A MARRIAGE Chapter 41 part 1
Chapter 41
“Appa!” A loud scream of a little boy wearing orange shirt and jeans jolted Yonghwa from his discussion with Shinhye.
He grinned at the two important people in his life standing on the doorway. He got up from his chair to catch his son who was running into his embrace.
“Hello Yohannie.” He pulled him off into the air andYohan screamed in delight.
Meanwhile Shinhye stared at them, narrowing her eyes. She rolled her eyes to meet Seohyun standing happily on the doorway. What was she doing here? Her mind asked in puzzled. However, avoiding Yonghwa’s gaze she forced her smile on her face.
“Hello Hyun.” Yonghwa kissed her cheek while holding Yohan in his arms “Thanks for coming.”
Seohyun smiled gracefully. She followed him to the sofa. She looked around and felt comfortable in his office room. This was the first time she stepped into his office. Her eyes spotted Shinhye sitting on the chair in front of Yonghwa’s desk, “Hello Shinhye.” She said, trying hard to keep her smile.
“Hello Seohyun. How are you? I heard you came back to Seoul a few weeks ago.”
“Oh, I’m fine. Thank you.”
A silence was accompanying them for a moment. Yonghwa cleared his throat and said casually, “Shinhye, please show Seohyun around and our clients files. As I told you before, maybe we can proceed on transferring my shares under her name if she agrees to take over my position.” He stopped, and then, leant to Seohyun, “You will agree, won’t you, Hyun?” He whispered.
Seohyun shrugged her shoulders, giving him a teasing smile.
He groaned playfully. Then, he moved closer, whispering some words in her ear. Seohyun burst out in laughter hearing his cracking jokes.
Shinhye’s face turned red, watching Yonghwa’s gestures towards Seohyun. He whispered, teased, joked and stole a peck on Seohyun’s cheek in front of her eyes. It bugged her. She sighed deeply as she pressed down on her emotion. Yonghwa must have been cracking some jokes again, because Seohyun kept creasing up with laughter. He had never done it with her before. She felt her eyes getting hot suddenly. She could see that Yonghwa was eyeing Seohyun up and down and totally forgot that she was in the same room. She was fuming when Seohyun trailed her fingers across his face lovingly and then, she heard Yonghwa called Seohyun sweetheart. How disgusting! Shinhye said to herself.
She stared at Seohyun fiercely behind her back. If looks could kill, the look of Shinhye shot Seohyun dead instantly. However, Shinhye was calm and hid her anger behind her sly smile. For her, losing Yonghwa to an ordinary girl likeSeohyun was the ultimate insult. It had been enough pressure on Shinhye, as she wanted to have him back in her arms. She had been under emotional strain for some months until now. When she heard Seohyun was leaving Yonghwa behind to Sydney, her heart was screaming in joy. Who would have guessed that she would come back again? She had to carry on with her plans. It might be her last chance to separate both of them.
“Ok. You can go with Shinhye. I will stay here with Yohannie. Seohyun can help both of you, too. See you at lunch time, Hyun.”
Seohyun nodded and followed Shinhye to her office room. She sighed deeply behind Shinhye’s back. Shinhye looked radiantly lovely in a chic red suit. Her bright red color suit looked contrast with her creamy skin. How couldn’t she be jealous if Yonghwa was working together with this striking woman?
Shinhye walked into her office room without waiting for Seohyun. She sat down on her chair arrogantly and stared at Seohyun. Her eyes narrowed for a second in jealousy when she looked at the engagement ring on Seohyun’s finger. She sighed deeply. It should have been her wearing that lovely diamond ring. She said to herself. Her eyes moved to see Seohyun’s face while her dyed hair was swinging in a shiny movement.
“You are happy now, aren’t you, Seo Joohyun?”
Seohyun frowned, “What do you mean?”
“Of course, you are happy like a mouse having a party without a cat watching it.”
