I'm Breaking

Chapter 45

Author PoV

"Mr. Cole Sparman?" the nurse called. 

He was in one of the hospitals in Sapporo, Japan. He made sure that the DNA testing wouldn't reach Korea, so he went to his friend who is a doctor in Japan. 

The cold day in Sapporo made him shiver, 3 layers of jackets and 2 hot packs weren't enough to warm him up. But he's been into this case for about 5-6 months. And he's already itching to see Rachel and his other friends. 

In his mind, he thought about all the time he was chasing information about Chaeyoung and Jiyoon. Chaeyoung was hard to dig in, mostly because her real name wasn't 'Park Chaeyoung'. He had to find her real name for 1 long month. 

No one in Australia knew who 'Park Chaeyoung' and he was confused of who is 'Roseanne Park'. Turns out they were the same person. 

As he stood in front of the nurse station, he blows to his hand to keep it warm. All his hot packs stopped working a few minutes ago. 

"Are you Mr. Cole Sparman?" the nurse asked. 

He nodded.

The nurse put an envelope in front of him, "Here are your test results."

He bowed and signed another paper for his payment. 

"Can you tell Doctor Shin I said bye?" he asked the nurse.

"Oh, sure, sir," the nurse replied. 

He bowed lastly and walked out of the hospital. 

Cole shivers as he steps out of the hospital. The warmth of hospital, he suddenly missed it. The cold weather of late Autumn made his hair stand. 

Hurriedly, he finds his car keys inside his pocket. 

The car is from the company that he borrowed. He drove from Tokyo to Sapporo. 

When he landed in Seoul a few weeks ago, he quickly went to a hospital far from Seoul and less crowded. And when the DNA result was given to him, he quickly doubted and bought a ticket to Japan. 

He's hoping the first DNA test wasn't real. 

As he closes the door of the car, he takes off his jackets and put it on the passenger seat beside him. He took the old DNA result from one of his bags and put it next to the new DNA result on his lap.

He breathed in and out. 

Hoping that the new DNA result would be different. 

Finally, he took the courage to open the new DNA result. As he did, he didn't look at the evaluations of the DNA 1 and DNA 2. 

He skipped to the last page of the result.

His eyes quickly browsed to the answer.

"DNA: related," he mouthed the result. 

He grabbed a small clear book from his bag. 

Shit. Was all in his mind. 

He opened to one of the pages. In his first weeks into this case, he started by finding out who Chaeyoung is in Seoul. 

And apparently, he found a footage of Chaeyoung walking with her friends to a bar. The next picture he found, she was with a man. And the last picture, was her running away from the bar. 

"Fuck.." he said and flipped the next page of the clear book. 

How did he not see it? His boss' picture was in the clear book all along. When he saw this footage, he knew there was someone he met that looked like the guy with Chaeyoung in the picture.