Chapter 14

Jae-oh brought her inside first.

He propped Chae-eun up in the entryway for a moment, took off her shoes, then lifted her onto his back again, repeating the process.

He carried Kang Chae-eun into the guest room, a room he’d never let anyone use before.

He laid the water-soaked, no, alcohol-soaked lump onto the bed.

He meant to just let her sleep quietly, to behave himself, right up until Chae-eun suddenly opened her eyes wide and met his gaze.

“Putting me down to sleep and you open your eyes, what kind of nerve is that?”

“Y-you… y-you who do you think you are!”

At the sudden accusation, Jae-oh sat down beside her on the bed and planted a hand on the mattress.

“What do you think I am?”

“…Liquor executive or body executive. You don’t even know me and you talk so much like some crazy pervert.”

Her tongue was completely twisted as she complained while lying on someone else’s bed. He leaned in a little more and answered her calmly.

“Why am I a pervert.”

“You’re the pervert. Then what, an old guy? Liquor executive, body executive, you sure like those labels…”

“Back then and now. What you’re saying fits pretty well. Both of them.”

“You annoyed me enough in real life, why are you showing up in my dreams too.”

Chae-eun complained with half-closed eyes. She didn’t seem to know where she was, or whether this was real or a dream.

Touching a woman who wasn’t in her right mind was something even a dog wouldn’t do, but the alcohol flooding his system and Chae-eun’s sweet scent made everything crumble.

“Why are you so good-looking, making people all confused…”

“Huh.”

“My standards are really high. That’s why I fell for you so hard. You shouldn’t live your life like that.”

“You’re even dropping honorifics now.”

“As long as I’m polite at work, that’s enough. What more do you want.”

With her slurred speech, Chae-eun blinked a few times, then suddenly sat up.

Only then did she seem to realize that this was real, and that this wasn’t her home.

“What… where is this…”

“Where do you think.”

“Oh, semen pervert.”

“What kind of pervert.”

Jae-oh ran a hand through his hair, wondering if he’d heard her wrong.

“What the hell is wrong with you brothers? One’s obsessed with dad jokes, the other’s a crazy pervert lunatic splattering semen all over people…”

No matter how he thought about it, he wasn’t the old guy. He was definitely the crazy pervert lunatic.

“Then should I have just shoved it in without a condom?”

“Wouldn’t that actually be more normal?”

“I was taught properly. I tend to keep the basics.”

“Who says that kind of perverted crap counts as basics.”

“Looks like you’re sobering up a bit. You were talking real casually a second ago.”

“I was never out of it.”

Chae-eun rambled again. With the same eyes, the same scent as that night, his body heated up like it had lost its mind.

If he didn’t know how she tasted, it wouldn’t be this bad. But his body already remembered her soft flesh and started raging with arousal.

“Just sleep quietly. Don’t give me other ideas.”

“Other ideas? T-this b*tch… you’re trying to smear semen everywhere again…”

“Sounds like you were upset I didn’t shove it in and only spilled. Want me to do it the way you want tonight?”

“Mmm… how would you even know what I want?”

Jae-oh let out a short laugh and gently laid Chae-eun back down. She struggled weakly, then soon started breathing softly and slipped back into sleep.

He forced down the boiling desire and stood up.

Even as he left the bedroom, he wasn’t in his right mind from the alcohol.

Leaving the half-conscious woman behind, Jae-oh went out the front door and got into the elevator.

If he’d known this would happen, he should’ve stocked condoms in advance. His body was so hot that even this brief moment felt like a waste.

* * *

He faintly heard the sound of the front door closing.

Left alone, Chae-eun slowly blinked at the dark ceiling. She still couldn’t tell whether her conversation with Jae-oh had been a dream or reality.

Even so, a fierce homing instinct pushed her to move.

This isn’t my house. That much she knew for sure.

“I-I have to go home…”

She repeated it again and again, but her legs wouldn’t move. She barely managed to lift her upper body and let out a sigh.

