TRAPPED IN LACE | Joshua ff

CHAPTER - 19

Y/N POV -

"How many times I told you to watch carefully before opening the door, Doll."

You stared toward Joshua with shocked eyes hearing him talk near you and using the nickname. You tried to wiggle away from him.

"Stay still." Joshua said looking down at you. You shoot an angry glare toward him.

"Doll didn't know you were this scary. You even killed my wife." Joshua laughed tuning his eyes in crescent shape. Meanwhile you just kept looking at him clearly knowing how fake the laugh was. His laugh died down in few minutes.

"My daughter is asking for her mother. What am I supposed to answer, Doll?" This time his tone was low yet stern. The scary vibe from this version of Joshua was familiar to you. You stayed silent looking at him not wanting to create any scene at Jung kook's place.

"Pretty as always. But Doll, grey doesn't suits you at all. Seems like you don't doll up for anyone, new people are not worth to see you like that?" Joshua asked with the cocky smirk clearly directing the topic toward Jung kook. Which made you smirk because how week Joshua Hong was. He never openly asked you anything just taunts and teases. He always diverted topics without mentioning things clearly which hurts you more.

You saw Joshua bending a little to drop his face in the crook of your neck. His hot breaths were teasing your skin. You felt his lips land on your neck immediately burning the supple skin underneath. The same soft lips that you craved to taste has ignited fire into you. As Joshua sucked onto your skin, you inhaled sharply clutching your palms into fist. You could see him smirking against your skin like always because he knew his effect on you. You were an absolute whore for Joshua and his attention. But you didn't let your mind loose this time any further. You thought of everything until now. He never stayed for you, never chose you over anything meanwhile if anyone else did it for you he would try to ruin it. But you were tired now, not being chosen by him, not being prioritised by him; this became overwhelming. So with the same smirk you replied to him to see his face becoming pale.

"Well, my fiancé likes me without being dolled up. And if he appreciates me for my real self I don't think I need anything more." You noticed how Joshua's grip loosened on your wrist hearing the word fiancé.

"I didn't kill your wife. I'm happy in my life. There is no reason for me to do anything like this. I was just there to drop Jia." You further continued while taking your hands from Joshua's now loosened grip.

You heard him scoff as he pushed you back on the wall.

"Don't you dare to use my daughter as an excuse to get away from this." You could feel Joshua's angry stare on you, his face showing stern expressions.

"No way, you really think I killed her?" You asked in disbelief looking up at him with a lone tear escaping your eye to fall into your cheek. Joshua immediately wiped the tear with his thumb. His expression turned soft looking at you hurt.

"No, I know it's not you. The evidence point towards you and please don't use Jia for excuses." He said softly.

"I'm not" you stopped in between your sentence as Joshua spoke further.

"Shh... Let's go to our penthouse. Lawyer Cha is good. I'm sure he'll investigate this case very well, so don't worry." He said pulling you into his chest.

The audacity he had, you pushed him away to look at him with a scoff.

"Really? What's wrong with you Jisoo?" You said bit angrily. The person in front of you was talking nonsense. He was still thinking to take you with him. Even after what happened between you two. The situation filled with anger turned funny as you hiccupped. You slap your mouth shut with your palm but it didn't stop. Even worse this time the sound of hiccup was loud. Your body jerked making you jump in your place. Joshua chuckled loudly looking at you but a concerned look engulfed his face seeing your hiccups worsen even more. Your eyes prickled with tears immediately. His pretty cry baby.

Joshua dragged you in living room. You sat on the sofa. Joshua poured water in glass raising it to hand you. You shake your head as No still your mouth covered with your palm. Joshua just removed your hand away and pulled you close to him. His free hand slowly rubbed your back as he raised the glass to your lips. Defeated and frustrated with the hiccups you didn't rejected him as you attached your lips to the glass taking sip of water.

"You need to slow down Doll. Otherwise it'll cause more problem." Joshua said in his calming voice. Although each of his sentences felt like holding deep meaning you just ignored it. His hands were still rubbing your back to ease your discomfort. You pushed the glass away as the hiccups continued. You felt more uncomfortable as it hurts now in your chest. Tears were running down your cheeks. You were sitting quite close to Joshua. Through your glossy eyes you saw him looking at you worried. You turned your face to look away but next moment Joshua held your face in his big palm.

You went completely silent feeling his lips ever so softly and almost closely brushing on your lips. It wasn't an actual kiss not even peck just a mere touch. The fire in your heart started burning again with his sudden action. Your eyes were large due to shock. Before you could enjoy the feel of his cotton candy like lips he pulled away from you. His own expressions completely faded as he got up from beside you.

"Take care." Joshua said walking away from you leaving you alone again. No way for a moment you thought that he was going to choose you over anything. He will never choose you no matter what. You noticed that your hiccups were completely stopped. So that all was just to surprise you to make your hiccup stop. You fall back on the sofa staring at the ceiling. You didn't noticed when you slept like that in living room.

TIME SKIPS -

Your life took major turn after you got involved in Isabella Hong murder case. A month passed as investigation continued. You started attending the court visit according the dates allotted to you. The investigation didn't make much progress as everything was stopping on you. The CCTV footage wasn't something restorable which caused your possibility of being murderer grew with it. You tried telling them that you visited the Main House for the sake to drop Jia back. No one listened to you so you told them to ask Jia herself which was refused by Joshua who didn't wanted to involve his daughter in court's matter. He just shrugged in courtroom saying his daughter was on trip and when the whole thing happened she was sleeping in her room. Joshua was stubborn when it came to Jia as he refused every plead, every request to present Jia in courtroom.

You were tired with hustle nowadays and missed your life back in Busan. Jung kook being by your side somehow made things easy. He helped you a lot. Lawyer Cha was really a smart person and always managed to handle the case with extreme sensitivity not letting anything go against you. Officer Park seemed unbothered in this case as he neglected proper investigation according to what you heard from Jung kook and Eunwoo. You never understood why he hates you from the start.

Everything was going okay until one day Jung kook told you that he was going back to States forever. He looked so gloomy and sad that day as if he was lost completely. You asked him only once about what happened but he didn't seem like wanting to give answer so you didn't asked again. In evening Jung kook left and you were left alone in his apartment. Although he promised you to help until end and that Eunwoo will continue with your case, you couldn't shake the feeling of loneliness gulping you down once again. You cried your heart out that night thinking how easy it was to abandon you for everyone.