the forbidden embrace

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looking at jackson's sinister smile, nicha raged, dashing over towards him and giving him one hard punch across his face, making him drop to the ground. she then kicked his gun aside, before throwing a few more punches to his ugly face, then picking up his gun from the floor, as well as bring the unconscious miyeon closer to her so that she was leaning againsr her.

jackson groaned, spitting out a tooth, as he got to his feet, swaying a bit. "you still have it in you. well done nicha." her father clapped sacarstically, and before nicha could even react, his men held out guns and pointed them at bambam, while two other people suddenly surrounded her, pointing a gun towards miyeon. nicha had nowhere to hide miyeon, just cupping her body as close to her as possible, hunching over slightly to protect her.

"it's her or him. make your choice nicha. your biological brother, or your girlfriend... if you're lucky, i might not kill your girlfriend... i might give it to him if he wants." her father motioned at jackson, who smirked.

"she was quite a nice play thing. i had a lot of fun ruining her. she couldn't stop crying." jackson grinned, joining the two people into cornering nicha.

nicha saw red. all the pain miyeon had experienced came rushing to her. she wanted to kill jackson right on the spot.

nicha could hear whimpers. she quickly awoke, watching as miyeon writhed around in agony, sobbing silently.

nicha stroked miyeon's face gently, bringing it closer to her as she patted miyeon's back in a steady, rhythmic manner.

"it hurts min.. it's so painful... i can't do this..." miyeon whimpered, as nicha suddenly realised that it wasn't a nightmare miyeon had...

she looked to the bed, hoping it was not what she thought. but it was. there was traces of blood on the bed, and miyeon's grey pants had turned red.

"myeonnie..." nicha muttered, hurt, as she took miyeon's hand in hers. "i'll get a doctor, okay?" miyeon shook her head quickly, grasping nicha's hand in hers tightly, as her tears started flowing faster. "no... enough people saw me like that.. i don't want... no please..."

nicha started tearing up too, allowing miyeon to lean against her. "okay... then i'll call soyeon to help give you a checkup okay? just soyeon baby. i promise. she won't do anything to you. i'll be here with you all the way."

miyeon didn't say anything, she simply nodded, before she continued to let out uncontrollable sobs.

"how is she?" nicha asked, closing the door to miyeon's room gently. she had fallen asleep after all that hysterical cries of pain.

"not good. whoever did this to her was brutal. he didn't even let her adjust. it must have been extremely painful for her..." soyeon explained, shaking her head sadly. "i'll prescribe some pain killers and medicine, and just call me whenever you need help okay? miyeon's my unnie too, and i want her to be fine."

nicha nodded, as soyeon engulfed her into a hug. "stay strong for her unnie. miyeon unnie needs you."

nicha nodded again, resting her head comfortably into soyeon's shoulder. they broke apart after awhile, soyeon re-entering the room to say bye to miyeon, at the same time giving her a little kiss on the forehead, which miyeon tried hard to avoid, and teach her how to apply medication.

after soyeon left, nicha asked miyeon how she was, but all she was given in response was a tired and sad smile. a fake smile to pretend as if all was well.

and that made nicha's heart hurt more.

nicha couldn't sleep. how could she sleep peacefully, knowing that miyeon had the same nightmare night after night. everytime she shut her eyes, she would be haunted by that disgusting asshole.

again, not to nicha's surprise, miyeon was trembling against the bed, whispering small "no"s and "please"s. nicha moved closer to miyeon and hugged her tighter than she did before, shaking her gently to wake her up, while whispering "you're safe now. i'm here."

and always, miyeon would end up trying her best not to cry, but nicha could always tell when miyeon was upset.

the sadness in her eyes with every passing day was a nightmare for nicha, who loved her ever so dearly to see.

"did you know the impacts of your actions to miyeon... she's traumatized! she can't lead a happy life anymore because of you! every fucking day, she always has that sadness in her. i lost my happy go lucky girlfriend to you, a fucking bastard who just does what he pleases. you're pathetic. that's why you can't ever get a women!" nicha growled, and with one smooth motion, tackled him onto the floor, stepping on him with one leg to ensure that he couldn't escape.

jackson groaned, the smirk never leaving his face. "oh yeah? does it matter anyway? i took it before you. i ruined the person you loved... so what will happen now? why are you still protecting her? i can give you more! i can..."

jackson was cut off by a large hit in the head by one of nicha's father's men. nicha's father nodded approvingly, as nicha, who was initially surprised, quickly regained her composure, going back to the main problem at hand- her father.

"come on nicha, make your choice. girlfriend or brother?" nicha turned over, looking at her brother, who had a knife held to his throat, and then she looked at her father's men, all surrounding her with guns pointed.

she didn't know if she could protect miyeon... if she gave up her life trying to save miyeon, miyeon would end up dead anyway...

"take me instead... and let them live... please father... i have slaved for our clan. just let both of them live. please. i can't do without them."

nicha held her tears back, looking right at her father, who looked like he was thinking.

"i'm disappointed... i would've been disappointed by any choice you made... i was expecting you to save bambam, but now you decided to sacrifice yourself? you're pathetic nicha. i raised you so well, yet because of her, you turned into such a cowardly loser...?"

with that, nicha's father loaded his gun and aimed it at nicha.

"seems like you need to toughen up. i'll take both of them away from you, so you can learn nicha. resist and all three of you will be goners. come on now... hand the girl to me, or i'll blow your head off."

nicha shook her head, hugging the still unconscious miyeon closer to her than ever. "i rather die trying than letting them die. just kill us all. i'll see you in hell."

with that, nicha quickly bent down, tackling down the two men surrounding her, at the same time, taking out her gun, and aiming it right back at her father.

nicha's father laughed. "are you an idiot? you missed out the one who got bambam. come over, show nicha how you kill her darling brother won't you? you need to witness this nicha, before you can actually learn."

nicha made a desperate run towards bambam, who was being dragged forward by her father's men, pulling him down to the ground with her, trying desperately to grasp onto miyeon too. she kicked over the bookshelf, desperate for shelter, as the bookshelf toppled over them.

then, she heard two gun shots.