Enchanting Shadows: A Tale Of Love And Magic

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Beom Seok stared at Ana who seemed sad, it was her birthday but her brother insisted on blowing the candals and cutting the cake, so her parents let him do it.

She felt disappointed, so she was sitting on the staircase of the main gate, looking at the sky while everyone was partying inside.

Her parents didn't look out for her, they were busy handling their own friends. Beom Seok was a known business entity, and Ana's dad's friend so he was invited here.

"The birthday girl is sad? That is bad, what could possibly make such a pretty girl unhappy?" he sat beside her and spoke.

"They always do this, they have serious personal biasness. Mom does not even let me have the chicken leg because my brother likes it a lot and she saves it for him instead, I only get the boneless pieces that are dry. It is always like this." she ranted as someone finally asked how she was."Earlier grandma was there to fight for me but she left the world too, it's my first birthday after her, I miss her." Ana hugged herself and started crying.

"So this is the problem? You are crying for this reason?" he caressed her hair and she glared at him.

"This doesn't look like a problem to you?" she asked feeling offended and he chuckled finding her cute.

"Of course not, it's a big thing but it's not something you should be shedding tears for." he smiled and she frowned.
"You want to eat the chicken leg and cut your own cake and blow the candals?" he asked and she nodded hurriedly.

In just a short span of time, a huge cake with a big bucket of chicken legs was in front of her.

She gasped and smiled, Beom Seok caressed her back as he smiled.

"Thank you so much, not even my parents did that for me." she hugged him and he smiled.

He made her cut the cake and fed her the fried chicken she loved. It was the best birthday for her.

She was so happy she didn't realize how he was touching her. A divorced man, that was what he was, he had so many desires still left in him, he was a young man in his early thirties, his dirty intentions for Ana just grew.

Beom-Seok became Ana's favourite uncle who would gift her things, buy her chocolates or consider her rants justifiable.

That's what she wanted, she wanted her father to do that for her but he didn't so she found his substitute and trusted someone she should have never had. She saw Beom Seok as a father figure.

Beom Seok's growing desire for her led him to lure her to his house.

"You said you wanted to live with me, right? Because I am your favourite, stay here for a few days then." he smiled as he brought her to his house.

She smiled brightly, she was too naive to get through his reality, he was wearing a facade all this time which he was going to reveal now.

"Really? But will Mom and Dad allow that? They won't, I know, they never let me do stuff I feel happy in. You know they didn't let me join those dance classes, they think it's useless but Mark and Stella go there everyday while I just sit at home." she kept ranting just how she always did to him, because she felt heard with him.

She blinked her eyes in nervousness when he jerked her closer, she wasn't liking it but she didn't know what to do.

"But you like me, right?" he cupped her face, she slowly nodded her head feeling uneasy."Then you must like what I will do to you now as well." he said and she flinched when he kissed her.