Mystery Woman

Chapter 1

"Hold the door!" Chaerin yelled as she sprinted the last ten feet to the rapidly closing doors of the elevator.

With only a half foot to spare, the blonde made it through, much to the disappointment of the man who got his kicks letting the door in people's faces. Had she missed it, it would be a long wait until the elevator. No sooner had she entered that the door closed it began to rise, freeing from the ground floor to begin her journey to her office.

Taking a night drive was only one of the problems Chaerin had encountered since going on her office's 2 to 10 shifts about five weeks before. Over a month and she still couldn't get into her new routine.

Dropping her suitcase onto one of the cushions of the couch. Chaerin dropped exhausted onto another. It had been another hot and humid August day and the night had brought little relief.

"God damn Seokjin for getting Hyolyn pregnant!" Chaerin said under her breath. "It's his fault that I'm on this stupid shift again."

Seven weeks ago, Chaerin had been summoned to her supervisor's office and told that since Hyolyn was taking early maternity leave, she would have to replace her as the night shift supervisor. Chaerin had protested that she had only come off the night shift six months before. Therefore it wasn't fair that she be sent back. That if anything, Choi Seunghyun, the new intern who would eventually replace Hyolyn on nights when the four-month tour was over, should just take over a little early.

The reply that she had gotten was that with Hyolyn's sudden departure, they felt it would be better to have an experienced hand at the helm so to speak. Choi just wasn't ready for all that responsibility. Fighting back her anger, Chaerin had to resist the sudden urge she had to tell them what she would do with her experienced hand.

So for the last month, Chaerin had rearranged her life to fit the new work schedule. With a few bumps along the way, she had finally settled into a more or less even routine. The only really great problem now was her boyfriend, Kwon Jiyong.

Chaerin had been dating Jiyong for about eight months. They had met through Liu Amber, a mutual friend, at a birthday party for her husband. Chaerin was instantly taken by his good looks and shy personality. Jiyong had looked into her eyes and asked her out less than five minutes after they'd been introduced. When they had gone out to dinner a few nights later, it took all her self-control not to jump into bed with him at the very first opportunity. Instead, she congratulated herself on her self-control and jumped into the sack on their second date.

That was where their newfound relationship found its first speed bump. Jiyong may have been, tall, handsome, and incredibly charming, but astonishingly as it seemed, the man was absolutely boring in bed. Never in her life had Chaerin spent the night with a lover so unimaginative. Oh, he wasn't a virgin, and he did manage to get the job done. Yet she sometimes wondered of his previous lovers had been some kind of a cross between Mary Poppins and Snow White. Whenever she had suggested they try something a little interesting to spice up the night a little, he quickly backed off the idea. One night he had freaked when she had slid her cum-lubricated finger into his ass during a round of some pretty serious screwing. He nearly jumped out of bed and yelled at her for even trying such a thing. That was something that only gays did he had insisted. Try as she could, she'd been unable to regain his interest or erection that night.

Now it had been almost one month since they had slept together and Chaerin couldn't wait until Saturday night. That was the only day of the week they could still see each other, and Jiyong had canceled out the last three weekends due to sudden emergencies. He made no secret of the fact that he was totally unhappy with the new arrangements, and Chaerin wondered if he had canceled their last two dates just out of spite. She remembered the anger in his voice when he had told her when she talked to him last.