Dear Lawyer | Jikook ff

28 - NOC (i)

What happened was George Manson.

This young princeling was found lying in a luxurious bath amidst a haphazard scatter of wine bottles. The bath was filled with liquid that smelled strongly of liquor. His arms bracketed both sides of the tub, and he had five or six injection marks on his wrist. A syringe lay on the ground, as well as three partially-fragmented vials of medicinal liquids.

The peculiar aroma dissipating from the medicinal vials was distinctive to a famous and potent injectable hypnotic.

George Manson seemed to be suffering from some bout of restless insomnia when he was found. After downing strong liquor for a day and a night, yet failing to achieve any results, the young master had poured wine into his bath in his drunkenness—possibly hoping to infuse himself into deeper intoxication?

In any case, it was difficult to discern the logic of a drunk man. When he found that he couldn't fall asleep bathed in wine, he went ahead to inject himself with the hypnotics. But his hand when administering it was unsteady, nearly stabbing his wrist into a hornet's nest.

Even so, he was still successful in injecting the drug into his body in the end. However, how could an impatient drunk tormented by insomnia pay attention to the dosage? In a fit of rashness, he impulsively gave himself thrice the limit dosage for an adult...

Several messages lay in Jungkook's smart device, received during the shuttle journey.

The first was from Laura:

-Ohmygoodness, have you heard? Something went down.

The second message quickly followed the first, less than a few seconds after; it was from Juan:

-Fuck! Something happened to Manson!

The third tailed two hours after the first two, once again from Juan:

-We're at the ICU. I called over all the doctors I could. His situation doesn't look good. I'm so fucked, one get-together and I almost lost three lives. Hwan just had another panic attack too.

The fact that Juan didn't even use any exclamation marks spoke volumes of how genuinely distraught he was by the situation, and how critical George Manson's condition was.

After those three messages, there weren't any more.

Regardless of who it was, Laura, Juan, or anyone else, he didn't receive any other messages.

Jungkook tried dialling Juan, but the communication line couldn't connect. The same occurred when he tried to contact Laura.

As he attempted to contact those at Yaba Island, Jimin pushed open the door to his office.

By then, Jungkook was trying to reach Elena. He paused when he saw Jimin. "Why are you still in the office at this hour? What are you carrying?"

Jimin showed him the other side of the paper bag with the large logo of some restaurant printed on it. The restaurant was quite far from Southcross Law Firm, but they were famous for their confectionaries. As Miss Fitz frequently sang praises of them, Jungkook had a vague impression of the brand name.

He never had much interest in confectioneries, so he hadn't been there for a meal. He had only heard it from Fitz that the confectionaries from that store were beautiful to look at, and the prices even more so.

Lawyer Jeon's eyebrows bunched together. "No eating in the office."

Besides, to be spending so lavishly, a certain someone must still have zero sense of awareness when it came to money, completely forgetting that he was now dirt-ass broke.