Chapter 98.2

“thank you for recognizing me as family, chairman.” adam held hae-won’s hand tightly.

hae-won couldn’t say anything as her mouth felt covered by his grip on her thigh.

“i would like to take this opportunity to apologize again for my rude behavior.”

“that’s right. you’re brave when you’re young.”

the sun had risen from the west.

chairman seo and adam acted like completely different people. but on reflection, it wasn’t such a surprising situation. it was just a process that has been repeated countless times so far.

at first glance, they seem to recognize each other as a family, but it was a temporary alliance based on profit and loss calculations, not a real reconciliation. chairman seo and adam knew it better than anyone else.

chairman seo prepared a dinner party to appease adam today. she knew a lot about his past. adam was an untamed beast. however, if she let him go, he would run wild without knowing the extent, so she decided to at least lock him in her fence and watch him.

just in time, there was a bait on hand to seduce that black-haired beast.

the only blood she left in the world.

her niece, seo haewon.

“i’m glad you finally realized it. yeah. don’t just apologize, do you want anything from me? as a family.”

chairman seo asked kindly.

“i don’t want much. it’s all about having a family with haewon.”

adam stared at hae-won, holding her hand tightly. he looked very lovely. a shy smile was spreading faintly around haewon’s mouth.

the chairman felt strange at the sight of the two. this is because her sister, who said she would bring a man and start a family a long time ago, was in front of her. chairman seo, who had been immersed in old memories for a while, skillfully wrapped up the conversation.

“i hope you forget everything about the past and start anew here.” chairman seo added, looking at sera. “sera. you should get along well with adam in the future.”

“i don’t think you have to worry about that.”

adam opened his mouth before sera.

chairman seo’s eyes shifted to adam, “what do you mean?”

“she even came to visit me yesterday. right, vice chairman seo?”

adam smiled brightly and waited for sera’s reaction.

“oh, did you?” when chairman seo asked sincerely in surprise, sera was forced to fit adam’s lie.

“……yes, i heard from mr. kim. i went to see his face once because i was worried.”

“yeah, families are supposed to get more attached to each other by fighting side by side.” chairman seo talked to the two with words she didn’t mean. and she added calmly as if she had suddenly remembered, “no one was able to eat because of my nagging. finish eating.”

sera felt like running to adam and grabbing his hair right away. or shut that smug snout. but she couldn’t do such a thing in front of her mother. and now that adam has a lifelong weakness of hers…….

sera quenched her anger by biting her lips.

but her mind had already turned into a sea of hell fire.

* * *

“ugh, ugh……!”

sera, who left during the meal, grabbed the toilet and vomited all the food she ate.

recently, she suffered from insomnia and started taking sleep-inducing drugs every night. even that didn’t work, so she often couldn’t sleep, and during the day, she had to take stimulants to stay sober at work.

seeing the main culprit who made her do this sitting across from her and eating calmly, her stomach is bound to turn upside down.

“hak, heuk…. fuck. fuck. family? you’re making me laugh. who’s a family…?! such a guy, such a noom, i’ll never admit it, ugh!”

sera vomited sick and tired.

“are you okay?”

she heard someone calling her outside the door. it happened to be one of the people she didn’t want to meet right now.

“seo…… haewon……?”

the murmuring sera fell flat to the floor.

her vision went round and her consciousness became blurred.

* * *

“where are we?” sera opened her eyes and looked around. but she couldn’t see anything. she stood alone in the dark.

it was then.

“is it true that you instigated a contractor to kill your sister’s fiance?”

someone asked her.

sera shot back at the invisible air.

“who said i killed him? do you have proof? huh……!”

for a moment, flash went off everywhere.

sera frowned and shrank. in the dark, the sound of the shutter rang loudly.