Hyunwoo was first to submerge himself into the pool to their penthouse. Haein watched as he reappears from the water, his eyes fixated on the full moon that shone through the night.
"Are we already on the run?" She made a comment as she peels off her robe before joining her husband in the water.
"Partially." He replied leaning back as he floats in the water before turning to look at his wife.
Haein caught the glint in his eyes as he watch her submerge into the water before appearing back up. Their hands found each other before she finds herself being pulled close to his body.
"You look beautiful." He whispers before kissing her chastely, hands on her waist. "Finally realising what you're missing out from all those nights you were out?" She whispers back as their lips tore apart, her arms hovering over his shoulders. "You sure hold grudges don't you?" Hyunwoo chuckles before capturing her lips again, this time making sure she had the taste of his tongue - locking their kiss with a hand firmly holding the back of her head.
Haein let her fingers run through the edge of his hair as they kiss before intentionally tracing down the back of his neck knowing how the touch turns him on all the time.
"F****." Hyunwoo pulls away from the kiss making Haein chuckle as she felt him hard. "You're going to regret this." He warned but it earn him Haein's sexy smirk that drove him crazy right on.
She leaned back in for another kiss that ended rather quickly much to Hyunwoo's disappointment. But the look in Haein's eyes as her hands cup his face told him there was something more important than tending to their pent up lust.
"Can I answer you?" Haein pulled herself together.
"Answer what?" Hyunwoo ask eyes faltering as he tried to read hers.
"Your question the other night. When you ask me to decide what you should do." She responded. Haein felt his hand that was holding the back of her neck losening and made its way to her waist.
Hyunwoo nodded, although it seemed like he wasn't ready for it.
Haein's hand that were holding his face falls back to his shoulders. She hesitated. Pondered. But determined.
"I want us to be real." She confessed, eyes fixated on his. "I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I want." Haein added.
She felt her heart dropped when she saw how taken aback Hyunwoo was. Unconciously, Haein felt the urge to disappear.
The silence was deafening.
"Don't you want to hear my answer to your question? Why I'm giving you the option?" He finally spoke. Haein gripped his shoulder a little tighter.
"You've been the first in everything I consider the moment I met you." Hyunwoo began. His revelation caught Haein rather off guard. "I'm almost certain of everything whenever I have to make a decision but when it comes to you..." He finds himself out of words as he stares at her eyes.
"You drive me insane." He admits. "I'm doing things I shouldn't for you." He continued.
"Wae? Why do I bother you?" Haein wasn't going to let him off.
Instead of an answer, Hyunwoo was looking at her completely numb. Without a word, his hand came tangling into her hair, sliding behind her head to bring her closer to him and kissed her softly on the lips. Haein despite being surprised didn't wait another second to kiss him back, her hands travelling down from his shoulder, chest and rested on his arms. He could feel her lips parting letting him slid his tongue to meet hers halfway.
Hyunwoo ran a hand slowly up her waist, catching the underside of her breasts underneath her bikini with the tips of his fingers. "Do you want me to stop?" He whispers in between her lips only to grind against her.
His only reply was a strangled whimper, and a tightening grip on the arm around her waist. Hyunwoo chuckles as he continued his ministrations, planting kisses along her jaw down to her neckline before Haein unwillingly pushed him away.
"You haven't answered me." She recollected herself. "We both know we're at a crossroad now. So I need to be clear about us. What are we? Business partners? Enemies? Or am I here just to satisfy your needs?" Haein was frustrated how they've been avoiding the one topic between them and it took them five years to finally confront with each other.
The feelings, the situationship or whatever people call it. She knew for a fact it wasn't just her. He felt the same. But neither was able to confront or admit their feelings for each other.
"I can't let them hurt you." He whispers, forehead leaning against hers, hands both back to her waist.
"They don't have to know." She whispers back, a hand cupping one side of his face whilst the other rested on his bare shoulder.
"Just until I reign over our family... just a little while more." Hyunwoo finds her eyes. "And babe, you're not just another woman. So don't ever speak of yourself that way." He shook his head.
That was the only assurance she needed.
Haein cupped his face in her hands to kiss him again to which Hyunwoo captured almost immediately firmly holding her waist close to his.
The pent up lust and tension over the few weeks due to their busy schedules was at its peak and neither had an attempt to conceal it a second longer.
...
Haein woke up finding Hyunwoo's side of the bed empty making her turn to her side and immediately spotting her husband through the glass wall.
She pulls the duvet a little closer to her bare body as she remained in tact to her pillow while she admires her man. He was making his rounds around the pool, a habit she had picked up of his whenever his mind is troubled.
But was it really necessary not to have his shirt on?
Unconciously biting the inner part of her lower lip, Haein's mind was flashing the night before. She must have saved a country in her past life to have Hyunwoo as her husband.
That face, that body and he's even good in bed.
"I'm crazy." She finds herself murmuring.
From across, Hyunwoo pants as he catches his breathe after the nth lap over the pass two hours.
He's losing it.
He shouldn't have led on Haein to something he wasn't sure he could grant. He wasn't sure if the 'us' between them could ever exist.
If they could ever be real.
Hyunwoo caught her eyes from across.
God, she's beautiful.
Her long luscious hair, the curves on her body, lips, he could tell even with his eyes close.
What did he do to deserve her?
His phone that sat on the bench where he was resting on rang distracting him.
"Yeoboseyo." He answered almost immediately when he saw his grandfather's name flashed.
"Kill her. Hong Haein. I want to see her body before the end of the week. This is an order."
