Emergency Instinct - Chapter 39

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“Wh-what are you doing here right now?”

 

“You look like I came somewhere I shouldn’t have.”

 

“Mother, where did she go?”

 

“What, worried I might have kidnapped her?”

 

Ji-an’s heart sank as she quickly pulled out her phone to find the caregiver’s contact.

 

“Would I use such shallow tactics? She went to the physical therapy room.”

 

Contrary to Grandmother’s words, it wasn’t time for physical therapy yet.

 

If the schedule had changed, Mi-soon would have contacted her. She knew Ji-an was coming in the morning.

 

Thump thump. Her heart raced with anxiety.

 

Ji-an quickly sent a message to Mi-soon while pretending to be calm as she spoke.

 

“…Why did you come here?”

 

Grandmother looked around the hospital room dismissively and smiled crookedly.

 

“You’re quite talented, more than you look. Getting your face known, doing quite well these days, aren’t you?”

 

“Mind your own business.”

 

“I can’t do that. I have something to collect…”

 

At Grandmother’s wicked smile, Ji-an clenched her fists. Then, a message arrived from Mi-soon saying physical therapy room.

 

As she looked up with some relief, a voice full of mockery flew at her.

 

“Still worth living, I see? Continuing to spend money on a vegetable? It would be better to…”

 

“Get out!”

 

Ji-an couldn’t stand it anymore and approached the door, opening it wide.

 

She didn’t want to hear any more of Grandmother’s venomous words. But she didn’t back down easily.

 

“So you should have sent my money properly. I billed for 200 million but got barely a thousand what? Are you kidding?”

 

Who was she to say such things.

 

At the ridiculous fake bill, Ji-an had only sent the legitimate treatment costs for Mother.

 

Even that was barely scraped together. Without the modeling fee from the hospital promotional shoot, it wouldn’t have been enough.

 

“If you want more, sue me.”

 

Ji-an said firmly.

 

She had no intention of being pushed around by Grandmother anymore.

 

“Sue? You’re quite confident, aren’t you?”

 

“I know the law won’t side with you, Grandmother.”

 

“Ha, the law? How foolish. With that brain, you sure did well going around doing cunning things.”

 

Grandmother smiled meaningfully, then pulled out a stack of photos from her bag and threw them at Ji-an.

 

Seeing the photos scattered roughly across the hospital room floor, Ji-an’s breath caught.

 

At the sight of herself and Tae-jun’s faces captured in the photos, Ji-an’s whole body shook.

 

“You had someone follow me?”

 

“That’s right. I wondered what you were so confident about, and you caught a big fish.”

 

Ji-an picked up one of the photos that had fallen at her feet with trembling hands.

 

December 31st.

 

It was that night when she was completely drunk and blacked out.

 

The scene from her deleted memories was in the photo.

 

In front of the nearby nursing home bench.

 

Tae-jun was carrying her on his back.

 

In the next photo, he was holding her like a princess, and in another photo, there was a scene of him looking at her and smiling lovingly.

 

His smile that she couldn’t remember was so wonderful that it almost brought tears to her eyes.

 

“It took some time to find out that guy’s identity. Seo Tae-jun. The only son of Hanyeong Group Chairman Seo Dae-ho, right?”

 

Ji-an hid her flustered expression and gritted her teeth.

 

“Catching the son of Hanyeong Group. You really inherited your mother’s talent for seducing men.”

 

As if praising her, Grandmother patted her shoulder.

 

“You should have told me earlier. If Hanyeong Group becomes in-laws, I would have naturally cooperated.”

 

“…Don’t even dream about it.”

 

Ji-an couldn’t listen anymore and spoke with deadly eyes.

 

“Right, it would be like a dream. For you alone, that is.”

 

“…!”

 

“Do you think someone like you could possibly become a daughter-in-law in such a family? But if I help you, it becomes quite possible.”

 

At Grandmother’s meaningful gaze, Ji-an felt a chill down her spine.

 

What vile plan was she trying to devise now?

 

Fundamental fear surged up, and her heart beat frantically. But Ji-an barely suppressed it and spoke coldly.

 

“…Get out right now. Before I call someone.”

 

“If you call someone, what would change? Stop talking nonsense and do as I say. First, somehow get Seo Tae-jun’s child.”

 

“…Wh-what did you say?”

