The Traps of the Black Swan

78

"No Pumpkin." Zain turned down because they will stay in hospital and her mood was already quite upset to leave her alone in a hotel or new city.

"I-" Probably she wanted to request or ask again but she gave up.

Zain could say she was giving up having any expectations for everyone and stopped hoping for a good but he didn't agree, "If you come with us, you will repeatedly think of your parents." He was actually glad thinking she didn't love Vance Hays and she wasn't affected by him but her parents.

"You can keep yourself busy with work and unload from Mino too. I will keep calling you, alright?" He expected a few words but all he got was a response of bobbling of her head side to side in acceptance.

He didn't allow her to drop him off at the airport either and it became the last words of hers. Then he flew away to grab the chance to save his mother a little longer.

He had gotten her to call, too many times but he was in the hospital, it was late into the night so the mobile was in silent mode and missed all her calls.

By the time he got to know, she was missing over a night and half a day. He left his mother under the care of a nurse and booked the earliest flight but he got to know Mocon is locked down due to terrorism and all the flights were canceled.

He was delayed by two days and when he returned, he got nothing.

--- Mino---

Skylar was too new to the business and each day was too crucial. Due to the wedding, Jennie was working day and night managing everything so Mino voluntarily chose to meet clients forcing her to do office work.

Unquestioningly, he didn't want her to have a loveless marriage. However seeing happy yammering her parents were happy, he or Jisoo had no voice but sigh and support her unwillingly.

Mino was meeting many clients or other company heads who are from rich, strong family backgrounds. Some mocked him for having high dreams, some laughed at him but Jisoo and Jennie were there to keep him strong.

It is an unsaid truth that people don't believe or accept just a 'Nobody' could become big in the business and Mino was from a common background with no prominent family name.

Even though he was positive, encouraged by his friends, he always had uncertainty and fear that he might pull down the future of Skylar due to his identity as no one special.

He was looked down on to the extent he wanted to give up and become a normal employee and send Jennie ahead and make her the face of Skylar.

It wasn't a problem at all, Jennie was confident, beautiful, and from the rich family background. Importantly she was also ready to do his part of the work but she didn't.

She wasn't afraid nor wanted to hide, Jennie and Jisoo encouraged him, pushed up, lifted him each time saying let's prove family name is nothing but a useless adornment to our name.

In the coming days, as much as positively he took the rejection, he would hear those clients say behind his back as 'He is no one.' Some said behind the back and some on his face, it would sting him.

'Would I have a better future if he too had an influential renowned family name?' He always thought after hearing them.

During a struggle with himself, Jennie's wedding approached and he heard Jisoo's sister met with an accident. He had been to the hospital to be a moral support to Jisoo but they heard Ariel was brain dead.

Having no heart to disturb Jennie's mood during the wedding, they hid it from her and Jisoo gave a reason as he is busy whenever she asked.

On the day of the wedding, Jisoo lied as he was ill and asked his mother to lie to her so that she doesn't run to him leaving the wedding.