Emergency Instinct - Chapter 37

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Ji-an stiffened slightly in surprise.

 

“Won’t you take it?”

 

“Of course I should take it. Thank you.”

 

Ji-an carefully took the coffee milk and asked while gauging his mood.

 

“Are you already going to work?”

 

“I have to review the professor’s paper. Killing two birds with one stone.”

 

Kyung-seok, who had been keeping his distance and avoiding Ji-an for a while, answered obediently.

 

“That must be tough.”

 

“I just need to suffer through this week. It’s almost time to get off work, so go into the residents’ room and rest a bit. I’ll handle the rest.”

 

“No, it’s okay. There’s not much left anyway.”

 

“Learn to be a bit more clever. You’re famous these days so you’re being called here and there, and you can’t even rest on your days off.”

 

“You’re the same way, senior.”

 

“Am I?”

 

Kyung-seok smiled brightly.

 

Thank goodness. Kyung-seok has returned to how he was before.

 

Relieved by his comfortable expression, Ji-an took a sip of coffee milk and smiled along.

 

Though he said he was fine, he must have felt uncomfortable after all, as he suddenly started avoiding Ji-an.

 

It was a bit disappointing.

 

Since he was a senior she liked and looked up to, she inwardly didn’t want to grow distant from him.

 

Knowing it was greed, Ji-an had been silently accepting it. But even though it must be uncomfortable, he came back with a smile.

 

Fortunately, it seems he’s finished sorting out his feelings.

 

“Thank you, senior.”

 

Ji-an spoke with sincerity.

 

“Yeah. Hong Ji-an. You really need to treat me even better from now on.”

 

Kyung-seok, who had been looking at Ji-an for a moment, answered as if joking.

 

“Yes, of course.”

 

Ji-an answered spiritedly and smiled brightly. As the heavy feeling she had whenever she saw him was resolved, her heart felt much lighter.

 

On the other hand, Kyung-seok looked at Ji-an and drank his beverage bitterly.

 

Ji-an was smiling as sweetly as ice cream.

 

Though he’d seen her for years, this was an expression he’d never seen before.

 

Whether it was because of her mother’s situation, she had become more expressionless and gloomy, but recently she had noticeably changed. She seems happy.

 

Even though she must be tired from her extremely demanding schedule, Ji-an’s eyes were sparkling. So lovingly, like a girl dreaming.

 

He thought he knew the reason. Though he didn’t want to admit it.

 

In fact, when Kyung-seok had called Ji-an’s phone, he was able to immediately guess who the person who answered was.

 

The voice was familiar too, and he had already experienced that person looking at Ji-an with intense eyes several times.

 

“He must be treating you well. That man.”

 

Kyung-seok blurted out the words that had been building up inside him with a hint of jealousy. He wanted to get it off his chest at least once.

 

“What? What do you mean…?”

 

Ji-an was noticeably flustered.

 

Kyung-seok didn’t pretend not to know anymore and spoke honestly. Because he didn’t want to lose Ji-an, who was a good junior and colleague, while erasing his last lingering feelings.

 

“I don’t like it, but I’ll support you. Oh, it’s not because of that man. It’s because you smile well unlike before. That’s why I’m backing down.”

 

It seems that Seo Tae-jun, that man, is also sincere about Ji-an.

 

“Senior, how did you…? I mean, do you really know what you’re talking about?”

 

Ji-an asked with confused eyes. She seemed to have no idea.

 

Kyung-seok stared at Ji-an intently.

 

I’m ending a long unrequited love, so I can be a little mischievous too, right?

 

“That person answered your phone once and we talked. His voice was so menacing.”

 

He even shuddered his shoulders as if it was scary.

 

Ji-an’s face flushed hot with embarrassment. Seeing Kyung-seok talk like that, he must have figured out that the other person was Tae-jun too.

 

“If I had known you two were dating beforehand, I wouldn’t have confessed. But I won’t regret it. Because I didn’t know.”

 

Could it be that Tae-jun said something directly?

 

Ji-an had no intention of telling anyone about her relationship with Tae-jun.

 

If he was going around talking about this, he must have completely forgotten about his and her positions.

 

There was nothing good about it being known. She had to be especially careful with hospital people above all.

