DARK MISSION (The Series)
18

"I thought after this it would be fine. But we are still faced with various challenges. I will not give up, everything is done and this is the final. After all, she's my mother-in-law, I should be able to hold on until she accepts me."

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Hyuna Side :

In the courtyard was amazingly beautiful, green and the wind was blowing a little. The sky looks blue, there are hardly any white or gray clouds. Looks refreshing from the angle of the eye. The smell of wet air, like in the forest, is the real countryside. Really, my heart feels more comfortable, and honestly I really like this place.

I saw a man walking towards me, he was wearing a white t-shirt, black shorts and his slightly long hair was surging in the wind, makes him look like a normal, ordinary man who has never been involved in the black world. My lips smiled more as he got closer.

"Dad..." I turned my head quickly as the voice of a little girl called him 'father'. My heart was beating very fast as a little girl ran out stretching her two tiny arms towards Taehyung. Even the man knelt down to greet the little girl who was roughly 4 years old, his sturdy arms stretched out welcoming the arrival of the little girl with unraveling shoulder-length hair, who was the little girl.

"Aigo, honey. Don't run, you can fall."

"Dad, let's play. I want to get on that boat." The little boy pointed at a small boat by the lake, Taehyung smiling box stared at the boat as directed by the boy until his eyes narrowed slightly.

"All right, let's go."

"Dad, we're not with mom?"

"No, your mother is cooking. We'll just go alone."

I can't understand the situation yet, I try to walk after them. Why does the boy call him Dad? Why is Taehyung ignoring me? I was like an invisible shadow. How could Taehyung say 'mother is cooking'? Didn't the boy call him 'father'? Who is the mother of the child? I can't even properly digest the current situation. Taehyung-ah, why are you ignoring me?

"You don't want to take me too?" The voice of a woman made my step stop, the little boy stopped with Taehyung. The two humans were also seen sparkling to see someone who was in my room. I just wanted to look around but the woman just passed me by. Who is Bae Irene? Y-so, they're already a family? Then why don't they see me?

"Mother, let's get on the boat!"

"Well I'm coming, Taehyung-ah haven't you had a bath yet?"

"Darling, I'll shower with you later."

Degh~

Why is it like this? The darling? How sweet did he call her? Don't ask me about my heart, I don't even think I can describe it. Taehyung? Why is he staring at me? Did he see me? He even walked towards me, I wanted to leave, but why were my legs so hard to move? No, no, no... I don't want them to leave without me!

YUMUUU!! YUMUUU!!

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"Hyununa-yya?"

"Hyununa-yya?"

"Darling, wake up!!"

"Hey, you're sweating! Did you have a nightmare?-" Taehyung had not finished his words, the man was staring when Hyuna suddenly just hugged him very tightly. Taehyung was delighted when Hyuna took the initiative to embrace him, but she was also worried whether this woman had just had a bad dream? "Hey, relax. I'm right here." He said while replying to Hyuna's embrace. Taehyung gently rubbed Hyuna's back while patting slowly, so that the woman felt a little calmer.

After ten minutes of them clutching each other, Hyuna finally let go of her embrace and felt calmer. Taehyung looked at his woman with worry as he cupped his face, while Hyuna was happy to mix in fear when she found out that it was just a dream.

"Why are you sleeping here?" Taehyung asked, Hyuna looked at every corner of the room made of wood, and there was a large LCD screen and a pair of gaming sticks. It turns out this floating house that Taehyung designed specifically for playing games, Hyuna came here and felt tired until finally falling asleep.

"I'm fine." that was Hyuna's first sentence after Taehyung's many questions after Hyuna woke up from her sleep. It was even dark, it was a sign that Hyuna had been asleep since four in the afternoon. Even Taehyung who followed him also fell asleep with him, Taehyung woke up first when Hyuna continued to feel restless in her sleep, to call her name when the woman was hit by anxiety in her sleep.

"You're having nightmares?" He asked, wiping the top of his woman's head. "Hm, and I don't want to remember it." Alright, Taehyung understood his condition, so he chose not to discuss it anymore, he just kept quiet with a smile. His arm was still playing his female hair while waiting for his condition to improve.

