2. "Oh..."
3. "So she's back from japan?"
4. "Not yet, we're going to meet the next few days with my senior staff..."
5. "...to devise a six-month roadmap that would pull us out of the red."
6. "Hence why I was home early and hitting the hard liquor."
7. "It'd been a brutal day, but at least we had a plan."
8. "Mmh.."
9. I'd been shouldering this burden alone... Not wanting to worry jiyeon.
1. ...but as she reaches across the table and takes my hand, weaving her fingers between mine, I see how wrong I'd been.
2. Telling her, opening up this way, it hasn't made the situation worse.
3. It's somehow made things better.
4. It's at least put them into perspective.
5. Work was work. It would always be there.
6. There would be ups and downs. But this was my real life.
7. This woman, who was taking me with all my flaws, and loving me anyway.
8. "You got this."
9. She says, giving my hand a squeeze.
10. "Indeed."