#52
“Huu……”
Yeoul barely managed to breathe in and out repeatedly. Whether it was because of the cold air, his airways seemed to open up and he felt like he could live. He barely got up from the bench and went back inside the hospital building. The restaurant area he had passed by earlier felt uncomfortable, so he took a big detour to avoid it.
Why had he acted like that earlier? Yeoul wondered as he entered the hospital room.
“Ha……”
At the same time, he felt an incredibly sweet fragrance piercing his lungs. It seemed like chunks of heat were dancing throughout the room. It didn’t take long for him to realize this was Eun Sajun’s pheromones. Overwhelmed by that scent, Yeoul’s gaze reached the bed where Eun Sajun had been. But he wasn’t there.
“Huh? Where did he go?”
He looked around in confusion.
Then he felt intense heat behind his back. The moment Yeoul tried to turn around, two solid arms suddenly emerged and wrapped around his waist.
“Where did you go?”
Eun Sajun’s voice scraped against his ear. His already boiling heart beat even more furiously.
“I went for a short walk.”
“I thought you were running away again.”
He pressed his lips to Yeoul’s cheek with a kiss. At the same time, Yeoul felt like his heart would burst. He reflexively tried to get out of his embrace, but Eun Sajun’s two arms squeezed Yeoul even tighter. He gradually breathed in deeply.
“Ah… Being like this. It’s really good.”
“Um… How’s your body?”
“Ah, I’m fine now.”
His voice also seemed lively and although his body temperature was hot, it seemed a bit better, so he felt relieved.
Then he suddenly noticed a shopping bag on the sofa that hadn’t been there earlier. Had someone come by while he was briefly away? When he couldn’t take his eyes off it, Eun Sajun’s lips curved up smugly.
“Curious about what that is?”
“Yes, yes…”
“Just a moment.”
Eun Sajun’s eyes curved. It wasn’t simply a clear feeling, but a strange sensual gaze. He showed unbelievable agility for someone who was supposed to be sick and took something out of the shopping bag.
“It’s already been washed, so you can use it right away.”
“Yes? What do you mean……”
Yeoul tilted his head. What he had taken out was an ordinary glass bottle, but Yeoul’s pupils shook violently because of what was inside. It was a pacifier.
“Huh?”
There wasn’t even a baby here, so why did he bring this? He was confused. Eun Sajun took it out of the glass bottle and held it out.
“Want to suck on this?”
“Yes?”
Yeoul wondered what he had just heard.
“Th, this?”
“Yes. Then I think my pain will get a bit better.”
“If you’re in pain, you should call the doctor……”
It seemed like such nonsense that he was dumbfounded.
“There’s also a psychological effect. Try sucking on it once. I think it’ll be incredibly cute.”
“……”
He really didn’t understand what this person was about. When he had naturally picked out the pacifier at the shopping mall earlier, he had thought it was for a baby to be born in the future, but he never expected this. He was on the verge of getting a headache.
“Come on, suck on it once.”
Eun Sajun quickly put the pacifier in Yeoul’s mouth.
“Uh uh……”
Yeoul was flustered by the unfamiliar sensation that unexpectedly entered his mouth. It felt foreign, but since he said he wanted it, he closed his eyes tightly and sucked on it.
“Hahahaha!”
Eun Sajun’s hearty laughter rang out. What was so good about it? He felt like he had done something he shouldn’t have, but since he was laughing, he even felt satisfaction, which was confusing.
“Ah, fucking cute. You’re really a baby.”
He embraced and hugged Yeoul with a genuinely excited face.
“Ah… It’s really good.”
Gradually, a sweet scent began to emanate from his body. It felt like shackles too.
“Want to take a bath together?”
“Mmph?”
Yeoul’s eyes widened while sucking hard on the pacifier.
“I sweated a lot so I want to wash.”
There was a knife in the bathroom, and now they were going to wash together – it was a major crisis. Feeling tension rise, Yeoul felt his mouth go dry.
“Or I’ll do it alone.”
Hic. Panicked, Yeoul pulled out the pacifier he was sucking on. He might discover the knife while bathing alone. It was too troublesome.
“No. Let’s, let’s take a bath together.”
It was a hundred times better to watch from beside him.
