Pay With Your Heart

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Eun-sun let out a groan of pain as she slowly aroused consciousness.

Flesh-tearing pain surged through her back, and her head felt like it had been rammed against a wall. It badly throbbed with pain, and she hissed as her eyes slowly fluttered open.

White bright light flooded her eyes, causing her to wince and hiss under her breath at its intensifying attack on her head while she flinched her eyes closed.

She subconsciously reached her hand to her head to support it from falling because it felt like it was about to.

“Babe?” She heard someone say beside her, but she was in so much pain to listen or recognize the voice until it spoke again.

“Honey, are you okay?” She heard him ask, and this time she recognized it.

Her eyes flickered open and dashed to the source of the voice.

‘Dan-Han?’ She whispered in her head with uncertainty.

She blinked twice, and her eyes flickered wide open when she realized he was real.

.....

Her body immediately tried to jolt up so she could properly stare at him, but she couldn’t help but wince when a sharp pain surged around her waist.

Dan-Han got off his seat and held her back, “The doctor said you should lie down.” He said, but Eun-sun shook her head, stubbornly insistent on sitting up. She wanted to see him more closely.

Dan-Han held her up, and the moment he did, she delved into his embrace.

She slipped her arms around him and firmly held him so closely with her head pressed against his stomach.

Dan-Han sighed and hugged her back. He tried not to hold her too closely, but he failed. He couldn’t help but hold her closely to himself too.

“I’m sorry. Sorry I made you worry.” He whispered above her head.

Eun-sun shook her head and tightened her arms around him even more, forgetting about the pain she had been feeling a while ago.

She sniffed as she tried to hold back the tears that welled in her eyes.

“Babe, are you crying?” Dan-Han tried to pull her away from him, but she stubbornly shook her head and hugged him even more, wrapping her arms even more tightly around him.

She didn’t want to say anything. She just wanted to stay there and have this moment with him. This moment that had somehow seemed impossible in the past few days.

She had wondered if she’d ever be able to hug him again. Have him hold her, or kiss her the way he always did, so possessively.

She just wanted to stay there and feel him a bit more.

Dan-Han defeatedly sighed when she refused to let go and firmly kept her hold on him. He didn’t have to be told why she was that way with him.

He knew she had been scared and alone even with the great supply of people around her.

“Eun-sun, love, can you let go? Your back’s going to hurt.” He said after being in that position for a while, and Eun-sun reluctantly let go.

He rubbed his hand down her hair and slightly tilted her face up. Tears stained her face, and even more glistened in her eyes.

His hands reached for them and gently wiped them off before dropping a feathery kiss on her cheek.

“Don’t cry anymore. I’m here now.” He told her while Eun-sun silently peered at him.

“I missed you.” She said after a trail of silent moments elapsed.

Dan-Han rubbed his hand across her cheek. “I missed you too.” He replied.

“I...I was scared.” She said. “I was scared you’d be unable to come out from there. And you refused to see me.” She added as a tear spilled down her cheek.

Dan-Han caught it with his thumb and kissed between her brows. “I’m sorry. I’m here now, and nothing like that will ever happen again.” He assured her, and Eun-sun nodded.

She didn’t want to doubt it because that was what she wanted.

She wanted him safe. She wanted them safe and free from all the hurdles and battles. She wanted to spend each day feeling at ease, happy, and tension-free.

“Come on, lie down. The doctor said you shouldn’t get out of bed, so please lie back.” He urged her.

Eun-sun darted her eyes around, and she recognized she was in a hospital room. She had picked up the scent when she stirred up, but the sight of Dan-Han had taken all her awareness.

Her gaze shifted to her body. She wasn’t injured, was she? She mused.

“Why?” Eun-sun asked, wondering why he had to urge so keenly. Her brows creased when she suddenly recollected the previous event.

“Mi-Cha? Where’s Mi-Cha?” She urgently asked. Fear and worry trickled through her eyes as they nervously stared at Dan-Han.

