CHAPTER 84

In the car running on the bridge, Leeseo wiped away her tears hanging on the tip of her chin with the back of her hand. The lump in her throat had subsided, but the tears kept coming for no reason. She could feel a lukewarm heat in the corners of her already damp eyes.

Not wanting to show a tearful appearance, she sighed quietly and turned her gaze to the side. The night view flashed outside the car window, gradually turning colorful. Taegyeom’s car had already entered Seoul.

Leeseo shook her head at his offer to take her home. At least only for today, she didn’t want to go back to that terrifying place. She didn’t want to see anything that would remind her of the dreadful moment.

She might have seemed petulant inappropriately, but there was no other choice. Taegyeom, pulling her chin as she bit her lip and whimpered, gently embraced her.  After a while, he released her in silence, fastened her seatbelt, and quietly started the car.

She didn’t explain where they were going, but it didn’t matter. The familiar and long-missed scent of Taegyeom gave her an odd sense of comfort, enough to bring tears to her eyes. She even thought it would be okay to continue the drive without a destination.

After a while, he stopped the car in front of a luxurious lobby of some hotel. Leeseo’s face stiffened as Taegyeom led her out of the car. Holding her hand firmly, Taegyeom walked without hesitation.

He didn’t even stop at the front desk and went straight to the elevator. The uncertainty of whether she had made a wrong assumption became clear the moment they opened the door and entered. It was the hotel room where they last made love and parted ways.

The Han River sparkled peacefully through the front floor-to-ceiling glass window, and she vividly remember the moment when she spilled the words that pierced Taegyeom’s heart and left him alone in the dark room, running away.

Even setting aside that it was the same hotel, Leeseo couldn’t readily understand why he had brought her to the exact same room as that time. She turned to him and asked, 

“Why? Here?”

A self-deprecating, bitter smile appeared at the corner of Taegyeom’s lips, as he looked down at her.

“I’ve been staying here. I didn’t go back to the mansion. I guess you could say I was stubborn.”

“Even so, this place, it’s the same room as back then….the last time I was with you.”

“Yeah. I thought maybe you’d come back. I knew it was a foolish thing, and I didn’t really care what anyone said. I even hoped that if I acted pathetically enough, you might take pity on me, but you were merciless.”

“…….”

“You say you can live well without me, but I was a mess.”

The cautious touch that swept away the w*t and partially dried strands of hair clinging to the cheek was delicate.

“I guess I’ve gotten used to sleeping with you every night without realizing it. I can’t sleep without you. I find myself staring blankly at the ceiling with wide-open eyes, and when I come to my senses, I realize I’ve been gazing at your room window. Innocent as you were, you probably never knew even in your dreams.”

Occasionally, she recalled the black sedan standing at the alley corner. She had thought it might be Taegyeom. No, perhaps she had hoped it was him.

“Staring at your room window like that, imagining you asleep, similar to that damn stalker, the morning would come without me realizing how time passed.”

Leeseo looked at Taegyeom and shook her head, as if saying that he is different from Minhu.

As if he could see through her thoughts, Taegyeom gently touched the corners of her eyes and smiled. The dry laughter pained her heart.

“I may have gone through the motions and pretended to be okay, but my consciousness was all about you. Even the lifelong goal I had pursued seemed trivial and tiresome, like a lie. I feel like I’ve lost my way right in front of the finish line.”

“…”

“Leeseo.”

Taegyeom her in a low, soft voice.

“You said you hated that I was Kwon Kyungrok’s son, and as long as I can’t deny that, you can’t handle someone like me.”

Leeseo’s eyelids twitched as she looked up at him.

“I’ve never denied being Kwon Kyungrok’s son, but I have reminded myself of it over and over again, sometimes to the point of strangling myself. I’ve lived with a force of hatred toward that man, my father.”

Her eyes turned red. She thought she had shed all her tears earlier, so she couldn’t tell where the tears were coming from now.

“I’ve lived my life consumed by a desire to ruin someone and lived with only the shell remaining. I had the audacity to want something more. I just want to live by your side as a simple person.”

Realizing how cruel she had been to him, Leeseo clamped her mouth shut and narrowed her eyes.

