"Hyung went where?" 

"I have no idea... He said he had some business in Singapore, so he left early this morning." 

Bomin's mother replied as she was setting up the table for breakfast to be served. Bomin's father denied to be in the same space as his younger son, so he found his seat comfortably without any of his father's resentment lingering around the area. He found it oddly suspicious that his brother was going to Singapore when there was no recent business trade between the two; he was positive that Mina was not in communication with the brother as the two only met a few times. 

"She went to Busan?" 

Hanbin and Jeonghan both talked amongst each other as they couldn't believe that Mina suddenly just switched her plans from attacking them to just leaving for vacation. In some parts, they both didn't want to believe it but Bomin's secretary continuously followed her until her arrival to Busan. 

"Isn't it suspicious that both of our competitions just leave...?" 

Hanbin questioned his older brother as Jeonghan just shrugged it off as he replied back with a laugh, "They can't beat us...word says that father is trying to take back his stocks from Bomin's and Mina's marriage...but too late...it's all slowly coming down between us three." 

"What are you planning to do..?" 

"Hey, I need to get all the stolen money back from Bomin's investment. That's our main priority..and it always has been. You may have been friends with Mina, but I wasn't. I have no remorse for her and her little love story." 

Hanbin rolled his eyes to himself as the two continued to eat their sandwiches as they have basically been shunned from entering their own home after their father recovered and arrived back from the hospital room. Bomin was to arrive to Jeonghan's office for a meeting, but he already called ahead of time that he was going to be late as he had some other business to settle with the men who captured his hostages. He was determined to bring them all in tomorrow where he would finally get rid of his dark evidence. He also just wanted to make Hyunsuk disappear as he despised how Hyunsuk disobeyed his orders and fled like a chicken. 

Myungsoo arrived into the airport as he made sure to keep his disguised figure hidden. Someone wrapped her arm around his as she linked it lovingly as Mina looked up at him with her huge sunglasses covering her face. They made the perfect run for it towards getting onto a flight in Singapore as soon as there were tickets available so that they could fly into Australia in just a few hours. They needed all the time they could possibly have as Bomin's secretary was threatened immediately by Somi, who was the decoy Mina. 

The moment Somi arrived to Busan, she managed to find the snitch as she made sure to keep the secretary within her grasp so that Myungsoo and Mina would arrive to Australis without any difficulty. The hunt was on as Mina anticipated for a possible moment where she would finally reconnect with Hyunsuk and just go into hiding forever.  

Daehwi uncomfortably shifted in his seat as he watched Lia and Jaemin talk quietly amongst each other as they got some time to go to the bathrooms and eat some lunch. Hyunsuk still remained silent throughout all of this as he was determined to not lose his mentality through this. The men were playing games on their phone as the final day for them to be in Australia would be today, and they had no other choice but to stick around until Bomin gave them the final okay so that they wouldn't be suspected by anyone. 

Daehwi turned his head to glance at Hyunsuk as he whispered to the other to get him to respond, "Sir.." 

Hyunsuk did not respond nor gave him a quick glance as Daehwi made an annoyed expression before calling his name out again discretely, "Hyunsuk..shi." 

Jaemin glanced to look at Daehwi confusingly as Lia nudged Hyunsuk with her foot as he finally turned his head to give his attention towards the youngest. Daehwi tiled his head to the side in confusion as he thought to himself why he risked his life to listen to his step-sister to save this guy. Hyunsuk continued to stare at the youngest before replying back with a grunt, "What?" 

"I can't believe that I risked my life to save this little ungrateful shit..who has no respect for me." 

Jaemin nudged him with his knee as he glared at the youngest, "Yo calm down." 

"How could I calm down when all he's been doing is just sit there..maybe he should do something like ask Bomin for help since we're all in this situation because of this loser." 

"What you say to me-" Hyunsuk started to get a little more agitated as Lia tried her best to calm him down as she was trying to remind them that they weren't in a situation to argue right now. 

"Yeah. You think you're so tough right now just sitting there...like because of you and your stupid little deal to mess with Mina, you cause all this mess. You think you're so innocent." 

Daehwi replied back with a louder voice which started to catch the attention of the men as they all started to stare at the fight arising between the two as Lia and Jaemin did their best to calm the situation. Hyunsuk burrowed his eyebrows angrily as he shouted in response, "Oh yeah, you think you're the best little brother to Mina, huh? You think that you are sooo innocent. She's been alone this entire time, and maybe that's why she had no choice to get married to a bastard like Bomin...and with that, we didn't mean to start liking each other..but because of you and your obsessively annoying mother, we ended up acting like we were dating when we started to like each other later on." 

"What did you just say about my mom?!" 

Daehwi managed to stand up as the ropes on his legs loosened since he was given some freedom to move his feet around after complaining for hours about them aching. He inched his way towards Hyunsuk and managed to kick Hyunsuk's stomach, which he immediately fell to the ground since he couldn't support himself. 

Jaemin and Lia were yelling at the two to stop as the men started to make their way over to try and break up the fight. But what they didn't realize was that Jaemin already had loosened up everyone's ropes during that period as Jaemin soon shoved Hyunsuk out of the way to run and start hitting the men with the wooden chair he was carrying. 

Lia also managed to do the same as Daehwi then dragged Hyunsuk away from the group to escape through the back door. Hyunsuk widened his eyes as Daehwi glanced around the area as if he was waiting for someone as they both started to run out of the warehouse as there were men soon chasing after them. 

"Where do we go-"

"Don't worry..I have a GPS in my watch. Mina is coming." 

A car pulled up to them as they arrived to the entrance of the walkway where the warehouse would be hidden behind the trees. There were a few more cars that are started to arrive as they surrounded the location as cops immediately screamed at the men to stand back as Myungsoo exited from his car, playing with his sunglasses as he waved at Daehwi, "Hello there, brother-in-law. Sorry to keep you guys waiting." 

Hyunsuk watched the passenger seat open as Mina got out of the car with a worried smile as she threw her hat off and onto her seat. She closed the door as she patted Daehwi's shoulder as she thanked him quietly before throwing her arms around Hyunsuk's neck to hug him tightly. 

The two embraced quietly and tightly as there were no words exchanged, just heavy breathing as Mina finally kept her promise that she would find him. And he never resented her for it. 

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sorry for the long wait, i needed a good break from writing.