Hearts Aligned || Jungkook × Reader✔️

Chapter 25:Unspoken

21st January, 2025

[At HYBE Building]

YOUR POV

"Jeon-ssi! At least tell me why I'm here again," I asked Jungkook, following him around the building like a lost puppy. My short legs struggling to keep up with his long strides.

"You'll see," he replied shortly.

We finally entered a room. The room  was dimly lit, there's a massive screen displaying live feeds from CCTV cameras in and around the building. Each footage being carefully observed by people behind desks. There's three familiar figures—Mr. Seong, Mrs. Cheon and the producer-nim stood waiting. Tension already thick in the air.

I clutched the strap of my crossbody bag tightly. I'm feeling nervous now. What's coming next? Another false accusation? My heart raced as the knot in my stomach tightened.

"Thank you all for gathering here. I won’t waste your time. Let’s just begin." Jungkook’s voice cut through the air.

Then he turned to one of the men monitoring the screens and said, "please show us the CCTV footage from the PR department. January 18th, 2025, at 3:30 p.m."

The video started playing and Mrs. Cheon appeared on the screen, seated at a desk, casually chatting with a woman beside her.

"I was looking into the CCTV footage for one purpose but bingo! I found another! I found a footage of that delivery girl outside the building, talking to Sooyoung," Mrs. Cheon smirked on the screen. "That’s when an idea struck me."

The woman next to her leaned in, intrigued. "What did you do?"

"Well," Mrs. Cheon started, her smile widening into something sinister. "I retrieved the footage and gave it to a friend of mine. She's an expert at video editing and mimicking voices. She edited the footage and changed the whole conversation, as I directed, rewinding it to make it look like that girl—Yn—was handing over a card to Sooyoung. I made sure it looked like she was behind the information leak. Can you imagine how it’ll blow up once I hand it over to our senior?" Her laugh was dark, filled with satisfaction.

"Oh my! That’s genius! The way you twisted the whole scenario... I’m speechless." Her companion cackled along with her, their laughter echoing in the small surveillance room, mocking me even through the screen.

I shifted my gaze to Mrs. Cheon in the room. Her face was pale, her hands trembling ever so slightly as fear crawled across her features.

How could anyone be so cold? She hadn’t hesitated at all while planning all this?

"But what if you get caught?" the woman in the footage asked.

"I won’t," Mrs. Cheon replied confidently. "I deleted the original footage. And who would believe that cheap girl over me? I just want her to get humiliated by people around her. When the company will  file a lawsuit against her, the backlash will crush her. She’ll understand how I felt when I was humiliated that day, in front of so many people." Rage flickered in her eyes. "She’ll pay for what she did to me."

The video ended, leaving a suffocating silence in the room, as tho everyone's mourning.

Jungkook chuckled softly, a bitter expression on his face, "Mrs. Cheon, revenge for 'humiliation' was it?" He smiled—a smile that never reached his eyes. "Let me tell you something, you deserve every bit of the humiliation!"