TO 12

Chapter 12

As if refusing to allow even the slightest warmth, Taehyuk spoke coldly. Before long, unbuttoning his shirt, Taehyuk turned toward Seo-ah.

“Let’s stop wasting time with things neither of us wants to do. Let’s just each get what we want. How about it?”

Things neither of us wants to do.

Those words lodged themselves in Seo-ah’s heart like a piece of ice. It was a heart that had been filled with Taehyuk’s warmth just a tiny bit over the past few days. Through the hole pierced by Taehyuk’s cold words, all that warmth poured out.

It was a foolish thing to do. Lee Seo-ah. This is reality.

He wasn’t a person who could change. The Taehyuk before her eyes looked like a man who had thrown off cumbersome, ill-fitting clothes.

Cold eyes and a furrowed brow. A gaze directed at her filled with displeasure.

As expected… a affectionate relationship with this man was impossible from the start.

Seo-ah, who had been leaning against the wall, straightened her posture, hiding a bitter smile. Sensing that Seo-ah had made up her mind, Taehyuk stopped moving. Between his half-unbuttoned shirt, his firm chest heaved softly.

Seo-ah looked directly at Taehyuk and unzipped her skirt. The skirt that had been wrapping around her slender lower body dropped to her feet with a thud. Then, she pulled down her panties as well.

With her top still on, as Seo-ah headed toward the bed, Taehyuk’s eyes narrowed.

“What are you doing?”

At Taehyuk’s words, Seo-ah glanced back at him with a cold face.

“There’s no need to take everything off. Since we’re doing this anyway.”

Answering coldly, Seo-ah turned back around. At that moment, Taehyuk snatched Seo-ah’s arm.

“Are you throwing a protest?”

His dark eyes churned like a deep sea. But Seo-ah did not waver.

“No. I’m just trying to get what each of us wants. Me, a divorce. You, a child.”

Having the words he had just spoken returned to him as they were, Taehyuk’s jaw tightened.

“I see. Then I’d better receive what I want properly.”

Before she could even ask what that meant, Taehyuk ripped Seo-ah’s blouse open. Under Taehyuk’s strength, the blouse buttons scattered in all directions. Seo-ah clenched her teeth. But she did not push him away. Taehyuk’s roughened breath fell completely upon Seo-ah’s cheek.

“Because it’s the last time.”

It was a voice full of confidence—as if he could make Seo-ah pregnant with just a single time.

Seo-ah’s emotions flared up, but she quickly swallowed her tears.

Yes, it’s the last time… so… I, too…

Seo-ah stared blankly at Taehyuk.

Was it because of the thought that this was the last time? Or was it because of the effort Taehyuk had shown in the meantime?

She was no longer afraid or terrified of Taehyuk.

It was simply laughable—that the power of anger was stronger than all the efforts she had made to get closer to Taehyuk.

Seo-ah stood on her tiptoes and pressed her lips against Taehyuk’s. The moment their lips touched, Taehyuk’s mouth opened immediately. Scorchingly hot heat warmed the space above her lip.

It was a kiss started out of spite. However, Taehyuk did not dodge Seo-ah’s anger, meeting it head-on. Feeling Taehyuk’s intense heat that seemed ready to melt her, Seo-ah thought.

Is this, too, this man’s anger…?

No, let’s not think about anything right now. And in reality, Seo-ah couldn’t think.

While kissing Seo-ah, Taehyuk urgently managed to strip away her blouse, which had been barely hanging on her shoulders. As soon as the blouse was removed, Seo-ah also reached behind her back to touch the hook of her bra. But Taehyuk was faster. His large hand touched her back, unfastening the hook with a single hand. The moment the bra that had been compressing her chest fell to the floor, Taehyuk let out a low groan and pressed his whole large body against hers.

As smooth skin brushed roughly against skin, heat began to rise. Seo-ah wrapped her two arms around Taehyuk’s neck. As Taehyuk lifted Seo-ah up, her slender legs wrapped around Taehyuk’s waist. Between her legs, Seo-ah felt Taehyuk’s hot and hard torso in its entirety.

A thrill ran through her, so intense she wondered if he had always been such a warm, hot person. The chest pressed against hers was turbulent. Taehyuk’s kiss was hot and passionate, but his heart beat slowly and deeply, like the tolling of a bell. That resonance carved a groove into Seo-ah’s heart.

“Haa…”

The chemical reaction created when anger met anger was sweet. It was a sensation neither of them had expected. Perhaps it was because both of them had been desperately waiting for this moment.

The breath winding around the tip of Taehyuk’s tongue was sweet. In Taehyuk’s warm breath, the air melted damply. Following Taehyuk’s airway, a deep and turbulent river filled and overflowed inside Seo-ah’s mouth.

