Anya stayed primly seated in the breakfast table in a daze, her mind buzzing with a lot of thoughts. She let herself soak in it all, not trying to speed it up.

Too many times she kept getting the strange feeling, it was high time she sorted out just what was bothering her.

At least, that option was better than going in nonsensical circles, trying to make head or tails of the incident that happened 20 minutes ago.

Lets start from the time I came here. Nothing outwardly weird ever happened which was exactly why figuring out the abnormality hidden behind the unknown fold was causing an itch which could not be scratched.

For the time being, Anya had kept the phone disconnected, not wanting to be disturbed.

The Telephone. . .

When her glance flicked on the object, the fine hairs on her neck stood straight when what she wanted to unravel, hit her suddenly.

She felt a chill going down the spine when she finally figured out what kept niggling and bothering her whenever she talked to Joon.

Grabbing the table in front of her, Anya leaned on it when following that realization, seemingly small random things started making sense as well.

Small, inconspicuous things.

Things that definitely could be explained logically, yet things, that should NOT need explanations to begin with.

"But if its true then-" Anya shook her head, trying to get rid of the guess she had. The problem was, this horrible thought had settled in and clicked with all the strangeness she had seen, seamlessly blending in with the events of the past.

Explaining all the oddities.

"NO!" Anya stood up, head blank, she started taking to herself, "No. don't. Don't think about it, no need to!"

Tae Sun wanted to see her??

Irony was, that it was she who needed to know.

Anya hurried towards the phone and kept the receiver properly on the handle, then stood there, staring at it.

She was such a mess inside that she did not even know what she was waiting for? For it to ring? Or for it to transform.

"No. no. Even if this all fits, there is logic that can lead to the same scenario."

But, on the other hand, the one thing she had been thinking of came to fruition. With these small matters, the coincidences now did become too eerie to ignore.

She could no longer keep denying it.

Deciding on not wasting any more time, Anya grabbed her purse and walked out of the main door.

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30 MINUTES AGO

KANG FAMILY HOUSE :

When Kang Ryong and Jong Gi arrived at the front reception hall of their house, swarmed by servants who were holding up their coats, the car keys, their hat, all of them collectively got distracted when they saw a car coming sedately from their main gate.

Recognising that car to be Jae Hoon's, Jong Gi looked perplexed, "Then Anya was panicking over nothing?" he murmured.

The oncoming car stopped in front of the stairs of the main door, beyond which the father and son pair were standing.

For a few minutes, the door of the vehicle did not swing open, even though everyone could see Jae Hoon sitting inside.

"Something is wrong with him." Kang Ryong was the first one to spot it, "Why does he appear so frightened?"

"More than that," Jong Gi held his father's forearm and together started taking a few steps back, "Although the outdoor temperature is hot, it does not warrant the way Jae Hoon is sweating."

That was when, Jae Hoon finally turned his face towards them still seated in the car. Everyone, including the servants, were shocked at what they saw.

Jae Hoon, was weeping heavily.

"What in the name of a sissy fit is he-"

With a pop, the door opened, but even before if swung wide enough to let Jae Hoon step down, all of them heard a cry, "HELP ME! PLEASE HELP ME! PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME!"

The person shouting this was none other than Jae Hoon himself.

While Jae Hoon indeed kept screaming hysterically, his actions were actually calm and controlled. He stepped down from the car in measure, gracefully stepped forward and closed the door. Then, step by step, without any hurry, he walked forward.

In his right hand, a huge scissor was held nonchalantly.

His face was crumpled with a petrifying fear. He was sobbing, tears and snot running down, his eyes expressing a horrible abyss of fright that he was banging hard to escape.

He screamed, he sobbed out again with heart numbing panic, all the while walking forward elegantly, "PLEASE HELP ME!! I WANT TO STOP!! I CANT STOP!! I CANT CONTROL MY BODY!!! PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE HELP ME!!"

The whole scene was truly shocking.

The servants bumped each other in their haste to scramble backwards, Jong Gi and Kang Ryong too desperately trying to create distance between them, "What the hell are you doing you lunatic?!?! GET AWAY FROM HERE!" Jong Gi shouted at Jae Hoon.

Step by step, Jae Hoon's feet climbed the stairs, his stride composed but his wailing got worse, "NO, NO PLEASE, I SWEAR TO YOU! PLEASE JUST HELP ME!"

"STOP HIM AT ONCE!!" Kang Ryong shouted at the scattered maids and guards.

The contrast between the elegant approach to the man's expression, created an illusion of a puppet walking down the path to destroy someone, controlled by a violent Monster.

It was too eerie, it was downright scary.

"JONG GI PLEASE." Jae Hoon's pathetic wails induced goosebumps in all present at the scene. Before the guards could nab him, his right hand holding the scissors raised itself high while he himself screamed, "NOOOOOOOO!!! PLEASE SOMEONE STOP ME!! PLEASE! AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!"

