Emergency Blind Date - Chapter 28

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#Episode 28

How could he feel this happy after not seeing her for just a few hours?

Ding—.

The elevator arrived and the doors opened.

“Well then, see you in the car.”

“Yes. And thank you for the food!”

Da-som lifted the shopping bag to show him and smiled with her characteristic eye-smile. Kang Hyeok nodded lightly in response.

As Da-som got on the elevator, Kang Hyeok stood there until the doors closed.

Only after Kang Hyeok, who had held her gaze captivated until the very end, disappeared did Da-som let out a deep breath.

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While waiting for Da-som to come down with his hazard lights on, Kang Hyeok tapped the steering wheel and recalled the image of Da-som meeting with that Han-woo or Seon-woo guy.

He had actually been shocked to see Da-som chatting so happily with her flushed face and sparkling big eyes, as if she might throw herself into an embrace at any moment.

Of course, she often blushed and smiled with bright eyes when meeting him too, but he knew better than anyone that underneath it all lay an unresolved wariness.

But with that guy, there were no walls, no barriers at all.

What kind of relationship did those two have…?

Kang Hyeok recalled what had happened at the Emergency Room station that afternoon.

That afternoon, when Kang Hyeok’s gaze had unconsciously been following Da-som around, he was rubbing his face thinking this wouldn’t do, when Nurse Im looked at him with curiosity.

Nurse Im, who had worked in sync with Kang Hyeok, was a veteran who had worked in the Emergency Room for over five years.

“Why are you looking at me like that?”

Kang Hyeok spoke deliberately gruffly, feeling like his inner thoughts had been discovered.

“Then why are you glaring at Dr. Jeong like that, Professor?”

“Who said I was glaring at anyone?”

“She’s doing well, so don’t be so hard on her. All the First-year Residents and interns are completely frozen because of you, Professor. Don’t you see those interns walking around like robots over there?”

The interns who had just graduated from school and been thrown into the hospital field were no different from newborns who knew nothing.

Kang Hyeok chuckled at Nurse Im, who was making the wrong assumption.

“This is disappointing. After working with me for so long, you still can’t figure me out?”

“Oh my? Where else in this hospital is there someone who knows you as well as I do, Professor?”

When Kang Hyeok stared at Nurse Im intently as if asking if she really thought so, she slyly avoided his gaze and pretended not to notice.

Just then, Choi Eun-ju approached the station.

“What are you talking about so interestingly?”

“Hello, Professor.”

After Nurse Im greeted her, she left to attend to her duties. Kang Hyeok was also about to leave the station without much response when Eun-ju brought her face close and called out to him.

“Kang Hyeok, NS’s Im Ji-yu came down as a First-year Resident. Did you happen to see her?”

“I heard there were no applicants, but I guess someone came in.”

He remembered Ji-yu being quite envious when she saw that there were unusually many applicants to the Emergency Medicine Department this year.

Im Ji-yu, Kang Hyeok’s junior, had dated Professor Kwon Tae-ha, who was newly appointed to NS, causing quite a stir in the hospital, then successfully married him and was living well.

“Ji-yu is walking around all triumphant and proud, it’s not even funny. But that tiny thing walking around with a big, handsome man does look quite presentable.”

For Kang Hyeok, who had heard the word “handsome” so much his ears were sick of it, being called handsome held no merit whatsoever.

He just thought some decent-looking guy must have joined.

“That’s good.”

“He’s like a perfect gentleman. If only he were younger, I’d try something.”

As he was about to leave, just letting Choi Eun-ju’s joke pass by, Nurse Im had somehow approached and joined the conversation.

“Oh, Professor, did you see him too? That First-year Resident’s name was Han Seon-woo, wasn’t it? Anyway, he’s no joke, right?”

“That’s what I’m saying.”

“Our hospital must have good feng shui. How do such handsome people come in every year…?”

Kang Hyeok left, thinking there was no need to listen any further.

When he briefly encountered that Han Seon-woo, whom everyone who had seen him once praised endlessly, at the Emergency Room entrance, Kang Hyeok realized it wasn’t an exaggeration at all.

He seemed to have tensed up instinctively, as if there was something about his appearance that warranted caution.

Tap, tap.

At the sound of someone knocking on the car window, Kang Hyeok emerged from his thoughts and turned his head.

Da-som was standing there, knocking on the passenger door.

When he gestured for her to get in quickly, Da-som swiftly climbed into the passenger seat.

Her breathing was slightly rough, as if she had been running.

“You could have come slowly. Did you run?”

“Hah, yes. I thought you might be waiting.”

After fastening her seatbelt, Da-som turned around with a shy smile filling her face. He gazed intently at her lovely face that was too adorable to be captured by the word “pretty” alone, then left the hospital entrance.

“I’ll enjoy the snacks. I packed some to eat at home too.”

