Tale of The Nine Tailed: The Gumiho's Lover

05 (ii)

The ambience of the cocktail lounge is far from being relaxed. In fact, it was rather a bit too lively considering that a bar is preferably quiet where people can hear each other's voice or just simply accompanied by the sound of a music.

The event were being held at a prestigious hotel nearby the renowned world heritage of South Korea, which is Namhansanseong Fortress. It is mainly about a bidding on amazing auction items among the elites - people with high status.

Of course, they would not be here by now if it was not for the organizer who arranged the event - offered such a chance to the bar company's CEO, which he gladly accepts it. Now, they are in charge of handling the bar lounge, cocktail hours and even serving the VIPs in specific room.

But that is not the whole point.

Karina on the other hand, is not androphobic at all. However, the amount of eyes piercing through her soul creeps the hell out of her. The manager was really telling the truth earlier when he said that most of the customers are men. And the thing that fears her the most right now is they might misunderstand the type of work she does.

For once in her whole life, Karina is wearing a see-through black blouse with a tight mini skirt which is way too opposite compared to the usual uniform. Her makeup is even done by the much experienced co-worker of hers, which gives her feature a stronger and 'made-to-seduce' look.

Damn this already messed up life!

Despite her current situation being a s̶l̶u̶t̶ never came across her mind, ever.

Karina bit the inside of her cheeks as she awkwardly bows to the clients that are taking seats in front of the bar counter. She carefully moves in those 'clown costume' as it bothers her a lot.

In those few hours, some male customers tried to initiate a conversation and even flirt with her. Well, that is common actually. Everyone who is slightly close to her, knows how much of an introvert she is nor does she talks much with any people. She only hums and nods on a few things out of many questions or jokes forwarded to her. By that means, those guys are either dead embarrassed by her pure ignorance or lose interest right away.

No one exactly knows but deep inside her heart, she hoped that the time will go by faster than usual so she could leave as soon as possible.

Later on, when it is already past midnight the number of people decreased gradually as most of them had left the venue. The atmosphere finally become a lot more tranquil without having the big crowd in the lounge.

Finally! Just half an hour left before going back home...

Karina looked around before stretching her body freely after she finished drying off the last glass in the rack. All the other workers are on their last duty of the night too.

Little did she notice, someone has been eyeing on her for quite some time now.

Just as she was about to open the door of the staff room to get changed, one of her co-worker suddenly approached and said that the manager is looking for someone who can serve in the VIP room. Karina would have declined if the latter did not mention that he specifically asked for her. And for that, she almost groaned in frustration in front of someone else.

"Oh, there she is." she heard the manager, Mr. Ahn said while motioning for her to come in.

She took a step inside the spacious room which seems to be more extravagant than what she saw on the outside. But setting all those small details aside, there is a man sitting at one of the seats with his back facing on her. Judging from his back figure, the man has a nice build as his shoulders are wide which is a perfect fit for the fancy cream coloured suit he is wearing.