Prey (Lee Seohan) - Chapter 145
“……Yes. Have a safe trip.”
Suhyeon turned around. After unlocking the front door, she pulled her carrier and went straight into the house.
She opened the carrier, organized the few belongings she had, and filled the bathtub with hot water, sinking her body deeply into it.
In a week, she would finally uncover the truth behind the incomprehensible events that had left her feeling stifled all this time.
The truth of everything she had been so curious about.
Because he had promised to tell her everything…
Lost in thought, Suhyeon sat in the cooling water until her fingers were completely wrinkled. Only then did she rise and stand in front of the showerhead.
Ah…
Suhyeon froze.
Her body was covered in numerous reddish marks, remnants of him.
As she looked at those marks, a low voice echoed in her mind.
‘Can’t you just love me?’
‘Without any conditions. Can’t you love the me who is right here, just as I am in front of you?’
Do Jeonghan’s words? And then…
‘Tell me first. Don’t just leave me shaken.’
‘Then try harder to be someone who deserves to be loved.’
The words she had spoken.
……Haa.
Suhyeon let out a frustrated sigh in front of the mirror.
Even after confessing, Do Jeonghan hoped for an answer every night when he held her here, and even in the Virgin Islands.
Those intense eyes clearly longed for a response.
Those yearning eyes craved to hear the words “I love you” from her. While looking into those eyes, she reached climax countless times during their week-long intimacy.
Even at the highest peak of pleasure, those darkly burning eyes never let her go.
In the mirror, Suhyeon’s eyes trembled greatly.
Whatever it is that I don’t know, or whatever Jeonghan is hiding, it doesn’t matter anymore.
Because I can no longer hide the fact that I love you.
So before you reveal everything, I will confess first.
‘I need to go to you and tell you myself.’
Having made up her mind, Suhyeon quickly finished her shower and changed her clothes. Then, grabbing her phone and car keys, she hurried out of the house.
‘Hurry, hurry.’
The numbers on the elevator seemed to change unbearably slowly. Suhyeon anxiously watched those numbers.
Her heart grew increasingly restless. Once she resolved to confess, she found herself wanting to run to him immediately and tell him.
That she had come to love him unconditionally, just the Do Jeonghan standing in front of her.
The man she had once hated and despised so much… she had ended up falling in love with him.
As soon as the elevator doors opened, Suhyeon dashed toward her car. She started the engine as if she were being chased, but then froze for a moment.
Memories of the times she had jumped into her car, feeling similarly pursued, after Do Jeonghan had reappeared in her life post-divorce flashed through her mind.
Back then, she could never have imagined that she would willingly go looking for him like this. She had only thought she was running away out of horror and loathing.
‘But that wasn’t it. Even then, I….’
Suhyeon hastily entered the address of the Hannam-dong house she hadn’t visited since the divorce into the navigation system and quickly drove off.
The car sped out of the parking lot and onto the road.
When he reappeared, she had thought she was avoiding him out of hatred for Do Jeonghan.
‘No, was it from the day he sent the wedding ring to me after I moved?’
Suhyeon searched her memories. She had desperately tried to push him away, to shake him off whenever he tried to slip that ring onto her finger.
But no matter how hard she struggled, it didn’t work.
Emotions from the past, whose origins she couldn’t pinpoint, began resurfacing while he was by her side.
Memories she had deliberately buried away all stood as evidence of how he had shaken her.
She hadn’t wanted to admit that she had been swayed by Do Jeonghan, a man she thought was so cold and cruel.
She had been afraid of being shaken again, scared to confront the emotions she had hidden and buried within herself.
‘That’s why I was so anxious and fearful. Because of a man named Do Jeonghan.’
……Because she had somehow known she would end up loving him like this.
Suhyeon’s eyes reddened.
Before she even realized it herself, she had already known. Her emotions, her instincts, had responded to him first.
That was why she had become so overly sensitive whenever she was in front of Do Jeonghan—because she knew she would end up utterly shaken.
