Emergency Instinct - Chapter 28

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Screeeeech!

 

The sharp sound of a car’s sudden braking pierced the air.

 

“Ah!”

 

A scream burst from Ji-an’s mouth as she reflexively startled.

 

Are we going to collide?

 

The moment the headlight beams approached right in front of her and her eyes squeezed shut.

 

Strong arms that had appeared from behind suddenly hooked around her waist as if to break it and pulled her forcefully.

 

Screech! Thud!

 

The terrifying tire sounds were heard, but the expected pain never came.

 

Instead, rough panting breaths and the massive heartbeat resonating from the body she was pressed against struck Ji-an’s entire body with heat.

 

Seo Tae-jun, it was him.

 

Feeling the hot, solid muscles of the man tightening around her, Ji-an realized she hadn’t been hurt thanks to him.

 

His large chest was safely embracing her like a cushion.

 

Ji-an roughly exhaled the breath that was constricting her lungs and bit her lips painfully.

 

As she trembled with her startled, pounding heart and lifted her eyelids, she saw Tae-jun’s solid Adam’s apple shaking.

 

His clenched jaw was trembling violently.

 

“Hey! You bastard!”

 

Rough curses spewed from the mouth of the driver who had rolled down his window.

 

At the same time, Tae-jun hugged her even tighter as if telling her not to listen and covered her ears.

 

Churning, churning.

 

Something hot rose from within Ji-an as if she was going to vomit.

 

He glared fiercely at the driver with cold eyes.

 

Perhaps overwhelmed by that intensity, the driver muttered something more but quickly disappeared.

 

Tae-jun carried her toward the building backside.

 

He pushed her against the building wall and gripped her shoulders with his large hands.

 

“Dr. Hong Ji-an. Are you in your right mind?”

 

Taking a deep breath, he opened his mouth in a low voice like a growling beast.

 

It would have been less frightening if he had shouted loudly instead.

 

Ji-an shrank back at the bass tone that settled like fog and lowered her gaze.

 

“Look up.”

 

He forcibly lifted her gaze.

 

Her pupils naturally began to shake.

 

“It’s not like you’re dying to kill yourself, but if you rush in like that without looking ahead or behind.”

 

His voice, which was more frightening for being calm, gradually began to shake. Then he finally put strength into the hands gripping her shoulders.

 

“You almost had an accident. Even a seven-year-old child wouldn’t do something so reckless, but what on earth is Dr. Hong Ji-an-”

 

Sharp cries like a whip poured out all at once like a waterfall.

 

Was he feeling wronged? Or was he startled?

 

No, perhaps his heart ached from being pierced by his pouring worry.

 

Ji-an suddenly felt her eyes tremble and heat rise as if tears would come.

 

So she shouted even louder instead.

 

“It’s because Chairman keeps appearing suddenly and startling me!”

 

“Don’t you just run away every time you see me?”

 

“R-run away, what do you mean… I was on my way to answer an emergency call. I’m not as leisurely as Chairman.”

 

“You seemed leisurely though. Eating at a nice place and all.”

 

“…!”

 

He did see after all.

 

Ji-an’s mouth opened slightly.

 

“You barely ate that lunch box with me in the hospital room. But you had a romantic date at a restaurant with that doctor, so that was nice, wasn’t it?”

 

“Th-that’s not…”

 

“I guess that’s why you ran away too.”

 

“N-no! Running away isn’t my thing, it’s Chairman’s specialty!”

 

Ji-an panicked and said something she hadn’t meant to.

 

“D-didn’t you secretly run away at dawn because you didn’t want to get a shot?”

 

“Interesting. To think you thought that.”

 

Tae-jun let out a deflating laugh through his teeth and roughly ran his hand through his hair.

 

“Fine. Let’s say that’s true. Anyway, Dr. Hong Ji-an needs to act more carefully.”

 

“…”

 

“Just now, something really serious almost happened.”

 

At his voice filled with worry, Ji-an looked up at him with her pounding heart.

 

“Ah…”

 

However, she couldn’t finish her words and froze with her mouth open. Her face turned pale as paper.

 

“…Dr. Hong Ji-an?”

 

When Ji-an suddenly hardened her expression and even her lips began to tremble, Tae-jun was startled and stared intently at her.

 

“Are you hurt somewhere? Did you get injured earlier?”

 

Recalling the dangerous situation, Tae-jun’s heart sank belatedly.