“Good thinking.”
He grinned.
* * *
The bathtub was filled with water. And with apple-scented bath salts dissolved in it, it was also full of fluffy bubbles. The two people were in the bathtub facing each other.
Yeoul’s nerves were entirely focused on the knife on top of the storage cabinet. The edge was sticking out slightly, but unless you looked carefully, you wouldn’t notice it. But still, he was so anxious his heart felt like it would jump out of his mouth.
“Do you have some worry?”
“Yes?”
“You don’t look well.”
“No, no.”
Huh. Had his inner thoughts shown on his face? Yeoul panicked and composed his expression. And he made up his mind to absolutely not look at the top of the storage cabinet, even consciously.
“I’m curious.”
“Yes?”
“What you’re thinking about.”
Yeoul’s pupils shook at his voice. Why was he suddenly saying such things? Yeoul felt strange. Eun Sajun gradually approached Yeoul, cutting through the water. Their faces became increasingly close.
“I have something I’m curious about, can I ask?”
What else was he curious about……? He was nervous.
“Yes… Yes…”
His heart wanted to say no, but since he couldn’t in this situation, he answered with difficulty.
“Last time you said you had intentions to date when your complicated business was over, right?”
“Yes……”
“When that business is over and someone asks you to date, will you date them?”
“Yes?”
What kind of random question was this? Moreover, being naked together made it even more bewildering.
“I think I can tell you precisely when that situation comes. I don’t know right now.”
Since it was something he had never even imagined, answering was even more bewildering. Gradually, bitterness could be felt on Eun Sajun’s face.
“Um… Did I make a mistake……?”
Why was he making that expression? He felt like he had committed a sin. That was brief – a smile was drawn on Eun Sajun’s lips.
“I understand. Then does baby have anything curious about me?”
“Noth……”
He was about to say nothing for smooth conversation when he stopped. Because he had doubts about the numbers carved on his penis. He had been struggling thinking it was the code until now, but actually it wasn’t. Then what the hell was it? Due to this problem, Yeoul was currently facing a major crisis.
“That… What exactly are those tattooed numbers carved on CEO-nim’s there?”
“There?”
“Yes……”
Since it was an embarrassing area, it was difficult to speak directly so he spoke indirectly.
“What do you mean by there?”
Eun Sajun’s eyes became round. There was only one tattoo on his body, so why did he keep asking questions? Did he really not know?
“I mean there……”
“What’s there?”
“Between the legs……”
“Between the legs?”
“The number tattoo on your… penis!”
Finally, feeling frustrated, Yeoul suppressed his embarrassment and shouted. Eun Sajun smiled with his eyes and then swept back his bangs as if he finally understood.
“Ahh… You mean the numbers on my jagi?”
“Yes, yes……”
“I carved it to commemorate the day I met my destined partner.”
“Yes? Your destined partner?”
What? Did he have someone he liked? Yeoul somehow felt disappointed in a corner of his heart. He didn’t know why he felt this way.
“It was something that happened 5 years ago. At that time, I had troublesome business and was exhausted both physically and mentally. So I was resting briefly under a tree where cherry blossom petals were scattering. Then I smelled apple scent. When I followed that fragrance, there was a pretty poisonous apple.”
Poisonous apple. It was what he had said in the restaurant storage room last time too.
“I carved it to commemorate the day I met that poisonous apple.”
It really wasn’t the code.
For Yeoul, it was a moment of shock and at the same time confirmation that Shin Taeon wasn’t deceiving him. Who exactly was the poisonous apple he was talking about? He was concerned.
“Then, do you like that person?”
Since he called them his destined partner, he expected they were an object of admiration. But for some reason, Eun Sajun maintained silence. Gradually, his head moved from Yeoul’s face to his forehead, then past the crown of his head toward the storage cabinet.
“Huh? What’s that?”
Huh? Yeoul also raised his head following Eun Sajun. At the same time, he was stunned. What he was looking at was the knife on top of the storage cabinet.
“Uh… That is……”
Feeling a major crisis, Yeoul tried to turn his attention elsewhere. But in the meantime, Eun Sajun got up from the bathtub. And he approached the storage cabinet and picked up the knife.
At the same time, Yeoul was shocked.
He had been caught.
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
