Pay With Your Heart

Chapter 352: Death Warrant.

Dan-Han felt the world at standstill when he saw her on the floor, lying in the pool of her blood.

“Eun-sun!” He called and hurried to her side. His eyes moved across her body and his heart fell into his stomach. She was in bad shape. Her ankle seemed broken, same as her hand. She was bleeding from her head and stomach.

“Dan-Han?” She weakly fluttered her eyes open and whispered out. Her face and body was pale. She was losing a lot of blood.

“I’m here.” He said as he quickly placed his hand on the wound on her stomach, applying pressure on them.

“Dan-Han, I think I’m going to-” Tears rolled down her eyes and Dan-Han felt a tight squeeze in his heart.

“Don’t talk, save your breath.” He interjected and dialed the emergency number.

He was trying to be calm, but Eun-sun could hazily see the fear in his eyes. She couldn’t see the other part of her body, but she knew she was in horrible state. Other than the stab wound on her stomach, her legs weren’t feeling the same, and she could feel something wet on heavy head.

.....

Eun-sun knew what was going to happen to her. Who could tell her now she wasn’t cursed? This life had something against her, and her happiness. It hated it when she had something good going on for her, and this time it didn’t try to take the happiness from her, it was taking her instead.

A soft chuckle slipped out her lips, but tears accompanied them.

“I...I’m going to die, aren’t I?” Dan-Han frowned when he heard her words.

“You will not.” He rebuked her.

“Dan-Han-”

“Park Eun-sun, shut up! You’ll be here with me. Here! If you dare die on me, I’ll hate you. You hear me?!” He yelled and threatened her.

Eun-sun could hear the pain and desperation in his voice. He was desperately holding on to life for her, but her life was already eluding her.

Dan-Han held her closely to himself and kept applying pressure on her wound till approaching footsteps echoed through the stairways.

He held her face. “You’ll be fine.” He told her in a firm voice. Though Eun-sun found his words hard to believe, for his sake she nodded. If there was ever going to a minute chance of survival, for their sake, she was going to cling onto it.

Soon paramedics came and Eun-sun was carried away with Dan-Han trailing behind. All through the way he held her hand, and when she lost her conscious, he felt a cold steel run through his heart.

Eun-sun was wheeled to the theater and Dan-Han almost joined them.

“Mr Lee, you’ll have to wait here.” One of the surgeons stopped him.

Dan-Han gripped the man’s neck with his bloodied hand. “Make sure she comes back.”

“Yes sir.” The man replied before scampering away.

Dan-Han whipped out his phone dialled a number.

“Surgical wing, now.” He ordered and ended the call.

Jae-Hyun who had been at the other end of the phone was utterly stumped out of his mind. He wondered what was wrong as he hurriedly grabbed his lab coat and dashed out of his office.

The intimidating man standing in front of the entrance of the surgical area caught his eyes. It was Dan-Han. His eyes widened when he saw the blood all over him.

“Who’s in there?”

“Eun-sun.”

“Huh?” He looked at the Dan-Han from head to toe. There was blood all over him. Jae-Hyun felt cold run down his spine in an instant. Was there still blood left in that small woman? He understood why Dan-Han had called him.

“I’ll go in.” Jae-Hyun said and hurried towards the door.

“Jae-Hyun,” Dan-Han called. Jae-Hyun turned back to him.

“She mustn’t die....please.” Hearing Dan-Han plead and sound that way left Jae-Hyun in a state of shock. He felt bad for him. He had only lost his mother, and now his woman? He wondered what happened to her.

Jae-Hyun nodded and ran past the glass door and towards the operating room.

“Boss.” Tae-Ho called from behind the man.

“Did you find him?” He asked.

“No boss. We swept the whole building.”

“The camera’s?”

“Nothing boss.”

Dan-Han felt his blood boil on the spot. Anger and darkness flashed through his eyes, as he gritted his teeth. The men behind Tae-Ho instantly quivered, only Tae-Ho remained calm.

“Find that bastard, and bring him to me! Everyone involved in this must pay with their lives!”

“Yes boss.” Tae-Ho bowed. He could tell the boss was in a murderous mood. He was hungry for the blood of the people who had done this to his woman, and their blood he would have. It’s been ages since he saw the boss like this.

Dan-Han had always been a monster who set fear in the heart of the people, till he became tamed by the little woman, now someone dared to touch her. It wasn’t going to be a good for whoever did this, because they’ve just reawakened the beast in him.

Tae-Ho stationed men around Dan-Han and left. They had no idea who had done this, but it could be an indirect attack on the boss and whoever they were might come back, so he had to be careful.

Tae-Ho called Chang-wok and asked him to bring new clothes for the boss, before leaving.

....

Ni-Na’s Home.

“Mom, have you spoken to brother today?” Ni-Na asked as she strolled down the stairs.

Her mother, who was receiving a feet massage from her husband shook her head and said, “No.”