‘Oh God! What does she mean by that?!’ Seohyun groaned, secretly. However, she didn’t reply back. It’s all because of Yonghwa. She concluded of this messy conversation between them, “You are getting YonghwaOppa in your arms, and he’s the most eligible bachelor in Seoul. He’s simply adorable, gorgeous and smart. You are putting yourself in a great danger as you are the envy of every woman in Seoul.”
“Am I?” Seohyun asked sarcastically, as she felt Shinhye wanted to challenge her and hurt her again.
Shinhye laughed a bit, “Don’t act like an innocent girl in front of me. I know your tricks since long time ago. Beside his charms, you know very well that YonghwaOppa has become a millionaire even before he turns thirty.”
Sighing deeply, Seohyun stared at Shinhye, “I don’t care if he’s a millionaire or billionaire or poor man. I will be marrying him because I love him.” Seohyun said, firmly. Her eyes glared at Shinhye intensely.
Shinhye laughed again, “It’s really a good joke. Or should I say a brilliant joke?” She stopped, and got up from her chair, putting herself on the edge of her office desk, “Love? Is it possible that a rape victim loves the man who raped her? You did it on purpose. You drugged YonghwaOppaand when he was unconscious, you took him in bed with you. After that, you screamed loudly as a rape victim to make YonghwaOppa feel guilty for the rest of his life. How lowly tactic.”
Seohyun felt her cheeks growing red at those harshly words from Shinhye, but Shinhye just kept making bad comments about her eyes, her skin, her attitudes and her body and she even asked her if she had a natural black hair in a insulting tones. As she stood up from her chair, Seohyun had to fight back her tears. Her voice was cracking with emotion, “Shinhye, I don’t like that kind of talk. I’m here to learn about this business, YonghwaOppa’s business. Whatever you said, I won’t let you have YonghwaOppa back.” She lifted her hand up, showing ShinhyeYonghwa’s engagement ring.
She stared at her firmly, “This ring is the proof of his love for me, and I hope you to knock the unpleasant conversation off and get out of our life forever.”
Smiling sarcastically, Shinhye added in an arrogant way, “Why should I? You are angry because I discover your dirty tricks. You trapped him using your son. I admit that you got a big luck to get pregnant in the first place. If I had known that he will be a good loving father, I should've agreed to bear his child long time ago when he asked me. I always use protection when we were having sex, and.” Her voice trailed off, looking at the white pale face of Seohyun, “How is your fiancé? I’m sure YonghwaOppa is better than him in everything. That’s why you chose him without any guilt for betraying your fiancé. God. I can’t believe that one good man such as your ex-fiancé isn’t enough for you. I bet you are a slut, sweetheart!” She copied Yonghwa’s voice when he called Seohyun sweetheart.
Anger ate her up. Finally, she couldn’t press down her anger anymore. That was enough. This insult was enough. She got up and warned her, “Shut your dirty mouth up, and prepare to pack your things! I swear to kick you out from here! I will take over your place as soon as I can run this business by myself!” She snapped at Shinhye.
Shinhye stopped her laugh and glared at her, “Fine. If you get the courage to challenge me then let YonghwaOppa stay out of our matter. We deal with our problem, only the two of us excluding YonghwaOppa. If he knows about it then I could say that you are nothing, Seo Joohyun. You have to admit you don’t have the abilities to kick me out of the business by your lowly skills.” She paused, and moved closer to her face, “Do you dare to take my challenge?”
“Why not?!”Seohyun snapped at Shinhye, andSeohyun just turned on her heels and quickly moved away from her. If she continued to argue back then she couldn’t hold her emotion any longer. She hardly pressed her emotion for not slapping Shinhye’s sly face.
However, before she cqn open the door, Shinhye’s cynicism voice sprang her ears, “If I were you, I would throw away his bed. Only God knows how many girls have slept with him in that bed, and of course you have to make sure that you will satisfy him sexually otherwise he will find other mistress outside. He’s really wild in bed.” She giggled, as she proudly talked about her sex life with Yonghwa.
