I'm Breaking

Chapter 57

Author PoV - trigger warning, everyone!! (thank you, @CIRCUSFENCER for reminding me!!)

Chaeyoung hesitates to knock on Jungkook's office door.

On her way here, she was excited to see him during lunch break. She thought, maybe he wanted to eat out again with Jiyoon after 3 days of never ending lunch meetings both of them had to attend.

Before going here, she left Jiyoon with Cole. It was weird, because Cole told her that Jungkook asked him to entertain Jiyoon while he and Chaeyoung would talk for a few minutes.

There was no one in the hallways, probably the took their lunch breaks outside of the building. Even Rachel isn't seated on her chair in front of Jungkook's office room.

She breathed deeply and tried to bring herself to knock on his door. Why did she suddenly feel nervous?

With force, she knocks on the door 3 times and waited for the response. Her hand gripped the handle of her bag tightly. Her feet started to shake.

Maybe it's her fatigue from the operation room? Lately, she's been given a lot of the hard surgeries after she and Jungkook fixed things through. The stamina she used to have in the operation room is still building its way up.

That's right, Chaeyoung just got off a 2-processed surgery. The first process was finished at around 1 in the morning, and she did the second half at 7:30 today.

Again, she knocked on the door.

There was no response. Usually, it would be Rachel to tell her that she can enter Jungkook's office but with no Rachel around, she doesn't know if she can or she can't.

I'll just enter, maybe he killed himself in there. She thought.

Without waiting for a response, she entered.

Jungkook was seated on his chair, his eyes is glued to a document and he did not bother to look at Chaeyoung.

Chaeyoung sighed, knowing that he did not kill himself. She laughed off her stupidity in the back of her head. Why would she think that he killed himself? Among all of her business-related friends, Jungkook is probably the happiest one.

Since he's the boss, he can just scold whenever he likes. Of course, she knows, he's not like that. His office workers are particularly close to him, he talks to them a lot and always asks the company's suggestions.

That's his father's number 1 rule. The company is democratic, not an absolute monarchy government.

She walked to his desk, placed her bag on the chair that was placed in front of his desk.

"Kook?" she called.

His eyes were still glued to the papers he was reading. Jungkook examined every piece of information in the DNA testing results, word per word. And he did his best to understand the scientific words, even if he didn't, he understood the main point.

"Jungkook?" Chaeyoung called once more.

This time, he looked at her.

Ah, you're here. Let's eat out? He wanted to say, but held himself back.

"Take a seat," he gestured to the chair that was placed in front of him.

She chuckled, nervously and sat down, "Are we serious talking or do you need some space because you're stressed with work?"

She noticed that there was no glee in his eyes. The small eye smile he makes, whenever they talk with each other. Or the charming looks he pulls on Chaeyoung.