Love for a Billionaire

Chapter 25

Another day had passed, after Sana's meeting with Tzuyu.  And for that matter Tzuyu felt rather strange after that chat.  He understood that his heart was set for Sana, but now having that woman seen earlier together with her parents in her living room with a glass of red wine in her hand and a book made him feel guilty of having deceived Sana.  He had made himself available when in truth he was forced to get engaged to this woman.  In the meantime, Tzuyu was in the same living room with her laptop in her hand confirming some documents sent by her secretary, but having the woman in the same place and breathing the same atmosphere gave her a pain in her chest.  He glanced several times at the woman who was reading a book cautiously but with a completely relaxed look.  She had brought a book herself, had suddenly taken it out of her bag when she knocked on her door saying that her and Tzuyu's parents had forced her to come to this house to deepen their relationship .  Tzuyu, of course, let her in by understanding how the poor woman felt involuntarily obligated by her parents for every little thing.  Sometimes he realized that it wasn't just him who was desperate, trying to waste time with his thousand commitments and stubbornly not looking at love anymore;  it's certainly different now, but as he had intuited from the chats with the woman and her parents, Mina was a stranger to relationships.  She wanted to say something to fill this disturbing silence but Tzuyu deep down thought that the woman wouldn't be interested in her questions and mostly she wasn't happy with the situation she was finding herself in.  For that matter he didn't feel comfortable with her either.  "Are you still working?"  he asked the woman with a raised eyebrow intending to say something more but he was stopped by something that not even Tzuyu could explain.  Tzuyu nodded along with a soft hum to confirm.  "I... I should go" said Mina, getting up from the sofa, placing the slightly full glass of red wine on the table next to her.  Tzuyu put the laptop back on the coffee table in front of him and stood up at the same time as Mina.  "Thanks for coming by, but I had a lot to do," Tzuyu said honestly, "I know.. I came by because it was the only time I was free today... Your parents said to come by here if I had time” “Do you have to go to work now?”  Tzuyu interrupted calmly getting a small nod from the woman "Yes. I have a set in thirty minutes. The place is quite far away" Mina replied with half a smile, "Well, see you next time then" Tzuyu said kindly.  He didn't know why every time he was with Mina he felt strangely afraid;  it wasn't his behavior that upset her or the fact that he was there with his attentive eyes and that composed and straight body as if he wanted to command you, but it was for the simple fact that Mina was always with that restrained and obligated look , almost as if everything she did, someone manipulated her from behind.  Maybe also her slightly sad look when she turned around her disoriented or the fact that she often had those strange sensations of assiduously scratching her arms but above all her wrist when she was anxious.  He had understood perfectly how Mina was made from head to toe;  it was useless to say that Mina didn't resemble her even a little, because in the end he himself was sometimes reflected in her movements.  Although he hadn't spent much time with her, he realized that they were almost similar in their behaviors.  This thought appeared a lot, understanding or trying to justify his and the woman's actions;  perhaps the main reason for their meeting is precisely because they have the same type of lifestyle.  Who knows if the woman who had just left also had a lover or perhaps someone who liked him or who liked her.

Just talking about Mina, the latter wasn't actually available for a set, she was mostly available for a date.  So instead of taking the car to go to the company, she went to a pastry shop near a station that made excellent desserts.  A rather young man with somewhat long hair that reached near his chin in a wavy motion along with a small, grown beard was happily waiting for her.  His blond hair stood out inside that restaurant.  He had elegant clothes and a big long coat that went down to her knees.  Mina thought if she had done it on purpose so as not to show the tattoos on her arms or because she was cold, forbid the man, as far as she knew him, even with very low temperatures went out wearing a rather elegant t-shirt and jacket light.  “Chaeyoung,” Mina said touching his shoulder lovingly as a smile bloomed between her lips.  "You were late... Were you with that man?"  she asked the other, kissing his cheek cutely, then watching the woman slowly sit down in her chair.  "Yes. My mother told me to come by and her parents insisted that they would spend more time at home these days due to a flooding problem in the agency..." "Don't worry. You don't have to explain everything every time" she said the man calmly continues to smile at the woman.  Mina felt quite guilty: she had repeatedly told her mother and father that she already had a boyfriend and that they had been seeing each other for more than a year, but for them the type of work the man did was not of the same level as that of their daughter.  Not that he did anything shady or low-rent, he was a principal of a private elementary school.  Of course he lived in a beautiful house and had a beautiful spacious garden where he let his dog Busby live and planted colorful flowers in his private greenhouse, built with his own hands.  He earned a good salary and was respected by all the citizens of the city because regardless of who they were he always helped them;  but Mina's parents found their differences in status wrong.  So they saw each other in private without her parents' eyes and those negative insults about their relationship.  "I ordered your favorite dessert.. Tell me do you want to go out later or are you busy?"  Chaeyoung asked, extending her arm towards Mina's hand which was resting casually on the wooden table.  He squeezed her hand gently, almost to reassure her.  "I'm always free for you" Mina replied once again, raising her head towards her, the man who was now smiling at her more sweetly and stroking the back of his hand lovingly.  "Good, because I know a good restaurant..." "I don't want to go to another restaurant. Chae, I want to watch a movie with you at home" she said, clasping her hands together and looking at him seductively.  "I'm fine with it.. As long as it makes you happy. Do you want to come to my house? In the attic, I have billions of DVDs of all kinds" Chaeyoung continued, motioning with her hand to ask him to have the other one too.  Mina giggled a little, giving him her other hand as well.  "I can bring something, there's a lovely little shop near my house that sells it
tteok-bokki also makes delicious sweet potatoes from the man next to the shop, he cooks them fresh every day" "It suits me very well" the man interrupted sweetly, taking his hands off the table as soon as he saw the slice of cake resting on the table. Chaeyoung smiled at Mina's expression as she had just seen her favorite cake before her eyes. She wondered if this pastry shop was available for cake reservations, would he give cakes to Mina every day as if he made them himself.