A/N:- This book ends in 2 chapters and I'm so excited because you're gonna get all the answers soon. Please don't hate me because it gets a bit depressing...

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"Congratulations on achieving more haters than a popular K-pop band," Jungkook said while extending his hand towards me and I caught on by slipping my fingers in his. He did a congratulatory handshake and I carried on with his play.

"So, the reason why her husband was mad at you was because you adopted their child?" I had a lingering feeling in the back of my head that I wasn't decoding the situation correctly so I placed my queries forward.

"I think it was mostly because..." Jungkook started but I had to stay for 10 seconds to hear the next part of the story. "...he's Taehee's biological father." If this was a scene in a movie, this would be the part where the camera capture the close-ups and the background music goes off. 

"But... Taehee was adopted from an... orphanage and Minhee...? What about her...?" My sentence came out in broken fragments as the truth caught me completely offhand

"Sora and I were together and around the same time she got pregnant but before she gave birth to Taehee, we broke off as I proposed to Minhee." My eyes found their way to Taehyung's when he spoke, aiming to find any signs of untruthfulness, but he just switched his focus to the floor again. 

"Wait," I uttered before moving on to the real element. "You broke up with Sora because you proposed to Minhee all the while knowing that you had Sora pregnant? Were you right, Jungkook? Do I really not know him enough and he is not the... nice guy?" I thought I said that mentally but they could hear me clearly. I took a step away from the man I tried to protect just to know that he abandoned his baby and girlfriend. 

Taehyung had to hear the same reality again but from a new accuser. I couldn't look at him because his face would have made me believe against the truth again. The silence towered us while we stood there blankly. "So, I guess it's over here? Y/N, you won't bring this topic up ever again and you are not going to secretly meet up with any of his friends, I hope that's clear." Jungkook declared a dismissal but no one turned around to leave.

"But... That still doesn't justify Minhee's death." I asked the last question and hoped to hear an apologetic reply from Taehyung. Now that I knew the partial story, I feared that he could be correct. 

"Stop—" Jungkook furiously replied but he was cut off by Taehyung who spoke up simultaneously. 

"Y/N," Taehyung's voice cracked. More than humiliated, he was sorry for his unforgivable offense. "It was me who caused her death. Blame me—"

"That's it, Taehyung! I can not keep doing this anymore. I hope Minhee knows that I'm really sorry." Jungkook held his head in frustration while the raise of decibels in his tone startled us. "Minhee wanted me to keep this a secret but I can not see you like this, Taehyung!"

"Calm... down." I hesitantly said the words after seeing how miserable and broken Jungkook appeared. It could have been avoided if I didn't force them to tell me about it.

"I really am hopeless for trusting." Jungkook threw back his head while Taehyung and I tried to calm down but we didn't have a plan. "You weren't the one to be blamed, Taehyung. It wasn't you." I stopped rubbing Jungkook's palm to look up at his pretty face stained with tears. 

Taehyung held back his breath with surprise, unlike the confusion or shock we expected. "How do you know that?"  He sighed without questioning anything and we prepared ourselves for another story. 

A day before Minhee's death...

Taehyung's PoV

I watched her slowly lift a spoon to her mouth and smile at me as if she won a battle. "Look, I finished it!" She put aside all her etiquettes and said with a mouth filled with the last bite of rice she had. "Now you can ask that nurse to fuck herself. I'm eating well, you saw me finish that huge bowl of rice! She got you all worried for no reason."

I didn't reply to that and lifted the bed table to keep it back at its usual place. I gave her a clean cloth and she made a derp face after wiping her face. I snorted while she leaned out and pouted, waiting for me to peck her as a daily routine. I cupped her face after the gentle peck and asked, "Minhee, is there something you have to tell me?" 

It wasn't just about her shouting at people who forced her to eat well but also the fact that she still didn't mention the abortion to me. "C'mon, are you still mad at me because that bitch said I don't eat? I had an apple earlier so I was full, that's it. I tell you everything, Tae!" She wrapped her hands around my neck and whined. 

"Oh, you don't. You didn't tell me about the abortion." I couldn't be patient with her anymore but I wished I remained quiet for longer. Her grip loosened and the monitor showing her heartbeat beeped continuously with the growing heart rate. "I-I'll go and call a d-doctor!"

"No, wait, don't!" Her breath shortened and she gulped a lump formed in her throat. Her chest heaved and the beeping of the monitor rang louder in my ears. "Pass the water bottle." 

I stood motionlessly between the way to the door and her. The beeping of the monitor and her voice numbed my brain, stopping me from processing well. "I'll call the doctor." 

"Fuck you, just pass the damn bottle, Taehyung!" She yelled before trying to get the water herself but somehow, my brain followed her. She was having a panic attack. After practicing breathing steadily and gulping down some water, she physically looked calmer though the machine still noted a raise in heartbeat. "I'm sorry for cursing at you..." 

"No, it's alright. I was acting dumb anyways." I admitted and looked down at my feet. Her hand took mine and she looked at me with an unfiltered emotion. 

She wasn't smiling and it didn't give off good signals. "About the abortion..." She trailed off but her last reaction scared me enough to never talk about it again.

"Leave it, we don't have to..." I abruptly cut her off and looked away. It might have appeared as if I did that because I was mad at her but I just didn't want her to see me cry.

"We have to." She cupped my face. The gentle touch forced me to look at her and it took all in me to hold back my tears.

"This can wait," I closed my eyes and leaned my head against our intertwined hands to suppress my curiosity and pain but it only made them more vivid.

"But I can't." I shot opened my eyes to look at her. "We don't know if I'll be alive tomorrow or after an hour or after a minute." She stated the bitter words without caring about how they left me devastated. 

"Don't say that! Doctor Song said he'll treat you. You'll be fine soon, love." I was just repeating the words I told myself. I had been comforting myself with the hope for so many times that instead of using it as a distraction, I made myself live it.

She scoffed. "Ask me, Tae, I can feel my end approaching me every passing second—anyways, let's not talk about this." She stopped after noticing me bury my face in my hands and sob. Her hand ran through my hair affectionately. "You can't live while running away and making yourself happy by believing something that isn't true."

"What if that brings me comfort?" I asked because it was always easy to sit back and comment but if she was in my shoe, she would have done the same thing. "Would you have let me go so easily if I was dying?"

I have been running for so long in this race that winning is not the ultimate goal anymore. I run to not face the reality of my situation.

"I already am, Tae! You're not the only one who'll lose me if I die, I'll lose you too! It is true that you'll have to learn to live without me and raise our daughter all by yourself." She was always good at arguing and it was hard to win against her and she proved herself again. "And indeed, it is true that I had an abortion and I didn't tell you anything about it."

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A/N:- Hey people!
So, the next chapter has it all revealed but you'll have to wait for it a little as... I may or may not undergo an eye surgery. It just came up so unexpectedly right before my exams got over. I'm scared and tensed about it but hopefully it'll go all smoothly. Wait for my comeback, y'all! Stay healthy and happy!