9. ROOTS

My characters won't be perfect in this one. They'll be stained, filthy, and unlovable. Just a heads up :) this chapter doesn't have a TaeJin moment in it but I would appreciate it if you read this and comment me on what you feel about Tae here. Please I beg of you 😭🤣

I went back to Korea the day after Hera talked to me. I will have to break Jin. I agreed to Hera's plan. I needed to do this. She is right. Jin is too young for me and he will have all the time in the world to heal and forget me. He will find another man and make him happy, give him kids and a beautiful family.

I clenched my fist.

Thinking about him having another man touch him makes me mad MAD. But I won't let my chance to make Zeus's fall possible. This is once in a lifetime. I can live without love. Maybe. But I can't risk the chance of not avenging myself and my mother.

"Master, Jimin is here." My bodyguard said.

"Let him in."

He bowed and went outside again. Jimin is here. Just like what Hera said, if I want the downfall of Zeus, I need to target his son Jungkook. I read about his personal information and found out what's dear to him. It's Jimin.

Jimin was not rich unlike us. He is a nurse in a hospital that Kim's own. They met there and fell in love.

"Taehyung." He said coldly.

"Welcome, dear Jimin. What would you like? Coffee? Tea?" I asked him. I was grinning devilishly. I know why he's here. He doesn't need to talk.

"Cut the crap! What did Jungkook do? What is it that you have to tell me?"

He sounded so worried. I chuckled. This is the reaction I am waiting for. He will be clouded with different emotions and his decision-making skills won't be of any great use.

"I heard that your father is sick, right?" I said to him. I looked at his expression and he seemed to be taken aback.

"Y-yes."

"What a pity that you lost your only job, got fired without knowing it, and finding out that Jungkook was the one who did that."

His eyes widened with the last statement that I gave him. He covered his mouth with his hands and started crying.

Pathetic.

"H-he did not! Stop lying! He won't do such a thing!"

I crossed my arms. "Really? You think so? What if I tell you that I know all these facades? You might fool everyone but You can't fool me. I see between those sharp eyes exchanged by the Kim's while looking at you and how they whisper shit against you. Maybe it's not Jungkook but what if it's Namjoon? His brother. What if it's Athena? Or Zeus? You don't know how vicious they can get, Jimin."

"No!" He shouted and tried to punch me but I held his fist.

"YES!" I grabbed the files that were on the table.

"See that Jimin? They agreed to terminate you. Zeus, Athena, Namjoon, and most especially the love of your life Jungkook. You have nowhere to go. Now, will you take my offer?"

His hands tremble as he looks at the piece of paper. His eyes watered even more. He kept his gaze on the paper but spoke:

"What shall we do?"

I smirked. My plan is working.

"Well, we are not evil people, are we? So I have a plan in mind. I want you to work for me as my private nurse. You'll have double the salary than your previous company. A free house for your father and a free car. I want to increase that but it depends on your performance."

"You won't use me to get revenge for Jungkook?"

I shook my head, "No. Why would I do that? I am here to help you. I know how you feel. They made me experience that once."

He looked at me with wonder. "What is it?"

I breathed deeply and started to tell him my story. I made him sat on the couch and ordered the maids to give us juice.

"My Mom was a maid before in Hyperion's house - my father. My mother worked in Greece to make sure that the family she left in Korea will have a beautiful life. My mom was the only child of my grandparents. She got hired the day my father saw him and had a great attraction towards my mom. My mom was oblivious about it and worked like how she is supposed to, do the chores, clean rooms, cook, and such.

Then one day, my father told my mom that he likes her so much it kills him. That my mom was the only woman he loved. My mom tried to brush it off and pretend not to know anything about how her boss feels towards him. Aside from the fact that he is way older than him, he is already married to Zeus's mother. But father was persistent he courted my mom. Made her feel loved and my mother fell hard to him."

Jimin knotted his forehead.

"She became his mistress. They would be in each other's arms in the dead of the night and that's when I was conceived. Mom said they were happy knowing about me. But Zeus's mom wasn't. She eventually found out. She kicked out my mom when Hyperion was not around, she even kept us in a place where Hyperion won't come and look for us.

But fate has a way of playing things. After 15 years, Mom already accepted that he won't be with the man she loves and she moved on, but one day at the market they bumped into each other. They made up and forgive each other. Father brought us home. Zeus's mother was furious. For two years we lived together, Me, my mom, Zeus, and my Dad until he died. He parted his riches between me and Zeus Equally. He gave my mom a portion of it too but none for his wife.

She was mad at us for it. She used her own money to take away everything from us. My mom was so naive about those things and didn't fight for her right with everything my father entrusted to her. She died not claiming back what's hers. She died because we lack money and lived on the streets of Seoul in the cold winter. I can clearly remember how her eyes give up life while the last words she said were: Hyperion. She smiled after that and died.

I tried asking for help from them but what Zeus' mother had done was laugh at my face and said that my mom deserves it."

I smiled at the bitter memory. It was still painful but it's my fuel to drive myself to get better every single day to make them pay to what my Mom experienced.

Because starting from that day, I vowed to get revenge on them. Too bad she already died, I can't slap to her face how I managed to pull myself together and be this big while standing by myself. Unlike her son who has everything in the world but is still ungrateful as fuck and won't give me what's mine. But I won't tell Jimin that. He doesn't need to know that.

"That's just tragic," Jimin said.

"Yeah. I know. So will you take my offer?" I offered him my hand.

"Yes. But I still don't trust you."

We shook hands and a deal was made. I'm one step closer to my plan.

Jimin started to work with me that day. Gave me my pills, take care of my needs and eat with me. I can't eat alone.

Then one day, my nephew Jungkook was about to go to my house. He needed my guide to venture on a new investment. Nobody in their company can do it so he needs me. I specifically asked him to go to my house and that kid is naive. He did go.

I was watching from afar when he came. He saw me and went in my direction.

"Hey, nephew! You're early, excited for your first day?"

He shook his head at me. He is not speaking. I know he is not happy seeing me. He went further inside when he stopped his tracks.

He saw Jimin.

He is wearing his uniform and he is fixing my meds and my orange juice.

Jimin looked at Jungkook.

"What's this?" He asked.

"Oh, I see you already met my private nurse."

He clenched his jaws. I smirked.

"This is Park Jimin, my nurse. And Jimin this is Jungkook, my nephew. I guess you two know each other?"

"Why do you need a nurse, Taehyung? Are you dying?" He asked. I chuckled.

"No, I won't die. And if there's someone who will die in this room it's not me."

He gasped when I went near Jimin and grabbed his waist and held him possessively.

I grinned at him.

"I need a massage, Nurse Jimin. If you don't mind, Jungkook?"

I signaled him to go out.

He just glared at me.

This is fun. Except when from Jungkook's back, I saw his cousin. Jin saw me with Jimin.

This is hell. But I'm willing to endure it in the name of revenge.

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