Epilogue

“Did you really confirm she’s sleeping well?”

“Don’t you trust me?”

“I’m just asking just in case.”

“If you can’t trust me, trust So-mi.”

On the bed, Ah-jin was speaking with her husband in a lowered voice. She was being extremely careful, worried it might be heard in their daughter’s room across the hall.

So-mi, who had recently started babbling, was according to her husband a complete filial daughter.

They say children at that age wake up crying several times even at dawn, but amazingly, about twice a week when she fell asleep in the evening, she would sleep soundly until the next morning.

Her husband was pleased, saying it seemed like she was trying to create time for the two of them. Thanks to that, about twice a week, her husband could completely possess her.

“Why are you so urgent today in particular?”

After putting So-mi to sleep and briefly falling asleep herself, her husband who had come home from work carried her to the master bedroom.

“When was I not like this?”

Indeed, her husband was rushing at her like someone who had starved for several days.

After coming home, showering, and finishing his check of So-mi’s room, it was lightning fast. From undressing her to positioning himself over her body was instantaneous.

“We did it last week too. Anyone watching would think you’re someone who starved for months.”

“Try not doing it after doing it every day. I’m dying here.”

“You’re impossible, really.”

Her husband’s hand strength was still the same. She couldn’t bear to see the bra she had agonized over and purchased after developing some taste recently get torn, so she stopped her husband and undid the hook herself.

Her panties had already been removed by her husband’s hands.

With her husband fully heated up, she covered her lips with her palm to block the moans that were about to come out. If So-mi woke up by any chance, it would all be over.

“Haah, Ah-jin…. Go Ah-jin.”

Why is this man acting like this today in particular?

Her husband’s breathing was unusually rough. At him calling her name desperately, all the fine hairs on her body stood up. If such a husband had embarrassed her before, now it felt maddeningly good.

“Ah, not there…”

Thick fingers entered right away. She writhed beneath her husband.

“You’re wet. So much.”

It was a body that had been thoroughly trained by her husband on the bed all this time. Just like her husband who wanted to pounce on her immediately upon seeing her lying on the bed, she too would get excited just from lying beneath her husband.

“Hmmngh.”

Her husband’s technique had also improved a lot. With his fingers thrust inside her intimate area, his head burrowed into her nape. Like a predator about to pounce on prey, he was lightly conquering her.

“One isn’t enough.”

“Mmh. If you know… hurry up, okay?”

“Then make some noise.”

“No, I can’t. If So-mi wakes up…”

“Then just stay still.”

The usual tussle that always happened occurred today as well. Her husband knew all about her condition where fingers alone could never satisfy her. Far from rushing the insertion, with him holding out like that, she was the one going crazy.

“Ngh. Jin, Jin-wook.”

What entered inside wasn’t his manhood. He really seemed determined to torment her to death.

He inserted two more fingers, stretching the narrow interior roughly. Since what she wanted wasn’t being fulfilled, her cheeks flushed red.

“Ah, haah. Please.”

“Say it. That you’ll cry out.”

Licking her neck without hesitation and reaching her lips, he sucked and swallowed her lips. When her most sensitive area was stimulated, she collapsed.

She had thought she had become quite numb to her husband’s stimulation by now, but that wasn’t the case. She could never win against her husband who was determined to attack her on the bed.

“Ah, I got it, so hurry….”

She could only hope that little So-mi was a heavy sleeper.

“Hngh!”

His firm chest rose high. While she was unconsciously captivated by his solid muscles that looked like they wouldn’t bleed even if pricked with a needle,

“Jin! Jin-wook!”

She felt his manhood already inside her.

“Haah! Haah!”

His sounds also grew louder. Even in the midst of that, as she habitually tried to bring her hand to her mouth, his forehead wrinkled deeply. She still had the leisure for that. He grabbed her waist and began thrusting hard.

He concentrated precisely on the spots where she felt the most. The sound of flesh meeting and parting couldn’t be more obscene.

He too was moaning along with her. That returned to each other as an even greater stimulation than anything else.

Their secret night together deepened like that.

The next morning, she faced a morning as hot as the previous night.

Lapping sounds came from below. She had wondered why it felt cold between her legs, and the blanket had been pulled away. Her husband’s face was at her intimate area.

“Ah, no, why there.”

“Did you wake up?”

The hem of the dress she wore as pajamas fluttered at his gesture. As he pulled down her panties, she felt the cold air, but immediately felt warm breath.

Good heavens!

As she raised both hands to cover her lips, the movement of his tongue was transmitted to her. The tongue that had been circling inside her mouth just moments ago was now moving in and out of her intimate area.

Lap, lap.

Her husband’s soft, warm flesh was inside her. Her eyes grew hot at the vivid scene she was witnessing from the morning.

“Hmmngh. Ahmngh!”

