ALL NOVEL Chapter 12
Chapter 12: Chapter 12.
“Why did you contact me? Do you want to come back?”
He smiled and asked.
“… That’s not why I contacted you.”
Sun responded in an assertive tone, pretending to be as casual as possible.
‘I can… I can do this.’
In fact, she had to make numerous commitments to say a word to him.
He slowly leaned down and approached her.
He reached out, raised her chin a little, and looked into her eyes.
She had to divert her gaze and avoid it.
She had to take his hand away from her.
However, upon feeling his natural touch, she had no choice but to look at him.
“You’re lying.”
He spoke with confidence.
“I know when I look at your eyes how anxious you are now. I know everything about you.”
He spoke as he drew his face closer.
His nose was close enough to touch her nose.
His slow exhalation tickled her lips.
‘I hid from him as much as I could…’
Sun was dizzy for a moment.
His lips approached hers.
She had to avoid it, but she closed her eyes unwittingly.
“If you want to come back to me, then ask for forgiveness. Who knows, I just might forgive you.”
That was when she heard his icy voice.
She raised her eyes and looked at him.
A predator’s smile hung on his face.
This smile reminded her of the day she broke up with him three months ago.
She recalled his sneers and how his back turned away from her coldly.
That was the only time Sun could turn her head away from him.
As she turned her head to avoid him, his widened.
“Don’t be mistaken, the person I need to see today is the CEO of Consencio, not Gyeonhui Woo.”
“Mistaken?”
“I’ve heard the story. You’ve canceled the business with ‘Kids Fan.”
“Kids Fan? Oh… was it ‘Kids Fan’?”
It seemed that he hadn’t remembered it at all.
Sun felt worse after hearing this.
He didn’t even know the name of Sun’s company, despite being his lover for two years.
“… Don’t you think it’s cruel?”
Sun seemed determined to use the strongest expression she could.
“Cruel?”
He scowled.
“I hope that no one else will be harmed because of us, can’t I at least ask that of you?”
As if she were no longer going back, Sun looked straight into his eyes as she said those words.
“Hey, It’s funny.”
He looked down at her by slightly lifting his chin while slowly opening his mouth.
“Who said that they have been harmed because of us.”
“Well…”
“Hey, Choensun. Do you really think that you are worthy of me?”
Her eyes shook upon hearing these words.
She felt like the castle she had been trying to build up fell apart at once.
- Her at that time.
“Well…”
Sun could not speak easily because of the shock.
As he looked at her, he sneered.
“If you’re a competitive company, then we’ll run ahead and get you in. I don’t even remember the name of your company. I think the plan of doing business with us had been canceled not because of the two of us but because your company isn’t competitive enough.”
He looked straight into Sun’s eyes continued.
“If it’s not worthy, then it would obviously go down with everyone involved. Just like you.”
Upon hearing his mean words, her eyes became empty.
He opened his mouth while looking down at Sun.
“Make no mistake! You’re the one confused.”
With his last words, Gyeonhui left the café.
“…”
Shocked Son was still looking at the table, losing focus.
‘Tuduk, tukdu.’
Raindrops began to hit the windows.
***
After leaving the parking lot, Gyeonhui was walking up the steps of the porch with an umbrella.
“Mistaken? Cruel? Ha.”
‘How dare you say that to me.’
It was outrageous for him to think about it again.
Clearly, he could feel the fear in her shaking eyes. They were the same eyes she had three months ago. Eyes that were afraid of being forsaken.
However, her reaction differed this time. If he asked her to wait, she waited, and when he called her to come, she came. However, this time, she didn’t act accordingly.
“She’s crazy. I’m sure she’s is.”
He frowned and stepped forward again.
Then, with the sound of thunder, he felt a sudden pain in his chest.
“Ugh.”
In unbearable pain, he dropped his umbrella.
‘Shuuuu’
The rain then made his body wet.
He clutched his chest and breathed painfully.
“Ah, argh… What the hell is this.”
Maybe it’s because of the pain.
He had bloodshot eyes because of the pain.
‘Is it my pain? Or hers.’
He was confused about who was really suffering.
“What the hell… What the hell are you doing, Sun? I’m so sick. Agh…”
He was forced to suffer without knowing the reason.
***
Sun looked out the window blankly.
The rain streamed upon the café’s windows.
‘If it’s not worthy, then it would obviously go down with everyone involved. Just like you.’
His cold voice continued to hover in her ears.
‘Make no mistake! You’re the one confused.”
He was right.
It was her own delusion. The meaning behind the three years they spent together was only her own delusion.
She nodded slowly.
She tried to accept the truth many times.
However, the pain that spread over her chest consumed her.
“I’m so sorry, Miss. It’s time for us to close.”
She heard the voice of the friendly café grandfather and looked up at him.
How long had it been?
When she looked at her watch, it was almost 10 in the evening.
“Oh, I’m sorry.”
Son hurried while wearing her coat and rose from her seat.
It was still raining outside. A reasonably thick rain soaked the street.
“It’s me who wants to cry…”
Looking up at the sky, she quickly walked into the middle of the rain.
A cold stream of rain had made her head and shoulders wet.
The cold rain had cooled her irritated, red eyes.
As she walked in the rain, Sun pounded her chest with her fists.
Every time she felt her sadness rising, she felt as if someone was squeezing her chest.
It was the pain that always came when he hurt her.
She punched her chest as she had always done so.
She couldn’t even say a word.
***
She continued to walk, leading her substantial body in the rain.
At the end of the shabby alley, she noticed her multi-family house.
“Agh.”
Exhausted, she slowly stepped into the alleyway.
Then, in the shadow of a dark alley, she could hear the cries of a small animal whining.
SUn stopped, a little surprised by the strange sound.
