Daily life flowed by quickly. At the company he was her work superior, outside he was a close oppa, and at home they shared their bodies. Hyena and Gunwoo’s strange relationship continued.

Gunwoo during s*x was truly a beast. It was amazing how he’d held back all this time. 

He pushed her relentlessly every single day without fail, so Hyena had to fall asleep exhausted in Gunwoo’s arms every night. The difference in stamina was truly overwhelming.

On the day they were meeting Sejun and Yoo Jeong, a thoroughly tense Hyena said the same thing for what must have been the umpteenth time.

“You know we absolutely can’t get caught, right?”

Even if Sejun didn’t notice, Yoo Jeong was incredibly perceptive. So one wrong move and they could get caught. 

No matter how close they were—close enough to reveal even their most private matters—she didn’t want them to know about this kind of relationship. 

Gunwoo, who’d been quietly watching Hyena tremble with anxiety the whole time, answered bluntly.

“Seems like you’re the only one who needs to be careful.”

It was an irrefutable fact. She was about to snap back at him for pointing it out so specifically when she closed her mouth. She’d spotted Yoo Jeong sitting not far away.

“Go ahead.”

Gunwoo left those words and approached the register. Steeling herself mentally, she approached Yoo Jeong. Yoo Jeong, who’d spotted Hyena, jumped up from her seat and even grabbed her hands, expressing her delight.

“How long has it been?”

“Right? I almost forgot your face.”

“But why does your face look so rough? Worse than me after a deadline.”

She was eating much better than before thanks to Gunwoo thoroughly taking care of her. 

The problem was having to be tormented by him all night. The saying about feeding someone well to devour them really hit home.

“I guess it’s because I haven’t been sleeping.”

She pruned the facts appropriately.

“What’s up with Yoon Hyena, who falls asleep within 10 minutes of lying down? Is it because of that person you’re interested in?”

“…”

“The one whose n*ked body you saw.”

Yoo Jeong added, lowering her voice.

“Ah, that got resolved.”

“That’s a relief. When you’re faced with it, it all works out somehow.”

Yoo Jeong, who’d been chattering excitedly, glanced at Gunwoo standing not far away placing an order.

“That man is a total sculpture, isn’t he?”

Hyena followed Yoo Jeong’s gaze. Gunwoo was taking a call outside the restaurant.

“That’s Do Gunwoo.”

“Hm?”

“Do Gunwoo, Sejun oppa’s friend.”

“What?”

Yoo Jeong’s voice got loud. Several gazes in the restaurant turned toward Yoo Jeong, but she didn’t care.

“You didn’t tell me he was that good-looking.”

“…”

“A walking sculpture is coming this way. Along with an ordinary, average guy.”

Only then did Hyena stare behind her. Gunwoo and Sejun were walking side by side. 

Sejun’s looks weren’t bad either, but standing next to Gunwoo, he looked like an ordinary man just like Yoo Jeong said.

“Hello. I’m Yoo Jeong, Hyena’s friend and Sejun oppa’s girlfriend. I’ve heard a lot about you, but this is the first time we’re meeting.”

All that came back to her high-energy greeting was “I’m Do Gunwoo.” Hyena and Sejun, accustomed to this reaction, exchanged glances. 

Yoo Jeong also seemed to have heard stories, so she wasn’t flustered by the curt greeting. While everyday conversation was flowing, the food they’d ordered came out.

Gunwoo cut the steak in front of Hyena into easy-to-eat pieces and placed it back in front of her. Yoo Jeong, who’d been quietly watching, whispered to Sejun.

“Gunwoo oppa seems like the caring type.”

“Not at all.”

Yoo Jeong’s brow furrowed slightly at the unexpected answer, but no one noticed.

“But what are you going to do with nothing to eat?”

It was a comment Sejun threw at Gunwoo while skillfully twirling his pasta. Hyena tilted her head. Gunwoo liked Western food as much as she did. He was the one who’d made the reservation at this restaurant…

“Why wouldn’t he have anything to eat? It’s all stuff oppa likes.”

At Hyena’s words, Sejun burst out laughing.

“Gunwoo likes this kind of thing? He’s a total native Korean…”

“Don’t talk nonsense and just eat.”

Gunwoo, who’d cut off Sejun’s words, put a piece of steak in his mouth. The sight was like a pictorial, naturally drawing the eye. It wasn’t just Hyena who thought so—women in the restaurant kept glancing at him.

Pointlessly handsome.

She pouted for no reason and focused on her meal. The conversation naturally continued in combinations of Hyena and Yoo Jeong, Gunwoo and Sejun. The pent-up chatter came out endlessly.

“Now that the deadline’s over, you’ll be free for a while.”

“Two weeks? After that, year-end deadline.”

Yoo Jeong made an exaggerated sad face.

“Wow, that’s really an extreme schedule.”

“Still, there’s no superior harassing me, so it’s manageable. How about you lately? That manager on your team, is he still harassing you?”

“Pretty much.”

“Didn’t you say a new team leader was coming? Can’t that person rein him in?”

The salad she was eating got stuck in her throat. Gunwoo pushed a water glass toward Hyena, who was coughing.