Seohyun turned her head and said calmly, hiding hard her emotion from Shinhye’s eyes, “Thank you for your advice, but since I agreed to marry him, I will accept who he is including his past. I don’t care how many girlfriends he has before, and I don’t want to know who has ever slept with him. All I care now is he and our son.”
With those parting words, Seohyun slammed the door and darted to the ladies room, bursting into tears there, “How could Shinhye be YonghwaOppa’s girlfriend? She's a horrible person.” Seohyun said to herself. That was a big blow. She was really upset over Shinhye’s lousy comments and insults. Shinhye was extremely rude to her. However, the thought of Yonghwa having sexual relationship with his past girlfriends made her shuddered. She was lying to Shinhye. She was a BIG liar. Honestly, she couldn’t accept if Yonghwa betrayed her with some other women. She had never given herself to any man except him almost three years ago. Even during her engagement with Wongeun, she always refused to give herself to Wongeun. She was a conservative girl, holding her principle tightly. Only a married couple could have sex.
She wanted to ask Yonghwa about it since a long time ago but she was too afraid of his possibly honest answer. How if Shinhye told her the truth? Shinhye was his ex-girlfriend and she had admitted before that she andYonghwa had a great sex life together. Seohyun suddenly felt her body shaking. During more than two years of her relationship with Yonghwa, he had never talked about sex to her. They were dating normally without having sex at the end of the date except passionate kisses. He had never asked about it even ONCE! How could he manage his sex life if what Shinhye told her was true? Was it possible that he had sex with his other girlfriend including Shinhye behind her back?
She felt her body going numb, as she couldn’t get those fears out of her mind. She continued to imagine the horrible scenes of Yonghwaand his ex-girlfriends. Had imagination of YonghwaandShinhye spending the night in his bed passionately had made her body burn with anguish.
Wiping her tears, she looked at her image in the mirror, “I love him for who he is now. As long as he never betrayed me with someone else then I would forget his past.” She promised to herself.
Her mind thought about Shinhye again. She wanted to tell Yonghwa about her bad attitudes however; she couldn’t do that without any proof. She didn’t want Yonghwa to think that she was ONLY jealous and made a bad story about Shinhye. YonghwaandShinhye had a good relationship as good friend and business partner; at least it was what she got from his perspective. Moreover, she had taken her challenge to deal with her alone. She had to prove to Shinhye that she was capable in this business and not a loser.
After rinsing her face from the tears and putting on a slight make-up, Seohyun went back to Yonghwa’s room. She saw from the opened door Yohan was playing with Seohyun in the conference room. His laughter could be heard from the other room. She smiled. Her bad mood suddenly changed. Why did she have to think about Shinhye? All she wanted to think about now was only YonghwaandYohanand how to make them happy. Before she realized, strong arms grabbed her waist all of a sudden. She jolted. She turned her head quickly, “YonghwaOppa.”
He grinned innocently.
“This is your office, spoiled brat! What if someone caught us?!” She scolded him, and gave him a mock glare.
“Why? This is my office and this level is only for directors and managers. You are safe, sweetheart.”
She pushed him playfully, “Sometimes you drive me crazy, Yonghwa-ah.” Seohyun stared at him and pretended to give him a quick glare.
He cracked into laughter, “Ok. Ok. I will take my hands off.” He lifted both of hands up, showing that he surrendered comically.
But when she heard steps of high heels, her sense told her that Shinhye was behind them. She suddenly embraced Yonghwaand held him tightly, sticking her body to his. Their eyes met before ending up in a passionate kiss. He groaned in pleasure yet was confused of what was going on. Of course, he didn’t refuse more passionate kisses from Seohyun.
Shinhye watched the couple with anger, jealousy and hurt. Tears sprang from her eyes. She had been stressed, irritable and her life was a disaster without Yonghwa. How could she lose him to Seohyun? Yonghwa was her life. She couldn’t live without him. Now, he even wanted to leave their business partnership, as he wanted Seohyun to take over his place. She was worried that she would spend the future alone and become the poor little famous and rich girl she tried so hard to avoid being. If she couldn’t get Yonghwa then Seohyun couldn’t, too. That was her vow. She really hated this girl, Seo Joohyun.