Her breath was thick with alcohol.

Her lower body felt strange, like it belonged to someone else. Even so, she forced herself up.

Strangely, though, she didn’t want to leave Jae-oh’s place.

“…If I do that kind of thing with that pervert again, I’m not human.”

She muttered it like a spell. His handsome face kept flickering in her mind. A desire to properly finish that unsatisfied night began to bloom.

It was insane. The alcohol had clearly messed with her head. Her body, stripped down to pure instinct, hesitated, while her honest heart burned hot.

She clearly heard Jae-oh leave through the front door. This was her chance, yet she didn’t want to miss it. She wanted an excuse, something she couldn’t help.

“W-what’s wrong with me… my body.”

Chae-eun staggered out of the room. She wobbled through the unfamiliar entryway, and at that exact moment the door flew open.

“E-Executive Director…”

“Did you come out to greet me? How kind.”

His lips crashed into hers urgently. Their tongues tangled, thick with the scent of alcohol.

Chae-eun didn’t pull away. No, she didn’t want to.

Even if she blamed it on being drunk, she wanted this with him. Their lips parted briefly, ragged breaths passing between them.

Their eyes met. His face was so perfectly her type it made her dizzy.

She’d thought she’d never fall for anyone. Even the brief separation of their lips felt like a loss as Cha Jae-oh leaned in to kiss her again, his face unfairly handsome.

She couldn’t escape. Maybe she’d been waiting for this from the first day they met.

His large hand slipped under her T-shirt and kneaded her breast.

It was a place she’d only ever allowed him to touch. Her nipple, stiff inside her bra, reacted sharply even to the slightest stimulation.

“Ahh…”

The plastic bag with a convenience store logo slipped from Jae-oh’s hand and dropped to the floor. It brushed her foot, making her pull her lips away and look down.

The heavy bag was stuffed full of something. It looked like he’d bought food.

“What is all this?”

“So I don’t come all over your body, I bought condoms. I didn’t know how many we’d need, so I grabbed everything they had.”

The small boxes peeking out were clearly condoms. She was so stunned she couldn’t speak.

His hand grabbed the bag, then wrapped around her waist and pulled her in.

Her unsteady body was trapped against his broad chest.

She followed his lead, stumbling along. Their lips never separated. She wrapped her arms around his neck, her toes barely touching the floor because of the height difference.

“Ah…”

The firm arm around her waist tightened and her body lifted lightly. Like he was holding a child, he supported her hips and kissed her.

She clung to him just as tightly.

She could’ve escaped, but she didn’t. She could’ve turned her head away, but instead she eagerly sucked on his tongue.

His tongue was hotter than hers. Like desperately licking melting ice cream, wet, greedy sounds filled the air each time their tongues tangled.

Her soft moans mixed in, making the space even more obscene.

Her untouched lower belly tightened, and she felt her panties grow damp.

The rawness of her reaction embarrassed her, but the second time was far easier than the first.

Her body thrilled at the thought of tasting Jae-oh properly. The heat rising inside her refused to cool.

Her back hit a bed soaked with his scent, not the guest room from earlier. The ceiling still felt like it was spinning, but she was fully aware of the outrageous thing she was doing.

His thigh pushed between her spread legs.

The subtle pressure against her knees made a moan slip out.

“Ahh…”

He was clearly grinding on purpose. The hand inside her shirt slid over her waist and flipped her bra up.

Her stiff nipples were exposed, standing out sharply beneath the thin white T-shirt.

It felt more perverse than stripping her naked, because his gaze clung to them obsessively.

She should’ve been embarrassed, should’ve tried to hide, but instead her body burned under that stare.

Just his eyes made her feel violated, her toes curling unconsciously.

Anticipation of finishing what they’d started made her slickness impossible to control.

“If I really… do that kind of thing with this pervert again…”

Chae-eun muttered to herself, clinging to the last shred of reason. The fact that she was voicing her thoughts at all proved she wasn’t sane.

“You keep babbling. What are you even saying.”