Night time came and Kim Eunji had a very good mood after she had spent a day with the kids.

Nathan felt happy too since the day went on that she was feeling okay and everything went well except from that quick enemy encounter early that morning.

As he recalled how happy and caring she was with those kids, Nathan knew that she'll be a good mother for their children.

That those insecurities and doubts she had of becoming a mother was really unnecessary given of how welcoming and warm she was with them.

"Happy?" Nathan asked Kim Eunji as he dried her hair with a towel. They had just finished showering and bathing together after they had come back from the beach.

The saltiness of the sea had been sticking on her skin all day and she knew she won't feel comfortable having it completely removed from her body when she came back.

Nathan felt the same way too. So, they decided to have a shower before dinner.

"Very...Thank you for letting me to be out there." Kim Eunji thanked him.

"Of course! It was like hitting birds with one stone. Are we?" Nathan told her.

Well, they were not really there just to have fun, but also to observe Jake's movements.

In Kim Eunji's point, the guy might have not recognized her because of the drastic change she had over the years.

To start off, Kim Eunji or Asia the assassin in the past, were so cold to other people. So cold that she would never lend a hand to those people in need and chose to ignore their call for help. Also, she was never seen hanging out with her fellow mercenaries in their union.

She had that hostility vibe around people that those who knew her would back off whenever they would cross path. Worse, they would eventually leave and vacate the entire room when she walked in that room.

Those who dared to offend her would lose some body parts or worst, slowly lose their life. This was her way of teaching them a wonderful and meaningful lesson.

Well, she didn't like to be treated as one and would never want to act like one but loneliness and being tough was the best means to protect herself in the world where law of jungle ruled.

Her identity as the union leader's daughter and the S-Class assassin made her to be lonely all through the years when she was still a member of that world and knowing that one would always had an intention to take her head any time when she would be complacent, it was very hard to just trust anyone.

She did have one whom she treated dearly like a friend or more like a sister.

However, that person died leaving a literal deep scar in her heart and it took her time to trust someone like how she had been doing now.

So when compared to how big she had changed over the years than what kind of person she was before leaving that dark lifestyle, she was sure that Jake would be confused as well as she had become a completely different person than who she was in the past.

As she thought of this, she could not help from looking at Nathan through his reflection in the mirror while he was blow drying her hair.

"A penny for your thoughts?" Nathan asked as he looked at her eyes in the mirror.

"Oh, if I am someone else, I'll never answer your question if you'll only give me a penny." Kim Eunji teased making Nathan to pause from what he was doing while he was waiting for her answer.

"Oho! So, you want to rob off your already poor husband?" Nathan acted as if he was hurt by her statement.

"Oh come on. You still had two more companies who were in full operation giving you massive profits even while you were sleeping. So don't describe yourself as poor."

"Good point. However, as the mother of our babies and my beautiful wife, legally, you own half of what I own since we didn't sign any pre-nuptial agreement that would stop us from having conjugal rights over to what we both own." He explained.

"So, would you please tell me what was running in your mind?"

Though they have been familiar with each other to the point that they could guess what they were thinking with each other, Kim Eunji still had the tendency to hide what she was thinking perfectly from him. There were instances where she's hard to crack.

"Well, I was just going to ask you of how was your childhood? Like I want to know how were you when you're on the age between five and seven years old." Kim Eunji curiously asked him.

"I bet...you were such a cute boy back then." She added.

She was hoping that one of their babies would inherit his features and be like his carbon copy.

"Hmm, my childhood was not really eventful so to speak. Mom was always out at work while my grandma was always on and off from the hospital. So, I had to stay alone in my day-care school until mom would come and take me home when it was already five in the afternoon."

Sometimes, an aunty would volunteer to look after him for the entire night if Mei had to do an overtime in the pastry shop that she was working on the afternoon.

Mei had to joggle two to three jobs for the entire week just to support their needs.

So he had to learn some basic household chores like cooking a simple porridge just so Mei would have something to eat when she came back from work.

Kids would also tend to avoid him as he was prone to being bullied by the kids of his age back then.

Who wouldn't when everyone had believed that he was born from wedlock?

He wanted to have friends so badly but he couldn't because those bully kids would always get on his way. They would threaten the kids on the center that they would be the next to be bullied if they'd get close to him.

Also, he looked like a little girl back then. So it gave those bullies more reasons to bully him.

Nathan would then hide the wounds he got from the bullying and would secretly treat them before Mei would come home. He didn't want his mom to worry him. She already had a lot on her plate and he could not afford to add himself on the pile.

The bullying escalated to the point that he was rushed to the hospital because he had fallen on the staircase which had injured him so badly.

He almost lost his life because he suffered from internal bleeding.

So his childhood was not really fun but kind of depressing, too.

Kim Eunji really felt bad for him and wanted to look for those kids and kill them for inflicting such to the young Nathan.

"Relax...it was all in the past...Besides, I should be thankful to my bully because after that incident, he approached me and explained why he was doing that to me. And he asked to be friends with me but I decline as I just could not bring myself to befriend him." He honestly said.

Kim Eunji felt broken-hearted for him. If only she met him that time, she would surely want to be friends with him so he won't feel lonely.

Because of this, Kim Eunji's mood turned sour and she could not look but to look down.

Nathan knew that her reaction would be like this so he wanted to cheer her up.

"Kidding aside, what I have left in my pocket was only a penny. This was all I have left now but still, I'll give it to you since you're the most precious wife in the world." Nathan sweetly told her which made Kim Eunji to look back and kiss him on the lips.

Though he was caught off-guard, he welcomed her kiss with more intensity.

"How did I deserve you?" Nathan aske breathlessly after they had broken-off the kiss.

"That's the same question that had been running on my mind all this time. Tell me hubby, what have we done in the past to deserve each other?" Kim Eunji asked him back.

Her question sounded so simple but in reality, it was so hard to answer.

Nathan then tilted his head as he was being immersed in the thought.

"Hmmm. Well, simply put...we both hurt other people in the past. In your case, you had the darkest...I mean...you have taken their lives, innocent or not, in your hands. While in my case, I had played with other women's hearts."

Kim Eunji gave his answer a thought. And patiently waited for the next one as she felt it was still incomplete.

"I knew your past had given you great pain and deep guilt that would forever be embedded in the past. I had my own share of darkness in me...and maybe we were paired to heal each other. In conclusion, our respective dark pasts...the demons in us helped somehow brought us together and made us heal and complete each other."

Seeing that Kim Eunji was still on her deep thoughts, Nathan pinched her nose making her to wince in pain.

"Stop overthinking. We deserved each other because how we met was not only by chance, it was fated. And I'll show to you and to the world that we deserved each other because we've been destined to be together...forever." Nathan said in finality.

Kim Eunji's heart melted like her favorite ice cream as she listened every single word that had come out from his mouth.

"I love you my dearest wife. And I'll do everything just to make you the happiest wife in the whole world. But before we continue this heat to heart talk, we should finish dressing up or else we'd get cold." Nathan said.

As soon as he finished talking, they both heard someone knocking on the door. Sooner, Nathan heard Manang Ines informing them that dinner's ready.

Since Kim Eunji had been out all day, she felt tired and wanted to call an early night. But before she could rest first, Nathan came back with a bottle of chili fruit shake for her dinner.

Nathan then left to have dinner with his staffs.