Chapter 14. Instinct (3)

“You’re dead for a city that couldn’t care less about you,” Seok dictated, looking at him. “For a father who didn’t even care for you, who never protected you and physically and mentally abused you. That tortured you! If I had known this before, Yonie, he would be dead right now. I would never have let this happen.”

“You weren’t there the first time. Nor the second, or the many others that followed. It wouldn’t change a thing.”

“It would change if I could make you suffer. Make you feel everything you felt too. Why didn’t you ever tell me anything?”

“What’s the use? You saw what he did to me every morning, and what did you do? You stopped him? I always felt disgusting, Seok, but you used my moments of happiness to make them yours too.”

“I made those moments mine because I knew they were the only ones you had.” Kim approached, stopping beside Saejin. “I always loved seeing you smile. Always. That’s why I was always there. But if you had told me…”

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