Chapter 7: Don’t move, just sleep
Seoha’s POV
The door shuts behind us and Taesan goes to drop his daughter on the bed.
With carefulness, he takes off her shoes and drops them by the bedside, he pats her hair and leans in to press a kiss on her temple.
The little girl smiles in her sleep and folds herself into a ball, the sight warms my heart and gives me confidence boost, maybe if I explain my situation to him and he will let me go.
"Kang-ssi" I call and his head snaps up to look at me, he doesn’t say a word as he stares at me with those dark orbs, waves of unfiltered but silent anger rolls off the alpha as he moves away from the bed.
He tilts his head, urging me to speak as he undoes his cufflinks.
"I-I...I’m sorry for earlier...I..." I stutter and he wrinkles his nose, "go take a shower, you smell like poverty and desperation" he says, looking at me with disgust and I clench my fist.
Yes, my clothes are drying on my body, but I don’t smell like poverty and desperation, I was born into a wealthy family, I just fell in love.
’With a liar’ my brain supplies.
"Shower, now" he says and I look down at myself, remembering for the first time, I left my bag and my guitar at the entrance of the hotel.
"I forgot-"
"They are with my guards" he says, always nine steps ahead of me, probably seeing through me too.
"I have nothing to wear" I state and he nods as he pulls off his watch.
"You will wear my cloth" he says and I frown at the thought of wearing another alpha’s scent, no.
"Problem?" he asks and I shake my head, I will do anything but wear his clothe, but I will not argue right now.
I make my way into the bathroom and take my uncomfortably moist clothes off me, each one I pull off feels like a weight lifting off me, I drop them all and sink into the bath.
I let the water flow while I’m in it, and the water is the right temperature...just how I always set it at home, I pull my knees up and rest my face on them as tears fill my eyes.
Home. Home. Home.
That word hasn’t left my mind all evening long, I don’t even know what home is anymore, I left my family four years ago to be with the love of my life.
𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮
I didn’t think the love of my life would cause the hurt of my life, I sniffle and turn my head to the side, my scent hangs heavy in the air, and I realize that I really do smell of poverty and desperation.
Tired of it, I use the hotel soap that smells like flowers on my skin, needing to put myself together. If I am put together well enough, I can say my goodbye to Mr. Kang and leave.
Maybe tomorrow I’ll visit the lawyer and find out what to do.
I step out of the bathroom with a bathrobe on as I go to find the alpha, I find him leaning over the balcony that overlooks the city with a cigarette between his lips, his back is broad and muscular.
Even in the darkness, I can make out the roughness of his skin, the ripples of his muscles with every movement, and the tattoos decorating his back.
"Find them, if that’s how they play, find them all and show them how we play" he says, his voice low, deep and gravelly.
He’s on the phone and turns around at the sound of my footsteps.
"I will call you back, Jinae" he says and ends the call to look at me, we both stare at each other, me at him with the guilty need to apologize and him at me with disdain.
"Hmm, so this is what you look like..." he says and his eyes roam my features, starting from my face and slowly moves down to my feet, he nudges his chin to the bed where his shirt lies.
"Wear it" he orders and I wrap my arms around myself, "I would rather-"
"I didn’t ask what you would rather do" he says, shutting me up immediately and I turn to pick up the shirt from the bed and put it on.
He doesn’t turn around or step into the room, so I go to him, to show him while keeping my distance.
His heavily scented shirt swallows me up, looking like a robe that falls mid-thigh and I tug it down, feeling embarrassed at what I have on.
Only my briefs and the shirt.
"What exactly are you doing?" the alpha asks with a sadistic amusement in his eyes, "I am..." I say and he looks down at me, walking forward till I am pinned against the wall.
His eyes are heavy as they map out my face, my breath hangs in my throat as the alpha leans in, his smell is more prominent like this.
His skin is glistening with sweat and lips dry as he lifts his cigarette to his lips.
"Unmarked, skinny, and a thief...not my type" he says and with that, he takes a drag of smoke and blows some in my face.
I turn my head to the side with my breath held.
The alpha drops the half-smoked cigarette into the ashtray before walking past me into the bathroom, my knees buck but stay there, frozen as the shower starts, still frozen when the shower ends.
Will I ever get out of here?
The alpha doesn’t look my way as he makes his way into the room, wearing only his black pants that sit low on his waist without the belt.
"Come" he says once and I move forward, "sleep there" he says and I obey, lying down on the left side of Sooin.
The child is sleeping soundly, and her breathing is coming out softly, Taesan lays on the other side, shirtless and broad.
I can’t breathe properly with how his scent, mine and Sooin’s baby milk mix, smelling like what a home should feel like.
The home I was dreaming to have with Daeshin, I squeeze my eyes shut to ward him away, I chose to walk out...I shouldn’t still be thinking about him.
It has been only three hours since I left him and I’m already this pathetic, would I really be able to live without him?
The sound of steady breathing reaches my ears, and I open my eyes, Kang Taesan is asleep, I can make it out if I move quietly and quickly.
I sit up, moving softly and suddenly I feel something hard and metallic at the back of my neck, I turn my head slowly in fear and see a something small, black and metallic in Taesan’s hand.
A gun.
His eyes are hooded with sleep, but his hand is holding the gun up with the precision and alertness of a man who has done this too many times.
"You don’t move, you don’t get up, you fucking sleep" he growls and cocks the gun.