Impossible Romance - Chapter 57

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57.

His voice drifted subtly through the laughter of the entertainment program’s cast members.
Startled, I had hiccupped while eating ice cream and ended up choking.
“Why are you so surprised? Haven’t we done this more than once?”
Kwon Seok-ha gently patted my back.
“Even so…,”
I trailed off and shot him a slight glare. How many people wouldn’t be startled when someone suddenly suggests bathing while quietly watching television?
“What? I’m not lying. There’s not a single corner of your body I haven’t seen. Not a place I haven’t touched.”
His voice grew intimate as his large hand, which had been patting my back, began to slowly caress my body.
His touch moved across my slender back, pressing firmly into the soft skin—as if proving his words.
That he had seen, touched, and tasted every inch of my body.
“No, ah….”
Just as I tried to protest, his palm slipped beneath my t-shirt and my body was caught. His thick palm carved its own path, radiating heat. Suddenly my lower abdomen tingled with a sweet pleasure that made me tense.
I wanted to hide my flustered sensation, but there was no escaping Kwon Seok-ha’s embrace. As he slowly warmed my body, he lowered his head and pressed his lips to mine.
Soft lips locked together and rubbed deeply. Thanks to the ice cream I’d eaten moments before, our breath mingled—sticky and sweet.
Kwon Seok-ha sucked on my lips like he was savoring ice cream, seemingly ready to lick all the way down my throat. The delicious sound of his kisses wet my ears as his hand gripped my bare skin firmly.
As I tried to push his hand away, I grabbed his wrist and froze. Against my lower body, I felt something thick and demanding.
“Understand and forgive me.”
He pulled his lips away and now whispered against my earlobe, having noticed my reaction. But as always, his casual words left me with nothing but laughter.
“Hmm?”
He pestered me once more. It was an endearing plea that didn’t match his build. Unable to refuse, he pressed himself against me again, firmly.
“What if I don’t forgive you?”
Finding Kwon Seok-ha slightly annoying, I decided to tease him a little.
“You will anyway.”
Kwon Seok-ha’s eyes softened as he looked at me, crinkling at the corners. His long, cool gaze sparkled with vitality more than ever. Against my lower body, his desire made its presence undeniably known.
Unable to say anything more, I laughed as well. Then Kwon Seok-ha lowered his head again and bit my lips, lifting me effortlessly into his arms and settling me on his thighs.
My lips sealed, my breath shallow, my mind dizzy—but that wasn’t the problem. As I sat lightly on his firm thighs, his hand pushed relentlessly beneath me.
As the mounting heat intensified, I exhaled hot breath into his embrace. Like riding a wave, within the violent motion, a dizzying pleasure cascaded down my spine.
My heart felt like it would burst. It was always like this. In Kwon Seok-ha’s arms, I was drawn by a limitless force, on the verge of losing myself in overwhelming ecstasy.
I tried to turn my head away so he wouldn’t notice, but it was futile—I was already in his embrace. With burning eyes fixed on me, his lips licked my forehead, dampened my cheeks, and nibbled my earlobe.
“Ah!”
My short moan was swallowed inward by his teasing tongue. I reached up and wrapped my arms around his neck. Within Kwon Seok-ha’s embrace, which held me like a fence, I felt myself being kneaded, rubbed, and melting away.
“I think living like this would be fun.”
His voice, thick and hoarse with heat, burrowed into my ears.
I didn’t answer, but inside, I nodded.
‘Living like this would truly be wonderful.’
The future with Kwon Seok-ha, which had felt so distant, suddenly seemed more tangible.
The dream I’d harbored since childhood—one I’d never confessed and had abandoned—might actually come true. My heart raced and laughter escaped me unbidden, leaving me flustered.
“When should we get married?”
Kwon Seok-ha asked, pressing deeper into me.
Nestled against him, my eyes widened in surprise.
“Marriage? What are you talking about!”
The fact that we were together like this was already astonishing to me—marriage was a word that jumped far too far ahead.
“So, are you planning to eat and run?”
“….”
“You date someone and then get married. Isn’t that how it works?”
“…I don’t know.”
When I didn’t answer, he pressed me with his question, forcing me to speak.
His hand tightened around my body, gripping me as if to squeeze me. I laughed shyly, my cheeks flushing red. This was a topic I would have struggled to even mention before.
“If you don’t know, I’ll decide everything for you. Understood?”
“….”
In the end, I nodded my head. More precisely, I was too overwhelmed by his touch to even muster a response.
“Good. Let’s hire a wedding planner first. When should we tell the Company?”
“Oh! Please don’t tell them yet!”
But I had to stop him from telling the Company. He gripped and shook my body as if to twist it apart, but my senses suddenly sharpened.
“Why? You’ve already admitted you like me now.”
“Still…, sigh. If I’m going to keep working there, it’ll be awkward.”
I felt wronged that only I seemed to be gasping for breath, but I had to speak my mind. After all, if the Executive Director and his secretary in the same office were a couple, it would be a burden on our coworkers.
“That’s a problem then.”
Kwon Seok-ha warmed my body deliberately as he spoke. Unlike his lower half, which was burning hot, he remained leisurely and calm, unruffled.
“What is?”
Trapped within the solid muscles of the man, I barely managed to ask.
“Would it be okay to stay in the same department even after we’re married?”
“Oh, I’ll worry about that later. Not right now.”
My cheeks flushed as I turned my head away. No matter how I thought about it, discussing this in such a situation was disadvantageous. I wasn’t sure if only I felt this embarrassed, or if I simply couldn’t overcome his shamelessness.
“It might be right now.”
Kwon Seok-ha flexed his legs powerfully, pulling me close against him once more.
“Oh, ah….”
After that, I couldn’t continue the conversation any further.
I couldn’t remember when the television had been turned off, and the night truly began in earnest.

