By Zephyria 
There wasn’t a formal reporting system, but since Mu-gyeong was the one who gave the instructions, it was only natural to call him. But when had Won Gyu-oh ever followed such procedures? As soon as he left the building opposite the construction site, he immediately pulled up Min-ho’s number and pressed the call button.
—Yeah.
“You picked up right away. Were you waiting for my call?”
—…Isn’t it because you leave hundreds of missed calls if I don’t answer?
Despite the indifferent response, the corners of his mouth curled up instinctively.
“Mm-hmm. I miss you too~”
Even if he grumbles like that, he actually misses me. He probably wants to be stuck with me all day, but since I’m only working, he’s secretly disappointed, right? Now that he’s had such a harsh experience, maybe Hyung will stop living so crazily obsessed with work?
As expected, he continued to imagine things as he pleased and smirked. The site foreman standing at the entrance looked at him with a strange expression, wondering what was wrong, but Gyu-oh replaced a greeting with a sharp salute.
—Enough. Do you think you need to keep going there?
“No, I finished the agreement today.”
—You finished it? The foreman said they were persistent.
What a relief. If Hyung hadn’t taken a vacation, he would have handled this instead of me, who should be at the cathedral. That means he would have had to deal with those atrociously looking bastards. Ugh, just thinking about it is terrible.
Gyu-oh shuddered and glared fiercely at the shopping center across the window. Because of the tinting, he couldn’t see properly, but his eyes were blazing as if the gangsters were right in front of him.
“Yeah, I grilled them hard for holding out. Until they changed their minds.”
—…….
“I told them if they mess around again, I’ll pull out a healthy tooth to write a blood oath, so Hyung, don’t worry at aaaaall.”
—…Right, impressive.
Even if it’s blunt, that’s definitely a compliment. It also meant he was proud that the work was finished quickly. Now, Gyu-oh could filter whatever Min-ho said in his own way. Even if he crossed the line and acted brazenly, Cha Min-ho would accept it all.
“Yeees, I’ll take the compliments when we meet. I’ll be there soon, Dir—Director Cha.”
He almost called him ‘Darling’ but quickly changed his words. He had been calling him ‘Darling, Darling’ for a long time, so it had become a habit, but now he needed to exercise restraint. Cha Min-ho would surely treat such a title as a joke and dismiss it as a lighthearted remark. He didn’t want to be marked as a frivolous guy anymore.
Later, after the promised month was up and if Min-ho chose to stay as his lover, he wanted to call him that then. With truly overflowing love.
—…A lot of snow has piled up. Drive carefully and take your time.
“Mm-hmm.”
He puckered his lips and blew kisses at the disconnected phone. He knew Min-ho would hang up immediately if he did it during the call, so he had no choice but to do it after.
“Honestly, there isn’t a day he doesn’t worry about me.”
Living stuck together during the vacation, his feelings for Min-ho grew deeper by the day. To the point where he wondered how he had lived while maintaining the line between Hyung and Dongsaeng.
Buzz. As soon as he hung up, a text arrived from Min-ho. For a moment, he was nervous, thinking Min-ho had heard the kissing sounds and was about to curse, but the content was entirely different.
[Cha Cha Cha: The secretaries are off tomorrow too, so don’t call saying they aren’t at their desks]
A few days ago, while working alone in the office, Gyu-oh had spent so much time looking for a stapler that he ended up calling the secretary, Ms. Son, for help, and that’s why he sent this. He didn’t even ask for anything extra; he just made one phone call. Ms. Son would probably never know that he got scolded because of that. Hyung isn’t the type to brag about such things, and he’s only blunt on the outside.
[Okay]
Writing the short reply, his heart felt full for no reason. Beyond the wall that was slowly crumbling, Cha Min-ho’s true self was being revealed. The kind inner heart of a man who gets very lonely.
In truth, Cha Min-ho was someone who worried a lot about how to take care of the people around him, remembered every little detail, and was full of affection but clumsy at expressing it. He was the complete opposite of Gyu-oh, who hid his true feelings and was only skilled at outward expression.
If two people who are polar opposites like this blend moderately, wouldn’t a pretty decent picture be completed? Even though Hyung said they were just birds of a feather.
“It’s like… a destiny where we have no choice but to marry, something like that.”
He nodded and agreed with himself. Then he hurried to start the car. The snow was piled up filthily, but it couldn’t stop this body from going to see Cha Min-ho. His hands were quite busy turning the steering wheel.
When he arrived home and hurriedly washed up and came out, Min-ho, who should have been in the living room, was nowhere to be seen. Gyu-oh first checked the shoe rack. After confirming that the number of shoes was the same as when he entered, he quickly scanned the area. He searched the kitchen and dressing room, calling out for Min-ho anxiously.
“Hyung! Hyung! Hyung!!”
“I’m here.”
Hearing the voice from a distance, it seemed he was in the master bedroom. Gyu-oh took a large stride and poked his head through the bedroom door.
“What are you doing?”
“It’s dry. Why?”
Unlike the rather urgent Gyu-oh, Min-ho was leisurely squeezing hand cream onto the back of his hand. Showing the white glob as if to confirm it, Min-ho rubbed the backs of his two hands together. His gaze was still fixed on Gyu-oh, and for some reason, a sense of relief spread through him.
“I told you to stay quietly on the sofa. Seeing you running around and not listening, I think I might have to plant a GPS in you.”
