When she came to her senses, her n*pple was being sucked. Lips sealed around it without a gap, making wet sounds as they fed on her greedily.

From the outside it might have looked like nothing more than sucking, but what was happening inside his mouth was another matter entirely.

He rolled the stiffened peak with the pointed tip of his tongue and spread outward to the *reola. The reason telling her this was wrong had been swallowed whole by instinct and was nowhere to be found.

She felt ready to scream. An unfamiliar pleasure washed over her, and her underwear, which had grown wet without her noticing, clung to her folds and would not come away.

“Hmm… mm.”

One hand was busy gripping Seo Hwido’s hair, the other clamped over her own mouth. But the pained m*ans that slipped out without her permission gave her no room to spare.

At that moment she thought she heard a low d*mn it. The hand that had been sucking at her br*ast and gradually moving lower rubbed without hesitation over the thin fabric of her pajama pants.

Yeon-ah was only flustered at how easily her body had responded. She had no experience with men whatsoever, and it was a place she had never even touched herself, which was perhaps why even the smallest stimulation made the fine hairs on her skin stand on end and goosebumps rise all over her.

“Stop, stop… hic.”

“There’s a flood here, Baek Yeon-ah.”

Squelch. The sound of her pajamas already soaked through and sticking reached her own ears. What was all that? Had she leaked without knowing? She was startled and about to sit up when it happened.

“Should I take care of it for you?”

Take care of what, she wondered.

The squelching sound that kept reaching her ears was mortifying, yet he wore the expression of someone offering a generous favor. The way one might casually exchange greetings with someone met by chance.

“It’s itchy here, isn’t it. I’ll take care of it.”

His voice saying so was sweet.

Looking at his lips and her n*pple glistening, soaked in saliva, her mind simply went blank.

Right, it’s a dream anyway.

“Mm… yes. Do, do it…”

There was nothing more to say. His hand had already slipped inside her pajama pants and was pushing her underwear aside.

“Ah…!”

A finger slid deep into her entrance, seeming to take measure of the size. He spread his fingers apart this way and that, the way one plays rock-paper-scissors, and murmured low.

“Tight… so incredibly tight.”

And yet she was flooding like this, he said, offering it as a compliment. Not that it reached her ears.

First one finger, then two, then three. The steadily increasing number of fingers left her mind genuinely reeling. Enough to make her wonder if she had been wrong to ask him to take care of it.

“Hic… ah, it hurts.”

At that, Seo Hwido spoke in a low voice, the way one might read a thought.

“F*ck, I’ve held back too long, phew… I want to push inside you right now. But no matter how I look at it, this hole is too small to take me. So bear with it a little.”

Having said that, the man spread her legs to their limit. Then he settled himself between them and tore her wet underwear apart with a sharp rip.

“What are you… what!”

“I have to loosen you up. You want to tear?”

“Ahh…!”

Before the words were even finished, his lips touched her folds. Yeon-ah nearly screamed without thinking, but she clamped her mouth shut with the thought of Yul in the sarangchae.

Hwido licked thoroughly around the entrance that had gone red and swollen from his fingers just moments before. He spread saliva over the plump, swollen l*bia and pushed his tongue into the opening that fluttered around it.

“Ahh!”

His tongue slipped smoothly inside and licked along the inner walls. He pressed his tongue down into the secret place no one had ever touched and sucked at it without a gap.

It felt as though he was kissing her entrance. She tried to determine whether this situation, where something she could not even have imagined was happening, was a dream, but the finger flicking her cl*toris dismantled her thoroughly.

“Th, hh. Sto…”

“Baek Yeon-ah.”

This was truly absurd.

The lips touching her folds moved as they called her name, and Yeon-ah looked down in a daze. The eyes the color of storm clouds, as though rain might pour at any moment, glittered strangely.

“Say my name.”

“I… I don’t want to. Haahh!”

The heaviness gathering in her lower belly was strange. A tingling sensation that rang from her very toes made her legs clench on their own.

Whether he had sensed her state, Seo Hwido lifted his head fully from between her legs. And he twisted the corner of his mouth into a smirk.

“Are… are you a pervert? Why there… why!”

“I s*ck because it tastes good. Why else would I.”

“That’s absurd.”

She felt she understood why the tip of that man’s high nose was glistening, what had made him like this, and what the clear fl*id he was gathering with a flick of his tongue was. The embarrassment crashing over her without limit made Yeon-ah squeeze her eyes shut.

At that moment, a low chuckle sounded. At the same time, a large finger pushed back into her entrance, and the inside, a little more slick than before, was worked rapidly in and out.

“Ugh!”

