There's an alarming vacancy at Dalgom Moon Bed & Breakfast. Now its up to NIS profiler Jungkook Jeon to investigate the sudden disappearance of the owner's entire family. But the steely agent finds it hard to do his job when distracted by the B&B's...
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¨Tell me again what we're doing checking out the whereabouts of an ex- NIS agent from the Gwacheon field office? ¨ NIS agent Jimin Park asked from the backseat of the car.
NIS special agent Jungkook Jeon slowed the car as they approached the city limits of the small town of Gwacheon, Gyeonggi Province. ¨We're doing this as a professional courtesy because the Gwacheon office asked us to.
¨A little over four years ago, Sokjin Kim was a respected NIS profiler before he came out here for a two-week vacation and fell in love with Jisoo Kim who owns
The Dalgom Moon Bed and Breakfast.¨ Taehyung Kim drawled from the passenger seat ¨Apparently true love won out over career climbing. Sokjin quit the agency, moved here and he and Jisoo got married.¨
¨Sokjin not only became a husband but also a full-time father to their daughter, Lia. And this morning we received a call from the manager of the bed-and-breakfast that all three of them are missing.¨ Jungkook said.
¨Unusual that we'd be sent out, since it hasn't even been twenty-four hours.¨ Taehyung observed.
¨According to the manager, they've been missing since last night.¨ Jungkook kept his gaze focused on the road ahead knowing that the bed-and-breakfast was five miles outside of the small town.
His gut feeling was that this was all a wild goose chase, some sort of misunderstanding between the manager and the family she worked for. It was half an hour drive from their field office in Seoul, and they hadn't been dispatched to leave until past three that afternoon.
Hopefully they could get this sorted out and he would be in his own bed back in his comfortable house in Itaewon before midnight.
He'd been surprised when Director Seung Hyun Choi had assigned two men to travel with him to check out this supposed disappearance, yet he had been grateful for the company of the men, who were not only good agents adept at processing crime scenes and sniffing out bad guys but we're friends, as well.
¨There.¨ Jimin pointed out ahead to a sign that indicated to turn right for the Dalgum Moon Bed-and-Breakfast.
Jungkook made the turn, squinting against the bright hot sun. He drove on for two more miles and then turned again, following another sign leading into a lane that took them to their destination.
¨Nice.¨ Taehyung said as a two-story house with a sweeping veranda surrounded by large trees came into view. On one side of the B and B, a big pond glittered in the overhead sun, and on the other side, a giant carriage house looked inviting with large pots of multi-colored flowers along its perimeter.
The employees must park in another area, and there must be no guest, Jungkook thought, for the parking lot in front of the house was empty. He pulled the car to a halt and shut off the engine. At the same time, the front door opened and a woman stepped out on the porch.