‘Hhhing, hing’
She lowered her head and looked into the shadows, and she noticed a fruit box.
The sound of crying was coming out of it.
Sun slowly reached out and opened the lid of the box. Inside, a white dog that could fit on her hands trembled, terrified.
“Why is there a dog here…”
She looked around, but there was no one about.
Inside the box was a piece of rain-soaked paper.
She reached her hand out and picked up the paper.
‘Please somebody take care of it.’
This briefly explained the overall situation.
This dog’s owner had abandoned it.
Sun squatted and looked at the dog.
“…Why are you abandoned? You’re so pretty.”
The dog hid in the corner of the box with terrified eyes.
The dog was still searching for someone.
“Your owner won’t come, look at this, you’ve been thrown away.”
She grabbed a piece of paper and showed it to the dog. The dog obviously wouldn’t know how to read, but she was so frustrated.
The paper was wet in the rain, which made it almost impossible to read it.
“… I don’t think I should leave you here.”
Son looked around again, but there was no one in the dark alley now that it was so late at night in the rain.
She had never raised a pet before, so she didn’t know what to do.
Then, she saw a few drops of blood at the spot where the dog was left.
The box, while she looked closely at it, was stained with blood.
“Hey you, are you injured?”
Sun was shocked and unwittingly reached her hand out to the dog.
The frightened dog barked at her as loudly as he could.
“… It’s for your own good, buddy. Just endure it for a second, okay?”
Sun tried to reach out to him slowly to check the dog’s wounds.
The terrified puppy opened his mouth and bit Sun’s finger.
The dog’s sudden reaction surprised Sun. However, the bite was not as painful as she had expected.
Slowly, she opened her eyes and looked down at her fingers.
Clean fingers without a single wound.
“Ruff, ruff.”
The puppy continued barking and biting her fingers, but for her, it felt more like it was tickling her.
At one point, when she saw the dog, she recalled her meeting with Gyeonhui.
“… Do I look like you?”
Sun thought that she could forget about him, but she realized that she could never do that.
“You can’t even bite it hard… You’re not brave enough to bite.”
Sun looked at the dog with sympathy. The puppy was just like her, and she was just like the dog.
Sun reached out determinedly and stood up with the puppy in the box.
“I’m sorry… I can’t leave you behind.”
Her steps began to accelerate.
***
At The Blue Rose Veterinary Hospital.
Eunwoo, the director of the hospital, looked at a cat, who was recovering.
“It’s almost all healed, buddy. I’m glad.”
Eunwoo smiled happily and stroked the sleeping cat.
“If someone looks at you while doing this, then they would think that you’re the owner.”
At that time, a robust and bossy voice resounded around them. It was the voice of a woman.
Surprised, Eunwoo looked back, and he saw a nurse in her early 40s with a big and bountiful appearance.
Oh, nurse Ko, have you not left yet?”
“How does the staff leave the office if the director doesn’t go home?”
She complained, but sho was smiling as she did so.
“I’m sorry. It’s taking so long to take a look at the kids.”
Eunwoo scratched his head.
“That’s great. It’s not so easy to work with enthusiasm like you.”
“Yeah, it’s great because they’re so cute.”
“It’s been two months since we opened this vet.”
“Has it already been two months? It went by so fast.”
It had been two months since he returned to Korea and opened the veterinary hospital.
“Did you say that you were in the United States before?”
“Yes.”
“Is this America too?”
The nurse pointed to a picture of the cathedral on the wall and asked.
“It’s Santa Maria in Spain.”
“Have you been to Spain?”
“Yes. I stopped by for a short time.”
Eunwoo smiled, the memories of that time were coming back to his mind.
“But what is this? Is it a bird?”
The nurse pointed to a small dot on the railing of the top tower and asked.
“Well, I don’t know,” he said.
Eunwoo, who didn’t notice it when he was taking a picture, shook his head.
“Oh, Mrs. Ko, you should go home soon. Your husband would yell at you.”
“Yelling? No. He would enjoy the time without me. Anyways, I’m leaving now.”
‘Ring, ring’
When the nurse left, the doorbell chimed, and a secluded atmosphere permeated within the hospital.
Eunwoo stood in front of the picture again and looked.
“What is it?”
He looked at it, but it was so small that he couldn’t recognize it.
Curious, Eunwoo pulled his camera out of his bag and checked the photos he took on the trip.
“I’m sure it’s somewhere here.”
After a series of photographs he took on the Basilica of Santa Maria, he finally found the images he had printed out.
Eunwoo zoomed in on the camera to check the dot in the picture.
As the photo zoomed in, the image gradually grew into a human form.
The image, which grew as it approached, soon revealed a woman.
“Oh…”
A woman’s face came to his head.
‘Ring, ring.’
Then, with the loud sound of the door, a woman hurried inside.
“Excuse me, are you closed yet?”
“Well…”
When he saw the face of the desperate woman, he could not really say that he was about to close the door.
“Great. I’m so glad.”
The woman’s face was familiar to him. She then placed a box on the medical table.
Eunwoo alternately looked between the camera screen and her
‘Oh… the woman at that time…’
Eunwoo quickly noticed that he had seen her at the Church of Santa Maria.
However, when he saw that she was in a hurry, he didn’t pretend to know her.
“Look at this puppy. I think his legs are injured.”
Sun said, looking at the dog in the box.
“Okay, let’s take a look. What’s your name?”
Eunwoo looked at the wounded puppy and asked.
“…Pardon? It’s Cheonson.”
Sun said her name, hesitantly.
“Sun, where are you hurt?”
Eunwoo looked at the dog’s legs as if he was having a conversation with it.
“That’s… that’s my name…”
“Sorry? Oh…”