My Marriage is Just a Business Deal(Completed)

Paradise Lost? Chapter 9

Now what? Can JK and Hyerin find each other again? Vote and comment please!!!

Hyerin's POV

Our villa on St. Barts is beautiful...big, airy rooms that open onto balconies and verandas overlooking the turquoise sea. I am enjoying the coastal breeze and the fragrance of the sweet smelling flowers that cascade over the walls of our villa. It is paradise...it is...I keep telling myself this as I try and break free of the crippling depression that has cocooned me in a fog of sadness...ever since...I lost our child.

It is almost harder here because of all the beauty and most of the other people here are happy and laughing all the time, which makes my solemn face stand out more.

Jungkook is struggling too, but he is forced to act strong for the business and for all the others that depend on him. But I see him...I still can see he is hurting too. I wish...I wish he would hold me. Hold me tight and make me feel like we were...one again. I feel so alone.

Jennie is the only one that knows my true pain...she and Tae are coming to stay next month and I am counting the days till I can see them. I know my brother and his wife love me...the real me and I will bask in that love while they are here.

Does Jungkook love me? Still? I don't know...sometimes I see him look at me in a loving way...but he keeps his distance. We haven't made love since before the accident...and it is killing me. I feel...alone and isolated...even in the midst of all the people here that want to get to know me. He is the only one I want! If I was assured of his love I think I could move on...even if he told he he loved me! He hasn't said that he loved me either since the accident. Am I only lovable when I am bearing him a child?

Jungkook's POV

I like it here but am already getting island fever! The business is going well and i am working hard to get things to a point where Hyerin and I can leave...maybe take a trip by ourselves. Maybe Italy this time...or New York, wherever she wants.

She seems a little better...but she is still distant and still very pale. She is getting to know some of the other wives, they are a little in awe of her beauty and intelligence. But I know seeing them and hearing them talk about their children hurts her.

I am lonely. Before we got married I was lonely too but I didn't know it until I had Hyerin in my life and she filled every corner of it with her sweet presence.

Tonight I had a dinner meeting that Hyerin wasn't included in, it finished a while ago and I am sitting at the bar at the resort that our villa is connected with. I have been coming here lately, it is quieter and there are less tourists than the other bars. They pour the drinks heavy too! The sting of the alcohol in my throat helps take the pain away for awhile...I wonder what Hyerin is doing as I turn around in my seat and watch the couples dancing on the dance floor a little ways away. They are carefree and are living in the moment...could I do that? Not think about my life... who I am...all my responsibilities and just have fun? It has been awhile.

The bartender comes up and asks if I want another drink...or anything else. I turn and look at her...she is a pretty girl...Puerto Rican I think...but she has waited on me several times as I listen to what she is saying, I realize that she is propositioning me! I smile nervously and say I should call it a night. We have chatted a little over the times I have been here, her name is Julia and she works here at night and goes to college during the day. I realize that I am opening up to her a little, not telling her all my problems, just laughing and joking around.

As I walk back to our villa, I do feel a little guilty that I am open and relaxed around a stranger and so distant from my beloved wife. When I got home Hyerin was asleep...when I went into the kitchen to get some water, I saw that she had drunk almost a whole bottle of wine by herself. There was only one wine glass. I felt guilty that I left her here alone to drown her sorrows.

What is wrong with me? I need to help her!

Author's POV

The days went by and work got crazy for Jungkook...he forgot his resolution to try and break through Hyerin's cocoon and reestablish their relationship. But most nights he still ended up at the bar sitting and talking with Julia instead of his wife.

As happens in most sad love stories, it all came to a head one night. Hyerin had had a particularly tough day, one of the wives of one of Jungkook's employees had a baby! She had a baby girl and Hyerin had spent a good part of the day that day at a baby shower given for this gal. She felt mostly fine, it was bittersweet but what really made it worse was coming home to a completely empty villa. She was supposed to have a husband...supposed to.

She was out of wine and what sounded good was actually one of those fruity tropical drinks they serve at the resort. So Hyerin put on a casual dress and grabbed her purse to go to the bar. As she walked up, she looked at the couples on the dance floor a moment. Maybe she could get Jungkook to take her here. She snapped out of her daze and continued on towards the bar...she looked up because she heard a laugh. His laugh. There he was sitting on a bar stool leaning on his elbows...laughing and flirting with a beautiful girl. The bartender was obviously smitten with her handsome husband too and she was leaning on her elbows, their faces inches apart. Hyerin gulped and froze. She stood in the shadows watching them for several minutes. They continued to laugh and flirt, he continued to drink...until Hyerin saw the girl step back and start to take off her apron. She must be getting off work. She walked around the bar and stood in front of Jungkook...close to him. They spoke a moment and the girl picked up his hand and held it. Hyerin held her breath. No...No. Almost in slow motion Hyerin saw Jungkook stand up and put his arm around the girls shoulder, the girl put her arm around his waist. Then she watched her husband walk off into the darkness with another woman.

Hyerin stood there stunned. This cannot be real. Suddenly sick and head swimming Hyerin walked past where Jungkook had been sitting. She stood there and looked at his half empty glass of whiskey...before she grabbed it and gulped down the rest.

*No...it isn't what it seems like is it? Please read on and let's see! Please vote and comment!