Chapter 98
That guy arbitrarily crossed the lines he had drawn and wandered around here and there. Sometimes as someone not bad to live with, sometimes as someone annoying enough to want to scold.
In such cases, he naturally should have become someone with whom there was no need to continue a relationship, but strangely, he didn’t feel that way.
When he came to his senses, he had let Baek Rak into the depths of his heart that he had never shown to anyone.
Seo Won glanced at the silent Baek Rak and loosened the strength in the arms that had been embracing him. He thought he would immediately pull away, but the guy just sat still, offering his thigh to him.
For someone telling him to give up, his actions were too gentle.
If he really disliked it, he wouldn’t have shared the same bed, and he would have forcibly removed the hands that persistently clung to his waist.
He had resolved to do his best and give up if it didn’t work out, but well. Even he couldn’t guarantee whether he’d actually be able to do that.
After all, he had witnessed Baek Rak’s actions contradicting his words when they met again.
“Baek Rak.”
“……”
Even when he called out to him, there was still no response.
Seo Won slowly raised his body and lifted his head. When the distance between him and Baek Rak was less than a span, he slightly tilted his head to look at his lips and asked:
“Want to kiss?”
He could see tension in his jaw, as if he was biting down hard on his teeth. That strangely stirred his heart, making him unconsciously wet his lips with his tongue.
“……”
“……”
Though everything about him seemed hard, Baek Rak’s lips were particularly soft and tender. Knowing that texture, he couldn’t take his eyes off the reddish lips before him.
He wanted to kiss.
He wanted to tangle wildly like before, touching without thinking about anything. The kiss they had shared in the middle of the ruined downtown, where everything had collapsed, had been that addictive and stimulating.
Seo Won swallowed dry saliva and carefully approached Baek Rak. The closer he got, the more he could feel the guy’s breath. As soon as he confirmed that he wasn’t pulling away, his heartbeat began to gradually quicken.
Just as he was about to kiss him.
“……”
“……”
Baek Rak raised his hand and blocked the space between them. With his palm in the middle, the two stared at each other for a moment.
Then Seo Won slowly closed his eyes and kissed Baek Rak’s palm. Though not as much as his lips, he could feel the soft texture of his palm. Even if he couldn’t kiss him, he wanted to let him know that he wanted him.
When he stuck out his tongue and licked his palm, Baek Rak flinched. He would know very well what it meant since he had taught him himself.
When he opened his eyes again to look at Baek Rak, the guy’s pupils were wavering with a greenish hue.
This time he grasped Baek Rak’s hand with both hands and pressed closer more deeply. While doing so, he stared intently at him. Baek Rak frowned but didn’t push him away or anything. Instead, he just watched while meeting his gaze.
Smooch, slurp, smack.
He deliberately made sounds as he continued kissing his palm as if kissing him. Inhaling his scent, sometimes preciously wrapping his hands and kissing them persistently.
Eventually, Baek Rak couldn’t endure it and turned his head first, pushing his face away.
“…Stop it.”
“I don’t want to.”
Since his touch wasn’t harsh, he held on tightly, and Baek Rak turned his head back. Though he was still frowning, unlike before, he got the feeling that the guy’s expression showed he was enduring something.
Seo Won lowered Baek Rak’s hand that he had been holding and leaned forward as if entranced. Then he was able to touch Baek Rak’s lips that he had been longing for.
The joy of finally touching was brief, as the world spun backwards regardless of his will.
“Ugh!”
Seo Won shut his eyes tightly in surprise, then quickly opened them again.
The mattress touching his back, the strong grip pressing down on his shoulders, the blue gaze looking down at him, and the flesh digging into his mouth as if to devour him—all of it was so surreal.
Baek Rak, the guy who had been busy pushing him away, was kissing him. A bit roughly, and a bit urgently.
When he embraced his neck to fully receive the emotions he was pouring out, the kiss deepened a little more.
He rubbed the mucous membrane inside his mouth arbitrarily and pressed the root of his tongue to dig inside. When he quickly became breathless and panted, he was busy swallowing even that breath.
The stickily entangling tongue met with the saliva pooled in his mouth, making wet sounds. When the saliva couldn’t go down his throat and leaked out between his lips, even that was taken into Baek Rak’s mouth.
The insane kiss continued endlessly.
Now he couldn’t even distinguish whether the flesh in his mouth was his own or Baek Rak’s. The warmth had already assimilated, and there was no sign of separation. They just clung together as if wanting to be entangled forever.
“Hng, mmph.”
