Flowers Are Bait

Chapter 76:

Chapter 76:

Why is he...

All her attention was now focused outside. The rain fell on the window.

How long has he been standing there? wondered Lee-yeon. Her fingers were cold. She bit her lower lip anxiously. She felt as though she had been caught doing something she shouldn’t have.

Kwon Chae-woo had been only staring at Lee-yeon. His gaze shifted from her to the man sitting across from her. He looked cold and frightening. Lee-yeon got up suddenly. Her knees bumped the table.

“Lee-yeon?” said the man as he held the corner of the table that almost toppled.

“I am so sorry. I have to go home.”

“Pardon?”

Lee-yeon picked up her bag and looked at the man. He looked confused.

“I am sorry. I think this is a mistake.”

“Sorry?”

“I... um... I think I am more comfortable with someone who has less attachments to family than I do, I prefer someone who forgot their past history with other women and chooses to be with only me.”

“Pardon?” His eyes widened.

“My ideal type. I feel comfortable with someone like that,” she continued. “I want to be with someone who wouldn’t react shockingly when the time comes for me to reveal my problems. I guess that would only happen if my partner had his own problems. Otherwise, it will be difficult to understand each other. I don’t like to feel like I am the only one who is broken.”

“Lee-yeon. That sounds a little dangerous. I don’t know what you are going through, but you deserve someone better than the ones at the bottom of the barrel.”

The two of them glared at each other in the rain, getting even more drenched. Lee-yeon didn’t know what he was thinking.

“I’m just not enough for you, am I?”

“What?”

“I will never be enough for you. So, you went to meet other men behind my back?” His voice was sharp and threatening. “Is it because I am not pleasuring you? You sometimes forget I am your husband. Do you really expect me to open you up by force when you aren’t ready?”

She looked at him, stunned. Her whole body froze. Kwon Chae-woo frowned and sighed. He placed his head on her shoulder in defeat.

“Am I that much of a monster? You really can’t separate the present me from you’re the past version of me who was your husband, huh?” He looked at her pleadingly. “Isn’t that too much? Do you really enjoy making me go crazy like this?”

Lee-yeon flinched at his gaze. He laughed at her reaction. “I know that I was a monster in the past. The Kwon Chae-woo you are trying so desperately to hide from existence. To make me into a new person but what lies have you been telling me?”

Lee-yeon couldn’t even breathe at his words. “What do you mean...?” Did he finally remember something? Does he remember what he was doing that night? Lee-yeon fretted.

“Let’s just stop beating around the bush,” he said suddenly. “I know you hate me, Lee-yeon.”

“What?” she stammered.

“You think I don’t know that?”

Lee-yeon couldn’t think straight.

“I understand. I know you want to get rid of a person like me who might have hit his wife and has no means to support his family.”

“What are you even saying... hit your wife?!” Lee-yeon blinked.