Pay With Your Heart

Chapter 17: Bore

Dan-Han was cleaning in the kitchen area of his house when the doorbell started ringing. He slowly walked to the door with a frown, wondering who it might be as he doesn’t receive visitors at home most especially weekends. He looked at the monitor of the doorcam and saw his mother standing at the door, smiling sweetly at the camera.

He rolled his eyes in annoyance as he opened the door to let her in. He had almost forgotten about her weekend ritual of bringing food and groceries to stock up his refrigerator.

“Hello mother” He said with a courteous bow as she walked in.

“Son” She called with a fond smile as she walked in with bags of groceries and packed foods.

“I can see you won’t stop bringing food over” He said as he took the bags from her. His brows creased when he noticed how heavy the bags were. Why was she carrying all this stuffs alone? Where were the maids?

“I can’t stop bringing this over. And don’t think I’m using this to ask for your forgiveness No!. I just want to take care of you, so let me.” She said calmly as she walked behind Dan-Han to the huge kitchen area.

Of course she wasn’t doing this to plead for his forgiveness. Though she’d love for him to forgive her, she also knows she can’t force him to. She was happy she could take care of him this way.

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“You know I have paid chefs who cook” He said as he continued walking.

“Yes. But let mother do this” She said in a pleading tone and a small pout.

“Then if you want to keep doing this, always ask someone to go with you. This bags are heavy and you shouldn’t be carrying stuffs as heavy as this. Staffs are being paid to help you, so use them” He said with a straight face.

“Sure I will” She said with a small smile as she stood over the kitchen island.

Mother Lee looked around and she observed the place was empty. She saw the towels in Dan-Han’s hand.

“Why are you the one cleaning? Where are your cleaners?” His mother asked with a confused frown. Dan-Han’s mansion wasn’t one which needed much cleaning staffs as Dan-Han had spent billions in turning this house into a full state of the art smart house. He had need of maybe one cleaner who will do the few things the house couldn’t do for it self, like monitoring the cleaning devices, and the one Dan-Han was currently doing. She hadn’t noticed Dan-Han cleaning when she walked in, but she had realized it when she him wipe the kitchen counter.

“I fired them. They were being incompetent” He said as he unpacked the bags and stocked up the refrigerator with the stuffs his mother had brought.

“And you know they never worked weekends” Dan-Han never liked having people around the house during weekends when he didn’t go to work. So the cleaners had always worked during the weekdays.

“But you shouldn’t be doing that. You should use your weekends to rest and go out for fun. You look so lean Dan-Han. Why do you keep overworking yourself? You really need to take care of your health” She said with concern.

“I’m fine. Secretary Chang-Wok will get someone from the cleaning agency”

“Just one?” Mother Lee asked with surprise.

“Yes. I think one should do. Too many people, too many gossips” He said nonchalantly.

“No. You don’t have to bother your secretary about that, I can help you do that” she said with a beaming smile.

“You don’t have to” Dan-Han rejected her offer.

“But I want to, please let me. It’s not much of a task. I’ll just have to make a call and that’s all” She told him.

“Okay” He said with a shrug.

If she wants to do it, he’ll just let her. He knew she was making efforts towards making their relationship better.

“Okay. I’ll call them right away” She said excitedly making Dan-Han chuckle as she quickly picked up her phone to call the agency.

Dan-Han heated a few of the dishes his mother had brought over and they were all his favorite. He served up the dishes and sat at the dinning table waiting for his mother who was still on the phone.

“They will be sending someone over in two days. They are little bit short of staffs at the moment.” She said as she took her seat at the table.

He nodded slightly as he said “Eat”. He picked up his spoon and started eating avoiding his mother gaze, he could tell she was looking at him.

“Dan-Han” She called out in a quiet voice making him drop his spoon and gaze at her. He knew she had something to say.

“Dan-Han, I’m truly sorry. I’m sorry for what I did to you. I know I can’t change anything but please forgive me. I know I’ve cost you a lot but I can only hope you can forgive me” she said as her eyes teared up.

She’d never planned for things to turn out the way they were right now. She had only wanted to help him out at the time. Who could have thought she’d destroy her son’s life?

“Mom I know you didn’t mean to and I’ve forgiven you. But...but I just can’t forget, most especially when you keep doing the same thing all over again. I mean I’m human and this problem just can’t go away as you’d wished it to.” He said firmly.

“Just don’t cry. Let’s hope it gets better okay. Now eat up, the food might get cold” He added as he rubbed the back of her hand.

“Okay” She nodded as she picked up her spoon to eat.

“Your father mentioned you are having a collaboration with Hanwha company. And I heard their new president is a young successful lady. Have you met her? I mean is she beautiful?” She asked in her full gossipy mood.

Dan-Han could not believe his ears as he stared at his mother with a cocked brow.

“No I haven’t seen her and if you want to know if she’s beautiful you have to go look for her yourself” He replied dismissively. He couldn’t believe his mother was doing what she knows how to do best when he hadn’t forgotten the previous one.

“You are such a bore” She hissed. Obviously he knew where she was headed with her questions.

“Mother stop asking me questions or you’ll have to leave” He warned. She doesn’t learn. He already had a date with Mi-Ok all thanks to her, and now she just won’t stop.