Pay With Your Heart

Chapter 230: Main Guest?

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Despite Dan-Han’s comforting words Eun-sun still felt slightly nervous when they arrived the Lee mansion. Her feets felt heavy as she stepped out of the car.

Dan-Han chuckled when she brushed her hand through her hair and adjusted her gown for the third time.

“You look decent and beautiful. You don’t have to fret.” He said as he walked closer to her.

“I’m not scared.” She refuted while Dan-Han let out a light chuckle.

“I know you’re not. You’re my brave and fiesty girlfriend.” He teased her making Eun-sun shoot a mock-glare at him. He tilt her chin upward and placed a light kiss on her lips.

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“If anyone provokes you, you have my permission to flip the table and make a grand exit while I follow behind okay?” He told her. Eun-sun raised a brow at him, she stared at his eyes and she could tell he was serious. She bobbed her head up and down and said, “Okay.”

“Good girl, now let’s go.” He said as he grabbed her hand and led her in.

The moment Eun-sun stepped into the house she was welcomed with the loveliest smile from her favorite person....yes her favorite.

“My sweet baby girl.” Mrs Lee chirped the moment she saw Eun-sun by the door. Her smile broadened when she saw the way Dan-Han was holding her hand.

“Auntie” Eun-sun greeted with a bow before Mrs Lee pulled her into a hug. Why was she always by the door whenever they come there?

“Stop calling me Auntie, call me mother okay.” She chirped making Eun-sun glance at Dan-Han who gave her a shrug.

Noticing the exchange between them she looked at Eun-sun and faked a frown, “You don’t want to call me mother?” She asked in a hurt tone.

“I...I want...to.” Eun-sun stutteringly replied. She was yet to close her mouth when the woman hugged again, this time even more tightly.

“I know I’ll always have a daughter. So happy it’s you.” She kissed her cheek.

“Mother can we go in now?” Dan-Han asked exasperatedly. His mother was always too bubbly. Her bubbliness was enough to drain anyone’s energy but that was the sweetest thing about her.

“Oh, come in.” She laughed herself. She held Eun-sun’s hand and led her side making Dan-Han to let go of her hand, he frowned when his hand felt empty.

His mother was always stealing her away from him.

It made him wonder between him and his mother who was more closer to Eun-sun’s heart. It seemed like Eun-sun loved his mother more than him. But does he mind? No.

Okay maybe a little. But he was happy to know she was getting all the love she needed in his life, and that was good enough for him.

Dan-Han was about to ask his mother where his father was when he made his presence known from the stairs.

“You both are here.” He said with a casual tone.

“Father.” Dan-Han greeted with a bow. He as still very much angry with his father after their last heated conversation but that doesn’t mean he had to be rude to him, at least till he crosses his boundary and say something rude to Eun-sun. He had a feeling his Father wasn’t going to change his opinion about Eun-sun soon. He was sure the man was going to try to do something that will annoy him and he could have refused coming to this dinner, but he had accepted to show his father he wasn’t going to let Eun-sun go.

If his father was stubborn, then he’d show him he didn’t lose to him in that department. If he wanted to protect his woman the first story would be protecting her from his family first.

“Mr.... Chairman...Lee” Eun-sun nervously greeted with a low bow. She didn’t know how best to address him. Mrs Lee chuckled at her cute behavior.

“See honey, she’s so cute.” Mrs Lee smiled at her husband who muttered an, “Hmm”.

He walked closer to Eun-sun and let out a wry smile. “Don’t be scared. I’m not going to eat you.” He told her.

“What’s your name?” He asked.

“Park Eun-sun.”

“Eun-sun, that’s a pretty name. You know the meaning right?”

[A/N: Like who the hell doesn’t know the meaning of their name? (Rolling my eyes)]

Slightly nodding her head Eun-sun replied, “Yes sir.”

“That’s good.” He nodded before walking towards the couch, “Come sit.” He beckoned on her to also sit as well.

