Chapter 40: You can count on me
"Hwang Jo-Pil," Jin-Yeok called and I snapped out of my anxiety. "I don't know how you've been doing since you arrived here or how you were able to take that stubborn child," he said, referring to Min-Cheol on my shoulders and Min-Cheol bared his fangs out at him. "But I'd say you're doing quite better than I expected."
Hm, he was probably expecting me to be torn to shreds by either one of them by now. I mean, I was sure he knew of Jo-Pil and Ki-hoon's 'history'. He worked an amazing information network being a Lord of the underworld so this little detail shouldn't evade him.
It was also that lover of his that brought up the fact that Jo-Pil had killed an Alpha in other to cause conflict between Jo-Pil and the Alphas who were starting to show interest in him.
That information was definitely gotten from one of Jin-Yeok's secret folders of Jo-Pil that he kept to himself.
Me killing someone didn't have anything to do with him anyway. He had killed tons, after all. He just needed an heir and that was it.
But with the way things are going now, I think I can strike out that incident from the plot unless that lover of his never knows that they are all aware and that the misunderstanding has been settled and tries to pull that stunt in the future.
It will end in utter failure, no doubt.
"Come," he said with a tone that sounded like a command despite his gentle smile. "Do you like gifts?"
"I... I do." I said as I walked forward with Min-Cheol still holding on to me.
"Do you have any in particular?" He asked but I shook my head.
As long as it was valuable, I'll appreciate it. That was what I wished to say, but it would be too brazen of me, so I answered politely and humbly.