Chapter 226 - Never Again

After Ye Rim knocked so hard on the door that she might have knocked it down, a man appeared, startled, and helped her out. The singer was even hoarse from shouting for help. 

As soon as she left the laundry room, she ran to the second floor, where she was staying. Ye Rim needed to talk to Jun Hyeon. 

But her intuition told her that Na Ra would also be there. Ah, she'd slap that bitch senseless as soon as she grabbed the ex-model! 'How dare she?!'

And Ye Rim was not mistaken. She found the bedroom door locked.

When she knocked on the door, Na Ra replied,

"Go away, Ye Rim! I'm going to call the police!"

"JUN HYEON! OPEN THE DOOR, IT'S ME, YE RIM!" Her hunch left her body cold. It was already dawn... Why was Jun Hyeon still sleeping? She held her breath, with a bad foreboding.

She saw out of the corner of her eye the receptionist and a man she soon understood to be the manager approaching with concerned expressions. But she didn't have time for them.

The singer continued to knock on the door,

"Please Jun Hyeon! Jun Hyeon! Let me in!"

Inside, they ignored her. But she heard some noises and she also noticed they were talking, although she couldn't understand the muffled words.

The manager approached her, 

"Miss Nam, don't you think it is better to come down with us and have a glass of water? Call someone, maybe?" he offered, trying to be solicitous, not knowing how to help the celebrity.

"That woman ... put me out of my room ... She and Jun Hyeon are inside, why don't they let me in?! JUN HYEON! NA RA! You, sir, give me the spare key! I'm the guest, not her! Let me in my room!" She turned to the manager with an insane expression, trying to find a way to get to Jun Hyeon.

The manager, a small, balding man, rubbed his hands in distress, as he could not simply open the door. 

They heard Jun Hyeon's voice from the other side of the door,

"Ye Rim! Please go away! Leave Na Ra alone!"

'Na Ra?! Leave Na Ra alone?! What is he talking about?!' She knocked harder on the door, "NA RA! WHAT DID YOU TELL HIM?! WHAT ARE YOU DOING? NOW I WILL KILL YOU! OPEN THAT DOOR NOW!"

The door was unlocked, and Jun Hyeon opened it. He was shirtless, and Na Ra used him as a shield.

"Stop threatening Na Ra and go, Ye Rim. Enough! If the situation has reached this extreme, it's time to part ways! I took it too far, I was stuck with you all this time, but I won't let you ..."

He couldn't finish the sentence, because Ye Rim had already reached out and grabbed the ex-model's face with her manicured long nails!

"Don't meddle where you haven't been called, Na Ra! This is for you to learn...!"

"AHHAHHH! Jun Hyeon, help me!" Na Ra yelped, grabbing Ye Rim's hair.

"DON'T TOUCH YE RIM UNNIE! YOUR CHEATING PIG!" The receptionist interposed between them as soon as Jun Hyeon raised his arm to separate the two women, with her own version of a roundhouse kick!

Ye Rim and Na Ra even stopped grabbing each other's hair when they saw Dr. Kim took a few steps back with the unexpected impact of the receptionist's taekwondo kick. His back was slammed against the wall and he shook his head, astonished. He pushed the receptionist's head with a hand, keeping her away from him.

This meddling was so unexpected!

"You don't deserve my unnie! She is too good for you, jerk! You... INSECT! You PIG! How dare you talk to Ye Rim like that?!" The girl wanted to keep beating the doctor, so the manager grabbed her from behind, while talking her to her senses.

"Da Rim, stop it! Do you want to be sued?"

"I don't care! Don't you see? He's cheating on her! He even brought his lover here. And to think Ye Rim-ah and he looked so happy last night! ARGHH!" 

With nerves on edge, Ye Rim turned to her rival,

"You don't know what you did, Na Ra! Jun Hyeon was remembering! I'm going to KILL you!" Just thinking about how close they got getting rid of this bane... It made Ye Rim see red dots in front of her.

"AGHHH! Help! Jun Hyeon!"

The model was playing the victim, and Ye Rim only realized too late that her trick had convinced Jun Hyeon. The doctor separated them, pushing one and other, and closed Na Ra in the room, being alone with Ye Rim in the hall. He crossed his arms in front of the door.

The manager was taking the receptionist, who shouted curses at the 'treacherous and coward jerk' Jun Hyeon, for hurting and betraying her idol Ye Rim.

Worse than the scratches and adrenaline-racing heart, was the bitter taste in Ye Rim's throat and the tightness in her belly, looking at Kim Jun Hyeon's resolute and distant expression.

"Ye Rim, get away from me once and for all. I don't know what you did this time. I just know that you dragged me here in one more of your tricks. My patience is over. I never want to see you in front of me again." He said that with a grave voice, and Ye Rim have no doubt he meant every word he said.

Ye Rim had never passed out in her life.

She would have thanked the heavens if that had happened. She wished to wake up from this nightmare, in a cozy and warm bed with Jun Hyeon by her side. She wished to never have picked up Jun Hyeon's phone in the first place.

But she just felt the strength of her legs disappear completely, while Jun Hyeon turned his back on her and entered the room again. 

Ye Rim had no reaction, because moments ago, she had heard from him he would never forget her.