Chapter 16

Soyoon’s pale white face twisted deeply. Sitting on his lap, she lowered her gaze weakly. The first thing that caught her eye was his jet-black hair. And beneath that, she saw his lips licking at her n*pple.

That pink n*pple, rolling around inside his mouth, was clearly hers, and yet it felt as though it was not hers at all. It felt far too suggestive. She swallowed dryly without meaning to. Unable to bear looking any longer at him sucking on her n*pple as though rolling candy around in his mouth, Soyoon closed her eyes.

“Ah!”

A sharp m*an slipped from Soyoon’s lips. As if he did not like the fact that she had closed her eyes, Do-ha bit down on her n*pple with his teeth.

“Open your eyes.”

At the cold voice, Soyoon slowly opened her eyes.

Her gaze met his, looking at her from right in front of her face. Soyoon’s especially dark eyes trembled faintly.

With their eyes still locked, he wrapped one arm tightly around Soyoon’s waist and moved, changing their position. Soyoon, now laid back on the sofa, stared up at him.

He looked frustrated. She did not know why, but it was an expression that clearly said he did not like something.

As he lay over her on the sofa and let out a small sigh, his Adam’s apple moved up and down in a dangerous way. Soyoon quietly watched him as he undid his shirt buttons one by one. Every time one button came undone, Soyoon felt as though her heart might burst.

He all but threw the shirt he had taken off onto the floor. As he braced his hand beside her head and moved, Soyoon bit her lip at the sight of the muscles twitching before her eyes.

She had known since childhood that he had a good body, but only now, seeing it for herself, did she realize it was this good. She stared at his broad shoulders, then lowered her eyes when her heart gave a painful throb.

Her heart was beating so fast it almost hurt. Soyoon’s whole body, not just her face, had turned bright red with heat.

She did not know what to do, worried that at this rate he might actually hear the sound of her heartbeat.

Soyoon’s eyes rolled about, not knowing where to place themselves.

That, too, lasted only a moment, because the instant he pulled off her T-shirt, her mind went blank.

After quickly stripping off even her underwear, he lowered his head with a certain urgency and scraped his teeth over her n*pple again.

“Hng. Wai, wait… hng.”

Goosebumps rose all over her. The more persistently his lips moved, the more Soyoon’s waist lifted and trembled up and down.

This was the first time she had ever felt anything like this. Her already large eyes widened even more as she could not even breathe properly, not knowing how she was supposed to respond.

For some reason, she felt as though she might cry. She could not believe it. That she was doing something like this with Cha Do-ha, of all people. She, who had only ever looked at his back from afar. He, who had never once turned around to look at her.

This moment, now, when they were doing something too suggestive to ever fully put into words, felt just like a dream.

As he moved his lips persistently along her chest, he slid upward and pressed repeated kisses to her collarbone. Feeling as if he were treating her like something precious, Soyoon bit her lip.

Because of the things he did that made her misunderstand from time to time, he would never even dream of how often she swung between heaven and hell. So that must be why he was holding her like this, so warmly.

Soyoon tried to steady her ragged breathing, but the more she tried, the more disordered it became.

After burying his face at the nape of her neck and biting and sucking at her skin for a long while, he suddenly let out a deep sigh.

“You need to put on a little weight.”

That large hand, which she had always thought was very beautiful for a man, stroked her flat stomach several times. Each time, Soyoon’s shoulders flinched. Hearing him say she needed to gain some weight stung her in a subtle way.

Was it because she was jealous that he had been with other women? Or, if not that, was it because she felt he was comparing her to them? And if it was neither of those, then how did he know that it would hurt to take him if she was too thin?

Soyoon bit her lip and glared at him.

“…Why? Because it’ll hurt when you push in?”

For an instant, he froze.

“Watch your mouth!”

His tone sounded like he was suppressing something.

“…Let’s make this nice.”

He was the one who had said it would hurt if she was too thin when he pushed in.

Even though she knew she should not be like this, her words kept coming out twisted. What good did it do to be jealous?

This man had a woman from long ago, and there might even be other women she did not know about. Why are you being like this, Lee Soyoon.

Every time she breathed, her heart lurched. It felt as though it had broken down.

Yesterday, the memory of the figure that had looked so healthy compared to her own rose before her, and the words would not come out gently. She kept seeing before her eyes the woman who had stood proudly at his side, so she squeezed her eyes shut and then opened them again.

Still, compared to the rest of her thin body, her chest was fairly full.

Is it not enough? With that thought, she looked at him.

His gaze was so deep and intense that it felt as though her body might burn away, and Soyoon covered her chest with her hand. As if he could not bear it, he immediately caught her wrist and pulled it down.

“Don’t cover yourself.”

“I’m so thin there’s nothing to look at. Don’t look.”

He stayed still for a moment, then slowly lifted the corner of his lips. Unlike his lowered gaze, his eyes curved beautifully. Even as she thought his smile was pretty, that only irritated her more.

Because it made her think this man liked that kind of style.

Her chest hurt as though a thorn had lodged in it. She had ended liking him six years ago. She did not know why her heart kept being like this. In the end, she and he were only bound by a contract.

And yet she hated him for giving her looks that were enough to make her misunderstand.

“I said don’t look, didn’t I?”

She said it on purpose in a sullen tone, but as if he did not care in the slightest, he raised even his upper body. From her head to her face, then her neck, chest, and navel. Everywhere his searching gaze touched grew hot enough to melt. Her whole body tingled.

She had told him not to look, yet his gaze only grew more intent.

He had been gripping her left br*ast in one hand and kneading it gently, but gradually he put more strength into it. At the hand pressing and kneading as if it might crush her, a m*an escaped Soyoon without her meaning to.

“Uh… ah. It hurts. Hng.”

Again. Again.

As if he could not hold back any longer, he crashed his lips against hers roughly, and Soyoon’s eyes darkened without limit. What could he possibly be thinking, kissing her so fervently as though she were a woman he loved.

That lasted only a moment, because the hand moving steadily down from her chest made Soyoon’s gaze blur into a complete mess.

With unfocused eyes, she took him in.

“Don’t look at me like that.”

“……?”

“I told you, didn’t I? Don’t trust me.”

Unable to understand what he meant, Soyoon paused for a moment. Then she remembered what he had said before in the car, telling her not to get into another man’s car and not to trust him either.

“Don’t look at me with such innocent eyes.”

At that huskier voice saying, You’re the one who started this-, Soyoon swallowed dryly. After laying thorough waste to her n*pple, he moved lower and began placing small kisses around her navel. At the sound of her belt buckle coming undone, Soyoon stopped breathing.

Goosebumps rose all over her body.

With a ziiip- sound, the zipper came down, and his hand touched her panties.

At the heat, so hot it felt as if it would burn her, Soyoon panicked and tried to close her legs. But blocked by his leg, she could not move at all.

He hooked his fingers into her pants.

It was at the exact moment he was about to pull them down with force.

The phone he had left on the table rang.

But even though the phone was ringing, he did not look as though he had any intention of stopping. As he licked again at the n*pple still wet with saliva and tried to pull down her pants, Soyoon gently pushed at his shoulder.

His hand paused.

She lifted her eyes, and without either of them saying a word, their gazes met. The call, which had stopped, began ringing again. Summoning her courage, Soyoon opened her mouth.

“You’re… getting a call.”

“…I know that too.”

A crease forming between his brows, he lifted his upper body. As she watched him roughly push back his hair, she lowered her eyes. Soyoon’s eyes rounded and quickly flew back upward.

She could not believe what she had just seen, and Soyoon swallowed so hard it made an audible sound.