“A manager is harassing you?”

It was a question directed at Hyena, but she couldn’t answer properly because of her coughing. In the end, Yoo Jeong opened her mouth instead.

“There’s that type of person everywhere, right? Weak to the strong, strong to the weak. That manager seems to be that type. Hyena can’t stand seeing injustice either. So I think she got on his bad side.”

“Ah… I’ll need to give him a warning.”

Gunwoo’s muttering stuck in her ear. Sure enough.

“What? You’re going to warn that manager, oppa?”

Yoo Jeong, who’d also heard, asked with wide eyes. Gunwoo stared at Hyena. Like he was asking, what will you say? In times like this, a frontal ass*ult was the answer.

“This person is our team’s team leader.”

Hyena raised both hands politely toward Gunwoo and said playfully.

“Ah, come to think of it, the company that scouted you and Hyena’s company have the same name.”

Sejun, who apparently hadn’t connected it that way at all, laughed helplessly. Beside him, Yoo Jeong, who’d been smiling meaningfully, asked Gunwoo.

“I heard you received many scouting offers—I’m curious how you specifically ended up entering Hyena’s company.”

“The timing just worked out.”

“Ah, timing… At this point, doesn’t it seem like you and Hyena are destiny rather than coincidence?”

“Maybe so.”

It sounded like an ordinary conversation on the surface, but a strange tension hung over the table. Sejun cut in between them.

“After more than twenty years, it could become destiny.”

After the meal—where she didn’t know if food was going in her nose or mouth—ended, she craved something extremely sweet. 

When the server came to take dessert orders and everyone ordered americanos, only Hyena said a different menu item.

“I’ll have a vanilla latte…”

Her words were blocked by Gunwoo.

“Have an americano. Or drink juice.”

“Why?”

“You get an upset stomach when you drink things with milk.”

“One cup is fine.”

“Steak and pasta. You’re already over capacity.”

Even knowing Gunwoo’s words weren’t wrong at all, she didn’t want to lose. Gunwoo, who’d been looking at stubborn Hyena’s face, opened his mouth.

“Three americanos and one vanilla latte, please.”

Only then did the waiting server leave.

‘I definitely won the fight, but what’s this uncomfortable feeling?’

Hyena tilted her head.

The coffee each person ordered was placed in front of them. Hyena held the vanilla latte without hesitation. The tension loosened a bit at the sweetness enveloping her mouth. 

Just as she was about to take another sip, Gunwoo suddenly snatched the cup. Then he shoved the americano at her.

While Hyena was flustered, Gunwoo calmly brought Hyena’s cup to his mouth.

“You tasted it, so that’s enough.”

While spouting absurd words.

Sejun, who’d witnessed the situation completely, shook his head. Beside him, only Yoo Jeong showed a reaction similar to Hyena’s.

“He’s always like that, so don’t worry about it.”

“Always…”

Yoo Jeong, who’d been repeating Sejun’s words, asked Gunwoo a question for some reason.

“Oppa, you don’t have a girlfriend?”

“No.”

“Why not? You seem like you’d be popular.”

Gunwoo drank the vanilla latte without answering. His brow furrowed a little more with each sip.

Eventually Sejun, unable to watch anymore, slipped into the conversation.

“He just hasn’t met the right person yet.”

“Well, our Hyena hasn’t met the right person yet either.”

Yoo Jeong smiled with her eyes closed. It was the smile she made before executing something she’d decided on.

“So, go on a blind date.”

Hyena, who’d been bitterly staring at the pitch-black americano in front of her, widened her eyes.

“What blind date? Natural meetings are better.”

Sejun hastily tried to stop her, but Yoo Jeong stubbornly pushed her intention forward.

“There’s a really good person. Don’t just keep refusing and meet him once. You need to date now too.”

It was a proposal she would have flatly refused normally. After all, if she went, she’d obviously just compare the blind date to Do Gunwoo. At that moment, Gunwoo’s gaze reached her. But before she knew it, Hyena was nodding.

On the way home, Hyena, sitting in the passenger seat, fiddled with her phone. She’d said she’d go on a blind date without realizing it, but she didn’t really intend to.

After agonizing, she sent Yoo Jeong a message.

<Let’s pretend the blind date talk never happened.>

<Why?>

<I’m not really into it.>

<Because of that person you’re interested in?>

Hyena glanced at Gunwoo driving with an expressionless face. She felt ridiculous going back and forth by herself when the person in question hadn’t even noticed.

<Our Hyena, still so clueless.>

Yoo Jeong sent an incomprehensible message.

<There needs to be stimulation for results to follow. I want to tell you more, but this is something you need to realize yourself, so my advice ends here. Think about the blind date more.>

She read and reread the message Yoo Jeong sent. She couldn’t figure out what she was trying to say.

“Are you setting up a blind date appointment?”

At the unexpected question, Hyena raised her head. Gunwoo was still looking straight ahead. Meanwhile, the car stopped at a light. Black pupils turned toward Hyena. Her breath caught at his strangely colored eyes.

“Are you planning to share your body with me and your heart with him?”