“I can’t deny my dirty bloodline, but I won’t create any more troubles for you to handle. So, just…”

His neatly shaped eyebrows twisted in pain, then settled back. The strength in his serene pupils seemed to bind her so tightly that she couldn’t move a muscle.

“Just stay by my side.”

Despite the pleading tone, a fierce desire flashed in his eyes. Leeseo now understood the origin of his intense possessiveness, burning passion, and coarse desires.

Taegyeom brushed his thumb over her lips. The trembling lips pressed, crinkled, and slightly parted. Something hot seemed to gather beneath the base of her throat, swirling wildly. The overwhelming mass of uncontrollable emotions swelled until it was hard to breathe.

The rising sensation was so intense and hot that it was impossible to restrain. She blurted out what she had tightly kept hidden.

“I like you. I missed you.”

And with all her strength, she pulled on his nape, colliding their lips. Taegyeom’s body stiffened, not expecting Leeseo to press their lips together first. She lifted up on her heels and tilted her head to the side, sliding her tongue between his lips.

Suddenly, she felt a force that seemed to squeeze around her waist tightly. Leeseo, who had been pushing her tongue into Taegyeom’s mouth, couldn’t regain her composure as he pressed against her. The kiss was all-consuming, and she clung to Taegyeom willingly, sharing her breath with him.

Lips moved quickly, saliva entangled and flowed down their throats. As if that weren’t enough, a trickle ran down the side of her mouth, but Taegyeom didn’t stop. There were no rules to the way he devoured her.

He deeply penetrated as if to confirm her presence, fiercely wrapping around her and then lifted his face back up to take her in with both eyes full of disbelief. Taegyeom frantically pressed his lips to her nose, her cheeks, the corners of her eyes. His ragged breath shattered against her ear, her cheek, the nape of her neck.

Gasping for breath, Leeseo reached out. She wanted to touch him more, to feel him more, to blend into him seamlessly so that there would be no space between them.

As her fingertip touched the buckle of his pants, a firm grip caught her wrist. His dilated pupils, like an excited beast, stared at her as if piercing through her.

“You’ve had a cruel day today that you shouldn’t have experienced in your lifetime, so if you’re a proper human being, you should know that you have to endure it.”

The bulging outline that swelled up in front of his pants was too huge to bear. When they were close enough for their noses to touch, Taegyeom spoke through gritted teeth.

“As a trash from birth, I feel like my d*ck’s going to explode because I want to hold you so badly.”

His hard erect*on rubbed against her flat stomach. A tingling sensation spread through her, making her clench, and she could feel herself getting w*t underneath out of habit.

“Don’t hold back, I want it.”

As soon as Leeseo gave her consent, Taegyeom’s demeanor changed drastically. A hot sigh escaped from his tense lips.

“Ah… You really drive me crazy.”

His somewhat cautious and seemingly restrained patience vanished without a trace. He stared at her with fierce eyes and tore off her half-dried clothes clinging to her body. He tossed the hastily stripped garment aside like a rag, and lunged back in, tangling violently as if he couldn’t bear to let go for a moment.

Taegyeom pushed the half-n*ked Leeseo against the glass window. His pants, still not completely removed, hung around his thighs. The p*nis protruding outward was drenched in pre-c*m, glistening transparently. The sight of his disheveled form sent a choking wave of excitement through her.

Gasping for breath, Leeseo couldn’t tear her gaze away from the long and thick m*mber pulsating in her lower abdomen. The gaping gl*ns hole throbbed, spurting a thick stream of pre-c*m.

Grasping the base of his c*ck, which throbbed impatiently as if it were about to c*m, he grabbed one of her thighs and lifted her up. Even though her back touched the cold glass window, the chill couldn’t be felt as her body boiled with heat.

Grasping the base of his c*ck, which throbbed impatiently as if it were about to c*m, he grabbed one of her thighs and lifted her up, her back pressed against the cold glass, her body boiling with heat that she couldn’t even feel.

“Leeseo, Hyun Leeseo.”

The voice calling out her name directly sent a shiver through her. Through the p*nis intimately pressed against her cr*tch, her blatant response was undoubtedly transmitted. She felt embarrassed yet strangely excited, like a pervert.