WITH AND WITHOUT YOU. heeseung ✓

EIGHT

　

BUILDING lights blurred her windows as she drove by, tired eyes following after the familiar sleek, black sports car in the streets of Seoul.

It has been almost fifteen minutes since Eunseo trailed after her fiance's car, but it seems that her destination was a little further downtown than in the heart of the city when she noticed the change of environment through her car windows.

Eunseo wasn't all-too familiar with the downtown city. Having been stuck in the heart itself, it was a change that Eunseo didn't expect of doing this dusk, much more in the same day were she tried to gather her wits to think through of the best way to handle her failing relationship with Heeseung.

Wherever his destination was, Eunseo already feel like something was gonna go wrong. Her gut feeling always warned her for the most upsetting things that will happen. It was never wrong.

Fifteen more minutes later and six cars down, Heeseung stopped his vehicle in front of a well-known rooftop restaurant. A valet greeted him and took his cars keys before driving his car off somewhere to park. Heeseung headed inside the building with a small smileㅡone that Eunseo’s eyes didn't miss.

Meanwhile, situated in her car, Eunseo gripped the steering wheel in her palms, opting to turn her car around to park somewhere a little far to keep suspicions from rising. But with the contradicting factors with how Heeseung presented his night to go, suspicions were the last thing in Eunseo’s mind.

And although she doesn't want to believe it, the truth was all ready to bite her in the face regardless if she accepts it or not.

The walk back to the restaurant was a little more than comfortable. The freezing air of the dusk was nipping at her skin despite of the warm coat that she shrugged back on before following after her fiance in a car chase.

She approached the reception desk with a smile, stuffing her fists inside her coat pockets before greeting the lady behind the desk.

“Hello, good evening. Is there a reservation for someone under the name Lee Heeseung?”

Oblivious to her real intentions, the lady smiled at her before politely asking her to wait up as she typed something in the monitor of her computer.

Not even a few minutes later, a confused look etched on the lady's face as she shot Eunseo a wary smile.

“There is Ma'am but apparentlyㅡ”

“May I ask who he is dining with?”

The lady's eyes widens a bit but kept her professional composure in front of Eunseo. She slowly and apologetically shook her head. “I genuinely apologize Ma'am but due to the Regulations of our Restaurant, privacy is one of the mostㅡ”

“I don't care about the significance of privacy in your restaurant but if my husband is in there dining with another woman, God forbid the things that will soon follow.”

The giveaway was in the lady's face and Eunseo’s heart clenched. Perhaps the person whom Heeseung was supposed to dine in with today had already arrived hence the panicked look, but Eunseo was more than determined to know the truth now.

If she wants this overwhelming suffocation of pain to end for her and her fiance, then despite the upsetting endgame it might have for her, she'll bare it all.

With a sigh, the Lady simply nodded her in understanding seeing the look of desperation coating Eunseo’s face. She typed something in her computer once more before directing a waiter with her to assist her towards the reserved table of her fiance.

“He’s in table 36 Ma'am, the patio and dining in with a woman named Choi Minju.”