Hye-jae: Book 2 - New Loves

Happy Days Part 29

The performers were waiting for the concert to begin in a small marquee to the side of the raised stage area, which would serve as the site of the live evening concert.  They were warmed up and ready, so there wasn't much to do but cool their heels and wait for the sun to set lower at the orange-tipped horizon.  Hye-won peeped under the front flap at the rapidly massing crowds.  An air of carnival was palpable, as a steady influx of people thronged the city park.  The balmy summer's evening gave the Hamburgers the perfect opportunity for outdoor fun, in the lee of the placid lake - families picnicked on the grass and friends toasted each other with noisy calls - prost - cheers - while children ran amok among the blooming flower beds. 

Hye-won spied a couple lying together - the girl's head on her boyfriend's chest, their body language, as they giggled and chatted, showing clearly that they were intimately in love - and she was reminded of the afternoon in the park in Freiburg when Seon-jae had told her - while they lay in much the same pose - about derogatory remarks which a couple of class-mates had made about him - and how thoroughly frustrated and upset he had been that day.  As she thought of him, he silently glided to her side to sneak a peep with her.  She took a side peek to see if he had noticed the couple and if he remembered.  All-black suits him as much as all-light - he doesn't have a bad side.  His close gaze was directed exactly where hers had been moments before and when he turned his head to make eye contact, his eyes told her that - seeing the couple's overt displays of devotion - put him happily in mind of their own intimate connection.  As much as she loved to tease him, the frank admiration in those almond eyes broke her sang-froid and she reached to cup his cheek, with a sigh of defeat: 'you are really...too beautiful, you know.  It's not fair.  My heart is in constant danger of fluttering.'

He leaned into her hand, like a puppy loving special attention: 'there is only one here who is too beautiful,' though this cuteness made his next comment even more unexpected and devastating to hear: 'though I was just wondering how my beautiful angel in white could transform so totally to this siren dressed all in sexy black.'

His eyes ate up those wonderful features - the spectacularly pretty, cocoa-brown eyes and thousand-watt smile, framed by shining, loose hair - then painstakingly slid down along the seductive lines of the dress, relishing the daring slit and glimpse of shapely thigh, the look taking on a wild carnality, as he slid his gaze along the enclosing straps crossing the arches of those ravishing feet.  It was uncanny how just a look could have so powerful an impact on Hye-won without a single touch passing between them but she felt as though he had undressed every stitch from her body and licked each line and curve and her expression - when he finally raised his eyes and zeroed in on her again - showed just that.  It gave him a deep thrill to see the power that he had to stir her - even here, in public and before a performance -  and he leaned to almost touch her lips, stopping just short.  He lifted his chin, flicking his tongue quickly out and then slowly snaking it back again from the centre of his top lip into the dark lair of his mouth, which he left slightly open, with a maddeningly, sexy half-smirk.  He's tempting me to kiss him and stay sane but I won't give him the satisfaction.  

'Lee Seon-jae, the last time you and I peeped from behind a curtain together did not end at all well, if you remember,' referring to the night of his debut, when the intensity of their attraction had almost over-powered them and they had barely avoided being caught in flagrante by Professor Kang.  His voice was hoarse with the strength of the remembered encounter: 'the ending may have been cut short but my God, the beginning was...beyond hot,' and his look was probably illegal.

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