Poison || Hyunho

13 | Swim

The next morning, Minho decided to sleep in since they got back from the station late and Chan insisted that Minho got checked out at the hospital to make sure he was completely okay.

But the lie-in didn't last long when he felt someone climb onto him and try to suffocate him with a pillow, yelling, "Wake up!"

"Feels like you should be saying 'go to sleep,' damn," Minho grumbled grumpily, rubbing his eyes with the back of his hand and reaching over to his bedside table to check the time on his phone, "Why are you awake at six in the morning you absolute devil child..?"

"I'm hungry," Hyerin replied.

Minho looked at her with a deadpan expression and said, "Oh, right, children need to be fed."

"Alright, you little gremlin, what do you want to eat?" Minho asked after getting washed up and dressed into black joggers and a white T-shirt.

"Eggs."

Minho stopped and stared at Hyerin, "That's it? I can whip you up some pancakes or waffles if you'd like. I can make pretty good French toast too."

"Eggs," Hyerin repeated, holding up two stubby fingers, "This many."

"You sure..? Do you want anything else with it? I can butter up some toast or cut up some avocado if you want," Minho said, worried that two eggs wouldn't be enough for her to eat.

Hyerin shook her head in response.

"Okay then, two eggs it is, how do you like them? Hard boiled? Soft boiled? Fried? Sunny side up? Scrambled? Poached? Omelette? Benedict?" Minho stopped listing types of eggs when he noticed the confused expression on Hyerin's face, "You know what, why don't I just show you some pictures and you can point out the one you normally have?"

After boiling two eggs for Hyerin, Minho warmed up some leftover rice and side dishes for the others whilst he waited for them to wake up.

"Ah.." he pressed the heel of his hand against his head and leaned against the kitchen counter when he felt another migraine coming on.

"What happened?" Hyerin asked, her mouth stuffed with an egg.

"I'm fine," Minho waved his hand dismissively, "Hey, eat your eggs slowly, you'll choke."

"Jinnie and JiJi always cut up my eggs for me,"

Minho sighed and cut up Hyerin's eggs then went to get changed into a suit for work.

"You're not seriously going into work after what happened last night, are you?" Chan asked in disbelief and concern, "Are you crazy?"

"I told you I'm not letting this company sink," Minho smiled reassuringly at his partner, "Don't worry about me, I'll be fine."

"Okay, I'll see you there in a bit then," Chan nodded as Minho left for work.

//

As Minho was going through the list of their current clients and comparing it with the ones that have left or were leaving because of the breach, there was a knock at the door.

"Hm?" Minho looked up when one of the secretaries poked his head it, "Ah, Kim Taejun, what's the matter?"

"There are some detectives here from the station wanting to talk to you. Should I let them in?"

"Detectives?" Minho stood up, "Where are they? I'll go greet them."

"They're waiting downstairs, sir,"

"Thank you, Taejun," Minho said, walking past the secretary and made his way down to the lobby to greet the detectives and lead them to an empty meeting room.