***
‘… if he wants to stay in his position. ‘
Mrs. Shin’s voice hovered in Sun’s head.
She had heard Mrs. Shin at Gyeonhui’s house last time, but the conversation between the two was not something that anyone would listen to between parents and their children. Sun felt so sorry for how much Gyeonhui had been hurt and suffered from the cold and mean words coming from his own mother.
“Hah…”
Sun sighed, feeling sorry for him.
However, to cut off the thoughts about him, she began to draw her characters on her tablet, looking back at the monitor.
“You’re almost shoving your face into the monitor.” Watching Sun next her, Ari said playfully.
Sun looked at Ari and smiled weakly.
“What happened?”
“… No, nothing.” Sun said.
“What did Ojae say to you?”
This time, Sun shook her head too.
“Then what’s wrong with your face? It’s been like that all day since you met Ojae.”
Sun looked at the monitor for a moment and finally started speaking slowly.
“… Are all the business conglomerates the same…?”
“What are you talking about?” Ari curiously asked.
“… No, never mind.” Sun shook her head.
“Oh, come on. Just say it.”
“Ari Jo!” Still listening to the two of them, Eunyoung called Ari’s name.
“…”
“Stop bothering Sun.”
“No, I’m not bothering her…. I’m just trying to help her.”
“Leave her alone. That’s what you can do to help her. Got it?”
“… Okay.”
Ari returned to her seat while pouting her lips out.
Eunyoung started speaking as she saw Sun.
“Don’t you have to leave soon to meet him tonight?”
Hearing Eunyoung, Sun raised her head and confirmed what time it was.
The time of the appointment with him tonight was approaching already.
“I didn’t know the time had gone so fast already.”
“You don’t need to go if you don’t want to see him.”
Hearing Eunyoung, Sun slowly shook her head. “… It’s the last time.”
She said with a bitter smile.
Eunyoung was only looking at Sun quietly without saying anything.
***
Gyeonhui hurriedly stepped into the office.
“You’re here!”
Ojae stood up and approached him as soon as he saw Gyeonhui.
“Where are the clothes?”
“Here they are.”
Ojae gave him the shirt and the jacket that was prepared for him before he arrived at the office.
“Did you make the reservation?”
“Yes, it’s done.”
Hearing Ojae, Gyeonhui took off the shirt that he was wearing.
His muscular upper body revealed the floral pattern on his chest.
As Gyeonhui looked in the mirror with a firm expression, he quickly wore the new shirt.
“I also investigated more about Sun’s father.”
Ojae also presented him with a report of his investigation throughout the day.
Gyeonhui paused for a moment instead of buttoning the shirts and looked at the report slowly.
“He was a coffee barista, but it seemed like his business didn’t work out very well. He paid the bills, but that was it. There is one thing you need to see. Look at the bottom of the report.”
Gyeonhui read down to where Ojae pointed.
“He went to Santiago in Chile, and walked there after his wife, Sun’s mother, died.”
Hearing Ojae, Gyeonhui’s face hardened.
“… So?”
Gyeonhui became overwhelmed after knowing more about Sun’s story that he had never heard before.
“Sun was…”
Gyeonhui mumbled to himself with a firm expression.
“What?” Ojae asked.
“The trail in Santiago was where her father walked through to fight the loss of his wife. Sun also had the same determination, just like her father, and went there to break up with me.” Speaking to Ojae, Gyeonhui’s face hardened more.
“Hah…” After Gyeonhui sighed, he wore his shirt and the jacket. He looked in the mirror for a moment and asked, “Do I look okay?”
“Yes. You look great.” Ojae was surprised by such a strange question. He hurriedly answered Gyeonhui.
“Are you sure I look great?”
“Of course.”
Even hearing Ojae, Gyeonhui’s expression looked nervous.
“But why do you care so much about how you look? You never cared about it before. It’s not like you at all.” Ojae couldn’t resist his curiosity and asked him carefully.
He looked at himself in the mirror and slowly started speaking. “… Because maybe this is our last time together.”
83. I regretted it.
In front of the CEO’s private elevator.
“Hah…”
Perhaps the thought that this might be their last moment together, shallow sighs constantly leaked out of his mouth.
‘Dring.’
A short time later, he heard the sound which told him that his private elevator had arrived.
When he was about to get on the elevator, a vibration rang on Ojae’s phone next to Gyeonhui.
“Dr. Seo?”
When Ojae confirmed the caller, he was surprised because it was unusual.
‘I’m sure he contacted us because of the blood transfusion…’
Hearing the words’ Dr. Seo’ from Ojae, Gyeonhui’s expression darkened.
“Hello, Dr. Seo… What? Really?”
Ojae’s expression, while talking on the phone, distorted.
“… Okay, I …I understand.”
After Ojae hung up the phone with Dr. Seo, his face was entirely distorted.
“What’s going on?”
Gyeonhui felt an ominous energy and asked Ojae.
“… The president… your grandpa wants to see you…”
“… What?” Gyeonhui frowned as if he had heard it wrong.
“You have to go now. The president is looking for you.”
Hearing Ojae’s words again, Gyeonhui’s eyes started shaking as if he had heard something unbelievable.
***
Down a road that was a short distance from the Consencio building.
Sitting on a bench and waiting for him, Sun confirmed the time.
The appointment time that she was supposed to see him was 10 minutes ago, but she could not see him coming.
‘Did something happen to him?’
Feeling this unknown sense of anxiety, she kept looking at the road with anxiety.
“Hey, hey, Sun!”
At that time, she heard Ojae rushing from afar.
“Huck, Huck.”
When Ojae stopped right before her, he breathed roughly because he was running at almost deadly speed to get to her. It wasn’t easy for him to catch his breath.
“Please, huck, huck, please wait, huck, for him,” Ojae said urgently.
“What’s going on?”
Her anxiety strengthened when she saw Ojae instead of Gyeonhui.
“The president of the company is looking for Gyeonhui now. Huck, Huck.”
“What?”
“He went to his grandpa, the president.”
“… His… grandpa?”
It was information about his family that she had rarely heard from Gyeonhui.
Looking at her surprised face, Ojae only nodded slowly because he was so exhausted and had no energy to explain to her.