DARK MISSION (The Series)
21

"I didn't realize how much they had suffered all this time, all I thought about was how to separate. But God rebukes me in this way."

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Kim Taehyung, the man slowly grabbed the door knob of the VIP room that became his mother's room now. The man walked with something on his right arm, carrying his mother's favorite salad roll. He placed the paper bag on the nightstand next to Kim's madam's cage and sat in the chair in the VIP room. Sighs, and slowly grabs the mother's wrist. It was the first time Taehyung had held his mother's arm since the last time his father died. Taehyung clasped his fragile mother's hand one last time. After that time, the mother became very busy with the work left by the father, taking care of the company alone. Taehyung, then fifteen, was determined to hone his knowledge in the business world. But the man did not want to rely on his family's company. 

He chose to stand up for himself, because he knew that whoever would be his father's successor, he had to focus on work and leave all the marriage to his grandfather. Taehyung at first did not think too much about it, according to him with whom he will marry, it does not matter. But three years after he graduated from university, he got an invitation to give a speech at the university where he studied, to give a speech and share experiences in the business world to his juniors, because Taehyung is the best graduate and the only successful young entrepreneur with his own efforts. Until his unnatural encounter with Hyuna back then made his world turn one hundred and eighty degrees.

Taehyung who was initially very unconcerned about women, but the charm of Hyuna at that time changed her perspective on women. Hyuna was the only woman who did not ask him as she allowed her juniors to ask him in front of the podium. At the time when all the women who were his juniors were competing to ask him questions, but only Hyuna did not ask and chose to leave the hall at that time. It made Taehyung feel interested in Hyuna, and decided to look for her after this charity event.

Taehyung walks in a park after being confronted by a female junior who is infatuated with him. The man let out a rough sigh and loosened his tie then sat down on a fairly quiet park bench. "Hhhh... It's exhausting." He muttered, the man rubbed his throat which felt dry and thirsty after running. But when he decided to leave, he saw a pair of smooth white feet behind a maple tree that looked sober. Taehyung walked slowly to find out the owner of the pair of beautiful legs, and when he saw a woman sleeping under the tree, slowly the corners of her lips were attracted to form a smile. "I'll find you eventually." He muttered, the man crouched down in front of a long, dark-brown girl who was sleeping while hugging a book about design, and there is a name that Taehyung believes is the name of the owner of the book. "So your name is Lee Hyuna? Lee Hyuna, yes..." 

After the meeting, Taehyung often thought about the girl. Even he had time to take a photo of Hyuna who was asleep, sparks of sunlight that illuminated her beautiful face made the photo of Hyuna look like a sleepy mess. The following days, Taehyung always came to the university to meet Hyuna, the girl always dodged because she realized that this man was the boss of her father. He did not want to make a mistake and get his father fired from the company Kim Corporation. Effort after effort Taehyung had done to bring Hyuna in his grasp, but nil, the girl just kept on running away. Until a threat makes Hyuna finally give up, Taehyung does anything to get the girl of his dreams, even in a dirty way like a threat that is not his style at all. 

"What do you want sir?" Lirih Hyuna when Taehyung's bodyguard manages to kidnap Hyuna and take her to a large villa owned by Taehyung. Taehyung grinned as he stroked his lower lip and made Hyuna tremble even more in fear. "You see this?" Taehyung shows a file bearing the name of Lee Hyuna's real father. The girl rounded her eyes when she saw the letter of dismissal for the father, if the father was fired then what was the fate of his family? During this time, his father worked day and night for him because his mother had long since died. Hyuna cried and knelt before Taehyung, the man actually felt unbearable to see Hyuna sitting before him pleading. However, for the sake of getting whatever he wanted, Taehyung had to put in a little effort even in a dirty way. 

"I-I will do anything, but don't treat my father so cruelly. I'm so proud of his work." Hebbed, Taehyung smiled obliquely then crouched down before Hyuna. "So, how? Do you want to be my mistress?" 

