WHY DO YOU LOVE ME? - riki

✧ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ 17 - ɴᴇᴡ ᴄʜᴀɴɢᴇs ✧

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𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗣𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝟭𝟳 - 𝗡𝗢 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗘𝗦

𝙅𝘼𝙆𝙀 𝙋𝙊𝙑 -

It was announced this morning on news outlets all over South Korea that I was in a private relationship with a 'mystery woman'. Daeun agreed to my suggestion two nights ago and I promised to make sure to protect her and Taehyun and that's what I did. I was dropping Taehyun off at his brand-new school, which he would be starting today.

"Wow, it's so big!" He cheered as he pushed his head against the window of the car. I chuckled and parked the car so the two of us could get out and I could walk him to the gate. I'd always wondered when I would do this kind of thing and though I didn't expect it so early in my life and with someone I didn't really expect. I liked it better this way.

"I'll see you later Taehyun okay? Be the good boy you always are and have fun!" I gave Taehyun a kiss on the cheek which gained me a few stares and looks from parents around me who started to notice my face. "Bye, appa!"

"W-wait what?"

"You're my dad now, right? I might as well call you appa, can I?" He whispered and I wrapped my arms around him tightly as my eyes started watering. This was how it felt to be a dad and I was absolutely loving it. "Y-yes of course. I'd love you to." He nodded and skipped away into the building as I watched his retreating small figure with a smile beaming across my face.

Wow.

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"You did what?" My father grunted and threw his fork across the room shocking my mother, me and the few servants around us. My father was never the violent type, neither was my mother but when they were angry you knew it was a matter of time before you submitted to their orders. But no. For Daeun and Taehyun I wouldn't do that.

"Why didn't you tell us, Jake?" My mother buried her face in her hands, stressed as a servant walked up to her with a cup of water in hand which she accepted. "Would you have agreed to it anyway?" I countered back with a question.

"No, because she has no name-"

"Her name is Lee Daeun."

"She has a random son-"

"His name is Lee Taehyun, and he's now my son too."

"And what happens when the father comes running back for his biological son hmm?!" My mother screamed and my father's expression darkened at the thought of more press faced towards the family. "He won't. He doesn't care about them. I do."

"That's the problem, Jake! You don't think you just act! He will be coming back knowing that his child and ex are now part of a million-dollar family!" My father's fist tightened and I knew that this was going to end up one way only. "Get rid of-"

"No. I'm not getting rid of them. We're moving into the house just outside of Gangnam. It's small, private but still luxurious enough that the press won't be suspicious of anything." I got up threw my napkin on the table and walked up to my room to start packing my stuff.

"Charles, get my suitcases ready and pack away most of my possessions. We're moving them to the other house. Make it as discreet as possible."

"Yes, Jake."

I got into my car outside and drove over to the new house to check it out. There were 3 rooms, 5 bathrooms, 1 living area and kitchen and a small backyard. It was supposed to be more of the private and modern type of living space that I bought when I was able to. "Could you make that room into a kids room? Toys, a TV, lots of colours and the whole lot." I said to the butler who was writing all of this down before he called some workers about the matter.

I wanted Taehyun and Daeun to feel as comfortable as possible if they were going to move in with me. They were my new family.

They were my new family.

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𝙃𝙒𝘼𝙔𝙊𝙐𝙉𝙂 𝙋𝙊𝙑 -

"Wow. That is a pretty shocking headline. I won't lie." Riki scoffed and I just threw a pillow at him which ended up floating in the air for a few seconds before directly hitting me back in the face. "Hey! No fair, don't use your powers. I don't have any." I groaned but he just ignored me and walked back over to his side of the house picking up a book and using his magic to feed the fish in the waterfall-pond-thing.

"I think this is good for Daeun. I trust Jake and I think she needs someone deserving of her and Taehyun's love and respect. I know that Jake is the right person." I smiled as I continued watching the news with Jake's face and a question mark figure as well as a photo of Taehyun from the ice skating video.

"Let's go on a date."

I watched Riki's expressions but he just grinned remaining with his cool-mannered persona. "Sure. Any ideas of where you wanna go?" I thought for a moment and then looked towards his side of the house. "Yeah, let's go shopping for new stuff for your house. Something the brighten the place up-"

"No."

"Yes."

"No."

"It's so gloomy."

"And I love it that way."

"I don't care." I stood strong and Riki scoffed before reluctantly nodding. "No pink though." He groaned and I nodded submissively, "Yes of course. No pink." I was probably gonna get at least one subtle pink thing that he probably may notice but it was worth a shot sneaking in the cart when we got there.

- 𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝟖𝟏 -
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AUTHOR:

finally the first date

this is where all the action starts happening

and I'm sorry guys but there are gonna be a few timeskips throughout the book

I think that is what they r called but idk I'm sorry

anyways enjoy this!!

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