KILL THIS LOVE | JENLISA

Chapter 96

Jennie

I knew I had ruined every chance of me going back to my normal life. All I desperately wanted, was to look in the mirror and see a happy girl, but I couldn't. Not with this dangerous burden I was carrying. "So-yeon.." I sobbed, filled to the brim with sudden emotions, waiting to burst out of this vessel.

I had to. I needed to. "I want to tell you something. That night when..."I halted. "What is that?" my finger pointed towards So-yeon's other hand, in which was a zip file I had suddenly noticed.

So-yeon's gaze followed my hand, then widening,"Oh, almost forgot about these." She handed over the file to me, motioning for me to open it. And there they were. Lisa's paintings.

I flicked through all the various pages inked with colour, my lips parted. Here it all was. Her art.

'Look around you Ruby Jane, It's all art.'

A shiver moved down my back.

"They took all of her things, more evidenceI suppose. But they returned these today, I picked them up on my way here." So-yeon stated plainly.

I was still in a stupor yet I managed to croak out the next four words clearly. "CanI keep these?" The look of surprise on So-yeon's face served as no surprise, "Oh, okay I guess? But sweetie, why would you want them?"

"I...I.." I looked for the right word in my head, breathing deeply when I found it, "Closure."

So-yeon only nodded her head, giving me an understanding look. She then looked away, fixing her gaze towards the main building. "You know, Hae-jin was such a good man. I know he came off a little grumpy, but he had a good heart.He was there when you needed him to be. Someone wants coffee? He got it.Someone needs their shift covered? Not a problem" She smiled, "He even took over Lee Sang-hee's mail duty while she was on a maternity leave."

The smile that had spread on my face listening to So-yeon talk, evaporated within a millisecond. "Wait what?" I sputtered. "Hae-jin handled the mail?"

"Yeah, like I said, Sang-hee went on a maternity leave not too long ago. Being short on staff means we had to multi-task." She chuckled with nostalgia, completely missing the look of spook on my face.

"Was Hae-jin one of the people to have access to the back gate keys?" I asked, the urgency in my voice drowning out the fear.

"Yeah," So-yeon replied, hints of perplexity starting to register in her tone, "Why do you ask that?"

And it was precisely that moment that I got the answer to my question from earlier. The world, indeed, was a giant mirror. All this time, I was seeing only what Lisa Manoban had wanted me to see.

All this while, everyone believed that YooHae-jin had died a heroic death, trying to prevent a mad serial killer from escaping.

But now, the fog was starting to clear up, and I had only just begun to see the reflection for what it truly was.