Thud.

The hand, with the tips of the scissor pointed, swiftly plunged down to his own thighs, the thick metal piercing his flesh and striking the bone.

That jarring impact, that sound, pinned everyone to the spot they were standing on.

Blood sprayed around from the stab, falling on the ground in dark splotches.

Jae Hoon's hand, gripped the scissors tight, then to the horror of each pair of eyes trained on him, ripped the metal savagely out from his thighs.

"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"

"What is this" Kang Ryong whispered, terrified, as Jae Hoon fell down in front of him, "what is this? What is happening?"

Because it was crystal clear to all who witnessed it, that Jae Hoon, was not controlling what his hand did.

The tip of the blades had a little chunk of flesh attached to it, the pants Jae Hoon was wearing, rapidly becoming wet with blood, the fluid pooling slowly on the floor.

"AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

His screams did not stop, when his hands raised itself again.

Jong Gi fell down on his butt while trying to back away, eyes big with terror, he used his hands to crawl backward on the floor while shrieking, "WHAT ARE YOU GUYS DOING??? TAKE HIM AWAY!! THROW HIM OUT!!"

THUD.

The blade of the scissors plunged in again, almost at the same spot.

Jae Hoon's cry of pain echoed far and wide when he stabbed himself hard, again.

The violent and brutal scene caused many of the servants to faint, while few screamed and ran away.

Kang Ryong himself was traumatised, his heart attempting to jump out of his chest. But nothing could break them with mind numbing horror as much as when Jae Hoon, while still screaming, started laughing as well.

Jae Hoon looked straight at Kang Ryong, his eyes almost red, in a face swept with tears, a sinister smirk bloomed.

Then he took out the scissor again, but kept of laughing, causing Jong Gi to cry in fear.

The laughter stopped suddenly, when the scissors stabbed in his thighs again. Jae Hoon's gaze turned to the Jong Gi, who by now was whimpering with fear, "Don't you know better than to dare to touch my Little Fruit?"

THUD

THUD

THUD

The blades kept plunging in, then being taken away, the flesh hole becoming deeper and bigger, the bone starting to become visible, the blood flowing freely now.

Hearing him, Ryong felt the liquid blood in his veins turn into ice, his back covered with sweat while he felt his vision blackening. It was too much. There before him sat a bloody man who kept stabbing with the big blade of scissors, hacking away his flesh, his blood splattering everywhere, amidst the terrified screams of running and chaos.

The man then turned his crazed eyes to Ryong, and smiled wide with bloody teeth, having bitten his tongue in pain. His hands raised the scissor again, and hacked into the mangled mess of flesh of his thighs and coldly asked, "Dear Uncle, Did you miss me?"

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ANYA :

When Anya reached the Kang House, the house seemed especially deserted. The guards of the main gate led her in after she paid the taxi.

Everything seemed normal.

But she couldn't exactly feel normality as a blessing. "Tae Sun has been asking for me?" Anya did not wait for the pleasantries when the butler appeared, "Take me to meet him."

The Butler was one of the few who had not been present when Jae Hoon had visited, so he did not quite understand what exactly had disturbed his master to the point of them collapsing.

Not wanting to disturb them, he directly took her to Tae Sun's room, knocked on the door and announced, "Ms. Anya is here to visit you sir."

"Anya?? Anya is here??" Tae Sun ordered right away, "Let her come in immediately!! Go away then!!"

The surprised look of the Butler did not escape Anya's notice. It seemed So Hyun was right when he said that Tae Sun was not allowing anyone else to enter.

Nodding as a thank you for his assistance, Anya opened the door and walked in. the whole room was cluttered and trashed.

Clothes, dishes, broken bottles were thrown on the floor as if someone going through a major tantrum. Ignoring it all, Anya went to meet the figure sitting on the bed, his bright eager eyes happily welcoming her. His shirt was askew, his hair uncombed, a shadow of stubble on his face.

Tae Sun indeed looked insane.

"Anya! ANYA! I really could not stop the car!! I tried the brakes, it did not work!! The steering wheel did not turn and you know something??? Right before I crashed, the speed of the car increased by itself!!!!"

Like a mindless child babbling out all that he had experienced, Tae Sun spoke in a high pitch, not even waiting for her to be seated. Anya, was calm about what Tae Sun spoke of. It was the same as what So Hyun conveyed.

And she, was not here for that.

"Tae Sun." she gripped his hands, not caring that it was attached to the IV or did not much glance at his two legs in plaster because judging by Tae Sun's unfocused eyes and silly smile, she was afraid that he could not be pushed to remain lucid enough for her to know.

And she needed to know.

