snapped and looked in the direction of Minerva forest and then each other.

"What if Taehyung actually..." Sohee whispered out as fear crept inside her.

"There could be a possibility... we need to check... I'll go and see you call Yoongi to check if Sungh..."

"You will go alone?" Sohee asked, running her eyes over him.

"Yes... you are not thinking of coming along with me right..." Yeonjun said, frowning his brows.

"I wasn't thinking of anyone going into THAT forest... I was thinking of calling Sunghoon here..." Sohee said in a single breath looking back at Yeonjun.

"We don't know if he has woken up or not. I'll go and check... I have nothing to lose, he can't kill me anyways." Yeonjun said looking back at the dark forest, "You go inside the forest and call Yoongi. Don't go anywhere else." He said again and before Sohee could say anything he walked away.

Sohee blinked, her eyebrows crinkling in worry as she watched him disappearing, her fingers fidgeting as she stood anxious.

"You have nothing to lose? Is he too blind!" Sohee muttered under her breath as called Yoongi , unaware of a pair of eyes following her and Yeonjun.

•••

Namjoon's tall figure was draped in a black jacket, and his hands were tucked in the pocket. His gaze was intense, as he seemed content after finding out where Soobin and Sohee lived. Scanning the house, its garden, window and every inch of brick he smirked and walked towards the main steel gate.

"There Taehyung will kill his soulmate Jimin and here I will finish off Soobin to get his blood." Namjoon proudly smirked as was about to open the gate until the device in his jacket started beeping. Frowning his brows in irritation he checked the phone, his eyes widening in horror.