A Taste of You || TaeJin [Completed]

28. Troubled Waters

Seokjin’s P. O. V.

I was stunned to hear him say that, not sure why he’d even have that thought!

What did I even say that made him think that I am ashamed of him?!

Okay so I didn’t want to reveal that I am married to Taehyung to Jackson or Mark but no way is it because I’m ashamed of him!!

Rather it's because I'm ashamed of myself.

He walked out of the elevator without even sparing a glance at me as I realized I was literally frozen in place. He usually doesn’t lose his temper but damn when he does it gets a little scary.

Guess I played a little over the line again, however in truth, it wasn’t my intention to piss him off this time. Things have just been hard for me and I’m trying to make amends as best as I can.

Now that the restaurant is completely in my command and Namjoon has left it all on me, starting from the promotions, inspections and the several other stuff that goes beyond the kitchen and the guests, I am facing a lot of new...umm issues.

A wide variety of issues to be true, and me not being good at people skills is slowly turning out to be a severe blotch in my wish to establish Silver Spoon among the bejewelled chain of restaurants in the world.

The issue if you may ask...

Well, hard work and complete dedication to tirelessly act on your dreams might not actually be the answer to everything, especially when I keep realizing how much people-pleasing and encouraging lame relations it takes to get a good word out of critics, or to acquire valued recommendations.

Our society today is such a filthy place, corruption trumps justice in a heartbeat.

Since the day I have officially taken up the sole ownership of the restaurant and Joon had told me to keep my head cool and cleverly deal with the snakes slithering around us waiting to strike, I have learnt a lot.

First, competitors can never become friends, even if they pretend to be so.

Second, they won’t like you no matter how hard you try to please, so I decided not to bother at all with the idea, not my cup of tea anyway.

Third, bad blood is inevitable. I repeat, inevitable!

But the most important one and the hardest one in my opinion is, you gotta acclimatize to it and join the crowd, be the serpent to ensure you don’t get bit.

At least, until you have found the secret anti-dote.

So, I guess I must sound like the evil bitch in those dramatic/angsty soaps but hey I learnt it the hard way. The worst was getting called out as a gold digger, I really didn’t think people could see my hasty marriage to Taehyung in that light. And although I was the one who had labelled our relationship as a convenient deal the truth is I have come to appreciate the guy, well, in my own way.

He doesn’t speak a word to me as I take my seat beside him in the car, while he kept his gaze strictly away from me, still avoiding to look at me.

He’s upset, something I’ve never seen on him actually.

Sure, he is a severe pain in the ass, has the wildest mood swings, immature and clingy af, probably knows a million possible ways to get on my nerves and has zero patience.

“Tae..?” I try to ease off the dark airs he has surrounded himself with “will you at least let me explain myself?”

“Don’t bother, not like you owe anything to me anyway” I could see his jaw clench tighter as he spoke, and kept his eyes stiffly set at the window “not like you’d care even if you did”.