Chapter 71 - I ? U I Do 4: Drown His Sorrow (1/2)

In a cozy bar somewhere in Seoul, a man wore a dark aura around him as he decided to drink himself into a stupor. Well, at least he'd try to do that later. Years of having a very responsible habit still prevented him from dropping everything and by drowning his sorrows in alcohol.

With a grim expression, Liam gripped the glass of brandy he'd been nursing for a while.  He was sitting alone in the bar, drinking in solitude. He was sulking.

Yep…bigtime.

In his ċhėst was a hodgepodge of emotions, and all of them unpleasant.

A couple of hours ago, he had decided to go home early to prepare for his shopping trip with Marian tomorrow. He was actually in high spirits— excited like a high school boy on his very first date. Since he'd go home early, he had told his secretary and personal ȧssistant to go home too.

When he got to the parking lot however, he saw them.

Marian and Jay walked together towards his secretary's car, which made the young president frown.

They go home together?

He wondered a lot and so he secretly followed the two of them for a few minutes which he wished he hadn't done. He just hurt himself in the process.

For a while now, he'd been hearing a lot of rumors about the alleged relationship between his secretary and personal ȧssistant but he ignored them. Liam thought that they were just close friends, although the fact that the Ice Queen expressed such warmth whenever she was with Jay didn't sit well with him.

Still, the friendship between the two didn't bother him – well at least not a lot. But today, seeing their closeness with his own eyes, witnessing how they touched each other rendered him speechless, and listening to them openly speak of their feelings crushed him.

”Why are you going with him again?”

”I'll be getting myself a dress too since I'm coming to the Charity Gala with him.”

”I'm jealous!”

”Oh, don't be jealous Jay, you big baby, you know you're the only one I'll ever love…”

Remembering Marian's declaration of love towards another man, Liam's pain flashed across his face, making him swig the contents of his glass suddenly all in one go. Putting the glass back on the counter, he signaled for the bartender to give him another one and he fished his mobile phone from his pocket as he did. It was very lonely to drink alone and so he called his best friend over. Ken, after all worked in the same company and judging from the time, he was still at the office and could drop by the bar which was only a few blocks away.

”Here's your glass sir,” the bartender said after a few minutes as he served his drinks and Liam gave a curt nod just as a slim young man came in through the door and slipped on the stool next to him.

”What's up?” Ken Park asked as he signaled for the waiter to come. ”Give me a glass of beer,” he ordered as he turned to his brooding friend. It wasn't everyday he'd seen Liam drink and with a dark aura surrounding him too that he became curious.

Liam however didn't speak until Ken got his glass of beer and was drinking. ”Kenny…”

”Hmmmn?” Ken prompted as he drank and Liam sighed.

”I think I'm broken hearted,” he suddenly announced taking the other by surprise, and the beer sprayed out of his mouth.

Ken coughed as the liquid went down the wrong pipe. ”WHAT?!”

Liam pouted in his direction, his face scowling. ”You don't have to be so shocked,” he said and Ken shook his head.

”No, I wasn't shocked,” the other choked out as he blinked. ”I was…unprepared. Oh, yes, unprepared,” he said twice as if he was convincing himself and they were thoughtful for a while.

”So who's the lucky one?” Ken asked after a fashion.

It was the first time he'd ever heard Liam talk about this kind of thing that he was more than curious to know about the person.