#56
“Mmph…”
His kisses were always sticky and explicit. They thrust deep enough to evoke sex and filled Ha-min’s entire mouth. Gently holding Ha-min’s trembling chin to keep his lips from closing, he pushed his wet flesh in until it nearly touched Ha-min’s throat. Momentarily breathless, Ha-min unconsciously moved his tongue, causing the other to smile against his lips. At the same time, he rubbed his tongue more crudely and sucked on Ha-min’s lips.
“Hyung… mm.”
Ha-min urgently called out to him, feeling suffocated, but he lightly ignored it and tilted his head to the other side, entwining Ha-min’s tongue and swallowing his saliva. Between their pressed lips, an indistinguishable liquid seeped out and threatened to drip. Tae-rim caught it with his tongue, licking it up and pushing it down Ha-min’s throat as if telling him to swallow. At the demanding tongue movements, Ha-min gulped down the saliva with a gasp. Satisfied, Tae-rim smiled and sucked on Ha-min’s lower lip with a smack.
“This is what a kiss is.”
He murmured against Ha-min’s lips, as if sharing the afterglow of the kiss. Ha-min’s gaze momentarily blurred from Tae-rim’s skillful kissing. His lower abdomen tingled involuntarily, causing his legs to twist. Sensing this, Tae-rim smiled slightly and playfully rubbed against Ha-min’s lower body.
“Are you hard?”
Ha-min shook his head as if caught. Normally, Tae-rim would have teased him more, but this time he looked down at Ha-min with suddenly tender eyes and gently stroked his disheveled hair.
“I’ll have to keep treating Ha-min well from now on.”
“…”
“When I treat you well, you even give me kisses.”
He spoke softly, as if praising a good child. Moving his lips from Ha-min’s mouth, he planted short kisses on his cheeks and the bridge of his nose. Ha-min’s heart fluttered, and he could only grip Tae-rim’s collar tightly.
“Can I keep treating you well now?”
Smack.
“Feed you delicious things, give you nice gifts-”
Smack.
“Come see you when I think of you, pick you up – is that okay?”
He asked pleadingly, leaving short kisses on Ha-min’s lips with each statement. Tae-rim persistently traced Ha-min’s lips, wet from the intense kissing. Like a teenager unable to control his impulses, he pressed against Ha-min’s body and continued to torment his plump, swollen lips. Ha… Tae-rim, who had been pleading with Ha-min not just with words but with his gaze and body, exhaled a hot breath. The heated sound of his breathing was dizzying enough to send chills down one’s spine.
Tae-rim had precisely changed his approach. To a method of gently coaxing a wary and stubborn child. After all, the Song Ha-min before him was kind and soft, so if gently coaxed and persuaded, he would reluctantly accept everything.
Lee Tae-rim intended to use this to do everything he wanted to do. He didn’t want to be unable to do even this much while fooling around with a dongsaeng he cared for. He wanted to do everything for this boy who teared up just from having medicine applied.
“I want to be loved by Ha-min again by treating you well.”
Tae-rim whispered with a smile in his eyes. Ha-min’s eyes, on the verge of giving in, wavered uncontrollably. Noticing this, Tae-rim kissed around Ha-min’s reddened eyes. Like a kissing ghost, he planted kisses all over Ha-min’s face.
“But I… I haven’t done anything good for you…”
This was the answer that finally came out after a difficult struggle. Tae-rim gently raised the corners of his mouth.
“Why not?”
“…”
“You only give yourself to me.”
He smiled slyly and pressed his lips to Ha-min’s again. At the lurid words, Ha-min’s eyes widened and his body trembled, but Tae-rim, with a smile on his lips, explicitly swallowed Ha-min’s tongue and closed his eyes.
It was a refreshing morning.
**
“Manager Jo asked me to assign a lawyer, he says.”
Tae-rim leisurely savored his mother’s voice while drinking dark coffee. While Ha-min was in the shower, the phone had rung, and it was his mother, who was busy taking care of his father. Last night, he had called Manager Jo, who handled household affairs, asking for a lawyer to be assigned, and it seemed that had reached his mother’s ears.
“Yes.”
“Did you cause trouble?”
A hint of exasperation could be heard in her questioning voice.
“I just hit some kid.”
Tae-rim replied nonchalantly. The room service he had ordered before Ha-min came out was spread on the table like a feast. It was perfect, from brunch to the three-tiered desserts. The sound of water from the bathroom seemed pleasant to his ears, as even his mother’s phone call didn’t seem to dampen his mood.
“How old are you to still be going around doing such things?”
“That’s right, how old am I to still be hearing such nagging?”
Tae-rim openly sneered, finding it quite amusing.
“Is it bad enough to need a lawyer?”
Her voice was quite sharp.