After Hyuna accepted the offer, Taehyung often gave luxury items to Hyuna, picked Hyuna up and was always the person behind Hyuna's career success. At first, Hyuna only did everything by force, but after Taehyung had done so much sweet treatment on her that the man actually expressed his feelings when their dating contract ended, Hyun also finally admitted his feelings. During the one year contract, Taehyung and Hyuna only pretend to be in the name of their date just because of the contract. Taehyung who feels prestige to declare his love and Hyuna who secretly loves but does not get the courage to declare love to the boss of the father, can only resign and hold his feelings until the secret ends. 

At that time only Sehun knew Hyuna's feelings for her contract lover, Sehun who felt anxious and like he wanted to beat Taehyungpun could only be Hyuna's protector at the university, because his best friend often gets terror from Taehyung fans. "Yes, the prince of your dreams is coming." Sehun said when he saw Taehyung walking with a bunch of flowers on his right arm, it makes her junior woman feel jealous of Hyuna who every day invited Taehyung and always given something romantic. 

"Sehun-ah, you go. I don't want him to think negatively about you." Sehun sighed and then left. Actually Taehyung already knew Sehun, without Hyuna knowing, because he often got reports from the junior who was his fan, saying that Hyuna was having an affair with Sehun. However Taehyung strongly believed that Hyuna was not such a woman, so he chose to pretend to be calm. "I told you, don't pick me up and bring flowers. You don't see, they've been looking at me like they want to pounce on me." Mumbled Hyuna who was still with an upset look even though she was actually very happy. Taehyung smiled and grabbed Hyuna's arm for her to hold. "I won't let anyone bother you. You're Kim Taehyung's girlfriend, whoever hurt you will deal with me, I'll make sure he doesn't live quietly." Hyuna blinked her eyes looking at Taehyung with a horrible look. "Psycopaths..." With his grunts, Taehyung chuckles and rattles Hyuna's bangs, "Thank you for the compliment dear.." he said making Hyuna even more upset, then they leave.

"Tonight---"

"We're having dinner at my apartment, I've prepared everything for tonight." Taehyung smiled, while Hyuna only kept quiet after Taehyung interrupted her conversation.

"Tonight is our last night together, our contract is up tonight. That means, I will part with you, I will never see you again, feel your warmth again, Kim Taehyung. tonight, I want to say everything I saved this one year." Hyuna said that in her heart, the girl was still at home staring out the window and ignoring Taehyung's gaze at her. 

Tonight, as Taehyung planned. He turned his balcony into a romantic dinner. He has prepared all this specially for tonight. A round table decorated with red roses and tall red candles that make this night even warmer in the midst of Kim Taehyung's romance. The man who was still using the apron smiled while smoking his cigarette on the balcony, his heart even thumped very fast waiting for the presence of his contract lover. "Hyuna, tonight our relationship must end. And starting with a new story, I'm gonna make you the official lover I love so much, tonight we have to change everything." Taehyung stared at his watch again and again, ten minutes had passed from the appointed time, but Hyuna had not come yet. I don't know what he's doing right now. Taehyung tried to contact Hyuna, but there was no reply, until finally the door of her apartment opened, Taehyung turned around and smiled at Hyuna who had just arrived with her thick caot, because tonight, she is still waiting for him, the first snow just came down. Taehyung ran over to get to his girlfriend. 

"Hey, are you okay?" Taehyung asked as he cupped the face of his lover who was very cold, instead of answering, Hyuna night splashed in Taehyung's arms, making the man speechless but still returning Hyuna's arms. "What's going on?" Ask the man.

"Nothing, I just got cold and wanted to make my body warmer. Just stay like this for a minute." Hyuna replied with a slightly quivering tone, she felt scared and was not ready to part with Taehyung. "Well, I'll hold you for longer" Taehyung said, nodding Hyuna. They were soaked in warmth in the midst of this extremely cold weather.