 

He had momentarily panicked and raised his voice at her. He should have first checked if she was injured anywhere.

 

He thought she hadn’t been hurt because he had caught her, but was there somewhere he hadn’t protected?

 

Tae-jun quickly scanned her, looking her over. But then.

 

“…It’s not me, it’s Chairman. Stay still.”

 

She grabbed his shoulder with churning eyes.

 

“Lower your head a bit.”

 

She gripped Tae-jun’s shoulder firmly and pulled him down.

 

As he was pulled down as if melting, her hands gently cupped his face. She tilted her head to the side and came close enough for him to feel her breath.

 

“…If you suddenly do this, I get quite flustered, you know?”

 

Without responding to his cheeky words, Ji-an quickly pulled out a handkerchief from her pocket and pressed it firmly against his forehead.

 

At the sharp pain that rushed in, Tae-jun couldn’t help but furrow his brow.

 

“Ugh.”

 

“…I’m sorry.”

 

As if nothing had happened, her voice became gentle. Only then did Tae-jun realize the bandage on his forehead was damp.

 

Ah, my forehead is bleeding.

 

“Does it hurt?”

 

She asked gently while carefully examining him.

 

“A little. No, a lot…”

 

It stung but didn’t feel too serious. However, he deliberately contorted his expression and changed his words to exaggerate.

 

Everything from his voice to his gaze was sweet, and he didn’t dislike it.

 

No, he liked it so much that he had the extreme thought of wishing this bleeding would never stop.

 

“There’s bleeding. It seems the area where the stitches were has opened up from exertion. Let’s quickly go to the treatment room. There’s also risk of infection, and you might need re-suturing.”

 

She spoke while examining his forehead with even more delicate touches.

 

“Are you always this kind to patients?”

 

“Press your forehead well. Not too hard, just lightly.”

 

Ji-an ignored his question.

 

Instead, she calmly took his hand and guided it to press against his forehead.

 

“Follow me quietly.”

 

Ji-an quickly sent a message to Min-su saying she’d be there a bit later, then linked arms with him as if supporting him and pulled him along.

 

Tae-jun obediently let himself be led by her serious demeanor.

 

Chuckle, chuckle, an uncontrollable smile kept rising to his lips.

 

He must have really injured his head.

 

Seeing how his eyes had gone crazy at the sight of her with another man, coming all the way here, and feeling good even when his sutured wound burst open.

 

He was definitely not normal right now.

 

He couldn’t control these feelings that were flowing out on their own.

 

When Ji-an recalled the dangerous moment, her heart still pounded and she felt angry. But the moment gentle hands touched her forehead, a different fire rose in her mind.

 

The heat that flowed down with the body temperature of her linked arms had somehow thickly pooled in her lower abdomen.

 

Watching her swaying pure white nape, Tae-jun swallowed his thirst with difficulty.

 

With each step she took, his gaze followed her intensely.

 

Whether she knew of Tae-jun’s gaze or not, Ji-an entered the hospital building through the back door and laid him down on the narrow treatment room bed.

 

Even lying down, Tae-jun only followed Ji-an with his eyes.

 

“I’ll take your temperature.”

 

Beep!

 

The thermometer tickled his sensitive ear.

 

“It doesn’t seem infected, but you have a slight fever.”

 

No way. Not slight—it was boiling as if about to explode.

 

When a hot sigh flowed through his teeth, she covered his face with a perforated green disinfectant cloth, exposing only his forehead.

 

It was rather fortunate.

 

He had been having wicked thoughts while watching Ji-an treat him with such a serious face.

 

With gentle hands, she removed the bandage.

 

Tae-jun gripped the metal bed frame as if to bend it and clenched his teeth.

 

“I’m going to disinfect and apply local anesthesia.”

 

Ji-an spoke calmly and put on gloves.

 

“Don’t be nervous, take a deep breath.”

 

Then she picked up lidocaine, a local anesthetic, from the cart.

 

“It’ll sting a little.”

 

She slowly injected it into the dermal layer around the wound.

 

“You mustn’t move. It’s okay.”

 

Ji-an firmly held his temple that flinched reflexively, preventing him from moving.

 

“Just bear with it a little. Soon, you won’t feel anything at all…”

 

“…No way.”

 

Tae-jun let out words full of exaggeration in a slightly hoarse voice.

 

“Dr. Hong Ji-an, be a little gentler.”

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