Where I Found Home ||| Ateez (Yunwoo)

30

When they wake up the next morning, Yunho and Wooyoung take quick showers and get ready to initiate step one of their plan to catch Minhyuk.

"Yunho should go into the shop today," Chan starts. "Since your wrist is basically fucked and Wooyoung wants to get you a brace then I say he go to the store and get you one then brings it to the shop. It will make Minhyuk step up his game if he thinks neither of you are concerned about him. Everybody on board?"

Yunho nods and Wooyoung raises his hand to speak. Everyone else coos at the cuteness before Chan motions for him to speak.

"You said you would protect me, right? That you would always be trailing behind me to make sure I'm safe?"

"Yes. And Jeongin will be with Yunho. I doubt anything will happen for a few days anyway."

Chan ends up being right. Wooyoung goes to the shop every day for a week with no sign of Minhyuk.

He's so nervous and jumpy all the time he ends up asking Jeongin for help too on how to keep his emotions in check, thinking maybe that was giving him away.

But really, they are all on edge.

Even Mingi and Jongho aren't as lively as normal, having been filled in on some of the plan.

One day, Wooyoung is hanging out at the shop with San and Yeosang when Yunho asks if he can run down to the store to get him a drink. Wooyoung is enjoying the day. The sun was out for once in London and almost made him forget what was going on.

Almost.

He walks into the store and looks around at all the drinks before deciding to grab one for everybody when he sees a familiar head of blonde hair looking over the shelf at him. He slowly looks up to see Minhyuk watching him with a dark look.

"I'm surprised your little boyfriend didn't hire bodyguards for you," he says, voice thick with desire.

Wooyoung keeps a dead look on his face before returning to his task. "Yunho's my fiancé and since I don't see you as a threat anymore, it wasn't worth the aggravation. If you'll excuse me."

Wooyoung walks away to check out and can feel Minhyuk follow him to the register.

This is it... he can feel it, just as he feels his heart hammering in his chest so hard it hurts.

He can't stop his hand from shaking as he pays for the drinks. For a second, he almost puts them back, but that would be suspicious, so he accepts the drinks and goes to leave.

It's so hard for him to not run the second he's outside, especially when he hears the ding of the door mere seconds after he leaves.

His heart sinks when he sees that there aren't a lot of people around and he knows his time is up.

Seconds later, Minhyuk closes the distance and clamps a hand around Wooyoung's mouth, a startled cry leaving the younger as he's dragged down a dark alley between two buildings.

Wooyoung is slammed back into a wall with Minhyuk towering over him.

"I waited a long time for this, you bitch. Can't believe my luck when I stumbled upon you at the club."

Wooyoung whimpers and tries to get out of his hold or at least free his mouth to scream for help.

"It's a shame really. When your little fiancé was doing my tattoo, I really liked him. Thought I could even befriend him. But that all went away when realized the whore he wanted to marry was actually

my whore."

The word cuts straight through Wooyoung and he trembles beneath Minhyuk dark gaze.