Lies and Secret

Chapter Twelve

Park Ji Soo’s point of view

I kept on tapping on the table in my office numerous times thinking of what I am about to do

‘I’ll call you by 8pm’ Kim woo Jin had said

I looked up to the bag of money on my table, I was really going to give that imbecile 500 million Korean won.

 500 million Korean won

He must think that he won the jackpot with me, free money by threatening to expose me for my wrongdoing. I won’t say crimes because I do not consider what I did as a crime.

I do admit that when I first saw Choi Mingi I was so attracted to him and wanted to have him and the obsession to possess him and be his wife was doubled when I heard he was the son to JK Holdings and I might have gone an extra mile by hiring a fake parent, fake friends and a fake brother to come to our wedding so it won’t raise suspicion.

I couldn’t tell my real parent that I was getting married again, they wanted me to remain with Park Min Gyu but he did not have the resource or finance to sustain me as a woman. I was tired of living in that small house suffocating with his parents, all sharing the same house and starving because of we were poor.

Choi Mingi was my ticket out so I took it and ran with it and never looked back. He would buy me expensive things, take me on expensive dates; treat me like how a woman should be treated. In the first month of our relationship he got me an apartment in Gangnam, one of the most expensive places to get an apartment in Seoul. Mingi never treated me like I was older than him with him I felt young again I felt loved, I felt like a woman. I felt like myself. Choi Mingi treated me like his woman and I loved it. I loved it enough to abandoned everything I ever knew for him then his mother wanted to come between us with the bullshit saying how I was too old for him and that they is no way I wouldn’t have been married before, she kept on wanting to dig up dirt on me so I lied, I told her I was already pregnant with Mingi’s child and like magic she stopped. She was a bit more supportive than she was before I told her that lie and hurried us into marriage because she didn’t want her ‘grandchild’ to be born out of wedlock

I thought I was going to be pregnant for him at least eventually with the amount of time we had been together but I was wrong, I had an issue with my womb and cannot bear children again. I met Kim Woo Jin through a site online where you pay people to pretend to be anything you wanted, it could be parents, spouse and even siblings. It all went smooth during the wedding, we had already met up before the wedding to rehearse what we wanted to say, to fill up the portholes in this planned life and make sure everyone was on board and no one was forgetting anything

It indeed was a beautiful wedding and the best wedding I have had in my life but I couldn’t stop there I knew my new mother in law was expecting a child so I asked Kim Woo Jin to find me one while I lied to my husband and his mom that I wanted to go travel to see my parents who lived in the United State and had my baby there. I was actually living in an apartment still in Seoul, the money I collected from them for the ticket, the hospital bills and other things I had used it to pay Kim Woo Jin to find me a new born preferably a male child that would correspond with the time I was supposed to give birth and one day he brought me a bright looking baby boy with the cutest smile and the most beautiful eyes that melted my heart. I thought it was over until about a week later when Kim Woo Jin came and told me that he actually killed the mother of the child.

I didn’t ask him to do that

I asked specifically for a baby boy from the homeless or a baby without a mother. Who asked him to kill the child’s mother? I still paid him extra 100 thousand dollars to get himself out of the country till the case was over and the police couldn’t find him. I forgot about him as I have not seen him for years till all of a sudden 18 whole ass years later he is now threatening to expose me

The phone rang jolting me from my thoughts, I recognize the number as Kim Woo Jin’s number and picked it. He tells me tells me the location and hung up before I could say a word

That rude bastard

I stood up from my chair grabbed the bag and headed out the office, I drove myself to the location and of course it was a spooky warehouse with barely anyone around. I came out of my car and walked towards the warehouse as I opened it I saw Kim Woo Jin waiting for me at the end of the big space

“Do you have the money?” is the first thing he asked and I gestured at the heavy bag in my hands. His smile is wide and I have the urge to pick up a block and hit it on his head but I refrain myself because I know it might be traced right back to me. I’m not stupid enough to let this man ruin my life

