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The unfaithful Wife ( Jimin/OC)

Chapter 3

“A public place. I’ll only meet you in a public place.” I said , hands gripping the phone so tight, my knuckles turned white.

Silence.

“fine. There’s a coffee shop about three blocks from your bakery. I’ll be there in ten minutes.” He hung up and I felt chilled with apprehension, as I slowly took off the apron and caught a glimpse of my face in the mirror over the sink. I wished, rather desperately that I’d had time to at least put on some make up. Although i was still twenty four, I felt older and the tiredness in my face was evident. My once flawlessly pale complexion was now almost pallid , my skin no longer smooth and supple but rather lifeless. But there was nothing to be done now.

Ten minutes of make-up is hardly sufficient to hide five years worth of misery on my face.

When I stepped into the coffee shop I spotted Jimin at once and felt even worse .

Jimin by contrast looked like he’d just stepped out of a fashion magazine. He’d always been handsome but the years had added a sort of quiet strength to his features, making him look a little less friendly and a little more fierce. He was dressed -in a perfectly pressed pale blue shirt, tucked into neat black slacks. His ebony hair was styled to perfection and he stood up the moment he spotted me. Politeness and manners were inbred for him and I felt a pang of regret. But it left as soon as it came.

“I’m sorry I was late.” I said and he nodded stiffly. He looked the same except for the added lines around his face. It was hard to believe but he was seven years older than me. And I guess in that way he’d always had an edge over me. He’d been a fully grown adult when I’d married him while I’d been a half-child half-woman.

“We need to talk about Jin Soo.” Straight to business/

“He’s your son, yes. But he doesn’t.. know. And you don’t have to take responsibility…”

“He’s my heir.”

I stopped and stared at him. Dread slowly began to seep into my bones.

Jimin made an impatient noise when i didn’t reply.

“What? He is isn’t he? The rightful heir to my company. It’s his birthright. ” Jimin said bluntly, rolling his shoulders and staring at me with raised eyebrows. I swallowed.

“So?”

“So, I want him to grow up the way he’s meant to. He’s a Park. He deserves the world, not to be left alone half the day because his mother is too busy for him.” He said .

I stared at him in disbelief and opened my mouth to argue but he held a hand up.

“I’m not blaming you. You’re working to give him a better life and i can accept that. But this can’t continue. I refuse to become a stranger to my own son. You’ve taken away five years of his life from me. I deserve to know him. Especially because you’re the reason our marriage got shot to hell anyway.” He said bitterly.

I willed myself to unglue my tongue and say something but i just couldn’t . Nothing I said would make a difference.

“Jimin, you can have visitation rights… Week-ends..” I said nervously.

“No. Why should I be the one to suffer when you’re the one who screwed things up? I want to raise him as well. The right way…” He said angrily.

the implication that i wasn’t raising my child right made me so angry I wanted to throw something.

“What on earth are you saying?” I snapped.

“Full custody. I want full custody of Jin Soo.”

My ears rang in alarm and the world tilted dangerously, I had to grip the table to steady myself. When I looked up he was pouring a glass of water and sliding it across the table to me, his face expressionless.

“You..You want to take my son away from me?” I whispered.

When had he turned into this cruel stranger? Did he really hate me so much?

“If you refuse to be reasonable.”

I stared at him.

“Reasonable?”

“there’s a way to solve this. I can have my son in my house and he can have his mother too. He can grow up in a complete family and he can takeover my company the way he’s meant to.” He said.

I couldn’t comprehend.

“That doesn’t make sense….” I said shaking my head in disbelief.

“It does if we get married again.”

My stomach dropped.

“What? No!!!”

He slid a file across the table to me and i stared at it. Pre -Nuptial agreement it said in clear black letters.

“This isn’t a negotiation.You either agree to marry me or I apply for full custody. And we both know how that will go…”

“Jimin, please. Why are you doing this? You’re engaged to marry another woman, you can’t…….”

“Are you seriously going to talk about loyalty to me? You who slept with my best friend in our marriage bed? ” He laughed without mirth.

“If you’re going to throw that in my face forever, why do you want to marry me.” I snapped.

He gave me an even smile.

“Because I’m over it. I don’t love you or even like you anymore. It doesn’t matter to me , whether you love me or not. What matters to me is that my son is raised right. I don’t want him to grow up thinking his father abandoned him. I won’t be the bad guy, Min Hee. I won’t be the absent father or the uncaring parent, especially when it’s not my fault in the first place that we’re broken.” He said angrily.

“I… I need time.” I said, simply because my mind wasn’t functioning anymore.

“Of course. Let me be clear. This isn’t going to be a platonic marriage. We’ll do this and we’ll do this right. For our son. Stop being selfish and think of him instead of your own pride. I’m willing to forgive and forget whatever happened in the past . We can start again. ”

“ That is the most nauseating thing I’ve ever heard..” i spat out furiously.

