By Zephyria 
A kiss like venting continued. Ha-jin had no choice but to give up his breath helplessly to Eden’s strength, who stubbornly sucked on his stiff tongue. The strength in his arms holding Eden escaped for a moment.
Eden, who firmly grabbed the body trying to fall under the bathtub once again, aggressively explored his hot mouth. He pressed down on the soft inner flesh of his cheeks and swallowed the saliva that burst out like juice.
“Ugh, heuk… um!”
Ha-jin’s back arched greatly because his breathing hole was blocked. His face was also painfully distorted, as if he were being tortured, not kissed. Eventually, his vision became blurry.
Eden licked, pressed, and rubbed the mucous membrane in Ha-jin’s mouth, who was almost unconscious, and took him greedily. As he gathered saliva and sent it over his throat like a punishment, suppressed groans erupted.
“Keuk… heubeub!”
Ha-jin pounded the bottom of the bathtub with his heels, and then slumped down.
Eden, who had been running around like a runaway colt in the realm of irrationality, packed with impulse, anger, and pleasure, finally took his swollen lips off after the body in his arms slumped.
“Haa, haa… hoo….”
Ha-jin’s face, who closed his eyes as if fainting, was chillingly pale. Even under the warm reddish-orange lighting, he looked completely like a patient. Eden’s eyes shone brightly as he looked at him lying like a corpse.
He hesitated, repeatedly grabbing and releasing Ha-jin’s wet hair behind his head as if contemplating. He rubbed his throbbing cock lewdly against his crotch and dragged out the time, then let out a deep sigh.
Drip… driip….
A drop of water that splashed on the ceiling fell onto the bathtub. Eden tilted his head back and calmed his excitement for a while, then picked up the sprawled Ha-jin and headed straight out of the bathroom.
He slowly melted his icicle-like hands and feet with his breath, and wrapped his sweaty body without a single gap to raise his body temperature.
Perhaps because his muscles were excessively stiffened by the cold, Ha-jin kept groaning, so he had to massage his trapezius muscles, forearms, flanks, abdomen, thighs, and calves in turn.
Eden was silently continuing his second nursing care, which was not in his nature.
“Heueu….”
This time, Ha-jin, who was holding his head, let out a painful groan.
“Why? Does your head hurt?”
As expected, there was no answer. He grabbed his trembling hand and pressed his thumb firmly on his temple with care. Eok, eueok…. For a while, only suppressed groans were emitted, but at some point, his breath subsided and became quiet.
Nevertheless, he couldn’t rest assured, so he had to knead Ha-jin’s entire body from head to toe like kneading rice cake.
Eden’s forehead was covered with sweat, even though he had just taken a shower. He hugged the body of the patient who had fallen asleep as if fainting like a bamboo wife.
It was an unusually long dawn.
“Haa….”
Eden buried his nose in Ha-jin’s crown, which smelled of fragrant soap, and closed his eyes.
Stable breathing, the heartbeat felt through his chest, and the body temperature that began to emit warmth…. Ha-jin’s condition had improved a lot at a glance, enough to feel the reward of hard nursing, but he couldn’t fall asleep easily.
Even though he didn’t show it, Eden was also quite surprised by everything that happened last night. It was the first time that so many emotions had dominated his mind in an instant.
An empty house, blood scattered in the hallway, a portable light abandoned in the bushes. Just recalling the fragmentary memories was a series of dizzying moments.
Lost in thought, Eden unknowingly put strength into his arms holding Ha-jin. He had no way to explain what this anxiety was that remained even after all the situations were resolved.
He had never worried so much about the safety of his companions who were far away.
He opened his closed eyes and looked down at Ha-jin in the darkness. His gaze, which had been staring at his handsome forehead and neat eyelashes, eventually reached his tightly closed lips. His lips, which had been dry as a corpse, were now plump and swollen with vitality.
It was by no means an impulse to pour out rough kisses on his lips that arrogantly spewed out curses and not let go until he fainted. The moment he entangled his hot tongue and greedily sucked on his sweet saliva, Eden realized that he had been wanting to do this all along.
Could it be just simple sexual desire? There were more than one or two points to consider to make a hasty conclusion.
Because Do Ha-jin was the only one who kept catching his eye, making him reach out, and making him do irrational things.
‘If I don’t watch over you, what are you going to do? Go out and die again? Get bitten?’
A smile naturally came out when he remembered his fearless appearance. The clock on the bedside table was already past 3 a.m., so if he continued like this, he might see the sunrise.