"Alright, it's been ten minutes, stop hugging me and let's eat and get things done quickly." Hyuna sighed as Taehyung said that, what Taehyung really wants to get away from her. This guy even wants to quickly terminate their contract? Honestly, Hyuna was very sad. Taehyung clasped Hyuna's arm and took the girl to the balcony for dinner with her, Hyuna even rounded her eyeballs perfectly, she did not mind what Taehyung did and prepared for tonight. "If you do all this, you'll make it hard for me to forget all about you." Hyuna said with tears in her eyes. Taehyung could not bear to see Hyuna. Before they sat down, Taehyung pulled out a red map and handed Hyuna their papers. 

"I've already signed her hand, it's your turn, Hyuna-yya." 

Hyuna looked at Taehyung with a soft look with a puddle of clear liquid in both of her eyeballs, while Taehyung still looked at her warmly as usual, Hyun finally designed the red map that Taehyung had extended to him earlier and signed the agreement immediately. "I'm done." Unable to continue the dinner, Hyun decided to leave after handing over the map. Hyuna ran out with a cry that she still held making Taehyung surprised and immediately removed the apron and threw away the map and apron and ran after Hyuna. 

"HYUNA-YES...! LEE HYUNA WAITED FOR ME." She screeched as she continued to run, her pursuit stopping when she saw that Hyuna had entered the elevator and closed it before Taehyung managed to catch up with her. Taehyung rubbed his face rudely and clucked in annoyance, even thinking that Hyuna must have wanted to be detached from him so badly, that was why Hyuna immediately ran away after missing the contract that bound her for this one year. "SHIT.." When all the elevators didn't open, Taehyung even punched and kicked the elevator doors, it felt like he wanted to destroy all the elevators in his apartment. Why are there six lifts if none of them can count on? Thought it.

Taehyung stared at the emergency staircase door and then the man looked back at the elevator door that was still not open because it was still on a very far floor. The man finally decided to run using the emergency stairs only. "Hyuna, wait for me. You should listen to me this time." he muttered in the middle of his pursuit. 

"Jose Hyuna..." He muttered after finding Hyuna who was crouching under a maple tree while submerging her face behind the folds of her knees.there was even snow stuck in the hair and coat that Hyuna was wearing. "I'll find you eventually." Taehyung felt dejavu, he recalled the first time he looked at Hyuna's face from up close one year ago, the girl was asleep so Taehyung could freely stare and take a picture of her. But now, the situation was different, even it was night, Taehyung could not see Hyuna's face clearly, Even so Taehyung really recognized Hyuna's stature, so even if it was only in a low lighting place, even so Taehyung was very familiar with Hyuna's stature, Taehyung still knows Hyuna very well. 

"LEE HYUNA.." screeched, Taehyung was just about to run and get closer, but Hyuna asked him not to come closer. "Don't come any closer, I don't want to see you." In other words, Taehyung did not care, the man ended up walking closer to Hyuna and crouched down before the girl who was still hiding her face. Seen as her shoulders trembled, Hyuna was crying at this moment. "Hyuna-ya, raise your face and look at me." 

"No, I don't want to see you again." 

"LEE HYUNA, PLEASE LOOK AT ME!!!" Taehyung clenched both arms and grabbed Hyuna's shoulders, making the girl slowly look up and look at Taehyung faintly as it was under the very minimal lighting of the garden lights. His face was very red, as well as Taehyung's face, they felt cold. Taehyung cupped Hyuna's face that was getting colder than when Hyuna first came to her apartment. "Why did you run? Do you really want to get away from me? Did you never like me? Hyuna-yya.. Did you not like me a little bit?" Hyuna looked at Taehyung with all her shock, the girl shed her tears again. "Taehyung-ah, I-I--"

"I knew our relationship from the beginning was my fault, but I really wanted you to be mine. That's why, I did all of this. To name a contract to represent my greatest desire. I used to be so uninterested in women, I think women would end up ignoring me like my mom did when they got to know the world of business and money. But after I found you for the first time, I changed my perspective on women, you changed my dark life. Hyuna-yya, I like you a lot, even since I first found you one year ago. The feeling became more real when I wanted to have you so much and then I realized that I not only liked you, but I loved you too. Hyuna-yya, I want to terminate this contract, and intend to formalize our true relationship. So, can you stay with me, walk beside me, still belong to the precious Kim Taehyung, even without a contract. Can you like me, Lee Hyuna? I don't want you to go---"