“This is the last money you’ll ever receive from me” I said

“I can’t say” he smirks “I might decide tomorrow that I need more”

I scoffed “You think you can really get away with threaten me?” I laugh

“I know I can” he replies confidently “I have the voice recording of you asking for asking for a child, all I need to do is send it to your husband for a higher money. I choose you so you should be happy and nice to me”

I run my hands into my hair “Why now? You disappear for eighteen good years why now?” I asked

“I have lived with guilt every single day of my life after ending her life, she fought really hard as I took her baby from her, I had to strangle her while looking at her child because she was too loud” he said “This money” he gestures at the bag in my hands “This Money is to pay for all my sleepless nights. I am not a murderer you made me one”

I rolled my eyes, I do not care for his sudden change of heart, it’s obvious that he was broke and thought of me as an emergency cash, this stupid lie of his does not faze me, if he really felt guilty we would both be in handcuffs on our way to jail but here we are in the middle of a warehouse cutting deals

“I’ll pay you double the amount if you had me everything you have on me” I said and mean it, I would not have to go with plan ‘b’ if he hands me the original record

“You think I’m stupid?” he laughs “Hand it over to you and not get a single dine of what I’ve been promised? C’mon Park Jisoo my fake sister. You must really think I’m dumb”

‘I gave you a chance, you didn’t take it anything that happens next is not my fault Kim Woo Jin, I gave you a chance’ I thought to myself

“Well you look dumber than you sound” I said and tossed the bag on the floor and like a cockroach he ran in front and opens the bag full of newly printed Korean Won. He picks up a bundle and sniffs the money giggling “Our deal ends here” I said and took a turn around

“He grew up well”

I stop

“The boy” he continues “Her son grew up well”

“Shut up! He is my son, not hers. I raised him, I clothed him, I fed him he is mine”

Kim Woo Jin snickers “I wonder if he’ll be grateful if he knew what you really did to his mother”

“Shut your mouth”

“I wonder if he will forgive you or continue to love you when he finds out the truth”

“Kim Woo Jin!” I yelled. He barks a laugh at me as I clench to the hem of my dress so tight I could feel my nails digging into my tights and the pain makes me clench my teeth “If you come near my son, I won’t let you live” I said and mean it

“I guess you just have to keep giving me money to make sure that never happens” he stood up and grabbed the bag over his shoulder “How can you love him so much after killing his mother? You really are a different breed” he gave me a two finger salute and disappears from the warehouse leaving me alone with my rage.

I managed to walk to my car and immediately I sat inside I let out a loud scream, hitting the staring wheel multiple times till my hands bled. I should kill him; it’s too risky to have him alive I pick up my phone and dialed my Secretary Mr. Kim’s number

“Mr. Kim, are you following him?” I asked.

I am not stupid too, knowing that Kim Woo Jin had in his possession something that could ruin my life and my family I would never let him walk freely. I had my Secretary Mr. Kim follow Kim Woo Jin, to give me details on him. Where he has been, who he met up with, who he talked too, everything on him. I want to know how many people he has told about this and most importantly where he hid the recording

“Yes I am” Mr. Kim replied

“I need you to get me that recording, if he has a copy somewhere find it and bring it to me” I instructed

“Yes Ma’am”

I should kill him; it’s too dangerous to have him walk about running his mouth, what if he tells Choi Hyun Soo the truth? What if he tells Hyun Soo that I am not his real mother? Hyun Soo would be angry but I saved him. That woman was nothing but a jobless woman who lived in the rural area, she wouldn’t have been able to take care of him like I do, she wouldn’t have been able to take him to the best school, have him being taught by the best teachers in South Korea, she won’t have been able to send him on travels for holidays or bought him a new car.

I am a better mother than she ever could be

I am way better than her so I deserved to be his mother

“Mr. Kim” I called “Make sure he is not alive when you get the recording” I said