"I'm hungry." The great-grandson of the woman named Lee Hyuna, made Taehyung forced to hold back his laughter. This woman is adorable. Some time ago, he looked frightened to the point that the universe might be shocked by Taehyung's panic. But look now, he was mumbling hungry. Obviously, they had not eaten since they came.

"God...." Taehyung covered his mouth and held back his laughter, after wrestling with the nightmare turned his woman to hunger, did he just dream of fighting with zombies? Jesus, Kim Taehyung what are you thinking. "Why are you laughing?" Hyuna asked while poking her lips.

"It's okay, let's go to the main house. Looks like the waiter's already prepared dinner for us."

"Good."

They decided to go to the main house. And Taehyung had to swallow his curiosity because Hyuna did not tell him what exactly was his nightmare, because the woman repeatedly called his name. It was best that he did not urge Hyuna or that the woman would be distracted and rebel again. 

Bae Irene, the beautiful girl is still faithful looking at the screen of her phone. Even occasionally he stared at his ring finger that was covered in a diamond ring that two weeks ago coiled on his ring finger as an engagement bond between Taehyung and him. To be honest, he still felt an awkwardness, especially with Taehyung's attitude. More like a man who keeps a lot of secrets. Who should he ask? Should he go see Miss Kim? Maybe the old woman who was going to be her mother-in-law knew something. And also, he could be more familiar with the Kim family before going deeper into the Kim family environment. "I have to ask Aunt Kim." He muttered with great certainty. Just now he was about to call the big lady, but his phone rang simultaneously. The Bae girl was a little surprised, but her forehead shriveled when she saw the name on the phone screen, muttering, "Kim Taehyung? What's he calling me? Incidentally, I also want to talk to her about something." He said then shifted the green icon to the side and put the phone to his earlobe.

"Taehyungs? What's up?"

"Can you come out for a second? I'm at your door." Taehyung replied from there, the girl ran to the window of her room and stared at her yard before answering. And sure enough, Taehyung was standing while leaning on his black car. The man was wearing black clothes and a thick coat because the weather that night was quite piercing. "Why don't you come in?" Irene asked still while looking at the man who was her fiance. "I want to talk to you, but not at your house." The man replied Kim with a baritone tone. Irene let out a rough sigh, without saying much she walked out still with a cell phone stuck in her ear.

Arriving at the gate, he could clearly see the handsome men's faces from there, as they were only blocked by the gate. "Down off the call!" Irene snorted while looking annoyed at her fiance. Taehyung just grunted a smile and pressed the only button on the bluetooth earphone he had placed on his right ear, then he removed it and put it in his coat pocket.

Taehyung looked at Irene from top to bottom, making the girl frown and ask, "are you looking at me like that?" Taehyung just took a breath, inexhaustible with Irene, wasn't it quite clear that they were going to talk outside, instead, and shouldn't this girl also know that tonight's temperature is fifteen degrees Celsius? But why didn't he put on a coat and just put on his formal attire? But Taehyung can guess, it looks like Irene just got home from work. The man opened the door and said, "come in, it's cold outside. I'm gonna take you somewhere." He said, Irene just obeyed and entered. Taehyung closed the door again after Irene entered, and the man circled his car and entered from the steering wheel.

Irene seemed familiar with the path they were walking through, she frowned when Taehyung did not say a word, but after they passed through some quiet places and there was a large gate ahead there. Taehyung parked his car and said, "we're here, let's go down." Invite her, and again Irene just silently followed the orders of the man beside her. Irene was still busy with all the guesses and questions she was ready to ask while speaking in her heart, 'This isn't the ash storage house? What did this man bring me here for?'

"What are we here for? Do you want to visit someone?" Irene asked, Taehyung just smiled, the man grasped Irene's arm and took her into a building filled with several large glass walls on several sides. Irene was nervous because this was the first time Taehyung had clasped her arm. He was a little uncomfortable actually, for some reason with Taehyung, now he feels different. Is this guy not attractive anymore? Or perhaps, there was another anxiety he was thinking about right now. They walked past several cupboards lined with various shapes of jars inside. Until finally they arrived at a white cupboard, the fifth row. Even Irene knew this place very well, she just thought maybe by chance, someone Taehyung wanted to visit was also here.