Her speech stopped as Hyuna silenced her mouth with her lips, the girl even closed her eyes while wrapping her arms around Taehyung's neck. Taehyung who was still shocked slowly replied to Hyuna's embrace and closed his eyes and kissed Hyuna again. After a while later, the two let go of each other, Hyuna cupped Taehyung's face and looked into his eyes deeper, looking for a lie in his eyes that he had not actually found. Taehyung smiled and wiped Hyuna's tears gently. "You're scaring me, Kim Taehyung. You know, I think about a lot of things after this contract is over. I'm afraid, we'll never meet again, I'm afraid you'll leave me with another woman, I'm afraid--" 

"Sttt. I promise you, it will never happen. I will never leave you, you must trust me, Lee Hyuna." Hyuna nodded her head understandingly, the two reunited their lips more warm and soft. 

"I love you Lee Hyuna."

"I love you too, Kim Taehyung."

From that night on, their relationship warmed up, nothing changed and everything went smoothly, despite the commotion, but they always finished it very well. Even Taehyung was present at Hyuna's graduation, carrying a flower bucket and many gifts that he prepared for his lover. Hyuna was very happy because Taehyung took the time to come in the middle of her busy life. 

"You didn't forget your promise, did you? Tonight you have to be mine, I've been really looking forward to it for a long time, I want to quickly meet up for the night to eat you." Taehyung's whisper surprised Hyuna to distance herself from Taehyung, while Taehyung just gave her best smile while embracing her lover's slender waist. The camera shot made Hyuna even more upset, how not, the father took aim right when Taehyung teased her, until the result made Hyuna very eager to destroy the handsome face of her lover. In the photo, Hyuna looks surprised while distancing herself from Taehyung, while Taehyung with his looks smiles as if nothing happened. "Basic cheated...!" Taehyung laughed so much, master Lee, while Hyuna still showed her upset face. 

Everything was still perfectly fine until a great calamity was present amidst the warmth of the two. The problems caused by Taehyung's mother caused the warmth to break down, the relationship that had been established for three years was shattered into pieces. Making Hyuna leave behind Taehyung who harbored hatred for Hyuna back then. 

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Hyuna smiled softly at her graduation photo which she said failed because Taehyung teased her so much that she could not focus. The woman smiled as she rubbed Taehyung's face on the photo with her thumb. "I used to think this picture was better destroyed. But now, I feel like I want to go back to that time. Kim Taehyung, I never imagined back then, that you would eventually become my husband."  His monologue stared at Taehyung's handsome face, which looked very young.

***

Taehyung blinked his eyes as he felt his grasp tighten, the man looked at his smiling mother looking at him. Taehyung immediately straightened his seat and looked at the mother with a worried look, "You're all familiar? I'll call doctor--"

"The doctor was here ten minutes ago." Taehyung looked confused, which meant that the mother had been conscious for a long time and she had been asleep for a long time. "You must be so tired, that's why you didn't realize that your mother's been around for so long." Taehyung smiled, it made mistress Kim feel moved for the umpteenth time, first, Taehyung clasped his arm while asleep, even this son had not bothered him for a long time since his father died, then his son smiled at him, it was his first smile after fighting with his mother because of his selfishness. 

"Where's Hyuna?" Taehyung was a little surprised by the mother's question, even though he had warned himself not to discuss Hyuna first and about her foiling his engagement to Irene, given the condition of the mother who is not fully stabi. Taehyung was even worried that his mother was upset and cursed his wife and made him drop even more. "Mother--- You'd better---"

"I want to meet him, I want to apologize to him..."

Taehyung was surprised not to play, whether his mother is now possessed or maybe the doctor gave the wrong dose of medicine to him. This is beyond a doubt. "Lat's Awesome.." His inner.

TBC.