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Of Mergers and Marriages - 19

A/N: Hi! I'm so sorry for the delay but here is the update. This is a short one as I prepare for the next one. There are still a few more requests I want to include but am too tired to include it here. 

Thank you to everyone who waited for this! One more chapter and we are done with the story. To the people in Manila, it's been quite a rainy few days. Please stay safe. =)

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Kim Joo Won now had a terrible headache. The flight was thankfully smooth but he went with very little sleep because of the various things running through his mind. He needed to make plans for the worst case scenario.

Plan A was quite simple. IF he is handed those divorce papers, he's going to tear it up and that is that. He would ask his wife to stop this nonsense and they should live happily ever after, never to bring up this issue again.

Plan B will take into account conditions, such as what he will do if Se-Ri actually signs the papers. That means they needed to talk. So he would ask her to go with him on a vacation so they could sort things out.

Both those plans assumes Se-Ri was on his and their marriage's side. But what if he was wrong? What if he missed signs that she actually wanted the break? What if calling her Se-Ri Minaj while he wore his leopard print tracksuit was the last straw for her?

Plan C accounts for that possibility. Se-Ri wanted this divorce and did not want to try and work it out with Joo Won. Then, he would go home... and cry. Because what else can he do? Maybe after a quick break, he would know what to do and try to win her back. Maybe she'd realize her house would be dark without him and his suits. 

Kim Joo Won sighed. It was still best not to break up. But, at this time, he could only hope that his wife felt the same way.

He squeezed his eyes shut and hoped the hotel had medicines for his headache. He will sleep later. He just needed to save his marriage first.

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Yoon Se-Ri frowned upon seeing a blank screen. 

No calls or messages on her phone from her husband. The last message she received from Kim Joo Won was hours ago, telling her that they should talk. She agreed, thinking that important matters shouldn't be deferred. After all, what they had was still new and fragile and she did not want him to worry about them. 

Once she sent a message to him, Se-Ri proceeded with her day and headed to meetings expecting he would call her as soon as she was done. But there was nothing. No missed calls, no messages, no voice mails.

Upon checking his calendar, her assistant informed her that Kim Joo Won had taken the next week off. Could he already know about the divorce plans? Did his father speak to him, too?

Se-Ri was concerned. 

Not because he would agree or get mad or that this would cast doubt in their intentions. No, Se-Ri was worried because this could hurt him and the last thing she wanted was her husband's feelings hurt because of the people around them. If there was something she discovered in these months they had been together, it was that the man,  who had a keen business sense who made terrible fashion choices, was a softy. 

Groaning, she rubbed her temples from the incoming headache making itself felt. Se-Ri disliked that she was in an argument with her father. Though they had a few of them over the years, it was not something she relished because she loved her father very much. However, demanding that she get a divorce was out of line and she is not going to back down from that.

Feeling anxious, she decided to head down to the hotel cafe to get a cappuccino. While on her way there, she sent a message to Joo Won to call her as soon as he can.