The Assassin | Dreamcatcher

Chapter 31

Later that evening, Siyeon heads to the supermarket for her mid-week shop.

There's not much on her shopping list, just small things like milk and fresh veg she needs to restock before her main shopping trip. And today, she's looking for a little comfort food to distract her mind.

It had been a hard and upsetting week, to say the least.

If Yongbok had really been assassinated by Handong, then the world could only get more dangerous if her aim was to target all the heads of department.

Some of the most important questions she has is how and why?

Did she know that they had taken over running the company from Dami? And how did she know that?

...Was there a spy?

With a sigh, she continues to push the trolley and picks up a bag of carrots before ticking it off her shopping list.

'Ice cream' was next on her list, the item she doesn't normally buy. So much so that she isn't sure what flavour to buy.

Moving into the freezer aisle, she hangs around in front of the vast row of ice cream, almost taking up all of one side of the aisle.

There are so many options of brands and flavours that she just closes her eyes and crab-walks side-to-side a little before stepping forward with her arm out to open a door that may be in front.

She opens the door and sets her eyes on cornettos and tubs of strawberry ice cream.

"Hmmm. Could be better." She reaches forward and takes a box of cornettos. Siyeon reverses out of the freezer and bumps into someone behind. "Oh, sorry!"

She turns to see who she contacted with and comes face to face with SuA.

"S-Siyeon?" SuA stutters, but neither of them pull away, frozen by the awkwardness of the situation.

The freezer emits cool waves towards them as they stay there.

Finally, she finds her sense and steps away, her face scrunching into confusion as to why she'd felt so frozen, standing there. "Why are you here?" Her words intentionally come out sharply.

"I...was just getting some ice cream." SuA replies in a pitifully meek voice. "I'm really sorry for bothering you."

Siyeon watches her face, first noticing the deep purple eyebags pulling at her eyes droopily. "How are you?" She asks gruffly to try and be a little polite.

"Tired." She answers.

Next, Siyeon's eyes find healing yellow bruises on SuA's face and a larger one snaking under the collar of her shirt.

SuA feels the burn of her gaze and looks away.

"Who did that?" Siyeon demands, protectiveness flaring in her heart.

"...Handong." SuA looks around nervously as if the woman would really appear if she said her name.

"She did that to you? What the fuck is wrong with the woman?"

SuA shrugs and steps back a little more.

It doesn't take long for the anger to fire back into her. "I really...never wanted to see you again." She says in a controlled tone.

"I know..." SuA's head drops and she hurries to step further away.

A spark of pity ignites in her hard heart, despite the rage she felt when remembering her betrayal, seeing how...fearful of her SuA seems.

So she takes the force out of her words with a conscious effort. "Want to get a drink together?"

"Oh, I don't want to impart on you. It would be too awk--"