Just as soon as his shrieks of agony had saturated the air, the sooner it had died down as he bit his lip and held back his screams of pain.

I felt some kind of power surging through me. I looked at an expectant Taehyung and a concerned Jin, waiting for them to give me consent to do as I please with my mortal enemy.

Taehyung just simply gave me a stony look and Jin was afraid I may do something for which I might not be able to face myself for years.

"Tell me." I repeated and Byung Soo's knot of a tongue loosened by default.

The hypnosis was undoing his will power to hold anything from me that I didn't allow.

"It was me." He nodded fervently and his face was breaking into sweats. The palm that bled onto the table now sat in a pool of black thick liquid that I tried not to look at.

"Kai was just a weapon handy to use. His past experiences had broken him enough for me to exploit his heart that was forever turned against you." He was now wheezing and paused occasionally to take a gulp of air.

My doubts were now solidifying.

"Why do you hate me? For my father's judgement? You hold me responsible for somebody else's decisions? I was just a baby when all of this bullshit must have happened about you and your stupid Satyriasis!" The anger was pounding in my ears along with my pulse.

He was silent for a long moment and then his shoulders vibrated as he laughed. A low snarly laugh.

I stiffened as I looked at Taehyung. He met my eyes and half-shrugged.

"Your father snatched everything away from me! It was only fair I do the same to him."

"But, it was because of your own misdeeds!" I countered with equal or maybe more ferocity.

This asshole made no sense!

"Misdeeds?" He blinked.

"Y/n." Jin suddenly bent down to whisper in my ear, "Don't try logic on a psychologically disordered person. He's clinically diagnosed to be out of his mind. Don't go down that lane where you won't be able to argue logic with him." He pulled back and gave me a short nod.

I sighed as I turned to Byung Soo.

"You had sex with people. Men. Against their consent. Used good men to rape their wives-" he laughed at that and I paused.

Oh.

Suddenly, something clicked in my mind.

Oh.

My heart had audibly shattered in my chest as I swallowed hard and blinked back my dangerously close-to-spill tears. I continued,

"-You raped people.. they were in your hospital to be cured, to be taken care of. Tch. Gaesekkiya."

[Korean term for:
son of a dog/bitch]

I closed my eyes and tilted my head upwards to face the ceiling as I tried to control my anger and tears. I didn't want to start the torturing too soon. That would delay the answers that I needed to get out of him.

I adjusted myself in my seat as I leaned forward and I twisted the syringe in his palm as if it was a joystick knob and he whimpered underneath my cruel touch. I felt Taehyung flinch, but I didn't bother looking up. The wet kilch sound of blood oozing out of a deep wound made my stomach heave, but I held myself in.

He flinched hard, his face contorted in pain.

"This a**%ole-" He wheezed as he laughed and jerked his chin at Taehyung, "This c**%y a**%ole ruined everything for me. I wanted to destroy you and your useless little brother, but this f**%er.. no." He tutted and shook his head, wheezing his laughter out.

"This f**%er was all over the place. Coming in between to protect you. Using others to protect you. Pathetic. He has no sense of dignity in him." Byung Soo spat in his direction.

I turned my head to look at a Taehyung who had bursted out laughing in a delightful fit as if that was the most hilarious joke he had ever heard. His laughter completely died down just as suddenly as it had debuted in the silence of this gory room.

I was afraid Taehyung was suffering from some manic bipolar disorder too.

"I will dig into that later. Tell me what happened of Kai. Did he really kill my father? Or was it you? Did he do that to aunt Ara on his free will? Or was he being used by your d**%hebaggy ass?"

It was Byung Soo's turn to laugh.

"You bore me." He said as he rolled his head, as if his neck was hurting. "Ask me more interesting questions. Like what are my.. kinks."

"Why the heck would I do that even?" I rolled my eyes as I gave out a skeptical chuckle.

He was a sick b***ard.

"Because, my kinks lie in using people to f**k other people. And by f**k, I don't mean only the dingy dongies in the squishy coochies-"

I gagged,

"-But, also their lives. It's so much fun to watch someone crush under the weight of your crimes."

"You're some unique type of a d**%head." I exhaled, "So what part of Kai's b*tchy behaviour was sincere if he was under your hypnotism this whole time?"

I didn't expect him to answer me, so I wasn't surprised when he replied with nothing but silence. The sound of blood squeezing itself out of his hand made my stomach heave and he was getting weak.

I noticed his eyes roll to the back of his head and he snapped himself back into focus as he looked at me up and down nastily and laughed weakly.

"You would look good getting gangba-"

It happened so fast, I was taken by surprise as Taehyung moved in a blur as he leaned forward and rammed his pen into the already horrifically purple and red bruised eye of Byung Soo.

The howls of pain that erupted from Byung Soo's lips finally made me give up as his eye crushed under the point of the Golden Black. The white of the eye staining a deep crimson quickly and his eye shed bloody tears.

The pen remained stuck in there and Taehyung didn't bother pulling it out.

"Rest in peace, my precious Golden Black." Taehyung said softly and I had to twist my head away to throw up on the floor.

I couldn't stand the sight in front of me and my stomach heaved uncontrollably.

Jin grabbed my hair back in a fist and gently rubbed my back as I continued to retch weakly. My ribs were dimly hurting now and I realized I couldn't take this anymore.

