11 Virtues A Hero's Civilian Friend Must Uphold (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 84

Because Na Eun had clung to him, weeping and begging him not to let go, she unintentionally recalled just how heated last night had been—spent pressed close together the entire night—and turned her head toward the window.

A fresh wave of embarrassment and shame washed over her.

How had she been able to face him so casually after something like that?

She was rubbing her right cheek deliberately against the cold windowpane to cool her flushed skin when—

“What did he say to you?”

Misinterpreting Na Eun’s flustered, distracted behavior, Hee Won asked, his eyes fixed ahead through the windshield as he turned the steering wheel.

She couldn’t possibly say honestly, “I got embarrassed because I remembered the night we slept together,” so she just smiled awkwardly instead.

“He didn’t say much. Just… don’t say anything to that woman.”

Though she’d snapped more sharply than usual—strangely irritated—she didn’t want anyone to get hurt by someone they liked because of her.

Not when she herself had already inflicted an unspoken wound on Hee Won.

“…I heard he confessed to you before.”

She’d brought up the topic hoping to escape the awkward atmosphere, yet somehow it only made things feel stranger.

Did I say something I shouldn’t have? Na Eun fidgeted uncomfortably, while Hee Won recalled a past so distant it barely registered anymore and let out a small sigh.

“I was wrong.”

“No, it’s not like you did anything wrong to me…”

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