Bound by a Ruthless Contract - Chapter 59
After dinner.
As Ga-eun bid farewell to Park Chung-il, she turned to Si-heon who stood beside her and asked,
“Um… I’d like to wash up. Could I possibly use your bathroom?”
The woman’s words were excessively polite.
It seemed she was still conscious about having fallen asleep so casually on his bed.
Perhaps that’s why throughout dinner, she had kept her gaze fixed on Park Chung-il, avoiding his face.
Si-heon smirked.
There’s something cute about her.
The distance between them – well, he could close it whenever he wanted.
“I’m really sorry, but just one more thing… Ah!”
Startled, Ga-eun clutched his collar tightly.
Suddenly, an arm wrapped around her waist and pulled her close.
The distance between them became dangerously intimate. So close that she could see her own reflection in his pitch-black pupils.
Hot breaths intermingled chaotically between their parted lips.
“How strange,” he mused.
Why doesn’t this bother me?
Si-heon grasped her chin and tilted it upward.
Her light brown eyes, mixed with surprise and fear, trembled helplessly.
Tense eyes. Rigid body.
Slightly parted lips.
Looking down at them made one side of his body ache dully.
This isn’t right, what am I, some kind of beast?
“Mr… Mr. Kwon Si-heon.”
At those words that slipped between her red lips, Si-heon narrowed his eyes.
Mr. Kwon Si-heon.
The way she always addressed him.
A common honorific, nothing special.
Yet why did it irritate him so?
“Why… are you doing this?”
Ga-eun looked up at Si-heon with questioning eyes as he repeated her words contemplatively.
“You called me differently. In front of the chef.”
Ah… Ga-eun rolled her lips inward once.
That must have displeased him.
“I thought the chef didn’t know…”
“Know what?”
“About our… marriage.”
When Si-heon offered no response, Ga-eun took a shallow breath.
“It seemed like he didn’t know it was a contract.”
“The only ones who know about that are you and me.”
Just the two of us.
His dark eyes seemed to say exactly that.
Ga-eun cleared her throat. She felt inexplicably warm inside.
“Does the Chief Secretary not know either?”
Looking down, she didn’t notice Si-heon’s brows narrowing in displeasure.
“Why Secretary Noh?”
“You seemed close to him. I thought he might know.”
Strange. When he was with Ga-eun, his condition remained stable.
So he shouldn’t be swept up in impulses like this.
“He doesn’t know.”
Why had he blurted that out?
“Ah, I see he doesn’t.”
She nodded several times, as if committing it to memory.
Why was it like this?
Why did even such a simple gesture feel so endearing?
Was it because she was his treatment? Was that why his heart softened so gently?
And why did it bother him when she mentioned other men while they were alone?
“I’ll be careful not to make mistakes.”
“Mistakes.”
“For instance,” Si-heon murmured lowly, brushing back the hair that had fallen over her forehead.
“Like calling me ‘Mr. Kwon Si-heon’ in front of others?”
“Things like that… ah!”
The arm around her waist tightened.
Their bodies pressed even closer together.
Ga-eun blushed as she became aware of his presence firmly against her lower abdomen.
“Mr… Mr. Kwon Si-heon.”
“Call me like you did before. You need to get used to it.”
Including this kind of interaction.
As Si-heon whispered lowly and began to play with her earlobe, an electric sensation shot down her spine.
“Ah… Mr. Kwon Si-heon…”
“No, that’s not it.”
Si-heon’s tongue traced the curve of her ear.
As Ga-eun gripped his shoulders with a start, his hand smoothly slipped under her blouse, which he had just untucked from her skirt.
Though his large hands caressing her bare skin were actually somewhat cool, they felt burning hot somehow.
The hand wrapped around her waist moved to the front, gently grasping her pale flesh.
“Ah… w-wait…”
“Say it again.”
As his thumb began circling a sensitive spot that had grown flushed and tender, her waist involuntarily curved inward as her body trembled slightly.
“Si-heon…”
Si-heon groaned.
That fragile, breathy voice threatened to consume his large frame like fire.
Lowering his head, he devoured her lips in an instant.
