Summerine slowly shook her head. "It wasn't that."
Her husband whitened. "Then why?"
"Because I know you love someone else."
Ryu jerked at her words. "I'm not—-"
"Please don't lie," she said unevenly. "Because it's just making me hurt more." She saw her husband flinch upon hearing this. He was acting like her pain was his pain, but how could she believe that?
"Summerine—-"
Hearing her name on his lips was agony, and she could no longer bear being this close to him.
"I'm g-grateful that you s-saved me, but I c-can't..."
Ryu was suddenly gripping her shoulders, and she tried to struggle free, but it was impossible.
"Ih-heardy-you with my own ears, Ryu. I h-heard you c-call her your d-darling—-"
"Stop."
It was thattoneagain.
And the sound still had her obeying even when he had become a master that caused her nothing but pain.
"I'm sorry I didn't realize you were entertaining such thoughts—-"
"I heard you!"
"But I promise you—-"
Was he seriously pulling his phone out?
"It's not what you think."
And actually making a callnowof all times?
Summerine couldn't remember feeling this...thisbetrayed.
And outraged.
And—-
"Hello, darling," she then heard Ryu say.
FURIOUS!
Before Summerine realized what she was doing, she had already grabbed the phone out of her husband's hand, and—-
"Well, hello there."
—-found herself staring at anotherman?
"Are you Mrs. Ryu Harcourt by any chance?"
"Yes, she is—-" Ryu grabbed his phone back. "But I'll introduce you later. Hanging up now."
Her husband looked at her then, and she still didn't know what to think. "W-Why—-"
