Jo Minjoon smiled bitterly. Chloe hesitated for a moment. Perhaps, this one sentence could ruin it all. But she couldn’t step back. Anderson had even lied and gave them space. Perhaps, her self right now would be too shabby……. But if she couldn’t even bring this words, she wouldn’t become shabby but miserable. She wanted to at least avoid that.
Chloe opened her mouth. Through her lips, her tongue that was more watery and red than it showed itself through that space and hid again shyly. When he thought that a ‘whew’ sigh was going to get out of her mouth, Chloe’s eyes opened up clearly.
“……..I would like it if it was you.”
At that moment, Jo Minjoon’s eyes shook. He slowly looked at Chloe’s eyes. He looked at that fierce waterfall of emotions, that whirlpool. He opened his mouth, but that wasn’t to say some words. It was to let out a noiseless expression of his perplexion. Chloe still looked at Jo Minjoon.
Worry and expectation, shyness and boldness, and love was contained in her eyes. No, it wasn’t only her eyes. Those things were contained in her flushed face, trembling mouth, and on her tears. On top of that, it was also contained in her clenched fists. So clearly he didn’t understand how he couldn’t feel it until now.
And those things flowed through words.
“I would like it……..If you were in my restaurant.”