“If Kim Yul hears, he’ll come bursting in thinking his noona is being eaten alive. You know that, right? This room has no lock.”

Before the words were finished, his tongue touched her cl*toris with the hood pulled back, and Yeon-ah’s eyes flew open.

“Hh! D, don’t…!”

With their eyes locked, her cl*toris was drawn into his mouth. The fingers thrusting into her below picked up speed. Ha, Yeon-ah forced her eyes wide open and shook her head to hold onto her fading consciousness, but it was no use.

“Phew… we haven’t even started yet. If you tell me to stop…”

“Mm, hh. Hhh!”

Her tingling folds fluttered and her whole body clenched tight. In the moment she pressed both hands over her mouth to hold back the m*ans that kept breaking free and shook her head from side to side.

Bang, bang bang! At the peak she reached, bursts of vivid fireworks went off without pause before her eyes. Her body convulsed and bucked of its own accord, already beyond her control.

***

“It was a dream…”

It had to be a dream. Otherwise, none of those unreal things could have happened.

The proof of it was especially the fact that when she woke, everything around her was clean as though nothing had happened, and the underwear Seo Hwido had torn off her was intact and on her body.

‘Baek Yeon-ah.’

The image of Seo Hwido pressing his lips to her folds and calling her name sweetly had been appalling. Thinking about everything that had followed. How she could have dreamed something so obscene, she could not understand no matter how she tried.

Could there be an underground stream running beneath the house?

The baffling dreams that kept coming whenever she slept not only went beyond anything she could have anticipated, they leapt and smashed through every boundary, leaving her unable to collect herself.

This isn’t even frustration, you’ve really lost it, Baek Yeon-ah.

“Ha… thank goodness it was a dream…”

Yeon-ah muttered to herself and spread out the picnic mat she had brought. It was her first time at the summit of the mountain behind the house, but seeing the exercise equipment and pavilion arranged together, it was more than enough to enjoy the feeling of a proper outing.

“A dream? Noona, did you have a scary dream?”

“Hm? Oh, no. Nothing. But Yul, did you sleep well last night? You cried a lot yesterday saying you missed your mom. It would have been nice if noona had been there with you…”

“No, I didn’t sleep well at all! It kept sounding like someone was sobbing somewhere… I was really scared thinking it might be a ghost! But I held it together! I was afraid if I ran to noona, uncle would scold me…!”

Her heart dropped.

It was certainly a dream, but imagining Yul having seen even a moment of what had happened in the dream made her blood run cold.

Yeon-ah shook her head and stepped onto the picnic mat. Yul followed her lead, took off his sneakers, and climbed up to sit beside her.

“Uncle is uncle, but you’re at the age where you’re growing. Wandering around at night like that isn’t good for you. Noona actually had a bit of a hard time with sleepwalking too. So look at this. My height stopped growing halfway, right? That’s why children of this great nation need to sleep soundly. And eat well.”

Yeon-ah opened the lid of the bento box she had prepared early that morning.

She had not slept deeply thanks to the tremendous dream she had had all night, but she had gotten up at dawn to make the gimbap to keep her promise to Yul. Of course, not wanting to run into Seo Hwido was also part of why she had gotten up so early.

As she set down each compartment of the opened bento box one by one, gimbap and neatly peeled fruit came into view.

“Wow! Noona, you’re seriously so talented! Look at the gimbap, it’s a work of art! It’s going to be so good. Wow!”

“Noona may not know much else, but she can cook a little. So while you’re here, just say the word if there’s anything you want to eat. Noona will make it for you!”

“Wow, really? Great! Hehe.”

Yul picked up a small fork and speared a colorful piece of gimbap. Then he brought it to Yeon-ah’s lips as she gazed down at the scenery below the mountain for a moment.

“By the way, noona, what brought you all the way out here?”

“Hm? Oh… well.”

Yeon-ah hesitated briefly. She was wondering whether she could tell a young child the truth. That ghosts kept appearing at all hours and she had not been able to work, so she had come here practically chased out. But would saying that frighten him?

After a brief pause, Yeon-ah slowly opened her mouth.

“Noona came to her maternal grandmother’s house. It’s your uncle’s house now, but it used to be our grandmother’s house.”

Whether he had asked the question without much interest in the answer, Yul listened to her response only half-attentively. Right, it was a topic a young child would have no interest in.

Yeon-ah let a small smile slip and was about to wrap up the conversation when it happened.

“Oh, so that was your grandmother’s house! Then you must have come to visit your grandmother a lot?”

“Hmm… circumstances didn’t allow for that. I think I visited once at some point, but I was too young to remember… But why do you ask?”

That means it is noona! Yul murmured, and clapped his hands with a bright snap.