Dane stopped walking and turned around. Grayson felt as if he had been doused with cold water. Dane’s face was already filled with ‘annoyance’. If he pushed him any further, he would only get angry. Grayson hesitated at the clearly visible future and had no choice but to back down.
“No, I was just… curious.”
At the question in a subdued voice, Dane answered indifferently.
“It just happened.”
As expected, it was the answer he had anticipated. Of course, it wasn’t the answer Grayson had wanted. Dane, who had turned around and started walking again, looked back when he didn’t hear anyone following him. Grayson was still standing there, motionless. Dane frowned as he looked at him, as if asking what he was doing standing there.
Grayson opened his mouth and then closed it again. He repeated the same action several times, as if unable to decide whether or not he should say these words. Dane stood there silently, watching him, as if waiting for Grayson to speak. Encouraged by the silence, Grayson spoke.
“Did you sleep with Yeon-woo?”
“What?”
Dane immediately frowned and asked back. Grayson continued quickly.
“Did you sleep with Yeon-woo? Is that what happened? Right?”
“…Huh.”
Dane let out a short breath. He had waited for him, only to hear such nonsense. Grayson bit and released his lip at the obvious look of disdain. His red lips, wet with saliva, suddenly caught Dane’s attention.
“You might think it doesn’t matter because it’s in the past, but I care.”
Wasn’t it like a teenage tantrum? Even though he thought it was unfamiliar and inappropriate, Grayson couldn’t stop.
“Yeon-woo is your type, isn’t he? You like small, petite figures that fit perfectly in your arms. Yeon-woo fits that perfectly. Something must have happened. You sleep with anyone.”
What the,
fuck?
Dane twitched his eyebrows. The guy who slept with the entire fire station staff every day as soon as he got a job was saying this to him? He was dumbfounded, but Grayson, absurdly, raised his voice.
“You’re too promiscuous!”
Dane was speechless at the ridiculous accusation. Of course, he wasn’t going to deny it, but did Grayson Miller have the right to say such a thing to him? He clenched his hands, which had been hanging down, until his knuckles turned white, but Grayson continued to pour out words, not caring.
“Even after we started dating, you were going to go to clubs for one-night stands. You can’t live without sex, so would you have left Yeon-woo alone? I saw with my own eyes how much you fool around…”
Knowing that there was nothing more unsightly than a jealous man, he couldn’t stop, even as Dane strode towards him with a fierce look on his face.
Dane, who was right in front of him, reached out his hand. Grayson closed his eyes as the fist flew towards him. But even though he was prepared, he instinctively turned his head.
“…?”
Suddenly, an unexpected situation occurred. Dane grabbed the back of his head and pulled him in without warning. Before he could even think about what was happening, something touched his lips first.
Grayson was surprised and opened his eyes at the unexpected soft sensation. Dane was kissing him.
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Grayson’s eyes widened and he froze completely. What? What was happening?
While he was frozen, unable to do anything, Dane pressed his lips against his, forced them open, and pushed his tongue in. The thick mass of flesh stirred wildly inside. Saliva mixed and tangled tongues slipped. Grayson belatedly closed his eyes and hugged Dane’s waist, pulling him closer.
Surprisingly, Dane just let him. He didn’t push Grayson away even when he groped his butt. Rather, he sucked on his lips, licked his teeth, and caressed the roof of his mouth with his tongue as if he didn’t care.
Grayson’s mind went blank as if fireworks were going off in his head. He could feel Virginia getting hard. When he imagined knocking Dane down on the bed and thrusting his penis inside.
Haa…
Dane, breathing as roughly as Grayson, took his lips away. The faces of the two men looking at each other were flushed red.
“Happy now?”
Dane said, pushing him away. He wiped his lips with his arm and scolded Grayson, who had awkwardly stepped back.
“Don’t be jealous for no reason,
you idiot.”
“…Okay.”
Grayson nodded obediently, still looking dazed. Dane looked at him and continued.
“Joshua asked me to take care of him for a while. Nothing like what you’re thinking happened.”
Grayson’s eyes gradually widened. Who was Joshua, was it Joshua Bailey he knew, how did Joshua leave Yeon-woo with you, so you lived together.
There were many things he was curious about, but in the face of one fact, they all disappeared like dust.
Oh my god, he’s explaining it to me.
It didn’t end there. Dane added as if to confirm again.
“Yeon-woo just breathed and left, got it?”
He asked irritably, pushing Grayson’s chest with his second finger. Grayson still looked at Dane with wide eyes and answered.
“…Okay.”
Having gotten the answer he wanted, Dane finally relaxed his expression, turned around, and flicked his fingers, as if telling him to hurry up and come.
