New World | SOOKAI

Chapter 24

My teeth almost chattered in my skull with yet another astounding confession from Yeonjun, but it was one a bit more closer to home this time.

"Jack is... how? How are you related to him?"

"It's a very long story, Kai.." Yeonjun trailed off, making note of the inches around my waist with his measuring tape before moving it up to my chest.

"I'm a vampire now, Yeonjun. I have all the time in the world to hear it."

He quirked a thick eyebrow up at me, that smirkish smile on his lips now becoming obvious to me that that's just how he smiled most of the time. He reminded me of a fox, almost, with his facial features.

"Touché," he replied, finally sounding less dismissive and sighed. "You seem to possess an uncanny ability to get inside the head of a vampire, you know that?"

"I guess.. They never really scared me that much.."

"I can tell! You've already kissed two and fucked at least one of them!" he snickered at me and blood rushed to my cheeks in embarrassment. Soobin had told him that? Damn it, Yeonjun, stop avoiding the question.

"Uh.. that's.. Beside the point.. Please tell me about your relationship with Jack. I'd really like to know."

Yeonjun sighed again and turned me around on the spot. I felt the length of the measuring tape be placed across my shoulders and he muttered a number to himself before walking away behind me to start looking through his vast assortment of fashion.

I sat back down on the edge of the ottoman and just waited. He took a black and white shirt that faded to an ombre across the middle, hanging it over his forearm as he tentatively began his tale.

"Before I start, I'm going to assume that you heard everything downstairs last night?"

I nodded at him silently. He let a quiet half-laugh out and nodded to himself. "I figured as much."

"I'm.. not angry at you. I understand everything, Yeonjun."

"Well, that's comforting to know.. But, now that you know that tale, there is one a bit older than it. Soobin.. wasn't the first person I ever fell in love with."

I tilted my head at him, deeply curious, wondering how this would connect to Jack.

"Soobin doesn't know this, but, when I saw him at his 18th birthday party, I was already in.. something of a relationship at the time.. She was a Witch."

I blinked at him in surprise "They exist too?"

"Oh yes.." Yeonjun's tone sounded dark all of a sudden. "And far more dangerous than any vampire, Kai. Trust me.."

He walked over to me, placing his shirt of choice next to me and started looking through some pants on the opposite side of the room.

"She could see into my mind. She could read every last thought in my head. As much as I tried my best to hide my thoughts of Soobin from her, she eventually found him the more infatuated I became with him."

He looked over his shoulder at me, eyes of sapphire breathing a deep foreboding across the room to me.

"Never fall in love with two people at once, Kai. It will be your undoing."

Something in his words stirred me but I shoved it down, wanting to hear where he was leading me.

"She was wild with me when she found Soobin in my head. She said she would.. kill him."

Yeonjun tugged some pants off of their coathangers and looked down thoughtfully at his feet.

"Are you familiar with the saying 'Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned'?"