A moan he had been holding back finally leaked out like a groan.
At that moment, what had been occupying his mouth suddenly withdrew.
“Ha, ahk. Cough, hng.”
Only then did he gasp and hurriedly inhale oxygen, but the weight that had been heavily pressing down on him disappeared. When he opened his eyes and looked down, Baek Rak who had been on top of him was now standing beside the bed.
“…Why, cough, ugh.”
“……”
Baek Rak looked down at him breathing heavily, then hurriedly turned around and headed somewhere.
The sound of a lock opening and a door closing followed.
“Haa, haa.”
Baek Rak, who had been kissing him desperately, ran away as soon as he came to his senses.
“Haa, haa, hng…, ha, haha.”
Even while gasping for breath, Seo Won couldn’t stop laughing. And after doing this, he had tried to push him away.
What Yu Sol had said wasn’t wrong. Inside Baek Rak, reason and emotion were currently clashing. The emotion of being attracted to him and the reason that said he shouldn’t be.
After giving such a kiss, saying he wasn’t interested—that didn’t make sense. It was a kiss filled with obsession that felt even desperate. Not wanting to be separated from him, wanting to continue staying inside him.
It was more than simple sexual desire. That kiss just now was.
“Haa, this bastard really…”
Even while covering his eyes with both hands, Seo Won couldn’t hide his rising smile. He knew how much the incident with Baek Hyeon and Yu Song Ha was affecting the guy, but even so, he couldn’t give up like this.
Wasn’t the guy who never showed interest in anyone being shaken by him?
The moment he knew it wasn’t a one-sided emotion, there was no more reason to back down. The guy had run away thinking he’d been caught too.
“Let’s see who wins.”
Someone had said that love was sweet, but his love seemed more like a war.
Why was nothing normal?
Even so, laughter still spilled out, and Seo Won just laughed like that for a long time.
For now, this was enough. The fact that Baek Rak was attracted to him—that one fact alone made everything feel okay.
Seo Won kept laughing while rubbing his tingling lips.
***
Just as people don’t go as one wishes, situations don’t flow as desired either.
Seo Won let out a deep sigh looking at the completely destroyed barrier. If left like this, cannibals living outside the shelter or those who enslaved other humans would obviously swarm to this place.
The main function of the barrier was to prevent invasion by humans, not creatures.
It also served to bind creatures incidentally, but unless something special happened, creatures rarely approached the barrier. Of course, Yeongdeungpo Station had experienced that rare occurrence twice.
“…The future looks dark, really.”
Seo Won wasn’t the only one looking at the barrier. Others were with him too. Among them was Han Seong Hyeon, who had come outside after a long time, and Baek Rak was beside him.
So that’s where he went—he had gone to Han Seong Hyeon.
“First, we need to deal with the barrier. Everyone, let’s start by gathering the barrier remnants and patching it up.”
At Han Seong Hyeon’s instruction, everyone in the shelter began to move. Just in case, he tried to approach Baek Rak, but the guy seemed to notice and disappeared somewhere alone.
Seeing that, he thought he probably wouldn’t be able to see Baek Rak at least while working.
“Yoon Seo Won.”
Then Yu Sol sneakily approached from the side. She glanced in the direction Baek Rak had disappeared and asked carefully:
“Did you have a conversation with Baek Rak?”
“I did.”
“What did he say? No, what conversation did you have? Baek Rak does like you, right?”
As he took the first step, Yu Sol followed closely with sparkling eyes. She seemed unable to contain her curiosity.
“Well…”
When he acted a bit evasive, Yu Sol poked his waist repeatedly.
“What? What is it? Why are you being like this all of a sudden?”
“Ah, ahh, it hurts, Sol.”
“Tell me quickly. Was I right?”
Seo Won nodded while clutching his waist at the unexpectedly sharp touch. When he confirmed that she was right, Yu Sol’s face finally brightened.
“See, what did I tell you! So, what did you say and how? What did Baek Rak say?”
It seemed that other people’s love stories were exciting topics even here. Moreover, Baek Rak would be special to Yu Sol, so she’d be even more interested.
But it was too much to tell Yu Sol about everything that happened with Baek Rak. While he appreciated her desire to help, there were adult circumstances too.
“Later. I’ll let you know when there’s a result.”
“Eh? What’s that…”
“Didn’t I say this should be handled between the parties involved? Just watch over us.”
“…Tch.”
Yu Sol grumbled but seemed to understand and didn’t whine anymore. Finding that cute, he was patting her head when Yu Sol suddenly caught his hand and began dragging him along.
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
