Contract Marriage with a Male Friend - Chapter 53

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#53

Beom Jin cupped An Soo Yi’s face as she kept tilting her head away.
He swallowed her small, flushed lips in one breath and continued moving inside her.
“Mm, ahh…… Hmm…….”
Transparent tears rolled down An Soo Yi’s eyes as she moaned beneath him.
“Why are you crying? You said you’d make me cry.”
“Beom Jin, wait, ah, it’s too deep……!”
An Soo Yi’s body, head tilted back, trembled violently.
“Well. I’ve cried plenty inside you too.”
And this time as well.
The moment Beom Jin’s teeth grazed her nape, An Soo Yi let out a cry that was almost a scream.
“Hah, hah…….”
Beom Jin pulled her close and kissed her across her entire body before finally pulling back.
At the sensation of the massive pillar buried within her being slowly withdrawn, An Soo Yi’s body shuddered once more.
Beom Jin tied off the condom, opened a drawer, and tore open a fresh box.
“Wait, we’ve been at this the whole time…….”
“Yeah, we have.”
Beom Jin whispered as he gently caressed the place where he had just been inside her.
“We’ve got a long way to go before you’re done crying, love.”
He pressed his weight into her again.
An Soo Yi wrapped her arms around his neck and swayed violently up and down.
This was truly strange.
The information she’d picked up from somewhere claimed it would be difficult to do this again immediately afterward.
But Dok Go Beom Jin—somehow, he never tired, performing each time as if it were the first.
Even after making love until dawn, he always woke before her, finished his workout and shower, and kissed her awake.
On weekends, he’d dismiss the staff and personally prepare meals, feed her, and even bathe her.
Between all that, he handled company business, yet never left her side if he could help it.
What kind of stamina did he possess?
‘Ah, it’s heredity…….’
Dok Go Hyung Jun, despite his age, showed no fatigue and worked the sites with vigor that surpassed everyone else.
Whenever he made field inspections, it was always the younger employees, An Soo Yi included, who grew weary and stumbled.
“Ah……!”
“Seems my love’s building some stamina now.”
Beom Jin gazed down at her and smiled.
“You’re even thinking other thoughts.”
“It’s not that, ahh……!”
An Soo Yi’s body flipped over in an instant.
Beom Jin gripped her slender waist with both hands and began tormenting her anew.
“Hah…… Spend the weekend with me. Don’t go anywhere else.”
“With your mother, and ah, wait, it’s too…….”
“I’ll come too. Otherwise, I really won’t let you go.”
As if he weren’t busy himself.
An Soo Yi whimpered and murmured as she shook violently, and in that instant, Beom Jin’s eyes darkened.
“That sounds good, love. Keep calling yourself that.”
“That’s not what I meant…… ahh, yeah, that’s right, love.”
Beom Jin grabbed her thin arm to raise her upper body, then pulled her firmly against him from behind, driving deeper still.
At the sensation of being pierced by a pillar of flame, An Soo Yi opened her mouth without even a moan escaping.
“After lunch with your mother, go on a date with me. Let’s do all those things you said you wanted to do.”
“Ahh…… Mm…….”
“You promise?”
Beom Jin smiled and turned her face to kiss her.
At last, as dawn broke, An Soo Yi fell into sleep as if losing consciousness.
Beom Jin carefully cleaned every inch of her sleeping body with a warm wet cloth, then placed a soft kiss on her reddened eyes.
“An Soo Yi.”
“…….”
“My love.”
Instead of answering, An Soo Yi breathed softly and steadily.
Looking down at her face—innocent and harmless as a child’s—Beom Jin thought to himself.
If she were to bear his child, surely this girl would stay by his side forever.
But he quickly shook his head.
What An Soo Yi wanted came first.
Rushing would only ruin everything.
‘A child can wait.’
He wasn’t yet ready to share her affection with anyone else.
But if it were a daughter who looked exactly like An Soo Yi…….
‘That might be acceptable?’
In Beom Jin’s mind, a small An Soo Yi smiled at him, the image radiant as a soap bubble.
“…….”
He could not tear his eyes from her sleeping face for a long time.

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Today was the day the two of them were going on a date.
After lunch with Jin Sook Young, they headed to a nearby park.
“I wished I could take you somewhere more impressive.”
“I like it here better.”
It was already the end of May.
The trees grew lusher, and white flowers from the flowering ash trees scattered like snow across the street.
“It’s been a long time since I’ve had leisure like this.”
Everyone walking the streets looked happy.
School-uniformed boys and girls burst into laughter as they passed, while couples gazed at each other tenderly and took photos.
But this time, there were others who caught An Soo Yi’s eye.
She found herself unable to look away from a couple smiling brightly as they watched a child who resembled them both.
She was beginning to understand why Dok Go Hyung Jun spoke so often of great-grandchildren.
It was partly because of the succession structure.
But on another level, he must long to see a child who resembled his most beloved grandson.
‘His father passed away unexpectedly in an accident, or so I heard.’
Dok Go Jin Hyuk, Beom Jin’s father, had died at the scene of a sudden traffic accident while returning from inspecting a provincial factory construction site.
With his unpretentious yet decisive character and his exceptional management acumen, he was hailed from all quarters as the next-generation leader who would take the Kangho Group to even greater heights.
Yet the son whom Dok Go Hyung Jun took such pride in and trusted was suddenly stolen away by that single, meaningless accident.
An Soo Yi could not even begin to imagine how deeply that accident had wounded Dok Go Hyung Jun and his family.
But her thoughts ultimately circled back to Beom Jin.
Losing his father must have been agony, but to have his family doubt him as well……
How painful and lonely that must have been.
“Dok Go.”
At her call, Beom Jin, who had been walking with their fingers interlaced, turned his head toward her immediately.
“Yes, love?”
An Soo Yi opened her mouth, thinking she was growing accustomed to that ‘love’ in her own way.
“Can I ask you something? It’s about your family.”
“Anything about you, I’ll know.”
At his unexpected answer, An Soo Yi’s face flushed deeply.
At some point, whenever Beom Jin spoke of ‘family,’ he meant her, not Dok Go Hyung Jun or Jin Sook Young.
It wasn’t wrong, but……
‘He’s really committed to this contract.’
Now she wondered when was the last time she’d reminded herself that this marriage was merely a contract.
Every time she felt happy, she would force herself to remember.
This marriage is only a contract.
She had made that promise to herself countless times to avoid losing herself in the sweetness.
But somewhere along the way, the boundary between reality and contract had crumbled.

“Whatever you want, whatever choice you make. My promise to stand by you for life never changes.”

Perhaps Beom Jin had seen through her heart all along.

“So promise me this one thing. Don’t lock yourself away. That prison isn’t yours.”

Because she was already leaning toward choosing to truly become his family.
“Why that expression? I brought you out here, and now I want to take you back to bed.”

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