Money Loving CEO's Detective Lover

Danny backed off against a wall as the hands reached out to him. He yelped and shoved it aside but they grabbed his fists and pulled him so hard that he fell face first on the floor. His screams reached Siwan's ears, startling the boy. Shinho was also taken aback by the screams coming from the living room.     

The hands dragged Danny across the floor before flinging him to the side. Danny's back hit the wall and he fell on the floor, wildly staggering.      

"Ugh!" he groaned in pain. His nose was bleeding and his back was aching in agony. He was sure that he had fractured a bone in his leg but he must escape that place. To his shock, the hands had disappeared.     

"WHO ARE YOU?" he yelled. "WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?"     

His yells were met by an eerie silence. For a moment, he thought that whatever the thing was, had left him alone.      

Suddenly, a loud static noise came from nowhere. The high pitched sound was uncomfortable and Danny's head felt as if it was about to split. He whimpered in pain as the sound got higher and higher.     

Crimson drops of blood were flowing down his ears and he tried to block out the sound with his hands but to no avail. The static sound was tormenting him, playing with his sanity. Trying to make a run for it, he limped across the hall, almost reaching for the front door but a sudden gust of wind came from nowhere and threw him backwards.     

Danny was being flung around like a ragdoll from one wall to the next until he was pinned against one. He screamed as his limbs were sprawled across the wall into an X-form.     

"LET ME GO!" he begged. "HELP! HEEEELP!"     

But no one could hear his yells. What was going on? He was confused and scared by the turn of events. His mind was in panic mode and he desperately seeked a way to escape the purgatory. Everything was a mess and he wanted to save himself from whatever it was haunting him.      

"I'll do anything!" he promised. "I'll give you money! I'll do anything you want! Just let me go!"     

In response, something grabbed his throat and began to choke him with pure hatred. He gagged and chortled as the invisible hands squeezed his neck with a surprising strength. His tongue stuck out and he was feeling his soul almost leaving him.     

Help me...he begged inwardly. Someone! Anyone!     

But the hands were not going to let him go. He was pleading with all his willpower but the entity was adamant on destroying him. Was this the end? Was he going to die?     

All of a sudden, the entity let go of his throat and threw him on the floor again. Danny was spitting and sputtering, his vision blurred from the ghostly attack. He crawled on the floor, trying to get away before his attacker came back. Amidst his hazy vision, he saw a dark figure standing in front of him.     

It was the same shadow which had attacked him a while ago. It stood there, watching and taunting him.     

"You said you were supposed to save me…"     

Danny's whole soul froze upon hearing the deep, cold voice resonating in his ears.      

"You told me that my pain would go away…"     

It was a different voice. This time of a small girl who was morose at her state. For some reason, the voices were beginning to alarm him.     

"You took out my heart and left me in there to die…"     

Another voice. Probably a teenage boy. What was going on?     

"Why did you burn me alive?"     

"Why did you take my kidney?"     

"Where is my liver?"     

"Why did you kill us?"     

"No…" he whispered, shutting his ears. He looked up at the shadow which was speaking to him. It moved its lips but he could not make out what it said.      

"No…" he said firmly. "It was all for my image! Your life didn't matter!"     

He was rambling like a maniac, trying to push away those voices. But they kept on swirling in his head, reminding him of what he had done. His crimes were etched in them, coursing through their souls like venom. They did not want answers nor justice. They wanted life for a life.     

And Kang Danny had to pay for it.     

"You all were unwanted!" he hissed angrily. "I gave you all a purpose! You got to save other people's lives! Shouldn't you be happy that I took you far away from your miserable existence? You were living on the streets!"     

"Murderer...murderer…"     

A chorus was chanting it like a spell, circling him as they tortured him. Danny hissed and shoved back at the voices which were trying to trap him. They wanted to ruin him but he would not let them. He did nothing wrong. Nothing!     

"You…" He pointed at the shadow which stood a few feet away from him. "It's you, isn't it? You're torturing me from the grave! I buried you alive and yet, you're here! How dare you!"     

There was only one person who would do this to him and it was none other than his rotten bastard, Shinho. That kid must have returned from the dead. He did not know how but that kid was back. And now, he was tormenting his own father.     

"I knew that I shouldn't have brought you here!" he spat. "Even in death, you're making my life hell! I'll not spare you!"     

With surprising strength, he lunged at the shadow, pinning it to the ground. He raised a fist and began to punch it.     

"I should've killed you long time ago!" he yelled, punctuating every word with a fist. The shadow squirmed under him and was trying to say something but he did not care to hear its words. He wanted to destroy it. Once it was gone, he would live a normal life again!     

He was mad with rage, punching and kicking the shadow at every chance. It did not fight back but lay on the floor, curled up in pain.      

Yes. That was how it should be! That Shinho deserved only pain and nothing else.      

Danny kept on hitting the shadow, spewing all his hatred into his punches as he beat the wind out of it. His gaze fell on a vase nearby.     

"It's time to end you once again!" he declared, picking up the vase. Raising it, he saw that the shadow was trying to protest but he was blind and deaf with anger. All he wanted for it to be dead.     

"Don't even come back again!" he screamed, bringing the vase down.     

The sound of a single gunshot shook the entire mansion. Danny screamed in extreme agony and to his horror, wrist was profusely bleeding. He dropped the vase and fell back.      

"SIWAN!"     

Doyoung's screams brought him back to reality and he was suddenly scared to look but he glanced towards the front door. Gayoon put her gun pack into its sheath and ran forward to apprehend Danny while Doyoung ran towards…     

"SIWAN!" she cried upon seeing her son, all bloodied and injured on the floor. He was groaning and panting in pain. A policeman picked him up in his arms.     

"We don't have time for an ambulance!" Gayoon shouted. "Take him to the hospital using the police car!"     

She took out a pair of handcuffs and cuffed Danny's hands.     

"Kang Danny, you're under arrest for the murder of your younger son Kang Shinho and the attempted murder of your elder son, Kang Siwan. You have the right to remain silent and anything you say will be used against you at the court. So just shut the fuck up and come quietly."