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The next day, when I came to work, the people in the Secretary’s Office seemed slightly surprised. My sudden absence must have puzzled them. But no one asked for a reason.
Whether it was Hwang Manager’s doing or not, they seemed to regard it as a personal matter not to be discussed. A week passed without incident, just like any other.
Kwon Seok-ha didn’t display his affection openly at the Company as I had asked, but at home, he approached me far more openly than before. I was also becoming somewhat accustomed to this way of life.
However, there were times when the words I had spoken to Han Seon-young would surface in my mind. It wasn’t easy to shut out thoughts that came unbidden even while working.

“I’m sorry. I… like you too, Seok-ha.”

The more I thought about it, the more my face burned with embarrassment. It was a confession I could never have mustered the courage to make before. Yet after a week had passed since that admission, courage had somehow bloomed within me.
Perhaps I could truly live that way.
Maybe that’s why I felt like I was walking on clouds, as if I’d just begun a romance. No matter how hard I tried to stay grounded, my body felt impossibly light, as though filled with balloons, and smiles kept pooling in my eyes.
‘This won’t do. I need to get a grip on myself.’
To clear my head and lift the spirits of my exhausted team, I volunteered to buy coffee that afternoon. I also felt a nagging guilt toward my colleagues and wanted to repay them in some small way.
As I was heading back to the Company with the coffee from the cafe, I spotted a vaguely familiar man loitering near the Company Alley.
I stopped and studied him carefully.
“Jun-young?”
It was Ahn Jun-young, who had been unreachable all this time. The moment I called out to him, his face drained of color as if he’d seen a ghost, and he bolted.
“Wait, I need to talk to you!”
I had searched everywhere for Ahn Jun-young, and I couldn’t let this opportunity slip away. After all, I’d become collateral for the debt he owed to Kwon Seok-ha, however unjustly.
Though things had worked out in the end, I still needed to talk to Ahn Jun-young to understand the full story. Yet he only ran faster despite my desperate calls.
I threw everything into chasing him down.

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