“Thank you.” Eun-sun took her sit on one of the sofas while Dan-Han sat by her side. Mrs Lee excused herself to go round up her cooking in the kitchen.

“I heard you work at the company?” Mr Lee asked in a most natural tone, while Eun-sun concurred, “Yes sir.”

“Do you enjoy working there?” He asked yet another question.

“Yes I do.”

“Hmmm. It must be hard working in the company.” He asked in a concerned voice.

“Not at all sir it isn’t. I’ve enjoyed working there.” Eun-sun told him.

“That’s good to know.” Father Lee continued to ask her more questions about work and soon Eun-sun began to relax. He wasn’t as bad as she had thought. He seemed like a nice man, though he was a bit cold and rarely smiled like a certain someone by her side but he didn’t look like the kind of person she had feared he would be.

Eun-sun was still thinking on that when Father Lee changed the subject of discussion.

“Tell me about your parents.” He said in a casual tone but Eun-sun tensed up. She wasn’t ashamed of her family but she wasn’t comfortable talking about them. She glanced at Father Lee and his face was still as calm encouraging her to answer his question.

He took a quick glance at Dan-Han who was staring daggers at him in a challenging manner, but he ignored him.

“Come on tell me about them. What do they do?” He asked.

Eun-sun glanced at Dan-Han when she felt his hand on her arm, it was his silent way of encouraging her and telling her he was there.

Eun-sun looked back to Mr Lee who for a second there looked as if he had a frown on his face and his eyes were looking at their intertwined hand but it was gone as soon as it came, it was almost as if it wasn’t there.

Clearing her throat she started, “Well my parents are humble people. My dad used to own a medium scale real estate company fifteen years ago, but he suffered bankruptcy.”

“Ah that’s sad. It’s one of the things that happens to us business men but then only the toughest and the truest of men can survive in the business world.” He said sympathetically but Dan-Han didn’t miss the insult buried in his words. His gaze on the man intensified he was about to say something when Eun-sun who had not missed his Statement also smiled.

“Sir failure is also a part of success and all true business men must know that. We all must fall and rise stronger.” She said making the man smile.

“Hmm you’re right indeed. You’ve spoken like the true daughter of a business man. So I believe your father is now up on his feet?” He cocked a brow and asked.

“I don’t know sir.” She replied with a firm prompting the man to raise a brow at her. “As a matter of fact he I haven’t seen him for the last fifteen years.” She was getting the vibe that Dan-Han’s father wasn’t nice and he might not like her. As a matter of fact, she felt like he already knew alot about her but he was only pretending not to know. She wasn’t stupid.

“I’m so sorry about dear. It must have been hard for you living without a father.” He sympathized with her but Eun-sun doubted the geniuety of his words.

“Thank you sir.” She bow slightly.

“It’s no problem. So tell me about your mother.” He asked.

“Sir my mother is fine. She has been taking care of me since my father left and now I take care of her as a child would.” She replied.

Father Lee turned towards Dan-Han and smiled, “I like her.” but Dan-Han knew his words were fake. He had wanted to stop his father from asking Eun-sun embarrassing questions as he knew how discussions about her family were very sensitive to her but he refrained himself from doing that as he was confident Eun-sun could handle herself well. But had his father crossed his boundaries that would have been different thing entirely, because he’d have to answer to him.

“I told you’ll like her.” Mrs Lee who was coming from the dinning room chirped when she heard her husband.

Smiling at his wife he nodded, “You were right.”

“Okay enough about talking. Dinner’s ready let’s go to the table.” She announced.

“Errm honey can we wait a little, the main guest haven’t arrived yet.” Everyone turned to look at him when he said that.

‘Main guest?’

“Honey who did you invite?” Mrs Lee asked inquisitively, Dan-Han also asking the same question with his eyes.

Father Lee was about to respond to his wife when the door bell rang.

“I think that’s them.” He said before tilting his chin to one of the maids to open the door.

Dan-Han frowned when he saw the face of the first person that stepped into the house.

“Father what’s the meaning of this?” Dan-Han drawled.