ALWAYS

XXXVIII

He looked at her... only to receive nothing but silence... she never talked or even greeted him when they saw each other again... the whole ride to home was awfully quiet that it bothered him... she was not like that from last night...and what bothers him more now was the whole incident from earlier...

Seeing her and Taehyung together... Seeing her in his arms...

What were those all about...?

Thoughts filled his mind...and thinking about those things over and over again makes him totally uneasy... connecting it to Taehyung's confession... are they together now...? He almost dropped his utensils as he turned his gaze back towards her...

She didn't bother checking on him... busy on finishing her food silently... and it bothered him more... for since earlier, she never looked at him...

Was it because of the kiss...?

He too was surprised at the sudden move from Tzuyu...but thinking that Rosé already knows about him and Tzuyu... why would she be upset about it...?

His forehead creased... gripping on his utensils as the thoughts and images of her and Taehyung kept on repeating inside his head...

Gritted his teeth for even caring about it... why would he...? He's just her husband by papers and in the eyes of everyone...just as well as she's just his wife... and nothing more...

How could he be so selfish for thinking that she couldn't belong to someone else... what is her to him...?

He already had Tzuyu... and definitely there's nothing that he feels for Rosé...

as far as he knows...

In the end, he dropped his gaze...

He couldn't possibly love her...? He loves Tzuyu...

as far as he knows...

His thoughts were interrupted when he saw Rosé stood up from her seat... he looked up in surprise upon seeing her simply walked away after finishing her food... he felt his insides dropped when she left without another word... without even glancing at him...

Confused as to what's happening...and earning a cold treatment from her... he suppressed himself from getting mad... he continued finishing his dinner still trying to figure out why she's acting that way.

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She locked herself inside her secret room... staring at 'his' portrait that she made... with a pained expression on her face...

After a while, her tears finally stopped... she just then realized that she's being hugged by Taehyung... her eyes snapped open and was about to pull herself away, only to be stopped when his arms snaked around her frame, hugging her tighter and closer to him...