December Chapter 48

On the way back to the pension, it was a quiet place with only one car passing on the opposite side of the road, so the hypothesis was that he got a car and had already disappeared. But where? He couldn’t even believe that he couldn’t find him. The dirty feeling he felt when Song Yeonwoo escaped from his hands three years ago came back to him.

Bang, Bang!

In anger, he pressed the horn hard and screamed inside the car, but he could not find any clue as to the whereabouts of Song Yeonwoo, who had disappeared. So when he returned to the pension, more than an hour had already passed. Where the hell did this guy go…His thoughts stopped at the entrance of the pension.

The window was broken and open.

After a while, he realized something and quickly went inside. He walked into the room and looked around with his shoes on. Without even looking closely, he saw the broken laptop on the floor.

“Fuck, you bastard!”

Kangho looked up while holding the remains of his laptop and noticed that one of his paddings was also missing.

Bang!

He threw the laptop piece hard on the floor. Song Yeonwoo was back. Maybe he didn’t go far around here to begin with and he just watched him get out. Since he didn’t have a cell phone, he must have contacted someone using his laptop.

“Ha, fuck, fuck, you fucking bastard!”

His lungs were injured and he couldn’t breathe properly, so he ran around and around, but his anger didn’t go away. He took a deep breath and swung his baton as if trying to break something inside. Suddenly, the phone rang with a loud noise. Cho Sungkyun gasped and was about to throw away his phone, but when he saw the caller’s name, he pressed the call button. It was Choo Kangho.

“Fuck, what’s going on?”

[Sunbae, take Song Yeonwoo and leave that place immediately.]

Kangho hurriedly took out the business first. Cho Sungkyun frowned as he walked out into the living room.

“What are you talking about?”

[Run away immediately. Haa, Kim Shin, Kim Shin is here.]

Cho Sungkyun suddenly stopped moving. Fuck, he squeezed his eyes shut and threw his head back. Fuck, nothing is working out.

“I thought that bastard got on a plane? You said he couldn’t come to Korea for a few days?!”

[Yes, I definitely heard that from Shin’s younger brother. However…Kim Shin deceived his family. He’s in Korea now. That bastard must have noticed something. Kim Shin’s friends made me… Anyway, I can’t talk for a long time right now. Quickly take Song Yeonwoo and go somewhere else before Kim Shin goes there.]

“No, fuck.”

[Sunbae, you think it’s safe there, but it’s not at all. That’s where you’ve always been, right? If he searches around a little, he will quickly find the location.]

“That’s not the problem. Fuck, Song Yeonwoo…he ran away.”

There was no sound on the other end of the phone for a while. After a while, Kangho asked back as if in shock.

[Are you kidding?]

“No.”

[Ha, how can you let Song Yeonwoo go? Could it be that you were knocked out in one hit by that idiotic, recessive Omega?]

Cho Sungkyun just gritted his teeth despite Kangho’s informal criticism. His patience, which was surprising even to him, was due to fear. The moment he heard the name Kim Shin, the memory of being beaten by him came to mind and he trembled as if ice water had been poured on his bones.

“I need a place to hide.”

There was no answer from the other person for a while. Cho Sungkyun was asking him for a favor so he did not overlook the silence.

“Otherwise, I have no choice but to call Kim Shin now and tell him your name.”

It was a while later that I heard Kangho’s answer.

[There is no point in hiding in a place where no one will know. You need to be in a place where Kim Shin can’t touch you, Sunbae.]

“Where?”

[This is where the real Dominant Alphas who will stop Kim Shin gather together. Please come to the top lounge.]

Top lounge? Cho Sungkyun hesitated at Kangho’s suggestion. Isn’t that worse than hiding in a safe place where no one will know?

“But Kim Shin did something last time in front of everyone.”

[It’s different here. No matter how awakened Alpha Kim Shin is, he cannot deal with all the multiple dominant Alphas. They’re not going to just sit by and watch everything that bastard does. Right?]

“…”

[Ha, if you understand, come right away. Right now.]

Kangho spoke quickly, probably because he wasn’t in a position to talk for a long time, and then hung up without listening to Cho Sungkyun’s answer. But even if he had waited for some time, he would not have been able to hear Cho Sungkyun’s answer. Cho Sungkyun was as frozen as ice, staring straight ahead, regardless of whether the call was disconnected or not.

