CHAPTER 400: JO-PIL WOULD PROBABLY WANT TO WATCH IT

(Hurray! We’ve finally hit the 400th Chapter milestone, fufufu. I couldn’t have done it without the support of my cutie readers. So supportive and so encouraging. Even though this period was hard for me since my health isn’t all that great, no one complained about my duds, which made me happy, sniff. So, once again, thank you, readers, for being here. You guys make the community that makes me want to write ’Trapped In A Novel As The Breeding Mate For Four Powerful Alphas’ to the end without taking breaks, haha. But breaks are important, so I don’t get burnout, so cut me some slack, haha. Let’s cheer again in the 500th Chapter, hehe.)

A knock came on the door.

"Come in," Ki-hoon responded, as if he already knew who was at the door.

Then, the door opened and I watched Seo-Jun walk in. Behind him were Min-Cheol and Cha Hyun-woo.

Their gaze naturally fell on me sitting on the bed and then Min-Cheol, who was fidgeting with his fingers, looking worried and sad at the same time, stepped forward to speak first,

"Hyung," he called with a soft and trembling voice.

"Little Min," I called. "I’m sorry for worrying you."

I already knew the words that would come out of his mouth were an apology. But I didn’t want him to apologize, not when he wasn’t at fault for doing anything wrong.

He simply stopped me for my own good. There was nothing wrong there. I knew he wasn’t in the wrong.

But his feelings had already been hurt the moment I ran away from him so I knew I had to be the one to apologize.

My poor baby... I looked at his teary eyes... He probably cried a while back.

Knowing this, my heart felt hurt.

And then I looked towards Seo-Jun. I couldn’t tell what he was thinking. He held a straight face, but I don’t know... what was it I saw in his eyes?

He looked like he wanted to hit me. No, I was thinking it wrong. He did want to hit someone but not me. Probably himself? Or Ki-hoon?

Since Ki-hoon had done something he couldn’t do, he wanted to give us a piece of his mind.

"I’ll check on his condition first," Cha Hyun-woo said, trying not to let the tension swirling in the air intimidate him.

He didn’t know what had happened but it definitely felt tense.

Cha Hyun-woo walked up to me and then asked,

"How do you feel?"

But I didn’t answer right away. I looked at him and then tilted my head.

"If I say I feel light, will you understand what I mean?" I asked but just as expected, he didn’t understand. He looked at me puzzled.

I felt a burden had been lifted from my chest but that probably wasn’t what he was asking about.

"I feel fine, but I’m not sure how my body is, so you’ll have to take a look for yourself," I said and he nodded. He put on his rubber gloves and then held my hand to examine. Then, he saw my scraped elbow. His forehead creased and then he looked at the other. It was the same.

"I would like to take a look at your leg," he said, eyeing Ki-hoon, who was standing next to us, and I nodded.

"Sure."

I lifted the robe a bit to expose my knees and he saw that the side of my leg was scraped and one of my knees had an injury.

"Does it hurt?" He asked but I shook my head.

Why else would I say I feel fine? It’s because I can’t feel the pain right now.

"I’ll treat them." He said, opening his bag. "It’ll sting a bit while I treat it, so I advise you to try to distract yourself."

Hm, he’s never said anything like that to me before. It’ll sting for sure, nothing new there. But why did he ask me to distract myself? It’s almost as if he’s worried it’ll hurt too much.

I twisted my lips.

It seems his feelings, instead of fading with time, are actually growing.

That’s going to cause trouble.

I decided to distract myself as he advised.

"I’m sorry," I apologized, looking at Seo-Jun and then at Min-Cheol. "I mean it."

"You don’t have to apologize, Hyung," Min-Cheol said. "You were probably hurting."

"Well, just because I was hurting and confused, it doesn’t justify that I ended up hurting you guys’ feelings as well," I said to them. "And even if you say it’s nothing, it bothers me. So I’ll apologize so that I can feel better. Is that okay?"

"It’s fine."

"Did you check the CCTV?" Ki-hoon asked, looking at them. "Jo-Pil would probably want to watch it."

I would? I mean, I am curious as to how I got there, but I don’t know if I want to watch it firsthand.

"Is that okay by you, Jo-Pil?" Seo-Jun asked, finally opening his mouth to speak.

He looked at me with a firm gaze and I looked back at him.

It felt like... He wanted to tell me something.

"It... It’s fine." I said and then frowned, hissing. "Hsss."

I looked down at my leg. That stung a lot.

"Sorry," Hyun-woo said. "I’ll be more gentle."

"It’s fine," I said, barely smiling. "It just took me by surprise."

Seo-Jun turned and walked out the door, and Min-Cheol followed after him, as if it took both of them to get the video.

While I waited, I felt rather anxious. What did the video show? I knew I didn’t do any of it with a clear mind, and I was probably sleepwalking, but the fact still remained.

"Ki-hoon Hyung," I called and Ki-hoon looked at me. "Can you... Can you help me get Jie-Yu?"

No matter how I looked at it. The only way to get rid of this feeling that was tampering with my peace was to apologize to Jie-Yu in person.

Even knowing I didn’t do it on purpose wasn’t enough to make me feel at ease. It made me feel even more scared because such a thing could definitely repeat itself in the future.

I have to make it known to Jie-Yu so she doesn’t come to hate me for it.

"Alright," Ki-hoon said and then walked out of the room.

I gripped the sheets, biting the inner walls of my mouth, and then closed my eyes.

The spirit definitely stung more than I thought.

"Are you okay?" Cha Hyun-woo asked.

We were alone now, but I don’t think we would dare do something reckless.

"Yes, I’m fine," I said. "It’s just a few scrapes anyway,"

Hyun-woo touched my leg softly and gently and I wondered what was going through his mind while he was doing this.

He was treating me but that grip was too soft to be considered nothing.

What was he thinking?

When I looked at him like that, it looked like he was taking his sweet time, enjoying the opportunity he had to hold on to my leg and treat my delicate skin.

I’d like to think I was imagining it but that couldn’t be the case when he had such an expression on his face.

"Can I ask you something?" I asked and he raised his head.

"Yes, go ahead." He said and I looked at his face. He seemed too eager.

Gosh, what am I doing right now? As much as I would like to put out the flame in front of me, it seemed like no matter what I did, I would end up fanning it instead and giving it more fuel.

"Why do you like me?" I asked and he froze.

He stayed still for a moment, his heart racing in fear as he had been caught and then he responded.

"W-what?" He narrowed his eyes, looking away from me. "I don’t know what you’re talking about."

"I’d have believed you if you managed to keep your expression straight like you always did," I said to him. "And your response was far too delayed for my words to be considered nonsense."

"Please don’t speak such words carelessly," he said, his eyes trailing to the door. "I don’t know why you decided to mess with me but please stop it."

Hm, so he did know it was dangerous to like me, and yet he was making it so obvious that he was happy to touch my leg with no one watching him.

"Why do you like me?" I asked once again and he frowned.

"Please stop saying things like that. It’s dangerous for you to speak out about such assumptions."

"Dangerous for who? Me or you?" I asked but he didn’t respond.

"Regardless, you should be mindful of your words." He said to me but I didn’t care. He was the one who shamefully grew feelings for me after treating me like that from the start.

I don’t mean to get him fired. I just... Want to know why he triggered his feelings for me, if at all he knew.

"Hm, that’s strange," I said, narrowing my eyes. "You keep saying I’m speaking carelessly and that it’s dangerous for me to say such things but... You never once denied the fact."

He flinched.

"So, I’m right. You do have feelings for me, doc."