When The Phone Rings / The Call You Just Made Is

Chapter 41 Jealousy

"What's going on--?!"

The door almost broke open, and Director Han Jun rushed in like an angry bull.

He glanced at the large gauze wrapped around the back of Hee-joo's head, the scratches on the back of her hands, and the fragments of bandages exposed under the loose hospital gown, and his face suddenly darkened and he approached her.

"Hee-joo, you..."

Hee-joo blinked blankly and slowly raised her arm.

'I'm fine, I'm lucky.'

She said calmly in sign language, but her gestures were much slower than usual.

"What do you mean by an accident...?! You almost died!"

'It wasn't a big injury, was it?'

"I heard that more than a dozen stitches were needed, and both hands and feet were injured! These wounds, here, here--!"

Just as he was caressing the back of Hee-joo's hands and cheeks with pity, the door of the ward suddenly opened. A cold wind blew in his face first.

"......!"

He looked at Hee-joo who was leaning on the chair obediently, and then at the man who was holding her little face gently.

Baek Sa-eon raised his eyebrows slightly, as if to confirm what he saw, and stared at the two with cold eyes.

The frowning man turned his back to them and locked the door of the ward.

"Hello."

He greeted calmly and pulled down Han Jun's wrist, causing his hand that was originally stroking Hee-joo to fall down weakly.

Director Han Jun's eyes widened.

"Ah... Spokesperson Baek Sa-eon?!" 

"First meeting."

"Ah...ah...?"

He rubbed his painful wrist and stuttered. 

The atmosphere between the three people suddenly fell into silence.

In this sudden confrontation between the three people, Hee-joo also froze, and the first to break the silence was Director Han Jun.

"Dear, is it possible that the spokesperson of the Blue House will come to visit an ordinary employee...?" 

"Dear?"

Baek Sa-eon immediately caught the topic, his voice as cold as ice. The biting coldness made people shudder.

"Why do you call her like that?" 

"What?"

"Calling a woman twelve years younger than you as 'dear', is that intentional? Even if it's an unintentional catchphrase, it's pretty inappropriate to say it when you first meet."

"......!"

Han Jun obviously didn't expect to be scolded so directly, and his cheeks twitched.

"Please don't call her like that again in the future."

"Spokesperson Baek Sa-eon, your sudden rudeness..." 

"Listen, as her husband, I'm not happy."

"Ah? I..., what? What did you say just now...?"

Han Jun's face instantly showed a trace of confusion, and his head creaked like a rusty machine.

"Husband? Husband-?! Heejoo, dear, what exactly is-." 

"Let me repeat it a second time."

Baek Sa-eon frowned and smacked his lips. This time he didn't hide his displeasure.