By Zephyria The room was so large that the king-size bed seemed small, and it even had a dressing room and a balcony.
“This should be wearable.”
What Sung Se-han had chosen from the dressing room was a Black Shirt pajama.
“Se-han, this isn’t the guest room, is it?”
“It’s my room.”
The hand that was receiving the pajamas paused.
“Ah… Kang Robin said to sleep in the guest room.”
“Why would I when I have my own room?”
That’s what I was curious about too. Why does Sung Se-han have a room in Kang Robin’s house? Moreover, it had an air of naturalness, as if it were a space where Sung Se-han always stayed, not just visited occasionally.
“Hurry up and change.”
“Huh…?”
I was lost in thought for a moment before lifting my head at the low voice.
“You want me to change here?”
Yeah. Sung Se-han nodded slowly. Even now, Sung Se-han’s fierce eyes were persistently scanning me.
It seemed I would need a lot of patience to deal with Sung Se-han today.
“What exactly do you want to confirm?”
I stared at Sung Se-han, clutching the pajamas tightly. My glare probably wasn’t very pleasant either.
“I need to check your body.”
I burst out laughing at the nonsense he was spouting without changing his expression.
“Are you really crazy?”
“Why won’t you show me if nothing happened?”
“You crazy bastard!”
My meager patience quickly ran out. I threw the pajamas at Sung Se-han’s face and turned around.
“I’m the crazy one for following you… Ugh!”
The moment I turned around, a strong hand grabbed the hem of my T-shirt.
“What, what is it!”
The arm I reflexively swung was also easily caught by his firm hand. Disregarding my staggering, he yanked up my top.
It took me a moment to grasp the situation. Sung Se-han was trying to undress me. I felt faint for a moment.
“Hey! Don’t…!”
Even in this situation, I bit my lip, trying not to make a loud noise that might leak out. Instead, I swung both arms, pushing Sung Se-han away with all my strength.
“You bad bastard!”
The moment Sung Se-han’s hand fell away, I ran to the door. But before I could take two steps, a rough arm wrapped around my waist.
“Heup!”
My spine bent from the force constricting my abdomen, and a groan escaped. Sung Se-han, who had pulled my upper body from behind, ripped off my T-shirt with one hand.
“You, you son of a bitch…!”
No matter how much I ground my teeth without even being able to raise my voice, it had no effect. Sung Se-han once again grabbed the struggling arms that couldn’t even straighten my waist properly.
“Damn it, let go! You bad bastard…!”
No matter what I said, Sung Se-han treated me as he pleased, as if I were his own body. Nevertheless, I didn’t let Sung Se-han turn me around and observe me as he pleased.
“Get lost! You bastard!”
My head was burning with anger, and I was out of my mind. Unable to contain my anger, I threw a punch straight at him.
Thwack, Sung Se-han’s face turned to the right with the sound. That’s when I came to my senses.
“……”
Reason had returned, but I was too shocked to say anything.
Sung Se-han’s left lip was split, and drops of blood were falling. I, I had punched Sung Se-han in the face.
“Se, Se-han…!”
Sung Se-han wiped his lip with the back of his hand and grabbed my wrist again. Brown eyes gleamed beneath the fallen ash-brown hair. A persistent gaze that never left me for a moment.
I was so sick of it that I lost the strength to resist.
“Se-han, Se-han. You need to put medicine on your lip quickly…”
My mind went blank, and my vision darkened. What would the fans say if Sung Se-han showed up with a split lip…? And all sorts of speculative articles and rumors would pour out…!
“Se-han! You need to go to the hospital quickly…”
“What’s this?”
Sung Se-han, still holding my arm, pressed his finger on my left shoulder. His coolly sunken brown eyes looked ominous, and I shook my head hastily.
“It’s nothing. I think I scratched it a bit earlier. I get marks easily…!”
Even as I spoke, his sharp gaze was thoroughly examining my bare upper body. As I began to recognize my pathetic state of blinking in front of him without being able to move, shame surged up in an instant.
“Wait, Se-han. Have you thought about how I feel when you do this?”
It was more or less okay until he checked my neck and shoulders. But exposing my weak chest and abdomen, which had no muscles, to Sung Se-han without any reservations was not something I could do sober.
“I clearly said nothing happened. What… what do you think of me?”
A mixture of resentment, pain, and shame made it difficult to breathe, as if I were hyperventilating.
“It’s not that I don’t trust you.”