Taehyuk’s hand, softly sweeping down Seo-ah’s back, wrapped around her buttocks. Soft, delicate fingers spread lightly, trapping her curves beneath his hand.

Seo-ah’s breath gathered at the tip of her solar plexus. Every sensation in her entire body was controlled and censured by the existence named Jang Taehyuk.

Seo-ah looked at Taehyuk with dazed eyes. Taehyuk’s gaze, cutting through the thick air, was fierce. Losing the confidence to keep meeting that gaze, Seo-ah sought his lips again. Lips wet with each other’s saliva met once more. This time, Taehyuk’s tongue pushed straight into Seo-ah’s mouth. His tongue swirled as if wrapping around Seo-ah’s.

“Ha, haah…”

As groans overflowed from between her parted teeth, Taehyuk’s tongue rubbed against her mucous membrane as if adding an accompaniment. As wet flesh tangled and rubbed together, private parts usually hidden were exposed to the air moment by moment, flushing even redder. Seo-ah’s narrow mouth surged and curved in line with the movement of Taehyuk’s tongue. Her cheeks repeatedly puffed out and contracted.

“Open your mouth wider.”

At the command mixed with breath and a raspy voice, Seo-ah willingly submitted.

It was surprising and terrifying that she was the one who had made him like this.

That he was such a hot, hard, and large person—Seo-ah realized it only now.

Taehyuk’s lips blocked Seo-ah’s parted mouth, his own lips wide open as well. His tongue coaxed and seduced Seo-ah’s tongue as if cajoling it. Rolling inside her mouth, Taehyuk’s tongue proved irresistible to Seo-ah’s tongue, which had been hiding in the back, drawing it forward. A electric current along with a sweet taste swirled at the tips of their tongues.

“Haa…”

Without giving the tongue exposed to the air a chance to dry, Taehyuk began to suck on Seo-ah’s tongue as if eating candy. Every time he pulled it deep into his mouth and softly breathed it back out, Seo-ah’s tongue turned redder and redder. Taehyuk’s brow furrowed slightly as he focused on her, his jaw dropping open a bit more.

“Ha, hng.”

The more the papillae of his tongue rubbed against hers, the more Seo-ah’s mind grew hazy and languid, as if she had caught a fever. Feeling as if the ground beneath her feet were collapsing, she gripped Taehyuk’s chest tightly. She wanted to tell him to stop, but Taehyuk greedily devoured even those words. Seo-ah’s heavy breathing pounded against Taehyuk’s chest.

“Lee Seo-ah.”

Taehyuk spilled out her name like a groan. Before she knew it, strength gathered in Taehyuk’s hands as he gripped each side of Seo-ah’s buttocks. Seo-ah surrendered her body entirely to Taehyuk. Standing, Taehyuk parted Seo-ah’s body. Seo-ah, her body and mind turned damp, melted into Taehyuk as if clinging to him. In the face of Taehyuk’s large, hard reality, Seo-ah’s mind flickered pure white.

“Haah… ha…”

“Kuh.”

Seo-ah’s body repeatedly surged with heat and then was overtaken by chills. Their two widely parted lips crossed and changed directions. In that moment, taking a breath, Taehyuk pulled Seo-ah strongly as if trying to tuck her into his chest. Their deepened body scents mixed together.

A thinly trembling groan bursting from Seo-ah’s mouth ran straight into Taehyuk’s heart. Crushing the tip of his nose against hers, Taehyuk watched Seo-ah’s expression closely. Watching Seo-ah, who was in ecstasy after swallowing a part of him, Taehyuk’s eyes flashed dangerously. Seo-ah’s chin tilted back. In her exposed white nape, Taehyuk buried his lips.

Even as Seo-ah felt Taehyuk filling her inside, she felt a sense of hunger. It was different from hunger for food. If anything, Seo-ah craved Taehyuk more. It was because she instinctively realized that what had penetrated inside her now was merely a fraction of the power he possessed.

Even within their cold marital relationship, Taehyuk’s body had been intense. The faintness she felt when he filled her inside, the feeling as if a deep groove were being carved into her body by his movements toward climax, the drenching sensation upon reaching that peak.

I want this man.

Seo-ah’s waist arched backward. But her body was stably supported by Taehyuk. Taehyuk’s hands, gripping Seo-ah’s buttocks, moved up and down hot. The heavy breathing of the two sped up each other’s movements even further.

“Hng, ah…!”

The moment a river like a sob flooded inside her, Taehyuk’s body swelled within her.

“Haa…!”

Seo-ah’s eyes widened. Before she could even be surprised by Taehyuk’s power reaching deep inside her in an instant, her mind was filled to the brim with dizzying ecstasy.

“Kuh.”

Letting out a short groan, Taehyuk’s entire body hardened like stone. The moment her inside was hot and filled, Seo-ah had a premonition.

That he had taken root inside her.