Chapter 389 - 387: A Kiss To Quench The Thirst

Hearing her warning, Alora became scared and immediately obeyed Eunji. But first, Alora had taken over all the CCTV footages being played in the control room and made sure that President Williams and his men won't be able to see Eunji and her attempt of saving Nathan.

As they inched closer to Nathan's location, Eunji saw many guards posting along the corridor.

Eunji had studied the entire blueprint of the place. She knew every exits and entrance. Most importantly the air vents which she could use in going in towards the room where Nathan was held captive.

Eunji decided to avoid those people. She could kill them in a snap but they were too many to not caught the other people's attention had they disappeared from their posts all of a sudden.

Eunji looked around and saw the room which had the perfect access to the air vent connected on Nathan's room.

When she was finally in, she locked the door behind her and then examined the entire room at the same time the location of the opening on the ceiling.

"There you are." She mumbled.

Eunji then dragged the table and the chair on the area below it and she placed the chair on top of the wooden table so it'd be much easier for her to climb up.

"Tell me if someone's coming to this room."

"Will do, Eomma."

Eunji was still in pain but at least she could now move freely compared to the first two days that she had regained consciousness.

The pain brought by her injuries were now manageable compared to before.

Her wounds still had stitches on them but thanks to the outfit she had chosen to wear. It helped her in hiding them to everyone and also just in case the stitches in one of her incision reopened.

"Careful, Eomma." Alora reminded her of her movements but Eunji ignored it.

The space on the vent was big enough to fit her and allow her to make some movements but she was sure that Nathan would have a hard time moving inside it.

She was in a hurry to reach him quickly before the nine people back in the control room would start their move towards him and her sister.

Eunji slowly crawled inside the vent and at the same time, she listened on the rooms below it. Though Alora was there to guide her the way, she didn't want to miss it. She's afraid to miss it.

Nathan was oblivious to the fact that Eunji was already coming at him.

He was also thankful that Alora had stopped pestering him with those questions that he felt guilty answering quickly.

Just then, he heard the cover on the ceiling moved. And when he looked up, he saw a person wearing that ghost mask. Before he could even react, Eunji called him out.

"Hurry and climb up!" She whisper yelled at him as she removed the ghost mask to show her face.

Though he had no clue of what was going on, Nathan's body moved on it's own and he dragged the table below that opening and climbed on top of it.

When their faces finally inched closer, Eunji suddenly grabbed Nathan's nape and kissed him. It did caught Nathan by surprise thus took him some time to respond to it.

He was unaware that what he was doing was making Eunji to feel bad and sad and so she decided to slow down and was about to stop.

When he felt Eunji slowing down and about to stop after receiving no response from him, Nathan grabbed her nape and finally responded. This time, he hungrily kissed her back.

They started tasting iron inside their mouths but they didn't stop and ignored it. They even ignored their difficult position. What mattered to them both was to quench this kind of thirst that they had been feeling for a long time.

They clearly missed each other. After many weeks of their separation filled with tears and sorrow, Eunji was finally able to hold and kiss him like how they used to in the past.

Nathan missed Eunji. That every night he would look at her photo he kept inside his wallet just so he could have even a little sleep.

When they finally started moaning, Eunji pushed Nathan away. This did caught Nathan by surprise but he didn't ask her a question why she did it.

With her blushed face, Eunji cleared her throat to calm herself and at the same time to regain her composure.

"I'm sorry. I should have not done that. This is not the right place for us to continue what we have started earlier."

"I agree." Nathan awkwardly replied while scratching the back of his head.

Now was not the perfect time to ask questions about their well-beings either. Well, they didn't have to raise that question. Just a single glance and they could already tell that they were both not fine.

Those dark circles around their eyes which they were trying to conceal were already a proof on how much they had been struggling.

"What are you doing here?" Nathan asked her a different yet appropriate question.

