Chapter 23 - Butterflys Return 10:No More Secrets (1/2)
Yunjae woke up to the sound of someone sobbing. With a frown, her lids fluttered open, her eyes focusing in the room as she tried to see where the sound came from. And she did…
Next to her bed, was a recliner. In it sat Jinho with a sleeping Yuan in his arms. Light reflected on her lover's cheeks, and she could see tears there. Jinho was crying!
Surprised, not only because he was there, but because her lover was there with their son, she sat up on the bed, her eyes searching her lover's face.
”He got exhausted. I played with him while you slept,” Jinho informed her softly as he shifted Yuan in his arms so he could lean forward and move closer to Yunjae. ”How are you feeling?” he asked as his soft almond eyes moved from her face down to her stomach where they settled longer, and she felt like crying again.
Why was Jinho still here? ”I…I thought you already left,” she said in choked whisper, and Jinho shook his head. ”How could I? How could I leave my family again?” her lover asked in a voice as broken as hers, just as Yuan moved and stretched his tiny body in his father's arms.
”You can put him here,” Yunjae said as she moved to the side so there would be space for Yuan on the bed, but Jinho declined. ”No, he can sleep in my arms. I want to hold him. I want to hold my son,” he said as he stood up and sat on the space Jae vacated instead.
Silence hung between them with Jinho focusing on the child in his arms, smiling at the expressions Yuan made in slumber while Yunjae studied Jinho, not knowing what to say. She wanted to ask what Yuan was doing here but she remained silent.
”Why didn't you tell me about what happened back then? Why didn't you tell me about our child?” Jinho then asked out of the blue and she swallowed hard.
She guessed there was no point in hiding the truth. Yuan's presence in the room and Jinho's words gave her the idea that her lover already knew what happened, and she had an idea that it was thanks to her brother. Jinho asking her now about it was just because he wanted to confirm things from her. She was right.
No more secrets.
”Because I was scared,” she admitted. ”Swimming was your life. I didn't want to destroy your dreams. But I did. I still destroyed you...” Her eyes glistened with tears, she remembered the horrifying moment when she watched Jinho fly as the truck hit him.