Till this day, he ventured to her soft earthen bed every morning to kneel at her feet and recall her name as if it had been scribed among the holy psalms. While his labials uttered her hallowed name, the cool morning zephyr would gift him the halcyon days of his youth. His mind would drift with the low riding winds to when he was the tender age of twenty-two. He had just completed his degree in criminal justice and graduated from the police academy.  The advice of a trusted friend had led him to drift from his path of becoming a law enforcement officer to the doors of the Executive Protection Institute, a training facility for bodyguards, in hope of a better income.

 

Only a couple of days had passed before he was hired to be the personal bodyguard of Park Eunha, a rising actress. He didn’t believe in love at first sight. Recalling her now, his belief in that statement was only strengthened. They had their fair share of quarrels, but they found a tranquil companionship in each other.  While they were warring states, they held a mutual understanding; one that flourished into a deep amity after the lucid elixir turned their hearts warm along with their bodies. After that, it wasn't long before the veil of cordiality tore to reveal the passionate flames which ravaged the roseate plains of their hearts.

 

Eventually, their passion bore them a child, a gift everyone anathematized as a mistake. They all pleaded for her to smother out that growing babe’s life before Helios laid eyes upon him. She was a mother before all else; she had faith that her fans would stand beside as they always had. She had worked hard for her success for the past three years; she believed that they would welcome this treasure she held in her womb and support her in her newest endeavor. However, before she could speak, she was vulgarized as the painted lady.

 

While she was intelligent, she was profligate with her trust.  She kept trying to regain her former glory, believing that she was still their ‘Cheri’, but they had long buried her alive under the molten venom that had festered upon their blackened lips. He’ll always consider her the world’s greatest actresses as she convinced everyone that she was still happy. He had known better though, but even then he had erred in his judgment one morning. 

 

He thought he could see a new found light imbuing from her as she twirled about the kitchen and made him breakfast and warmed milk for their son. The gleam in her eyes settled his anxious heart as he perceived a new hope in that glimmer. Little did he know that her ethereal glow was attributed to the fact that their Holy Father had beckoned for his perfect daughter to return to her heavenly home. 

 

Soohyuk returned home that evening to find the home empty, to discover that the light had eroded to grayish film that settled heavily upon the air along with a metallic miasma. 

 

Even when she was stained sanguine, she was beautiful.

 

While he no longer could hold her, with him remained a token of her greatest affection.

 

He relinquished his position as a senior among the company's security personnel, forsaking his angel’s world of glamour, only taking from it the sweet babe that had been graciously placed in his calloused hands. In return for his eternal gift, he vowed not to allow history to repeat itself; returning to the police force—his life devoted to his profession and his now four-year-old son.

 

 

ⓘ  2 minutes ago Replysanghyuk h。 [A]

[] I bet soohyuk is a big softie and uses his job to cover up that fact