Apollo’s Heart - Chapter 45

Chapter 45

Chapter 45

After taking a few deep breaths, Yuri opened her lips again.

“ I… I don’t remember you.”

Tae-jun smirked coldly.  “Are you telling me that you don’t remember a thing? If that’s your only excuse, come on, that’s not fun.”

“I am serious! The only thing that I know about you is that you are Director Yoon’s fiancé and that’s it. I was just introduced to you.” She appeared incredulous, her eyes wide in shock.

“Don’t give me that crap. I am not in the mood to play games.” He sniggered.

“I am not trying to play anything! I do not have any memory …”

BANG!

Tae-jun slammed the bedhead with his fist. Because of the deafening noise, Yuri covered her ears and closed her eyes. He reached out his hand and twisted her hair with his fingers.

“I hate wasting my time. We have a lot to talk about from now on.”

The voice falling down her ears sounded excited. Contrary to his heated voice, his eyes sunk to the abyss. Is it how being eaten by a beast feels like? She could only breathe and glare at him.

What created the fracture in suffocating silence in the ward was Tae-jun’s phone inside his jacket. He checked the name on the screen, and in an annoyed voice, answered the call.

“Didn’t I tell you not to call me today?”

An anxious voice hurriedly murmured that the chairman had summoned Tae-jun through the phone. While the man answered the phone, Yuri pulled out the IV needle on her arm.

 I hate it, I hate these needles. She was disgusted with the same repetitive situation where the fluid entered her body through the needle whenever she woke up in the hospital.

“I will come in soon. Buy some time, I am nearby.”

After the phone call, Tae-jun spoke to Yuri in a commanding tone. “Come see me when I call you.”

“That’s not going to happen.” She replied flatly.

“It is going to happen.”

When Tae-jun left the ward, Yuri quickly got off the bed, put on her jacket, and tidied herself. Her shoulders were still hurting, and her hands trembled. She struggled to pack her bag as she rubbed her shoulders in a bid to soothe herself. At that moment, the door opened, and the doctor entered the ward.

Yuri quickly noticed his name tag on his chest. Seoin Hospital, Internist Jin-ho, Jeong.

Jin-ho approached Yuri. “Did you get hurt?”

“No, I think I just bumped into something and it hurts a little bit.” She lied through her teeth.

“Do you have any medical conditions or medications that you take?”

“No.”

Yuri intentionally shook her head. She did not want to speak a word. Since she was at Seoin Hospital, everything she said to the doctor would reach Tae-jun, from which medicine she took, to how her condition was. She did not want him to have any information about her.

“Ok. So I am going to check your blood pressure and run a brief blood test …”

Test? Immediately, Yuri waved her hands. “No, no need for the tests. I have been tired for the past few days. I didn’t sleep well as usual. I think I am okay now.”

“But …”

“Actually, I have some urgent things to take care of. I need to go.”

Since Yuri refused flatly, Jin-ho only shrugged his shoulders.

“All right then, please take a good rest when you go home. I would still like to recommend you get tested. You have a bad complexion.”

“I will see. How can I pay?” she said.

“Oh, don’t worry about it. It’s already taken care of. You can just leave.”

It must be Tae-jun. Yuri concluded while opening her bag again to put her wallet back into the purse. It was not that she realized something that she did not notice before.

“Um, is this everything?”

“Yes, that’s everything we have. The person who brought you passed it to us”

Her tablet was gone! It was not in her purse anymore. Only then did she realize what Tae-jun meant when he said, ‘it is going to happen’.

“Bastard!” Yuri clenched her teeth.

When she came back to her hotel room, Yuri searched Tae-jun Seo, executive director of Seoin Group. An Asian Games gold medalist at trap shooting, and the successor of Seoin Group which included eight subsidiaries. The man who had everything by birth, and also destined to have more in the future.

Staring at the picture of Tae-jun on her screen, Yuri dwelled on her current situation. Her dreams, and his attitude. From what she could assemble through his reactions, she could vaguely assume what their prior relationship could have been in the past. But judging from his untoward reaction to her, their relationship could be something more serious than a fling. She frowned.

By the time I lost my memories, I was dating Hye-seong, wasn’t I?

When she came back to Jinseong City after being almost hustled out of her school and art industry, Hye-seong was the first one to offer her a friendly helping hand. As Yuri was mentally exhausted, he who she had known ever since she was a child, was a great comfort.

Of course, she was aware of his father’s concerns about their relationship, hence did not expect a future with Hye-seong. Yuri simply pocketed her feelings – she also had her own plans in her mind. She already knew that they were to split their ways when the time came.

Even then, she could not believe that she must have moved on so fast with another man; with a man who had a peerlessly prominent background compared to the Jins.

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