I've Been Possessed, But What If I Get Pregnant First? - C43
#43
“Where is that place?”
It was the first time since presenting as an alpha that Taebeom felt his pheromones going wild so recklessly. He couldn’t control his emotions since finding out Yuwon was gone.
“I asked where that place is.”
Seolah felt discomfort at Taebeom’s sharp pheromones, but understanding his state of mind, she held it in.
“Well… he said it’s a place where you can see the ocean. I think it was written in the counseling records too. But I need my luggage at the main house for that.”
“I’ll have someone escort you.”
“Thank you.”
Having achieved her goal, Seolah left the study with Junseok. Taebeom messed up his neatly styled hair, thinking of Yuwon.
“Cha Yuwon.”
The air around Taebeom felt icy cold as he quietly called Yuwon’s name with bleak eyes.
***
“Sigh… Are they all gone now…?”
I peeked my head out from the pile of blankets gathered on one side of the storage room and surveyed the surroundings. Someone had approached the storage room, so I had hurriedly hidden here. When someone actually entered the storage room, I thought my heart would explode from possibly getting caught.
While holding my breath like that, I accidentally fell asleep. It’s not that I was particularly sleepy, but being wrapped in cozy blankets all around, how should I say it… It felt like a cradle, so….
“Ahem.”
Feeling embarrassed, I slowly extracted myself from the pile of blankets and checked the situation outside the door.
“Looks like they’re really all gone…?”
When I slightly opened the door and poked my head out, the corridor, which looked as if something had swept through it, was chillingly quiet. The stinging sensation on my skin was now gone and my heart had calmed down a bit too.
“Baby, let’s run away from Daddy now.”
I fixed my swollen eyes from crying too much and left the storage room. I was sneaking towards the emergency exit like a cat when-
“Cha Yuwon?”
At the sound of someone calling me from behind, my whole body stiffened.
I- I got caught already? In less than a day?
I quickly gathered my wits and recalled the vital point striking techniques Taebeom had taught me.
Throat, solar plexus, crown of the head. Ah, a man’s, that place. What else was there?
“What brings you here?”
Huh…? Wasn’t he here to catch me…?
I turned my head at the slightly strange reaction and saw I-jun there.
“Oh… I-jun?”
I-jun, whom I hadn’t seen in a while, looked very haggard as if he had been through a tough time. Still, he asked with a glad face:
“It is you, Yuwon. What brings you here?”
“Oh… What about you…?”
I looked around to see if there was anyone else besides I-jun, but fortunately there was no one. I-jun shrugged.
“Ah, this is my father’s hospital.”
“…What?”
Forget a golden spoon, this is a full-on diamond spoon! As I gaped, I-jun scratched the back of his head as if embarrassed and said:
“What about you? Is someone you know hospitalized here?”
Right then, I had the illusion of a halo shining behind I-jun.
I found it. A way to escape!
With an urgency, I grabbed I-jun’s hand and opened my mouth with pitiful eyes.
“I-jun, please help me.”
Recalling the #1 rule of obsessive jerks, Taebeom would definitely check the CCTV first. After that, he would post people at every door to look for me. That’s what he did when the female lead ran away in the original, so his subordinates were probably at the entrances by now.
Fortunately, it seemed Taebeom hadn’t found me yet because this was a CCTV blind spot, but I was at a loss for how to get out of the hospital from now on. But at this critical moment, I-jun appeared just like this. I pulled along the dumbfounded I-jun.
“Phew…. This will do.”
I brought I-jun back to the storage room and locked the door tightly. He asked with a dumbfounded face:
“What on earth is going on?”
“I’ll explain that once we get out of here first.”
I-jun furrowed his brow with an expression that he couldn’t understand. I felt so bad for dragging I-jun, who had nothing to do with this, into it, but I had no choice. Still, Taebeom wouldn’t kill I-jun, right? He might kill me and the baby. Thinking that made me feel gloomy. As I made a tearful face as if I would burst into tears at any moment, I-jun spoke to me with a flustered look.
“Okay, I get it. I just have to help you, right? How should I help…?”
“I-jun… Thank you, really.”
This is touching, seriously. I’ll buy you 10 tubs of Haagen-Dazs later, no, 100 tubs.
Vowing to myself, I pulled out the cart I had seen earlier and piled blankets on top of it. I hid my body inside and whispered to I-jun.
“I-jun, pile more blankets on top of me so I’m not visible!”
“O- Okay….”
***
Rattle-
As the sound of the cart echoed in the quiet corridor, security guards in black suits approached here and there. But seeing I-jun’s face, they let him pass without any suspicion. Do they all recognize the face of the hospital director’s son? Anyway, I giggled to myself at the true free pass. We safely left the hospital and headed down to the underground parking lot where his car was, when I-jun couldn’t hold back and asked me:
“But why are you doing this?”
