Both were lonely and desolate, whether they had parents or not.

At some point, Sang Yoon casually revealed his true feelings to Eun Jo.

It must have been an instinctive thought that she might understand.

As expected, Eun Jo dropped her sharp guard and occasionally showed him a smile first.

A very cautious, faint smile that seemed to appear and disappear.

But Sang Yoon at that time had no intention of going against his mother, Hye Jung Lee.

He had heard the story pounded into his ears.

He had to follow his father and inevitably go into politics, and he had to marry a woman from a good family who could definitely be of help.

The title of ‘your wife’ was never used.

Only ‘my daughterinlaw’. ‘My daughterinlaw’.

A fight that he would lose anyway if he confronted it.

A fight that he lost every time.

There was nothing to gain from trying that tiresome thing again, which was different only in size.

After a few days of gloomy dawdling.

“It went well. It was an appointment that you weren’t very keen on from the start.”
Eventually, a few raindrops were coloring the wide windows of the office grey.

Secretary Kang, holding a tablet, was busy adjusting the emptied schedule.

Jae Ha, who had been blankly looking down at the heavily gloomy city beyond the cloudy window, turned his head.

“I never said that.”
“You didn’t say it, but I know it all.”
She knew it all, even though he didn’t say it?

“How?”
“It’s a feeling.”
“So you’re saying you judged my true feelings based on your simple feeling.”
Jae Ha, who had been spinning his chair around, changed his crossed leg.

Leaning deeply back into his chair with a leisurely smile on his face was also a sign that he wasn’t pleased.

Secretary Kang knew it well enough, either by feeling or by experience.

“It’s not simple. It refers to energy or emotions felt with the body or the heart, from visual, auditory, and so on that are emanating from you. Anyway, I know it all.”
“Well done, go out.”
“There’s about two hours free, perhaps Executive Director Hansung Kim, as you mentioned last time…”
“No. I want to be alone.”
Yes. Secretary Kang retreated without another word.

And then, Jae Ha closed his eyes.

He thought he could hear the sound of the heavy rain.

“……”

[“I don’t need anything like a child in my life. Just you alone is enough.”] What was the expression on Eun Jo’s face when she heard those words then?

He remembered.

Very clearly.

It was confused, anxious, and in the end, sad.

And……

The silence in response to the proposal to go together to the U.S.

He thought it was a refusal. He definitely felt it was a refusal.

Even though no words came out of her mouth. Because Kwon Jae Ha’s feelings had never been wrong.

As a man, for the first confession, about the sincerity of wanting to spend a lifetime together,

The woman hesitated.

Just as her pretty lips were about to break the long silence,

The man who couldn’t handle no, tolerate the rejection, had let go of her hand.

“……”
Until he let go of that hand, how happy were we.

The day that could never be erased from memory.

It was raining just like it is now.

How insanely beautiful that kid was……

No matter how much he told her to quit, Eun Jo didn’t quit her tutoring parttime job.

Jae Ha often grumbled about how carefully she was pleading, as if they were living in almost a spy movie level.

Not to mention commuting together in a car, it was unimaginable to even leave and enter the house at the same time.

If the kitten who left the house without an umbrella doesn’t come in.

[“Shit, damn parttime job!”] Let’s see if she would still go even if they gave her ten times the money.

Knowing that a certain boy would always give her a ride to that house, Jae Ha paced around the living room gritting his teeth.

[“Cha Sang Yoon! You son of a bitch! Scumbag!”] He spewed out malicious swear words to a male he hardly knew, tearing at his hair.

So he didn’t hear the sound of her coming in.

Half out of his mind.

[“What? Who is it now…?”] [“Yoon Eun Jo! You’re all wet!”] [“It’s okay.”] [“What’s okay!”]

Look at this! Your cheeks are like ice all I did was unknowingly reach out with both hands to cover her pale cheeks.

The long eyelashes wet with rain suddenly trembled, and the slightly parted red lips exhaled hot breath.

Kwon Jae Ha, who had closed his eyes for a moment, moved closer to Eun Jo.

There was no reason to hold back anymore.

There was no more strength left to deny it.

Permission was even less needed.

[“I’m going to kiss you.”] The moment his hot breath almost touched her moist lips wet with rain,

As if possessed by a ghost, their lips met roughly without any of them initiating.

It was a moment when long defenses and hesitations disappeared without a trace.

Perhaps the two already knew.

Why the unknowable tension and excitement were dangerously circling around the two, as if ready to overflow at any moment.

So they hesitated even less.

The soft kiss gradually heated up, and Jae Ha who held Eun Jo in his arms got wet too.

[“Ha…….”] The breath that he had held for a while burst out from the lips that barely parted.

[“……Eun Jo, I came too late. I’m sorry.”] No, no Eun Jo, leaning on his wide shoulder, gently shook her head.

[“Lean on me now. Please don’t do anything hard.”] The surprised kitten revealed her cheeks turned pink like a peach, and she opened her round, glittering eyes wide.

[“I’m enough as I am now! I even gained weight!”] [“That’s why you’re even prettier. My kitten, you might catch a cold.”] [“No… I’m hot. Too, hot and… I can’t… breathe…!”] Jae Ha couldn’t bear it and blocked her lips again.

Promising to himself that he would never let go again.

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