Two nights. We've been locked up in this cell for two nights.
That's the only thought in my mind as I awake from another terrible nightmare. It's cold. So cold and eerily quiet in here. I look around and my eyes spot Master Jin sleeping in a corner. He's shivering on the floor.
Glancing down at my body, I realize that the only two blankets in the cell are the ones I have with me and I don't even remember how the second one came into my possession. Master Jin must've thrown it on my body. He's enduring the cold to allow me have the comfort. Because he cares about me.
I take one of the blanket and crawl towards Master Jin. I drape it over his shivering body but my movement wakes him up. His eyes snaps open in an instant.
"It's so cold." Master Jin murmurs, like he's still half asleep. I can hear his teeth chattering in his mouth. His grip suddenly falls on my arm, pulling me to his body and making me fall on him. "Stay with me." He murmurs. "I'm not going to do anything to you."
I believe him. But my heart is beating too fast and too loud. I can hear his heartbeat too, but I don't think he's aware of it. He props his head a little and put his hand underneath to support his head. He scoot me closer, my face to his armpit and then he spread the blanket over my body. I try to stay put. I try to fall asleep. But my heartbeat won't allow it.
Master Jin open his eyes again. "Why can't you sleep? Am I making you uncomfortable?"
"You're not." I reply, feeling his eyes on me. "Insomnia is a regular for me."
There's a sharp intake of breath before he brings his hand to my cheek and brush back the strands of hair.
He's silent.
And I'm silent too. But my cheeks must be blushing.
"Our Father came to the estate." He suddenly opens up. "I have disobeyed his orders and he will punish me when we return home."
"If you don't want to go back there, where do we go?"
"I never said I don't want to go back. I'm just saying you should not be surprised whatever happens to me." He closes his eyes and turns his face to the other direction. "Whatever will happen to me won't affect you though. I'll make sure of that."
"Oh. Can I ask you a question?"
"Go on."
"I know I shouldn't bring this up, but I'm curious about it that's why I'm asking." I say as a forewarning. "Do you miss your mom?"
"There's nothing to miss." Master Jin mumbles in reply without turning his head. "She died the moment she gave birth to me. I haven't experienced what having a mother feels like so there's nothing to miss for people like me."
"I don't remember much about my parents but I miss them. From what I can recall, it's warm having a family." I smile to myself. I didn't realize Master Jin has turn his head until I feel his hot breath in my face.
In the short moment we accidentally lock eyes, an unexplainable phenomena happens to me. It feels like a zap of electricity passing through my body. Strange feeling of warmness caresses my face and I'm lost in the feeling when all of a sudden, Master Jin kisses me on the lips.
I freeze, my eyes wide open as I stare at him pulling away.
"What? You don't like that?" He ask, cocking an eyebrow.
Heat travels to my cheeks and I lower my eyes quickly not wanting him to read me. "I- I don't know. It's unexpected."
"Hana ya." Master Jin's hand cup my chin, raising it a little. "Look into my eyes, tell me all this time, you never felt something for me."
I can't tell him that. I will be lying to myself if I say I don't have feelings for Master Jin.
"At first I thought the feelings will die. I thought it was just an attraction, that I didn't really love you. But after you were shot right in front of my eyes, I came to realize that what I felt for you was love." I confess my heart.
Master Jin smashes his mouth against mine the second time, kissing my lips and pulling away again. "I love you Hana." He says, breathlessly. "I don't want you as a MISTRESS, I want you as my WIFE if we ever get out of this place."
Hearing Master Jin's confession is really shocking to the point that I don't know how to react to that. He's not the kind of person to let his emotions show but now he's being vulnerable with me and confessing his intentions to marry me. What do I say? I don't want to be another problem that will tear him away from his Father.
"What will happen to us now? I'm just a maid. Your father will kill the both of us if he knows you like me."
"Father already knows I have feelings for you."
"What?" My eyes shoot wide open with horror. "He does?"
Master Jin chuckles. "I told him to prepare to receive my dead body in a gold coffin if I don't get you back."
I poke him in the ribs playfully. "I can't believe you said that to your Father. You should've told him he'll be receiving three dead bodies in a coffin instead. Because I think we are all going to die in here."
"If I die today, I'll have no regrets. I've confessed my love for you." He laughs. "Ah, now I remember. I'm going to regret not punishing Tae Ho, Dr Han and Peter for what they did to your friend and the other girls."
"What are you talking about?" I blink, curiosity filling me up. "What did they do to Mira?"
I stare at Master Jin's eyes, the twinkle in them as he narrates to me everything that happened between him and Master Tae Ho. How Master Tae Ho and Doctor Han wasted the lives of those girls in a drug experiment. And how his PA, Peter is also involved in killing Mira and the others.