Chapter 21

POV: Jaejun

As I sat in the back seat of a taxi, all that was running through my mind was how determined I had been to leave Hyun-Suk behind.

Damn, I actually left him!

Oh my god... I want to cry.

My body is tense, my heart is still racing, and I don't even know if the driver is taking the longer route to charge me an arm and a leg, or if it's because he sensed my sadness and feels sorry for leaving me alone at home.

Perhaps it's really just the expensive fare in the end.

But I still remained lost in thought about how he said he might feel the same and would try to figure things out.

But what kept me even more absorbed was the fact that, for the second time in my life, I thought about myself first.

The second time...

The first was when I decided to leave my adoptive mother's house, even without a penny or any certainty with me.

I was choosing myself.

Leaving Hyun-Suk behind meant putting myself fir