On-Way Passage || ᴠᴍɪɴ

Chapter 36

Kim Taehyung was livid.

The first thing Jimin noticed at the cafeteria during lunchtime was Yoongi's omega assistant, Jeong Eunji, crying at the next a table while her tablemates tried to console her.

"What happened to her?" Jimin asked. Inwardly, he was a little uneasy, and suspected that it had something to do with what happened in the meeting room this morning.

A female omega named Hirai Momo who sat at his table told Jimin in a hushed tone, "I heard that President Kim had her transferred to the logistics department."

"Why?" Dong Ha-rin, who was sitting next to Jimin, took the question right out of his mouth.

Hirai Momo shrugged. "I'm not sure. We're not that close. Apparently it was because of something that happened this morning."

"What happened this morning? Didn't we have a quarterly meeting?" A male beta coworker at their table asked.

The instant his words landed, every head in his vicinity uniformly turned to Jimin.

A thin sheen of cold sweat formed on Jimin's forehead. Feigning composure, he grabbed a napkin and gracefully wiped at his mouth, calmly answering, "It was just a normal meeting. I'm also not sure what happened."

Later on, however, a miserable Eunji came knocking on the door of Jimin's office.

Jimin had his head propped up with his hand at that very moment, still thinking about what happened at the meeting this morning. When he heard a knock on his door, he looked up and casually said, "Come in," only to see Eunji open the door and walk into his office the next second.

Eunji was a delicate omega; she had cried her eyes out all noon, and they were now flushed red. "Manager Park, please help me talk to President Kim," she begged once she had walked up to Jimin's desk. "Please don't transfer me away."

While sympathising with her pitiful appearance, he couldn't help but feel curious. "Is Taehyung mad?" he asked.

Eunji nodded.

"Is he mad at you or at me?"

"I don't know, probably more at me," Eunji replied.

Taehyung's anger was probably not insignificant, given that he had gone so far as to directly remove Eunji from his side.

"Manager Park, I didn't open the door on purpose, I thought there was nobody in the meeting room," Eunji continued, upon seeing that Jimin wasn't responding. "You know I'm in charge of meetings on the 20th floor, I only came in to collect the documents... I had no idea you two would be inside—"

"All right." Jimin interrupted her. He was already embarrassed enough as it is, and yet she'd gone and brought it up again—it seemed that there was really something not quite right with her head. However, it was true that she hadn't done anything wrong, so Jimin gave it a thought and said, "I'll try to persuade him for you."

Eunji's red and swollen eyes instantly widened. "Thank you, Manager Park!"

Jimin waved his hand dismissively. "I won't necessarily succeed. You know how stubborn Taehyung is."

Eunji immediately said, "You will, President Kim loves you so much."

For a brief moment, Jimin was taken aback by her words, but then he looked over at her and summoned up an unfazed expression as he said, "Right. I'll find an opportunity to talk to him."

Eunji was filled with gratitude when she left Jimin's office.

Not long after Eunji's departure, someone else knocked on his door.