Ignites
The Whistle (Fifteen)
The byurr!!
Yuka opened her eyes in panic as someone flushed her with a bucket of water from above her head. Yuka then tried to move her stiff body, but her entire body was currently being tied to a chair and her mouth was also being gagged by rolling up cloth.
“She's already aware.”
What happened to me....
Yuka looked up at the surrounding scenery filled with giant cargo boxes. Then to his right and left he could see men with burly bodies and terrible tattoos guarding him very tight.
“Huppffftt.”
Yuka tried to yell at the men to open the lump in her mouth, but they just laughed while slapping hard on Yuka's cheek until Yuka felt a heat that radiated around her right cheek.
Plakk!!
“Shut up! Basic fucking intel!”
“Huuppppfftt..”.
Dugg dugg
Yuka clamored while moving brutally on the chair so that the men did not mess with her and immediately let go, letting go, but his movement actually makes it unstable and plunged on the floor with a bowed position.
“Hahaha.. taste! Basic intel is stubborn. Boss, does the boss want to interrogate him before the big boss comes?”
Suddenly Yuka heard a whistling sound and also the sound of knocking shoes that were getting closer and closer towards her. The man's footsteps were so slow, yet laden with assertiveness and threats, making Yuka a little wary. While walking the man continued to whistle casually and in the end the man stopped right in front of him with the position of the shoe that was right in front of his face. Slowly the man lowered his head and crouched down in front of Yuka while continuing to whistle with the same rhythm as Yuka had heard before she was caught by the mob.
This whistle....
So they've been after me and Haejun oppa..
Srakk
The man grabbed Yuka's hair and stared at the brown iris so sharply that Yuka had unconsciously widened her pupils in surprise.
“Do you still remember me, sweetie?”
15 Hours Before~
Yuka came down from her room while sneaking behind her husband who was talking to someone over the phone. From the look on his face Yuka concluded that Haejun seemed to be talking seriously with someone. Moreover, Haejun spoke with frown and sharp eyes like an eagle ready to prey on his prey, it is certain that Haejun is currently having a serious problem with someone or a case waiting for him to be solved.
“Are you sure?”
“............”
“So the empty warehouse was actually always used during this time?”
“............”
“To hide illegal items to be shipped abroad? But have you confirmed it yourself inside?”
“............”
“Then I will go there, and I will also investigate the others. Good job, you can go home now.”
Haejun turned off his phone, and Yuka quickly hid behind a pillar. But unfortunately it turns out that since then Haejun had realized his arrival, until before Yuka could hide, Haejun had already pulled his hand and gripped him firmly.
“Who taught you to be disrespectful like that dear? Did the eommonim never teach you how to have the right manners, hmm?”
Yuka grimaced a little while enduring the pain on her wrist that Haejun was gripping.
“Oppa... pain.” whine Yuka spoiled on her husband. Haejun remained clutching Yuka's hands gently and pulled her wife to sit on the sofa with him.
“Sick? If you know it hurts, next time never eavesdrop on other people's conversation.” said Haejun cynically. Yuka snorted in annoyance as she crossed her hands in front of her chest when Haejun had released her clasps.
“After all if oppa was honest with me, I wouldn't eavesdrop like a maniac. I know if oppa actually hasn't told me the truth, oppa is still hiding something from me.”
Haejun let out a breath of air while staring at his wife's bead intensely. How could he be honest with his wife if her wife still has a high level of curiosity that at times can endanger her safety. Still vividly remembered in his head how his wife behaved three years ago when he said honestly that he was dealing with the corruption problem that occurred in the government of president Jang Hyujung. At that time Yuka also whined curiously, and after he told her, Yuka was determined to investigate the case until she was almost killed by a sniper hired by Jang Hyunjung. And now he doesn't want it to happen again. He just wanted to protect his wife, and he just wanted to see his family live in peace, nothing more!
“There's nothing I'm hiding from you Yuka, so stop suspecting me. Let's go to the house of eommonim, it's been a long time we did not visit Enzo, he must miss his parents very much.”
Yuka was silent on the spot and did not walk following Haejun. He knew that Haejun was hiding something from him, but the man deliberately turned his attention to Enzo. He has to do something.
“Oppa... What if before going to the house of eomma we have fun first, hmm?” yuka asked spoiled while wriggling around Haejun's neck. Haejun growled at the childish behavior of his wife, while he had to hurry to check the logistics warehouse in the port of Jungpyo to
prove his men's words. He was a little suspicious of his men who looked suspicious this morning.
