"What do you mean by I can't call off the engagement?" Jason asked with a frown.

"Well I'm not saying you can't call it off, but it would be better not to. We need to take down the Lees, why would you destroy the only connection you have with them?" Reginald advised him.

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"It's not as if we even treated this as a real engagement anyways, so I should be nice?" He scoffed. "I can barely stand the woman, how you suppose I even pretend to like her?"

"Pretend she's Jessie Marin, you love her right?" Jason laughed mockingly.

"You know I'm right, in order to successfully take Patricia and her family down you need to woo her." Reginald informed him.

Jason groaned and palmed his face, his life ewas only getting more difficult, now he knew why he waited before taking over Paradise. This was no fun at all.

"Fine, I'll give it a shot. Thanks for coming." Reginald nodded and stood. "You should use the other elevator, we can raise suspicion you still are an enemy of the Kang family."

"Of course, see you later Jason. No, president." He smiled.

"You know you don't have to call me that right?" Jason said.

"Actually I do."

"Matt will walk you out." He stated pressing the button for Matt to come in. As soon as Reginald left he got a phone call.

"Yes?"

"Sir, we have a bit of a problem." The speaker answered.

"What do you mean problem? Is Jessie okay? Did she escape?" Jason asked.

"Oh no no she fine, but she's insisting on leaving the manor and coming to see you." Kevin replied.

"Coming to see me?" He asked with a small smile "Why?"

"I'm not really sure, but she asked to do so after she left her bedroom."

"She has seen the room? What did she think? Did she like it?" Jason asked, unable to mask the emotion in his voice.

Kevin sensed it and felt bad about the next part. "I'm sorry sir, but I don't think so. She practically ran out of the room and it was obvious she had been crying. Even now she refuses to enter the room."

"Oh" he said sadly. "Where is she now?" He asked.

"In your room, she went in there to shower."

"My room? You know what, I was going to ask you to distract her but bring her to me." Jason agreed.

"Okay sir, well be there as soon as we can." Kevin replied.

"And oh Kevin? Bring and extra guard and don't let her out of your sight. She's a sneaky one." Jason warned.

"Sure thing sir."

Jason stared at his phone, disappointment filling his heart, did his kind gesture make her sad? Gosh she was such a difficult woman to understand. First she asked him not to smile at her, how can she hate his smile? He was gorgeous, his smile was breathtaking. Women literally nosebleed when he smiled at them and here she was hating his smile. He pouted.

'Jessie Marin, exactly what kind of woman was she? She was so confusing sometimes. Ugh!'

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Paul walked into the cafe to find his date, looking into his phone again at her picture. She really was pretty, it would be nice to know how long it would take to woo her. He looked up to see a woman waving at him, taking one last glance at his phone he concluded she was his date. He pocketed his phone and walked over to her.

"Choi Yuri?" Paul asked and she nodded, standing to greet him. She held out her hand to shake him and he took it in his and placed a soft kiss at the back of her palm all the while looking in her eyes. Yuri fought the urge to swoon, he was really a playboy. Oh the nerve, how could he just kiss her like that?

'Stay strong Choi Yuri' she told herself.

"Paul Song, it's nice to finally meet you, your mother has told me a lot about you." She smiled.

"All good I hope." He said.

"Of course she is your mother after all. But I've heard a lot more from my friends." She stated bluntly.

"Ah... now that can be a problem then." He laughed.

"What makes you think it's a problem?" She asked.

"I do have a bit of a rakeish personality, you see. Although I'm sure you've heard a lot about that." He said.

"You seem proud?" She asked.

"No, I wouldn't say I'm proud but it's something I can't help. When I see something beautiful I want it, don't you like beautiful things Choi Yuri?" He said slowly.

Yuri could not believe the sound of her name when he said it, gosh all the warning signs are in place, she knew this before she came here but damn was it hard to resist. How could he make her name sound so sensual? The next line of action would be counterattack.

"I don't know, I don't trust things that are to pretty for their own good. Besides beautiful things just like people aren't to be trusted." She said with an innocent smile.

Paul narrowed his eyes at her, interesting. "So you don't trust yourself?" He asked sweetly.

Herself? Was he calling her beautiful? You sly man.

She smirked, "no not really, I tend to be quite unpredictable you see, and you? Do you trust yourself?"

"Not around beautiful things no. Especially beautiful unpredictable people. " He smiled back.

"Oh? Then should I be scared?"

Paul smiled, he liked this girl. "A little. Predictable is boring, incredibly. "

"So Mr. Song-"

"Call me Paul."

"Okay then, Paul, would you say your also unpredictable?" She asked.

"If you mean to ask if I trust myself, completely."

"Then in your words you're boring?" She asked again.

"Oh no, I'm only absolutely sure of my actions, decisions and desires. Confident if I may, and from what I know confidence is daunting not boring."

"Hmmm... so what are you confident about?" She asked.

Paul smiled. "You. I'm absolutely confident that I want a beautiful thing, and that is you."

Choi Yuri eyes widened slightly and she coughed. Talk about being direct.

"Your mother insists on a setting a wedding date." She said changing the subject.

"You can't possibly want to marry a man you just met?" Paul asked.

"No... but isn't that why there's dating?"

Paul grinned, his eyes lighting up. "Are you by chance asking me out, Miss Choi Yuri?"

Yuri shrunk back slightly into her sit, was she making a mistake? Why was he looking at her with that dangerous look? Like she was prey and he was a predator?

"And what if I am?" She said, her confident voice doing nothing to express her real emotions.

Paul opened his mouth to say something but stopped when his phone rang. "Excuse me."

He took the phone out and answered. "Hannah?"

"Sir, you have to come now. Doctor Park is in trouble!"

"What?! What happened to Katherine?" Yuri looked up at him with concern.

"I'm sorry, I have to go." He told her, tossing a few notes on the table he practically ran out of the cafe.

Yuri laughed in disbelief, did he just ditch her? "Who the hell is Katherine?"