Pay With Your Heart

Chapter 174: Growing On Her

Despite Eun-sun feeling healthy, Dan-Han

had asked her not to resume work, thus she had been at home for the last two days. In-Ha had not failed to visit her everyday, same as Dan-Han who always hound her to eat minimum thrice daily, and had used the word ‘too skinny’ for her as an excuse to make her eat more, neither does he forget to call to remind her to take the drugs which Jae-Hyun had prescribed for the peptic ulcer.

Eun-sun was more than delighted to resume work today. The tyrant had finally given her permission to resume work and she was more than esctatic about it.

“You should take care of yourself, don’t you dare skip your meals Park Eun-sun” Hei-Ran commanded her like a mother advicing her child, while Eun-sun vigorously nodded her head.

“Yes ma” Eun-sun replied as she picked up her bag.

Hei-Ran sighed, “I don’t even have to worry much, Mr Lee is enough to get you in line” Hei-Ran said with a taunting smile which made Eun-sun roll her eyes at her. Is was as if anybody who wanted to threaten her, would always uses Dan-Han’s name. Tch.

“And if she calls you again, don’t you dare take her calls or else I’ll break your leg” Hei-Ran warned as she was referring to Eun-sun’s mother. Eun-sun had told her the truth about what had happened to her and Hei-Ran had been so livid at the time.

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She fumed till the point her face literally turned red from anger. Had Song-Hee been there, Hei-Ran would have murdered her with no remorse.

“I won’t” Eun-sun assured her as they walked out of the apartment.

“Don’t miss me too much okay. And don’t worry I’ll make dinner tonight” Hei-Ran said as she gave Eun-sun a hug before approaching the car that was waiting for her outside.

Eun-sun bowed to Jinhai and he equally did the same. She wasn’t as hostile as used to be towards him, neither does she stare coldly at him, since it seems Hei-Ran wasn’t complaining much about him these day. She waved Hei-Ran goodbye before walking towards the man waving at her with a sunny smile on his face. She couldn’t help but smile at him too.

“Good to see you in high spirits” Eun-sun said as she stopped in front of the grinning man, who was giving her a full look.

“What do you mean? I’m always in high spirits” He refuted.

“Of course” She nodded.

“And seeing you like this, just tends to make it more livelier”

“Like how?” Eun-sun raised a brow at him, not so sure she understood what he was talking about.

“This beautiful I mean. You’re looking beautiful” In-Ha complimented her. His eyes scanning her from head to toes. Her neatly combed hair, which was flowing behind her back, her lightly made up face – he had noticed she wasn’t a fan of much make up – her lips which were looking glossy and the formal suit suit which she had tucked over a sky blue shirt gave her a professional look, everything made her look beautiful.

Feeling slightly fluttered, Eun-sun tucked an imaginary strand of hair behind her ear, as she muttered a, “Thank you”

“You’re not looking bad yourself” She quickly added when she noticed he was also dressed in a formal suit. This was the second time she was seeing him in one and she had to admit that it made him look really cool. And unlike the cold man she knows who loved wearing bland colored suits, In-Ha’s was more colorful, giving him a cool look.

“Thank you” He appreciated with a smile. In-Ha felt a weird kind of feeling when she complimented him like that. It was almost as if he hadn’t heard someone say that to him before and he wanted to hear her say it one more time. Seeing her smile so sweetly made his heart flutter, and he has realized whenever he was alone he tends to think about her smile alot.

“Come on let’s go. I’ll be late for breakfast” She chirped excitedly, making In-Ha cock a brow at her.

“Breakfast?” He asked, while she nodded her head vigorously.

“Why? You didn’t eat at home? Are you trying to starve yourself again?” He asked with a frown creasing his forehead.

Eun-sun snorted when she saw the way he was frowning at her. He looked cute.

“What’s funny? Why didn’t you eat before leaving?” He asked in an angry tone. Dan-Han had told him she had been at the hospital because she had PUD (peptic ulcer disease) which had aggravated because she was skipping meals and her drugs.

Dan-Han didn’t want to tell anybody the truth about what happened because he was sure she’d be embarrassed.

“Nothing-”

“Get in I’ll get you breakfast on our way”

“No!” Eun-sun hurriedly replied, making In-Ha tilt a brow.

Feeling awkward about the way she had exclaimed, Eun-sun let out an awkward laugh.

“Ehh... there’ll be no need for that” She told him.

“Why?” In-Ha inquired.

“Because I’ll be having breakfast with Mr Lee” She explained. A smile split her lips when she remembered the picture of the Noddles Dan-Han had sent her minutes ago. She couldn’t wait to eat it. The mere thought of it alone was making her stomach rumble.

“Dan-Han?” In-Ha asked with disbelief, while Eun-sun nodded her head. In-Ha was surprised to hear that’. He remembered that one time they had lunch together, he thought it was a one time thing.

“Dan-Han is having breakfast with you?” He asked with uncertainty.

“Yes” Eun-sun replied. She stopped smiling when she saw the confused look on In-Ha’s face.

“Why do you look like that?” Eun-sun asked.

Keeping mute for while, In-Ha shook his head.

“It’s nothing, it’s just feels weird”

“Eating with Dan-Han?” She asked him.

“Yeah”

“That’s not weird. Actually i kind of like it” She whispered the last part out, prompting In-Ha to look at her intently.

“Well he can be overbearing at times-” She paused when she saw In-Ha gave the ‘you’ve got to be kidding me’ kind of look.

Rolling her eyes, she sighed, “Okay fine, all the time”

“That’s more like the Dan-Han I know” He nodded.

“But he’s cool” She added, making In-Ha gaze at her. “He’s not as cold like people think, sometimes I think he’s adorable” She smiled. In-Ha couldn’t help but agree with her. Although to the outside world Dan-Han was someone to be feared, he was actually a good person. He always dished out threats to his friends but that was what they were, threats. But it didn’t mean he wasn’t capable of doing it. But the thing about him was he always protect his people. Like for instance Dan-Han was the reason why he now has the majority of shares in his father’s company and he was just waiting for the right time to kick him out.

So who best would know Dan-Han’s real nature other than him. But what he was yet to grasp his head around was Dan-Han’s sudden openness to a woman.

Seeing him at the hospital, and now having dinner? All that were strange.

“And also I like his chef’s food. He’s so good. He makes the best black bean noodles” She chirped. But more than that she sort of likes it when Dan-Han keeps refilling her plate, wipes her mouth whenever there’s a stain on it. Okay, she likes the way he cares for her. Sometimes it was embarrassing but she kind of likes the feeling of being cared for. Dan-Han was making it grow on her. He made it feel like she has indeed been missing out on a lot all these years. Thinking about it alone was making her feel giddy and her heart was thumping hard.

In-Ha looked at her, his lips curved up when he saw her smiling over the thought of food, and indeed only her would be able to say Dan-Han was ‘cool’. That friend of his was a silent monster, but it was good seeing him warm up to other people most especially her.

“Okay let’s go” In-Ha said as he opened the door for her.