Then he grabbed the doorknob and turned it. The interior was revealed through the gap.
He had thought the second floor only had relatively smaller rooms compared to the first floor, but this was the largest room among all he had checked so far. It seemed like the majority of items in the house were in this room.
Bookshelves filling both sides of the room and countless books, a window with good sunlight, plants, a sofa, a TV, a computer on the desk, neatly organized documents on top of it. The same standing lamp he had seen in the bedroom and a door that seemed to lead somewhere.
It was like a small house inside the house.
“Yes, keep looking into it.”
Jae-young entered the room. Sa Gong-hyun ended the call after a brief response. He continued the movement of putting the phone he was holding into a drawer.
“I called but you didn’t answer, so I came looking, and here you were hiding. I think this is the first time I’ve seen this room.”
Jae-young half-closed his wide-open eyes. He approached Sa Gong-hyun sitting at the desk. A small notebook placed in front of him was briefly visible.
“I had some things to check.”
Neat handwriting and indecipherable numbers written next to it. A ledger? Just as Jae-young intuitively identified the notebook, he closed it.
Jae-young wedged himself between the desk and Sa Gong-hyun. He felt for the notebook, pretending to clear a place to sit.
A hardcover notebook about the size of a 16mo, in black. A large emblem embedded in the bottom left corner.
Sitting on the hardcover notebook, Jae-young placed his feet on Sa Gong-hyun’s thighs. He wrapped his arms around Sa Gong-hyun’s neck and smiled brightly.
“Wasn’t today your time for me? So when will your work be finished? Should I go out and wait if you’re very busy?”
“The way you’re being flirtatious doesn’t look like you’ll quietly leave. Am I seeing things wrong?”
As he wiggled his toes slightly, Sa Gong-hyun smiled and grabbed the top of Jae-young’s foot. His touch, which had caressed up his leg, intimately fondled Jae-young’s calf.
With his eyes smiling, he slowly moved his foot. He caressed the back of Sa Gong-hyun’s head and gently pressed down on the hard cock beneath his sole.
“You saw correctly. Would cold food be okay?”
“There’s nothing to be sorry about. Right now Do Jae-young is what catches my eye.”
While his expression was relaxed, his breathing became rougher. Their lips immediately overlapped. With the hot breath coming, Sa Gong-hyun pulled Jae-young’s hips.
Jae-young wrapped his arms around his shoulders. While hurriedly entwining his tongue with his, he unfastened the bracelet Sa Gong-hyun had given him. After hiding the bracelet in his left hand, Sa Gong-hyun got up from his seat, full of excitement.
He leaned his body toward Jae-young. Jae-young dropped the bracelet he had hidden in his hand onto the chair and entangled Sa Gong-hyun’s nape with his fingers.
He wrapped one leg around his left leg. The touch massaging his thigh was quite sensual. Sa Gong-hyun’s hand didn’t stop there but continuously pioneered a path.
He caressed his hip line and side waist, and lightly stroked his ribs. His body heated up quickly.
“Haaa…”
It would have been welcome to have sex right there. Even if the food prepared on the table got cold, no one would care about it.
As if sensing his eager feelings, Sa Gong-hyun lifted Jae-young up. Hanging onto Sa Gong-hyun, Jae-young, despite letting out a labored moan, stubbornly kissed him.
The beast carrying Jae-young moved from his spot. His body, as hot as his breath, was delightful. Jae-young repeatedly contracted his lower body while wetly caressing the back of his neck.
***
When he woke up, it was a time when quietness had settled both outside and inside. Due to their more intense intimacy than usual, his waist hurt as if it was broken. He slowly blinked his heavy eyelids.
Jae-young was completely embraced by Sa Gong-hyun. He stared at the face lying with eyes closed. Judging by him lying down, it must have been dawn outside.
He gently lifted his chin. Tock. Their lips touched lightly and separated. In fact, secretly stealing the lips of the sleeping person wasn’t Jae-young’s intention. Seeing his peacefully sleeping face, it was an action that came out unconsciously.
He removed the arm embracing his body and carefully raised his stiff body. Sa Gong-hyun was still lying there like he was dead.
If asked whether he was really sleeping, Jae-young had no way of knowing. The first time he had seen him sleeping, he could instinctively tell, but today something felt ambiguous.
