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Decisions pt1

Mark entered Ces office holding a cup of coffee Jaebum made for him. He wanted to ask his leader if she will stay at the house or if she will go home tonight. He found his leader on the balcony.

"Its cold out here tonight, want some coffee?" He asked sitting on the chair beside Ces.

"Nah, I want to sleep tonight. Why are you still awake anyways?"

"Jaebum needs to finish some paper works so he made coffee and he made one for me too then I remember you're still here so I want to ask if you will stay tonight or will go home.." Mark said sipping on his coffee.

"Mark..."

"Hmmnn?"

"How long will you stay here?" Ces asked, her friend look at her weirdly and then put his cup on the table in front of them.

"Is this about..." He asked and Ces only nods. He exhaled and stood up, he looks down and watch their guards walking around the house, on the other side some were practicing their skills, there are also people who just having small talks with others.

"Well.. I promise to your grandfather and Mr. Kwon that I will stay beside you forever and will protect you, ready to risk my life for you and I am man of my words Ces. Thats the only thing I can do for you and the Kwon family after all the things you did for my family. I here to stay as long as I can and as long as you want me too." He said.

"And if you didn't promise that to harabeoji and appa? If you have a freedom to choose between staying or being free, what will you choose?"

"Ces-" Ces stood up and stand beside him.

"Answer me. As your leader I demand an answer from you." Mark look straight in her eyes.

"I want to go home, I want to live with my family in California.. Who knows, Jaebum will come and we might get married there, start a family with him... It will be a dream, only a dream."

"Im sorry. Im sorry for bringing you into this hell."

"No. If not because of you, My family will.. you helped me a lot, your family help all of us here and because of you I met the love of my life.." Mark said and pull Ces into a hug.

"What should I do Mark? What should I do?"

"Do what you want, stop thinking about others and do what you really want."

"I cant leave the clan, the elders they will no-"

"Ces, You did everything you can to make this clan powerful, you also clean the whole Seoul Mafia. You made all of that without asking for anything in return, you work hard enough. But are you happy here? Do you really want to stay here? How about Jimin? Jiyong hyung? Our friends? Dont you want to have a freedom to spend time with them without worries that anything can happen at anytime? How about having your own family? Dont you want that? If you will leave, we will make sure to train the next best Kwon leader and if you will choose to stay, I will be here with you. But remember that for me, whats important is your happiness. I will always support you, Ces." Mark said hugging his best friend tight letting his shirt get wet from her tears. They stayed like that for a few minutes until Jaebum arrived. Jaebum didn't asked and instead pat Ces shoulder with a smile. The couple bring Ces to her room and let her get some sleep.

She cant sleep, after rolling over and over trying to find the right position to get her sleep she gave up. She looked at the clock on her bedside table and glare at the time, 3:09 am. She grab her pillow and scream on it, then stood up from her bed. She grab her phone to check some notifications.. there are miss calls from Aika and Sham, some messages from Naoi and their group chat that is always get flooded thanks to Hobi, Tae, Jin, Joon and Jungkook, one from Yoongi but..