The Padlock of Destiny
Doubts
The story is continuing…
They entered the elevator to get off, the flames of numbers showing the floor through which the elevator kept moving down regardless of the lovers who were still looking friendly.
13>>..12>>..11>>..10>>..09
Suddenly the elevator doors opened before reaching the ground floor of their destination, a man in a black suit stood outside the elevator doors. He pointed the tip of his firearm right at them, unfortunately both of them were late to realize its existence.
DORR!!!
The sound of a single shot rang out bluntly in that small space, leaving behind a smell of gunpowder and fresh blood. The perpetrator who managed to hit his target smiled coldly lowered his M92 mounted silencer weapon, his gaze sweeping across the two before walking away leaving the two leisurely.
Kyuhyun's body froze in place, his brain empty for a while. Only after Hyora's body fell down did her consciousness recover. The hot iron pierced through Hyora's back.
Blood flowed quite profusely from his back, let alone think of chasing after the perpetrator.
His breath was stuck in his throat, as if the air inside the elevator was no longer there. His hand that hugged the girl's hollow body tightly moved slightly checking her breath, making sure that the girl was still alive.
Still alive, his eyes reddened to realize his wet clothes were abundant in deep red liquid.
The sound of footsteps coming from the end of the corridor made the man's body stiffen, did the culprit return? His sharp eyes flashed as he realized who was running towards him.
“Hyung, please Hyora!” Kyuhyun's voice choked as his blurred vision caught Eunhyuk's figure already standing in front of the elevator door with a slight hunting breath.
“Kibum, we are late.. Quickly send ambulance!” Eunhyuk said facing his phone.
...—o0o—...
Kyuhyun POVs.
Here I am, standing in front of the glass window of the apartment ‘kami’ looking frenziedly at the world with gloom. I occasionally glanced at the girl lying unconscious on the bed.
Looks like her face is getting pale. But no, it would risk his life. All I can do now is take care of her at home even though I know it's not enough to just bring in a doctor a few times a month.
The girl was indeed careless, not only her engagement ring was dropped while on a mission. How could he drop that important card in his place on a mission.
“Why did you refuse to take her to the hospital?” Eunhyuk hyung asked weakly.
That day, when he got word from Kibum, he rushed to meet the two. Only, they're late. Not only did they fail to save her, they even let the perpetrator escape.
From the information Kibum investigated, there were several men in black suits who came to target them, but none of them were caught. What a bullshit!
Eunhyuk hyung sighed noticing my behavior. The monkey did come to accompany me here often, whether it was staying overnight or just bringing our needs. She also went shopping monthly for me because I refused to leave Hyora.
We are so grateful to have her, sometimes Eunhyuk hyung comes to cook dinner or help clean the house for us.
“It's too risky." I answered briefly, turning my eyes out the window. Things I've often done unknowingly.
“How can you come late by then?” My voice sounded sharp despite being reluctant to suspect him.
“Kibum tapped their telephones, he said your fiance dropped his identity card there. Imagine how excited I am to run to your apartment. There was a consecutive accident on the south main road, I was forced to turn back.” Clearly with a calm expression, there were no lies in it.
I just fell silent. After years of being a secret agent, anyone can say nonsense without turning on a lie detector. We've studied psycology and micro-expression to survive, I didn't think I'd use this ability on my own.
"You suspect me? If I did betray you, you'd be dead a thousand times!" The man's hiss did not believe.
Yeah, what he said wasn't wrong. That's why I let him into this house. But how else, too many coincidences in this incident.
After thinking clearly, there were a lot of strange things I realized. Although Hyora looked careless, she couldn't possibly be that stupid to the point of carrying her identity card while on a mission.
How can our data be leaked? The identity card does not contain our address. That data can only be obtained from the storage of NI systems, especially NI networks are not school-class systems that can be penetrated by anyone. NI uses state-of-the-art security systems with multiple layers of firewalls and appropriate encryption as a country's security system.
It's impossible to break through it in just 24 hours, unless there's an insider. After hearing of the successive accidents, I think that even if Eunhyuk hyung were to tell the truth, the possibility of it being planned could not be ruled out either.
One more thing, Hyora had clearly promised that she would abort this mission. Something may have happened that made him change his mind, but what was it? To find out, he had to wake up.
“Stupid... Stupid girl!” Fizzle frustrated.
“But they don't seem to know anything about your relationship, for a while you're safe because they think they killed Hyora.” Eunhyuk hyung reminded me, there was no movement after they shot him. Even they just let me go, but why?
“Maybe, for a while.” I'm not sure, if there really is an insider, then we're still not safe.
...—o0o—...
The days passed boringly, it had been several months that the girl had fallen asleep. Is he not tired? I was waiting for him to be tired. Today it's snowing again, December is coming to an end. New year...What should I do today without you? I've been through birthdays, the 2nd anniversary of our engagement and other important days without your smile. This year we should get married and go on vacation as planned.
My daydream was interrupted when I heard the sound of the handpone ringing on the nightstand, looking at the number of the caller, I could only sigh and raise the call in a calm voice.
“Yeoboseo? Eomma..”.
“Kyuhyun-ah, this new year you and Hyora are coming right?” Asked my mother in an enthusiastic voice, it has been more than a year we have not met.
True, our family knows nothing about our work. They only know I'm a stockbroker. If they know, maybe they will overreact to this, just imagine. Even his most professional son-in-law candidates are now lying in a coma in their apartment.
“Aah, I cannot Eomma. Hyora's job also can't be left, maybe next year.” I glanced at the girl.
“You always reason! When are you getting married? Why not register your marriage first. I want to hold my niece right away!” As for the voice of another yeoja louder, my nun.
“Eomma, Nunna, there's another call coming in. I'll visit if there's time. Getting married and having children is only a matter of time. Don't worry!” As soon as.
If their mother and sister are together, their discussion will extend from my marriage to when I come home and continue the family company. Ugh, I used to be uninterested, but if we made it through all this, getting out of NI was a good plan for the future. The girl's fantasy of marrying a company CEO will come true.
"Hows it? Are we just going back and being ordinary people?" I asked slowly, I grabbed the girl's hand and held her lightly. The warm temperature was still felt from his hands.
If you realize, I'll take you home and enjoy the days together. Imagining sitting in an office space with a pile of documents makes me shudder. But compared to gunfire and gunfire, the smell of gunpowder and blood, treachery and loyalty to the state, I'd rather live a dull life to keep you safe. At least you don't have to risk your life on every mission, we don't have to meet and wonder if we can come back alive tomorrow.
Tbc.