Yu Jin’s POV
I didn’t breathe for a full second after hearing the voice on the phone.
"Yes, Madam Park. I’m doing everything to ensure Park Min is completely broken."
I stood there in the restroom stall, hand over my mouth, heart punching against my ribs. My body turned cold.
No, not cold. Wrong. Everything in scread wrong.
Min’s mother?
Why would she do that to him?
My brain didn’t even know how to process it. I replayed the words again in my head, slower this ti, trying to convince myself I heard it wrong.
Ensure Park Min is completely broken.
No. No. No.
I flushed the toilet to cover the noise, even though I didn’t need to pee anymore. My legs felt weak as I stepped out. The person on the phone was gone. The scent faded, like they left in a hurry.
I stepped toward the sink and stared at myself in the mirror. My hands shook. My throat tightened.
If Madam Park was behind everything...
If she was the one trying to destroy Min...
Then Min didn’t know.
And if Min didn’t know, then he was walking straight into....
I walked out of the restroom fast.
I needed to tell him.
Right now.
This second.
No thinking.
No "maybe I’m wrong."
I headed down the hall, ignoring the confused looks. A few people glared at like I was an infection in their workplace, but I didn’t care.
My bond pulled tight in my chest. Min was sowhere upstairs. I could feel his energy like a static buzz. He wasn’t blacking out yet but he wasn’t stable either. I needed to reach him before sothing hit him again.
The elevator dinged.
I stepped inside and reached for the button....
An arm shot in from the side and stopped the doors.
I looked up.
A man I didn’t recognize smiled at . Too wide.
"Yu Jin, right? CEO Park wants to see you on the top floor. He sent ."
My bond didn’t react.
Not even slightly.
Min didn’t send anybody.
My stomach dropped.
"No," I said, voice flat. "I’m going upstairs."
The man’s smile didn’t move. His eyes flicked to the security cara, then back to . His hand tightened around the side rail.
"He insisted."
That was when I saw it.
A tiny injection gun in his other hand.
Not hidden well enough.
"Nope," I whispered, stepping back.
The elevator doors almost closed...
His hand grabbed my wrist.
"Don’t make it harder," he muttered.
I yanked away. "Let go."
He didn’t.
Soone else stepped behind , too close.
The scent hit next, chemical, sharp. And it had a masking spray.
Shit.
"Let ..."
A cloth pressed over my mouth.
My lungs seized before I even inhaled.
"Breathe in," the man whispered. "It’s easier that way."
I didn’t want to. I fought hard. I kicked, elbowed, clawed
but everything blurred. My vision dipped. My knees buckled.
The last thing I heard before everything went black was:
"Madam Park wants him delivered alive."
Park Min’s POV
Yu Jin wasn’t answering his ssages.
At first, I thought he was ignoring on purpose.
He did that sotis when he was annoyed or overwheld. I let him. I didn’t want to scare him more than I already had.
But it had been forty minutes.
Forty minutes was too long.
I checked the caras from my phone.
I checked the hall sensors.
I checked the elevator logs.
Nothing.
I knew the blackout was coming before it hit. It warned with a sharp pressure behind my teeth and a pulse rushing through my veins. My muscles tensed on their own, ready to snap at anything.
Then the scent of Yu Jin faded.
And my body reacted.
Find him.
I tried to breathe, tried to stay still, tried to pretend everything was normal but my chest hurt. Pain. Sharp and direct. Like the bond was pulling and I wasn’t moving with it.
I stood up from the table so fast all the board mbers flinched.
"Where’s Yu Jin?"
No one answered.
"I asked a question."
A few exchanged glances. One cleared his throat. "He stepped out for a mont..."
"No," I said. "He didn’t."
The blackout rolled in.
Enough to shake .
Papers slid on the table from the vibration. A few chairs scraped. Soone gasped quietly.
I didn’t care.
My lungs wouldn’t expand right.
My skin felt too tight.
My body kept repeating one thing:
Find him.
Find him.
Find him.
I stord out and went straight to security.
"Pull the cara feeds."
The head of security swallowed. "Which section, sir?"
"All of them."
He hesitated.
I grabbed his collar and slamd him into the desk. Not hard enough to break anything but hard enough to warn him I was seconds away from letting the blackout take over.
"Do it," I hissed.
He scrambled to open the feeds. The screens flicked through hallways, offices, staircases. I scanned every fra, checking every face.
Nothing.
No Yu Jin.
The bond pulse hit again and I almost crashed to my knees. My hand gripped the desk to stay upright. Sweat gathered on my temple. My throat burned.
"Find him," I growled.
The head of security stamred. "Sir, maybe he went outside"
"He didn’t."
My voice cracked.
Not with weakness.
With sothing worse.
Fear.
I called the police.
I, Park Min, called the fucking police for the first ti in my entire life. The officer on the line sounded nervous when I explained the situation. I wasn’t surprised.
People were scared of even on the phone.
"My oga has kidnapped," I said. "Send a unit right now."
The officer tried to calm talking about the 24 hour rule and honestly that shit needs to be abolished but I ended the call. I didn’t need calm. I needed Yu Jin.
I nearly punched the wall when the blackout surged again.
Then the door burst open.
"Where’s Yu Jin?!"
Woo Min.
Of course.
He ran toward , eyes wide, breath fast. His scent hit first; panic, worry and protectiveness. It hit my body like a shove. The blackout snarled at it, reacting hard.
"Don’t co close," I warned.
He didn’t care. He grabbed my jacket.
"Where is he?! You lost him?! You lost the father of my child?!"
"Let go," I growled.
"No! You need to find him!" Woo Min shoved backwards. "You’re his fucking damn Alpha! What are you doing standing here?! Move!"
"I AM trying.."
"You’re NOT!" he barked. His voice cracked. "Find him before sothing happens! He has a child, Min! My child! And you let him disappear?!"
The blackout snapped inside like a chain.
I grabbed Woo Min by the collar and shoved him into the wall.
He froze, breath stuck.
"Don’t talk to like that," I said quietly. "And that big you’re galing about has my DNA."
For a mont, neither of us breathed.
His eyes softened, just barely.
"Min," he said, quieter. "This is your fucking fault. Since you ca into our lives, it’s been so miserable for us, you’ve done nothing but cause us trouble."
I opened my hand, releasing him.
He stayed close but didn’t touch again.
"What happened?" he asked, voice lower.
I swallowed. My throat was tight. "He’s gone."
Woo Min’s expression cracked. All the anger slipped under the fear.
"You promised ," he whispered. "You promised you’d keep him safe."
I looked away. "I know."
"Then fix it," he said. "Bring him back."
Before I could answer, my phone buzzed.
A ssage.
An unknown number.
I opened it.
One picture.
Yu Jin.
Unconscious.
Bruise on his jaw.
Hands tied.
A blindfold across his eyes.
My vision blurred around the edges. The blackout surged like a punch to the lungs.
Woo Min looked over my shoulder and inhaled sharply. "No... oh God..."
Then another ssage appeared.
"If you want him alive, stop looking for him."
My hand shook.
My breath stopped.
My entire bond scread.
Woo Min grabbed my arm. " YOU FUCKER BRING HIM BACK!!"
"Get out," I whispered.
"What?"
"Get out."
"Park Min!!"
"GET OUT."
Because the blackout was coming.
And this ti
I wasn’t sure
I could stop it.
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