Letting out a long sigh inadvertently, he scanned the room. Sa Gong-hyun’s bedroom seemed unchanged, yet it had changed in many ways.
The rosemary Jae-young had gifted was atop the drawer containing medicine. The lighting that was so bright it hurt his eyes had changed to a softer tone.
After touching his neck, Jae-young got off the bed. Trying to minimize noise, he took out the fingerprint sample from his scattered pants. He went out of the room and headed to the end room. After grabbing the doorknob, he took a long breath.
Somehow, he felt unsettled. He continued his contemplation, which should have been brief, while grasping the doorknob. Biting his lower lip firmly, Jae-young hesitantly opened the door.
He briefly noticed a sensor attached to the upper part of the door. As soon as the door opened, a red light came on, making it immediately noticeable.
Frowning due to the eye-straining lighting, Jae-young carefully entered the room. After closing the door, he walked to the desk.
The hardcover notebook he had seen in the afternoon was gone. Carefully feeling the desk with his fingertips, he first opened the door attached to the room.
It was an ordinary bathroom. The cabinet contained only numerous medicine bottles and toiletries.
Knowing there was nothing special, he approached the desk and sat down, hunching his body. Checking the floor, he saw a vague gap between the tiles.
He carefully lifted one tile. His lips, holding tension, parted slightly.
Finally, a safe was in front of his eyes. Feeling as if his mouth was filled with saliva, he moved his Adam’s apple. After moistening his drying lips with his tongue, he put a thimble on his hand.
When he placed the fingerprint sample on the fingerprint touchpad, the safe’s lock was unlocked, as if by magic.
Opening the safe, he saw the hardcover notebook he had seen in the afternoon placed inside. The identity of the large emblem was a golden pattern.
He almost let out an involuntary moan. He raised his head and glanced at the door. He picked up the ledger and checked its contents. It was certain. It was indeed a ledger.
His heart beat violently as if it would burst immediately. He quickly put the ledger back inside and closed the safe.
That was the moment. The door opened without warning. With rabbit eyes, Jae-young raised his head and carefully put down the tile. The light suddenly turned on, and his eyes met with expressionless ones.
“You’re awake?”
“What are you doing alone in a room without its owner?”
His tone was calm. Jae-young, smiling with the corners of his eyes curved, casually felt around the chair. Unable to stand up with the thimble, he hastily stuffed it into a gap under the desk. Then he picked up the bracelet he had dropped on the chair and stood up.
“My bracelet disappeared, so I was looking for it. It had fallen on the floor. I was about to go back, why did you come out?”
“You were gone for so long I thought you might have lost your way.”
A deflating laughter burst out at the absurd statement.
“I can navigate around Hyun-ssi’s house with my eyes closed now. I just meant to explore the room a bit after coming in, and it ended up like this. Hyun-ssi has become such a baby. Can’t even sleep because I’m not there.”
He moved to approach Sa Gong-hyun. He embraced his waist and rested his head on his shoulder. His arbitrarily pounding heart wasn’t much different from the heartbeat when having skinship with someone you love.
Even though Jae-young embraced him, Sa Gong-hyun stood in the same posture. Just as he was about to belatedly raise his head, Sa Gong-hyun grabbed Jae-young’s shoulder.
Sa Gong-hyun, who had dropped Jae-young just like that, silently fastened the bracelet on his wrist. It seemed as if he was putting on shackles.
“Is the leash not good enough?”
The deeply sunken voice somehow stimulated his libido. Swallowing heavily, he suppressed the impulse. Jae-young lowered his head and gently bit Sa Gong-hyun’s finger, not to hurt.
“I’ll be more careful next time. Since I found the bracelet, let’s go in and sleep, shall we?”
“With you acting all coy with your finger in your mouth, I’m sure I’ll sleep just fine.”
It was quite a sarcastic response.
“You’re really upset, aren’t you?”
Jae-young, who had been grinding his teeth as if he might gnash them, stretched out his arm again.
There was an illusion that the sound of heartbeats was blowing through their pressed chests. The warmth filling his embrace was comforting.
As he rubbed his nose against the broad shoulder, a large hand settled on top of his head. It felt like he had become a child throwing a tantrum.
Though he clung to him while letting out a laugh, his mouth was completely parched. Was it because the person who was ambiguously either sleeping or pretending to sleep had suddenly appeared? Or was it because he was deceiving the person with whom he was sharing warmth?