in love, legally || CHOI YEONJUN

Chapter 7

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"Yejin are you in—" Hyemi bursts into the room to find Taehyun lying on the floor and Yejin dangling on the armrest of the couch. "What the heck are you two doing?"

Taehyun lets out a strangled cough and starts to do pushups. "Exercising. Pumping up my muscles," he says.

This earns him an annoyed shake, the Hyemi turns towards her best friend, who has now raised her legs on the sofa and lying there. "And what are you doing?"

"Resting. I am tired,"

"Bet." Hyemi walks towards them and sits on the couch. "I am so glad we signed off the deal!" she now squeals. "This older sister will make you guys dinner at my home!"

The two quickly turn away their eyes from her and walk back to their working stations. "I'll order delivery from our fave sushi restaurant!" Hyemi offers a better plan than returning home today and preparing an inedible meal.

"I'll be a bit late from a business dinner, leave some for me in my kitchen," Taehyun says turning around his chair, putting on his glasses, and going back to doing his entitled duties.

Hyemi peeks from the door and grins, "I'll get us some fine barley tea," and zips out of the office.

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The glasses clink together, in the background some music bank video plays of one of their favorite groups. Yejin's phone is propped at the table, and the video call starts with Inhye. It's been almost two weeks of her honeymoon and she is about to come back.

"Are you alone in the hotel?" Yejin asks taking a bite from her fried dumpling, "Yah this is so good,"

Inhye is walking around the room packing her belongings, "He went out to get us dinner. The hotel food is really bad,"

"Good news! I have got you a client for your flower shop," Hyemi joins in. "The guy you introduced us at your wedding,"

Inhye squeals. "For real?" she grabs the phone and sits on her bed now.

With a mouthful of dumpling Yejin turns to the camera, "Real. That's why I came over to team leader Kang Hyemi's house,"

Inhye's laugh echoes through the phone speaker. However, the attention was diverted to Hyemi's ringing phone. Taehyun's name pops up and she clumsily reaches for it accepting the call. Instead of his voice, an unfamiliar male's voice echoed through the phone, "Is this the guardian of Kang Taehyun?"

"Yes, who is this?"

"I am speaking from Kyunghyun Hospital. Please come here as soon as you can." the man informs.

Hyemi gasps standing up already reaching for her coat and car keys. "What happened to him?"

"It was a mild drunk driving accident—nothing to worry about but he is unconscious right now,"

After saying a few more words she turns to Yejin whose face has turned pale and the taste of her favourite fried dumplings no longer mattered. Inhye felt more hopeless hearing this exchange while sitting in a different country. Yejin quickly ended the call and the two dashed for the hospital.

In their hideous matching pajamas and sandals, they ran upto the reception where they were then guided to a private room.

"Wasn't he brought here in an emergency? Why a private room then," Hyemi asked the nurse who was guiding them.

The nurse didn't turn back and continued walking, "One of our VIP patients claimed to be his brother, and upgraded him to a private room," she said.

The two exchanged glances, they couldn't guess who it was till they entered the room behind the nurse. They found Yeonjun leaning against the window and talking over a call. He politely bowed as he saw them enter and quickly finished off his call.