“That’s why we hire them with money, to use at times like this. Are you being stingy? If so, I’ll look into it myself.”
“The way you talk…”
The relationship between Tae-rim and his parents was, in a word, ordinary. Neither particularly close nor good. Despite being parent and child, it was stiffly businesslike, without any affection. This relationship began with his grandfather’s favoritism. Thanks to his grandfather, the head of the family, favoring the multi-talented eldest grandson, he even earned the jealousy of his own parents. Moreover, due to his ruthless nature that even made his own parents shake their heads, they had long since given up on him. However, the second son, Tae-in, who had been weak from birth, was excluded from management rights from the start, and no matter how poor their relationship was, they couldn’t push aside the eldest son who excelled in every aspect.
“You didn’t call just to ask about that, did you? Get to the point.”
Tae-rim cut in coldly, wanting to end the call before Ha-min came out.
“Why did you break up with Hee-jae?”
“Ha.”
Tae-rim let out a hollow laugh.
“Interfering in your son’s love life seems a bit too meddlesome.”
“Don’t change the subject. Hee-jae has been your match since before you were born. It’s already been settled between the families. Do you know how shocked I was to hear that she’s dating that son from the water business family?”
“Everything comes full circle eventually. You know that.”
Despite her shooting words in a seemingly serious voice, Tae-rim responded nonchalantly. It wasn’t wrong. After all, it was the rule in their circles for similar families to gather, socialize, and naturally marry among themselves.
“And there are some strange rumors going around about you lately.”
“You must have a lot of free time these days.”
Tae-rim tilted his head back with a tired face and spoke sarcastically in response to the continuing nagging.
“It’s too embarrassing to even mention… They say you’re fooling around with some guy?”
Light-mouthed people must have been gossiping here and there, for this insignificant rumor had reached her ears.
“I was relieved that you didn’t do such things even in America.”
“Ah, shit.”
“What?”
A sharp voice came back, startled by his annoyed tone. Tae-rim spoke languidly while pressing the back of his neck. A deflated laugh accompanied his words, as if he found it absurd.
“Who interferes with their grown son’s bedmates?”
“You… you!”
“I’ll handle it myself, Mother. Just focus on taking care of Father.”
“How dare you speak to your mother like this!”
“I’ll marry a woman eventually, anyway.”
“…”
“I’ll take care of things until then.”
Tae-rim hung up as if there was nothing more to discuss. Although her trembling breaths of anger were clearly transmitted, Tae-rim paid no attention. It was always like this. The sharp sparks between the rigid family and the nonconforming eldest son were a common occurrence. Especially clashing with his mother, who was particularly mindful of public appearances, was frequent. Although he was an outwardly sociable eldest son, knowing his ruthless inner nature, she would often offer unnecessary advice.
“Hyung?”
Ha-min, who seemed to have finished showering and emerged trailing light steam, cautiously called out to Tae-rim, who suddenly looked displeased. Tae-rim tossed down the phone he was holding and grinned at Ha-min.
“Sit here.”
Tae-rim patted the seat next to him. Today too, Song Ha-min was tightly dressed in his own clothes while wet, despite the obvious presence of a shower robe.
A warm heat was rising from his fair skin. Tae-rim playfully bit Ha-min’s cheek, which looked so soft it might stretch like rice cake if touched.
“…!”
Ha-min cupped his cheek with a startled expression. Amused by the sensitive reaction, Tae-rim smiled. Finding him fucking delicious-looking, Tae-rim swallowed the words about to come out and kindly dried Ha-min’s wet hair with a towel.
“No classes today, right?”
“Huh? Oh, yeah.”
Tae-rim smiled pleasantly at the sight of the docile Ha-min quietly submitting to his gentle hair-drying. He wanted to suck on that chewy skin and roll around in bed, but he wanted to thoroughly cheer up the boy who had struggled after yesterday’s incident.
When the dripping water had mostly disappeared, he removed the towel and lifted Ha-min’s waist with both hands, placing him on his lap. After lightly setting him on his knees, he embraced Ha-min’s slim waist. Ha-min’s shoulders stiffened at the suddenly close distance.
“Shall we watch a movie together today?”
As if to ease Ha-min’s tension, Tae-rim gently rubbed his waist and rested his chin on Ha-min’s shoulder. His high nose bridge lightly touched Ha-min’s cheek.
“We’ll watch a movie, eat something delicious, and go for a drive. How about that?”
Making this sweet proposal, he rubbed his cheek against Ha-min’s soft cheek. It was blatant skinship designed to make refusal impossible. Seeing Ha-min nod slightly in apparent agreement with a dazed expression, Tae-rim, as if praising him, took Ha-min’s hand and kissed the not-yet-healed wound.