“Darling, what's wrong with you today? I don't want to play games, I still have a lot to do. President is waiting for me.”
“President, president, and president! There's no one else you want to meet but the president. The longer I'm caught off guard with your routine the oppa. Even you rarely lead our team investigations again after you get a mandate from the president. What have you been doing with the president? Did you guys go on a date?” yuka shouted in annoyance as she crossed her hands in front of her chest. Haejun shook his head slowly when he saw his wife's infuriating childish behavior this morning. Though a few days ago his wife was still fine, but somehow today his wife
looks so annoying and disturbing. His wife's behavior this morning suddenly reminded him of Yuka's attitude four years ago while she was pregnant with Enzo.
“You're not pregnant, are you? Your attitude today reminds me of your pregnancy four years ago.” Haejun said in full questioning. Yuka hit Haejun on the head with a pillow and went back to pouting in front of Haejun.
“Of course not, today even I'm coming month. Oppa, I'm just worried about you. I'm afraid oppa wretched while running errands, because I know that oppa is on a special mission from president Park Boyoung. Come on oppa, confess to me. You don't want your beautiful wife to be constantly stricken with anxiety don't you?”
Haejun suddenly turned around and stared at Yuka intensely. With a face full of earnestness he clasped Yuka's hand and kissed her forehead gently.
“Darling, do you believe me? I won't do stupid things by harming myself, so I'll be fine. Instead I worry about your safety, you, the eommonim, and Enzo. You are my most precious treasure. I don't want those bad guys to sniff out your whereabouts and know my weak spot. Please, trust me and stop trying to figure out what I'm really doing, because it's going to put your life at risk. Ever since I was at the altar I promised
and swore to God to protect you, so I really wanted to make that promise happen by keeping you from any danger that comes after you. Do you trust me and promise to obey me?”
“Why does oppa have such a very difficult promise? Our job, my job is a job full of dangers and threats. It would be very difficult to fulfill such a promise.”
Cup
Haejun kissed his wife's lips at a glance and looked back at Yuka intensely to reassure the woman if her promise would never be difficult to do, she said, as long as Yuka would really obey her orders.
“There are no hard promises to keep if you obey me, so will you obey my orders, hmm?”
Yuka nodded slowly while exhaling her sigh resignedly. After all, no matter what happens, she will not be able to do anything to prevent her husband from doing his own mission. In the end the thing he could do was to obey and nod, something that Yuka actually hated a lot.
“Good girl.”
“Alright, I'll comply. But oppa has to be careful and don't worry me out there.”
“Surely, I will definitely be fine.”
Haejun then closed their intense gazes with a gentle kiss that was not too passionate, but was able to channel their love for each other.
-00-
“By daddy.”
Yuka and Enzo wave at each other as Haejun's car slowly leaves Im's spacious courtyard. The mother and son then looked at each other to plan what activities they would do today as long as their most dear man was away on duty along with his secret missions uninspiring.
“So, what do you want Enzo to do today with mommy?”
“Play lego, cook cake, nap together, and..”.
The little boy seemed to think for a moment while imagining the various activities he wanted to do with his mother who was usually always busy.
“What if we play lego first while planning the activities we will do today. Does Enzo want to create an office building with mommy?”
The child exclaimed in excitement and immediately took his mother into the house and seemed not to want to release his hands that were linked to his mother. Seeing that Yuka felt quite compassionate and also sad about the fate of her son who became lacking his affection because he decided to make a career. But he was determined that if this would end, as soon as he fulfilled his ambition, he would resign from the headquarters and choose to be a housewife to raise Enzo and possibly his other children.
“Mommy, please get Enzo's lego box stored in the toy cabinet in Enzo's room.” said Enzo while tugging at the tip of Yuka's shirt because since then the woman continues to daydream and ignore the whimper that is quite noisy.
“All right, mommy will get it. But by the way, does Enzo often play lego with halmeoni?”
The boy shook his head indifferently while unpacking his other game box. Yuka herself saw it instantly frowned miserably as it seemed like today she would be made to bother with dozens of toys belonging to Enzo that were scattered in her room.
“Halmeoni can not play lego, halmeoni suck.”
Yuka giggled amusedly with Enzo's reply that sounded what it was.
“If halmeoni can't play it, why doesn't Enzo teach him? Wouldn't if Enzo taught him, Enzo could play lego with halmeoni all the time?” yuka asked gently as she stroked the top of her son's head slowly
“Actually Enzo wants to play lego with mommy and daddy, but halmeoni always tells Enzo if mommy and daddy are busy catching criminals, is halmeoni right?”
