The Contract Of Love | jjk + kth

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Unknown number
two new messages.

Jeongguk stares at his lock screen in confusion. It's the middle of the day and he's at work, who is texting him and how did they get his number? curiosity gets the best of him. He unlocks his phone and clicks on the Unknown number texts.

Unknown Number
Hi? This is Taehyung.
Save my number.

Jeongguk stares at the screen. Ofcourse, it's Kim Taehyung. After radio silence from him for an entire week he texts him. Their parents think they are on dates, getting to know each other. Jeongguk's parents are eager to move forward with the wedding but the Kims said they will move when Taehyung says so. When Taehyung agreed, so would they. So it's the daily routine of Jeongguk being bombarded with questions of when is Taehyung going to say yes? What is taking him so long? Did you say something to him?

It gets annoying after once or twice but his parents are making sure he feels pressurized about this entire situation. Unlike Taehyung, Jeongguk doesn't have a choice in this matter. So he is glad this man is finally texting him. He saves his contact information professionally with just his name.

Jeongguk
um ok, why are you texting me?

Kim Taehyung
Let's meet up, right now.

Jeongguk
…shouldn't you be at work? it's Wednesday

Kim Taehyung
I dont work on Wednesdays. We need to talk about this arranged marriage. So come meet me at my place.

Jeongguk
I can't leave work.

Kim Taehyung
It's urgent, Jeongguk. Don't you want answers? Tell your father to let you go home :)

He can sense the mocking tone in the text but he doesn't push it. He does want answers after all and if it's from directly Taehyung then that's perfect.

Jeongguk
You are annoying. Fine, send me the address.

Kim Taehyung
[Location]

Staring at the screen as he presses on the location. It's an apartment building, one of the most expensive ones in Seoul. He didn't expect anything less. Jeongguk noticed their apartments are quite close to each other. Jeongguk only visits his apartment when he has someone over so maybe that's why they never see each other. It was a drive of 35 minutes from his workplace though.

Getting up from his chair, he turned off the computer after saving all the files he was working on. Grabbing his wallet and car keys, he heads out of the room. He sees his father's secretary on his floor and thinks it's perfect. Calling the girl out, she turns around to be face to face with him.

“Sir, is there anything you need?” She asks in her calm voice.

“Yes, secretary kwon. I need you to find my assistant and tell her to cancel everything I have for the rest of the day and let the chairman know that I am heading out for the day.” Jeongguk says to her and she nods, noting it down on her tablet.

“And if asked where did you go? What should I say?”

“Tell him I am going on a date with Kim Taehyung. He wouldn't mind me skipping work for that.” Jeongguk tells her and she looks a bit surprised. Nodding again, writing that down too. “Very well. I will leave now.” He says to her as she bows to him and tells him to have a fun date.

Jeongguk chuckles. He can only hope it will be fun. Not staying there any longer he walks over to the elevator and presses the basement floor which is where the parking is. It takes the elevator barely a minute to go down to the bottom floor. Soon the metal doors open to the gray walls of the basement. It was dimly lit but you could see all types of cars here.