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Ascella got nervous when Johnny introduced her to the other members. She didn't expect they would be this many. Sure, she saw them earlier, but now that she’s seeing them up close, it kind of felt suffocating.

Johnny played the record for the members to hear and as expected, their expressions were that of anger, sadness and confusion.

"Wow. I never thought he would go that far.", Yuta said.

"And just for an espresso.", Ten continued.

"That man has a thing for espressos I tell you.", Jaehyun added.

They all looked at Ascella and she suddenly felt small.

"I'm so sorry."

"You shouldn't be. You're not at fault here." Jeno reassured her.

"He almost hit her in the face.", Johnny suddenly told them.

Ascella covered her face with her hands.

Johnny took the hint that he should not have mentioned it.

"How are you feeling?", Haechan asked.

"Do you have to ask her that?", Kun said.

"No. It's okay. I—“, she breathed.  “I'm scared to be honest. But I'll be fine.", she said, deciding to be honest with herself.

Mark and Jungwoo entered the room.

"So, how was it?", Jaemin asked.

"He's fired. And it's a good thing.", Mark said.

Ascella doesn’t know what to feel. She felt sad for what happened to Mr. Park, but at the same time she felt relieved.

"Yeah. He has hurt a lot of people, especially women.", Doyoung said with worried eyes on Ascella.

"What do you mean?"

"What he meant is he hurt them physically and mentally.", Winwin added.

"How come he wasn't fired?"

"There was no evidence. The staffs wouldn't believe us.", Lucas answered.

"And then you came.", Johnny said looking at me.

"What about me?"

"I got a recording evidence.", Johnny smiled.

"But a recording evidence won't be enough to get him arrested. We must have other evidences.", Jungwoo stated.

"I know but I got help from staffs contacting those who he hurt. And they agreed to testify, if ever.", Johnny said.

"Mr. Lee knows?"

"Yes. And we're going to give this to him later."

Ascella looked at her left wrist to find a dark bruise. She hadn’t notice it before because of the fear. But now that she somehow calmed down, she suddenly felt the pain.

She was about to cover it with her sleeve but Mark saw it.

She heard him sigh afterwards and the members looked at him. Consequently, he signalled them to look at her again.

"Look at her left wrist.", Mark told them.

"I'm fine.", she moved her left arm. However, her expressions betrayed her and winced at the pain.

"No, you're not. Mark bring her to the hospital. Our med staff went home earlier.", Johnny said.

"Sure do.", Mark said.