From Divorce to Dusk Chapter 8.1

“Oppa, oppa!”

Ah, at Jaeyoung’s voice, Jaekyung started and looked toward where the voice was coming from. His younger sister was looking at Jaekyung while snapping her fingers. Her hands were full of traces of a recent shopping spree. Jaekyung slowly looked around. Calm classical music, marble floors, luxurious yet elegant gold lighting, and quiet shops. It was a department store. Right, he had gone to the hospital with Jaeyoung, and then dragged by her hand because she said there was something she wanted to buy, he came to the department store and bought a whole bunch of things. And then they were talking about what to eat, saying they should go get something delicious….

“Oppa. Are you okay?”

She looks at Jaekyung with worried eyes. Who is worrying about whom?

“Yeah, I’m fine. Even at the hospital today, they said I’m healthy.”

“But why are you zoning out like that?”

“Ah, I was just thinking about the gallery for a moment.”

Right, he was thinking about something, but he didn’t know what he was thinking about. His mind was just completely black.

“Stop thinking about work. Oppa, looking at you, you’re a workaholic. You need to rest when you’re resting.”

“Haha… yeah.”

Laughing awkwardly, Jaekyung reached out his hand to lighten some of the luggage held in Jaeyoung’s hands, but stopped his steps upon seeing a man walking from the opposite side. The man, who had been walking and laughing with his companions, also stopped his steps in surprise upon seeing Jaekyung. There was no way Jaeyoung would miss this strange vibe. Looking at Jaekyung’s face, she looked at the man opposite him where his gaze had landed. The man, about 5m away, had quite a troubled face. The man was a dominant Omega. Because a sweet pheromone and a seductive pheromone were wafting off him, Jaeyoung furrowed her brow and tightly grabbed Jaekyung’s arm.

“Is he someone you know, oppa?”

“Uh? Yeah.”

“It’s been a long time. Mr. Park Jaekyung.”

The man, who had a troubled face until just a moment ago, suddenly put on a brazen mask, approached Jaekyung, and extended his hand. Ignoring the hand offering a handshake, Jaekyung smirked.

“We aren’t exactly in a relationship to shake hands and greet each other amiably… are we?”

At Jaekyung’s words, the dominant Omega’s face stiffened. Then, as if embarrassed, he quickly lowered his hand and passed by Jaekyung in a hurry with a complicated expression. Since it was such strange behavior, Jaeyoung stared at the dominant Omega’s back for a long time and then looked at Jaekyung. Jaekyung’s body was trembling. He had an angry face.

“Oppa. Who was that Omega just now?”

“…His lover.”

“What?”

Jaeyoung doubted her ears and questioned back.

“Photos of the two of them coming out of a hotel affectionately were sent to me. Was it on our 2nd wedding anniversary?”

“What?!”

Jaeyoung screamed in shock. Jaeyoung’s voice rang loudly inside the quiet department store, and for a moment all eyes gathered on them, but Jaeyoung didn’t care. Placing the luggage she was holding on a bench next to her, she said she was going to the restroom and moved with quick steps. And then, seeing the nape of the dominant Omega who was waiting to take the elevator, she snatched him without a moment’s hesitation.

“Hey!”

“Argh!”

Snatched at the exact moment the door was about to close, the man lost his balance and almost fell backward, and Jaeyoung could lightly step aside and watch the man falling from above. The man, who plopped down on the floor, looked at Jaeyoung with bewildered eyes.

“Are you in an affair with Han Taesuk?!”

At the straightforward question, Seohan opened his eyes wide and then soon sighed, dusted off his pants, and stood up.

“No, I am not.”

“What do you mean no?! Our oppa said he saw photos of you and Han Taesuk coming out of a hotel!”

“That’s…. At any rate, I am not.”

“What?”

“It’s already a completely finished matter… after giving me such public humiliation, I didn’t know the party involved wouldn’t even remember….”

Jaeyoung listened quietly to the story, then leaned against the wall, sighed, and pushed back her long hair. She could roughly tell what happened. It was a possible thing if she thought about stories that Park Jaekyung didn’t know. Still, she didn’t discard her suspicion just in case. Jaeyoung lifted her phone and showed Han Taesuk’s phone number to the Omega in front of her eyes.

“I will call right now to verify.”

At Jaeyoung’s words, Seohan shrugged his shoulders, telling her to do as she pleased. He didn’t seem to be lying. He was confident.

“You are the Alpha of Jaewang Group from the rumors? Mr. Park Jaekyung’s younger sister.” “That’s right.”

“Didn’t you hear the story from Managing Director Han? What kind of situation Mr. Park Jaekyung is in right now.”

“…I heard.”

“If he misunderstands, let him keep misunderstanding. If he remembers, let him keep remembering, just pass everything over like that—Managing Director Han told everyone who has ever met Park Jaekyung even once. That’s why it’s troublesome. For me too. Since in Mr. Park Jaekyung’s head, I will remain as an Omega who committed an affair for the rest of his life.”

That’s why he was at a loss as to how to cope when he saw Park Jaekyung. Even so, he couldn’t just avoid that spot. Because he also needed to confirm how he thought of him and whether the words of Managing Director Han, who said Park Jaekyung’s memory was unstable, were true, when his extended hand was rejected, he merely figured out how he remembered him and acted accordingly.

“I understand. I’ll believe you.”

Jaeyoung changed her phone screen to sleep mode, glanced at Seohan once, and went back to where her oppa was. Seohan watched that appearance, sighed, and called Managing Director Han, but as expected, he didn’t answer.

After divorcing Park Jaekyung, he didn’t take any Omega’s personal calls. Who was the person who told him to report if he happened to run into Park Jaekyung? Seohan grumbled and sent a text message to Secretary Oh.

And 5 minutes later, a phone call came from Han Taesuk. Because he asked with a terrifying momentum where and how they met, and how he acted, Seohan split the situation into nano-units and explained in detail. Having heard the whole story, he hung up the phone without even saying goodbye to Seohan. He is a displeasing person as always.

But since he saw Han Taesuk unable to contain his anxiety, did he get to see a fun show? Ha, for the great Han Taesuk to break down, is it thanks to Park Jaekyung? But to think the Omega who completely changed an Alpha doesn’t remember anything. That was ironic.

Suddenly, the conversation he shared with Han Taesuk when he heard the whole story came to mind. Seohan had asked if it wouldn’t be better to restore Park Jaekyung’s memory, but Han Taesuk shook his head and muttered very quietly.

He must not remember anything. Nothing.

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Along with a cold and body aches, due to the side effects of the suppressants, he couldn’t move an inch from the bed for about four days. Director Ji told Jaekyung to rest a bit more, but somehow feeling a thorn in those words, he finally shook off his seat and got up on the fifth day. Fortunately, his body condition had recovered close to 80%, so after a long time, he woke up early in the morning, washed up, and prepared to go out.

「Uh?」

8 AM. It was already a time by which Han Taesuk would have left, but he was only now coming down from the study. Jaeykung, who was eating simple cereal after asking the housekeeper lady, looked at him in surprise.

「Ah, hello.」

「Yes.」

Suddenly, what happened a while ago came to mind. On the day he got completely soaked by rain and collapsed after getting a suppressant injection, he had a dream where he said all sorts of things to him. It seemed he had also talked about Kim Seohan, and also said the smell was nauseating. It was too vivid to call it a dream, and too bleak to call it reality, so he couldn’t bring himself to ask if the story he heard back then was true. Like that, because Jaekyung was sick in his own way, that matter ended without any further conversation connecting to it.