As he moved his lips, Jae’s heart pounded as if it would burst.

As she gently moved her lips, she could feel the corners of his mouth slowly rising, and the hot sensation distinctly penetrated Jae.

Ah. Her mind went blank and she felt dizzy.

He gently wrapped his hands around Jae’s tightly clenched fists and slowly placed her arms around his neck. The sensation of wrapping her arms around his neck and kissing was intense.

Geon Hak’s hand slowly moved to cradle the back of her head. Geon Hak buried his large fingers deep in Jae’s hair as he kissed her lips.

Kissing the executive she liked so much evoked an electrifying sensation. Unlike Geon Hak, who was skillfully delving in, she was trying her best.

Their lips gently parted and the corners of his mouth curled up sexily.

“I’m surprised you’re worse than I expected, Han Jae.”

“Ah, that, that’s because I…”

She faced Geon Hak with her face flushed red. Her cheeks were as red as her swollen lips, a sight so pretty it could drive one crazy.

Han Jae has a talent for bewitching people. It’s truly maddening.

“That’s why you’re even prettier.”

Her ears turned red as if they would burst.

“Trying hard is prettier. Do you think you can do better if we try once more?”

Jae slowly nodded her head.

“Then try it. Don’t just press your lips. Move them yourself, Han Jae.”

At Geon Hak’s teasing words, tears welled up in her eyes. With tears in her eyes, she looked beautifully sorrowful.

She lowered her head and pressed her lips against Geon Hak’s.

He looked down at Jae, who was gently pressing in, with languid eyes tightly closed.

Finding Han Jae’s quick learning adorable, Geon Hak chuckled and cupped her cheeks. The hot sensation on his palm matched the high temperature inside her mouth as they kissed.

It felt like her inexperienced self might kill him like this.

It felt like he might finish in front of her without doing anything.

Geon Hak explored her more deeply at her seduction. As if they had many curiosities about each other, the intensity of their exploration was fierce.

As Geon Hak cradled the back of her head and moved slowly, her body fell onto the sofa.

Their passionately entwined lips parted and Geon Hak’s gaze fell on her. His intent eyes stared endlessly at Han Jae.

“Han Jae.”

“Yes, Executive.”

“Do you like me that much?”

Jae nodded her head as she lay on the sofa.

How did she end up in this situation with him? Just two months ago, he was an executive she couldn’t even look at.

He was someone she only secretly glanced at from afar.

Nevertheless, she didn’t want to miss this opportunity.

A moment that would never come again in Han Jae’s life.

“Han Jae. Shall we cross the line?”

Jae’s eyes widened. Her pupils trembled as if an earthquake had struck.

“I’m saying this because it might be fun to cross the line rather than just end with imagination.”

It was a completely unexpected proposal from Executive Cha Geon Hak, whom she had a crush on for two years.

Unintentionally, she showered at his house, confessed, and kissed him.

At another proposal, her heart swelled, and she felt that if not now, if not today, she couldn’t do it.

A night with the man she liked.

An unexpected proposal from the man she liked.

Jae wrapped her arms around his neck as if agreeing. Geon Hak grinned, then embraced her slender waist and kissed her again. Their lips melted together hotly.

Seeming uncomfortable on the sofa, Geon Hak lifted her back as she clung to his neck, and moved while supporting her bottom.

Before she knew it, she was laid down on a soft bed, looking up at Geon Hak. Geon Hak tucked her disheveled hair behind her ear and met her gaze with gentle eyes.

“I’ll make you happier than Han Jae ever imagined.”

* * *

The hot breaths of two people filled the bed.

Geon Hak gently stroked her forehead, which was streaked with sweat. The executive’s tender touch was so warm it brought tears to her eyes.

To think it could be this warm.

While wondering if this moment was a dream, Jae bit her lip several times at the strong impact that seemed to pierce through her body.

An unfamiliar sensation she had never experienced before.

The pain she felt for the first time pierced through her. She even worried that her body might split in half.

But at some point, it stopped hurting.

Her heart swelled and inexplicable sounds kept escaping, embarrassing her.

Jae blacked out several times in Cha Geon Hak’s arms.

The unfamiliar feeling she experienced for the first time tingled down her spine and washed over her with happiness.

It was an intense pleasure she had never experienced in her life.

As Jae exhaled heated breaths on the bed, a gentle smile spread across Geon Hak’s lips. Unlike the struggling Jae, he didn’t seem tired at all.

The executive really has good stamina.

“Han Jae.”

“Yes, Executive.”

“How naughty.”

“P-pardon?”

Jae looked at him with wide eyes.

What naughty thing did I do? I didn’t do anything.

Rather, he teased Jae on the bed and made her embarrassed.

It wasn’t something Geon Hak, who acted like an outlaw while being gentle on the bed, should say.

As Jae looked up with round eyes, not understanding anything, Geon Hak felt his body responding. This woman, really.

“Did I make some mistake, Executive?”

“Why. You’re not calling my name.”

“Ah, Executive, I—”

“Call my name. Not my title, call my name. Han Jae.”

He said, looking straight into Jae’s eyes.

He told her to call his name several times, but how could she possibly call the executive by his name no matter what?

“Ah, ah. I.”

