It had already been 18 hours and you hit a dead end, no leads, and no idea where the kidnapped child was. It was bad. The first 24 hours were the most critical and if the child wasn’t found soon, the odds increased that the child would be found dead.

The last abduction case you had solved quickly with the help of one snarky Jung Hoseok, and you were rather reluctant to ask him for help again. He had been a sassy little the whole time, his ego inflating the longer you needed his help.

And he knew he was the only thing that could help you find the child. After all, in your city, where anyone could pretend to be someone else. He was the most skilled at bluffing, due to his nature, but that didn’t make you hate working with him any less. 

Everything he said got under your skin, he always liked to poke at your ego, that you had to ask for his help, that you couldn’t do it alone. It ticked you off, but then he would do sweet things like make sure you never walked on the side of the road with cars. He would also stand protectively over you when you were in sketchy neighborhoods.

It honestly wreaked havoc on your heart and you hated yourself for it, how could you let yourself, a cop, be so tied up with someone like him? It would break your parents' hearts, coming from a long line of comrades in blue. 

But that wasn't enough to stop you from asking for his help again. This was the Mayor's daughter after all, a high-profile case meant bringing out the big guns. And that's how you found yourself walking in his neighborhood.

He lived in one of the sketchier parts o