"Helping you escape? They locked you up in here. And I don't think they have plans in setting you free."

Nathan grunted when he saw how small the space was inside the vent when he looked at it.

"It's useless. It's too small for me. I can't fit in there. Just go back from where you come from before they started questioning your whereabouts." He really wanted Eunji to leave him and go back so she'd be safe. However, Eunji was also determined to get him out from this place.

"What? No way! Do you know that President Williams has already raised a bounty for your head?"

Nathan only smirked when he heard it which made Eunji less surprised. She thought that Nathan must have had already gotten the idea.

"He really dared, to." Nathan's gaze darkened.

"Of course, he would. He even included Anastasia on it." She added but forgot to mention Mr. Alinsky's name.

"No. He wouldn't dare to do it."

Then, he grabbed something on his pocket.

"This contains the files of everything I have discovered against President Williams over the past nine years. It contains all of his dirty laundry. And I have already uploaded this as a virus to their servers and all I need is one command to activate it and reveal to every mercenaries the shameful things he had done."

Edric had not told him about it that's why he got the courage to put a request for their heads.

But for Eunji, she could already sense that something was off about it.

"Promise me that you won't be hurt when you do it."

"Of course, love. I won't let myself to be harmed. And so you have to go back now. I don't want you to be hurt either."

"Ahm, Eomma. I'm sorry to interrupt you and Appa but someone's heading this way. And this is bad news for you both." Alora interrupted.

"I get it. But I have to make sure that he'll be safe." Eunji refuted.

Nathan knew what he was doing and he also wanted to reassure Eunji that he'll be fine the moment she left and go back.

In the hallway leading to that room, two top ranked mercenaries were calmly walking towards Nathan's detention room. They were Toby and Taylor. The only siblings who placed seventh and eighth in the rankings.

"Love. Listen to our daughter. You should go back before someone would realize what you are up to. I know you'd agree to me when I say that this is not the perfect time for them to know that you didn't die that night."

After everyone's combined efforts just to save her that night and the very detailed plan to cover it up, it'd be such a waste if Francais found out that Eunji was still alive.

Her life would be in danger again.

She should stay as Demi for the meantime and should avoid any interaction with him or to anyone to not raise any doubt.

Nathan was so worried that he slipped his tongue and revealed to her that he knew about what had happened to her.

"So, you knew about what had happened to me." She initially said but then she changed it when she realized something, "So it's you. You're actually there."

Eunji felt happy and at the same time disappointed because Nathan gave him his silence as an answer.

Should he really have to hide it from her? Did he really not want her to know about this? Why?

"Tell me honestly, do you hate me?"

"No, I don't!" Nathan quickly refuted it.

"Then, why did you not want me to find out that it was actually you? Before I was pushed inside that emergency room, I thought I was only hallucinating that I saw you." Eunji felt broken hearted.

"I'm sorry Love. But I wasn't ready to come back to you that time. Even now. I am not ready. But since-"

"Since I am here. You have no other choice but to reveal yourself to me. Is that it?"

Nathan knew that he couldn't outsmart her with this.

"Yes. I have left my reasons in that letter. I made that decision to protect you. You're right. As long as they exist, we can't have a peaceful relationship. So I thought of capitalizing the idea of us getting a divorce to use that opportunity to hunt down our enemies." He then bowed down as he's ashamed to what he had done.

"I should have not left you especially when you're in your most vulnerable state. I was just really hurt that time. And I started blaming myself for failing to protect our child and being an irresponsible parent and a husband. I have put you in that situation. My reckless decision puts you in that situation. I was so ashamed that I could not even look at you in the eye."

He planned to impregnate her as he was afraid that he'd leave her. He was hoping that she would stop doing those dangerous things but his plan backfired and it ended hurting them both especially Eunji.

However, this was not the perfect time and place for him to explain everything. His priority now was to make her leave him for now and save herself from danger.

"I'll explain to you everything but for now, please go back."

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