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Ja-kyung put a cigarette in his mouth and silently disassembled the gun, then applied lubricant to a cloth to wipe and maintain it. They were going into the second operation tomorrow night, a job that required descending from the roof via a rope, so he needed not just the gun but full preparation.
Even in the midst of this, the events of the morning came to mind and sighs kept flowing out. Wang Han, who was sitting next to him watching, spoke up.
"Don't worry about it. Representative Kang let it slide too."
He didn't let it slide. That man would definitely tease him for a hundred years about this morning's incident. Come to think of it, there was something similar about him and Wang Ryun. Just then, Wang Ryun came out from inside smiling. He had been on a video call with his girlfriend for a while and seemed to be in a good mood.
Ja-kyung glared at him as he loaded bullets into the magazine one by one.
"Hey. Why are you looking at me like that?"
Ja-kyung grit his teeth at him as he grinned sleazily.
"Did hyung tell you?"
"What could I do? If you'd seen Representative Kang's face yesterday, even you would've confessed the truth."
Wang Han agreed with that statement. Yesterday, the two of them had been drinking more in the next room when they heard noise from Ja-kyung's room and rushed out. The living room was a mess, Representative Kang had a wound on the bridge of his nose, and his clothes were disheveled.
His eyes burned like a wild beast's, and if left alone, he would have dragged Ja-kyung out and killed him. Wang Ryun quickly confessed what had happened during the day. Though he didn't admit it himself, he also slipped in a remark about Ja-kyung being jealous.
When Kang Il-hyun learned the full story, the anger on his face disappeared and a smile spread instead. He thought he was a man whose insides were impossible to read, but anything regarding Ja-kyung was immediately apparent.
"He must really like you."
Wang Ryun also agreed with Wang Han's offhand remark.
"You saw it this morning. Even after getting drunk and acting like that, his eyes were dripping with honey."
"I don't know about that, but he doesn't seem to take your relationship lightly."
"I knew it already. To put it bluntly, if he intended to kill, he would've finished me off right when he grabbed me."
"True."
"And hey. You know, everything's good about you, but you have a tendency to say mean things too easily sometimes."
"What are you talking about?"
"Hyung heard it too. Saying he looks old was too much. Even I would've been hurt."
Wang Han, listening, frowned as he recalled the past incident.
"Right. Before, when you got mad, you even yelled at me calling me 'bald uncle.'"
Wang Ryun made an upset expression as if he had heard it himself. His hair was also gradually thinning, so he understood that pain.
"That's cruel. As if my hair would stay thick forever."
Wang Han laughed.
"Exactly. It's a good thing even you understand my feelings."
"What if Representative Kang called you a fox bastard? How would you feel?"
Ja-kyung ground his teeth. He'd heard he looked like a fox since childhood, so he hated that word.
"See? His eyes are getting narrow again."
After snapping at them to stop chattering, he focused only on maintaining his gun. Whose side are you on anyway? Wang Ryun liked Kang Il-hyun more with each passing day. No, he'd been completely into him since the day he chased them to the island by helicopter. He said he really liked his manly personality.
After finishing the gun maintenance, he tidied up and each returned to their bedroom to rest. He collapsed onto the bed, then sat on the floor, turning on meditation music to settle his mind. He took deep breaths, releasing the bad emotions accumulated in his body and organizing his thoughts.
But it was all in vain. Kang Il-hyun's sleazy smiling face from this morning kept coming to mind. Might as well go outside and swim and sunbathe. Getting some sun would probably improve his mood a little. He gave up on meditation and sprang up from his seat, took off his clothes, and put on a swimsuit.
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Ah, Il-hyun tilted his head back with a frustrated face. They were building a shopping center and hotel in Jeju Island, but recently there had been frequent conflicts with environmental protection groups. Eventually, this morning it escalated to physical confrontation, police intervened, and construction was temporarily halted.
Due to the sudden contact, he had to go down to Jeju Island urgently, so he needed to leave work early. Tonight he wanted to torment the cat to his heart's content. As he got closer to home, his regret grew. Entering the yard, he saw someone lying on a sunbed by the swimming pool in the distance.
As expected, it was Ja-kyung. He was wearing only a swimsuit and lying face down sunbathing, wearing earphones and sunglasses, not moving a muscle.
Il-hyun signaled Tae-soo to go inside, then approached that spot. Looking down from close up, bruise marks were clearly visible in various places on his body. Even so, the prominently raised buttocks drew his gaze. The tattoo he had engraved was cleverly hidden by the upper part of the swimsuit. An impulse rose to pull down the swimsuit and lick him.
He sat straddling the front, then ran his fingertips from the shoulder down the spine. Ja-kyung stirred. He turned his head, pushed his sunglasses up, and looked with drowsy eyes. He must have been asleep.
"Are you planning to become barbecue?"
Ja-kyung sat up, took off his sunglasses and rubbed his face. With a not fully awake face, he checked the wristwatch placed beside him and looked puzzled. It was only 3 o'clock, so why was Kang Il-hyun here? Before he could wonder, he brought a large towel and wrapped it around Ja-kyung's body.
"I want to see your magnificent body only for myself."
