The next day, Kim Hyun-Jun took a tour to Dong Il City Bank, one of Yoon families former establishment that is now under KimJin. This is the first time since he acquired it about six or seven years ago that he stepped foot on the grounds of the company.
He sat in the office of the Bank Manager, listening to reports about the administration and policies put in place to run the organization more effectively. He also looked into some financial records and several other Statistics.
His anger from the day before was still very potent and he diverted it on whoever made the slightest mistake. The big CEO that everyone thought was nice seems to be totally different in reality towards the staffs, he was exceptionally strict and rigid and his anger was fully displayed on his face, scaring away people from getting closer. Even the staff who served him coffee was scolded for shivering while pouring him coffee.
All sort of baseless accusations and scolding were witnessed by the staffs, all thanks to Yo-han for pissing Kim Hyun-Jun off.
After scolding to his satisfaction, Kim Hyun-Jun requested for the company's paysheet and scanned through it for a while. He was about to quite reading the table containing hundreds of names when his eyes caught a very familiar name. A name he would never forget in this life and the one to come.
"Manager Oh, when did this person start working here?"he pointed at the picture in the current profile and looked up for the Manager's reply.
"Who?" After recognizing the name and picture, he immediately responded to avoid getting scolded, "Ehm, almost six years ago."
"Six years?, Why haven't I crossed paths with her then?" Kim Hyun-Jun whispered to himself. He wandered why he never met her once all this years and why she never came to see him.
"Bring this person to me now." He ordered and the manager went personally to fetch the staff.
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Her hands were moving swiftly on the keyboards and her gaze was fixed on the monitors screen when a knock came on her door. The manager slowly peeped in before entering the office fully.
"Ms Min, CEO Kim wants to see you immediately." The manager said and turned to leave.
She was surprised to hear that the man wanted to see her. Not because it was strange but because she felt like she was caught taking money from someone's pocket.
"Wait, manager wait, how did he know about me?" She yelled after the manager as she rose to follow him.
"He saw your name in the pay sheet, do you know him before now?" The Bank Manager replied and kept moving towards the elevator. She followed after him nervously with a lot of thoughts storming here mind. She felt totally busted even though she committed no crime. Just the fact that that man wanted to see her, brought back the memories of her past and she was scared that this way, Yo-han will definitely find out everything and there would be nothing more to hide from the boy about the past.
She sighed heavily in preparation for what is to come when she arrived with the manager at the front of the office. The manager opened the door and gestured for her to go before him and she did. Min Ju-Eun slowly walked into the presence of Kim Hyun-Jun and their eyes locked, the one with the other's.
Sensing the atmosphere, the staffs wondered what kind of relationship this two shared, they really felt like it was awfully strange for Kim Hyun-Jun to transition from his former angry mode to this gentle dove-like creature.
Kim Hyun-Jun stared at her speechlessly for a while and when he noticed how long he had being staring without a word, he dismissed everyone and made them leave the room to give him and Min Ju-Eun some privacy.
When it remained only the two of them in the office, he stood from his seat and approached her slowly, with a mix of regret, joy, sadness, satisfaction and more confusing and complicated emotions displayed on his face. "Long time Min Ju-Eun, it's been a really long time." His eyes became teary and he lifted his arm and caressed her face with the back of his fingers.
He had only started touching her face when she brushed off his hand and corrected his actions. "Mr Kim you are a married man, don't do anything indecent."
"Yes, I am sorry about that...Ju-Eun, I missed you so much, I really missed you, I can't believe I managed to survive for 23years without you. I just couldn't restrain myself." Kim Hyun-Jun apologized and his tender gaze rested on Ju-Eun still.
"Mr Kim it's okay, I won't take it as an offense. I heard you wanted to see me." Ju-Eun replied but the formality angered Kim Hyun-Jun a bit. He didn't need any respect or formalities at the moment, they wouldn't get him anywhere near what he wanted.
"Ju-Eun, please stop Mr-ing me, we are first loves, we should never act like we are distant, just don't call Mr. After all this years I still see you the same way, I just don't understand why you hid away from me all this years, I searched and searched but I never found you. Tell me why you keep hiding from me."
"Mr... Hyun-Jun you got married to someone else why should I keep seeing you?" Ju-Eun replied. Even though she loved him and still loves this man, she couldn't bear to stand seeing him with another woman who did nothing but showoff how she managed to snatch her fiancee. Remembering those days brings nothing but sadness. Moreover, she already married someone else and she wanted to keep her son away from the man that killed his father, so she had no choice but to avoid Kim Hyun-Jun, who knew that the child will go after Kim Hyun-Jun when he grew up. This was why she was against Yo-Han's revenge at first. You might think it's because she didn't want her son to harm the man she loves but it's more than that. It's all for Yo-Han's sake.
Kim Hyun-Jun sighed before replying her. " Ju-Eun, You know I didn't love her, I just married her because I had no choice and I have never had a peaceful home since then. You know that I had no choice but to marry that slut because she was carrying my child. I am deeply embarrassed that I fell for her malevolent methods. I hope you forgive me." By now, tears of regret escaped Hyun-Jun's eyes and he was sobbing silently already.
"Hyun-Jun, it's okay, like you said, it's being about 23years now, we can just forget the past." Min Ju-Eun hugged him gently and pat his shoulder as she spoke into his ears. His appearance made tears fall out of her eyes also and before she knew it, she was also crying already.
She regretted giving up the chance to have him as her man right from start and now it was already too late. She is a widow but he still had his own wife. There is nothing she could do about it, it's fate, that's how fate plans things. Who handed the key to the decisions of our lives to Fate and Cupid, those two should not be allowed to plan how things happen, there ways are too tragedic.
After sobbing together for a while, Kim Hyun-Jun held unto Min Ju-Eun's hand and did not free her from the hug and spoke into her ears. "Don't hide away from me anymore, if I can't be your man, I can be a very caring friend. Please." She nodded her head in agreement and also spoke into his ears. "I don't plan to hide anymore, it's too late my friend."
Just like that the two made up for the past.
"I wish to eat your delicious bibimbap for the first in a long time. Can you please make it for me?" He pleaded like a little kid after letting her go from his hug, and she had no choice but to laugh at him and accept his plea.
Seeing that she nodded in agreement, he immediately relieved her of her work since it was almost closing period and he left with her and headed to her home.
I started slacking off when I promised to be consistent, forgive me.
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