Chapter 206: Seo Yeon/ Seon-Ho

We were kept pretty busy in the palace for a while after the children had settled in. We took them out as much as possible to make up for the time he had lost with them, even halting their studies for a little while, I wanted them to just be children for a while after the emotional turmoil they went through. As for me, well, nothing had really changed much; my man was as possessive over me as ever, something I had actually missed. But it was hard breaking his addiction, even if we had returned I knew that the possibility of Nam-Kyu stalking us was the reason why he was still on edge. I had no idea how much of a toll it had taken on his work until I saw it for myself working in his office. Even his servants were scared to work for him; I had ask around to see what the problem was and apparently Nam-Kyu's jealously and possessiveness had reached to another level. They would take turns to punish any female servant severely if she thought they were even looking at Seon-Ho, and as for the male servants well...she drove a few of them crazy with there nonsensical requests. The fact that she tried to control him at his work...I got so angry at this, I went through a lot to help him get that position. I confronted as soon as I could, going on a complete rant about it until I almost ended up in tears, finally being able to get everything off of my chest. But Seon-Ho, he didn't even blink. He watched me undo myself before he stumbled towards me and almost fell on top of me, mumbling words I couldn't quite make out until I caught him begging me not to leave him again. The children were missing us from home and kept wanting to go back to their grandfather's village but I wasn't taking my husband in the state that he was in, so I had no choice but to step things up and stop indulging him whenever he wanted which was hard on me as well. I had to start distancing myself in his presence so he could focus on sobering up...and could focus on removing the Kang's from our lives as soon as possible....she had kept certain rooms in the mansion locked. I tried as hard as I could to break into them and had sent our old servants to help look for the keys and into anything else suspicious about her. When I was out of my husband's sight that was. He had long given up in despair; I had no idea what that obsessed bitch put him through in my absence but I swore I could make her pay for that as well. He was relying on me for almost everything like our children and would throw jealousy fits out of nowhere. He would even make me sit and watch him get drunk and just stare at me as his hopes were fading away. It was a heartbreaking sight but the more I resisted him the more violent as possessive he was getting...the ore he was forcing things in his corrupted state of mind. But I was going to stick to my marriage vows no matter what he did to me...even if he killed me in a drunken rage I would accept wholeheartedly, but I needed to reunite our family first.

One day while they went to visit the prince after her continent period had ended, I had a copy of all household keys prepared that matched the locks when they were away. I opened as many doors as I could; most of which were empty so I knew she had them locked as a ruse...until I found a small passageway in the kitchen covered by huge baskets of fruits that no one in the mansion seemed to ever eat. I made my way through the tunnel that seemed to run throughout the entire property until I found a horde of gold and money...with the queen's stamp on it.

I racked my brains until I remembered Seon-Ho telling me that Chun-Ae got a position close to the Queen when he started his promotion in the army. I found some old documents rolled up poorly in a sack hidden in the corner of the room...containing anti-conception prescriptions. So that's how she got her power in the palace! She was drugging the King's concubines on behalf of the Queen who was against my husband the moment the King relied on my husband's influence more than her own. Nam-Kyu must have found out about it and blackmailed the Queen for her help to return to my husband's side. She proved her distaste more than once by making it hard for him to come home from battle more than once. I ordered some servants to delay their journey home as I went about making copies of every document laying there.

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I knew from the moment I saw the servants in the market that she was trying to delay me coming home. I was already in a foul mood and was not to be provoked further. But I was also getting paranoid; what cause would she have to do this? Nam-Kyu had somehow escaped her confinement and was already waiting for me as soon as I stepped out of the meeting I had in the market; she was whining in my ears already had my temper rising as I just left her there in the market to see what the hell Yeonnie was up to...and with who.

I know she was angry at me for how I was acting lately but I couldn't help it...she knows how stuck I was...but that gave her no right to be alone with whoever she was with just to spite me...

I kicked the doors down with Nam-Kyu in tow screaming behind me trying to stop me. I couldn't help myself from screaming her name through the entire property as our children were having their lessons with their uncle...until she showed up with her male servant behind her.

I blacked out with rage as I made my way towards them. She already knew what was going on and shoved the servant out of the way so no harm would come to him as I scooped her into my arms and over my shoulder, dragging her to the closest room which happened to be Nam-Kyu's old room. She let loose like never before and I managed to rip her from my arms and almost throwing her down the stairs but I caught her just in time and finally lost all patience...tripping her down the stairs myself as I dragged Yeonnie to her room and locked it behind us. All we could hear was her screaming for me in pain, not allowing even the servants to attend her and bring her to a physician.

Yeonnie had put up with a lot go things from me, and god bless her she put up with it all without complaint. But I wasn't as strong as she was, the minute was free of my father I was also free of all the restraint he had placed on my body and mind. I had never felt anything like it before but I could not stop lashing out. I turned around and looked at her; the one person who could help me deal with all of my pain and more. My beautiful, loving wife who was created for me and I only was just in my reach as I made my way to her and immersed myself in her and all that she gave me, but not before begging her to take me home.