CHAPTER 5
WOO BIN'S POV:
I don't like this one bit… Sure, I know Boo Ki can handle herself in a fight but this filth that she is dealing with is a slippery bastard. It pisses me off that he has taken an interest in her. I understand now what Ji-Hoo was feeling when the Senator took an interest in Saia. I'm worried and uneasy. We haven't been able to find any trace of the girls that disappeared with him. They must be somewhere on the estate but his security is tight. Ji-Hoo went to check out a storage space the Senator is renting to look for anything suspicious tonight. I sure do hope he finds something. Bill White needs to be behind bars.
I wait outside his gate for now. If anything happens, I'll climb over it to get to Boo Ki. There is no way in hell I am giving him a chance to hurt her. I don't care what kind of alarms I set off. Her safety is more important than getting caught. I watch the camera that's focused on the gate and plan my attack if the need arises. I'm staying out of its line of sight for now. The gun that I hate to carry is tucked safely in my leather jacket with the silencer already attached. It may finally get some use on that damn camera.
My phone starts to ring and I reach in my pocket for it but it stops before I can answer it. It's Boo Ki. I dial her back but it just rings. There is no answer. Shit!
Pulling out my gun, I take out the camera and climb over the gate. Sprinting for the house, I don't bother to look for dogs or security. I don't have time. Reaching the front door, I don't even bother to knock and thankfully the door is unlocked.
"Se Na!" I call out as I run from one room to the next. It feels weird calling her by her alias but just in case I've made a mistake, I use it instead of her real name. Reaching the dining room, I see Karen passed out at the table and I check her pulse. She's still alive but unconscious. I shake her shoulder with my hand but she doesn't respond. Spotting Boo Ki's phone on the table, rage starts to set in. That mother fucker took her!
Pocketing her phone, I search the house as quickly as I can. He couldn't have gone far but I don't have time to waste. Returning to Karen, I sit her up in her chair and shake her.
"Hey! Karen! Wake up! Come on! I need you to wake up!" I shout in English. She moans and her heavy eyes slowly open to look at me.
"Who are you?" she quietly asks.
"Where did he take her? Where is she?"
"What? Se Na? She isn't here?" she asks groggily. She blinks up at me and tries to focus.
"No. Where did he take her?"
"I-I don't know."
I turn away from her in frustration and grit my teeth. Of course she wouldn't know. She's too good of a person to be involved in this.
"Is there anywhere in this house that you don't have access to? Somewhere that's his personal space or something like that?" I ask. She scrunches her face in thought and I can tell whatever he drugged her with is making it hard for her to think.
"Well… He keeps the sub-basement locked and I don't have a key but I hate the basement period. I never go down there."
"Where?"
"Down the hall, second door on your right."
Racing down the hallway, I find the door and run down the stairs to the basement. When I reach the bottom, I have to force myself to calm down and push the fear away. I can't afford to let my worry for Boo Ki get in the way. Steeling myself, I focus on the task at hand and pull the gun from my jacket pocket. Moving quickly and quietly through the basement, I search for the door that leads to the sub basement. There is no noise except for those coming from the house itself.
Moving past a stack of boxes and several pieces of unused furniture, I finally see the door and cautiously make my way towards it with my gun drawn. The door's padlock is undone and hanging open beside the door. I open it to see the stairs that lead to the sub-basement and hear a faint shuffling sound coming from the bottom. Slowly making my way down the stairs, I try to be as quiet as possible. I need to try and catch him off-guard.
Reaching the bottom, I slowly survey the room. Several tall empty wine racks are scattered around, blocking my view but I can still see through them to the end of the room. There against the wall, 5 women lay strapped to beds but I don't see Bill anywhere. Cautiously making my way towards the girls I keep my gun drawn and strain my ears for any sound of the Senator. Boo Ki is strapped to one of the beds and she's gagged. He has already taken her clothes off and she is now only clothed in her bra and underwear. Even the long wig she has been wearing is gone. Three of the women see me and are desperately straining against their bonds, begging for me to free them. The other one has a dead look in her face and her eyes are unfocused. She doesn't seem conscious of anything that is going on around her.
Boo Ki isn't looking at me but she is watching someone out of my line of site and it must be him. I have never seen fear on her face till now. She desperately pulls on her bonds, trying to break free and the Senator finally comes into view. I can tell that the drugs are still having an effect on her as she tries to break free. Her movements are sluggish, nowhere near the speed and strength that I know she's capable of. He approaches the bed and climbs onto it completely naked. The lighting is bad and I don't want to risk shooting her, otherwise I would just shoot the son-of-a-bitch at this very moment. I have to force down the rage that threatens to take over as I see him touch her.
"Get the fuck off of her and back away right now." I say in English and his head slowly turns to look at me. The look on this slimy bastards face chills me. He doesn't even seem to be human.
"Why?" He says. "Do you want a taste of her too? How about I let her free first?"
I watch him suspiciously as he unfastens her leather straps and I keep my gun on him. He suddenly jerks her up in front of him and uses her as a shield.
"Sorry but this one is all mine. I get the first taste. I found her first." He says with an evil grin. He holds a knife to her throat and my heart jumps in fear. He's crazy enough to kill her without a second thought. He would rather see her dead than let her go. He runs the blade along the surface of her skin to her shoulder and suddenly slices her skin. Bo Ki flinches but doesn't cry out and I watch angrily as he licks her wound to taste her blood. "She mostly has a sharp taste but there is on odd sweetness mixed in as well. She is a delicious addition to my collection. I can't wait to fuck her."
