ALWAYS

II

She’s his wife… his body maybe belongs to her but his heart belongs to another woman… she can’t blame him for loving someone… for even herself doesn’t feel that way to him… being in an arranged marriage at such a young age made their lives completely changed.

She already knew that marriage without her consent will come eventually… but she never expected this kind of suffering would come with it…

He thinks she ruined his life that’s why ruining hers would pay for it… she never knew he loves someone not until they got married… he blamed her for everything and all she could do is to apologize to him…

She never felt respected by him… not when they’re parents are in sight… sometimes he would not go home and spend the night to his lover’s house… she tried to understand him but with him calling her out with names and ignoring her pleads makes it hard for her.

[Flashback]

“You have to marry him in order to save this family… Don’t you care about us…?” Her dad said after she rejected the proposal of marrying the son of her father’s business partner…

She’s been living a happy life in abroad not until the news came that their business is having a big trouble… they’re business is one of the country’s top corporations and because of the poor state of the economy makes it weak….

Just like the Parks, the Jeons also has the same level as them… merging the two companies would help each other in their current state.

Her elder sister already took part in a arrange marriage their parents set for her… being in a rich family is not as happy as what others thinking about… all that Rosé wants is freedom but now that it’s her turn to be tied with someone she doesn’t even know makes that freedom more impossible.

If only she has the strength to oppose her family…. But she has to do it… she loves her family… her parents never neglected them and their needs and maybe doing what her father wants would repay for those they’ve done for her.

“Yes father… I’ll accept it…”

But she didn’t know that by accepting it would ruin someone else’s life. [End of flashback]
The Jeon family has two sons… the eldest son was suppose to be wedded with her but her ran off years ago because he can’t take being told of what to do… Rosé doesn’t know anything about him.

Jeon Jungkook… the second son accepted all the responsibilities that his brother supposed to be having and that includes marrying one of the daughters of the Parks.

It was already enough for him being the heir of their company… but marrying someone he doesn’t love was too much for him.

He love someone else and being apart with her would ruin him… she’s the reason why he can overcome all the hardship his responsibilities were giving him but when the news came up that he have to marry some spoiled brat… he felt like his world would break apart.

[Flashback]

“Dad… please don’t do this to me… I’ll do anything that you want but please don’t let me marry someone I don’t love…” He pleaded with all his might for many times since the news came up to him.

“Jungkook, this is the only way we could make our company stronger… if only your brother’s here…” His father explained to him once again.

It was all about wealth… he can live without it but just by having the woman he loves would sustain his life…

He tried to run off with his lover but his dad threatened him that he’ll do everything just to ruin the her family.

“Tzuyu-ah… you’ll always be the woman that I’ll love… don’t ever think that because I’ll be tied with someone, it means that I’m letting go of what we have… I just want to protect you…” he said to his lover before facing the greatest mistake of his life.

[End of flashbacks]

The first time he saw her… all he felt was hatred… because of her everything around him changed… seeing her face makes him remember of his brother and all the responsibilities he has to endure for his family.

He lost his chance to be with the one he truly loves and by making Rosé’s life miserable would make him feel that it would repay for it…

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She woke up as she felt the warm rays of the sun touching her face…. As soon as she moved her body, she felt the excruciating pain which was caused by last night’s deed.

She shifted her body to face the other side just to see the empty space beside her… it was always like that… he would always not let her wake up with him beside her…

She sighed as she felt another disappointment… after a while of resting her aching body… she sat up grabbing the blanket to cover her body… then she heard the bathroom’s door opened revealing him freshly showered with a towel covering his lower body.

She knows he saw her but he just ignored her presence… not even a simple ‘good morning’ was not heard from him… she didn’t dare talking or greeting him because she already knows that it would be just useless.

Just a simple smile coming from him would make her day a little better but that hope completely vanished when she saw her glared at her…

He walked towards their bed holding another towel… he sat on the edge as he started drying his hair with the towel… she just sat behind him watching his every move… she admit that the first time she saw him, he admired his beauty… every girl would want to be with him… but now that she’s with him all those thoughts were completely a misjudgment.

Silence just filled the room not until he spoke up first.

“Are you still taking those pills…?” he said not looking at her but busy drying his hair

“Ye-yes...” she stuttered

“Good... because I don’t want to have a bastard growing inside of you..” he said coldly…

A bastard...? Her baby would just be a bastard for him… for her, it’s really better not to conceive his child because she knows her child would only be unwanted… and by having this man to be the father of her child would be like accepting a devil’s invitation…

She would never make herself conceive without love… he doesn’t need to remind her regularly about those things…

“What the f*ck are you sitting there…? Are you that stupid not to think of taking a bath…? My parents are already waiting downstairs…!” he yelled at her as he threw her the towel he used to dry his hair.

She sighed again and as soon as he went to the walk-in-closet, she immediately wrap herself on the towel and went to the bathroom to take a bath… she needed to wash every part that man has touched her… she feels so dirty that she wanted to stay inside the bathroom for the whole day.

After she finished and got dressed… she immediately went downstairs… he didn’t even wait for her… she went to the dining hall and was greeted by her in-laws… good thing they’re good to her… totally opposite of their son.

They are living at his parents’ mansion since his parents are rarely home because of their business and plus, he doesn’t want to care about finding them their own house since after all having a family with her doesn’t exist in his mind.

“So Rosé… starting today you’ll be attending the same university as Jungkook… everything is now settled dear… all you have to do is to attend it…” her mother-in-law said… her family decided that she won’t be studying in abroad anymore and just stick with her husband from now on…

“Yes mom..” is all that she could say… as if she could oppose them… she looked at Jungkook who’s in front of her and the glare he gave her doesn’t escape her eyes.

She knows why he’s mad… he thinks that she’ll be a hindrance once again since now she’ll be attending the same university with him and his lover… maybe that’s the reason why he and his lover got into a fight… and maybe that’s why his anger was poured on her.

“Jungkook-ah… take care of your wife arasso…” his dad said looking at them over his newspaper wearing a warm smile.

“Of course dad… since when I didn’t take care of her…” he said while looking at her wearing his evil smile which brought shivers down to her spine.

She quickly looked down to her food and started eating… hoping that the time could just freeze and never run so that she wouldn’t have to go with him and experience yet another suffering.