"Can you try to not like me? Maybe if you do, then I'll learn to not like you back."
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While having to protect himself from the demons of his past, Jin has a duty to protect Jungkook, the spoiled son of a billionaire business tycoon. His life is one...
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“Do you have a death wish?!” Lee snapped at Jin, slamming the gate behind him and shoving Jin away from view. His glare on Jin was deathly, fists clenched like it was the only thing stopping him from throwing his hands at Jin’s face maybe in a slap or a blow.
“I need to see him.”
“No, you don’t! All you need to do right now is get the hell away from here.”
Jin shook his head. That wasn’t possible. “Hyung, you don’t understand. He needs me.”
Lee gaped at him, lips parted. He scoffed. “He needs you? Do you honestly believe Jungkook needs you?! And even if he does need you, is that the most important thing now?! Do you have any idea what you did?! You ran away with their son! You’re being accused of kidnapping, you foolish kid!”
“I’m foolish, yes, I know but please, let me talk to him,” he said.
“Do you even understand the words coming out of my mouth?” Lee asked, then immediately waved him off. “In fact, I don’t care. Leave, Jin. And don’t come back.”
“How can you ask me to do that, hyung? To just leave and never return? To just forget him? That’s what you’re telling me?”
He was crazy. Anyone who saw him would instantly believe he was out of his mind and maybe, he was. Ever since he found out Jungkook had been brought back to Seoul, he hadn’t been of sound mind. He’d thought and thought and thought all through his drive back to the state and he hadn’t been able to figure out what to do.
His life was at risk. Just standing there was dangerous. If the madam came out and saw him, she could order Lee to shoot him on the spot and Lee was obligated to do just that. She could order the body guards to beat the living daylight out of him and discard his dead or dying body in a bush to become food for crows.
Jin knew he and Jungkook had made a mistake by leaving. He knew they should have thought things through and figured out a different way to Jungkook’s liberation, but what would he have done? Jungkook had asked him to elope with him. All he wanted was to be with Jungkook, so he’d agreed.
He couldn’t stand still and watch Jungkook suffer like that. Seeing Jungkook suffer caused him to suffer. He’d wanted to give Jungkook the freedom he needed. He had known if he had told Jungkook no, they wouldn’t have left. Jungkook wouldn’t have left on his own if Jin had talked him out of eloping.
But he hadn’t. He hadn’t been thinking and he had agreed to it, and for the few hours they had spent together, it had been bliss. Pure bliss. Jin had loved every moment, because the possibilities had been endless. They’d had a blank future in front of them and could dream as big as they wanted. But that blank had been filled and it didn’t look as promising at it did two days ago.
“I get what you’re saying, Jin, believe me. I understand you. You’re a good kid and you’re in love and that makes you undeniably stupid and reckless, but that does no good for anyone at this point. Your presence right now doesn’t help you or Jungkook, if anything, it puts the both of you at risk.”
