Eek!

Startled, Yeon Woo sharply shook off his arm and pushed him away.

“Why are you doing this! I told you to go already! You’re making me uncomfortable?”
“Even if you can’t find your own house properly, what does ‘getting in okay’ mean?”
A hollow laughter escaped Jun Hwi’s lips. At the same time, he pointed upwards with his eyes. Yeon Woo also followed his gaze and peeked at the entrance above.

It was line ’34’.

Ah. That’s right. My home is in the next line!

“Ah. Ahh……!”
Jun Hwi, who scornfully clucked his tongue, briskly stepped forward to line ’56’. Now, Yeon Woo was diligently following him.

Opening the front door of the first floor, and up to the elevator side by side, the side of his face pressing the 15th floor button was stiff.

“Attorney. I’m really okay now.”
“I know, so just hurry up and go in.”
“Yes……”
Yeon Woo’s eyes closed tightly, unable to bear the embarrassment. She had been so adamant about not being drunk!

Anyway, now that they were really here, she should hurry and go inside. She was repeating the 4digit door lock password in her mind so as not to make a mistake this time when she heard the vibration of a cell phone somewhere.

“Attorney, uh… there’s a call.”
He lifted his left hand to check the time and grumbled as he took out his phone, which was humming in his coat pocket.

“There’s still 15 minutes left, why already.”
A long and unfamiliar number was brightly glowing on the screen, indicating it was an international call.

Just as the elevator door opened, the two were standing in front of the entrance.

It was when Yeon Woo, shivering, was pressing the door lock conscious of Jun Hwi standing behind her.

“Hurry up and try to open it.”
“Huh?”
“I just got a call. Be quiet.”
“Wha…?”
In response to Yeon Woo’s frozen confusion, Jun Hwi opened the door and entered the hallway, speaking fluent English on the phone.

Only then did Yeon Woo faintly recall what the call he was currently receiving was about.

The UK client had given several meeting times and asked to choose, so she spitefully picked a latenight slot for the call meeting.

Have a fantastic endofyear night, Attorney Kwon Jun Hwi.

‘Surely, he’s not using my house for the call?’
While Yeon Woo was dumbfounded that her prank had backfired on her, he opened the inner door without hesitation and stepped inside.

“Um, no, uh…”
There was no time to stop him. Jun Hwi slipped into the room and even closed the door behind him.

‘This uncontrollable human!’
Tick. Above the frozen Yeon Woo, the entrance sensor light went out.

The subtle remnants of Jun Hwi’s cool bass voice faintly lingered around Yeon Woo’s home entrance.

“Deputy, …Deputy Kim Yeon Woo.”
“……Hmm.”

“Get up. Go to sleep.”
Even though Yeon Woo was certainly the homeowner, he had taken over the master room, so the real owner couldn’t even change her clothes, and was huddled on the living room sofa like a guest.

Listening to the faint sound of his phone conversation, she checked the time…. When about 15 minutes, 20 minutes had passed, Yeon Woo had inevitably fallen asleep. In an uncomfortable position, hugging her knees tightly in a crouched posture.

“Are you done?”
Blinking with difficulty, he was there in front of her eyes. Very close.

The dim living room with only the indirect light on.

The faint stand light lingered in his deep eyes. He lowered his tall stature to meet her gaze, his one knee was on the floor. It reminded her of him at the banquet hall at the last dinner party.

If there was a difference from that day, this time she didn’t avoid his piercing gaze.

Yeon Woo fully enjoyed the thrilling feeling of looking down at Kwon Jun Hwi, whom she had always only looked up at. His hidden double eyelids, which occasionally shone through, looked much better from above.

His long eyelashes that enveloped his slowly raised eyes were also enchanting.

“·····Let’s quit the company. I won’t bother you anymore.”
If Kwon Jun Hwi’s voice, softer than usual, felt a bit shaky, could it be her delusion?

“I don’t want to.”
But she had already decided. Yeon Woo shook her head.

Sigh. He let out a weak sigh.

While he was so good at saying harsh words, his lips now were just weakly sighing through a narrow gap… When she looked closely, they were quite… red.

Drawn by an unknown attraction, Yeon Woo slowly reached out and gently swept across his lips. A wave surged in his black eyes she was facing.

“This naughty mouth.”
“What?”
“Smile softly, like this.”
With that, she raised her two thumbs and pressed firmly on the corners of Jun Hwi’s mouth.

“That’s a little better.”
“What are you doing now?”
Jun Hwi’s pronunciation, leaking from his pressed mouth, was amusing, and Yeon Woo, who laughed out loud, gently stroked his furrowed forehead this time.

“Here too. Unfurl a bit. Huh?”
“·····Kim Yeon Woo.”
“You look so much better.”
Ah, right. That! Does he have it now?

With a sudden thought, Yeon Woo reached out and almost pushed Jun Hwi’s firm chest.