By Zephyria It’s okay, this is just a period of adjustment.
Yu-jin had always lived alone, isolated from society. It would take time to get used to relationships with people and various systems.
After returning to the family, Winston first hired someone to help with that. So that Yu-jin could also live his own life while he was focused on work.
I’m different from Father.
He would let Yu-jin do whatever he wanted. To do that, he needed education to help him know what he wanted.
His relationship with the employee seemed pretty good. Yu-jin learned a lot from him. He was once so engrossed in movies that he watched them all week, and he also fell in love with photography and asked him to buy him a camera. He would gradually learn one by one like that. It was painful that Winston couldn’t be a part of that process, but it couldn’t be helped.
I should take a vacation next week.
He wanted to go on a trip together and experience what Yu-jin had learned. They didn’t have enough time together, so they had to create it one by one. To do that, Winston had been willingly working overtime for days. Hoping that their own good time would come soon.
Knowing nothing about Yu-jin.
When Gordon’s words suddenly came to mind, he felt angry again. He even regretted just letting him go. He vowed to make him regret it someday and hurriedly finished the remaining work.
It was well past midnight when he barely finished the work. He was about to head to the hotel to get some sleep before the first flight, when suddenly his cell phone vibrated. Winston, who was sitting in the driver’s seat and checking his email without much thought, stopped moving.
At first, he thought it was spam. That some trash was sending him obscene emails.
But just as he was about to delete it, he suddenly received a call from an unknown number. Perhaps his brain, exhausted from days of fatigue, had failed to execute the command properly. Unlike usual, Winston answered the phone. He realized he had made a mistake after hearing the voice from the other side. Ah, a man said to Winston, who let out a low sigh.
“Um, Winston Campbell?”
At the insecure voice, Winston frowned and said nothing. With silence between them, the man anxiously spoke.
“Um, are you Winston Campbell? Did you receive the email I sent?”
Ha, after letting out a deep sigh, Winston was about to hang up. As if seeing that, the man shouted in a rapid tone.
“W-we have countless videos like that. If you don’t want them uploaded to the internet, give us money!”
“Really? Thanks for the good information.”
Winston said indifferently and immediately hung up the phone. He was about to delete the email as well, but at the same time, another email arrived. Attached was another similar video. Just as he was about to delete the email, thinking he had been caught by some thugs, he suddenly stopped. The man in the video looked somewhat familiar.
…No way.
Just as he froze, the phone rang again. It was the same number as before. Winston hesitated for a moment before pressing the call button.
“See, you saw it, right? You checked the email I sent, right?”
The man was much more energetic than before. Winston paused before opening his mouth.
“Anyone can make these fake videos.”
“If you think it’s fake, have an expert check it, they’ll tell you it’s 100 percent real.”
He was confident. Unless he was an idiot, would he try to pull off such an obvious scam?
His belief in Yu-jin wavered for a moment, but soon he changed his mind. These things can be faked in any way. It could be someone similar in disguise.
“Even if the video is real, it doesn’t prove that this is someone I know. I don’t want to waste time unnecessarily, so don’t contact me again.”
Just as he was about to hang up, the man suddenly threw out a word.
“Really? Then it’s okay if this spreads all over the internet, right?”
At those words, Winston wavered for a moment. Even if this wasn’t real, Yu-jin might be harmed. Then shouldn’t he stop it, even if it meant giving them money?
But then countless thugs would rush at him again.
Ha, after letting out a short sigh, Winston spat out indifferently.”Do as you please, it’s not real anyway. But don’t forget, we’ll find you no matter what and make you pay the price.”
This time, he really hung up. There was no reason to waste any more time. As he tried to delete the email, the video unavoidably caught his eye. Winston deleted the video of someone who looked too much like Yu-jin, surrounded by several men, receiving semen and wearing an ecstatic expression. He didn’t need to look in a mirror to know that his face was contorted in disgust.
Who made such a filthy video?
He knew well that there were groups who extorted money by threatening innocent people in the same way. Of course, until it happens to you, you never think you could be a victim of crime. And Winston now knew how disgusting it felt to actually experience it.
Whether they spread the video or not, I’m going to catch them and beat them half to death.
He couldn’t forgive them for making something like that with Yu-jin as the target. He resisted the urge to delete the additional emails and put his phone down for now.
Suddenly, he wanted to see Yu-jin’s face. He wanted to go right now and see with his own eyes that he was okay, and hold him tight. He wanted to promise to protect him from the whole world and kiss him.
How shocked and scared would Yu-jin be if he knew he’d received such an email?
Torn between wanting to show him how scary the world was and not wanting to make him tremble with fear, Winston ultimately chose the latter. Was there really a need for him to know? He could be happy as long as he was within the safe fence Winston had built.
Yu-jin had lived alone, lonely and desolate, until now. He was just starting to freely meet various people and expand his activities, and he couldn’t close off his world again and isolate him.
It’ll be okay.
He thought so and started the car. Wasn’t he building up his strength now for that very reason? So Yu-jin didn’t need to know about such dirty things.
I’ll protect you.
Winston vowed and stepped on the accelerator. He suddenly missed Yu-jin so much. He couldn’t wait until tomorrow morning.
He called the aviation company as he drove.
“Sorry for the sudden request, but can I charter a private jet? Right now.”
The VIP service representative, who operated 24 hours a day, was startled and quickly arranged a plane. It would take only two hours to prepare the pilot and crew. And Winston immediately left for Yu-jin on a private jet.
* * *
When the plane landed at the airport, there was still quite some time before dawn. The city at dawn was desolate and even eerie. Winston immediately took a taxi home. The night guard, who was guarding the entrance, greeted him with a surprised look.
“A-are you coming now?”
He seemed flustered for some reason, but Winston brushed it off and headed for the private elevator. Yu-jin would be asleep by now. The thought of holding him and falling asleep already seemed to ease the tension in his shoulders. Winston watched the numbers change one by one, feeling his heart beat faster and faster.
Winnie!
A smile spread across his face as he imagined Yu-jin waking up in the morning and being happy to see his face. At the same time, his anger at the swindler who had created the ridiculous video was rekindled.
There are too many bastards in the world who need to die.
Should I make a list? There are plenty of people who wouldn’t hesitate to kill for money. He was making a list in his head, one by one, when the elevator arrived. Winston smoothed out his furrowed brow and waited for the door to open.
“Honey…”
He stepped into the entrance with a bright smile, but soon stopped. An unexpected scent filled the house.
It was the pheromone scent of another Alpha, not his own.