Chapter 53

“Watch your step.” Jyeon reaches out for me as we walk down a dark shadowy staircase, and I pull my arm away, so he doesn’t get a chance to touch. I walk faster and skip ahead two steps at a time, knowing exactly where this is but acting dumb.

If I thought I had seen everything so far and could suss him out, then the barefaced audacity of where he’s brought me has blown my mind. He’s going the whole hog, trying to paint us as something we never were. Wading full steam into sentimentality by bringing us to a place I have stepped foot only once.

The lights come on as I step into the vast, spacious banquet hall that belongs to OLO. A private function room under one of our buildings that held our wedding ceremony for family, friends, and business partners. The so-called happiest and most important day of our life. He’s going in with the big guns, and I have to curb my instant attitude and urge to laugh at this ridiculousness.

“What is this… a party hall?” I try to soun