Grayson, who had been standing blankly, finally brightened up and hurried after him. Dane glanced back and saw Grayson following him with a silly grin on his face, as if he was so happy. He turned his gaze forward again and chuckled. He thought he was a little cute.
Of course, that thought didn’t last long.
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“Goodbye, Dane. Good work today.”
Dane waved lightly at Ezra’s greeting and got into the car. It was Grayson’s day off today. He wondered for a moment why he hadn’t matched his day off with Dane’s, but soon thought it didn’t matter. Wasn’t it a rare moment of freedom? He finished his day peacefully and headed home, sending Grayson a dot. Of course, he didn’t bother to read Grayson’s texts piled on top of it.
♬♬♪♬♩♪…….
He paused when he realized he was whistling without realizing it, and then he understood. Leaving work is always fun. The whistling that started again didn’t stop until the mansion came into view.
Everything was the same as usual when he opened the front door and went inside. The only thing that felt particularly quiet was probably because Grayson, who used to chirp and cling to him, wasn’t there.
Was he sleeping?
Dane thought, climbing the stairs two or three at a time. By this time, all the employees would have left. It was something he had naturally learned, but the employees who managed this mansion visited two or three times a week to prepare food, clean up, and then disappear like the tide. They appeared after Dane went to work and disappeared before he left, so there was hardly any chance of running into them. That’s why it was so quiet now, which was only natural.
But.
…It’s too quiet.
Dane suddenly stopped, feeling strange. Suddenly, all the noise around him disappeared. It was strange that it was so quiet. It was as if there was no one in the mansion. He thought that the guy had a day off, but then he remembered.
Did he go out somewhere?
If so, it was understandable that it was so quiet. Hearing his footsteps echoing sadly, Dane moved his feet. He felt strange for some reason. It must be because it was the first time he was alone in such a big house. He found a reason that he could accept. The reason why he was feeling a strange silence that he had never felt in his small, comfortable house was probably because of that.
There couldn’t be any other reason…
That’s what he was thinking when he opened the door. Suddenly, the indoor lights flickered on, and Dane stopped in his tracks, startled.
“What is this?”
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Bang, he slammed the door shut again immediately. Dane, who was standing in the hallway holding the doorknob, blinked his wide eyes.
What did I just see?
He froze for a moment, then shook his head quickly like a wet dog before fixing his gaze on the door again.
I must have seen it wrong.
Huff, after taking a deep breath, he turned the doorknob again. Unlike before, Dane opened the door carefully, very slowly, and stopped dead in his tracks at the sight that unfolded before him.
The room was exactly the same as before. Dane, realizing that he hadn’t been mistaken, turned pale and dropped his jaw.
When Dane left in the morning, the room was exactly as it had been when he first entered it. His luggage was minimal, just a backpack, and most of it was cat-related items. Because of that, after Dane left the mansion for work, the room would return to its pristine state, as if no one had used it, except for the slightly disheveled bed where he had slept. So, it should have been the same when he returned from work.
What am I looking at right now?
Dane stood there with wide eyes. The room was filled with flowers. More than all the flowers Dane had seen in his entire life combined. And they were all bright red roses. He had been working at the fire station all day, and now the room looked like it was on fire, all red. Moreover, the pale mint-colored walls were suddenly covered in white, and thin scraps of fabric and ribbons were scattered everywhere in a distracting manner.
He couldn’t believe this was real and just blinked, but the worst thing in this mess was someone sitting on the bed, looking at him.
What the hell is that?
He squeezed his eyes shut and opened them, but nothing changed. The man sitting demurely under the draped canopy on the bed, like a new bride, was definitely Grayson Miller.
That radiant blonde hair, those deep violet eyes, and above all, that flamboyant face could never belong to anyone else. And there he was, sitting primly on the bed where Dane had been sleeping until this morning.
Terrifyingly, completely naked.
With a red ribbon in his hair.
“Welcome home, Darling.”
Grayson greeted Dane in a bright voice, his cheeks flushed red in an absurd manner, with even a shy smile.
It didn’t end there. Grayson, watching Dane turn pale with goosebumps running down his spine, said,
“Since today is a special day, I’ve prepared a special gift for you. It’s me.”
So that ribbon in his hair was for that reason.
Dane blankly recalled with a horrified expression. He seemed to be smiling, truly happy and unable to contain himself. As if he thought Dane would jump into bed and shower him with kisses right now.
Dane didn’t move for several seconds after that. It wasn’t just his body that had frozen like ice. His brain also refused to function and went on strike. It was too cruel to accept this as reality.