The man let go of their hand grips and stared at the row of urns before walking between the cupboards. Taehyung closed his eyes for a moment, his heart was pounding quite fast every time he visited this place, someone very important to him was among these urns. The man let out a long sigh, after he calmed his heart. Then he walked back and Irene followed him from behind. "Here." Taehyung muttered, as his feet stopped on a light purple jar and read Kim Taeri. Irene rounded her eyes, she knew very well this urn and the story of why this urn was here. But the girl was still silent and waiting for what Taehyung meant, and the one related to the urn that was clearly Lee Hyuna's daughter who died in the womb, during an accident three years ago. "Th-this..."

"She's my daughter..."

Degh~

Somehow interpreting all the simple sentences like 'She is my daughter', how do I start? Where do I have to rethink the heartbreaking story of the existence of this urn of innocent little baby ashes? Obviously this child is the first daughter of Lee Hyuna, the poor woman who since a few years ago he adopted as a sister, even she herself who became a helper when Hyuna was at her lowest point. Irene even remembered how much Hyuna loved the father of the baby she was carrying, maybe the man was hating her for choosing to leave her on a night that was very important to them, it should be.

The universe was like slapping him, realizing that the man who was the status of fiancee, was the man who had been kept secret Hyuna. His beloved whom he loved so much even today. Just because of the selfishness of a mother, they parted without leaving any good memories. Both of them even had to swallow bitterly, because they had to lose the baby they were so looking forward to. Hyuna kept her pregnancy a secret from Kim Taehyung, and today maybe the world is laughing at Irene's stupidity, she thought. The girl laughed heartily as she rewinded her shaky steps. Even Taehyung was about to hold his arm if Irene had not brushed him off. Taehyung felt even more guilty when he saw the dripping round of clear water, wetting his fiance's cheeks.

"Why should this be?" sadly, Irene cried sobbing covering her face that her legs felt limp and finally sat down. Taehyung, who saw him, knelt down before Irene, lowered his gaze and apologized as sincerely as possible. She felt guilty for having agreed to this engagement because of her selfishness back then. Feeling that Hyuna ignored her at that time, then that was when the foolish decision to continue the engagement began to do. If time could be reset, perhaps Taehyung would pull Hyuna in and tell everyone the truth, that they were lovers. However, in this world, if there was already an exaggeration, then there would be no words if only.

Taehyung lowered his face, and said "i am Lee Hyuna's lover, and Taeri is our daughter. I just found out, about the pregnancy and all of Hyuna's circumstances after we split up, recently. I love him so much, from the past even to the present. I swear on my son, I don't want to leave him again. Please forgive me, I brought you here, because I wanted to tell you the truth. And this is the truth you need to know. Please forgive me, this is all my fault. Hyuna was never guilty, she just didn't want to hurt you and your family. He even let me go out of respect for your family. But I love her so much, that's why, I want to end this engagement. I'll take responsibility for everything, I'll tell your parents the truth. Irene-yya, I'm sorry." Evidently.

Somehow Irene had to respond to all these facts, between the disappointment and guilt running in her blood, until the girl was still silent in her tears. Taehyung looked at Irene with full supplication. The man looked very sincerely apologetic, Irene lowered her face while wiping away her tears, then smiled softly and said "this should be revealed, only, I didn't expect... That this truth stabbed me so much. I may be sick, but I also feel guilty. How does Hyuna feel, when she has to pretend to be happy when she sees my engagement to her lover, when I know very well, all this time in the world to miss you. He always hid his sadness for me. I always wanted her happiness, but I created the hurt myself. I have to how to deal with it?" At the end of the sentence, Taehyung slowly pulled the girl in his arms. Giving a warm swipe to Irene. Slowly Irene returned the embrace and began to weep bitterly in Taehyung's arms.

"I'm the one at fault, if I had been more assertive, maybe I could have protected my lover as well as our daughter. I failed, but... I promised you I wouldn't take it off again, I'd protect it."

"I'm sorry Irene-yya, I shouldn't have involved you." Mumbled.

Irene continued to cry until she sobbed, feeling so tight. How he should meet Hyuna in the future. Although Hyuna will definitely forgive him because the woman is too kind to him. But still, she had made Hyuna cry and that was for sure, even though Hyuna's cry was not seen directly. Because she always looked calm and happy for him.

