Chapter 215 - What Did You Do?

Every muscle in Ye Rim's body was tense, and she was trying to inhale and exhale slowly to control her own heartbeat. Her desire to simply turn away and run was strong, but she would save Ji Hyeon no matter what.

And so she was opening the door to the upper floors.

The Pearl only partially occupied the ground floor of the old building. All tenants had already been evicted from the small building, which Hong wanted to demolish.

And he would have done that already if it weren't for his father's promise to Mr. Song.

Ji Hyeon would leave and Ye Rim was sure she could survive until Jun Hyeon managed to reach them. She had to resist. She was younger, healthier, and she believed she could handle it. It wasn't like Ye Rim wasn't afraid. She was, because Lee Dae Won was crazy.

But something needed to be done, and she would do it.

Besides, she had been cautious. Hidden by the puffing sleeve of her blouse, an iron tube she removed from a microphone stand could be an improvised weapon. She had taken self-defense lessons with Jae Wook and hoped it would be of some use now. She might need that.

"Unnie..." She whispered into the phone, recording the last message for Eun Ha. Why didn't she answer? "Dae Won is at Pearl. Come now... Please! Call the police!"

Only the emergency light dimly illuminated the staircase, which went up another two floors to the rooftop, and went down to the bas.e.m.e.nt. Ye Rim had only been there a few times, and never explored the place. Everything smelled of mold, dust, rotting wood, and there was a burning smell of chemicals. Perhaps due to Pearl's recent renovation.

She stepped cautiously up the first few steps of the stairs, feeling shadows flicker. Her stomach twisted and she felt saliva gather in her mouth, nauseated.

She hated places like that, it was like…

'One of those shadows?'

Something ran at the top of the stairs, as dark as the night. Ye Rim was sure she didn't want to go up. Her willpower faltered.

THUMP TUM. Her heart was sounding loudly inside her head.

She turned to the door behind her when she heard another noise.

The noise of the door being locked.

Lee Dae Won looked up at Ye Rim, standing in the middle of the stairs, and smiled.

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Eun Ha smiled half-heartedly as she tried to stay focused on what the American visitors were saying. She was beside Stylist Zhang and the PR team, presenting the concept of the new stores in the Park & ​​Zhang Jr. line, which would be captained by none other than the young stylist herself!

The phone in his hand kept vibrating, and her hunch said she should answer.

A last-minute meeting with foreign investors was not what Eun Ha expected by the end of the afternoon. After visiting one of the factories, the pilot store of Park & ​​Zhang's Jr. line, it was time to present the numbers. It went through evening, and after that, they would probably have dinner with the investors.

This part of her job as a stylist wasn't the coolest part.

"Miss Jung, can your team present the costs of the debut collection, with the current figures, now?" Mr. Danna asked a second time, and Eun Ha blinked. 

"Yes? Ah. Yes. My assistant is going to present it now!" She nodded. Eun Ha had three assistants, who had their own assistants! 

Eun Ha sometimes could hardly believe what was happening! If it weren't for her secret fairy life, she would be elated having the dream job and the dream boyfriend. Well, too bad the Hunter appeared more in dreams of the nightmare type.

When everyone's attention turned to the screen and her assistant started talking about the costs of each clothing, Eun Ha discreetly looked at the screen.

'HM, Ye Rim really wants to talk to me.'

She pressed the button to read the message under the table. Her finger slid the wrong way, however.

Ye Rim's whispered voice rang out loudly on her phone:

NYR: "Unnie ...! Call the police! Come to Pearl, Dae Won is here with me!"

Everyone in the meeting room looked at the stylist.

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"Where's Ji Hyeon?" Ye Rim asked cautiously, realizing in the back of her mind that the fact that Dae Won locked the door was not a good sign.

"Everything in due time," he replied, taking a few steps toward the stairs. "But don't worry about her now ... We will go to the rooftop."

"I want to see Ji Hyeon before I go with you ..." she took steps away from him, going up the stairs. She was prepared for some kind of dirty trick from him. After all, she had an iron rod and even though her hands were shaking, she could imagine using it against Dae Won. The singer let the object slide into her hand in the darkness. "There will be no deal without you showing me Ji Hyeon."

"When did I fail to keep my promises to you?"

Even though he was telling the truth, and he had fulfilled everything he had promised so far, she couldn't trust a crazy psychopath obsessed with Jun Hyeon. Someone who hated any person who drew more attention than himself in Dr. Kim's life. It was obvious that he planned to give her a horrible fate that would make Jun Hyeon bitter for the rest of his life.

'But not with this girl ...' she thought, feeling the cold metal completely free from her sleeve and slid it into her fist. She gripped the tube tightly, keeping her body slightly to the side to hide the weapon. She doubted he saw the object when she entered.

"It's all right. You really were always nice to me, oppa. You even got me out of the crime scene and were very kind to do that. I am grateful. You are always a gentleman with me. That's why I'm doing this. I don't want anyone to get hurt. Neither you. I can stay until you talk all you need to Jun Hyeon oppa..."

She stopped on the floor between floors, trying to think of what to do as he calmly went up. She realized that the burnt smell was worse.

Was it smoke? She looked quickly over the stair railing.

Yes! There was smoke rising from below! Maybe from the ground floor!

"What did you do, oppa ?!"