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“I’m an old-fashioned girl, Yonghwa-ah.” Seohyun said, pouting playfully to force Yonghwa to agree with her plans. She DID know that he would agree with everything she wanted. She just wanted to tease him, making him give into her again. She was in Yonghwa’s office room, discussing clients for the new projects. Shinhye was going overseas to deal with the new clients. It was two weeks before their wedding day. Seohyun had spent most of her time to learn about Yonghwa’s business before she was ready to take over. Her quarrel with Shinhye was put in the secret place as both parties kept quiet and worked professionally. In the middle of her busy time to prepare the wedding, she had to make market research of their new projects in the beginning of next year. Fortunately, Yonghwa was always by her side, helping her of any difficulty that rose up.
Yonghwa looked at her and grinned. He bent his head and whispered in her ear, “I will agree anything you want. Just make sure that you won’t be a runaway bride on that day.” He joked.
She smiled in victory, “I can’t guarantee that. It depends on your behavior.”
He groaned loudly in frustration. He grabbed her body suddenly and swung her. She screamed in shock, “What are you doing?! Let me go!”
“You won’t be satisfied before I say yes, will you? You are an evil girl.” He asked, and claimed her lips before she protested. They kissed.
“How’s the wedding preparation?” He asked huskily, after engaging in a passionate kiss. Lately, working with Seohyun made all his concentration diminished. He couldn’t press out the temptation of kissing her cherry lips.
“Everything has worked out very well. It’s strange how things go around. It’s fantastic, Yonghwa-ah. My mother and your mother are the one who should get an award for helping me. This has been a great month, Yonghwa-ah. I admit their moods are high and sometimes driving me crazy with their perfect wedding plans.”
“But are you ok with their choice?” He asked her, softly.
“Yes, because they always ask me what I really want before discussing it. I’m so grateful to them, Yonghwa-ah. Without our mothers, I don’t think I can cope all these preparations and work project at the same time.” She smiled, prettily.
“I’m glad to hear that.” He sighed deeply, and then, laughed loudly when Seohyun told him about the funny scenes when they were shopping around Paris, Milan and London with her mother andYonghwa’s mother two months ago. Moreover, Yohan always made a mess whenever he strolled out from the boutiques.
“By the way, I have made a legal paper to transfer the ownership of this company under your name. You now have my shares. When the paper is ready, Jonghyun needs to see you to sign the paper. However, I have to finish my last project in China before you take over next year. I wish you can go with me, Hyun.”
“How long will it be?”
“One week.”
“You know I can’t leave Yohannie for that long time. He needs both of us, at least you or me. I don’t want his tragedy to repeat.” Suddenly, she felt her eyes getting hot as she remembered Yohan’s condition when he was in the hospital.
“Yes, I understand.” He paused, taking a deep sigh, “Speaking of Jonghyun, I want to tell you something.”
Seohyun raised her eyebrow, waiting for his next words.
“You are a bad girl! You trick me again and again!” He scolded her playfully, with a big smile was on his face. He tweaked her nose liked he always did to Yohan.
She knitted her eyebrows tightly, “What is it? I don’t understand.”
He took her hand and stared at her beautiful eyes, “You didn’t sign our divorce paper. Jonghyun said you have never replied back to his phone calls when he needs your address to send the paper back to you. You DIDN’T sign, sweetheart. I have seen the original paper with my own eyes. It means that we are still legally married to each other. God, I don’t believe it. I wanted to tell you earlier but I decided to wait until you said it by yourself. However, my prediction was wrong. You didn’t seem to know about it. So, I want to tell you right now as a wedding shock.” He laughed hard, looking at Seohyun’s eyes widened in disbelief, “and one more thing.” He waived his right hand when he saw her opening her mouth to say a word, “You gave me another shock.”
She still stared at his dark brown eyes. She pouted playfully, “What?”