“We’ve already crossed the line, yet you won’t call my name? Don’t tell me you think this is the company? Are we working overtime right now? Han Jae, are you working with me?”

Work? How could this be work?

If something this happy is work, I could do it endlessly.

Jae shook her head vigorously.

“No.”

He must have thought it obviously wasn’t, as a smile spread across his face.

“Well, Han Jae seemed to enjoy it too much for it to be work.”

At his teasing words, Jae’s small ears turned bright red. Red marks he had made were already blooming all over her body.

“I’ve been calling your name since the first moment I saw you, Han Jae.”

That’s true.

He always called Jae by her name.

From the day of the company gathering, when he appeared in front of Jae and proposed to join him. From when he saved the flustered Jae, he consistently called Jae’s name.

“So call my name.”

As he stared intently at her with a fierce gaze, Jae’s swollen lips slowly moved.

Her swollen lips were strangely cute. Cute enough to want to swallow them whole.

Geon Hak held back a laugh and stared at her lips.

“Cha… Geon Hak.”

“One more time.”

“Geon Hak…”

Satisfied with Jae’s answer, the corners of his mouth curled up prettily. Geon Hak lowered his head and kissed her lips again. Partly because it was Jae’s first time and she was clumsy, but he really seemed capable of anything.

Just from a kiss, Jae’s toes curled again and sweat seeped into her hands gripping the sheets.

As their lips gently parted and he kissed her deeply once more as if stamping her, her lips crumpled.

He stared intently at the scar on her abdomen, then began to caress it with his fingers. Stroking that spot gently, he asked with a curious expression.

“The scar is deep. How did you get hurt here?”

Jae lifted her head slightly from the pillow to look down at the scar, then met his gaze.

“Actually… I don’t remember well. I heard I got hurt when I was about twelve years old.”

“When you were twelve?”

Jae shook her head.

“Yes. I lost all my memories from when I was twelve due to an accident. So I actually don’t remember why I jumped into the swimming pool.”

“…Swimming pool?”

As Geon Hak furrowed his brow, Jae looked at him curiously.

“Why? Do you, Executive— I mean, Geon Hak, dislike swimming?”

As Jae unconsciously tried to call him Executive but used his name instead, Geon Hak smiled gently.

“I almost died in a swimming pool when I was young, so I don’t really like water. If it’s a scar from when you were twelve, quite some time has passed, so why hasn’t it faded yet? It should have faded considerably by now.”

Geon Hak looked at Jae with a sympathetic expression.

Emotions she had kept hidden and concealed began to bloom across her face like sadness spreading.

“You asked before, right? Why there was nothing written in my family information. Actually, I do have one family member.”

“You have family?”

“Yes. My only family member. My mother. My mother said it was an injury from when I was twelve, and since it wasn’t life-threatening, she didn’t get it treated.”

Her matter-of-fact way of speaking made her seem even more pitiful.

“The truth is, my mother hated me very much. Of course, she still does.”

“Why does she hate Han Jae so much?”

“…To my mother, I’m misfortune. She hates me because I prevented her life from properly blooming. She always said that if I didn’t exist, she would have been happier.”

Jae’s slowly opening lips were heartbreaking.

How much must it have hurt to hear such words from a young age?

“My mother did all sorts of jobs to raise me alone. She worked at restaurants, as a live-in housekeeper, she worked so hard. But for some reason, she said everything was ruined because of me. She said she lost all her assets because of me. That’s when my mother started to change.”

Tears began to well up in her eyes again.

“So I was scolded a lot by my mother for no reason…”

“It must have been very difficult. Do you keep in touch now?”

“No. Not anymore, not anymore.”

Not anymore?

Then who was that woman I met at the department store?

She looked two or three years older than Han Jae.

“Then, who was the woman I met at the department store?”

As her lips closed again, Geon Hak kissed her eyelids as if to say it was okay, then smiled.

“If it’s hard to talk about, you can tell me later. Now that I know about Han Jae’s scar, you can tell me slowly. I won’t rush you.”

Jae nodded.

Geon Hak reached out to wipe away her tears and spoke in a gentle voice.

“Still, you grew up so beautifully and well, I’m proud.”

Hearing words she had never heard before made her feel rewarded. Hearing them from the man she liked so much made her feel even happier.

“I’ll give you a special gift.”

“A gift?”

“Shall we do it one more time?”

The corners of his mouth curved prettily and his smile towards Jae was gentle. Jae’s lips parted.

She had already reached climax with him several times.

Was it possible to do it again?

The executive is truly amazing.

“I won’t do anything Han Jae dislikes. But seeing how happy you looked earlier, I’m proposing this. I want to give you a special gift.”

How could anyone refuse when he spoke like that?

He was an expert at shaking Jae’s heart.

He was opening his arms wide, calling her to come, when she was already so deeply fallen for Cha Geon Hak that she couldn’t escape. So Jae ran into those arms as if she had been waiting.

“Okay. Give me the gift, Geon Hak. I want to receive it.”

At her answer, Geon Hak lowered his head to kiss her.

A sweet scent filled the air as he spoke to Jae.

Saying she did well to come this far.

Thanking her for enduring so well.

The night that began again came like an unparalleled gift.