Letters [KTH FF] [SOF Prequel 0.1] ✔

Chapter 23

Taehyung,

Although my parents were concerned with the dizzy spells I kept having, I remained unbothered until I remembered our night together.

I am pregnant.

At this second, I think I hate you as much as I love you. 

The future you painted for me, the future you wished to share with me, is at a precipice. I will be having your child, without you beside me. without you singing to me, carrying me around, without you fussing over me.

We were supposed to share this joy together. Your eyes were supposed to be alight with delight when you would have touched my changing body.

But you cruelly took that away from me.

Do you even understand the agony I live in? the agony that has become such a part of me that I no longer consider myself to be living.

I am just an empty body, breathing and walking.

I want to love this child with all of my heart, but I have no emotions left. I am drained. A void.

My hand has been requested in marriage, my father had said yes. He is aware of my baby. What am I to say? If he is satisfied being married to a walking corpse, then who am I to complaint?

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Aria paused.

This was her grandfather.

The girl had died after giving birth. Which meant, the baby, her mother, was Taehyung's.

She was Taehyung's grandchild. Not her Grandfather.

Aria reached for the wine, her mind boggled with the realization, at the enormity of the truth her grandpa had hidden from her. He had essentially re-written history with the stories of his young, beautiful bride that he had kept telling the world about.

Another realization hit her.

So-ra had known too. If her mother had come to this house with her grandmother, then she knew it.

But why?

Why was it all hidden? Her grandfather had done a good deed, marrying and giving shelter to a woman at a time when her pregnancy could have triggered vicious gossip and insults. Why not own up to that heroic act and also the great sacrifice of never touching his bride?

For the state her Grandmother had been in, there was no way that anyone could attain conjugal rights with her.

Her grandfather had never married again, which meant he had truly, truly loved her. But how? The only name in her grandmother's letters had been of Taehyung. So who was her grandfather who claimed to have been in love with her since childhood?

Aria looked at the last pink letter.

She reached for it.

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