Office Romance Scandal (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 41

Once you’ve seen it, you can’t unsee it—the seed of doubt kept sprouting endlessly. The fact that I couldn’t drop everything and run to him back then had been weighing on my heart ever since.

“Could it be Mom?”

The deepest question in my heart slipped out before I could stop it. Being next to him made me reveal things I wanted to hide.

The history of the Sion Group, the old officetel, parents who had cut off all contact—things I wanted to hide from everyone—he knew them all too naturally.

“Have your parents tried to reach you at all?”

“No.”

Hae Jin’s answer was short. There was no need for long explanations; everything was contained in that single word. There had been no contact, and their phones were still turned off. I had tried asking around, but it wasn’t easy.

Thoughts of my parents came to mind several times a day. They had firmly taken root in one corner of my mind. And just a few days ago, hadn’t they even appeared in my dreams?

In that situation, seeing a similar silhouette left my heart unsettled with no way to calm it.

“Do you think you can handle it properly?”

Ah, Hae Jin felt like she’d been hit hard on the head. It was a worry he had every right to have.

She had just taken on Byung Soo’s work as well, and with a big project coming up, it was a perfectly reasonable concern for a superior to voice.

“I separate work and personal matters. It won’t affect my work at all.”

“Is that so?”

His response was lukewarm, as if he didn’t believe her. But Hae Jin didn’t want to lose points with him over work.

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