A Gentle Intruder (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 42

The next day, right on schedule ten minutes before clocking out, a message arrived without fail.

[Come to the main gate.]

Da Jung chewed her lip, staring at the screen. She couldn’t keep letting him drag her around like this.

The face that kept lying until the very end came to mind. He’d had a chance to confess the truth, yet he’d utterly ignored it—clearly a man with no intention of ever being honest.

She didn’t want to doubt his feelings for her, but the way he kept acting made even that affection seem tainted—maybe it was just low-grade obsession.

A relationship born from lies would inevitably collapse, yet he alone seemed unaware of that fact—that this meeting was built on sand.

‘I’m not going.’

Grabbing her bag, Da Jung ignored the message and left through the back gate.

Surely he wouldn’t actually enter the hospital. It’s a university hospital—how swarmed it must be with people.

[It’s past time for you to come.]

She closed her phone and walked faster, wanting to reach the subway station and disappear into the crowd. Lee Jae Ho was strange—truly strange. He kept making people feel utterly helpless.

Just as she neared the subway entrance, her phone rang. Her heart dropped, but seeing it was her fellow nurse, Young Sook, she answered with relief.

[OMG! Nurse Yoon! Where are you right now?]

“What’s wrong? I just got off work and I’m already at the subway entrance…”

[Ah! Why’d you go all the way there? Come back! Hurry! It’s insane—Lee Jae Ho just showed up in the lobby!]

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