CAGES OF LOVE || KIM TAEHYUNG FF

112. Backstory

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"Hyejin is not my mother,"

Y/n froze when he suddenly spoke up. Her eyes snapped towards him. His gaze found hers, and she saw that lethal blankness surrounding his dark eyes. The same deep, hollow emptiness she had witnessed the day she first ever met him..
At the Airport.
And it terrified her.

"I used to live in the USA with my mother. Kim Ji -ah. The house we lived in was a little separated from the town area, so there were all trees and forests as our surroundings. With almost no human in the nearby area, it was scary but...."

Y/n's heart stopped, as she just stared mindlessly. She couldn't believe he was finally opening up to her but what he just told her was beyond shocking. She never thought that Hyejin was not his mother. The way she treats him feels like she loves him a lot.

Taehyung smiled at her stunned reaction and softly cupped her face, stroking her cheek.

"My father, Kim Jihyun, lived here in Seoul. He used to visit us every weekend. It was his routine. He would only spend two days and two nights with us, and then he'd leave, and again, it'd be mom and me alone in our big house.

Mom always told me that my dad is a strong man who worked hard to earn for us because he loved us so much.. I was naive. I believed her.
But as I grew up, I started to notice changes I hadn't before. His visits become rare. He would barely visit once or twice in a month. And when he would come, all they did was fight. I didn't understand that time why they were fighting, but I was too afraid to interfere.

Day by day, his presence was fading from our lives. He also stopped calling us and checking on us. Whenever he would visit, once in a blue moon, I always told him not to go back, but he only lied and disappeared even before I woke up." He sighed as he recalled the old days. Those memories gave him nothing. Not even pain. Just emptiness. And darkness.

"You don't have to do this, Taehyung." Y/n said, palming his face, noticing that whatever he was going to tell her is hard to get out of his part.

"I can wait. I'm so sorry for pressuring you. it was so insensitive and immature of me -"

"Don't say that. " He put his finger on her lips.

"I love it when you claim your rights over me. And if not with me, who else would you express your immature side to?" He said, staring fondly, making her heart fall for him for the nth time.

"And there's nothing to wait or hide anyway. you're right. you're my wife.. you deserve to know everything about me... There shouldn't be any secrets between us.. We won't hide anything from each other now on.." He said, caressing her swollen lower lip, and she smiled.

"I'm here.." She said, lifting herself to peck his lips, and he nodded, guiding her to rest back on his chest. Taking a deep breath that weighted more on her chest than his, he spoke up again, resting his chin on her head.

"One day, I came home from school, and there were four unfamiliar men sitting in our living room. They looked creepy and dengerous. As a child, I felt terrified. When they tried to talk to me, mom rushed to shield me and told me to go to my room. She didn't let those men even touch me. I was also scared, so I complied.
After that day, those men started visiting us more often." Y/n's eyes widened with fear and shock hearing him.

Months passed by, and I saw changes in my Mom. She started behaving weirdly. She would often space out for hours, sit alone in the garden, and cry at midnight. I'd wake up to her sobbing and curling on the bed almost every other night or sometimes even screaming in sleep and I'd try to comfort her even when I didn't understand what was happening to her?"