He hugged his body, which was squirming uncomfortably, once again, and shamelessly held his lips for the last time. After digging between his powerless lips and sucking on his soft tongue, he licked around his philtrum like a cat grooming.
He should have done this sooner.
Eden happily savored the satisfying taste in his mouth with a brief regret.
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Hek, hek, hek…! Sniff, lick….
Hot breath warming his ears and something wet sweeping his cheeks like crazy.
“Eueung….”
Ha-jin frowned and waved his hand in the air, and plump, warm skin wrapped around his palm.
Lick, sniff, keueung….
“…….”
His hazy mind quickly woke up, but Ha-jin couldn’t open his closed eyes and quietly held his breath. Even in the midst of this, something wet greedily swept over his cheeks and lips.
It wasn’t difficult to realize that the unidentified thing was Pie’s tongue, but he still couldn’t easily lift his closed eyelids.
Because the existence that was frantically licking his face and lips… had increased by one more person, or rather, one more person, as of yesterday.
“Crazy….”
Ha-jin let out a sigh at the dizzying memories that struck his head.
He felt like he would faint again before he could even open his closed eyes. As he groped through the fragments of memories that came to mind sporadically, the fine hairs behind his ears stood on end.
Moist skin and hot body temperature, thick arms that wrapped around his body painfully, hands that firmly grabbed his hair, and Jeong Tae-geon’s tongue that explored his mouth with a stern force like giving a punishment.
After lying blankly for a while, Ha-jin finally lifted his closed eyelids. As expected, the first thing he saw was Pie’s face, who was sticking out his brown snout and licking him like crazy.
Fortunately, the seat next to him was empty. As he stared blankly at the tightly closed door, the problematic person appeared as the door burst open.
“Are you awake? Get up and eat.”
Ha-jin, who had been holding his breath for a while, slowly raised his creaking upper body. Let’s be calm, let’s be calm.
“Ahem, when did you wake up… ahem! Did you wake up?”
When he opened his mouth, his throat was blocked as if he had choked. Eden, who was holding a ladle incongruously, replied calmly.
“I haven’t been awake for long either. How’s your body?”
“I’m okay, ayo.”
“That’s a relief then. Clean up the bed and come out.”
Squeak— thump, the door closed again.
‘What is it. Why is he so calm?’
He looked so different from usual that he wondered if everything that happened last night was all his imagination.
Just as he was blinking blankly again, dark brown eyes with an oval shape blocked his vision without warning.
“Uh-oh, Pie, did you sleep well?”
When he belatedly stroked his face and back slowly, Pie’s lips turned up happily as if he was in a good mood. He must have suffered a lot last night because he met incompetent owners, but he just felt sorry for him for greeting him happily from the morning.
“Pie, you’re suffering a lot because you met the wrong owner…. Ugh, you, don’t lick my eyes…!”
As he was dawdling and playing with Pie, an angry voice was heard from outside the door.
“What are you doing not coming out quickly?”
“Oh. Yes, I’m going out.”
Ha-jin got up awkwardly. Then, he saw his reflection in the full-length mirror across from him and let out an exclamation full of surprise. His messy hair was sticking up so much that it looked like he had been hit by a bomb.
Without knowing that Eden had been stroking his head all night and never left him alone for a moment, he hurriedly fixed his hair with a flushed face.
Even while he was dawdling, the arm muscles raised upward were quite sore. His whole body was stiff with muscle pain because he had fought zombies with his sick body last night.
Fortunately, his condition had recovered surprisingly overnight. Ha-jin, who had no idea that this was also thanks to Eden’s painstaking care, looked at the T-shirt with an duck character and the shorts he saw for the first time with a puzzled expression before leaving the room.
Eden was putting thinly boiled porridge in a porcelain bowl. He glanced at Ha-jin, who was walking out hesitantly, and gestured toward the living room.
As soon as he sat down at the folding table in the living room, a bowl of porridge was placed in front of him. Ha-jin’s nose twitched at the savory sesame oil smell that rose gently. He was already thinking about the porridge he had eaten at Misan Garden.
“Thank you for the food.”
Ha-jin smiled and buried his nose in the bowl, inhaling the food like crazy. Meanwhile, Eden poured the orange juice he had brought instead of medicine last night into a ceramic cup.
“Drink while you eat.”
Ha-jin’s eyes widened when he belatedly discovered the orange drink. Eden watched him make such a fickle expression like a child and quietly swallowed his laughter.