Pay With Your Heart

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At the base.

"Boss"

"Boss"

"Welcome boss"

The men present at the base stood up and bowed the moment Dan-Han stepped into the place. They all shuddered when they noticed the monstrous look on his face.

They cleared a path for him as he walked into the room where Carlos was held.

The man was tied to a holding chair, blood dripping from all over his face and his gunshot wounds were tied tightly with ripped pieces of his clothes. His men had done a good job beating the shit out of him.

Tae-Ho pulled a seat for Dan-Han to sit.

"Boss, here's the file. I already sent you an e-copy" It was a well-detailed profile of Carlos.

Dan-Han received the file from him and looked at it, even though he had skimmed through the one Tae-Ho had sent him earlier.

After going through the file, Dan-Han looked up at the man who was quivering with fear under his presence, and with a stern and stoic look he said, "Burn all he has to the ground"

"Yes boss" Tae-Ho nodded and signaled the men at the door to get to work immediately. When Dan-Han issued a command no one dared to dally.

Carlo's eyes grew wide when he heard what Dan-Han instructed his men to do.

He shook his head vigorously, "Please don't, don't do that" He earnestly pleaded.

"That's all my life's work" He cried.

"Shut up and consider them gone" Tae-Ho silenced him with a deadly blow to his cheek.

"Why did you touch her?" Dan-Han asked the question that has been on his mind. He wanted to know why a vile man like this could dare touch his woman, especially in a house that was supposed to be her home or rather her mother's house.

"I didn't touch her. I really didn't touch her, I didn't do anything to her. It was her mother, Song-Hee, who offered her as payment for the gambling debt she owes. I haven't touched her befo.... before you shot me" Carlos frantically explained. If there was any way for him to get out of this alive he'd take it. He had not known who he was back at Song-Hee's place, but after being brought her and been dealt with by his men, he finally realized who he was dealing with. Scratch that! Who was dealing with him!

Dan-Han fell silent after listening to his explanation. The anger in him was skyrocketing.

'Was that woman truly her mother?' He asked himself.

What sort of mother would do this to her child? He didn't need to ask twice, his mother had made such a mistake in the past, but at least her intention was good only that her accomplice had stepped overboard behind her back, and their actions left him with a lifelong problem. But what that woman did was grievous and was on a different level. There was no iota of goodwill in it. She had wanted to use her daughter for her selfish gain, sell his woman for a sex slave.

How dare she?!

Dan-Han's look turned grim, but his appearance was stealthy calm as he slowly rose to his feet, and turned around.

When Carlos saw he was about to leave, he began to beg, "Please let me go, I promise not to touch or appear before her again. Please"

Dan-Han looked at him with dark eyes. The sound of the word 'touch' wasn't what he wanted to hear at the moment. His eyes fell on the hand that had squeezed her thighs, he had seen the red prints his coarse hand had left on her thigh. With so much anger and venom running through him, Dan-Han slowly sauntered towards the table which was decorated with a lot of torturing equipment. He picked up the butcher knife and turned back towards Carlos whose eyes locked on the knife in the man's hand while he quivered with trepidation.

"No, no, please. I swear I didn't touch her. I swea....aaaahhhhhhhhhhh" He screamed out in pain.

He looked down at this hand which had initially been tied to the chair but was now missing from his arm.

"Ahhhhhh" He wailed not just because of the pain but because of the gory sight of his chopped hand and of blood splattering all over. Dan-Han let the knife slip of his hand. He received the handkerchief Tae-Ho was handing to him and wiped his hand before walking away. Though he wasn't satisfied with what he had done but he felt a lot better. Nobody dares touch his woman and still keeps his hand.

Tae-Ho shook his head pitifully at Carlos before walking behind the boss.

"Boss what about the woman?" He asked. He was sure the demon boss would never let anybody who offends him go scot-free. This Carlos guy should be grateful he was still alive.

Dan-Han paused and looked at the other door some of the men were guarding.

"Starve her till she faints." Yes, he was ruthless and he'll be ruthless to the woman who he'll call mother-in-law in the future, especially when she hurts the woman he loves even it was her daughter. Dan-Han coldly said before continuing on his strides, but then he stopped again and looked over his shoulder to Tae-Ho.

"Cut off his tongue, he's making so much noise"

Dan-Han didn't know if he made the right decision by torturing Eun-sun's mother this way. Left alone for him, he'd want her to have a taste of her own medicine, by feeding the drug she had given Eun-sun. But he had no idea how she'd feel for hurting her mother that way because she was still her mother and there'll always be a bond between them.

But right now he just couldn't let her be. She had dared to hurt her child, who knew what she had been enduring in the eyes of the woman she called mother, or how long she had been enduring maltreatment from her. Eun-sun should forgive him for taking matters into his hand, but he has never been a kind man. This was who he is, and he'd do anything to protect her. Anyone who dares touch her would have him to face.