Chapter 108

The next morning.

Maybe it was thanks to the warm embrace I'd shared with Dad the night before.

I'd expected to have nightmares about the whole mess with my uncle, but today, of all days, I felt strangely refreshed. The morning air was unusually crisp.

I feel steady.

I hadn't known that having someone who knew I'd come back from the past — someone who meant I no longer had to face all this alone — could be such a powerful source of strength.

I stepped out the front door with a much lighter step.

It was right then that a familiar face got out of the driver's seat of the car waiting for me.

"Good morning, Miss. I'll be accompanying you on your schedule starting today — Park Cheol-won."

It was Secretary Park Cheol-won, dressed in a neat suit.

Joo Su-deok's secretary, and the man I'd turned into my…