Da-som showed him what was in her bag as she spoke.

“The chocolate candies are delicious too, they’re all things I like.”

“Did you try them?”

“Yes.”

Perhaps that’s why Da-som had a particularly sweet scent about her. That red mouth of hers must be even sweeter.

“Oh, would you like to try one?”

Da-som was searching through her bag for a chocolate candy. Maybe he should at least have a candy instead of her lips.

Instead of answering, Kang Hyeok nodded and focused on driving.

There was a rustling sound, then Da-som’s small, white hand approached his face.

He looked down at the chocolate candy in Da-som’s hand.

Was she planning to unwrap it and put it in his mouth herself?

Suppressing the urge to bite those white fingers along with the candy, he opened his mouth. Da-som then slipped the candy into his mouth.

Da-som’s finger touched his lips and pulled away. At that light contact, his teeth tingled and he bit and released his lips.

“How is it? It’s delicious, right?”

A chuckle escaped at the sight of her waiting for his reaction with sparkling eyes like a child.

When he nodded while crunching the candy, Da-som unwrapped a candy and popped it into her own mouth.

His throat was dry and his mouth burned.

“But when did you buy these things?”

He glanced at Da-som, who was asking with one cheek bulging as if she was letting the candy dissolve.

Her glossy, plump lips caught his eye. His grip on the steering wheel tightened until the tendons in his hands stood out.

“Today.”

Instead of panting like a crazy bastard in heat, he wanted to do something helpful, so after work he had briefly stopped by the food section of a nearby department store.

Not knowing what or which things to choose, he had bought them with the help of a staff member.

“Did you see the vitamins I put in there too?”

“Ah, yes. I’ll take those well too.”

“Don’t skip them, make sure to take them.”

“…Yes.”

“If it’s okay with you, shall we drive around a bit?”

“I’d like that. But won’t you be tired?”

“Not at all.”

The distance between the hospital and the officetel was too close. Disappointed that they would arrive so quickly, Kang Hyeok drove while thinking of good driving routes.

As he drove toward the riverside, he tried to recall where cafes might be, but having never been on dates, there was no way he would know.

“Oh, it’s raining.”

A light rain began to fall.

Da-som exclaimed softly as she watched raindrops hit the car window. When the wipers swept away the rainwater, the window became clear. But soon raindrops settled again, gradually filling the window.

“Tonight’s shift should be a bit easier.”

He laughed at how she was acting leisurely, saying something that someone who had worked in the Emergency Room for years would say.

“Probably so.”

As he made a U-turn at the signal and turned the steering wheel sharply, Da-som leaned toward Kang Hyeok to maintain her balance. The scent of shampoo and chocolate that tickled his nose wafted over.

“Should I give you one more?”

After glancing once at Da-som’s lips as she sucked on the candy, moving her lips, Kang Hyeok nodded.

Like a squirrel gathering its front paws to crack acorns, Da-som put her hands in her bag to search for candy, then held the same chocolate candy she had eaten earlier in front of Kang Hyeok’s mouth.

“Have it.”

What are you thinking, casually putting candy in a man’s mouth like this?

Do you do this with Eun Hyeok who follows you around like a nanny, or with that bastard you call senior too?

Kang Hyeok firmly gripped Da-som’s wrist with his right hand and opened his mouth to swallow the candy.

Then he held onto Da-som’s hand as she tried to pull it away in surprise, and licked up her delicate fingers with the tip of his tongue as if they might break.

“…Ah!”

Da-som’s large eyes grew even larger.

Kang Hyeok released Da-som’s hand from his mouth and intertwined their fingers one by one. After driving like that for a while and arriving at Han River Riverside, Kang Hyeok parked, turned off the wipers, and looked back at Da-som.

Da-som, who had been meeting Kang Hyeok’s gaze while blinking her long eyelashes, smiled with a slightly nervous expression.

He already knew well that when she was nervous, she would deliberately smile more and pretend otherwise.

“Haha, with the rain coming down, it’s not really good for a walk, is it?”

As he quietly stared at Da-som who was turning her head left and right to look around, a blush appeared along her earlobes and nape.

Click. Click.

Kang Hyeok released the hand he was holding and unfastened both his seatbelt and Da-som’s seatbelt.

Then he leaned toward Da-som and touched her reddened earlobe.

As if it tickled, she shuddered while keeping Kang Hyeok’s hand wedged between her shoulder and head.

The cheek touching the back of his hand was soft and hot.

He hadn’t come here with this intention, but it seemed like he was going to end up doing a lot of bad things.

“Can I kiss you?”

A hoarse sound that seemed to scratch his throat came out. The scent of chocolate wafted from Da-som’s slightly parted lips.

The chocolate that he wouldn’t have even glanced at normally was driving him crazy with desire.

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