Serendipity

Chapter 15: Push and Pull

"I don't know what to think anymore." She confessed, turning from the sight of him.

"You told me that this was strictly business so why the hell would I look up your past, Dalmi-ya! What is so important that you didn't want me knowing anyway?"

"That's irrelevant. And this is business." She glared, brushing off the medical subject.

"Then why are you so invested in finding ways to push me away?" He forced but when the door swung open, his sentence was lost.

"Wow. This really is getting intense!..." Yongsan announced his appearance as he stepped through the door, casually pacing into the room a little with a satisfied smirk gracing his features.

"I should have known-" Dalmi bit out as she realised, her eyes apologetically searching for Dosan's who kept his sight on Yongsan.

"I really did think you would be better than this. A classic Seo Dalmi takedown and you didn't even see this coming. Your standards really are slipping!" He laughed as she stood biting her teeth.

"This was all you?" Dalmi frowned as Dosan just stood waiting for more.

"I found it very amusing that you would fall for such an emotionless pit of a man. I must say I am impressed with your little foreplay last night. Giving me all the details I needed to know oh so conveniently...!" he mused as he noticed Dosan's eyes flicker with more anger which only made him smirk harder.

"What the do you want, Kim Yongsan?" Dosan spat.

"I figured a business deal could be remade but a heart... not always so easily." Yongsan shrugged looking to Dalmi who stood like she'd been burnt.

"So I set a few things up... boohoo... Uri Dalmi being betrayed by lover boy again! I must say, Dosanie, your new assistant is very complimentary with assisting." He winked.

As Dosan composed himself, Dalmi watches the image of him before her; his fists tightening and jaw clenching as he slowly blinked.

"I pity you for actually falling for such a soulless bastard. As a leaving gift, I thought it would be fitting that I tell you a little about who this man is..." Yongsan looked to Dalmi as he gestured in the way of Dosan before continuing.

"Where shall we start... well he uses women like tissues, what was that famous motto you used to throw around?... Oh right, 'I never sleep the same girl twice.' Right, Dosanie?"

"And from the tension in this room, it only begs to ask.. has that one way ticket already been used?..." he seethed, the sight of Dalmi looking away from the men confirmation enough.

"Heol Nam Dosan... you are nothing if not prompt with your conquests!" He laughed darkly at the angered man before him.

"Oh and Abeonim dearest, always pining for his approval but you never did quite get it did you, uri Dosanie? And well, who would be surprised, considering you killed your Eom-"

The smirk was quickly wiped from his face as Dosan's fist collided with his face with multiple blows.

Dalmi didn't protest but covered her mouth with a tight palm as she swallowed hard, tears brimming in her eyes.

"Kim Yongsan, ka! Leave!" She spluttered as Yongsan scrambled to his feet, spitting the blood from his mouth.

"If I ever catch you in this city again, I swear, you will wish you were dead." Dosan spat as he shook his wrist from the prior collision of his fist with Yongsan's now bloody nose and lip.

"We're not over." Yongsan hissed once more before he winked towards Dalmi and pulled himself uneasily from the room.

Dosan contemplated grabbing him again as his eye raked over Dalmi's body once more as he departed but he reframed himself. He was the only person allowed to look at her that way, they all knew it.