Contract Love • Jihoon

03

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Hani's Pov

I inhaled the sweet morning breeze before stepping out from the elevator.

I shook my head trying to stay awake after not being able to get a wink of sleep last night. With the obvious dark circles under my eyes , I make my way to his office room to prepare some stuff before he arrive later. I purposely came earlier than usual.

It's still dark outside and there is no sign of any people inside the building but the light is already on. I just assumed that the security guard left it open before he left last night. 

It was 5 in the morning and it's freezing inside of there so I rushed to my desk and left my handbag there before making my way to the office. His office room and my desk is not so far away. maybe because of my position as his secretary so my desk is purposely placed in front of his office room so I can come in and out anytime he calls for me.

But something is weird. the table light in the office room is still on. I can see the light radiating from outside through the window from his office. Carefully, I open the door. Not to make any sounds since I'm alone by myself. 

It's so eerily quiet. I turn around as I close the door and to my surprise, I can see a man laying down in the couch, calmly sleeping. I squint my eyes so I can see the figure better and there he is. Park Jihoon sleeping soundly on the couch. With his blazer still on and a few buttons on his sleeve open. 

" Why did he sleep here?" I whispered to myself. With the help of the table light, I can see his face better from a far. I open my high heels and tip toe walking to his spot so I won't make any sounds that could wake him up.

I lower my body and quietly took a sit on the table, next to the couch where is he sleeping. With worried eyes, I stared at his face. 

How long have he been sleeping in the office like this? I can't help but felt upset that he prioritize his work more than his health. It occurred to me that I never seen him went back from work. He always at the work every time I arrived in the morning with the same outfit from the day before and he would go back every afternoon to change his clothes later. 

 He currently sleeping with his left arm over his head. My eyes dropped on the open button of his sleeves. slowly, I reached out to his left arm to folded his sleeves so he can sleep more comfortably. It's pretty cold in there so I planned to grabbed some blanket in my cabinet and left it to him after this. 

But as I folded the sleeves, his hands suddenly grabbed my wrist tightly. Surprised, I flinched.     " Secretary Lee?"

His eyes open slowly as it met mine. I can see his relief expression and tears? Wait, is he crying? I stay still , letting his hand holding my hand wrist. " Are you okey?" I ask bluntly as he just stare at my face.

He look away as he realizes , wiped his tears and got up from the couch fast in a sitting position.  "When did you arrived?" he put his palm over his forehead and try to change the subject. 

His voice low and short breathing, sounds like he just ran ten miles on his dream. And there is a lot of small grains of cold sweat running through his face and the sight of his pale lips. What's going on? 

My right hand fast reaching out to his forehead, checking out his temperature. I ignored his confused eyes on me. I can feel his body temperature rising up. " I'm sorry but let's go right now.. You're sick, Mr Park"

I got up from the table.

" No need-"

I gave him a death stare as he just stay quiet after that. He looks dumbfounded but I just don't care. His health at risk and he still want to act like he was fine and continue working like an idiot. I can't just let him be. Not this time.

" I will cancel all of your schedules today so please just take some rest at your home..  As your secretary-" I stop talking. I took a deep breath before continuing.

" As your wife to-be, I have the right to be worried.." I turn around to open the door. I can't believe myself to even saying this but here we are. I'm standing in front of him with the door open , hiding the fact that I really want to jump off a bridge and just die right now from embarrassment. 

" I will wait for you in the car " I walked out fast, leaving his confused self inside . The air inside of the office room is too intense for me. 

I need time to rethinking about my life decisions. Why did I kept embarrassing myself in front of the people that I like? I messed up my hair as I walked into the elevator to the basements where his car were stored.

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" You need to take this.. "

"then this.." I shoved the pills into his palm, a medicine after another. A cup full of water, I put on the small table next to the bed. 

After went back from the office , I just forced him to stay on the bed with no laptop nor workpaper near him. He's such a workaholic that he doesn't  get enough rest. After taking some rest, his fever went down a little. Thankfully he just got mild cold and fever. Since he insisted that he doesn't want to go to the clinic so I just brought some medicine from the pharmacy.

He took the pills as I watched from the side. 

" Take more rest" I smile as I got up from the bed. It's still 10 in the morning and I need to finish a lot of work such as cancelling all of his schedule then reschedule it back. I need to clean the house too since he lives alone by himself with no maid helping. I think he really loves his 'personal time' too much.

" Where are you going?" he grabbed my left arm in hurry.

" Work? I need to do some work.. Do you need something else now?"

" You can do it later.. Take a sit, I have something to talk to you anyway"

" About what? If it about work then-"

" No, it's about us.. our contract" 

He move himself to the side to leave some space for me to sit. I stay still , not knowing how to respond before he just grabbed my arm then brought me to his side. 

" I have been thinking about this since yesterday.. I think it's better for us to have some rules for each other.."

" Rules?" he nodded his head before he got up from the bed and grabbing my hand to do the same as him. " follow me" 

We walked out from the bedroom together to his personal working room that is downstairs . He open the door, revealing the working room. I have personally came here a few times before but I have never seen the office room yet since he always on the living room doing his works.

" Come in" I walked into the office room after he closed the door. I look around the place. It felt the same as the one in the office building with the interior design and the placement of the file cabinet. But the only difference is this place is more cozy. 

" Take a sit there" he pointed his finger at the chair in front of the desk. I follow his order and sit there. A few seconds later, he took a sit in front of me with a paper and a pen in his hand.

" Read this" he passed me the paper that was just on his hand to me. I took the paper and read it from the top to the empty bottom. I put back the paper down.

" It's good but why is the bottom part were empty?" I asked. The top part is full with the agreement that we made before like what is this contract for and the timeline. Just what we had talk about. some normal stuff. 

" We are going to put some rules on there before both of us sign the agreement"

" This rules should be follow by both parties to make sure the contract will still be run properly"

" I will start first" He took the paper and write something down. I wait for him to finish. After he done, he turn the paper back to my direction. 

I read it with my eyes widen in confusion. What kind of rules is this anyway? It's the first rule but make no sense in some of kind a way.

" 1 rules. Not falling in love with each other"