| Misunderstanding | KTH✔️

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Three months. Three months and everything in your life took a drastic change. Your once a happy life with your husband and your child fell in rifts of unsaid and cold war. He hated you to the guts but there was no denying that the hatred was planted and watered by you, yourself.

"I can't really give you complete surety about it Mrs.Kim." The doctor's hopeless voice left a stinging pain in your heart. How did you even manage to grow a tumor within yourself and never knew about it? How was life being so cruel to you to leave you without your consent. "I-I want to l-live.." your faint murmur waved away with your salty tears because all that you were welcomed with was pure darkness.

"Where were you y/n?" You met with the worried but slightly angered gaze of your husband. Because of your health issues, you have been visiting the doctor, secretly. It was fine for a few days but with time, gradually a seed of suspicion started growing inside his heart, seeing your inability to give him proper and convincing answers.

"Work Taehyung" your voice came out stressed but he was bewildered whether it was the stress of work or something else. "Which is more important than your husband and son who literally waits everyday for you to join them at least at dinner…?" You gulped down a lump of guilt, sighing out in exhaustion.

"Sorry…" it was all that you could mutter, not knowing how and what to say. "Are you...by any chance….che-cheating on me?" You heard his hesitant yet pain filled voice and the crack that lingered with it. Your lips tightened, unable to form any sentences. The truth would leave him devastated and the lies that you heard would destroy his peace along with your relationship with him.

Looking up at him, you saw his eyes that were raging with every second because of your sealed lips. Your silence was somehow reasoning his doubt and his heart shattered completely when you decided to walk away from the conversation, not realising that the lie wrapped in fake veracity was devastating him more than the truth itself.

With the loud ringing of your phone, you came out of your trance, successfully gulping down the tears before it could surface up on your eyes. Life was too short for you to cry anymore. "Yes Liz" a soft yet tired murmur left your lips and just then you saw Taehyung walk out of the washroom, rubbing his wet hairs with the towel.

"Yes I am coming" His ears pricked with your voice and he looked up to see you standing by the window, facing your back at him. His jaws clenched tightly as he heard you speak. "That basta*d" He gritted his teeths, murmuring to himself. You hung up, turning around to pick your handbag and leave the room but he instantly came and stood before you, blocking your way.

"So eager to meet him? Hmm? That you didn't even look at your husband?" Your heartbeats quickened but your face remained calm. You were scared. You were scared to hurt him again. You were scared to see his hatred filled eyes. You were scared to get hurt. "Yes" a blatant and straight reply angered the man inside him who was slowly going inhumane because of his wife's betrayal.

"What does he have that I don't, Mrs Kim?" He held your arm, gripping it with all his anger, maximising the force. Your throat burned to let out a whimper of pain but you tried to endure it. Just a little bit more. The way he addressed you as Mrs. Kim, made you realise that he was casting his rights on you as his wife. Afterall, you were still his wife.

"A lot of uncountable things" you looked into his eyes, hurting him there, where it hurts the most. His nose flared in agony and now he held you completely in his grasp making you whimper because of the impulsive force that he applied on you. "You really are a shameless woman y/n." His chest tightened with anger. "And what about you? Aren't you going behind me to…" you halted in between, looking away from him.

It pained you to watch your husband with another woman. No matter what, it was difficult to see him come back home with another woman's perfume emitting from his clothes. It was difficult to hear him talk so high about her and boast in front of you. "Behind you?" He tilted his head, chuckling a little. "I ain't going behind you baby…! I am instead very open about my relationship with her. She is beautiful, majestic, she loves me...most importantly, she is loyal" he finished off with a snarl.

"Tell me something I don't know Taehyung" your eyes never left the floor to look at his eyes.

Gripping your jaw, he made you look up at him. Your breaths mixed with each other and you opened your tightly closed eyes to look at his deep ones. His eyes oozed fire, burning you from its sight itself. His lips thinned in a straight line, when his eyes roamed around your entire face. The only face that he wishes to see every night before sleeping and every morning after waking up. The only face who can make him go crazy but instantly calm his nerves down. The only face which was engraved inside his heart. The only face he loves.

There was an eerie silence in the room as you two kept staring at each other. Your eyes met and quarreled silently because of the pain that you two were giving to each other. But moments later, your eyes started speaking about the abundant love that they carry for each other. Gazing at one another, his grip around your jaw loosened and the hand that was holding your arm, slid down, motionlessly, to encircle around your waist.

His eyes pleaded with you to stay back. He didn't want you to go to him. He didn't want you to go away from him. You started fearing again. The softness that his eyes held now was fearing you. You can't let his hatred melt away. Not after dropping down so much to disgrace your dignity. Not after hating yourself so much for making him hate you.

"I- I am gett-getting late" you voice shivered, ready to welcome another rageful reaction from him, instead his nose touched yours, his eyes still boring deep inside you. "Don't go…" Your heartbeats went frenzy and chest heaved with irregular breaths. You were scared of getting weak in front of his pleading Bambi eyes.

"He is waiting for me" you chest thudded with pain muttering the lie straight out. His grip around you tightened, his forehead creasing with worried lines. "I have waited for you forever y/n." The sadness that his voice held shivered you. You felt like blurting out the truth right there and engulfing him in your arms, speaking to him about how much he meant to you and how much you actually loved him.

But you knew that once you would do that, he would start hating himself. He has come a long way hating you and the revelation of truth won't just kill you but him too. Pushing him away from you, you ran out of the room, not wanting to take a look at his hurt laced eyes and fallen face.