Chapter 98 – Married Woman’s Assistant’s Journal (Forcing Choice)
“Secretly… Did you steal it?”
Thermia’s face hardened, and she hurriedly began to head for the second floor.
“Thermia-san?”
“Now, wait a minute.”
I followed Thermia to a room in a corner of the second floor, and she turned over a desk drawer in the back of the room and pulled out a small box inside her.
“That?”
“It’s a safe… It’s a box for collecting money…”
Her eyes met Thermia holding the safe.
I could see her anxiety in her quivering pupils.
“Are you okay. Because I have are you okay.”
“Mr. Hanseong…”
As he reassured her with a caress on her shoulder, she closed and opened her eyes tightly, then carefully opened her box, as if she had made up her mind.
There were gold coins in her box, Thermia poured them onto her desk and started counting them.
“24⋯. 25⋯⋯. The 5 that Hanseong gave me are just empty.”
“⋯⋯.”
“Ha…”
Thermia, who was staggering as if her legs had lost strength, was supported.
“Mr. Hanseong…”
“Sit down and rest.”
“Yes…”
Lending her shoulder to her Thermia, he carried her to her bed and sat her down on her bed.
With her head bowed down, I stroked Thermia’s back as she looked at her floor as if thinking of something.
After remaining silent for a while, Thermia opened her mouth first.
“Tedra had it…”
“Yes. I saw her talking to a thug in a back alley.”
“Did the thug hit Tedra? Did Hanseong help you?”
“I hit you.”
“⋯⋯. Why?”
Pretending to be in deep agony, I brushed my face with the palms of my hands and brushed my bangs back.
Then, I looked at Thermia’s emerald-like turquoise eyes.
“It takes a little longer to explain. Also, you may be a bit shocked, are you okay?”
“Yes. Are you okay. Please tell me Why was Tedra in her back alley with so much money ⋯. And why did Hanseong hit Tedra?”
“Before, there was a dispute with a criminal organization called the Black Moon because of trouble during a request.”
“Black moon?”
“Yes. I got into a fight with the guys called the Black Moon, but there is a rival faction of the Black Moon in Arpagon. Right now, we’re forming a temporary alliance with them to keep the Black Moon in check. But it’s hard to trust this rival faction, right? Because they are criminals.”
“I bet…”
“So she’s the leader of a rival faction, a woman called Germi, and she tried to find this guy’s weakness.”
“A woman named Germi is the leader. But what does our tedra have to do with them? Was she being threatened by any chance? So you keep it a secret from me…?”
He is trying to think of his family as victims, that he secretly siphoned the money because he didn’t want to worry himself because it was unavoidable.
That look is really creepy
“No. Different. A woman named Germi has a fiancé. It’s a boy named Parasi, and she seems to be about the same age as Tedra. Tedra and Farasi were friends.”
“Friends⋯. My son… Could it be that you are being threatened or something?”
“No, I listened carefully. You two are friends.”
“⋯⋯.”
“Perhaps Andre knows about that. A guy named Farasi seems to have offered Tedra something of her own. So it looks like you need the money. That’s why Andre secretly stole the money from Thermia-san.”
At my words, Thermia made a grimace on her face.
“For what reason are you keeping it a secret from me…”
“They tried to purchase sex slaves.”
“Sex slaves.”
Thermia crumpled her face in disgust.
“Tedra and Farasi both said they would buy sex slaves and enjoy them. I’m at an age where I’m curious about women, but I don’t know if it’s right to steal money and buy sex slaves.”
“To have fun…”
“You mean to commit sexual slavery.”
“⋯⋯.”
Thermia closed her eyes tightly.
Even as a mother, it would be inconvenient for her son to be curious.
“Did you see me enter the city with my party the morning before?”
“Ah, Natalya and the pretty blue-haired one.”
“Yes, I got angry when I heard that you secretly stole money from Thermia-san. So she used them as bait to lure Tedra into buying sex slaves. When Tedra saw her two, she said dirty things about sucking her breasts and getting her ass kicked. She then tried to rape her, so he beat her to death and took her money.”
Thermia bit her lower lip tightly.
“And this is a little shocking story.”
“Yes?”
