"Hey, when are you coming back?" Taehyung watched Mina and Lily enter the trees. "Monday." he replied to Jimin, tapping his back on his phone. "How's Mina?" Jimin was holding him back, and Taehyung didn't want to talk at all, he wanted to kidnap his wife back to the bedroom, but she had insisted on spending the day with Lily after staying in the room and in bed all day yesterday.
He smiled to himself. His fingers clenched convulsively, remembering the feeling of her naked body beneath them. They had spent all yesterday  having sex and sleeping, and Taehyung couldn't wait to repeat the exercise. The thought that they only had tomorrow made him even more impatient to want this one over so he could have it back in his hands. "Taehyung?" Jimin's voice tore him from his thoughts. "It's good, very very good!" he grinned. His gaze followed Mina and Lily disappearing between the trees, and he wondered if he should follow them, but gave up, relaxing in his chair.

"Slow down, pumpkin, the stream won't run away!" Mina smiled. It was hard for her to keep up with Lily, her body still numb after spending all day in bed with Taehyung yesterday.
Not that Lily listened to her at all, she shook her head and made her way through the bushes. Lily immediately squatted by the stream, clapping merrily on the surface of the water. "Watch out, Lily!" Mina warned her and looked around. She picked out a fallen tree and sat on it, watching the child, who was now digging the sand with a stick and muttering something to herself.
Leaning back slightly, she rested her hands on the trunk and closed her eyes, enjoying the sunshine that penetrated the green young leaves of the tree crowns and gently caressed her face. Given the last few weeks, she really needed this break. Mina knew that Taehyung felt a little neglected, and his behavior yesterday had proven it. She bit her lip at the memory of the things he had done to her and felt the warmth spill into her stomach.
"M ... mom!" Lily's weeping voice made her raise her head sharply, narrowing her eyes at the sun. Her breath caught in her throat and she jumped to her feet. Her eyes widened at the sight of the three men behind Lily. One pressed her mouth, preventing a possible attempt by the little girl to scream and call for help.
"If you are obedient, no one will be harmed, ma'am!" the man on the left approached her and she took a step back, but hit the log.
"Let her go!" Mina stumbled as her eyes moved feverishly between the man and Lily, who dared not move, clutched in the arms of the man who pressed her to his chest. She hung helplessly, staring at Mina in tears.
"We don't need her, ma'am, as long as you follow us voluntarily." the man approaching was now two steps away from her, watching her intently. Mina tried to recognize the voice, but it didn't remind her of anyone she'd met. The black masks, with only holes for the eyes and mouth, hid their faces and made recognition completely impossible.
"Okay, just let her go!" the man turned and looked at the other, nodding slightly, and he let Lily get to her feet, but wouldn't let her go. "Let her go, or I'll scream!" Mina hissed, pressing her hands to her chest. "Ma'am, don't make things more complicated, he'll let her go when we move away." the man reached for her. "No, let her go or you'll have to kill me to catch me!" Mina kept her eyes on the terrified Lily. The child's pale face tightened on her throat, and she frantically considered how to free her. Lily wept softly, writhing, but for her small body, the two huge arms around her were an insurmountable barrier. Mina couldn't fight the three of them, even if she wanted to. And if she went with them before they let Lily go, there was no guarantee they would do it at all.
Mina realized what a mistake she had made while watching only the frightened Lily for too long, when one hand covered her mouth and nose with a rag and she took a deep breath to scream. But the rag muffled her cries. Her eyes widened in horror as she watched the man squeezing Lily turn her over and slap her, and the child slumped to the ground.
The man pressing the rag to her mouth pulled her and pressed her, a pungent odor penetrated her nostrils and her head pounded. Mina tried to fight, but her eyesight slowly blurred, her tears soaked into the fragrant rag, and her body began to relax against her will.

Taehyung put down the phone and sighed. He frowned at his watch, Lily and Mina lingered too long. With a heavy sigh, he got up and headed in the direction they were headed.Making his way through the trees and bushes, he struggled to find the stream Mina and Lily had told him about.
Taehyung stepped out into a small clearing and looked around. "Where are they?" he thought, and had just decided to go the other way to look for them when his eyes saw something on the ground.
"Lily!" for a second he was beside her, lifting her into his arms. He checked her breathing and looked around confused.
"What the hell! Where's Mina?" Taehyung patted Lily lightly on the cheeks. "Sweetie?" he gritted his teeth at the sight of the red imprint on her cheek. Mina hit her? No, impossible! "Lily?" the child slowly opened his eyes, but jumped in horror, and Taehyung almost dropped her. "Mom?" her small hands pressed against his shoulders as she muttered, still looking around in fright. "Dad ... they ..." Taehyung tensed. "Lily, where's mom?" he asked softly, feeling a bitter taste in his mouth. "They ..." Lily couldn't help but say, snorting as she curled up in his arms, still looking around the meadow and the woods. "For God's sake, Lily, look at me!" he crouched down and let her go, forcing her to look at him. "Where's Mom, Lily, who hit you?" Taehyung tried to sound calm so as not to scare her further but the discomfort in his chest grew stronger, and the scenarios his mind drew made him lose patience. His daughter cried loudly, shaking her head. "Three ... they ..... they .... he hit me ..." torn, she tried to tell her father, but in her childish heart, fear lifted her evil face, preventing her from connecting the words in a sentence.
"Sweetheart ..." Taehyung tried to calm her down, wiping away her tears. "Try to calm down." He hugged her as she tried to continue, but he understood only "Three" and "They," but whatever. it was "Three," it had driven Lily's mind to the point of hysteria, and it had made Mina leave the child alone and unconscious in the middle of the woods.
Taehyung realized that there was no way he could make Lily speak right now. His daughter was shaking, crying in his arms, as she repeated the same thing. He picked her up again and, without wasting time, turned and headed for the hut. He had to reassure her first and make sure she was safe, and then find out where his wife was. Whatever had happened, Mina would not have voluntarily abandoned Lily or hit her, no matter what she did. She wouldn't just abandon them. Perhaps the "Three" that Lily kept repeating was the number of people she had probably met. But where is Mina and why would anyone hit Lily? The only conclusion was that Mina had been abducted. As small as it was, at least he was reassured that they hadn't taken Lily, which would have complicated Mina's situation. She wouldn't allow anything to happen to the child, and she would probably fight harder to aggravate her situation.