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Chapter Three

SooJung jumped in alarm as the bathroom door was flung open and hopped up off the bed, fear slamming into her anew at the sight of him. Sehun watched her retreat across the room with narrowed eyes from the bathroom doorway, his jaw set so tight she wondered if his teeth would crack. He stared at her for a moment, his eyes no doubt taking in her smeared makeup and red, puffy eyes and she knew it displeased him. She had already displeased him - and they had only been married for a few hours.

She'd heard rumours of her husbands 'business dealings', mostly from her web searches following her 'engagement'. Although Sehun's Father ran a seemingly respectable string of nightclubs and finance firms, she also knew he did a lot more than that. Drugs, prostitution, assassinations, money laundering, gambling, extortion and illegal construction among many other ventures and schemes. These were all backhand, normally ignored by police, judges and politicians that were under his payroll making them untouchable.

Her husbands hands were far from clean and she knew, without a doubt, a man who had no qualms about stealing babies from their mothers arms wouldn't hesitate to hurt her. Terror gripped at her in the face of his anger.

"I forgot how jumpy virgins are." He muttered to himself, but she bristled none of the less. "You are a Virgin, aren't you? Your parents promised you were."

"And if I'm not?" She asked quietly.

"Then I'll kill the Bastard that had you before me." He answered simply and she gaped in horror.

"And what of me?"

"I wouldn't kill you." Sehun smiled, cold and frightening. "But I'd have to break you. Make you forget him. Is this your answer then? You're not a Virgin?"

He took a menacing step forward and she cried out in alarm, holding her hands out as though to shield herself.

"Of course I'm a Virgin!"

"Stop looking at me like that!" He snapped suddenly.

"Like what?"

Like an innocent little sheep." His tongue swiped at his lower lip as he gestured towards her. "I feel like I'm a wolf who's trying to eat you when you look at me like that." When she didn't answer he chickled. "Girls normally like it when I eat them... I know you will too."

Her lips curled in disgust. "Don't associate me with your whores. I'm nothing like them."

"At least they don't flinch away from a simple touch and look at me like I'm about to sacrifice their first born to Satan."

SooJung bristled at his mocking tone. "Clearly you've never been rejected before, but I'll remember to give you this look more often, if it offends you."

His eyes flashed with anger. "Then maybe I'll just have to fuck you from behind so I don't have to see it!"

She jerked back, eyes wide and he swore, his hands running through his hair, tugging at it.

"You're so fucking jumpy!" He growled. "I can't even say a joke without you breaking down!"

SooJung held perfectly still as he glared at her, his hair now messy and his face set into an expression she couldn't quite identify. Just when she was sure he was going to charge at her again there was a knock at the door and Sehun stormed towards it and yanked it open. From around him she could see it was one of his friends from the wedding holding two hand luggage cases - one of which she knew as the one her mother packed for her. Sehun took them off him and the two exchanged a whispered conversation before his friend peered around Sehun to SooJung, his eyes locking on on where she huddled against the wall. He smirked, clapped Sehun on the shoulder with a laugh before walking off, chuckling to himself.