Chapter 34: Just a Reason   “Gather up everyone. I'm going to start my plan soon.”   “This soon?”   “Yes. The sooner the better. I wouldn't want to drag it on any longer, it's wasting a lot of my time.”   “But–”   “Are you trying to defy me now?”   “No, Sir.”   “Then, go! I'm sure we're able to succeed this time although we have lesser men now. So much lesser.”   “Yes, Sir. I understand.”   --   TaeYeon quickly went to look for her father once she got the news that the king was looking for her. She didn't have any ideas why her father was looking for her, but she knows that it isn't going to be any good news.   There was a tap on her shoulder when she was at the door, her hand was about to knock onto the wood. She turned to her side and saw Sooyoung there who nodded at her with a serious expression.   She knows what happened...   TaeYeon wanted to question Sooyoung, but she knew that it was useless because her father was just a door away from her. So, she decided to kick that thought away and opened the door.   The king was sitting on the couch, his head was down with his hand rubbing onto his temples. It seems like he didn't know that there was someone else in the room.   “Appa.” TaeYeon called out and the king immediately lifted up his head.   “You're here.” He said before patting the side next to him. “Come and sit.”   The two obliged and went to sit side by side, with TaeYeon beside her father.   “Did anything happen?” She popped out the question. She realised that her father was being unusually quiet, she heaved a sigh. “Just tell me, I'm able to take anything.”   The King looked at his daughter cautiously. Honestly, he didn't know how to break it to his daughter that her Appa nearly got into a car accident this morning because apparently, someone had hijacked the vehicle. Therefore, he decided to keep it to himself, or at least from TaeYeon.   “I– There's been some cases around.”   “What cases?”   “A family of five was found dead in their house. There were... teeth mark on their neck which I presume that it was our types who did it.”   “And... you're trying to say that it was... Donghae who did it?” TaeYeon rose her brow because she knows that her father isn't someone who would accuse another person unless there were solid evidence.   “Well, at first, I didn't think much about it. But, I kind of got a letter earlier on.”   “What... letter?”   The king handed a piece of paper to TaeYeon as she scanned through.     Be more careful, dear Sir. You wouldn't want your precious daughter's love to end up like this, right? But don't worry, she's next on my list.   “I got this letter together with a photo of the family.” The king added.   TaeYeon clenched her jaw together before crashing the paper and throwing it away. “What the heck does he want?! I swear that I'll kill him with my bare hands!”   Sooyoung placed her hands onto TaeYeon's shoulder. “Calm down, Taeng. Breathe.” And just like that, TaeYeon's body did relax.   “He's starting to feed now, which means that something big is going to happen soon. I wouldn't confirm what I just said though, but still, be more careful of everything.” The king ordered. Because he's already able to come into our mansion to hi-jack my car.   “I know, Appa.” TaeYeon ruffled her hair. “I'm already being extra careful. I wouldn't even let Tiffany go to the garden by herself.”   “TaeYeon-ah, I know that it's hard, but Appa promise you that after all this, you'll be able to live happily ever after like the fairy tale that you want.”   “Am I really able to do so?” She whispered.   “Yes. Yes, you can. Believe in me.”   I really want to believe in you, Appa. But right now, I can't even believe in myself that I'm able to keep Tiffany safe when the time comes. I'm afraid... of losing her.   --   TaeYeon, Tiffany, Jessica and Sooyoung were all gathered in the living room together with Seohyun. They've been trying their best to stick close to one another as much as they can in case something does happen.   “So what are we going to do now? Just sit here and do nothing?” Jessica asked.   “That's exactly what we're doing.” Sooyoung replied her.   “What?”   “We can't do anything much because we don't have his or their exact location, so yeah.”   “But ain't that kind of useless? We are just like wasting time?”   “No, this is the best plan that we could think of.”   Jessica scoffed and shook her head. “I say we go hunt for Lee Donghae and capture that monster. After that, I could then use all sorts of stuffs to knock him in his head until he begs for me to stop! Muahahaha!”   There was suddenly an awkward silence after Jessica's laughter stopped. Everyone was staring at her with an expressionless face which made her 'tsk' at them with a comment of 'you guys are no fun'.   “It's boring. I'm bored. Is there any games that we can play?” Sooyoung whined. “Any?” She looked around and everyone was quiet. “Forget that I asked...”   “What about a game of truth and dare?” Seohyun suggested. “Although we pretty much couldn't do the dare part.”   “Then we'll go with the truth then!” Sooyoung exclaimed. She took out a bottle from out of nowhere which caused several pairs of eyebrows to rise up.   “Where did you even get that?” TaeYeon asked.   “I've been drinking that a while ago, you idiot.”   “Don't call me an idiot!”   “What? Wanna fight?”   “Oh, you're so asking for it!”   TaeYeon was about to launch forward when Tiffany pulled her back down. “Behave!” She scolded.   “But–”   “No, TaeYeon.”   And so, she ended up sitting back down with a smug Sooyoung opposite of her.   “Okay, forget it. No truth and dare game either.” Seohyun said with a sigh.   “What do we do now?” Jessica who was checking out her nails said out of boredom.   “Talk? There's pretty much nothing to do.”   Seohyun raised up her hand. “I have a question to ask though, to Tiffany and Jessica.”   That caught the human girls' attention as they looked at Seohyun.   “If... And I say if you had a choice, will you turn yourself into a vampire?” Everyo