After the recent incident , I avoided Mark like the plague.

I would run away whenever he was in sight and I would try not to go into his office room unless it was really very necessary.

I hated running away from my problems.

Why can't I just have a normal work life which does not include my ex as the boss?

Ugghhhh. Whatever. I've got work to do.

I was carrying a huge stack of papers which I needed to deliver to the print department. And as you can understand, my vision was blocked.

I suddenly bumped into someone.

Oh my God. The papers were flying in all directions and I so happened to slip on some paper.

I waited for the impact which never came.

Someone had caught my hand and pulled me to themselves. My face was pressed into someone's chest.

Of course it would be him.

It felt like there was a magnet which always pulled me and Mark together.

The tips of my ears glowed a bright red due to the close proximity.

I can feel his abs. And smell his cologne.

Stop Donghyuck-ssi.

You are not here to get back with your cheating ex.

"Are you okay, Hyuckie?", Mark asked with a concerned voice.

Wow. This jerk was concerned about my health.

Definitely not about my mental health since he didn't care about it two years ago when he left me depressed and heartbroken.

"Why do you care?"

"I'm trying to be nice here."

"Whatever. I already know how nice you actually are."

"Stop it Donghyuck. We both know that you were the dumbass who ran away from me."

"And there is a very valid reason for it, jerk."

"Yeah. Care to enlighten me?"

"Stop acting as if you don't know why I broke up with you."

"You stop pretending like I'm the wrong guy. I genuinely loved you back then."

"Stop lying, asshole. We both know you were a playboy and are still one."

"So what if I was a playboy? I actually stopped sleeping around after I started dating you. Because you were special to me. I tried to be the best boyfriend ever. You were the first person I actually gave my love to. And all of a sudden you just leave."

What the actual fuck? Is he seriously playing the victim card when clearly I was the victim?

I was getting really frustrated now.

"Fuck you.", I screamed at his face and tried to walk away.

He pulled me back.

"Tell me why you broke up with me and I'll let you go. Or else I swear I will resort to worser methods. It is so unfair that you just walked out of my life one day.", Mark spoke looking into my eyes.

He sounded so sincere.

Like the time when he asked me out.

A/n

Okay so the reason why there is a sudden and unusual author's note in between is to explain something I am tired of hearing.

When I started writing this book, I was pretty new to NCT.

I read a lot of Markhyuck books before I started writing this one and I found a common name in all those books which I decided on using in my book too.

I didn't know much of girl groups and I wanted to use the name of someone close to Mark.

I'm sorry I didn't check how nice of a person she was and didn't think how tired you guys must be to see her name repeatedly used for the antagonist in literally every Markhyuck book.

I will definitely change her name when I proofread and edit this book in the future.

Sorry for the inconvenience and if you can, please stop commenting how it's always her name. I am kinda getting annoyed ( idk why lol)

Thank you and have a nice day!
( P.S I love you guys <3)

"Okay fine, you fucker. You fucking made out with Koeun and God knows if you two fucked after that. You think I can stand that? After I gave you my heart and myself completely. I fucking hate you."

My voice started breaking. Tears of frustration were already sliding down my cheeks.

Mark looked utterly shocked.

What he said next changed everything.

"I never willingly kissed her. She forced herself onto me. I would never ever cheat on you Hyuckie."

My jaw dropped.