Just Us
Chap 46's

Daejung froze, her mind suddenly blank. Whatisthis? Princess Hye in? How could? What has she been missing all this time from Hye in? The man was still trying to digest everything until he was dissolved in the various questions in his own mind

"Daejung-ah" called Hye in with a slight shake of the man's hand

And Hye in's call again pulled Daejung from her daydream. The man confirmed his sitting position and then cleared his throat for a while before sipping his coffee. A moment later, the question mark filled gaze he gave Hye in

"How could Hye in-ah, I mean how could I not know? When did you get married? And why didn't your father tell me you were married?" Daejung asked with all her curiosity

Hye-in smiled wryly, hearing Daejung's question. Be married? How can she get married when a man who claims to love her doesn't want to take responsibility. How can his father tell Daejung, while his father has not considered him his daughter since that incident

"I haven't married Daejung-ah" Hye said

"Ne?" Daejung was surprised

"I was pregnant before I got married. It was after Appa sent me here that one month after that I dated a man. He said he loved me, and would do anything for me. I was happy then, though I couldn't love her yet but she kept trying to get close to me, treating me so gently and lovingly, until I finally learned to love her and tried to forget you. At first it was hard and very difficult to forget my love for you, but in the end I also lost it and accepted him as my lover. But the more time goes by, it turns out that what he did for me was just a lie in order to gain Appa's trust and for Appa to want to invest in his company. I was very disappointed at the time, and then I went to his apartment that night. But it's not the clarity I get, but the man is......" Hye in paused the story, the woman closed her eyes at the same time, the woman's tears began to fall flooding the cheeks that now look tyrannical. Hye-in's memory goes back to the moment that the man scowled her honor as a woman

Daejung got up from her chair then she sat down next to the woman and hugged Hye in's frail body which shook. He rubbed and muttered the sedative words to the woman

"If you're not ready yet, you don't have to tell it now Hye in-ah" Daejung said so gently

Hye in shook her head in Daejung's arms. The woman had to tell him, she had to share the burden she had been beating herself. And Daejung, Hye in thought the man was the right person for her to share the burden

Daejung's hands clenched to hear Hye in's story, her emotions boiling to the top. I want him to beat up that barbaric man right now. He did not expect that the woman who had once been singah in his heart was now experiencing a time so painful, and so heavy.

His hands stretched out to re-capture Hye in's body, he rubbed the arm that now felt so weak. Unknowingly he placed a kiss on the top of the woman's head. And of course Hye in gasped in shock at Daejung's treatment

"I'm going to race him Hye in-ah. I'll take care of the heartache and suffering you've been through all this time Hye in-ah. I will make the man pay for everything. Trust me, you don't have to feel alone anymore. There I am, I will be here, by your side take care of you and look after Hana. I'll make sure you'll always be safe and I'll guarantee you both happiness" Daejung said earnestly. The man piles his chin at the top of Hye-in's head with a hand that keeps rubbing the woman's arm.

Hye-in's heart warms to Daejung's words, whether the man is conscious or not, but Hye-in will believe in Daejung just as much as the man told her.

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