The hand that was fastening the front of the towel slipped down and flicked against his nipple as if brushing past it. Ja-kyung frowned and removed that hand. Il-hyun licked his lower lip and smiled.
"We still have unfinished conversation from this morning, right?"
Ja-kyung flinched, and as he tried to run away, he was caught and made to sit back on the sunbed. Il-hyun took off his jacket and rolled up his shirt. Just then, a staff member brought freshly squeezed watermelon juice and iced coffee. After the staff member disappeared, Il-hyun handed the juice to Ja-kyung to drink.
"There's no need to explain, but I have nothing to do with that woman."
Ja-kyung put the straw in his mouth and sipped the juice. Il-hyun's gaze quietly watched those lips.
"I'm not curious."
"You said you were mad."
"The hyungs misunderstood."
"Were you really not bothered at all?"
Ja-kyung was at a loss for words. If he told the truth, his pride would be hurt, and if he lied, he feared Kang Il-hyun's retaliation. As his eyes rolled, Kang Il-hyun grabbed his hand and brought it to his face. When he tried to pull away, Il-hyun held it against his cheek and smiled.
"Don't torment this old man. Playing hard to get is only charming in moderation."
Ja-kyung flinched and pulled his hand away. Seeing him chew on "old man" so deliberately, it must have really stuck with him. He pursed his lips, wondering whether to apologize for that part, when Tae-soo came out of the house with a carrier. Il-hyun exchanged a look with Ja-kyung and smiled.
"An urgent business trip came up today. So let's finish our conversation when I get back."
He sighed with relief inwardly. He survived for now.
"Don't be happy. I'll be back tomorrow."
Damn. While he's at it, stay for a whole month.
"Then give me a hug to wish me a safe trip."
"Why... should I?"
"You've never hugged me first."
"...."
"This old man's wish."
Ja-kyung clenched his teeth. Damn it. He would guarantee that man would bring this up like bone broth until the day he died. Il-hyun waited, and Ja-kyung looked around. Tae-soo was nowhere to be seen, probably loading luggage, and the security guards were the same. Ja-kyung hesitantly stretched his arms forward. He felt sorry for hitting him yesterday, and also for saying he was old.
Hugging his neck awkwardly, the scent of skin products wafted over. Il-hyun wrapped his arms around Ja-kyung's body and pulled him close. As a result, their upper bodies were completely pressed together. A hug without sex was awkward and unfamiliar. When he tried to pull his body away, lips approached again.
Instead of avoiding, Ja-kyung lowered his eyes downward. Their lips touched and a tongue entered his mouth. After sweeping through his mouth once, it quickly separated. Il-hyun had a regretful expression, and Ja-kyung too, for just a moment, chewed his lips regretfully.
But that feeling didn't last more than a minute.
"I got hard just from you hugging me."
Il-hyun rubbed the tight front of his pants with his hand. Ja-kyung looked around in disgust, then snapped at him to stop. He laughed, then grabbed the back of Ja-kyung's head and pulled him in. This time their lips rubbed together more softly. Between their slightly parted lips, their breaths exchanged.
Il-hyun whispered secretly.
"I have about 10 minutes to spare. Want to do it behind the house?"
"Are you crazy?"
Before the words finished, Il-hyun stood up and grabbed Ja-kyung's arm, pulling him. When he tried to pull his arm away, Il-hyun coaxed and persuaded him while dragging him along.
"I won't make you do it. Don't worry."
"Shut up and let go of my hand."
He shook the trapped arm hard but it was useless. Going around to the back of the house, an empty space with no one appeared. Il-hyun placed Ja-kyung against the wall and roughly consumed his lips. Ja-kyung pushed him away by the shoulders with a frown, and pointed with his eyes at the CCTV above the wall.
Then Il-hyun picked up a stone from the flower bed and handed it to Ja-kyung. Even though he wasn't told to handle it, Ja-kyung instinctively threw the stone and hit the CCTV. As the camera rotated to illuminate a different area, Il-hyun grinned.
"Nice shot."
Ah, why did I do that. As he came to his senses and tried to leave, Il-hyun knelt on the grass. Ja-kyung knew what he was about to do and his mouth fell open. In the blink of an eye, he pulled down the swimsuit and took Ja-kyung's cock in his mouth. At the unexpected situation, Ja-kyung grabbed his head and pulled him off.
"Are you a dog in heat?"
"No, a fool."
"...."
"Even after suffering such humiliation yesterday, today I'm kneeling to suck your cock."
"...."
"With this much effort, fuck, at least give in a little."
He laughed, and took the cock in his mouth again. Ja-kyung leaned the back of his head against the wall and bit his lip. A wall was visible before his eyes. Red roses were still packed densely there. Slurp, slurp, at the clear sounds, he looked down. Kang Il-hyun's head moved back and forth, the cock going in and out of his mouth.
He didn't want to admit it, but even the sight of his cheeks deeply hollowed from sucking cock was insanely sexy to the point of disbelief.
Without realizing, he reached his hand down to grab Kang Il-hyun's head and moved his hips.
More, harder, stronger.
His body tingled with excitement in various places, and before he knew it, his mind was craving something more stimulating.