“That’s strange.”

“What’s strange?” Her mother asked.

“He isn’t answering my call. He never does that.” Ni-Na dialled the number again.

“He must be busy.” Her father said.

“Didn’t you say he had taken his girlfriend on a date? Maybe they’re still spending some time together.”

“That was yesterday.”

“And?” Her mother stressed.

“I want to hear the gist.” Ni-Na hissed as she stormed to a sofa and plonked herself there while she continued dialling Dan-Han’s number.

Her mother sat up right and looked at her.

“What?” Ni-Na asked, not liking the look in her mother’s eyes.

“I think it’s about time you get a boyfriend.”

“Hmm?” Her eyes darted from her mother to her father, who seemed to be in agreement with her mother’s idea.

“Your mother is right.” Her father said.

“Of course, I am. You’re clinging to Dan-Han too much, and his girlfriend might not like it.”

“I don’t think Eun-sun is like that. She’s friendly and she likes me just as I like her.” Ni-Na told her.

“She’ll never tell you. Just consider finding your own boyfriend.”

“Then call President Lee and tell him this, because he’s the only obstacle to my love life.”

“Then I’ll call him.” Her mother said.

“Maybe you should do that tomorrow.” Ni-Na’s father adviced when he heard his wife, but Ni-Na had already passed her mother’s phone to her.

“Nosy,” her mother clacked.

“It’s my brother.” Ni-Na retorted.

They patiently waited as the phone rang, but it wasn’t answered. She tried again but there was still no response.

“Now, that was strange.” Ni-Na’s mother ed.

“Call his secretary.” The man suggested, passing his phone to his wife, as she didn’t have Chang-wok’s number, and she quickly called him.

“Secretary Chang.”

“Good evening, Madam.” Secretary Chang-wok greeted.

“Where’s my son? He isn’t receiving his calls.”

“Madam, president Lee is at the hospital.”

“Hospital?” Ni-Na and her mother echoed. Ni-Na grabbed the phone from her mother’s hand.

“What happened to big brother? Is he fine? Why is he at the hospital?” She ranted out.

“Ni-Na, the phone.” Her father demanded and she angrily passed it to him.

“What happened to Dan-Han?” The man calmly inquired.

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“President Lee is fine, but Ms Park was attacked.”

“Attacked?!” Ni-Na was shocked.

“By who?” The old man asked.

“Sir, there’s no information on that yet. But the miss is in bad shape.” Chang-wok replied. Hearing those words Ni-Na felt her stomach churn.

“What hospital is she?” She yelled into the phone.

“The family hospital.”

Ni-Na immediately dashed towards the dinning table and grabbed her car keys, and ran towards the door.

“Ni-Na wait!” Her mother called.

“I can’t!” She said as she ran out of the house. She knew something wasn’t right when Dan-Han didn’t take her calls. He had never missed her calls, not even on purpose.

“Does your brother have something to do with this?” Ni-Na’s mother suspiciously asked.

“I don’t think so.”

“Then who would attack her?!”

“I don’t know.” The man replied again.

“There has been one death in this family, and that’s enough, there shouldn’t be another.” She declared as she picked a car key and passed it to her husband.

“Let’s go.” She said and he obediently followed as she stomped out of the house.

...

Ni-Na was driving like crazily driving on the road, like she could run all the cars over in a second. The word ‘attacked’ and bad ‘shape’ kept reverberating in her head.

Had he used the word accident, she wouldn’t be this anxious. If someone had made an attempt on Eun-sun’s life, then it must be bad. But she hoped not. For her brother’s sake she really hoped not.

Ni-Na frowned when her phone rang. She glanced at it and hissed. She ignored the call and kept her eyes on the road, but the call came in again.

“What do you want?”

“Why are you driving so fast? Do you have a death wish?”

“Are you stalking me now?” The frown on her face deepened.

“You seem angry. What happened? Did your lovely piss you off?”

“It is you who is pissing me off, Lee Ji-Tae. Of you have nothing to say then good bye.”

“Wait! What’s up with you? Where are you going so late? Is mother and father okay?” He sounded worried, but Ni-Na wasn’t in the least concerned about him at the moment.

“I’m going to the hospital to meet Dan-Han. Someone attacked-” Her words trailed off when she heard him chuckle. She snapped her head towards the phone, a suspicious look coating her eyes.

“Ji-Tae, you didn’t do this did you?”

“Do what?” He sounded innocent.

“Hurt Eun-sun. You didn’t hurt her to get back at Dan-Han, did you? If it’s you, I’ll kill you!” She half yelled into the phone, but the other side was quiet.

“Something happened to her?”

“Are you trying to act innocent? You’re my suspect.”

“Suspect me all you want, but tell where she is?” Ji-Tae asked. Ni-Na was silent for a while.

“At the hospital. You better be innocent about this.”

“I am, but whoever laid a hand on her, just sighed their death warrant.”