“Is it? Think about it… We were both young back then. We let our heart lead us and ended up screwing things. This time we’ll do it right. We’ll be mature enough to realize there’s more to marriage than lovey-dovey madness. We’ll handle it the way arranged marriages are handled all over the world. Rationally and logically. That way our son can have parents he can be proud of. I don’t want him to grow up and think it was somehow his fault we aren’t together. ”

“Jimin… this isn’t fair.. You aren’t giving me a choice..”

“No. I’m giving you something better than a choice. I’m giving you a second chance. Something you don’t really deserve when you think about it. But I’m willing to do it, for our son’s sake.” He said .

I don’t have to put up with this. I do not deserve to be treated like scum when it hadn’t been my fault in the first place.

“Platonic. ” i choked out.“ Make it a platonic marriage and I …I’ll consider it.” I said voice trembling.

He raised an eyebrow.

“Really? So you can get it from someone else on the side? Don’t even think about it. If you cheat on me again, I’ll kill him. Whoever he is.” He said icily.

I stared at him with bile rising in my throat.

“I..i won’t be unfaithful.” I said.

Had never been in the first place.

“Alright then. We don’t have to sleep together, except once to consummate the marriage. Afterwards I’ll leave you alone. ” He shrugged and i realized suddenly that somehow in the confusion of words and the shock of potentially losing jin Soo, I’d somehow agreed to this madness. Surely there was a way to do this without me having to marry him again? Why couldn’t I think of a single way now…

“Don’t look so horrified. You should be happy. I spoke to your parents last night. their positively jubilant. They want to see you again.”

Pain, sharp and strong hit me. My parents had cut off all ties with me after my divorce. But it hadn’t been their fault. I’d never told them the truth, out of some misguided sense of loyalty for Jimin.

The very public divorce had taken a horrible toll on them.

They’d been ostracized and cursed at , blamed with raising a disgraceful daughter and they’d been forced to leave Seoul, their home for thirty years, to move to Busan. I hadn’t seen or talked to them in five years. I could feel my lips wobble. I wanted to see them so badly. Suddenly I felt I could put up with the worst kind of pain if it meant i could see them again.

“So tell me, will you do it? ”

I nodded mutely.

“Good. At least you can see sense now. Sign this…” He pulled out a pen and tossed it on the file.

“I.. I want to read through it first..” I said swiftly.

He shurgged.

“Fine. Sign it and bring it to my office tomorrow. We have a long day ahead of us. We’ll talk to the press tomorrow. Before that, I want to meet Jin Soo. ”

I swallowed.

“Now?”

“Now.” He said firmly.

I hesitated.

“Please…I just.. I want to talk to him about this first…”

“You can. In front of me. ” He said firmly.

He stonewalled me so effectively I couldn’t breathe. There really was no escape I thought, panicking. He was caging me so ruthlessly that I had a feeling i would never be able to get away from this.

“He might get scared…he doesn’t do well with strangers…”

“I’m not a stranger..I’m his father…” He snarled so fiercely, a few of the other patrons stared at us. I felt my heart ache at how much he had changed. He’d always had a temper but he’d never been unreasonable. It struck me suddenly that maybe I wasn’t the only one who had suffered through the past five years. But it was hard to dredge up sympathy when he was trying to destroy my life this way.

“Okay. Let’s go then.” I said glumly,

He grabbed my wrist suddenly, grip strong and bruising.

“You better stop looking so miserable, at least in front of Jin Soo. Kids pick up on things like that and I won’t have him thinking I’m ill treating you or something.” He snapped.

I pulled my hand away and nodded, skin burning where he’d touched me. He had never used force on me before and I realized that he was a lot stronger than I’d thought.

“Fine. ” I said, voice trembling just a little bit.

He got up then and so did I, blinking when he came over to pull the chair out and offer me his arm. It was surreal. A scene from some forgotten past that I had never ever wanted to revisit let alone relive. I felt like my mind was suspended in some alternate reality and somehow, by taking his hand and following him to the car, I’d erased five years worth of memories, turned myself into a nineteen year old with a handsome husband and a love filled marriage again.

A second chance he had said callously. Something i really didn’t want with him. But what choice did I have? I couldn’t lose my son. I hated the helplessness that was pressing down on my soul like dead-weight. And I hated him for making me feel that way. Hurt seeped into me and I felt pathetic. Self pity was never productive but that was all i could feel for now.

“Don’t over think this. We can make this work. Like I said, it’s for our son. You want him to be happy don’t you? To have what’s rightfully his?” He said calmly, helping me into the seat and putting the seat belt on for me. I flinched at the way he manipulated me with guilt. Made me feel like a bad mother for not immediately jumping at the chance to marry Jimin and give Jin Soo all the things that being a Park would offer him. Jimin was looking at me now and there really was no trace of the warm , friendly man I’d once married.

He was a stranger , even though he smelled the same. I could feel the warmth of his chest as he leaned over me to buckle the belt. Familiar heat that left me aching in the worst possible way. And i knew without a doubt that this marriage would likely destroy me completely. I couldn’t go through with it. I really couldn’t.

There’s a way to get out of this. You have to just play along till you can find a way out of this.

It was the only thing I could do.

For now.

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