He had used Kai to hypnotize people into thinking I had ruined their life. Why did he think I ruined his? I wasn't anywhere in the picture when he was getting it on with his patients in the Psycure Research Centre. I was innocent.

Was I not?

Then what the hell was I being punished for? My blood began to boil in frustration and confusion.

Taehyung grabbed my hand and took me out as he threw Jin a casual last glance, before leaving as he said,

"Keep some of him alive for me."

I was towed outside into the dark corridor of the store and I held my stomach weakly. Still bent in wait for the retches to stop and he stroked my hair.

"You don't have to do this." He said softly. "Your gentle soul doesn't deserve this. You can't stand this. Don't hurt yourself with-"

"Since when do you care?" I found myself blurting out carelessly.

His eyes went the slightest wide as he stopped stroking my hair and looked me deep in the eyes.

"Y/n. I always cared."

"Lies." I don't know why I was doing this. I was just bitter.

He abandoned me when he willed, entered my life when he willed.He couldn't trod around and trample me like that.

My heart was not a toilet.

He pulled his hand away as he looked at me with hard eyes.

Maybe, I was bitter because I saw him as a cheater. Saw him as a possible exploiter of my feelings.

Maybe, it was because I recalled what he said on the night of the assault.

"For enjoying what I did tonight. Every second of it." No, I knew the truth. I was pissed that he would continue to lie to me. All just to keep me away at an arm's length like I smell like shit or something.

For not showing up even once, when I was in the hospital. For fooling me good enough on that night. For not including me in his plans, or his victorious strategies.

For creating a contract and breaking it whenever he willed.

Kissing me when he felt like it and weakening my resolve. Shaking my desires alive and igniting a fire in my soul that I wasn't able to put out alone..

For making me so vulnerable for him.

Making me fall in love with him.

I straightened up with a more than normal effort as I tried to stand my ground.

"I almost forgot that I haven't forgiven you for a lot of things, Kim Taehyung. That fake but real assault being one of the biggest things." I was only half-lying, but the truth was still there.

Even if he had saved my life, I couldn't bring myself to put this behind us. My heart wouldn't rest until Taehyung sat me down and told me he was sick of lying to me. That was all I wanted.

Instead.

He had been silent this whole time, but his jaw clenched and unclenched.
His fists pulled into balls of fury on his either sides as he stared me down with a fire in his eyes that already turned my train of thought to ashes.

"You are an ungrateful little girl." His voice was hard. Steely and bitter.

He didn't say anything more as he turned and left. But, not into the store.

He stalked off to the exit.

A crushing cold silence swept into the atmosphere and into my mind after what he'd just said. I felt numb.

My heart was thundering as I watched him leave.

Possibly.. my life.

I sunk to the ground and the light was knocked out of my vision, just moments after hearing a number of men infiltrate the store to rescue their Rapist Chief.

°°°

I was awakened from my unconsciousness as Jin stroked my hair in the backseat of the car Taemin was driving.

"What happened?" I asked weakly.

"We were outnumbered. Hyungnim got the boys to get it under control before they would kill you or Jin-hyung." Taemin replied.

"Did he get what he deserved?" I asked softly.

Taemin looked at me through the mirror and then gave a boyish grin, "Leave it up to us! Hyungnim may have retired from the Mafia world, but he's still foreboding and stronger than seventy percent of the gangsters combined."

I was still not able to grasp anything.

"Kai was not the main culprit. He was just broken and maddened from his mother's death." I wasn't asking, but Jin and Taemin answered in nods of agreement.

"I'm not going to be foolish and hold things against the wrong person." I said through my gritted teeth.

Taemin's grin widened, "I'll pass the message to hyungnim."

"What message?"

He was silent as he drove and I frowned in deep thought.

"Taemin?"

"To keep Byung Soo out for you to eat next season." He laughed.

I blinked and then nodded, chuckling in response.
"I have to get my guts stronger if I have to stick around you guys."

Taemin chortled boyishly shaking his head.

"You held out pretty good for starters. You seem ready to join us any time."

"HYA! I told you not to start on that!" Jin snapped.

I found myself giggling as Taemin shrugged and beamed at us from the front seat.

Jin pulled my head back onto his shoulder as he exhaled deeply.

His tone was soft and concerned.

"Are you satisfied?" He asked me and I know he didn't mean it sarcastically, but that's all I heard in there.

Mockery.

I turned my gaze to look up at him, feeling the eyes of Taemin from the rear view mirror watching me cautiously as I took a deep breath.

"Jin." I said softly, he didn't look at me as he hummed questioningly.

"Jin.. I think I messed up."

"Y/n." He replied as I looked out of the window next to him, slow tears leaking out of my eyes.

"Hm?" I managed to squeak.

"I think I know how to fix it." He smiled at me softly as he rubbed my back and his hand slid down to my waist, pulling me to a straightened posture.

He made me sit back as he pulled out a case.

"Anti-saraphines." He pointed at the case and excitedly spoke in a whisper in the midst of a wide grin. Words that made my heart flutter with content, my eyes to close with sweet satisfaction and eagerness and desire to live.

Words that bled brilliant colours back into my dull depressing life. Colours that stained my clouds a merry blue and made my horizons glimmer with a dust of new hope. My lips stretched into the first genuine smile in weeks in response to his cool comforting words.

"We will get your family back."

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[A/N]

Almost the end!!! Ahhhhhh, the satisfaction of finishing a book

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