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It had caught everyone by surprise that day. Not just the RFA members, but the media too. The headlines were already everywhere online, and all said the same thing. You had received the news from a tired yet frantic Jaehee. She had arrived at the penthouse which you and Jumin lived in as husband and wife, eyes wide and completely out of breath.
That conversation would repeatedly play through your head as you sat by your husband’s side, running a hand through his hair.
“M- MC… There’s a problem, a h- huge problem…” Jaehee had to hold onto her knees for a moment, so you took hold of her shoulders and led her over to the sofa to sit down.
“Jaehee… Take a moment to catch your breath, then tell me what’s going on.” Your husband’s assistant held onto her chest for a moment, before she pulled her glasses off her face and gave you an excessively concerned glance.
“MC, Mr Han collapsed during a meeting from exhaustion… He’s had to be taken to hospital.”
“Wh- What?!”
After a day of being monitored in hospital, Jumin had been allowed to return home under strict orders to remain resting in bed for a few days, and not to leave or do anything strenuous for a few days after that. When you got home with him, you were met by his father, who said that he wanted Jumin to take a month of sick leave so that he was fully recovered. You understood where he was coming from, and you could see the genuine concern of a father in his eyes.
You also realised why Jumin had been able to exhaust himself in such a manner after Jaehee had explained that his department had been rather slow during your honeymoon despite Jumin’s request, and he was trying to catch up on it all. No wonder there had been days where you had gone to sleep and woke up without Jumin by your side, he had been pulling all-nighters to get the work caught up especially after he had some staff members fired due to the lack of work carried out in his absence.
Now though… Jumin was asleep. You were so relieved to see him asleep. It made you feel better that the other RFA members were showing concern for him and offering you support though… Even Zen had made a personal visit after having dosed up an allergy medication so that he could stand being near Elizabeth just so that he could see if Jumin was okay.
You couldn’t believe that Jumin had allowed himself to do that to himself though… You had asked him to make sure that if he was ever at the office for more than eight hours to at least take a break and have a nap. You had even asked Jaehee to make sure that Jumin took care of himself.
This though… was completely unexpected.
“Okay, Elizabeth… Here’s your food, okay? Make sure that you eat it all up, Jumin will be really upset if you don’t eat, princess…” You whispered, stroking Elizabeth behind the ears as you placed her food before her. She had been refusing to eat recently, and had always gone to nestle next to Jumin in bed rather than eat her food. That meant that on top of making sure that Jumin remained resting and doing as the doctors said, you were having to get a very fussy cat to eat. “Please… Jumin will be better soon, I promise.”
“Meow?” Elizabeth looked up at you with wide eyes, so you nodded and then nudged her food closer to her. You sighed out loud when she ended up dipping her head down and started eating.
After a few moments though, you heard a sudden movement just behind you, before a hand rested on your shoulder. Worriedly, you turned around before biting your lip. Jumin was stood there with a blanket over his shoulders and giving you a concerned look.
“Jumin…” You stood up, and took hold of your husband’s hands as he glanced down at Elizabeth. “Why are you not resting in bed? You know what the doctors said…” After that, you moved your hands to the blanket, and pulled it further over his shoulders. Underneath his eyes were still dark, and his skin was still pale and somewhat pasty. “I… I don’t want you to push yourself again…”
Despite his actions being somewhat clumsy and uncoordinated due to his current levels of tiredness, Jumin pulled his arms around you and buried his head into your shoulders. “I don’t want to see you run yourself into the ground like I did, kitten… You’ve been insisting that you care for me and not the staff, whilst making sure that Elizabeth 3rd eats at the same time as keeping up with guest invitations for the RFA party…” He then felt his breath brush across your neck as he attempted to tighten his grasp. “Don’t make me contact V or Luciel, to have your RFA app restricted so that you take some time to rest yourself…” Soon, Jumin nodded over to the sofa to indicate that he wanted to sit down with you on it. “If you do not rest, MC… I will not rest until I exhaust you myself.”
You did as Jumin wanted then, biting your lip as you did so. You wouldn’t say that you were over-working yourself, but there was certainly a reason for the way in which you had been acting…
‘Some reports state that the entire reason Jumin Han ended up collapsing was because of his wife not taking care of him, and just staying behind in their penthouse whilst he slaved away at work and allowing him to just keep on working.’
It wasn’t the case, but… Hearing that same thing over and over again on the ‘news’ and in ‘news articles’ was getting to you. They knew nothing surrounding the situation, yet they almost instantly put the blame on you…
“Kitten… Why are you crying?” Jumin’s hand fell to rest on your cheek, before your eyes widened. You were crying? Since when did you start crying? “Oh, MC… Please do not cry. There is no reason to cry at all…” He pressed a kiss to your hair, before he sighed and rested his forehead against your own. “Let’s stay here until Elizabeth has ate, and then both of us shall go to rest in bed…”
“O- Okay, Jumin…”
Jaehee: Oh, Mrs Han, you’re online…
MC: Jaehee… It’s just MC, okay? I’m not your boss, so you don’t need to call me that…
Yoosung: MC!!! How’s Jumin?!
MC: He’s… okay at the moment. He’s asleep whilst holding onto me from behind… His hair is tickling my neck.
Jaehee: So he is well? I’m glad of that.
Jaehee: I just thought that if Mr Han is okay… He would appreciate knowing that his father has eased some of the workload on our department.
MC: He has?
Jaehee: Yes.
Jaehee: Including some cat projects.
Yoosung: lolol good for you, Jaehee!
MC: Wait… He willingly took some of Jumin’s cat projects?
Jaehee: Yes. He said “If they mean that much to my son, I shall try to carry them out as best as I can as a gift for him.”
Yoosung: … woah.
MC: … woah seconded.
Jaehee: By the way, I thought that I should let you know ahead of time… He announced that he’s going to be visiting you and Mr Han tonight…
MC: WHAT.