“When I tried to find the copy of our divorce paper in my drawers, I found your letter to Yohannie that you gave me at the airport, and…I opened it.” He paused, when he saw she was glaring at him, “I’m sorry but my curiosity made me cheat. I wanted to know what you wrote for Yohannie, and.” He paused again, as he lost his voice, choking in his throat because of the big happiness, “I was touched. Those words are beautiful and touching, expressing all your feelings. I was wrong about you. I thought you don’t love Yohannie as much as I love him, and I have other thought of the money I gave to you. Please forgive me, Hyun for my horrible thought.” His eyes were pleading as usual.
She took a deep sigh. Yonghwa was using his innocent eyes again, she thought, “Before I forgive you, tell me what you thought before? What’s your horrible thought of it?”
He hugged her tenderly, “Promise me, you won’t get angry.”
When he didn’t hear any response from her, he said softly, “I thought you sent the money to Wongeun to build your dream house together with him. That’s why I was so angry when we had a fight and tore the design into small pieces, hoping that you won’t be able to stick it back on together. I was deadly jealous thinking that only he was in your heart. I’m a horrible person, Hyun. Mytemper is bad.”
She pulled out from his embrace, stun in awe. So, this was his thought about it? She felt her emotion rising in her heart. However, when she saw his dark brown eyes pleading at her to forgive him, she understood that he did it because he loved her. He couldn’t cope with his jealousy. She smiled and nodded gently, “I understand. I forgive you, spoiled brat!”
They stared at each other and smiled. All of a sudden, Seohyun remembered her wedding present for Yonghwa. She opened her handbag, “This is my wedding present for you. I hope you can accept it. It’s not that much compared to all your gifts to me.” She said shyly, giving him a blue envelope.
“What is it? Can I open it now?” Yonghwa said curiously, trying to open the envelope.
“Of course you can’t. That’s a wedding present so you should open it on our wedding day.” She took his hand off from opening the envelope.
“Ok. I will open it later. Thank you, sweetheart.” He smiled widely, kissing her cheeks tenderly, “and I have another gift for you.” He said, while opening his desk drawer.
“What?!Another gift?! It’s enough, YonghwaOppa! You don’t have to spend so much money to bury me with expensive gifts! We haven’t even started our life yet!” She grumbled, protesting his habit of buying expensive gifts for her.
“It has important meaning for me. Look at it first.” He said, while giving her a slender velvet jewelry box.
Seohyun pouted and inhaled a deep sigh. She stared at him and finally decided to open it. The content of the velvet jewelry box made her stun in awe.
“It’s a symbol of my heart, Hyun. I give you my whole heart. Please don’t EVER break it.” He explained in a thick voice. His dark brown eyes were deep.
She stared at the heart-shaped white gold pendant with a three-carat diamond on its hollow glittering on white gold necklace. She took it from its box and stared at the tiny two letters carved on its back. JY.
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“It says that JungYonghwa’s heart belongs to you.” He answered her question in a sudden. His dark brown eyes were still watching her intensely, “Let me put it on your neck, Hyun.” Tears suddenly sprang in her eyes as she was standing still, waiting for Yonghwa to put it on her neck.
When he's eone, she whispered huskily, “Thank you, Yonghwa-ah.”
Staring at his heart on Seohyun’s neck, Yonghwa smiled broadly. A silence was accompanying them for a moment. He took her in his chest while she was speechless. Only her big teary eyes told him about her feelings.
“I love you, Hyun.”
She smiled in his hug before whispering the same words.
They were kissing when there was a knock on the door. Seohyun pushed him instantly and straightened her dress. She wiped her lipstick stain on his lips before somebody noticed it, but it was too late. Minhyuk was already there.
“Oops. Sorry. Did I disturb your romantic time?” Minhyuk asked in a teasing tone.
“Yes, you did.” Yonghwa said, pretending to be angry at his best friend.
“Oh man. You should get a room, buddy.” Minhyuk replied to him, jokingly.