Prey (Lee Seohan) - Chapter 113
“……Senior Choi Woo-rim said it wasn’t that kind of relationship.”
Suhyeon spoke calmly, though she found it ridiculous to make excuses to this man.
Suddenly, the corners of his lips curled upward.
“When you introduced me as your husband, even after seeing that bastard’s eyes?”
“What?”
Suhyeon blinked in confusion.
With a cold expression, Jeonghan twisted his mouth as he spoke.
“Three years ago, when you introduced me as your husband to Choi Woo-rim, and even today when you were with him, after seeing that bastard’s eyes, you still say that?”
“Senior is…….”
“To me, he looks like nothing but a guy desperate to sleep with you.”
“!”
Suhyeon’s eyes wavered at his growling voice as she held her face.
“W-what kind of thing is that to say…….”
“To me, someone who’s madly obsessed with you, Seol Suhyeon, it’s just way too obvious.”
Jeonghan, who was laughing coldly, let go of Suhyeon’s face and raised his finger. When he looked at her empty ring finger, Suhyeon instinctively flinched.
“That’s why I told you to wear it.”
Jeonghan, who spoke in a low voice, raised his gaze and looked at Suhyeon again. The corners of his lips curled upward.
“I guess I’ll have to put it back on for you.”
“I-I have it, at home.”
Suhyeon quickly spoke, thinking she couldn’t possibly accept the ring again. Jeonghan let out a short laugh.
“You said you threw it away.”
Recalling her own lie, Suhyeon furrowed her brows slightly.
“How could I throw away something so expensive? I was just planning to return it someday……”
Jeonghan slowly traced Suhyeon’s cheek with his fingertips.
“…….”
His eyes appeared cold at a glance, but his touch as he caressed her face was gentle. Suhyeon’s eyelashes trembled faintly at the sensation.
Jeonghan’s deepened gaze locked onto her eyes.
He slowly tilted his head.
“Interesting. You can easily throw me away, but not the ring.”
For a moment, Suhyeon felt as if Jeonghan’s gaze had completely tied her body up, leaving her unable to move.
A feeling that she wouldn’t be able to resist seemed to take over her body. Heat spread along the path of his hand brushing her cheek.
“Don’t say strange things.”
Suhyeon turned her face away, as if escaping his touch. She could feel his gaze lingering on her cheek.
“Seol Suhyeon is an amazing woman.”
As she stubbornly avoided his eyes, she heard Jeonghan let out a low laugh.
“Who would’ve thought I’d end up jealous of a ring?”
…What did he just say?
Suhyeon froze for a moment, her gaze turning back to Jeonghan.
He had stopped smiling and was staring at her. The heat that had been rising within her grew even hotter under the intensity of his deepened gaze.
The face of the arrogant man, devoid of any trace of laughter, was directed squarely at her.
“If I begged you to love me…”
Though his face remained expressionless, his eyes burned darkly.
“Would you love me?”
“…What?”
At her questioning response, Jeonghan’s gaze grew even deeper, flaring intensely like a flame.
His stare left Suhyeon breathless.
“If I asked you, just once, to love me.”
Jeonghan cupped Suhyeon’s face with both hands. She couldn’t breathe, her gaze completely captured by his.
“If I begged you to do so. Seol Suhyeon.”
Ah…
Suhyeon’s eyes trembled.
“Then, could you love me?”
The man’s burning gaze was filled with a fervent longing for love.
That gaze left Suhyeon flustered.
“If not, then I…”
Suhyeon’s lips parted slightly. Jeonghan was truly looking at her like a man begging for love.
With eyes ablaze, entirely consumed by red flames.
“I feel like I’m suffocating, like I might die.”
Why is he acting like this…?
Suhyeon tried to push away the confusion swirling in her mind, but the intense longing in the sculpted man’s face before her wouldn’t let her.
“Truly, I feel like I might die.”
His suppressed voice pounded against Suhyeon’s heart like a drum.
Right now, Do Jeonghan… is he begging me to love him?
Even faced with the man’s eyes brimming with longing, Suhyeon couldn’t believe it. It was almost impossible to fathom.
And yet, she wavered.
To Do Jeonghan, who asked to be loved even if only for a moment.
“Then…”
Blinking as her eyes were caught by his blazing gaze, Suhyeon finally managed to speak.
“Then tell me.”
Suhyeon looked directly at Jeonghan.
“I don’t know anything right now—your actions when we were married… your attitude during our divorce, and even the reason you’re acting like this toward me now—I don’t know any of it.”
Swallowing hard, Suhyeon continued as she looked at him.
“Tell me first. Don’t just shake me up.”
Tell me what you know.
Only then will I be able to understand you.
