I'm Breaking

Chapter 58

Author PoV

Evening fell on the same day, Chaeyoung overworked herself in the hospital. She's been extremely quiet, and no one wanted to question her. Vernon has been forcing Jihyo and Chanyeol to talk her but they didn't want to do so. 

Namjoon has noticed it too. Just a while ago, he was about to do surgery as the replacement of the General Surgeon head but then there was a sudden meeting with the board of members. Without even looking for another doctor to replace him in the OR, Chaeyoung just told him to give it to her. 

What more he noticed, is that the surgery was a piece of cake for a doctor like Chaeyoung but she didn't operated with a fast pace. Fixing an internal bleeding in the gastrointestinal tract is such a basic operation, but why did it take Chaeyoung so long to find the internal bleeding?

Meanwhile, in the Jeon Foundations building, Jungkook's father learned that Jungkook learned about the news. He hurriedly went to the company but Cole told him that Jungkook doesn't need a sermon. 

Instead, Mr. Jeon went to Jiyoon. 

"Jiyoon-ssi?" he asked as Cole pushed his wheelchair in the conference room. 

"Oh, Mr. Jeon!" Jiyoon stood up and bowed. "Annyeonghaseyo!" 

Cole left the room, and closed the door. 

Mr. Jeon had no problems about Jiyoon not being raised in the family since she was born. To him, as long as she grows up to be a responsible and smart person, that's alright. Who knows, Jungkook might have another kid. 

And as the Korean belief goes, the youngest always inherits the family heirlooms for good luck. Not to be racist, but Mr. Jeon believed that it's better that a boy inherits the business rather than a boy. 

Not that he doesn't believe Jiyoon can't do it, she can, but to him, it's just better for her to be full-on mother in the future. Not holding such a heavy job, like Chaeyoung, so she can focus on her kids as well. 

He rolled his wheelchair towards Jiyoon, and briefly stopped a few inches away from her. 

"You now know that your real father is Jungkook, right?" he asked, smiling at the kid. 

Jiyoon nodded, "Yes! Eomma told me a while ago. Does that mean I get to call him appa?"

Mr. Jeon chuckles, "Of course, he's your real father, after all."

"But," Jiyoon stops and frowns. "Appa has been sad the whole afternoon. And I couldn't find eomma, Mr. Cole told me to sit here and he kept me company."

Mr. Jeon's smile turned up-side-down as well. 

It's Jungkook's thoughts getting ahead of him, again. Before he left for the US, to get a kidney transplant, Jungkook had the same thing. He broke down because of the huge amount of pressure he overthought. 

And sure, Il-Do was planning to get married and live a happy life but he couldn't just leave with his younger brother just getting burdened with work. 

"Your dad is busy with work, young one, don't think about it," he said and saw what Jiyoon drew on the table. "Oh, what's that?"

Jiyoon turned to the table and grabbed the paper, "It's the pretty flowers in Sapporo, Japan!! I want to go here with eomma and appa. How about you, Mr. Jeon, where do you want to go?"

"Mr. Jeon? Why are you calling me that, young one?"

"Because your the boss of this place!" Jiyoon exaggerated. 

Mr. Jeon chuckled again, "I'm your grandfather, Jiyoon."

Jiyoon rubbed the back of head, "I know, I was scared to call you that."