Again Yuka felt filled with the words of her son. She did not expect that today would be an all-time emotional day because Enzo kept making her like the most irresponsible mother in the world. It seems like he hasn't seen Enzo in four days. But for the child
as small as Enzo, four days must be long, considering all the children his age always spent twenty-four hours with their parents.
“Mommy and daddy are catching crooks out there so they don't mess with Enzo.”
“So mommy and daddy are superheroes?”
“Emm. What does Enzo like if mommy and daddy become superheroes?”
Enzo nods excitedly while showing his favorite superhero robot, iron man, to Yuka.
“Enzo is happy if mommy and daddy are like iron man who always fight crime out there. But Enzo also wants to play with mommy and daddy, Enzo also wants to go to school with mommy and spend time at home with daddy. Can Enzo do it?”
“Of course you can. Today your daddy will be home soon, and while waiting for daddy to come home what if we cook daddy's favorite food and also brownies for daddy. We'll make a big surprise before daddy gets home, will Enzo want to?”
Enzo nodded enthusiastically and immediately pulled Yuka's hand towards the kitchen, leaving all of her toys scattered in her room. Fortunately, the halmeoni has not returned, if the halmeoni returns and finds his grandson's room in a mess, maybe Yuka and Enzo should get ready with their earplugs.
-00-
Haejun parked his car a little away from the storage warehouse in Jungpyo port. According to the mobsters he investigated, they had been storing goods that they would smuggle in one of the warehouses in the port of Jungpyo. But when Haejun comes, the warehouse
looks empty and almost collapsed because of age. There was no sign of anything around the warehouse, and Haejun felt that the warehouse was completely empty because there was not a single guard around the warehouse.
With a definite step, Haejun immediately walked closer to the warehouse area while staking out the atmosphere around the empty warehouse. Although his heart was very sure if the warehouse was empty, but still he had to tighten the guard for himself because he still did not want to die in vain in the middle of carrying out the task. Moreover, he still has a beautiful wife and an adorable handsome son. He's not ready to be replaced with another guy out there!
Krieett
Haejun pushed the towering iron door in front of him slowly when he did not find any padlock locking the door. A gripping aura suddenly instantly enveloped him as he entered into the warehouse, but he bravely kept his stride to get deeper into the warehouse because he had to make sure with his own eyes that the warehouse was completely empty or that there was something in there which he had not known all along.
The deeper Haejun went into the warehouse, the more Haejun felt the air around him thinning. The inside of the warehouse was so stuffy and hot that none of the fentilations were left open to channel fresh air to make the shed feel cooler. But as far as Haejun went, Haejun had yet to find anything suspicious other than a pile of cardboard and also an insignificant pile of trash that really made him riled up because his investigation this time was completely futile. He then decided to contact his men in charge of investigating the location of the warehouse because it turned out that his men had misinformed. Instead he can find the bright spot of a rotten plan run by the mafia, but he is instead made to spin around in a stuffy empty warehouse.
“Halo, are you playing with me Han Jaeshin ssi?” hiss Haejun was angry when finally the man who misled him answered his phone call. The man across there sounded so nervous as he was about to answer Haejun's anger-laden question,
“Mm forgive me captain, I didn't mean to mislead you, but I feel like I saw some strangers break into that barn last night. Then an hour later they came out with two container cars with the Han company.” logo
Haejun frowned suspiciously. Obviously during this time Han company has never committed any fraud because Han company is a company owned by his uncle, the sister of his mother, so he knows very well how the company's work system. Moreover, he also has a stake in the company of three
twenty percent, made him very know how the ins and outs of the Han company. But so far not many people know if the Han company is a company owned by his mother's family because he and his father did keep it a secret. They just don't want to mix their work with the office
it was obviously handled by his uncle.
“Is that? For what container cars owned by Han company are in the port of Jungpyo, has not Han company been engaged in the field of architecture? Do you think they're smuggling raw materials to build high-rise buildings on the edge of the harbor?” ask Haejun full of probes. The man immediately exclaimed quickly asserting Haejun's question for various reasons that sounded convincing, but clearly sounded lying in Haejun's ear because Haejun already knew it. After the man finished telling all his lies, he, Haejun immediately hangs up the phone call and rushes to get out of the warehouse because now he has more important tasks than just looking for the mafia syndicate, that is looking for the traitor who has been hiding in his base.
