Contract Marriage with a Male Friend - Chapter 34

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#34

In front of the Company Office?
Whose?
‘Surely not…?’
Surely he doesn’t mean right in front of our office.
Current time: 9:31 a.m. It was only about twenty minutes by car from Kangho Group Headquarters to here.
It wasn’t impossible if he set his mind to it, but—
‘Wasn’t he supposed to be working?’
An Executive Director probably had a mountain of responsibilities.
Or did he? Perhaps as a senior executive, he had more flexibility with his time?
Her head was spinning.
Su-i decided to head outside.
Today, aside from writing up the results report, there wasn’t much pressing business to handle.
With funeral emergencies coming in frequently and requiring rapid dispatch, her work hours tended to be fluid.
Su-i slipped quietly out of the office and immediately called Beom-jin.
— Yeah, baby.
His low, thick voice was characteristically unflustered as always.
“Don’t tell me you’re really in front of our office right now?”
— Yeah. I grabbed an Ion Drink you like from the Convenience Store and I’m heading over.
“Where’s the car?”
— I parked it where I stopped earlier…
“Wait there.”
Su-i hung up before Beom-jin could finish speaking, stabbing the elevator’s close button repeatedly.
Ding—
The moment the elevator doors slid open, she darted outside and rounded the corner, spotting the Black SUV parked in a relatively quiet spot, and quickened her pace toward it.
Glancing around, she slipped into the passenger seat and was immediately drawn into his embrace like a leaf caught in a current.
“Oh!”
Beom-jin, holding her close, buried his face in the nape of her neck and inhaled deeply.
“I feel like I’m dying.”
“What, what? We haven’t been apart that long.”
At her words, he wiped away his smile and cracked his eyes open.
“Why… are you looking at me like that?”
“We weren’t apart. We were just separated for a moment before we could see each other again.”
Su-i blinked her wide eyes.
His expression was so stern it bordered on terrifying—what was he going on about?
“Don’t ever say that again. That’s something we’ll never have to worry about.”
Unwilling to let the word “apart” touch his lips, he substituted “that” instead, cupping her cheeks in his hands; his gaze was so intense it made her heart quake.
Deeply enough to make her breath catch.
“…All right, okay.”
She fumbled over her words without meaning to, but watching Beom-jin’s expression soften, Su-i decided it was fine.
Every time she watched him concentrate and react to each word she spoke, a peculiar emotion bloomed through her chest.
An emotion she couldn’t quite name, or rather—
one she shouldn’t try to name.
“What’s going on? You don’t have meetings this morning?”
“I do have something scheduled.”
“You do have something scheduled?”
Smack—
Beom-jin tilted his head down and pressed a light kiss to her cheek.
“Recharging by seeing my love.”
“Really, don’t mess around.”
“Then should I do this properly?”
Beom-jin gently cradled her face and closed his lips around hers.
Through the gap of her parted lips, his soft tongue pressed forward, caressing the inside of her mouth shamelessly.
The moment Su-i gripped his collar, Beom-jin wrapped his hand around her neck and pulled her closer, beginning to taste her lips in earnest.
Their tongues tangled slowly, then he sucked harder.
He pointed his tongue to graze the roof of her mouth, then sucked at the saliva pooled beneath, before drawing her lower lip in and breathing gently against it.
“Ah…”
A thin strand of saliva stretched between them before snapping.
Beom-jin wiped the moisture from her lips with his thumb and murmured.
“Recharge complete. Though not completely full.”
“Not completely…?”
“That’s something only possible inside you.”
Su-i took a beat to catch up with the meaning behind his utterly composed tone and suggestive answer.
“You, you’re really…! You pervert.”
“Then who exactly was it rolling around with this pervert? Guess, baby.”
God, this is ridiculous.
When an indignant Su-i tried to wriggle free from his embrace, Beom-jin laughed softly and tightened his arms.
Where do you think you’re going?
As long as we’re together, I won’t let you slip away from me.
“But seriously, why did you come? Did something happen at the office?”
Still held in his arms, Su-i asked with a worried expression.
“Did your family… object? Are you running away from them?”
“Then will you let me take care of you forever?”
“Dok-go Beom-jin.”
Su-i called his name in a serious voice, but somehow Beom-jin’s face lit up.
“…Why?”
“Because I like it.”
“…What else?”
Beom-jin’s eyes widened as he spoke.
“I read that wives call their husbands’ and children’s full names when they’re angry.”
The absurdity of it all melted her indignation away.
Instead, a helpless laugh escaped her.
At that, Beom-jin rained kisses across her cheeks and lips.
“What am I going to do? I can’t go back to the office.”
“I’m even afraid to ask why now.”
“Because I don’t want to be apart from you.”
Su-i, her face flushed, sighed and nestled in his embrace, rolling her eyes to cautiously peer out the car window.
“How many came?”
“How many what?”
“Watchers.”
How many eyes must be on them that they’re continuing like this even inside a car parked in such a quiet spot?
‘They’re not lurking on a nearby rooftop with a sniper scope like in the movies, right?’
Actually, they might be.
The other party was Kangho Group.
In a world that exceeded the imagination of ordinary people, who knew what could happen?
“…”
Her embarrassment faded quickly.
Su-i’s face grew tense as she began scanning her surroundings in alert, and Beom-jin’s gaze deepened.
How could Su-i be so incredibly cute?
She was so cute that he couldn’t tear away his eyes, hands, or lips.
Those brown eyes moving restlessly, those small hands gripping his collar tighter and tighter—he could tell she was lost in her movie-like imaginings.
Watching her swallow, he couldn’t suppress the laughter bubbling up inside.
“Why are you laughing?”
“Because you’re cute.”
“Really. Now’s not the time for that. Someone could be watching us from anywhere.”
If they kept pressed together like this, would that be enough?
Or should they touch even closer?
Lost in thought, Su-i found herself suddenly cupped by Beom-jin’s large hands on both cheeks as he planted kiss after kiss on her pouting lips.
“Dok-go! Oh, come on!”
He caught her small hands as they pushed against him in embarrassment, bringing them to his lips for kisses as well.
Su-i was everything to him.
Every time he could see what she was thinking, what she was feeling, he was struck by how deeply she had opened her heart to him.
For someone who had lived among people who hid their emotions and sincerity, Su-i was incredibly precious and wondrous.
But until now, the veil of friendship had kept him from truly expressing his heart.
“My uncle sent someone.”
“Your uncle? Oh, wait… uh…”
“To see if I’m really going through with marriage. If it’s not some scheme.”
Beom-jin wrapped his arms around her waist and soothed her by stroking gently up and down, his lips brushing softly against hers, and her body began to tremble slightly.
“To see if there’s another motive.”
“Mm…”
This moment—when he could finally express his feelings for Su-i wholly and completely—felt infinitely precious and happy.
Even a year from now, even after another year passes and ten years have slipped by—
he would surely keep expressing his heart and emotions to Su-i this way, with his entire being.
There was nothing Beom-jin wouldn’t do to make that happen.
Even if it meant dealing with the bothersome annoyance of his cousin who kept pestering him.
With Su-i held in his arms and his lips against her hair, Beom-jin tracked the car passing in front of them with a sharp gaze.
It was Dok-go Seung-jin’s car.
Under the pretense of visiting a subcontractor, a bothersome cousin who had come under false coincidence to assess the woman who would become his wife.
Still holding his gaze on the car parked in front of the building, Beom-jin gently nipped Su-i’s earlobe and whispered.
“When do you want to make the greeting, baby?”

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