With Kai's hand pressed firmly against the small of my back, pushing me along, I turn around, pushing him back, hesitant to just leave.
Kai looks down at me incredulously, "Why did you stop? We need to leave now, Jiā."
He doesn't give me a chance to ask any questions and grabs my wrist trying to get me out as quickly as possible.
As he's dragging me away, a tall figure clad in a black suit, a black turtleneck underneath. He casually strolls towards us, his aura radiating with confidence as he runs his hand through his platinum blond hair.
He walks up to us, blocking our way with a smirk. Kai's grip on my wrist tightening as the atmosphere immediately became more tense with the arrival of the newcomer.
"Oh I'm sorry, were you guys going somewhere?" His accent was unlike most of those around here, Australian I thought. Before I could even attempt to respond Kai spoke, his voice just as stern.
"We were just leaving actually," Kai answers with a tight smile. He tries moving around the man blocking our way, but he steps in the way once again.
The Australian chuckles, "I'm afraid I can't let you leave just yet." He glances up at the balcony, Kai and I follow his gaze to find another unknown figure watching this exchange rather intently. The unknown person's face hidden by the shadows that they hid in.
Kai's face changes as he recognizes the second man and he grows even more agitated than before. The muscles in his shoulders visibly tensing underneath the tight deep red material of his suit.
"You can't exactly stop us now can you?" Kai taunts, his hand still firmingly grasping my wrist.
"You think so?" The Australian says moving his suit jacket to reveal two handguns firmly placed in two holsters strapped to his side before letting it fall, hiding the guns once again.
That was unexpected.
Kai narrows his eyes at the sight of the guns and chuckles dryly "Who invited Jaebum's little errand boy?"
"Aww, now that's no way to speak to a guest, albeit uninvited. I thought you always treated everyone rather - how do I put this, sensual? " The Australian chuckles, dimples showing.
Kai glares at him thoroughly pissed, his mouth opening to respond before I interrupt him.
"Can you two not bitch at each other for another ten minutes?" I say wanting answers and this guy to get out of my face. They both turned to look at me, expressions of annoyance present on both of their equally annoyingly handsome faces.
I turn to the still unnamed man and ask, "What is your problem, what do you want?"
"I presume you know who Im Jaebum is? He'd be awfully sad if you didn't, he doesn't ruin lives for fun you know." The still unnamed Australian says in an almost bored voice.
I look at him questioningly, "I don't even know who you are. What makes you think I have a clue who that is?"
"If it was my name you wanted you could've just asked sweetheart, the name's Chan." He smirks, "Why don't you come with me and I can introduce you to Jaebum?"
"With the ego on both of you, I'd rather stay right here." I respond annoyed.
Chan chuckles, "Don't shoot the messenger, baby girl. I promise he doesn't bite unless you ask him to."
His flirty demeanor has been wearing me down since meeting him, but at that I nearly just lost my cool. My face was heating up. I wasn't use to this much attention let alone this much flirting.
Chan holds out his hand, prominent veins decorated with silver rings of all kinds adorning it. He gestured for me to follow him.
I am about to follow him, intrigued when I'm suddenly pulled back by Kai, "Seriously Jiā, you really want to trust this guy?" He exclaims.
I glare at him with a burning gaze, frustrated with his bossy attitude. He stares back equally as intense.
He doesn't think I can hold my own.
The staring contest goes on for a few seconds until I grow tired of it, speaking up.
"Kai, I'll be fine. He can't hurt me in public like this. Not with you and the others here. He can't be that dumb." I point out.
As I begin to follow Chan to the mysterious 'Jaebum' I notice Kai tailing us in my peripheral vision. I don't say anything or try to stop him, he's just worried about me because of my relation with Minseok.
We head up the staircase towards the balcony, coming to a standstill in front of the second figure who had been watching us earlier.
I assume this man is Im Jaebum. His face completely blank. I cant read him at all which is strange for me as someone who prides themselves off reading emotions.
He looks me up and down before speaking up, "So, you're Woojin's girl?"
"Ex actually--" I start, trying to correct him.
"I don't care." He interrupts me. Wow, he really needs to work on his social skills.
"I'll be frank with you, Miss Huang." He stated playing with an intricately carved dagger. The intricate design captures my attention. "I'd love to stay here and chat but I need information and you're going to give it to me."
I scoffed, "And why would I do that?"
His lips part to let out what I assume will be another threat, but he is cut off by a voice behind me.
"That's enough, Jaebum." Minseok calls out.
I turn around to see Minseok and Suho side by side. Minseok turns and gestures at Kai, telling him to get me out of here.
Kai hurriedly grabs my arms pulling me away. As we rush out I glance back to see the four guys staring very intensely at each other.
"What the hell was that about?" I question Kai.
Completely ignoring me, he continues to pull me along. He leads me to a car and I get in without question.
"Can you please tell me what the hell happened back there?" I ask exasperated.
"Put your seatbelt on." he ignores me again and starts driving.
"Where the hell are we going?" I ask, defeated.
"I'm taking you home, princess." he responds flatly.
"You know where I live?" I ask confused, ignoring the butterflies I got hearing the pet name.
"I know more than you think." He says, sending shivers down my spine.
It's not long before the car stops outside my house and Kai is leaning towards me, his hand slowly moving across my waist.
"You know you look really sexy when you're frustrated." He says in a low tone,
Every ounce of frustration I had in me completely dissolved and my mind went blank.
I'm quickly pulled out of my daze with the click of the seatbelt releasing. Kai's face still inches from mine, his signature smirk present. I suddenly find it very suffocating to be here. I scramble to get out of the car without so much as a word to him.
I hurry up to my door fumbling with my keys before finally making it inside. I quickly shut the door and leaned up against it. Upon hearing his car drive off I released a breath I didn't know I was holding.
Praying he hadn't seen the shakiness of my legs or the red of my cheeks.