"I'm going to kill you for touching her." I growl at him. Boo Ki's cloudy eyes are starting to clear and I can see the drug is wearing off. Her eyes are becoming cold with anger. Suddenly grabbing his hand with the knife, she twists it away from her and he howls in pain. He grabs her throat and she struggles against him. The gun is useless with her so close and charging towards the Senator I tackle him as he slams her against the wall. He lets her go to try and defend himself from me but now that I finally have my hands on him, he doesn't stand a chance.
Ripping the knife out of his hand, I slide the blade between his ribs and into his lung. Twisting the blade, I enlarge the wound and he cries out in agony. "I told you I would kill you but I never said I would make it quick you sick fuck."
Letting him drop to floor with the knife still embedded in him I look at the blood on my glove in disgust. I wipe it off with the sheets from the bed Boo Ki was on before I go to her. She sits slumped against the wall and her eyes are wide in shock but still cloudy from the drugs. The Senator coughs and blood is starting to come out of his mouth but I ignore him. Wrapping my jacket around Boo Ki to cover her up, she looks up at me and I cup her cheek with my hand. I look up when I hear footsteps and see Karen coming towards us. The blood drains from her face as she sees the girls strapped to the beds.
"W-what is this? What is going on?" she whispers and she raises her hands to her mouth in horror.
"Karen…" Senator White pleads in pain. She turns to look at him but she doesn't go to him like he expects. She looks at him in disbelief and disgust.
"You're a monster!" She says angrily. Turning away from him she quickly moves to free the girls and I stand up to help her but keep my eye on Boo Ki. Karen leads the terrified girls up the stairs but she and one of the other girls have to help the dead-eyed girl walk. She will probably never be able to live a normal life again. I scoop up Boo Ki in my arms to carry her upstairs and she buries her face in my chest, closing her eyes. I take one last look at the son-of-a-bitch drowning in his blood on the floor and he looks up at me in fear as he gasps for air.
"Karma's a bitch mother fucker. I would have just put you in jail but then you touched her…" I nod at the woman in my arms and his eyes narrow in anger.
"She's mine!" He gasps.
"No. She's mine." I say and turn towards the stairs.
Karen is on the phone with the police as I exit the basement. She fusses over the other girls as she talks to them and I can see she has the situation handled. I make my way to the front door but she sees me as she hangs up her phone and runs towards me.
"Wait! Where are you going with her? The ambulance and the police are on their way. She needs to go to the hospital and he is still down there."
"I locked the door. He can't hurt anyone anymore." I tell her. She looks worriedly at Boo Ki and reaches up to push her hair out of her face. Boo Ki's eyes stay closed and her hand is still fisted in my shirt. "I'll take care of her Karen-ssi." I say in Korean. "I can't let the police know who we are. I'm sorry. We'll check up on you in a couple days."
Her eyes widen in surprise but she nods at me and I turn to carry Boo Ki out the door.
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Pacing worriedly in front of the bathroom, I look at my phone again to see if Ji-Hoo has called. I already called him and told him what happened. He said he is on his way back to the apartment but he doesn't seem to be getting here fast enough. Boo Ki has been in the shower for over an hour. Debating on whether or not to barge in to check on her, I finally make up my mind and open the door. She sits shivering on the floor of the shower with her knees pulled up to her chest and her eyes stare unseeing at the wall.
"…Boo Ki?" I ask uncertainly. She turns to look at me and the emptiness in her eyes scare me.
"I need Saia. I need her Woo Bin-ah." She says quietly. My heart jumps at the informal use of my name on her lips but my worry quickly pushes the thought aside. I nod my head and reach into the shower to turn off the water. Grabbing a towel I wrap it around her and help her up to her feet, making sure she keeps her modesty.
"I promise I'll call Saia if you try and get some sleep. Okay?"
She nods her head and exiting the bathroom, I watch her go into her room before I pull out my phone to call DK.
"Yobosayeo?"
"I need to speak to Saia." I tell him.
"She's in the middle of a meeting right now sir."
"Then interrupt it!" I snap.
"Yes sir." I hear voices and shuffling as he talks to her.
"What is it?" Saia asks me and I can hear the worry in her voice. I tell her what happened and about Boo Ki almost being raped by the Senator.
"Oh my god…No no no. I can't believe this almost happened again." she moans and my heart almost stops.
"What do you mean 'again'?" I ask.
"I'm leaving right now for the airport. I'm taking the first flight to New York. Let her know I'll be there." She says and then hangs up on me.
Shoving my phone back in my pocket, I walk over to Boo Ki's door and quietly knock before slowly opening it. She is already dressed and in bed. Her lamp is on and her back is turned towards me.
"Saia is on her way. She will be her soon." I tell her. She nods her head.
"Thank you." She says quietly.
I turn my head as I hear Ji-Hoo come in the front door and he makes his way into her room to check on her. He examines the cut on her shoulder and asks her if she still feels any affects from the drug. My head is buzzing with everything that happened. I could have lost her tonight and she would've never known how important she is to me. To make matters worse, I know very little about her past so I can't comfort her. I don't know what she has been through.
My joke of an engagement has been over for a while now yet I still hesitate in pursuing Boo Ki out of a ridiculous fear of being hurt. Me! The Don Juan and Prince Song of South Korea is terrified of being hurt! I would rather be beat up in a fight than have my heart broken and Boo Ki keeps her feelings so well hidden that I don't know if she feels anything like that for me. After tonight though, I've made up my mind. I can't afford to waste any more time on fear. My whole life is about taking risks. Now it's my heart's turn to take a chance.
A/N: I hate seeing Boo Ki weak but she is still human after all. She will be back into butt-kicking form very soon. ^_^ I am very happy that this chapter focuses on Woo Bin. He's a pretty cool guy. Thank you everyone for reading! ^_^