The Wife Who Escaped
Recognition

Kirana's eyes trembled violently as she faced Reynand

Reynand was standing there in the rain. The wet hair that covered his forehead, and his black suit was also wet.

Kirana ran towards him. Put an umbrella on it. It seems like everything is wet and no exception.

Kirana narrowed her eyes as she looked at the water droplets on her face under the moonlight.

“Since when are you here?”

"Since seven." Reynand answered calmly.

"Are you stupid? You should have left when it rains. Why are you still here?"

“I told you, I'll wait.”

Kirana's eyes were down.

I was angry because he was so stupid. An hour ago, I was thinking of leaving him. I plan to go forever, somewhere she won't find me.....

“What if I don't come?”

“But in reality you came.”

“By the way, what do you do for 3 hours..“.

"I guess I'll wait three months,

but it turns out only about three hours.”

He said it as if it was nothing.

Kirana's eyebrows are getting down. Reynand saw tears flowing.

“Do you know what I think while I wait?”

There was only one sight that came to my mind as I stood in the cold rain.

This is exactly how I felt the first time I saw you.

My heart ached as the shadow of Kirana walking in the rain wearing a wet school uniform continued to cross my mind.

“You must have been cold back then.”

The air was this cold after being hit for a moment, so how could you survive in this situation?

“It must be very difficult alone..”.

How hard and difficult was that at such a young age?

“I should have taken you back then instead of just passing by." Reynand said as she looked at him with sad eyes.

"......"

"If only I had brought you earlier. Your pain can be reduced."

Reynand thought for a moment and smiled bitterly.

"NO. It might be harder to stay at my house”

Kirana could feel the sadness in her slightly smiling eyes. Kirana wasn't sure what she was talking about, but she knew she regretted it.

The two people faced each other in a landscape filled with the soft sound of rain.

“Until I meet you Reynand said as she looked at Kirana intently.

"......"

“I live without knowing what it means to be happy.”

Since I was born, I have grown up constantly competing with others and repeating failures and accomplishments. I just learned how to survive in this vicious world. How to love someone I never learned. I don't know what the standard of happiness is, and I don't know the value of love.

“To survive endless competition, you must be insensitive to emotions and insensitive to heartache.”

"......"

"That's why I can't even guess your wound. I thought you'd be able to handle it yourself. You're not invincible, you're just an ordinary person."

Your only hope is for your mother to wake up.

She is an ordinary woman. She was a woman who had once had a dream job and had many things she wanted to learn. She was a woman who loved children and wanted to have a child similar to me. A woman whose only dream is to live like everyone else is forced to live according to the world she knows.

“I don't know many”

"......"

“I don't know who you are, and I don't know what you want.”

All he wanted were very small things. These are the things that a wife naturally expects.

“And I don't know what I want.”

Under her eyelashes where water droplets formed, her black eyes were stained with regret.

“I know that all I want is to have more shares, higher positions, and a reputation that no one can surpass.”

There is a purpose set from birth. But that is not the path I have chosen for myself. It was a path decided by someone else, and it became my lifelong goal and there was no time to turn it down.

“After I met you, such things became less important.

Only after you left did I realize that it was meaningless.

Reynand stared intently at Kirana. He removed the lingering regret in his eyes and replaced it with confidence.

"I understand now."

"....."

“At least I know for sure how I feel and what I want.”

It was a feeling I realized for a very long time. It's too late, but I have to say it before it's too late.

Before greater regret befalls me, before I have to miss Kirana forever... I have to tell him with all my heart.

Reynand faced it with straight eyes. The soft light flowing from the lights flickered on Kirana's pure white face.

She said, looking completely at that pretty face in her black and deep eyes.

"I'm in love with you."

A deep and clear voice rang out amidst the sound of rain.

“Such that no one can replace you.”

"....."

“It is not in vain to give everything I have.”

Kirana's eyes became wet when she met him. Reynand looked at him with deep eyes and spoke again.

“Kirana"

"......"

It was a sincere confession that was delivered after so long, and it was such a deep and earnest confession.

Kirana's eyes became hot hearing that sincere confession. His heart, which was pounding until it hurt, spoke to him.

No matter how hard I try to suppress and hide these feelings, I cannot stop them.

He doesn't know love, but I don't either. I had never loved the opposite sex until I met Reynand. It was the first time I felt it, and it felt awkward and difficult, so I didn't know how to deal with it.

Looking at Reynand who was always cold and dry, I felt burdened and anxious because I felt alone. I think as I acknowledge this feeling, I will become even more unhappy. So I hope it's not love.

I gave up my heart, promised myself many times that it would never be love. But now I have to admit it. I want to stay by his side to endure those difficult times.

I love her too....Now I have to accept everything.

Tears flowed down Kirana's cheeks due to the overflowing emotions.

Reynand looked at Kirana who was crying with sad eyes.

“I'm sorry Kirana.”

One after another, soft sounds reached Kirana's ears.

"I left you alone for a long time...Sorry."

"....."

“Sorry I can't treat you warmly.”

"......"

I'm sorry for making you go through such painful times alone.

Reynand looked into his eyes clearly and said.

“Even if you return to my side, there are not only happy moments. Maybe something happened that will hurt you, and maybe there was a time when things didn't go well.”

Mama and Grandpa could have fought it to the end, and instead of staying, they could have demanded more.

Maybe I could get kicked out of the company or even from my family. I may have to leave SF Group for the rest of my life. Well, for my performance, not too bad.

“But I will promise you.”

Reynand spoke to Kirana with confident eyes.

“I won't put anything that will burden you.”

"......"

“I won't leave you alone”

"......"

“I will live my whole life just by looking at you.”

A strong voice sounded through the sound of rain.

“I will risk everything to protect you.”

It was a promise not only to Kirana, but also to myself.

I will protect her so she doesn't cry alone. I will do my best to love her so that she does not have to spend time alone.

“Kirana.”

Reynand wiped away the tears flowing down Kirana's cheeks and covered her face.

“Give me another chance.”

"......"

"One more time....."

"......"

“Life as my wife.” A sincere voice touched Kirana's heart.

Kirana's watery eyes trembled nonstop.

His hand that touched my cheek felt cold and my heart ached. A more bitter moment may come. For him and for me.

Kirana looked at him with wet eyes and said.

“I'm not helping in your life.”

"No."

“I will probably never have a child in my entire life.”

"I don't care."

Kirana spoke in a stronger voice.

“You can lose everything you want.”

It was a warning to him, and a final decision he had to ask himself.

Reynand responded to the heartbreaking warning with a deep and kind gaze.

“For me, losing you means losing everything.”

Kirana's eyes became distorted, and her umbrella fell to the floor.

At the same time, his arms wrapped around Reynand's back.

The chest where Kirana buried her face was wet with hot tears.

Reynand hugged him tightly as she hugged him.

A feeling of sadness, pain, and passion like unrequited love finally reached him.

I promised myself that I would never forget the person I just touched again, and I gave strength to the fingertips I held.

***

Kirana stands with Reynand in the elevator.

Kirana looked at Reynand who was standing beside her.

There was still moisture in his black hair and his tight clothes. Although not as wet as Reynand, Kirana's coat and hair are also quite wet.

The two people, who had confirmed their feelings for each other a while ago, looked at each other's faces in fascination and came to the hotel where Reynand was staying.

Reynand said nothing and just saw the elevator ride. Kirana also set her eyes there.

[Floors 8, 9, 10.].

As the floor rose, an unknown tension increased and Kirana's heart pounded.