But soon, a sense of crisis awakened his mind. Dane startled, shook his head, and strode into the room without a word. Without even glancing at the man sitting on the bed, his eyes shining with anticipation, he completely ignored his existence and walked straight to Darling, who was lying on the cushion. And without saying a word, Dane bent down, picked up the cat, and turned around. Abandoning the rest of his luggage.
“Darling, where are you going! Darling!”
Grayson called out to Dane repeatedly from behind, but he didn’t stop. The sound of approaching footsteps made Dane’s pace quicken. Eventually, they started running down the long hallway.
The loud footsteps of Dane, trying to escape this nightmare, and Grayson, trying to catch him, echoed loudly. Dane, who had hurriedly run down the stairs, inadvertently looked back at the sound of footsteps behind him and turned pale. Grayson, with only a red ribbon on his head, was chasing after him.
“Aaaaaaaah!”
A scream that Dane had never uttered in his life burst from his mouth. And then, with Darling held tightly in one arm, he swung his fist mercilessly at Grayson, who was rushing at him. With a loud thud, a large body flew and crashed.
Haa, haa.
Dane stood there, still clenching his fist, panting. And avoiding the sprawled Grayson, he moved sideways, sticking close to the wall, and after gaining some distance, he rushed back up to his room as if fleeing.
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An awkward silence settled in the snack bar. Dane sat with his arms crossed, tapping one leg, while Grayson rubbed his red, swollen cheek, looking very disgruntled. Fortunately, he was dressed. Dane, who was irritably looking at his shameless face, which was no different from blaming the victim, spoke first.
“Have you finally gone crazy, or what?”
“Crazy! There’s a reason…”
Grayson tried to protest, but Dane was faster.
“If you’re not crazy, why are you sitting naked on someone else’s bed, you pervert.”
He had never seen such a filthy sight. The shock of seeing something he shouldn’t have still hadn’t faded. Dane shuddered at the memory that resurfaced, but Grayson became even more agitated at those words.
“Filthy? Filthy? Are you saying my Virginia is filthy?”
“Why were you doing that in someone else’s room when you could have done it in your own bed, and what’s with the state of the room?”
What did it matter if he stripped naked in his own room? If he had, Dane wouldn’t have been so disgusted. Why was he terrorizing someone else’s room?
But this time, Grayson had his own reason.
“Because it was our anniversary!”
Dane paused at the unexpected words. Anniversary? What anniversary?
Thanksgiving? Independence Day? Easter? Christmas?
What on earth?
Dane, who had been going through the anniversaries that came to mind one by one, looked bewildered, and Grayson declared as if he had expected it.
“It’s our 30-day anniversary.”
Dane frowned and looked at him. He had no idea what he was talking about. 30-day anniversary? What the hell is that…?
“It’s the 31st now.”
Grayson corrected himself after realizing that it was past midnight due to the commotion. Hearing those words, Dane was so dumbfounded that he was speechless. Feeling his mind go blank once again, he just kept blinking.
He didn’t know where to start or what to say. In the end, Dane only opened his mouth, raised both hands with his palms up, and then lowered them.
“…You, celebrate 30 days?”
“Yeah.”
Grayson nodded nonchalantly at the question he barely managed to ask. Dane closed his eyes tightly and opened them three or four times before he finally regained some composure. Soon, irritation surged.
“Who in the world celebrates just 30 days, you crazy bastard.”
“Of course, you should!”
Grayson retorted without losing.
“It’s weird not to, how can I not celebrate every day that I’m in love with you, and just let 30 days pass by? Do you know how much I’ve been waiting for this day? I’ve actually been holding back from throwing an event every day until now. What do you know?”
And Grayson delivered the final blow.
“You haven’t even been on a single date.”
This little…
Dane looked at Grayson in disbelief. This puppy was trying to bite his nose off because he had been too lenient. Was it time to teach him some manners? Just as he was thinking that and clenching his fist, Grayson’s bright red cheeks came into view. Dane paused for a moment, then reluctantly released the tension in his hand and let out a deep sigh.
“Why did you have to wait naked? Don’t you know what moderation is?”
When Dane turned the arrow in a different direction, Grayson unexpectedly answered immediately.
“You like that kind of thing, don’t you.”
Dane, who was taken aback by the reply as if he had already expected it, let out a short gasp of amazement.
“Am I a pervert?”
Grinding his teeth, he snapped, and Grayson silently took out his cell phone and pressed a button. He seemed to be looking for something, and soon he opened the screen and held it out in front of Dane’s eyes. What is this? Dane, frowning irritably, turned his gaze to the screen and paused for a moment.
There was a picture of Dane and Yeon-woo coming out of an adult store together.
Sweat quickly formed on Dane’s temples, and Grayson said threateningly.
“Explain this, how did this picture come about?”