Pay With Your Heart

Chapter 177: Love?

“Jinhai seriously?” Hei-Ran looked furious as she barged into Jinhai’s office.

Jinhai who was busy going through a few designs on his laptop shot his head up when he heard his ‘girlfriend’s voice. He frowned when he saw her angry face. ????????????????????a????. ????????????

“What happened?” He asked as he stood up to his feet and approached her.

Hei-Ran scoffed when she heard him. “Really? What happened? I should be asking you that?”

“Asking me what?” Jinhai asked in confusion as he closed in on her, but Hei-Ran was too upset to consider it.

“Why you are telling people about us? Wasn’t this supposed to be a thing between us? So why the hell are you telling your family? And why the hell haven’t you told your sister the truth?” She fumed.

Jinhai furrowed his brows as he tried to understand. “What truth? And what did I tell my family what?” He asked confusedly.

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Was he joking with her at the moment? Was he really messing with her right now? Since he didn’t remember she was going to tell him.

“Why did you tell your family we are dating? And why didn’t you clear the misunderstanding with your sister?” She snapped. She knew his sister had assumed things the other day at the club, but shouldn’t he have cleared up the misunderstanding? But now not only does his sister know, even his mother knows, and why didn’t he remind her of the party? Ga-Yeon mentioned it at the club before this dating shenanigans started, but who knew it was still on?

Jinhai cocked a brow, “But aren’t we?” They were dating, right?

“Are you serious? Are we dating? Do you call this a relationship?” She demanded.

“If it isn’t a relationship then what is it?” He asked nonchalantly.

Hei-Ran looked at him with disbelief. “Jinhai you tricked me into this-”

“Wait, I tricked you?” Jinhai chuckled amusedly.

“Yes, you did!” Hei-Ran answered firmly.

“I didn’t trick you. You kissed me. You took advantage of me, and you’re simply taking responsibility for it.” He refuted, his tone and words were slow.

“How does any of this make sense? People kiss people every now and then. People even have one night stands, do you see them been asked to take responsibility? Jinhai why are you doing this?” She demanded. She didn’t know what to do anymore. Yes she had to admit this past week with him has opened her eyes to see that he wasn’t that bad, but she still wasn’t comfortable with the whole idea? She wasn’t okay lying to her family, and now this so-called responsibility was prolonging the whole lie.

“Well that’s people, and I’m not people. I’m Song Jinhai and you stole my first kiss. So take responsibility for it.” He shrugged. Hei-Ran couldn’t believe this. This guy was really crazy. For a moment there she thought he was at least getting normal but hell no, he was still crazy.

“We signed a contract.” She told him.

“What about the contract?”

“We were not supposed to tell anyone about this. There’s confidentiality right?”

“Confidentiality? I can’t remember putting that. Or did you?” He raised a brow at her.

Hei-Ran kept quiet for a while as she thought about it. She also couldn’t remember any part of the contract that mentioned anything about confidentiality. How could she be so stupid?!

Jinhai hissed when he saw her thinking about it. “You’re the only one not telling people about us, as for me I do. I’m proud to tell everybody that you’re my girlfriend even though it’s only for a month. I mean you’re the dream girl any man would want to have, and I’m not an exception” He paused and sighed, making Hei-Ran look at him. She wasn’t sure she understood what he was trying to say.

“You know there’s really nothing to be worried about. Your family already kind of knows about this since you lied to them, and we’ll be meeting them this weekend and you’ll also see mine too. So why all the fuss? And do you know how you look frowning like that?” He asked touching the creased line on her forehead, in an attempt to smoothen it.

Hei-Ran stared at him as he did that. She didn’t know what to say after that.

“You like an angry panda” He teased. Hei-Ran frowned more as she smacked his handoff.

Jinhai chuckled as he looked at her angry face. “You know this thing between us can actually turn out in our favour right?” Hei-Ran shot him a quizzical look. She didn’t understand what he was talking about.

Seeing the way she was looking at him, Jinhai carefully stretched his hand towards her and tucked a lock of hair behind her ears.

“Maybe we can find something amid all this madness,” He said softly, making Hei-Ran more confused.

“Something like what?” She impulsively asked.

Shrugging his shoulders, he answered, “Something like love?”

“Huh?”

‘What nonsense was he spewing now?’

Jinhai’s lips curved upward when she looked like she had just tasted something sour.

“You might fall in love with me or I might fall in love with you, or we could fall in love with each other. You can never know” He casually said.

Hei-Ran couldn’t believe her ears right now. Fall in love with who? Him? In what life? Her dreams?

Even in her dreams that wasn’t possible.

“I’m not falling in love with you,” Hei-Ran told him. She had to be clear now before he starts giving himself ideas.

“Really?” Jinhai cocked a brow at her. He already knew she hasn’t started falling for him, but he still felt slightly disappointed hearing her say it like that. He flashed her a smile.

“So what if I make you fall in love with me?” Jinhai asked while Hei-Ran squinted her eyes as she looked at him intently.

“Jinhai, you’re not in love with me are you?” She couldn’t help but ask. He was behaving strange and why the sudden love talk?

“So what if I am?”