“Is she okay? Was she—”

Dan-Han held her hand. “Mi-Cha is fine. She’s okay. Tae-Ho and In-Ha arrived with the cops just on time.” He told her assuringly, and Eun-sun let go of the breath she had been holding.

Her eyes narrowed again when she remembered the monsters that had almost tried to kill them. “What about them?” She asked.

She knew having Dan-Han there only meant the real murderers had been apprehended, but she wanted to know exactly where they were.

Dan-Han slightly raised the bed and placed a pillow behind her back to make her comfortable.

“They’re in police custody. The recording has been submitted to be cops. Also, Tae-Ho found a witness. Someone had incidentally witnessed the incident through the windows while trying to make a video for her vlog. They’ll be convicted soon.” He told her.

Eun-sun sighed deeply at the sound of that. Her heart which had been anxious for days, finally felt at ease.

“That’s a relief.” She said. “I hope they get the punishment they deserve.”

“Of course, they will.” He affirmed, brushing his hand down the length of her hair.

If everything was okay, why then was she in the hospital?

She looked over herself again. She didn’t seem bruised or injured apart from the pain in her head and around her stomach and waist.

“Did I get injured?” She asked him, but Dan-Han suddenly went still.

His face turned stiff, and his eyes....were they sad?

She peered at him as she awaited his answer, but he quietly stared at her. Eun-Sun observed the emotions spiraling in his eyes, and she wondered why?

“Dan-Han?” She anxiously called, seeing his gloomy countenance. She looked herself over again, and she felt herself to be sure she truly wasn’t injured.

Her wrist also hurt, but aside from that, there was nothing. She knew when she had hurt her wrist. The pain in her back and stomach she attributed to when she had been pushed and kicked severally by that animal.

She saw his hand clench and unclench, something he did when he was murderously furious but was desperately trying to contain it.

Eun-sun tried to sit up again, and he finally moved.

“I told you to lie still. You’re going to hurt the baby.” He warned, and Eun-sun froze.

Her eyes widened as she unblinkingly stared at him.

“W...what did...you say?” She stuttered. A baby?

“I’m...am I...” She stammered, unable to assimilate what he had just said.

Was she—

Her eyes anxiously shifted to her stomach and slowly back to him as she awaited some answers.

“Yes,” Dan-Han finally blurted out, and her eyes widened as she gasped.

Her gaze darted back to her stomach, and she peered at it with shocked surprise.

She was pregnant? She...was going to have a baby? Their baby?

Eun-sun’s heart skipped a time or two, and her lips twitched till they broke into a happy and astounding smile. Her eyes glistened with joy, and her heart leaped with a bounteous amount of it.

Her eyes glimmered as they welled with tears. Happy tears.

She wasn’t expecting such a thing, especially not at a time like this, but this was great news, wasn’t it?

It definitely was. It was the baby they always spoke about.

Her hands instinctively moved towards her stomach, and she chuckled.

She was going to be a mom?

The thought of having something, someone inside her, stirred a warming feeling on her insides.

Her gaze darted back to Dan-Han. “Th..this is good, right?” She nervously asked, but the happiness glistening in her eyes was so visible.

“We’re going to have a baby.” She chirped with a happy smile, her heart lighting up a bright smile just like the one on her face, but her smile suddenly froze and wavered when she saw the unhappy look on his face.

Why did he seem unhappy?

“Are...you not happy about this?” She suddenly asked, but whatever happiness had surged inside of her seconds ago was currently on a chase by the anxiety now building inside of her. “You don’t want the baby?”

Is that what his expression was about? She hoped not.

She had thought he had always wanted a baby. He had always wanted to have a family with her. Why, then was he looking angry and displeased?

“Lee Dan-Han?” She called, and the man focused his gaze back on her.

Dan-Han sighed heavily. “It’s not that I don’t want the baby.”

“Then what?”

.....

“I’m just angry. I’m angry I had to lose one of my kids because I couldn’t protect them.”