"I have no idea what you're trying to say with that look."
Oh.
Okay.
Maybe her face was only expressive when she wasn't deliberately communicating with him through non-verbal means?
"Why don't you just say it?"
Summerine immediately shook her head at his suggestion. "I don't think I'm supposed to."
Ryu frowned. "Why not?"
Hoping her expressive face would cooperate this time around, she gave her husband another meaningful look.Because it's not safe!
"I still don't know what you're—-" A ringing sound cut him off, and Ryu's handsome face turned impassive as he glanced at his phone.
"Will you excuse me? I'll need to take this outside."
Oh, so it was that kind of call.
Summerine gave him a thumbs-up, and Ryu, in the act of rising to his feet, went absolutely still at this.
"Are you truly ...alright?"
"Absolutely." She gave him another meaningful look.I got this.
Ryu looked as if he was on the verge of saying something, but then his phone rang again, and her husband swore under his breath.
"I'm sorry. I really have to take this call—-"
"I totally understand."I'll act like everything's normal, I promise.
Ryu gave her one last look before leaving, and Summerine made a mental note to research nonverbal cues. As his wife, she had to do what she could to protect him. Marriages had to be a two-way street, and this was finally her chance to do somethingforRyu instead of always being on the receiving end of her husband's kindness.
"I'm sorry," Ryu apologized as he came back to the dining room. "We have another emergency at work, and I'll need to leave again."
"I understand."
Ryu looked at her gravely. "That's what's worrying me."
Her husband truly was a dream. Wasn't that his way of saying he wanted to apologize for not being completely honest about his past?
"We'll talk when I get back, alright?"
Summerine was appalled at what she had pushed him to do. "We don't have to, I swear." The police could have their place bugged, and she didn't want to be the reason for her husband to say something incriminating in their hearing.
Ryu looked as if he wanted to call a doctor this time, but she pretended not to notice this either.
I'll make you proud, Ryu. You'll see.
She would do everything she could to show him he could trust her, and so with that in mind...