Kim Taehyung, the man became sensitiv when his gaze turned to a painting of a baby closing his eyes, even his tears welled up in his eyes, and ready to flow in the blink of his eyes. The painting was made by Sehun when the man took care of his daughter's funeral. Her chest felt tight every time she remembered, how sad it must have been when Hyuna found out her baby had died and there was no her beside her. In retrospect, Taehyung was insane and killed many people to vent his grief on Hyuna who left him at the time. Taehyung did not even forgive anyone who was guilty, even if the mistake was just a speck. "Hyuna, I am a man who failed to protect our baby and also failed to take care of you. I wasn't even there when you needed me the most. This is my oath, I will never let you go again." His inner.

BRAK~

The sound of the table in the hands of Mr. Bae made anyone aghast. Even Irene shed her tears in her mother's arms. Mr. Bae looks very angry and disappointed with the confession of Kim Taehyung who was sitting on the sofa right opposite him. Taehyung had told me everything, he had come with Irene. Maybe Bae's family thought, it was a daughter-in-law's visit to her in-laws. But apparently not, because Taehyung came just to straighten out the misunderstanding that happened to his family and also the Bae family for the selfishness of the mother. Mr. Bae sharpened his eyesight, staring firmly at the man sitting with his usual cold aura. His arms pointed at the man before him, saying "didn't you have a conscience when playing with my daughter?" Rigorously. Taehyung just kept quiet and still listened. "Are you aware? This decision of yours, has hurt two women at once? Know it? Hyuna even thought of us as our own daughter, and then you screwed things up. Where is he now Kim Taehyung-ssi?" Further.

Taehyung turned his head and looked at master Bae with a flat look. The man actually faced this matter calmly. Taehyung sighed then replied "i know, this is all my fault. If you want to blame, blame me. Hyuna was innocent, she even left me for you guys, but___ I went back to chasing. Because I love her, I'm sorry... If you want to sue me, I'll take it." Evidently. Master Bae was obviously very angry, why should Hyuna? Even she was unable to get angry at Hyuna, even though she was very anxious. Even she was unable to curse Hyuna, even in her heart. Mr. Bae could only sit limply while massaging the space between his eyebrows.

"I'm really disappointed in you! How did you get that loot to our daughter?" Heartbreakingly sounding, Irene even knelt before her father while saying "father... Hyuna is innocent." The shrillness that made the sixty-year-old man look down at the princess. Mr. Bae looked at his wife as if beckoning, and was given a nod of understanding from the wife.

"Kim Taehyung, you better go. My husband needs time to accept all of this. We'll think of the best." Now Bae's mistress is open voice after being silent since Kim Taehyung's confession was very surprising. Everyone in the Bae family did not expect this truth. They knew how difficult Hyuna was, as she spent her days pregnant with her daughter, and had to work part-time when she was eight months old for her father's medical expenses. Even when the accident happened. They are silent witnesses, how Hyuna became very depressed when she lost her baby. And how proud Hyuna is every time she tells the man she loved so much in the past. That was why, they couldn't get angry at Hyuna. The woman was indeed innocent, it was just the circumstances that made her seem wrong.

Taehyung opened the tuxedo. He smiled looking at Hyuna who was sleeping soundly in their room. He had just returned after asking for permission to leave. Taehyung says that he will go take care of Hyuna's work. The man went to see Irene and her parents to tell her everything. Taehyung loosened his tie and unbuttoned the top two of his black shirt. The man walked over to the lover and knelt down and looked at the innocent face of his sleeping lover and said, "Taeri-yya, your mother is so beautiful when she is asleep, she is not as noisy as when awake. You have to trust me, he loves us so much. I will take care of him and make him happy. I promise you, I'll be a responsible father. You have to trust me." Taehyung smiled then kissed Hyuna on the forehead before she went to the bathroom to clean her body before she joined Hyuna.

After Taehyung disappeared behind the bathroom door, Hyuna slowly smiled in her sleep. The woman seemed to have a beautiful dream, so calm.

Taehyung-ah, from the beginning... I have never wrongly chosen you as my man. I love you so much, thank you Kim Taehyung.

TB