I first met Shin at my sister-'𝐬 funeral—a man too composed for a place soaked in grief. He stood quietly at the edge of the room, hands folded, expression soft, almost tender… as if he were mourning something far more personal than the woman we had gathered to bury.
The moment our eyes met, a strange shiver crawled across my spine. His face was unfamiliar, yet something in his gaze struck me with the force of a memory I couldn't place. A quiet déjà vu. A shadow from a life I had never lived.
I should have walked away.
But Shin moved closer, offering a polite greeting, and the scent of his cologne, faint yet deliberate, tugged at something restless inside me. It felt wrong to notice him. Wrong to be curious. Wrong to wonder why my sister-in-law had spoken his name with her last breath.
Still, I couldn't turn away.
In the days that followed, I would learn just how tightly our lives were already tangled—and how his gentle smile hid a truth sharp enough to cut through everything I believed about loyalty, guilt, and the man I thought I was.
And once Shin stepped into my life, there was no going back.
𝐖𝐰𝐛𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 - 𝐬𝐨𝐨𝐣𝐢𝐧
𝐧𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐞𝐛𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐧
𝐀 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐑
𝐀 𝐒𝐔𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐄
𝐀 𝐌𝐘𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐎𝐔𝐒
𝐀. 𝐃𝐑𝐀𝐌𝐀 &𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋
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