Affinity

Mr. Kim's Truth

 The sky was getting dark and Minji was accompanied by the sound of her phone echoing inside her office. She answered the call from her brother.

"Jiu, are you still in your office?" Taehyung's voice was concerned. Minji let out a heavy sigh before she responded.

"Yes, I will be finishing these papers before going home. Why'd you call Tae? Is there something wrong, you sound worried" Minji asked and dropped her pen when a knock on the door was heard. She barely heard Taehyung on the phone who was screaming to wait for him inside her office.

"Tae, I'm gonna call you back, okay?" Minji ended the call without letting her brother finished what he was going to say. She came towards her office door slowly and opened the door as the person knocking was not able to open it.

"Minji? Are you there?" She was puzzled. That deep male voice was so familiar to her. It was late, and usually her father did not come to her office this late. He rarely do it and when he do, he was just checking on updates regarding this side of his business.

So, she was confused as to why all of a sudden, her father showed up in front of her office door in this late hour. Probably that's why Taehyung was screaming on the phone to warn her, somehow but then she slowly opened the door and was welcomed by her father's embrace so tight she was longing for it for a very long time. Her father's warm embrace felt so euphoric that she held on for so long just to feel like it was real. And it was real when she heard his voice again.

"Minji-ah, you okay?" He said genuinely, still hugging his daughter.

"Uhm, yes sir. Uhm... if you want some updates... regarding the progress of our project, I'm working on it, s-sir" she stuttered, trying to hold back her tears. Her father pulled away from the hug then she realized, he shed some tears as he was wiping it with his handkerchief.

"No, I'm here to check on you, if you are okay. I heard what happened. The head director tried to harass you. He is such an asshole for doing that to my daughter" He said making Minji burst down in tears for the reason that her father called her his daughter after such a very long time.

It felt surreal for the girl who was on the ground, crying out if happiness.

"Minji? What's wrong?" Mr. Kim bend down to his knees to join comfort his child. He wrapped his hands again to Minji as she sobbed even more.

"I'm sorry, Sir. Uhm, it's just the first time in a long time you called me a daughter and hugging me like I am your child." she confessed, sniffing.

"Minji, I know I've been too harsh on you for years. I just did not know how to face you. I wanted you all to be safe without letting you know what I got into. So, I was really worried when I heard the situation. I thought you got hurt. Do not call me Sir, Minji. I'm still your father" He looked at her daughter, genuinely.

"S-sir, Papa, I think it's time for us to know the truth." Minji was desperate to know how it boiled down to a situation they were in. Her sister was taken away and the sudden change of her father's personality. He must have a deep reasons.

He held her daughter's hands and told her his truth.

Mr. Kim Seokjin's Story (Seokjin's Narration)

I have two old friends, Kim Sean and Kim Jimin. We were partners in business for how many years, we hang out when we like to and talk about business things. Sean is a polite and the wisest among us three. He is handling multiple branches of food chains and actually he decided to merge it with my business a long time ago. And there's Jimin, funny and smart and a loving father but he was kind of controlling towards his daughter afraid that he will lose his just as the same fate as his wife. He is into real estate business.