"You wanted to tell me something regarding Namjoon, right-"

"NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!" Tae Sun's face twisted as he shouted, madly looking around the room, "HE IS NOT HERE! HE IS NOT HERE!"

In the face of his reaction to just Joon's name, Anya felt more and more heavy. The guesses she did not want to be reality were cementing itself against her pleas.

She sat down beside Tae Sun, then slapped him hard. "Tae Sun. what did you want to tell me about Namjoon!"

Receiving that blow, Tae Sun owlishly blinked at Anya, his hand cradling his face, "Oh. Okay."

Anya at the same time, started recalling the coincidences she connected with, as Tae Sun started talking.

"A year ago, Namjoon announced suddenly that he was going to sell off all of our divisions which we had inherited. He wanted to decrease the size of the company, get rid of sectors that he alone by himself could not handle. Since his shares are in majority, he has the power to do so. He had everything in its place, all that was needed to be done was the announcement in the Annual Gala, and it would take effect. He wanted us out because he planned to ask you to marry him in the Gala."

It took a little effort to breathe in, all she could do was to recall the things she had counted.

The House was arranged by him to be given to me.

"Even though we all had a big fight, Namjoon had always been very cautious about who to trust and he was very capable, so we could not do anything to him." Tae Sun continued

Grandmother fell ill suddenly a few months ago, when she started having problems with Jae Hoon and needed somewhere else to live.

"My father though, was greatly disturbed by the news that you were going to be married to Joon. At that point, we hatched a plan."

The house was always cool. The outside though would be sweltering hot but the inside remained cold.

"The starting point was to target the one person he trusted. His nanny. So we had her son manipulated in a huge gambling debt and asked goons to have him kidnapped. A video of his torture was sent to the father, the Nanny's husband." Tae Sun's voice lost its sharpness, he was drifting back in memories.

Her coffee was hot, although it had been more than 30 minutes of being left untouched.

"We knew her husband had always been angry with Joon, he had, after all, been very faithful to Joon's father. He could not stand Joon at all because of the rumours. All through the years, the nanny had been influenced little by little by her husband. When we really pushed him, he managed to convince his wife of helping us. If we did, her son's life would be spared. She agreed."

Tae Sun's accident right after the way he talked, Jae Hoon being involved when the house did not let her leave.

"We asked her to drug him. That night, she did. Once he was unconscious, she had cleared away the maids and guard, and allowed us to take him away from his house. We put Namjoon in a car, I was the one driving while 4 more criminals sat back with his unconscious form. We were heading to the beach house."

A whimper involuntarily expressed itself, her tears gathering rapidly, but not falling. Anya bowed down on the bed, not being able to keep the heavy weight of shocking grief from tearing at her.

This was her nightmare.

It had been true.

For a whole year, only So Hyun could talk to Joon. So Hyun, who was the descendent of Heo bloodline with innate spirituality. Though not Mira, who would be able to say if something was wrong, but So Hyun, who would not suspect anything because of his inexperience with his power.

"But Joon woke up when we were almost in that place. Even though he was sluggish, he fought hard. The car was going out of control so I stopped it. By then, Joon had killed two and one was knocked unconscious. Me, him and the other one who was still conscious had stepped out of the car. I saw that the fight had taken a lot out of him, after all, to make the drug stronger, I had mixed a small percentage of poison in it. When I saw him struggling but still winning against the criminal, I waited for my chance. But Joon saw me trying to hide. That crazy bastard lashed out with an insane burst of strength and wounded me badly.

Since that night, when I ran back to my home because Joon injured me badly and I was losing a lot of blood, my brother and father kept trying to convince me that I must having been seeing things, or my perception of things was screwed due to blood loss, BUT I KNOW WHAT I SW, WHAT I DID!! Just like now, when the world keeps telling me that the vehicle was not tampered with!!! I know what I went through!! I know what I did back then too!!!!"

An ugly sob broke her down, Anya let herself fall down on the bed, her throat burning, her body heavy with sorrow.

An unbelieving shock spread at the same time as she felt as if her heart was shattering in pieces.

It hurt.

It truly hurt.

Anya crumpled on that bed, and clutched at her stomach, curving her body to form a ball but it still did not help with the crushing sense of loss cutting at her.

The niggling feeling of missing something while talking to Namjoon, was the absence of the sounds of his breathing.

In the times both kept silent, she could never hear his breath.

"That Night I had stabbed her three times in his abdomen. I am sure, it was fatal. He could NOT have survived it that night. I know what I did, no matter what others said." Tae Sun's voice lowered to a whisper, which was a s loud as an avalanche for Anya.

"I know, that night, a year ago, I had killed Namjoon. There was no way he survived. That night, I know that he died."

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A/N : Sorry to the people who guessed his story to be of a Royal Guard or Advisor or Prince.

Instead, we get something a little more violent and bloodier. 💀

Joon appears at last, in the next chapter

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