The King's Obsession

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C296 - Acceptance- Part 1

Lisa paced back and forth in her room. Every five minutes, she stepped out to see if Jungkook returned to his room, but the darkness shown through the windows of his room let her know that no candle was lit inside the room. When she remembered her conversation with her family and she bit her bottom lip.      

"What happened there, Lisa?" asked her mother in a worried tone.      

"Mr. Wilmot put a false allegation at the King, telling Jungkook was the one responsible for the girl's death. The girl whose body was found in the backyard of Mr. Heathcliff. He lacked and failed in his evidence, while the King had his own proof that he had nothing to do with it. Before anyone knew it, Mr. Wilmot fled from there," explained Lisa to her parents.      

"Do they think that Mr. Wilmot was involved in the murder?" asked her father.      

"I think so-"      

"That's not possible! Markus is not someone who would kill a woman," Momo interrupted right away, not happy that her fiance was on the run and was being framed for the murder, "It is a big misunderstanding."      

Lisa continued to bite her bottom lip in the thought of what was going to happen. Momo looked upset, and her parents were in a confused state. She would have never thought that the Wilmot's would take such a drastic step by trying to expose Jungkook by confronting him.      

"Why are you staying up?" Lisa heard Jungkook's voice and she turned around to find him sitting on the bed. When did he enter the room? She asked in her mind. She saw him pat the space on the bed which was next to him.      

Jungkook sat with his legs crossed one over the other, his hands moving behind him to support his upper body as he slightly leaned back. He watched Lisa walk slowly towards the bed. Her features were filled with worry, "Sit." And Lisa sat next to him.     

"Where is my grandmother and Sehun?" Lisa questioned him. It was something she wanted to ask since they visited the empty dungeons.      

"They are in the dungeon," he replied to see her furrowed eyebrows.      

"Were they moved back again?" Lisa had been worried when Lilith had suggested that they take a look in the dungeon. Each and every room in the dungeon had been checked closely, "How?"      

Jungkook offered her a smile, a smile that didn't have any trace of mockery or any trace of sarcasm in it.      

"Come with me," he said, and both of them left the King's quarters to make their way towards the dungeon. Reaching the cell rooms, where her grandmother was kept in, she was greeted again with the sight of the empty room.      

She then turned back to look at Jungkook with a questioning look, her frown deepening as she didn't know what she was looking at.     

"You won't find it if you are merely looking at the room. Take a closer look, go on," he pushed her back gently into the room.      

There was a faint smile on Jungkook's lips. Lisa stepped forward, her brown eyes looking at every nook and corner of the room and she heard him say, "There are too many rooms in here. Sometimes we fail by missing the important details." Lisa continued to look until she found something strange at the diagonal corners of the room. There were no shackles in here. Every room had shackles to hold in the prisoners.      

The more time Lisa spent looking, the more strange it felt, and she took a step forward while bringing her left hand forward when she felt something stop her hand from moving forward.