Prey (Lee Seohan) - Chapter 76

Jeonghan tilted his head slightly, looking down at her.

“You’re right. I had a debt to Seol Hee-nam.”

Suhyeon’s brows twitched.

“A debt? If you have a debt, then why…?”

It didn’t make sense; it was as if he had given her money instead.

Looking down at her confused expression, Jeonghan said,

“A debt doesn’t only mean money in this world. Seol Suhyeon.”

Jeonghan smiled faintly.

Ah…

Suhyeon realized something in the cold gaze hidden behind that smile.

“My father…”

After taking a deep breath, Suhyeon spoke again.

“Did Seol Hee-nam do something to you that he shouldn’t have…?”

There was a nuance in Jeonghan’s words and his attitude so far that suggested this. Suhyeon looked up at him and continued,

“So, you chose me as the target for your revenge?”

“It’s similar.”

Jeonghan answered briefly. Suhyeon’s eyes trembled.

“So that’s what it was.”

While repeatedly pondering his words that I had to be the one to marry him, she had expected this could be possible.

The most reasonable explanation was nothing else.

Seol Hee-nam was violent and sufficiently despicable, so it wouldn’t be surprising if he had grudges against others.

He was a father who sold his own daughter for money; how much worse could he have been toward others?

Yet, hearing it like this made her feel both empty and angry.

“So it was ultimately because of Seol Hee-nam…?”

Suhyeon clenched her previously relaxed fists tightly. Her eyes sharpened.

“Why didn’t you say that from the beginning? If you had, I wouldn’t have accepted the marriage in that way.”

Jeonghan stared at Suhyeon without any change in his expression.

“Weren’t you the one who said from the beginning that I was a bride sold off?”

“That was true! The situation was definitely like that back then, but I…”

“Seol Suhyeon.”

Suhyeon flinched at the sudden drop in his voice.

Jeonghan lifted Suhyeon’s face with his large hand.

“!”

As their gazes locked, Suhyeon’s tear-filled eyes trembled slightly.

The relaxed expression in his eyes vanished abruptly. His predatory gaze gleamed like a sharpened blade.

Suhyeon felt tension creeping up her spine.

“That doesn’t matter.”

“……”

His eyes, dark to the point of being threatening, fixed on Suhyeon. She felt her breath catch in her throat.

“What’s important is…”

For a moment, Jeonghan, who had been glaring at her, paused his words.

“That I, as Seol Hee-nam’s daughter,…”

Jeonghan…?

Suhyeon’s eyes widened.

His strong jaw trembled slightly, and red veins stood out in his eyes.
Seeing that, Suhyeon felt a surge of fear.

No. Not now…

An instinctive sense of danger rose within her, warning her that she shouldn’t hear this right now.

A siren rang in her mind, signaling that if she heard this, there would be no turning back.

“Wait a moment.”

As Suhyeon stumbled backward, Jeonghan firmly grasped her face and leaned in closer.

Ah…!

The bloodshot eyes of the man and Suhyeon’s own eyes, sensing danger, locked onto each other right in front of her.

He glared at her, speaking in a voice that faltered.

“…What’s important is that I have come to love you, the daughter of that bastard.”

“!”

“That’s killing me, you know?”

Spitting out his words, Jeonghan stared at Suhyeon with burning eyes as if he could kill her.

What… What does that mean…?

Suhyeon’s eyes darted around in confusion.

“Even in this moment, your damn pretty eyes are slowly killing me.”

With a bewildered expression, Suhyeon’s lips trembled as she finally managed to speak.

“W-What are you saying right now…?”

“This mouth, these cheeks, this hair, this breath… all of you.”

Jeonghan’s sculpted, handsome face contorted in pain.

“Are killing me. Seol Suhyeon.”

He furrowed his brows.

He looked at Suhyeon with a face that truly seemed as if he might die.

Seeing his once noble and arrogant gaze twisted into something fierce, Suhyeon couldn’t utter a word.

“Jeonghan…”

The words she barely managed to voice were abruptly swallowed by his lips.

“Mm!”

He firmly grasped her small face, aggressively pushing his tongue in. With deep thrusts of his tongue, he wrapped around her quivering tongue and sucked it in deeply.