Prey (Lee Seohan) - Chapter 150

So, he couldn’t say anything. Not even until now.

Jeonghan looked down at Suhyeon, who was crying, with a painful gaze.

“H-hic… H-hic…”

Suhyeon’s delicate shoulders trembled pitifully.

Jeonghan wrapped his hands around her trembling shoulders.

“Listen carefully, Seol Suhyeon.”

He spoke in a strained voice.

“This has nothing to do with you.”

Suhyeon continued to cry, still covering her eyes with both hands. Jeonghan tightened his grip on her fragile shoulders and continued.

“You didn’t know anything, and it’s my fault for dragging you into this revenge, so you’re not at fault.”

“…Lies.”

A damp voice emerged from Suhyeon’s lips.

“What?”

Jeonghan paused and asked again. Suhyeon lifted her tear-filled, grape-like eyes to look at him.

“Lies.”

Her voice, full of self-deprecation, weakly escaped her lips.

“It’s not a lie.”

Jeonghan tightened his grip on Suhyeon’s gaze as he spoke.
Suhyeon looked up at him with a face so pale that it had lost all color.

“Then why… did you always suffer so much?”

Jeonghan’s eyebrows twitched.

“Every time you held me during our marriage… I couldn’t understand the look in your eyes that showed up in those moments.”

Suhyeon, speaking in a feeble voice, removed Jeonghan’s hand from her shoulder. The large hand was pushed away by her weak gesture.

Suhyeon looked up at him.

“Now I understand.”

She took a step back, creating distance between them, inhaled deeply, and then looked at him again with eyes tinted red.

“You were tormented by guilt, even while holding me. Just a few days ago, on the beach… you told me to ruin you, to ruin yourself.”

Her long eyelashes trembled, wet with tears.

“Do Jeonghan, you’ve always… been destroyed because of me.”

Tears flowed continuously down Suhyeon’s cheek. Jeonghan, with a frustrated expression, tried to move closer to her.

“Suhyeon, it’s not like that…”

“Don’t come near me!”

Jeonghan, who had been about to close the distance between them in an instant, stopped abruptly at the sharp sound that pierced through the air like a scream.

Suhyeon grimaced and bit her lip.

“Don’t make me more… miserable.”

“……Suhyeon.”

Pain flickered in Jeonghan’s eyes.

Now that she knew where that pain came from, Suhyeon squeezed her tear-filled eyes shut. Slowly opening them again, she spoke.

“I’m sorry. Everything… everything.”

I’m sorry.

She barely managed to utter those words before turning away.

Jeonghan, who had instinctively moved to follow her, halted.

Her back was telling him not to hold her now.

It would have been easy to grab her, who seemed on the verge of collapsing, but he knew he shouldn’t hold her.

If he forcibly trapped the woman whose entire world had just shattered, he might be able to restrain her in the short term, but he would never be able to make her heart return to him.

…Damn it.

But despite his will, Jeonghan clenched his fist, his hand wanting to reach out to her. He gritted his teeth.

“Suhyeon.”

His voice, tightly suppressed, made Suhyeon stop without turning back.