The untold story : Mafia & Cop

28.

It's been 3 days since that fateful night where Jeonghan lost everything. All this time he feared that revealing his real identity would make them leave. This fear was useless as they had already accepted him as their own. They trusted him and treated him like a family member.

Even if his identity didn't cost him everything, a phone call did. He is feeling so stupid and angry at himself for making that call. He can't even blame anyone as he is the one who called his best friend to share the news of him going on a date with his love.

Now here he has been crying on the bed for the last three days and doesn't have any idea what to do.

After Coups left, Jeonghan stayed at the restaurant for a few hours trying to collect himself. He came back to his accommodation which he was provided for the mission.

He knew that his department was already aware of him coming here as there were sensors on the doors that captured pictures and sent an alarm to them about who was entering and leaving. He needs more time alone and no disturbance, given that it's already been three days since he has come here, so, to prevent them from barging in here, he charged his other phone in the morning and made the call that he would be back to Seoul tomorrow evening and the next day to that he will meet them and discuss his findings.

It's late evening now and he finally got out the bed to find a drink for him. He has been drinking as well to keep his pain in check. Not much... hardly two beer cans in a day. He still can't digest it. But today he is feeling way worse than the other two days. Everything keeps replaying in his mind, the hurt in Coups voice and eyes, his anger and disappointment. He wants to shout and scream so bad.

One call... that has cost him everything... the conversation with Joshua has been reeling on repeat. His anger erupts when he comes to the part where he stupidly said something, and at the same moment Coups decides to listen, He can't blame him, if anyone has listened to that part of the conversation without context, they would have thought the same that he was lying. He listened to the wrong part and not any right part. Only if he had gone out to see who was there at the door when he heard the creak, everything would have settled there.

He started tearing up again thinking about the conversation between him and Joshua.

--(flashback)--

After Coups left, Jeonghan went back to getting ready as he had more time now, he was lazily doing it.

He thinks he has too much time to kill and he is feeling so excited that he wants to tell the whole world about it. Well, he can't do that but he thought he could call his best friend, Joshua, and blow his mind with this information.

As a self-disciplinary rule, he refrains himself from calling anyone on a mission, it's not like he can call anyone he wants as he doesn't remember anyone's number. There are only two numbers he has memorized, one of them is Joshua's.

But today was different, he can call him as this is no longer a mission and he also wants to share his happiness with him. So, he picked up the phone and dialed his number.

Joshua picked up the call after a few rings, "Hello?"

"Hello, Bitch," Jeonghan responded.

"Jeonghan? You--You came back from a mission and did you change your number as well," Joshua curiously asked.

"No and No, I'm still on a mission and this is a temporary number," Jeonghan answered.

"Huh? You are calling me from your mission. Why?" Joshua asked and suddenly his voice laced with concern, "Did something bad happen? Are you fine?"