Page 88 of Damian & Jun, Episodes 13-16

“Giving his statement. Mr. Su was with him. Meng is also still with him.”

Meng. Who was Meng? Oh, yeah, the Seoul-based English-Korean interpreter Damian had chosen himself. Damian was starting to lose the thread of the plot. Gigi and her coffee delivery couldn’t come fast enough.

Damian checked his messages, responded to Bryce and a couple others. Émeric had given a general report on Jamal and Maleko. Both bodyguards were being held overnight. The leader of the agency they worked for was flying out to check on them, but Richard was having them looked after as if they were his personal employees.

Jun started to stir in his sleep. Damian touched his uninjured arm, trying to calm him again. Jun’s head kept moving on the pillow, his legs shifted under the covers with agitation. His heart rate started rising.

“Jun.” Damian leaned in.

Jun’s eyes flew open. He looked at Damian, Collin, and the rest of 5N, then relaxed. He shook his head and mumbled something in Mandarin, then closed his eyes.

A few minutes later it started up again. This time he was saying names. Damian woke him. Jun checked all the faces around him, then frowned, looking at Damian. “Richard? Émeric? Artemis?”

“They’re safe. Richard is just talking to some people. Émeric’s handling logistics. Artemis is at the Parsonage.”

“Armada?”

“Going to yell at you for getting shot. She and Habibi and Betti and Kimbo are fine.”

“Cedric and Anna? May, Ruby, Betti?”

“They’re all safe.”

“Jaewoong?”

“Right here,” Jaewoong leaned in, waving.

Jun’s hands moved in agitation. “Rei?”

“We don’t know. Ellisandre went to find out.”

Jun’s face paled even more.

“Hyung, you got to sleep, or they’re not going to let you leave,” Su-jin said.

Yohei grunted in agreement.

Jun sighed. He was shaking a little. His gaze kept moving between Su-jin and Collin. Finally, he closed his eyes. Damian sighed and kept stroking Jun’s uninjured side with his hand.

Jun started twisting in his sleep only fifteen minutes later, agitation all over his face.

Damian spoke to him, trying to calm him down. Jun leaned into Damian’s hand for a moment and then went back to mumbling names in his sleep.

“He’s like me,” Collin said. “I wouldn’t sleep until I saw Richard when we were in the hospital. I think he’s fixating on Su-jin and me.” He pulled off his suit jacket and laid it over a chair. “Damian, if it’s okay?”

“Anything.” Damian gestured with the one hand he wasn’t using to try to soothe Jun.

“I thought you might be jealous.”

“I’m not the one he’s having nightmares about.”

Collin toed off his shoes and crawled under the covers. Damian helped move the monitoring line and Jaewoong held up the blankets till Collin was settled. Collin whispered in Jun’s ear, telling him he was there, that they were safe. Jun’s eyes continued to flicker behind his eyelids.

Damian’s tired brain started to put the pieces together. “Su-jin. They threatened to go after you next. And Collin…”

“And I was kidnapped before,” Collin said.

Damian looked at Su-jin, “Would you, could you?”