Kim Shin was standing at the front door with the door wide open. Fear washed over Cho Sungkyun’s body like a wave. His entire body seemed to be soaked with fear, and the cold wind coming through the open door made his body tremble like an aspen. Kim Shin quietly looked around him and asked briefly.

“Where is he?”

There were pliers in his hands.

Shin’s stepmother couldn’t believe her son’s words. She then called her husband’s colleague, but when he apparently spoke to Shin, he received the reply that he was on the plane, he said.

‘It was over 30 minutes after takeoff. I couldn’t talk on the phone after that, but the plane isn’t a train and there’s no way Shin would get off midway. Do not worry.’

The colleague laughed, but the son completely believed the words of his senior, Kangho, and became anxious.

“What if he lied but wasn’t on the plane? Mom, try calling Kim Shin again.”

She had already called Kim Shin several times to complain about her son’s behavior, but there was no response.

“Your Sunbae named Kangho said he didn’t even see him? Your friends might have made a mistake.”

Although she reassured her son and sent him back to his room, she also could not easily calm her anxiety. She did and that was when she tried to call for the sixth time. The signal stopped and a voice was heard.

[Yes.]

Goosebumps crawled up my body like a snake at Kim Shin’s voice. He has to be on the plane, right? Why, why are you answering the phone? 

[Please speak.]

His voice, no different from his usual one, sent her into a puddle of goosebumps.

“How? How do you answer the phone if you’re on the plane?”

[Why did you call me if you knew I was on the plane?]

His voice sounded terrible, like the hiss of a snake.

“You really didn’t get on the plane?”

There was no answer for a moment. But it didn’t feel like a silence in chagrin. Strangely enough, even though she couldn’t see him, she could hear Kim Shin’s menacing laughter in the silence, and she almost dropped her phone. After a while, a short answer was heard.

[No. I was on it.]

“That is…What do you mean? You were on the plane? Where are you now?”

He answered obediently this time too. However, the place he mentioned was 2 hours away from Seoul.

[Is there anything more to say?]

Why? Why didn’t you get on the plane? Why did you lie and fool everyone? Perhaps because there were so many questions, she couldn’t get a single one out of my mouth. Instead, she heard Kim Shin’s voice.

[I will hang up.]

He added with a chuckle, unlike his previous calm voice.

[Say hello to Kim Choohwan. Hyung is coming to visit him soon.]

As soon as the call went off, she dropped the phone from her trembling hands. It wasn’t just her hands that were shaking. Eyes covered with fear wavered wildly like a candle in the wind.

Cho Sungkyun didn’t know anything, but Kim Shin discovered something important in the information he said.

‘With a laptop…I don’t know what he did. He was waiting for me to leave…I came in and ugh! Uh…All I know is he used a laptop…I really don’t know what happened next. This is a place where cars don’t travel often. He can’t leave until he calls a taxi… Ugh…Cars were going out, but there were only a few…’

“There is nothing I can check on Cho Sungkyun’s laptop right now. The hard drive is badly broken. I don’t know if I can leave it to a professional, but it will take a long time.”

A friend who followed Kim Shin explained while looking at the laptop and asked him.

“What are you going to do?”

Kim Shin looked outside without saying a word and then left. The friend hurriedly chased after him and saw Kim Shin removing the black box memory from Cho Sungkyun’s car. His friend silently helped him check the black box. As Cho Sungkyun said, there were almost no cars passing on the road shown on the screen.

However, as Sungkyun Cho’s car approached the village entrance, there was only one car passing in the opposite lane. It was a taxi. Although the screen passed quickly, I could vaguely see the car’s license plate when the headlights illuminated it.

“Do you think he was in that car?”

Kim Shin nodded his head at his friend’s words and went to his car. His friend followed him and pointed inside the pension.

“What about Cho Sungkyun? Shouldn’t we deal with Cho Sungkyun first?”

“Take him to the lounge and wait.”

Kim Shin seemed to be trying to find Song Yeonwoo first. But what surprised his friend was the word lounge. He laughed as if in shock.

“Hey, are you really going to do this in front of everyone?”

Kim Shin got into the car and disappeared without saying anything, but his friend looked at the missing car for a while, scratched his head, and turned around.

“It’s going to be a mess.”