 

With complicated feelings, Ji-an ran her hand through her hair and first asked Kyung-seok to keep it secret.

 

He nodded with an understanding expression. But he added one thing.

 

“Talk to the person involved once too. He didn’t seem like he wanted to hide it at all.”

 

“…Yes. I will.”

 

Ji-an nodded while blushing.

 

“Let’s go. It looks like a patient is coming in.”

 

Kyung-seok, who saw an ambulance coming in, got up first.

 

Ji-an, who swallowed a sigh, also got up and followed.

 

Lost in her first sweet romance, she had completely forgotten about it.

 

It was obvious that problems would arise if her relationship with him became known at the hospital.

 

Thinking about it, the barriers between him and her were not just one or two.

 

That’s why she had been afraid of her heart going to him from the beginning…

 

I need to be more careful.

 

As much as her feelings were deepening, it seemed they would need some important agreements if they wanted to be together for a long time.

 

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7:30 AM, the Chairman’s Office with lights on.

 

“I told you to apply the medicine well because you might get scars.”

 

Ji-an’s pleasant nagging could be heard. But Tae-jun couldn’t wait and endure any longer.

 

“If it gets dry, scars might form… Oh!”

 

Thud!

 

Tae-jun collapsed onto the Chairman’s Office sofa as if falling, holding her in his arms.

 

“Ah, w-wait! Hey, you need to apply the medicine…! Ah!”

 

Ji-an, who had been applying ointment to his forehead, cried out in surprise. But it couldn’t be helped.

 

The smell of disinfectant that had permeated her body like perfume drove him even crazier.

 

Tae-jun came to work at the Chairman’s Office to match Ji-an’s end time for her night shift.

 

And he called Ji-an under the pretext that his forehead needed treatment.

 

She was clearly hesitant. But at the words that everyone was before work, she eventually came pretending she couldn’t refuse.

 

It was an instinctive lure. Because he desperately needed time alone together.

 

Of course, it was also true that his forehead needed treatment.

 

He couldn’t stand the itching.

 

Last night when she was working night shift and he had to be alone, the throbbing in his forehead actually grew like phantom pain.

 

Even applying medicine was useless, so when he scratched it, it had swollen up red.

 

But the moment he saw Ji-an, the throbbing disappeared like a lie.

 

As expected, what he really needed was Ji-an. Not some scar ointment.

 

Tae-jun pretended not to see the scar ointment that had fallen to the floor, firmly grasped both her hands and raised them above her head.

 

As he looked down intently, Ji-an shook her head.

 

“Ah, Chairman. This is a hospital… Mmph!”

 

In the end, he devoured her lips. Only then did hot, moist breath flow out between her now-quiet lips.

 

I feel like I can live.

 

I missed this breath so much.

 

“I couldn’t sleep a wink all night.”

 

“No, why…?”

 

“Because I missed Hong Ji-an so much.”

 

At his matter-of-fact reason, Ji-an’s heartbeat quickened. Her embarrassed, flushed cheeks turned peachy pink.

 

It was truly a reaction he couldn’t help but find appealing.

 

At her tempting fullness that he wanted to devour, saliva pooled in Tae-jun’s mouth.

 

It seemed he was properly addicted.

 

He felt like he was becoming more faithful to desire than reason.

 

Ever since becoming lovers with her, his withdrawal symptoms had actually gotten worse.

 

If he didn’t see her even for a day, he couldn’t feel at ease at all.

 

Tae-jun urgently pushed his tongue into her flushed lips.

 

Her moans deepened as he persistently penetrated.

 

Their overlapping bodies rubbed together, and breath burst forth like luscious fruit.

 

The sticky heat that seemed ready to soak the Chairman’s Office sofa.

 

The trembling of his urgent heart.

 

The deepened kiss became lewd foreplay, growing increasingly intense.

 

Heated up, Tae-jun could no longer be satisfied with just kissing.

 

Through the gap in her open shirt, her cleavage that tempted him heaved enticingly.

 

Strength entered his hands.

 

He traced down her delicate spine. She was just as thoroughly soaked as he was.

 

Unable to control the desire he had suppressed all night, he lowered his lips between her heaving cleavage.

 

He wanted to devour all of her, to fill her completely with himself. But then.

 

“No, you can’t. Stop!”

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