Chapter 78 Chapter 78
“So you’re here after all.”
I turned toward the voice, and I was really surprised to see my husband standing in front of me.
“I’ve been looking for you for a while now. Roan told me that you left the villa. Why? Did something happen while I was away?”
I bit my lip as I remembered what the bartender told me last time. I wasn’t drunk now, but it felt as if I wanted to wish that I had been drinking so I could say everything I wanted to tell him, so I could answer all of his questions. I didn’t have the courage now.
He walked closer to me, as if pulling me to confess. His eyes were filled with worry, while I continued to cry in front of him because I couldn’t stop myself from being hurt.
“Why are you here?” I asked, but he immediately shut me down.
“Why not?”
I answered him. “You have a company to take care of… you should be prioritizing that.”
“Should I prioritize that, Mori? When my wife left, crying, and I don’t even know why?”
I bit my lip, trying to erase the fact and the hope that there must be a reason why he was doing this.
“I’m already ruining your schedule too much, Hendeix. You shouldn’t have come here for me. I told you already, didn’t I? There are times when I want to be alone. There are moments when I don’t want anyone to find me. I want to think.”
He just tsked. He glared at me as if he were annoyed. “But I know how you wanted to stop those thoughts, right? Deep inside, you wanted to be found. In your heart, you want some company. Right?” he continued to ask desperately.
All questions whose answers were “yes.” Honestly, the reason I was crying like this was because I never expected to see him here. I didn’t even know what part of the world I had ended up in. Maybe that’s how powerful he is—to be able to find a way to locate me. The only thing I kept thinking was, why does someone so rich still run out of time for himself? Is that the price of all this?
“Because I feel the same way, Mori. There were times before when I also wanted to be alone, but now, I don’t know why I prefer being with you. I get enough rest when I’m beside you. Even if we often argue, I still want to talk to you. I don’t know what’s happening to me, but with all the problems I’m facing right now, I always want to go home and look for you.”
At that moment, I realized that I wasn’t alone… from the things he said, it felt like he, just like me, was also hiding a big problem.
I examined his face anxiously. “W-why? What happened? What’s the problem with your company?”
He shook his head for a few seconds, as if he didn’t want to tell me the truth, but I held his arm just like I did earlier when I invited him to have breakfast. And it was really effective.
“They’re slowly turning their backs on me, Mori,” he answered, then forced a smile.
“What did you say?!”
“The investors who trusted me are leaving, and they are conspiring with my father.”
“Y-your father?” I frowned. I didn’t expect him to mention his father.
“Yes, the truth is… my father hates me… and he’s my number one adversary. I know, I mentioned to you before that I don’t care about them, that all of them are my enemies, and that I’m happy whenever I bring them down. But now they are joining forces with my father… earlier, my dad was at my company, doing everything to put me to shame.”
I gasped in disbelief. I never wished for someone to experience the same thing I did, but I guess we’re both unlucky to have such parents. His father hates him, while my mother hates me too. Both of us are being ruined by our own families.
I did not see it coming—him having a family problem. I once thought that they were all good to him because of how he treats me. I even mistook it as something he inherited from them and assumed he was full of love, which was why he was so caring toward me.
But now I can see where he’s coming from… I’m learning about a side of him that I didn’t think he would show me.
Now that he’s starting to open his heart, I am not scared to show my true self too.
Maybe that’s what we were lacking before, which is why we always fought… because neither of us knew where the other was coming from.
And now that I know a bit more about him, it feels like I’m seeing a different person. A different Hendeix—one who clearly wants to be saved too. And if he once did me a favor by saving me before, I am willingly going to do the same.