Chapter 67
Seoul, Korea
Coex Aquarium
Rain was sitting on a bench in front of a three-story wall of glass that was holding back water and sea life. She had always wanted to go to the aquarium, but never had the chance to, and it was exactly where she wanted to be at that moment and somehow Kita knew it.
It seemed as if Kita knew a lot about her, even stuff that Dae-Ho didn’t know he apparently did. How it was possible? She didn’t know, but it started to make her suspicious of him.
“You are unusually quiet,” Kita said softly, his attention on the whale shark that was swimming by.
“It’s beautiful,” Rain whispered. “It makes me realize just how very insignificant I am in the world and in the bigger picture if there is one.”
He nodded his understanding. “Morbidly depressing,” he commented.
“Realistic thinking and expectations,” she retorted.
“But of course. It is beautiful here and very peaceful-”
“Only peaceful after you forced them to close the place to the general public,” she corrected.
“Yes, there is that,” Kita agreed with a smirk. “It’d be impossible to enjoy it as I am with others lingering.”
Rain looked over at him. “How did you know this is what I needed?” she asked.
He shrugged his broad shoulders ever so slightly, his fingers tightening around the umbrella that was resting across his lap. “It was a guess?” he offered, and she rolled her eyes.
“It makes me suspicious,” Rain informed him.
Kita sighed; he was afraid that’d happen. “There is an aquarium in Motobu, Okinawa, that I’d go to whenever I needed to clear my head and organize my thoughts when I lived in Japan. There are beautiful whale sharks, much like these only larger, and schools of stingrays that look as if they are soaring through the air when they swim at the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium. And just watching them move through the water, how something so large can move with such beautiful grace, always helped me organizing my thoughts.”
She nodded, looking to the whale sharks he was intently watching. “They are beautiful. Huge. Scary huge. And they are graceful, unlike me,” she said with a chuckle.
“Hence the training heels I asked them to get you,” he agreed then chuckled when she swatted at him. “Are you mad because of what I assumed for you?”
“Not anymore,” Rain said. “You pushed me when I needed it without realizing I needed it. You are strangely good at doing that. Are you a mind reader?” she asked, suddenly suspicious, giving him a look.
“Your face is an open book to what you are thinking, and I’m exceptionally good at reading it, apparently. What happen between you two?” Kita asked. “Whenever someone mentions Gang Moon your expression changes, regardless of the context, to expressionless stone. But your eyes, they hint at anger, something I’ve never seen from you outside of the mention of Gang Moon.”
Again, she hated how well he could read her.
“Lula only found rumors and tabloids, but nothing that hinted at the truth of what transpired between you and Gang Moon,” he pressed.
Rain groaned, making a face. “You’ll laugh or snort.”
“I won’t. I never laugh,” he sternly reminded her.
She blushed, trying to keep from smiling; Kita laughed often when it was just the two of them, but never when others were around.
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