“Andre doesn’t seem to have erectile dysfunction.”
“Yes?! Uh, what does that mean?”
“I saw Andre enter the warehouse after giving money to Tedra and Parasi to buy sex slaves.”
“Words, words…”
“Are you okay?”
“I can’t believe it… Ah…”
Thermia’s eyes became moist.
Of course it’s gurada.
If it was like before, Thermia would have trusted her family more than me, so I wouldn’t have been shaken if I said this.
But now, Thermia is thinking to herself that she seems to love me while having sex with her without Andre’s knowledge.
She never loved Andre, she says. Her parents forced her to do it, she said, out of a sense of duty.
Nevertheless, the reason she lives with Andre is because of her son, Tedra.
So, in order for me to get her Thermia perfectly, I had to make her feel more betrayed by her family and cut her apart.
Even my son had to hate him.
Only then will Thermia rely on me more.
Thermia, who was betrayed by her family and left a void in her heart, becomes dependent on me.
“Thermia-san, it’s okay. Are you okay.”
“Huh… Ugh…”
As I gently hugged her Thermia, I buried her face in my chest and began to shake her shoulders.
It’s hard to make a mother hate her son.
It is said that mothers are great.
But in the end, it’s different for each person.
There are people who take care of children born after being raped, claiming that they are their own, and there are also human trash who abandon their newly born children in the street trash bin or in the toilet.
Of course, Thermia is not such human waste. She is an ordinary and beautiful woman.
Conversely, there is little chance of absolute maternal love.
Children are the fruit of love.
However, if it is not the fruit of love, what if it is a child born with pain in the stomach between a person who hates her husband and hated him? Can I still love you?
She now has someone she loves even more than her husband, but can Thermia, an ordinary person, live under her roof, eating rice with the people who betrayed her?
“Huh, huh, huh… Whoa!”
“Are you okay. Are you okay.”
He hugged Thermia, who was crying like a child in her arms, and patted her on the back.
After calming me down for a while, Thermia, who had calmed down a bit, said while burying her face in my arms.
“Never since I was pregnant… Andre, I’ve never had skinship with him. 15 years, no 20 years. I used it to grow and run this store. Half of my life…!”
“⋯⋯.”
“Half of my life… I used it to get behind the man. That man was living a happy life in a place I didn’t know⋯⋯!”
“⋯⋯.”
Without a word, he stroked Thermia’s back. Right now, in Thermia’s heart, there is hatred that has not decided her course. She directs her hatred.
With just a little direction, Thermia can pour out enough of her hatred.
As her hatred dissolves, her love for me will deepen.
She quietly soothed Thermia, who was filled with her hatred.
“Thermia-san, it’s okay. You know I have I am by Thermia-san’s side.”
“Mr. Hanseong…”
“I will help you get your revenge.”
“Revenge…”
“I will help you get revenge on the man who stole half of Thermia-san’s life.”
“Half of my life…”
“Get it back with me.”
“How…?”
“I will help you kill that man. How is it?”
“Killing…”
“Thermia-san, I love Thermia-san.”
“It’s okay.”
Thermia held in her arms made her body tremble.
“I like Thermia-san. What about Thermia? Does she love me?”
“⋯⋯. Yes, I love you.”
“The man is in the way. He betrayed Thermia-san first, and if he sees me and Thermia-san sticking together like this, he’ll get angry. They would say that Thermia-san betrayed him.”
“Betrayed…”
“Isn’t it funny? While he was rolling with several women in the window. Thermia-san, get rid of that man. And he lives happily with me.”
“Ha, but Ted…”
“If that guy grows up later, he’ll be like Andre, who sacrificed Thermia-san’s life by grabbing a woman. You can tell just by looking at the way he tried to rape my party. That guy is trash.”
“Rape⋯⋯.”
“Thermia-san. Live with me giving birth to my child live happily with me yes?”
“Hanseong’s child…”
“Thermia-san. I cannot forever be with a woman with a husband or a woman who cannot bear children of her own. Maybe someday I’ll leave. But it would be different if Thermia gave birth to my child. I want to start a family with Thermia-san.”
Come on, Thermia. Choose
Andre, is it me?