“What are you saying…”

Suddenly Gunwoo reached out. His cold fingertips brushed her cheek and touched her lips.

“Are you thinking of ending things with me before the blind date?”

Press—as her lips parted from the pressure, Gunwoo persistently stared inside. She should turn her head, but she couldn’t. Her whole body felt bound by just a gaze.

“But what should I do? I have no intention of that at all.”

Gunwoo whispered languidly. His long finger burrowed inside. It happened in an instant. Gunwoo brought the finger he’d put in and taken out of Hyena’s mouth to his own lips.

The tongue that came out between his red lips licked the finger glistening with saliva. Her lower abdomen tightened at that lewd sight. Just then the light changed.

Honk honk—horns blared from behind. Only then did Gunwoo take his gaze off Hyena and drive calmly. Like nothing had happened.

A strange tension hung between the two until they returned home. As Hyena entered through the front door that opened, Gunwoo caught her. In an instant her chin was lifted and their lips overlapped.

His tongue, mercilessly burrowing inside, licked, sucked, and swallowed as much as it wanted. Hyena panted at the rough kiss that pressed on without giving her room to breathe. 

In the conflicting emotions of wanting to be released and not wanting to be released, she gradually became intoxicated by the sensations Gunwoo gave.

Her lower parts, trained by him, endlessly poured out love juices. To the point where her soaked panties became uncomfortable. Something hard touched her fidgeting lower body. Just that contact made a lewd moan flow out.

“Hngh.”

Suddenly Gunwoo pushed his hand inside her dress. Her soaked panties were pushed aside by his hand. The sensation of fingers touching bare skin was startling.

“You’re soaking wet.”

When he pressed her cl*toris without mercy, Hyena’s body jumped up. Pressing his lips close to her ear, Gunwoo whispered.

“What should I do for you?”

One finger traced her lower opening. Her opening squirmed, urging more stimulation.

“Do you want this?”

One finger burrowed inside. 

Squelch, squelch. Making wet sounds, the finger conquered her opening. That’s when a piece of flesh incomparably larger and hotter than a finger brushed the connection point.

“Or this?”

Reason flew away at the languid whisper. Hyena reached out without realizing it. The hot p*nis wrapped in her hand.

“This.”

As soon as the words fell, her body was lifted. Hyena instinctively wrapped her legs around Gunwoo’s waist. Like it had been waiting, the p*nis thrust in.

“Haah.”

“Huu.”

Moans flowed from both their mouths like they’d promised.

Supporting her plump b*ttocks firmly with both arms, Gunwoo thrust his hips. At his movements, the slender female body lifted and fell. 

The union with added weight was deeper than ever. When the p*nis precisely stabbed the place that felt it, her vision flashed countless times.

Thud thud—primal sounds filled the entryway. Love juices that her lower parts, stimulated by the rough hip thrusts, endlessly poured out splattered everywhere.

Before she knew it, climax had approached.

“Hngh, I think I’m going to…”

Hyena moaned, throwing her head back. Gunwoo, who’d pressed his lips to her exposed nape, whispered.

“Together.”

“Haaah.”

Climax came with a single moan. Gunwoo, who’d been continuing his thrusts while fully feeling the inner walls squeezing his p*nis, soon ej*culated inside her.

Persistently staring at Hyena fidgeting in the afterglow of climax, Gunwoo opened his mouth.

“You absolutely can’t go on that blind date.”

“…”

“Because you’re mine.”

At the words full of possessiveness, Hyena trembled finely. Their lower parts, which had stopped, began engaging again. It was a night like always.

***

The day before the fall regular outing drew close, excited employees were busy preparing for the outing.

“Then the cars will be taken by Team Leader, Deputy Manager Park, and me. Each person can take employees living nearby…”

While listening to Deputy Manager Woo, who was in charge of outing preparations, Hyena thought.

Absolutely don’t ride in Gunwoo’s car.

She didn’t want to do anything even slightly that would raise coworkers’ suspicions.

“Assistant Manager Yoon, you live in Yeoksam-dong, right?”

Deputy Manager Park, sitting in the next seat, spoke to her.

“Yes.”

“It’s not far from my place, so you can ride in my car.”

It was welcome news. Hyena smiled brightly.

“Oh, should I?”

Just as she was excited thinking things worked out as she wanted, Gunwoo’s voice cut in.

“Assistant Manager Yoon will ride in my car.”

Hyena’s eyes widened.

“What? I already agreed to ride in Deputy Manager Park’s car…”

She spoke while sending signals desperately with her eyes, but Gunwoo didn’t care.

“Assistant Manager Yoon lives in Yeoksam-dong, doesn’t she? I live there too.”

The employees stared at Hyena like they’d promised. Hyena, who’d suddenly received everyone’s attention, gave an awkward smile. Before she could answer, Gunwoo opened his mouth first.

“Deputy Manager Park would have to go way out of his way to come that direction, wouldn’t he?”

Hyena tilted her head. He’d definitely said earlier it was close to his neighborhood.

Deputy Manager Park, seemingly flustered by the sudden question, fumbled his answer.

“Ah, yes. Well.”