“How rude to your Hyung.”
“Running around is called running around. Then what do you call running around? Can I suck? Should I ask it like that?”
“……What are you talking about.”
The stupid expression of bewilderment was cute, but Gyu-oh suppressed his laughter. Then he abruptly held out the back of his hand.
“Rub it on quickly-quickly-quickly.”
When dealing with Min-ho Hyung, quantity is better than quality. It meant that pushing with volume was more effective than making nonsense with sincerity.
“Quickly-quickly-quickly. In red-red-red.”
“Stop.”
Min-ho, frowning as if disgusted, pulled out the hand cream in a red case. He squeezed it onto the back of Gyu-oh’s hand and tried to walk past, but Gyu-oh quickly blocked his path.
“Where are you going? You have to rub it in.”
As Gyu-oh emphasized the pronunciation to tease him, Min-ho poked out his lower lip and blew air. It was enough to make his bangs flutter. Nevertheless, Gyu-oh did not yield and reached out his hand.
“Rub the red one quickly.”
“Seriously, there’s no need to worry about low blood pressure when I’m with you.”
Though he shook his head to show he was fed up, the touch of applying the cream meticulously was kind. Even if he grumbled and set up thorns, he did everything if asked and adjusted everything for him. Gyu-oh let out a smirk and hugged Min-ho with his moistened hands.
“Phew, this makes coming home from work worth it.”
He was sincere. Forget a breathing room, he barely had the leisure to go to the first-floor cafe for a relaxed cup of coffee. Doing the work of two people was no easy feat, but thinking of Cha Min-ho who would greet him when he returned from work made his energy surge. Of course, the problem was that his lower half was also surging.
Meanwhile, no matter how busy or exhausted he was, he made sure to keep the rule of skin-to-skin contact four times a week. Although there were more days where he was pushed away before he could be satisfied… still, his whole body and heart reacted easily to even a single breath or the body temperature of Cha Min-ho.
He subtly slid his thigh between Min-ho’s legs. He pressed and applied pressure to the lower area, but the quick-witted man quickly stepped back.
“How’s the cathedral side?”
“……It hasn’t been long, so it’s more like I’m just feeling out the atmosphere?”
Not giving up, he slid his lower half against him again. At that, Min-ho slowly pulled his waist back and created an awkward distance.
“Looking at the photos, you need to lose some muscle. You’re too sturdy.”
“Mm-hmm. That’s why I’m not going to the gym for a while.”
The hand that had been wrapping around Min-ho’s waist slowly slid down and soon reached the buttocks. He pulled the distant buttocks firmly toward him and simultaneously pressed his body close.
“I wonder if muscles will disappear quickly just by doing that. And cover your tattoos well.”
As if trying to stop the atmosphere from turning erotic again, Min-ho continued to talk about work.
“They aren’t visible unless you look from this close.”
This time, he pressed down on the back of the head, making Min-ho bury his face in his shoulder. Although he kept talking about other things, he surprisingly followed the touch obediently.
“But Hyung, I know a way to lose muscle quickly.”
“……What is it.”
Every time he answered, a faint vibration tickled Gyu-oh’s chest. It was natural for his lower half to react.
“Doing cardio.”
“Go do it.”
“That’s not something you can do alone. You can do it alone, but that’s not the real thing.”
A moment of silence followed. Before long, Min-ho, realizing what kind of cardio he meant, let out a short sigh.
“Ha, seriously.”
“Correct. That’s it.”
“Hey!”
He scooped Min-ho up in his arms and moved. Fortunately, he was able to goal into the bed in three or four steps.
“Put me down, put me down! Ah, I ordered foo—”
The urgent shout was swallowed by Gyu-oh’s mouth. He pushed through the flesh and wrapped around the thick tongue. Even the slippery sensation made his body heat up. He probably could have come several times just by sucking the tongue.
While sucking on the tongue and lips, his hands moved busily. He pulled down the bottoms and shoved his hand blindly into the half-worn underwear. Because he had just applied hand cream, his hand could penetrate more easily than usual. After biting and pulling the lower lip, he kissed the reddened lips relentlessly.
“Car-cardio or whatever, please, do it alone….”
“No. Hyung has to come… out too. If only I… come out, you won’t let it slide, will you? You look at Hyung’s body.”
Because he kept planting small kisses on the lips, neither of them could speak properly. They often broke off before they could even utter a few words, but the things they wanted to say were sufficiently conveyed.
“No, I don’t… look at the body. Ah— don’t… put it in so fast……”
As he thrust his hand deep between the legs, his palm touched the scrotum and his fingertips touched the wrinkled entrance. He slid his middle finger in, stroking the soft skin.
“Is it because of the hand cream? It’s smooth.”
“Ah, seriously……”
Min-ho, who had been tossing and turning, finally grew quiet when another finger was shoved in. Perhaps it really was because of the hand cream, but it felt much more slippery than before. The wrinkles that should have been tight were quickly loosened after a few strokes. It seemed like he could insert it easily right now.
“No need for a condom. It smells good and it’s slippery. Right?”
“Do you think… that’s the same—”
With a slightly flushed face, Min-ho pulled down the pants and underwear hanging on one leg in one go. After acting coy, it seemed he had finally given up. Seeing the man who had built such a wall at first now accepting him so obediently made his lower half stiffen instinctively.
“If you close your eyes, it’s the same. Let’s just pretend we’re wearing one. Okay?”