Page 75 of Rewind

Glen raised a brow. “This is getting really serious isn’t it?”

“Glen I intend to spend the rest of my life with her. In fact, I’m going to ask her to marry me. I’m just waiting for the right time.”

“Wow, congrats man.”

“She’s the one. I think I’ve known it since I first met her. Anyway, let me go up to the counter and get a coffee and you can tell me everything you dug up.”

Ethan went to the front and ordered a small Americano with one sugar. With coffee in hand he returned to his table where Glen had placed a heavy file.

“That’s what I’ve managed to dig up these past few months in a nutshell.”

Ethan scanned through the folder while he sipped his coffee. There was nothing out of the ordinary here. He saw that shortly after his father returned to Korea, he became engaged to Kim Soo-ah. She was the only daughter of the Chairman of Wind Star construction company. At that time it was one of the biggest builders in South Korea but it had run into trouble after there were accusations of unethical practices and using shoddy building material. It had all come to a head when one of their buildings collapsed killing several workers.

However, once the engagement announcement of Wind Star’s heiress and JKB’s heir was made, Wind Star’s troubles suddenly disappeared. There was speculation they were bailed out by JKB.

Kung-chul and Soo-ah were wed in a lavish wedding and within months, their first child a son, Jung Ji-hoon was born. The reports noted that he was premature, but there was speculation that Soo-ah may have been pregnant before the marriage.

Three years later a baby girl, Jung Ji-woo was born.

Ethan continued to read through the files not exactly knowing how to feel. From what he was reading the Jung Family had an ideal life while his mother had struggled to raise him on her own. He couldn’t push away the twang of bitterness that squeezed his heart.

Did his father feel guilty about everything? Is that why he’d kept in contact with his mother and sent her his secretary’s information.

He finally pushed the folder away from him, his eyes growing tired from all the information in front of him.

“Is this just the history of this company and the family involved? What am I looking for.”

“Well you did say you wanted me to dig up everything. That’s just the background information. But if you go a little deeperyou’ll get the good stuff.” Glen reached into the file and pulled out some pictures.”

“This is a picture of Jung Ji-hoo, and one of Jung Ji-woo. And here is one of Cha Jin-wook.”

The first two pictures were of Ethan’s half siblings. He’d seen pictures of them online. They were older in these pictures. The other man looked familiar and then it clicked.

It was his murderer.

He took another sip of his coffee to calm down. He couldn’t explain to Glen what happened in his other life without looking crazy.

“Why are you showing me this picture?”

“Mr. Cha is head of the security team for the Jung family. He was once Soo-ah’s personal bodyguard. He was promoted shortly after your sister was born.”

“So?” Ethan still didn’t understand the connection.

“Your father was in a very bad car accident roughly fifteen years ago. There was a national call for blood donations because he has a rare blood type. Do you want to guess what it is?”

“O negative. The same as mine.” From the time Ethan was old enough he’d been getting notices from the Blood Donation centers to donate blood because he was a universal donor.

“Your grandfather is also O negative as well, but he was having health issues at that time and couldn’t donate when your father was in that accident. So why there a national call to donate instead of one of your siblings donating?”

“It might have been suspicious to anyone not in the know because the Jung family holds annual blood drives wherever their stores are located. It’s their way of doing charity outreach. Your father and grandfather have proudly boasted about the rarity of their blood and how their donations have helped so many people. Soo-ah’s blood type is O positive, by the way.”

Ethan pinched the bridge of his nose. “Glen, I’m sure you have a point. How about getting to it.”

Glen smirked. “Oh, this is the good part. The Jung family always donated blood but a few years ago, your two siblings no longer participated in the drives. Someone got a hold of their medical files and threatened to release them to the public. But you’re the doctor here. Tell me what you think your siblings blood types are.”

Ethan shrugged. “They’d either be O negative or positive. So what?”

Glen took a long dramatic sip from his coffee cup. “But they’re not. They’re both A positive. Guess who else is A positive?” He pointed to the security guard’s picture. “Mr. Cha.”

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