Chapter 81 - Hold My Hands-V

"I am sincere." Han Seoyeon managed to say the words with a smile and saw him cooking his brows at the end of his grin.

"Do you know that when you bluffs, you will look straight to other's eyes?" He asked. Seoyeon looked at him once again surprised. He was right, she would often do that habit often.

"It's as if you have been watching me a lot." she blurted put the words without her mind thinking. Jung Hwa held his eyes subtly widened then an even smile spread across his lips.

Seoyeon saw his hand moving to her the end of her raven hair and left to say, "I'm a very perceptive man especially when it comes to thing that I love such as you." He saw her pink lips opened and closed as if she had forgot how to speak her eyes that looking at him was slightly watery, a good expression he saw. "Isn't it exciting to have a man as handsome as me as your lover, Seoyeon? Fall in love with me faster."

Seoyeon didn't know what to say, she could hear aloud how her heartbeats were easily riled by his words. She felt as if he had strummed on her heartstring pulling her close to him.

"You will never find anyone more handsome than me, that I promise." he added to have her broke into a smile. Pulling her palm to cover her lips. "You're a narcissistic, Mister Jung."

"I am? I just think it right to say what you feel right so you know that I am really in love with you." It was the thought that she had. She knew that he had proposed her since the first time they had met but she didn't know what had made him fall for her and to believe that he had fallen for her frankly sounded dubious.

She looked away when the elevator was opened for more people to come inside, the narrower she felt squeezed to the back made her fear to fill her heart again. Then she felt his hand brushing to her yo find him smiling.

"You can hold my hand if you are scared."

"Thank you but I will be fine." Her heart was too loud for her that the little action of him brushing her hand shook her heart. Jung Hwa hummed in amused and turn his eyes away to the elevator when he felt the cuff of his suit being pulled. Shifting his eyes to the right, he find her tugging the his cuffs with her eyes looking forward. There was fear on her eyes but there was also the happiness of perhaps giddiness she had.

"That's why I said cats are adorable." he whispered, Seoyeon who didn't saw his lips moving missed the words he said.

In the afternoon, Seoyeon accompanied Jung Hwa to the meeting he had with the people of the branch. As Jung Hwa was sitting on his chair, she find that more than the expression he often wear which would usually appeared to be frivolous; he was someone who was handsome when he work with the serious expression he had. Though, if he smiled he felt more approachable then if he wasn't.

"You were out of it." said Jung Hwa as they exited the meeting room. Again. His perceptiveness wasn't good for her.

"I was only wondering if your sight has properly came back."

"So much to worry in that little head of yours, isn't it?" His eyes saw how her lips twitched from his words. She then him hear say, "Anyway, Seoyeon, you forgot your report."

"Report?" To reply her question, he gave a nod of his head. She waited for his further words to know what he was talking of but there was no sign he would open his mouth. "What report?"

"See? You should worry less so information could come faster to your mind and you will be smarter if you do so." Jung Hwa was worth of being called a man amongst ladies. Even as his words came off as confident and narcissistic, she found no hard feeling hearing his words instead, she smiled.

"There is not many who could be smart since birth, Mister Jung." she replied and then wondered what he meant by that she had things to tell him.

"You must have come to the company with sugars in your lips. Makes me want to kiss you now."

Seoyeon snapped her eyes wide at him; no more precisely at his word and found him staring back at her lips to cover it quickly from his sight. "Please don't say those words while we are still at work." she protested.

"And it is the best time for me to woo you unless you would want spare your time with me outside the company." his words were smooth and so was his hand that caressed her fingers gently.

She startled, her heart was jumping out of the cage that she prayed for God to stop the pureblood vampire but he didn't seem to have any wish to stop his advances. "Wouldn't that mean I don't have a say in this?"

"I still remember a few days ago, you told me that you wouldn't stop me from seducing you?" Which now she think, she did! She wished she could take back her words but seeing him she didn't think she could do so. "My grandfather wished to meet the person I fall for then we could go any marry each other." he then moved forward his face almost stopped at her lips to see how Seoyeon had jumped behind like a startled cat.

"You... are you not embarrassed to say that here?" she said as she was feeling greatly embarrassed and conscious of her surrounding now.

He hummed pulling the end of his tone long, "I don't see the need to it's not as if I'm walking nude here." The words spilling out of his lips were throughly odd and it was even weirder as he had spoke all the words with a sincere tone. "On the other hand, Seoyeon your heart sounds as if you are expecting of something every time I have come near you."

What was he saying?! Han Seoyeon forgot that her heartbeat was an open ticket for him to see through of everything she felt but stubbornly she held her ground. "I am not!"

"That's a shame. If you have said yes, I would have..." he trailed letting the silence filled his words.

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