"I am going to kill him" Chu Ga eul muttered and then louder "Kill him, Tear him limb from limb" She pounded his fists on the steering wheel of her car. She felt her anger leave as she took deep breaths as she remembered her humiliation of tonight. And the humiliation renewed her anger.

"Did they really just give me the award just because I was marrying Gong Soo Pyo" she said with her renewed anger raw in her voice. She swung the car around a sharp curve on the road. One of the wheels of the car groaned as it hit the gravel along the side of the road. "Breathe…..Slow down…." She whispered to herself. But the humiliation from the night was still fresh in her mind and her foot came back down on the pedal even harder and she took the next curve even faster whizzing to close past a tree.

Tonight had meant a lot to her. She was going to be honored by the National Teaching Association and maybe establishing the first public library in her school's area wasn't a big deal to the rich and wealthy club owner Soo Pyo but it took up most of her time including a majority of her salary and she was excited that someone had noticed the change she was trying to make in the small community.

She dashed her tears away as they started to obscure her vision. She was driving back to a romantic little inn that her parents had passed on to her on news of her engagement with Soo Pyo. There were antique furniture and a lovely fireplace with a table set for a celebration for two but she was going to spend the night there ALONE!

She should have known Soo Pyo had some influence on their decision to honor her. She came around another sharp curve in the road, trees along both sides making the night seem darker than it actually was and standing there smack in the middle of the road was a man, his hand raised to cover his eyes from the headlights of the car. She swung the wheel aggressively, trying not to hit him. She rather drive herself off a cliff than hit another human being, suddenly, the man seemed to be between her and the side of the road. She whirled the wheel in the opposite direction but she had been driving to fast and the car could not respond.

She hit the man and Ga eul immediately felt sick to her stomach. She could her the car hit against his flesh. That will be forever scarred into her memory! The car came to a stop and she leaped out and started running. She could see nothing in the darkness especially with the trees blocking the moon light.

"Hello! Where are you?" She choked out frantically and shivering in fright

"Here" a whisper replies from the side of the road. Her long red satin dress picked up a few branches and her high heels sunk into the muddy sold from the floor of the woods but that wasn't about to stop her.

She had knocked him down about halfway down the hill and Ga eul found it hard to find him and thankfully the lights of the car above on the top of the hill helped her spot him. Dropping to her knees she ran her hands over his face "Are you all right? Are you alright?" It was still too dark to see how badly he was bleeding but his face was damp.

He groaned. "Thank God he wasn't dead" she thought in relief. She grabbed her phone from her purse, knowing without really needing to look at it that there would be no service up her on the hills to her cabin.

"Can you get up?" She asked him brushing the hair away from his face. "I don't have service and you may really need to get to the hospital. Please tell me you are alright"

The man looked up with his head still in her hands. "Ga eul yang?" he said softly.

She sat back on her heels, trying to figure out if she knew him from somewhere.

"How do you know my name?" she asked, as every news report she had heard about serial killers who killed women flooded through her head. Was this man a serial killer who was trying to lure her to her doom with fake injuries?

She stood up abruptly. Could she get away before he made a grab for her?

"I won't hurt you" the man said as he tried to sit up. Ga eul was torn between helping him or running away. Suddenly, he grabbed her wrist and the decision was no longer hers to make

"Are you hurt?" He asked with a hoarse voice. "You were driving very fast. You could have hit a tree and been really hurt"

Ga eul blinked at him in the darkness. First, he knew her name and knew how fast she was driving, she had to get out of her and again she looked up the hill toward her car. Would she be able to make a run for it?

Still holding on to her the man tried to sit up. There was something strange about him that made Ga eul want to get away.

"This body feels dreadful" he remarked

"Being hit by a car would make anyone feel dreadful" she said, her voice rising in fear

"You are afraid of me" the man said in a tone of disbelief. It was as though he expected Ga eul to know him.

"I….I'm not….really…afraid" she started thinking of ways to pacify him.

"Yes you are. I can feel it. It shines from you Ga eul yang, how could you-" he reached for his head as though it hurt a great deal. "I've always known your name. You're one of mine."

That does it. She thought and with a yank on her hand she pulled away from his grip and started heading for her car. But before she could get anywhere he caught her by the waist and pulled her into his arms to hold her close "Ssssh" he said. "Be calm. You can't be afraid of me. We have known each other too long"

Oddly enough his touch calmed her but his words disturbed her.

"Who are you?" she asked, her mouth against his shoulder

"Yi Jeong" he said as though she should have known that.

"I don't know you" she said as she leaned against him and wondered why she wasn't struggling to get away.

"You know me" he said softly, his hands in her hair. She had pinned it up for the ceremony tonight but it had all come down in a mass around her neck "I'm you guardian angel and we have been together for a thousand years"