Body & Soul 🇰🇷 Part 1

Chapter 70: Seon-Ho

Once she got the hint that I wasn't going to leave her alone she let her guard down around a little as she started looking for me once the day's job was completed, but she still didn't approach me, not while I was awake anyways. One night I couldn't help but peek at her looking for me, and I could tell that something was wrong, so I went to my room and went straight to bed. Not long afterwards I heard her light footsteps sneak into my room as she tended to me as usual...before laying down besides me and began to open up to me at long last. "You had better be really sleeping or I'll kill you if you repeat anything I say to anyone else" she sighed; the tone of her voice undid me completely as I began to snort with laughter...but she didn't leave or get upset. In fact, she just turned to look at me and carried on "why are you really here, oborbani?" She whispered softly but I winced "don't call me that anymore, I'm not your brother and I never have been" I hissed at her far more rudely than I intended to but she didn't even blink at me and asked me again why I had really come here "I'm here for you, nobody else" "how long do you think that you can keep following me around? What do you want from me?" "I want every answer you can give me for what you concealed from me to start with. I will not judge you for anything, I just need honesty...even if I have been anything but to you in return. But you know all about that whilst I am kept in dark about the only girl who was raised by my side" She looked like she was going to cry and tried to run but I got to the door before her and I slammed it shut with one hand whilst calling for a servant to lock my room from the outside who did so immediately. I had her trapped in my quite literally in my arms; I felt both awkwardness and longing all at once as I hadn't been this close to her in a while, and certainly not like this. In fact I was so conflicted about what I wanted to do to the girl...women who was my friend's sister so I juts grabbed her and threw her onto the floor and then onto my lap as I bent down to her level and kept my arms clasped around her waist, but she didn't try to fight me off this time. In fact, she rested her cheek on the tip of my nose as she collapsed into my embrace; she had finally exhausted herself running away from me, but she still carried on "I was raised equal to Hwi if not more so. We trained together, read together, saw a mission or two of my father's together from a safe distance. He and myself...well I always waned to be more than just a common woman like everybody else...which was exactly the life I was sentenced to after what happened to us. But the plan always was that we would help our father, he always wanted to retire early from his work to be with us, and that didn't really happen either. But after my first fit...well I couldn't carry on so I had to blend in with a sort of normal life..." she trailed off but I still needed to know more "so that's why he kept you locked up in your home? And never let you participate in any public events?" "Yes..." "what else can you do? Tell me everything" "I can use a sword and a bow, I can read and understand some of the most dense books, I can engage in political and militia conversations, I can also decipher body and facial language, as well as a person's needs and wants from it as well." "So you looked past all of that when I had no choice but to lie to you everyday for years...and that's why you didn't run away when you could have, instead you chose to stay by my side under my father's rule and suffer with me" "Orab...Seon-Ho, what are you here as? My brother's friend? My guardian? Or something else" "what do you think I have been doing with you all this time?" I muttered. " you've lied to me for so long and I can only keep guessing just a much. I'm not a mind-reader you know. I think that you are confused. You have everything at you want now at your feet, including all sorts of women who can give you what you want. So why do you keep chasing me? I'm no good to anyone" and with that I held her closer to me and started holding onto her arms so tightly that she began to wince while I rested myself in between he neck and shoulder "good, keep up with that thought for every other man that comes your way...so I can have you for myself. I'm not confused Yeon, I mean it. If anyone comes to claim you I'll kill them in front of your eyes, even male friends. Apart from your family you cannot have anyone else in your life part from me. Test me if you want I dare you" "what will you do? Lock me up? Chain me by your side?" "How did you know?" I replied with a smirk, and with that I had her pinned onto my chest as I fell back on the the floor and I went back to sleep whilst she wrestled with me as much as she could before she gave up and fell asleep on top of me soon enough...and she was still there when people crowded themselves outside of my room to see who 'the mysterious woman was' who had snuck into my room. Unfortunately Yeon woke up just as I was about to open the door and she practically wrestled me from it...one thing led to another and she fell on top of me just as the door accidentally opened up. She looked mortified, even more so when I planted a kiss on her and I went about my day as usual, and letting the rumour mill do it's work.