 

Ji-an thought for a moment that her ears were wrong.

 

“A man’s heart is fleeting. You want to catch Seo Tae-jun somehow too, don’t you? Then, nothing’s better than a child.”

 

No, no.

 

Ji-an shook her head vigorously.

 

Wasn’t this a truly horrific idea.

 

To get pregnant to catch a man. How could a grandmother say such cruel words to her granddaughter.

 

Ji-an had loved babies since she was young.

 

She had vaguely thought that someday, if she met a man she loved and got married, she would want to have a baby.

 

But that was always a wish for the distant future, when she was ready.

 

Above all, pregnancy and childbirth were sacred acts of taking responsibility for a life.

 

It couldn’t be a means to tie someone down. For any reason whatsoever.

 

“I found out that family values their lineage very much. Seo Tae-jun is also an only son. Being the only one, all that wealth too…”

 

“Stop it! Don’t say anything more.”

 

She didn’t want to hear anymore. No, she couldn’t listen. But.

 

“Do as I say! Isn’t this the only way you and your mother can survive?”

 

At the snake-like whisper that burrowed in, Ji-an’s body began to tremble noticeably.

 

“Think about it. You need at least a grandmother who’s the chairman of Dongsan Hospital to maintain dignity in that family. Would they be happy if you only had a vegetable mother? You should be grateful that I’m willing to cooperate.”

 

Even a demon would be less evil than this.

 

The person called grandmother cruelly dug into her miserable granddaughter’s reality.

 

Why wouldn’t she know.

 

Ji-an knew it better.

 

Unlike him who had everything, she only had a mother to care for and debt.

 

Even so, she had received his heart and grown her own feelings even more.

 

Seo Tae-jun, she liked that man so much. She wanted to extend this time with him even a little longer.

 

But now, Grandmother who was eyeing his wealth and devising horrible plans had attached herself like a tumor.

 

How horrified would he be if he knew all this.

 

Not only that. If his family ever found out about this, there would be immediate chaos.

 

Like a scene from some drama, if his parents threw money at her telling her to break up, what should I do.

 

Maybe, Tae-jun might get sick of it all first…

 

She was afraid. When had her heart grown so big.

 

Just the thought of breaking up with him already made her chest feel like it would tear apart.

 

As the reality before her eyes poured down all at once, Ji-an couldn’t breathe.

 

It hurt more than expected.

 

“From now on, you just have to do exactly as I say. I’ll prepare everything you need. Starting with prenatal checkups at our hospital, timing it with your ovulation…”

 

“Stop! Stop it! It’s disgusting!”

 

Ji-an finally couldn’t stand it and exploded, breathing roughly.

 

“…What?”

 

Grandmother’s eyes immediately turned fierce.

 

Ji-an shouted with poison in her eyes.

 

She no longer felt the need for the courtesy she had maintained because of blood relations.

 

“Get out. If you show up like this again so unreasonably and say such nonsense, I won’t hold back anymore either-”

 

Slap!

 

With a sharp friction sound, in the blink of an eye, a strong hand flew toward Ji-an’s cheek.

 

Tears welled up as her cheek burned hot as if on fire.

 

At the same time, childhood memories she thought she had forgotten painfully resurfaced.

 

Grandmother’s verbal abuse and violence that would pour out when she got excited.

 

Objects thrown around mercilessly.

 

In that darkness where she covered her ears, closed her eyes, and trembled, Mother’s stifled tears…

 

Ji-an couldn’t move at all, as if panicked by the fear that suddenly invaded her.

 

“Do you think such a great family would accept someone like you without even a child? I’m saying I’ll help you! Me!”

 

Another chilling scream poured out.

 

In that moment, Ji-an, who had been frozen by childhood trauma, suddenly snapped back to her senses.

 

I won’t take this anymore. Absolutely not.

 

“…I don’t need it. That kind of help.”

 

“What? That kind? Ha! This is why I hate things like you! Acting up without knowing your place.”

 

Ji-an glared with her reddened face and spoke even more venomously.

 

“Probably, right now our father in heaven is wailing. Because he’s so sorry to his daughter, and so ashamed…”

 

“You, you, crazy! You damn girl, what are you saying now? How dare you bring up my son? You still haven’t come to your senses!”

 

As if about to commit violence again, Grandmother raised her hand.

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