Chapter 35: PROTECTION
YEAH, let’s drown this little bastard.
An Baekya walked towards the tub, chanting his ill intentions like a curse.
I’m going to drown Yun Yuhyun, I’m going to drown Yun Yuhyun, I’m going to drown Yun Yuhyun...
"Y-Yah!" Yun Yuhyun yelled, obviously flustered. "Why are you coming here?!"
To drown you, of course.
"Y-Your face looks scary!" Yun Yuhyun complained, his pupils shaking as if he were really scared. "Get away from me!"
Yeah, after I drowned you.
An Baekya stretched his arms to try and grab Yun Yuhyun, but then...
BANG!
"Hey!"
Yun Yuhyun yelled worriedly(?) when An Baekya suddenly slipped.
Yep, I slipped because of the wet floor.
Fortunately, An Baekya just fell on his butt and didn’t hit the back of his head. But he used his hands to break his fall, so they kind of hurt now.
"AN BAEKYA!"
Aigoo.
An Baekya wondered why Yun Yuhyun was screaming as if he had died or something when he just slipped.
But, anyway, his hunch had been confirmed with this ’accident.’
I can’t hurt Yun Yuhyun— if I try to, I’ll get instant bad karma.
***
"JUST let the kid call you ’uncle.’"
Wonyoung ignored Yun Dujun’s whining as he was busy checking the Foster Care License and Foster Care ID that the Alpha handed to him.
The documents that An Baekya was now his foster child were also in his hands.
You really can do anything when you have money, huh?
Wonyoung didn’t even attend the necessary training program to get a Foster Care License, and yet he got it easily.
I feel bad, but I’m in no position to reject Dujun Sunbae-nim’s help.
"Hoobae-nim, are you listening?"
Wonyoung was about to say that, no, he wasn’t listening.
But...
"AN BAEKYA!"
It was Yun Yuhyun’s shrieking voice as if the kid had just witnessed a murder.
Wonyoung immediately dropped everything in his hands and ran towards the bathroom where the voice came from.
Yun Dujun was faster than him, though.
Tsk.
Alphas and their superior athleticism... annoying!
When Wonyoung arrived in the bathroom, Yun Dujun had already scooped up An Baekya from the floor.
Oh.
"Baekya, did you slip?"
"He slipped!" Yun Yuhyun answered even though Wonyoung asked An Baekya and not him. "He approached me with a scary face, and then he suddenly slipped! An Baekya is stupid!"
Aigoo.
Yun Dujun shot Yun Yuhyun a cold look before scolding his son. "Yun Yuhyun, it’s not nice to call your foster sibling ’stupid.’"
Ah, dammit.
Wonyoung almost threw his slipper at Yun Dujun for casually dropping the bomb on their son.
Now Yun Yuhyun looked like he was having a mental breakdown.
Aigoo.
Sunbae-nim can really be so insensitive sometimes!
"Sibling?" Yun Yuhyun asked weakly. "But I don’t want a stupid sibling..."
"Dujun Sunbae-nim, please take care of An Baekya and see if he’s injured anywhere," Wonyoung said, sighing. "I’ll explain the situation to Yun Yuhyun."
***
AN BAEKYA quietly observed Yun Dujun as he pressed an ice pack on his hurt arm.
It’s cold.
The ice pack was delivered by the hotel staff.
But it was Han Myung— Yun Dujun’s driver-slash-bodyguard— who requested the ice pack and not the actor himself.
After that, the bodyguard immediately left the penthouse suite.
That ahjussi remained loyal to Yun Dujun-ssi until the end.
"Are you hurt anywhere else?" Yun Dujun asked. "Or do you need me to bring you to the hospital?"
"No, sir," An Baekya answered politely while shaking his head. "My arms don’t hurt anymore."
"I see."
"Thank you for taking care of me."
Yun Dujun just nodded.
My Alpha father-in-law really doesn’t talk much, huh?
"You should change the way you address me," Yun Dujun said after a brief silence. "If you’re addressing Bae Wonyoung as your father, then you should do the same to me. After all, both of us are your foster parents now."
Oh.
How should I address the person I used to call ’Father-in-law’ in the past?
"To be honest, I’m not happy that you’re calling my husband ’Appa’ when you’re not our biological son."
An Baekya almost rolled his eyes.
What a jerk.
You have a fucked up family, Yun Dujun-ssi. You, of all people, should know that sharing the same blood doesn’t guarantee a harmonious relationship within the family. Sometimes, a found family is better than the one you’re born into.
"But since Bae Wonyoung seems fond of you, I’ll allow it if you address me the same way."
Again, An Baekya almost rolled his eyes.
Yeah, this person is really Yun Yuhyun’s father.
"Are you listening, An Baekya?"
"Yes,
Yun Dujun raised an eyebrow, but he nodded. "That’s fine."
The situation was funny.
No, it was ridiculous.
An Baekya couldn’t believe that he was now calling Yun Dujun ’Abeoji’ as if they didn’t try to kill each other in the last timeline.
***
WONYOUNG felt proud after watching Yun Yuhyun wear his clothes without any help.
The bathroom that his son used was the one connected to the bedroom, so he brought him there to change his clothes.
But Yun Yuhyun insisted on doing it own his own.
He’s no longer a baby.
But, on the other hand, he felt sad.
Now that Wonyoung decided to be kinder to Yun Yuhyun, he allowed himself to get fully immersed as the child’s father.
It was awkward, but it wasn’t that hard to care for the kid once he started.
Did Yun Yuhyun become independent this early because Dujun Sunbae-nim didn’t pay him enough attention?
"Appa, I won’t call you ’Appa’ anymore."
Oh.
Wonyoung felt a pang in his chest, but he wouldn’t say he was surprised. "Well, I guess you can call me ’Uncle’ if you—"
"An Baekya calls you ’Appa,’ so I’m going to change what I call you," Yun Yuhyun declared while crossing his arms over his chest, and then he paused as if he were thinking deeply. "Papa. You’re my Papa from now on."
’Papa.’
Hearing Yun Yuhyun call Wonyoung ’Papa’ seemed to have triggered something in him.
He shut his eyes tight when a vivid image suddenly flashed in his head.
It was a ’scenario’ where...
... where Wonyoung was strangling a young Yun Yuhyun?
He couldn’t tell if the Yun Yuhyun he was choking was younger or the same age as he was now. But that wasn’t important.
Am I trying to kill my own child...?
***
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