Can you smell the blood?
It's coming...
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▫️The day of Sunghoon's murder▫️

▪️Taehyung's point of view ~

Since the beginning of the morning, I was feeling odd, something unprecedented. Dallia was acting weird. She's been so distressed these past months and today she was even worse. She wasn't completely herself. It felt like she was wearing a veil on every single of her feelings. I knew my wife, she wasn't good but her denial had me in chains and I couldn't help her. I was checking on the company's website as I heard something like smashing glass, so I decided to go downstairs.

The door of my room begrudgingly creaked open. A musty, dank order crept into my nose. The house was dead silent except for the intermittent creaks and moans. I quietly entered the dark living room. Windows covered with gloomy drops of rain, the calm moonlight struggled to penetrate the darkness in thin thread rays. Such a wild rain!

I saw a light source in the kitchen as I was walking around to find Dallia, "Baby?" I called her as I felt an unusual presence in the kitchen.

My gaze stopped in the middle of the way, she was standing in front of the refrigerator, a cut of raw meat in her hands, she was spaced out. Somehow looking lost, pieces of broken glass were on the ground, "Dallia? What are you doing here?"

She dropped the meat and immediately looked at me with red eyes and a tired-looking face. She bent over to pick up the meat as she pushed her bangs out of her face, "I was thinking about eating some steaks for lunch, don't you think it's a great idea?"

I narrowed my eyes questioningly, not believing that Dallia was just thinking about cooking lunch. She smiled awkwardly, washing the meat and I could easily see the tension in her moves. She was rushingly cutting the meat and spring onions and as I expected she cut her finger and screamed. Going to her side, I held her finger that was blood on it and worriedly looked at it, "Thank God, you didn't cut it so deeply. Does it hurt so bad?"

Dallia: "It's nothing, I'm good." She said as she held her finger under the water.

"Is there something wrong honey? You look tired."

Dallia: "No, Tae. I've been so sleepless because of company's works, you know."

"Then maybe you should take a rest, we can also go on a road trip together, hmm?" I softly touched her cold cheek and looked deeply into her shaky pupils.

Dallia: "I really need that but you know I can't leave it up to my Dad. He's already been so busy with my Mom. I don't want to leave him alone in this situation."

I kissed her finger, feeling the pulse on the cut, "All I want is you being good and comfortable. Just don't hesitate to let it out and tell me anything that is bothering you."

She smiled with her beautiful cherry lips, brushing my hair with her fingers, "I will honey. Stop worrying about everything." Walking towards the oven she looked at me with a kind of gaze that I wasn't sure if it was possibly a good one. She seemed so sad and desperate, "Now go finish your work and let me cook your lunch."

I stared at her for a while as if it could help me to find what was wrong with my wife, my playful, chirpy wife who's been so down and broken in the past few months. Sometimes you just know something is not the way it should be. You feel like something is not right, something is missing but the more you try to figure it out, the more you won't get anything from it. It felt like the beautiful sky of my perfect life was falling apart and the darkness was hovering over me. It was choking me but I couldn't make myself free because my hands were tied to the floor.

I didn't build this life easily. I've been through a lot to bring this all together and eventually live a peaceful life with the love of my life. It wasn't an easy go. I worked hard but now I was witnessing all of that going down to a dark place. Where I couldn't find the light anymore.

I didn't know what to do anymore. Sunghoon wasn't helping either. He has always been so incommunicative. When we were kids, he was always studying. A true nerd. I was the famous one, the party worm one. I thought it would be a great remedy for my loneliness in the family. I thought it would be helpful to forget my parent's neglect. Sunghoon was the favorite child of the family. They praised him, no matter why. Heh, my mother would praise him even for pooping. But me? Why would they give a shit about me? I was an annoying mosquito. A rotten fruit.

My time in my teenage years passed away on traveling to the deserts and jungles to see the sky and stars. I was an astronomy nerd as Dallia would always say. Many years went by in waiting for a glimpse of attention from my mom and dad, even though I wouldn't call them mom and dad. Mom was a terrible stoner. A real nightmare for me. And dad, he was just a silent observer. A statue I would say. He didn't bother to notice me. I was always invisible to him. All of his attention was on Sunghoon. His perfect, brilliant son. His legacy!

Until I met her. The warmth of my life. I still remember the first time I met her. She was in such a hurry to cross the street. It was raining wildly and I was sitting in my car, waiting for Jimin as I saw her falling down on her knees. I rushed to her, she was all wet, crying out loud. I embraced her and she cried her eyes out on my chest. I still clearly remember that moment. We didn't even know each other, but we stayed like that for a while.

She wiped off her tears after some time and left me without even saying her name. No need to mention that after that I found out she was one of Jimin's friends. She became the first person who was so understanding of my life. She wasn't judgemental like others. She kept me warm and safe. I just love her so much and Now look at our life! Sunghoon was trying to steal her from me? Wasn't enough for him to just ruin my childhood? No, I won't let that happen in a million years. Not my Dallia!

With that, I decided to talk to Sunghoon that night. I should figure out what he had to do with Dallia's bad state these days. She was tearing down and I could see that. I should bring the light back...
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A.N: I know, I'm such a bad author. But you should know it wasn't my fault. Just life being so cruel to me in these past months. I will update Fatal Secret regularly from now on. Two parts in a week. So please stay tuned for more. Love ya.
And don't forget to give me your opinions on this chapter. What do you think about Sunghoon? Do you think Taehyung has possibly murdered his own brother? Or maybe Dallia?

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