C/W: it’s gets..dark. read carefully.

Taesan’s POV

"No" Junho says, grabbing my arm to keep me in place and I push him off me.

"Do what I fucking order you" I sneer at him and he lets go of my elbow long enough to run his fingers through his hair in worry.

"You’re not thinking straight" he says before mistakenly grabbing my hurt wrist, I grunt and pull it out of his hand.

"You’re fucked! You are still hurt, there is still poison in your system, and you want to provoke your grandfather?" Junho yells at me

His anger sparks something disgusting in me, the part of me that has been put to sleep since Seoha’s arrival in my life.

"Are you part of his schemes too?" I ask him in a low growl, and he stops for a second, his expression switches from anger to betrayal.

"Fuck you Taesan, you know I will never do anything like that to you!" he yells, attracting the attention of passersby.

His painful expression and clenched fists douses my anger for a minute but I don’t back down.

"You hid ghost from me" I state.

"You were between life and death, Taesan, I couldn’t even stay in the room where you were fighting for your life"

My anger slowly disappears and I drop my hands to my side.

Calm before the storm, I am already in that place, I can’t fucking get out.

"How can you still think of me that way?" he says and I start to regulate my breathing, looking around at the people walking by.

Most of them don’t even bother to look, they are too busy with their lives to care...unlike my grandfather who has enough time to use people as playing cards.

"I will visit him tonight as captain" I say out loud.

"Don’t, Taesan seriously" Junho says.

"Don’t try to stop me" I warn him and he sighs.

"I’ll come, and don’t try to stop me" he also says to me, and I nod slowly, fine then, we go into hell together.

I return home and give instructions to my men and to Jisu, the only one I trust with my daughter’s safety.

"Once Sooin is done at school, take her to this address, tell them she’s having a sleep over" I say and they nod.

They are lined up in front of me, fifteen men and women that are trained to kill by Junho and Yuki, they pay attention with Jisu standing next to them.

"Anyone that leaks my daughter’s location..." I say, pausing to let them fill the gap with their imagination.

"No, I wont fire you" I say in a low tone, and I hear someone audibly sigh.

"I will dismember you, limb for limb, send you parts to your family and keep you alive long enough to see your family experience your pain"

Someone retches and another starts to cry.

"Is that clear?" I ask and they all nod.

"Jisu" I call the young girl’s name, and she bows her head immediately, "stay with them, I will protect you" I inform her.

"Yes sir" she whispers in fear, I take a step closer to her and she starts to shake.

"Where are your parents?"

"My mom works in the kitchen...my dad is no more" she says and I nod, "take care of my daughter like she’s your sister, and I will look after you like you’re my daughter"

Give and take, take and give, the rules of my fucked up world.

"You’re all dismissed" I say loudly and they all leave; some hold each other as they scurry away and I return to my room.

I open my wardrobe and find one of my swords sitting against the wooden wall, waiting to feel blood on it for the first time.

The sword is heavy as I pick it up, weighing more than the one I usually use.

I place it on my bed, the bed where I have kissed and held Seoha on before, the place I have slowly let him into my heart.

My eyes leave the bed, lingering on the drawer that is holding the collar I made...the one I asked Yuki’s father to make.

With a sigh, I pull off my clothes, throwing them to the floor till I’m only in my briefs.

I pick out black clothes, something easy to hide bloodstains with, something secretive.

A knock on the door stops my actions and before I respond, Choyeon comes in with her eyes bouncing all over the place.

Riled up and irritated, I give her a warning growl that freezes her in place for a few seconds.

She looks less refined than she used to.

Her usual straight and shiny hair is falling down her shoulder in messy waves, her fingers are gripping the end of her top, she looks...crazy.

She looks the exact way she and her fucking cousin make me feel.

"Taesan-ah...I need your help" she says and I blink slowly, assessing her.

"My credit card isn’t working, Jaemin-ah...Jaemin that dirty dog cut me off...I can help you get back at him" she says, taking ragged breath between words and pressing her hands together like she’s praying to me.

I.

I’m her god.

"Eh...Taesan...I did so much for you, I-I raised Sooinie when he left, my cousin...he doesn’t deserve your kindness" she continues to talk.

"Kneel" I say and she falls in front of me.

I place my hand on her head, letting it rest there, smiling at her like a tiger ready to take its free dinner.

This fool.

"What do you want?" I ask and she smiles under my hand, the look in her eyes, the same one in her cousin’s eyes.

Greed.

"The new releases...it’s from an international brand, no one else has it" she says, panting as she describes the brand.

I walk away from her and pick out my other black card, holding it as I return to her.

"Get what you want, and get me what I want too...do you understand?" I ask and she nods happily, trying to take the card from my hand.

"Yes, anything...everything" she says and I finally give her the card.

Another black card debt...

Another knock on the door brings me back to earth and to reality, there is a visitation waiting for me, I will make sure I come back alive to make every black card debtor pay.