Body & Soul 🇰🇷 Part 1

Chapter 21: Seon-Ho

She had started keeping me company a lot more after that; bringing me refreshments as I worked; and she was a damned good cook. Her food tasted even better than my father's old cooks; I could tell from the first bite that she put a lot of care into this just for me. I looked up at her; eternally grateful that she came back to me again even if we didn't have a lot of time for now. After living my life as a lonely bastard most of the time that everyone passing me treated me as worthless scum, as a half-human I had no idea I could be loved & cherished so much by someone who had gone through just as much hardship as I had; what with her becoming orphaned at a young age and then getting epilepsy out of nowhere.

She would also neatly organising my room and even reading my books much to her delight. She was so happy when I allowed her to read the books she kept eyeing since her first day here that she actually ran to hug me like she has never done before giggling in pure joy. I couldn't help but smile at this, only the smallest of pleasures made her happy, otherwise she hated attention and grand gestures, it wasn't her at all. I could only watch and almost get dizzy as I saw make her way back and forth to my shelves, taking out my books and organising them to her pleasure...this was my first real act of kindness towards anyone and I have to say I revelled in it. By the time she looked back at me I saw her smile become wider and even more brighter to wear she dissolved in giggles when she complained that she wasn't used to smiling this much and that her cheeks began to hurt. Making her happy soon become a priority to me as I soon as I began to send her gifts in return for her company, although I would only do it every now and again as not to spoil her. But she didn't even say anything about it when we met next, much to my dismay. But she did start to look at me a lot more with such clear eyes just as we first met that she captured me completely...I....I even dared to look back at her but she didn't even attempt to hide her glances. She looked as if she was in a deep trance as I felt something bloom, rise and soar from deep within myself...until that stupid female servant of my father's barged into my room without so much as knocking. The trance was broken as Yeon, looking flustered, decided to leave the room without a word as the servant starting spewing nonsense about Yeon coming to my study so often as if anyone gave her permission to talk. Looking at Yeon leave did something to me as I shot up from my seat and I grabbed Yeon by the arm, puling her so close to me she almost fell on top of me.

Time froze as still had that...that look I couldn't describe on her face...until I returned to my senses and I sat her down besides me as I barked to the other servants to take this one away and tae away her food rations for the next 2 days so she would learn not to poke her nose into her superiors business. She still hadn't said a word the whole time but she took my hands in hers, trying to calm me down before placing her head on my shoulders as she silently slept.

I froze again, looking at the one person who approached me with such ease took such comfort in myself to the point where she could really doze off without any doubt of my actions...we were after all a man and woman in the same room together alone...did she really trust me that much that I wouldn't do anything to her? And my god I waned to...I had never been this close to her so her subtle rose scent was really doing something to me that I couldn't describe...and before I knew it I found myself looking at her face with such...reverence...and worship that I couldn't help but placing my lips onto her's, taking in her warmth and taste...which were like apples. I grinned in delight as I found myself doing it again...and again...as much as I wanted before she woke up, trembling with new urges that I was to desperate to act upon whist trying to look cool on the surface. She just apologised sleepily before making her way back to her own room as my father was to room return to the mansion. I just nodded my head in reply...before I followed her quietly and I opened her door wide enough to watch her undress for bed. I watched in such enthralment that I almost got caught out a few times. My god she was so slender, so beautiful...but it was her youth and playfulness that completely captured me. We were only 3-4 years apart but she preferred to hide her intellect in her gaiety; it really did begin to tantalise me much more than I realised...