dysthymia | zhong chenle

열 셋

❝ honestly, i miss you
but now i'll erase you
because that will hurt
less than resenting you ❞

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"still recognise me? some things never change" He crouched down, the blade of the knife in his hands reflected a silver streak across her distorted face.

"i wont play the same game with you inho, it gets boring" she spat, her expression never faltering against his

"what, where's the boyfriend of yours? chenle was it? your knight in shining armour doesn't turn up when you need him to, hm?" his voice was malicious, sugar coated on the outside with a rotten apple in the inside

"don't ask questions you're not going to get answers to" she retorted, inho dropping the knife to leave a threatening clatter ring in her ears.

"inho" Stones boss placed a hand on inhos shoulder, the young male rising to his feet "the money"

"of course, how could i forget" inho clicked his fingers one, and two other buffer men advanced Stones Boss, two thick envelopes in hand. Inho was actually quite slender for a mafia leader, but he didn't use strength, he used brain.

He was insanely strategic and clever, it was hard to slip through his grasp.

"We'll have fun, won't we hyejin?" inho clickrd his tongue up, grabbing her wrist from the men pulling her back and yanked her wrists into the already prepared rope. it was rough, and slit her flesh, but never will she bow to someone who took death as his pride

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the walkie talkie buzzed, the voices unclear but audible

"secured"

"retreat" the leader figure bellowed, winwin and chenle standing there in shock with several people around their fists

"what? just like that?" winwin breathed, exhausted at the fight that lasted no more than 20 minutes. it seemed fishy, and chenle knew something wasn't right.

"they didn't come here for a raid..." the darker haired one glanced from every retreating member of Stone.

"i thought it was just revenge or...i don't know" winwin let go of the man that was between his hands, the man choking while stumbling along with the rest

"are the members hurt?" winwin looked at jaemin and jeno, both frozen in spot with ten in front of them

"use your eyes and look for yourself" chenle deadpanned, making his way around to the non-combat members that had just clambered up to ground floor

"what happened? it's over?" renjun asked, appearing from the stairs

"i don't know, but it doesn't seem right" chenle glanced at ten "ten, the Stone file work", the file was brought upon his hands

"they don't have any history with NCT as a whole...so there's no reason for this to be a revenge raid, unless the employee we were sent to kill meant a lot to them" he flipped through the pages and took a seat around the metal desk in the far corner of the room

"perhaps the employee was the boss of Stone?" xiaojun joined the conversation, sitting around the table along with everyone else

"perhaps" chenle groaned disheveled, his eyes shooting at the direction of the exit—which was really just a massive hole in the wall.

"oh my god" chenle bolted up, winwin also glancing in that direction

"hyejin...where's hyejin!" he whipped around to looked at the confused nct members but found no answer within their eyes.