His large hand wrapped around my neck and pulled me in. I was just gaping blankly until my cheek was rubbed against his cold suit.
“I felt like I couldn’t bear it if I didn’t confirm it with my own eyes.”
His soft voice tickling my ear made me feel dazed. I had already lost all fighting power the moment I was embraced by Sung Se-han and smelled his scent.
Had I really lost my mind to Sung Se-han? I closed my eyes, forgetting my current situation, because I loved the feeling of being enveloped in his wide embrace so much.
“So, let’s cooperate, Tae-kyung.”
A chilling premonition made me open my eyes wide. But it was already too late. Sung Se-han, who had subdued me with one arm, was now pulling down my shorts.
“Hey! Sung Se-han!”
I couldn’t help but scream without considering anything. I desperately grabbed my pants, but I couldn’t overcome Sung Se-han’s strength. I was truly on the verge of going crazy.
“Don’t! I’m really going to get angry!”
“Tae-kyung, I’ll just look here.”
As I kicked and struggled, Sung Se-han bent down and hugged me tightly. And he easily pulled down my pants.
As someone who couldn’t hurt Sung Se-han, it was a truly frustrating situation that made my chest feel like it was about to burst.
He’s not someone you can reason with. But he wasn’t someone I could beat with strength either. In a fleeting moment, a miserable future of being naked in front of him flashed before my eyes.
“Se-han, wait a minute!”
I grabbed the pants that were already halfway down and lay down.
“Wait a minute. I’ll tell you everything.”
To think that I had to appease Sung Se-han with kind words even after coming to this point. It was dirty and infuriating, but I had no choice in order to survive.
“There’s nothing to confirm. I’ll tell you everything honestly.”
Perhaps he felt pity for me, seeing me huddled up with my pants down to my knees, since he was also human. His expression was absurd, but there was no further pressure.
“Alright. Tell me.”
Looking at him with his arms crossed and looking down at me askance, resentment welled up from the depths of my stomach. I opened my mouth with the determination to never let him get away with this if I could just get through this crisis safely.
“When I… went in to greet them, Park Jin-seok and Lee Cheol-hyeon were waiting.”
Lee Cheol-hyeon. Sung Se-han repeated in his mind. I continued, pulling up my pants little by little while lying down.
“Those people… introduced me to a director named Min Hyo-jeong from Samjeong Construction.”
“Director Min Hyo-jeong…?”
One of Sung Se-han’s eyebrows shot up. I deliberately raised my voice to avoid falling into a depressed mood.
“She said she wanted to be friends with me and gave me her card. I, of course…”
Seeing Sung Se-han’s eyes change strangely, I quickly added.
“Of course, I refused, saying I didn’t need it! And then I greeted them and came out. That’s all. Really.”
I had finished all my testimony without hiding anything, but I still couldn’t relax and couldn’t get up easily. I lay there, holding onto my pants tightly.
“There’s nothing more to say. That’s all.”
I emphasized it once more, just in case. Sung Se-han, who had been crossing his arms, squatted down next to me. I tensed up for a moment, but I didn’t show it.
He tilted his face and looked at me.
“The hand.”
“Huh…?”
I answered blankly while lying down. Even from this angle, Sung Se-han was free of humiliation, I thought, thinking such things.
“You didn’t even hold hands?”
“Ah, shit.”
I can’t maintain polite language when I’m with this guy.
“How many times do I have to say it? I didn’t touch her even with a fingertip! I just sat down for a moment and came straight out!”
As I spoke, I got angry and snapped.
“Why are you making such a fuss over something that’s not a big deal!”
Now that I said it, the thing that had been tormenting me seemed like it wasn’t a big deal at all.
Sung Se-han made such a fuss that the unpleasant gazes and emotions that seemed to crawl all over my body seemed to have burned away completely.
Sung Se-han quietly stared at me, who was drained and relaxed.
“Lee Tae-kyung.”
“Yeah….”
The answer came out somewhat slowly.
“Never let anyone else touch you.”
There he goes again. I frowned and opened my mouth.
“You take care of yourself, you bad bastard. If you do this again, I really won’t let it slide.”
Sung Se-han scanned me, lying there pathetically. I wanted to quickly change this disadvantageous position, but I was extremely uncomfortable with the fact that that bastard Sung Se-han wasn’t thinking of moving.
I wondered if it was okay to get up now, and was gauging the situation, when he bent down and braced himself on the floor to my right.
“What are you going to do?”
“Huh…?”