At him naturally licking her inner walls, her hips twitched. It was a dizzying pleasure as always. Especially when he sucked intensely, it gave her the thrill of falling off a cliff.

The man’s hands firmly gripping both her thighs and the tongue movement penetrating deeper and deeper. That drove her crazy.

“Ah-jin. You’re dying of pleasure.”

At her bursting moans, the man who had buried his head between her legs lifted his head. At her two hands covering her lips to block her sobs, his tongue movements became more intense.

When her moans escaped past her palms, her husband was already inside her. He was about to exert his vigor again when—waaah! A crying sound came.

It was their daughter calling for her mother. The couple who looked at each other entered the familiar finishing stage.

Soon she opened the door and crossed over to the child’s room. He too finished tidying the bed and followed his wife, promising the next night.

***

“Young Madam. You must be very tired, right? I’ll watch the baby, so go get some sleep.”

“Ah, I’m fine.”

“I’m the one who’s not fine seeing you like this. Go on.”

The housekeeper who came in the morning looked at her face here and there and clicked her tongue.

She said that Somi must have kept her mother up again last night, and the woman barely managed to hold back a yawn.

It wasn’t Somi’s fault, she thought to herself; there was someone else to blame.

Pulling a blanket over her pajamas, she stood up.

“Then I’ll just see him off briefly and come back.”

If she stayed longer, she might get caught by the sharp-eyed housekeeper and end up talking endlessly. If that happened, the embarrassment would be hers alone.

“Not going back to sleep with Somi?”

She went to the entrance where her husband was. He was waiting for her to see him off, wearing his shoes with his coat collar turned up high. It was a figure that made her feel proud whenever she saw it.

“The housekeeper is too quick to notice things.”

“It’s better than not having her.”

She grumbled every morning that because of him, poor So-mi had become a child with many sleep complaints. At the sight of her husband speaking slyly like a snake while shrugging his shoulders, a slight smile came to her.

“Still, she’s affectionate and honest, so I like her.”

“Should I give her a reward vacation while we’re at it?”

She remembered that the housekeeper had said she was going on a Southeast Asia tour with her son and daughter-in-law next month. If they gave her a few extra days off, she’d surely be pleased.

“The nursing home, you’re going today, right?”

“Yes. You remember well.”

She was thinking of taking So-mi to visit near the hospital where her grandmother was staying this afternoon.

It was called a place for recuperation, but her grandmother who complained she was bored to death and made a fuss to be taken to the nearby park looked cute like a whining child.

Her grandmother especially adored Somi—she said she was glad to see, even in this way, what her granddaughter’s childhood might have been like.

“I’ll stop by after work.”

“Thank you. You must be busy.”

“I didn’t know my subordinates liked division of labor that much.”

She smiled brightly at her husband’s words.

Recently, her husband had been trying to score points with her grandmother.

When she asked her husband, he said that before, he thought her grandmother disliked her like her father’s legal wife would. After hearing that she had cherished her since childhood, his previously indifferent attitude changed somewhat.

Her grandmother didn’t even look at the grandson-in-law who suddenly appeared, but as his visits increased, she gradually became gentler. Even if she pretended not to, when looking at her husband’s handsome face, it didn’t seem like she truly disliked him.

“Still. I’m really grateful.”

“I’m your husband. You don’t need to say thank you for this much.”

She was happy that he cared like this. Above all, the fact that she had become that much of an existence to her husband was the most joyful thing.

It was a brief conversation they shared before her husband left for work. Though they were trivial stories, they could naturally feel that they were sharing each other’s lives.

Topics that neither of them wanted didn’t come up at all. A few simple words exchanged about how they would spend the day—this time was precious.

“Aren’t you going to ask about dinner?”

Her husband dawdled like someone who didn’t want to go to work. The deep black eyes visible through the bangs that completely covered his forehead contained only her.

“Can we have dinner together tonight?”

“Of course.”

“I just wanted to make sure.”

She too didn’t want to send her husband away. As she was about to send him off while checking the time, she was suddenly pulled close. Her husband, who had gathered her into his large embrace, kissed her.

Haah. It would be dangerous if it got deeper.

When she patted his arms, her husband finally stepped back.

“This is tough.”

“Go on, now.”

“I’ll be back.”

While giving a definite answer to her words though brief, her husband opened the door and went out. She moved toward the terrace while hiding her regret.

A moment later, his vehicle left the parking lot.

He stopped in front of the house. Today too, without fail, his wife waved from the terrace. He could see their young daughter in his wife’s arms.

He rolled down the window and stretched his hand outside. When he waved toward the opposite side, he seemed to hear his wife and daughter’s laughter.

For a moment, warmth rose enough to make his chest feel tight. At the gentle warmth enveloping his whole body, his lips that had been pressed in a straight line curved pleasantly.

Thus began Choi Jin-wook’s day.