“Actually, I’m running away right now.”
“What? Running away?”
“I-jun, shh, shh.”
At the suddenly raised decibel, I hurriedly told I-jun to lower his voice.
“What do you mean running away all of a sudden? Did you run away from home too?”
As I-jun spoke to me with his head lowered, I slightly stuck my head out from the pile of blankets and continued:
“Not running away from home but… Anyway, there’s a situation like that. But I-jun, can I ask one more favor?”
“What is it now…?”
At I-I-jun’s slightly trembling voice, anxious about what favor I would ask this time, I grinned.
“Can you send a letter for me?”
“A letter…?”
“Yes, there’s something I must tell them. First, please get me out of the hospital safely.”
“……….”
“Then I’ll be quiet now. You too, shh!”
At the sound of someone approaching, I quickly curled my body into a ball. Perhaps adapted to the situation now, I-I-jun calmly and meticulously covered me with blankets. I got in I-I-jun’s car and safely shook off Taebeom and his subordinates, escaping the hospital. Recalling the route I had thought of in advance, I asked I-I-jun to drop me off at a nearby subway station.
“I-I-jun, thank you so much! If it weren’t for you, I really… Anyway! I’ll repay this favor later for sure.”
“You’re not in any real danger or anything, right?”
“No, no. I’ve actually escaped from danger now.”
That’s right. Now that it’s come to this, it’s a good thing. Let’s raise our baby well! Before getting out of the car, I told I-I-jun:
“Ah, and about the letter I mentioned earlier, you just need to get an envelope and send it to the address written here.”
I tried to write neatly, letter by letter, in the rattling car, but looking at the finished letter, it was worse than a five-year-old’s scribbles. Rather than a letter, it looked like a memo hurriedly scrawled on scrap paper. Still, as long as the content is clearly conveyed, that’s what matters.
As time passed, I-jun’s eyes and mouth that glanced at the paper I handed him grew bigger and bigger. Just seeing I-I-jun’s reaction made me feel so refreshed imagining how Taebeom would react when he read this letter.
That’s right, Taebeom. Live well and prosper with Seolah, you son of a bitch!
I was getting out of the car with a big smile when I-I-jun asked again if it was really okay to send it like this. Of course it’s okay. That’s why I’m sending it.
“Yes, you can really send it just like that. Anyway, see you later. I’ll treat you to a meal!”
Pulling the hat I borrowed from I-jun low, I bid him a final farewell and turned my back. The destination was set. My heart pounded at the sight of the airport in the distance as a plane flew overhead. It was truly a masterstroke that I had saved up some cash little by little with Taebeom’s card, knowing this would happen.
Actually, it was money I saved up for surgery.
‘Baby, I’m sorry. But I’ll use this money to protect you. I’m sorry for thinking that way again.’
Rubbing my belly with a regretful heart, I entered the airport. But now that I had money, I felt a bit more at ease. After all, the most important thing when running away wasn’t stamina, perseverance, or planning, but money.
‘Mr. Taebeom, I’ll consider this money child support for our baby.’
Thinking of Taebeom’s face, I pulled the hoodie over the hat I had tugged low. And finally, I pressed and held the power button on my cell phone, then tossed it in the trash can.
Clang-
A cheerful sound rang out and I smiled with a satisfied face.
***
“What about Yoon Seolah?”
“It seems it will take a bit more time to find. The records are extensive and old, so they’re difficult to search through.”
Taebeom’s expression was fiercer than ever as he looked at the extremely tense Junseok. Seolah had clearly said earlier that Yuwon seemed to have gone to the ocean. The ocean… Our country was surrounded by ocean on three sides. Where on earth would he find Cha Yuwon? Moreover, there was no certainty that Cha Yuwon had gone to the ocean. Taebeom raised one corner of his mouth in a situation that was almost laughable and leaned back in his chair.
“I got it, so you can leave now.”
Junseok, who had barely managed to read the room under the overwhelming pressure that made it hard to even breathe properly, hurriedly left the study. Left alone, Taebeom habitually brushed off the lingering cigarette smell on his body.
Cha Yuwon. In the end, Cha Yuwon had run away from him. He already knew that behind the awkward smile he made while gauging Taebeom’s mood, Yuwon was afraid of him.
He also knew that even on that rainy day, Yuwon had used the excuse of delivery food but tried to run away from him. That’s why he had been more and more careful, not knowing when Yuwon would try to run away again, but in the end….
“I already let you go once. You’re the one who came back on your own, Cha Yuwon.”