Can't Take My Eyes Off You

CHAPTER-7

Chapter 7: I Miss You

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

"Relax, I just want to see if your fever has subsided. I won't harm you," he explained in a faint soothing tone. He rested his palm on her forehead, with his other palm touching his own forehead.

After a few seconds, he dropped his palms and heaved a sigh of relief. "Thank goodness."

Jennie suspected that when he knew about her fever, he must have rushed back from the railway station like greased lightning. Perhaps he took a ride to the town and ran home all the way. She felt his palm sweating as he felt her forehead. The temperature of his palm was so warm that it could burn her forehead.

She chided herself in her mind. "Jennie, were you iron-hearted? Or did you even have a heart at all? How could you have pushed such a gentleman away and avoided him at all costs? How could you have tortured him with emotional abuse for eleven years?"

"Jaehyun..." Jennie called out his name gently. After a few seconds of silence, she stretched out her arms and abruptly hugged the man standing before her.

Her sudden motion caught Jaehyun by surprise. He was transfixed like a mannequin when she wrapped her arms around him in an embrace. He stood upright and straightened his waist like a pole as Jennie embraced him. He instinctively wanted to help support her waist but his arms halted midair.

At this moment, the steadfast and strong-willed Jaehyun did not know how to counterattack this fluffy and tender enemy.

"Did something happened in the house while I was away?" They had been married for a year but Jaehyun had never been embraced by Jennie before, nor had she been dependent on him. Jaehyun could sense that she was always keeping a distance from him like she was observing their marriage from the outside of a ring.

So, when she hugged him as abruptly as she did, he immediately wondered if she was unhappy in the house. Did she stumble upon something that upset her? Did someone bully her when he was not at home and no one took her side?

"Did you and Mom have an argument?" Jaehyun asked, sounding as soft as he could muster despite his anxiousness.

His concern was justified and genuine. When he had insisted on marrying Jennie in the first place, his mother had been very angry and had gone against his decision, thinking Jennie was too young to be a wife. After their wedding, Jennie's indifferent and cold attitude toward him made his mother resent her even more.

"You may be unfamiliar with mom's temper. She has a sharp tongue but her bark is worse than her bite. You just take her nagging like a passing wind, so you won't feel so bad. I'll talk to Mom later, don't worry." Jaehyun didn't have a mild temper from a general perspective, presumably because he gave his patience to the woman in his arms.

"No, it's not about that," Jennie denied repeatedly.

Yoona, Jaehyun's mother, didn't really fancy her daughter-in-law, but she never gave her a hard time.

Jennie's response smoothened Jaehyun's anxious frown slightly. If she was willing to talk to him, it meant that it wasn't him who had upset her.

"Then, what's the matter?"

Jennie slowly let go of Jaehyun and looked at him. She found it amusing to see him standing awkwardly with an overwhelmed expression that she managed an apologetic smile. She wondered how much of an asshole she used to be that she could be flattered to the point of self-doubt simply because of a simple hug.

Jennie remembered how the young comrade said that when he had nothing to do at the base, he would always visit her at the village, but she had not seen him for two years.

Jaehyun, the man she was embracing at this moment, alive and well.

Jaehyun, the man who loved her but never expressed his feelings verbally.

Jaehyun, the man who loved her and followed her wherever she went.

Jaehyun, the man who loved her deeply but did not dare to reveal himself to her. He only dared to secretly take a peek at the small village.

Jaehyun, the man who was right in front of her but still kept his head downcast to hide his existence.