STARBOY | a j.jk series

05. a devil's kiss

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[jungkook]

"Look at her," the woman standing behind me snickers alongside her friend who's been sneering and glaring at Zoë since she walked through the doors. I shook my head with a sly grin on my face because Zoë did deserve everything that was being said about her. I told her how she would look to my dad and everybody else in the company if she chose to wear this dress. But then again it annoyed me how people talked about her because in a sadistic way, I'm the only one that's able to talk shit about her. But in a more logical way, the way people see her is a reflection of me as her business partner. "She's clearly just seeking for attention. She has no self-respect with the way she walks in here looking like a whore..." but if there is anything that did annoy me, it was a woman who could not handle her liquor and projected their insecurities onto other people. It was obnoxious.

"I wonder what the chairman will say," the friend adds onto the conversation, clearly instigating it. "I can't believe he trusts her. How would this look for the company? A tramp as the CEO?" The older people in the company were a lot more conservative and extremely judgmental. They hated the clatter of heels against the black marble floor and preferred boring, brown flats, hated the smell of rich and expensive perfume, and scrutinized those for filling up their time by gossiping. Although they do the exact same, it was only right because they were older, therefore there was nothing wrong with what they were doing.

I couldn't tell if it was the liquor in my system or I was genuinely annoyed that they were badmouthing Zoë and standing there like they were better than her but I opened my mouth to her defense. "You don't trust the chairman's decisions?" I turned around and both their lips shut closed and their faces grew cold. The first woman immediately shook her head while the other apologized profusely. "I don't care who you are. Whether you're old enough to be my grandmother- watch yourself. I don't take things lightly when it comes to my business partner."

Both women looked at me offendedly but they knew they couldn't do anything about it. At the end of the day, I was still higher than them, regardless of the age. My eyes wandered back to Zoë and annoyance grew. I told her specifically not to wear that damn dress and now look what happened. She has women giving death glares from every corner of the room and men fawning over her with a hard-on in their pants. All this just to be the center of attention.

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[zoë]

"What is it Jeon? Looks like you've got a hard-on," I teased as Jungkook approaches me with gritted teeth and daggers for eyes. I knew the reaction I was going to get out of him by wearing this exact dress. I may or may not have promised him that I wouldn't wear the dress and I'd just save it for another occasion, but who did I look like listening to a MAN?

"You just had to be the center of attention, you can't stand it if people don't pay attention to you..." he begins with the insults but it wasn't something that I couldn't handle.

"I think me and you both know that with or without this dress, the attention is always on me. This dress was just a plus," I shrugged at him because I was in fact unbothered by what he said and what the elders of the company said. I know what people say about me, I know the elders don't like me and the girls my age envy me. I know the men in the company drool over me like I'm a piece of meat and I know that the chairman in fact does not care about how I dress, so therefore I don't care either. "Everybody can act like they're innocent, but I can name a couple of people that have either slept with somebody in this company or cheated on their husband with a male co-worker. That includes you," I grin and I watched as he squirmed in place.