Chapter 269: S.Y.C vs The reveal

Taesan’s POV

The booming laughter grows weaker with how long it lasts.

I’m still standing under the dead body of my grandfather. My hands are still holding on to his feet.

His feet...the feet he forced me to massage during the years I lived by his side.

These feet are the same ones that kicked me after he broke my leg. These same feet walked me to the brim of hell and kicked me in.

He’s dead.

He’s fucking dead and it’s not by my own hands.

"AH AH AH" the laughter brings me back to the present and I slowly turn around; the person I killed wasn’t the real culprit.

The one I murdered was a decoy.

"Find me that speaker" I order as quietly as I can manage, I’m barely keeping the madness that’s trying to break out under wraps.

I’m barely holding myself from breaking out of my own skin and tearing the whole city apart.

I want blood...I want blood everywhere...I want skin peeled back...I want dead bodies on the main roads.

"FIND ME THAT SPEAKER" I shout and I get a response from the one laughing at me.

"You can’t fight me" he says in that distorted voice, and I tip my head back, staring at the chains suspending my dead grandfather.

His body is nothing like the man who had the pleasure of ruining me.

His death was mine.

His dismemberment should have been by my own hands. I am the victim who deserved to be a victor. I am the tiger who was supposed to pull down the lion.

I was going to quit the mafia, yes...but his death was going to be my reward for taking his shit for years.

"Did you enjoy killing him?" I ask quietly.

"Did I? yes. Yes, I did. And I will enjoy killing you when I get my hands on you" the man speaking from the speaker says.

"When I get you...when I get you...WHEN I GET YOU" I roar, turning around as I talk to an invisible enemy.

"Let’s make things easy boy, give Seoha to me and it all ends" he says and it’s my turn to laugh.

I sound deranged in my own ears, but this is survival and this is permitted. I am allowed to go mad for my fated mate.

"You will have to pry him out of my cold dead hands; do you hear me? You would have to pry him out" I shout.

"Fine then, I tried, Taesan...I tried to be nice" he says and something in my head goes off.

My alpha is slamming himself against the wall, the thin barrier that keeps the real me away from the alpha me.

"I came back from the dead to save him from you, I resurrected from hell for him...oh, they found me" he says and Yul brings a phone to me.

There’s an ongoing video call. The phone connected by Bluetooth to a speaker that amplifies the bastard’s voice.

He’s in a room and from how the phone is positioned, I can see that he has a CCTV here and that he’s watching the interior of this building through a camera.

"Show your face, coward" I say, refusing to take the phone from Yul.

If I touch it, I will destroy the device, and I don’t want to do that yet. Acting on impulse will ruin me in this moment.

"Hello, Taesan. You’ve grown up a lot" the man in the phone says.

"Show. Your. Face" I growl and he shakes his head.

"Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. I killed the grandfather, yet the son thinks I would take orders from him, are you drunk?" he asks and laughs again.

"Mask off" I say and he sighs loudly.

"Alright then" he says, moving back in his seat, and I growl as I watch him take off the mask and place it on the table.

Fuck.

I should have known.

"Happy?" the bastard asks with a smug expression on his face and his hands rested on the table.

His age is showing on his face. The familiar face looks same but different, he looks like someone you would trust, he almost looks fatherly.

"You..."

"Yes, it is I" he says and moves closer to the camera.

"You go around making men pay for their sins by murdering them, don’t you?" he asks and I growl, moving away from the phone as my head spins at a high speed.

It’s him.

"Has anyone visited you to make you pay for your sins?" he asks with happiness in his voice.

"It’s you..." I repeat.

I know I should say something, but I can’t, my mind can’t process it. It was his identity that made grandfather’s thick defense system penetrable to him.

"Your family is the reason Seoha is an orphan, Taesan. Your family is the reason Seoha has no wealth to his name..." he says and I pace.

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

"You force Seoha to your side, raped him in your elevator...you have no shame, do you, Kang Taesan?" he continues to talk and I run my fingers through my hair.

"You force mated him" he says loudly and I snap out of my spiraling.

"I will kill you again, I will spit on your grave, and I will make sure no one remembers you" I point at the screen as I tell him about my desire for him.

He is unfazed by my threats, instead, he continues his monologue.

"Now you have the innocent boy pregnant with your mutants" he says.

"DO NOT TALK ABOUT MY MATE AND PUPS" I shout again, tasting copper at the back of my throat.

"I will save Seoha from you, it’s never too late to pull out those demons. I’ll save him" the man says.

"Oh...I will butcher you, what you did to my grandfather is nothing compared to what I’ll do to you" I tell him.

"I’ll wait for you to return Seoha to me, you have a few days. If you don’t return him, I will take him" he says and ends the call.

I stand there with my team.

"The call is heavily encrypted, but I’m on finding his location" someone says and the rest go into action by searching the building.

He’s not here.

He can’t be here, he’s more brilliant than that.

"Sir...a call from Seoha" someone pats my shoulder but I don’t move. I can’t accept the call.

How do I tell my mate that his father is back from the dead and I’m going to send him there again?