Secrets In The Sunset | KTH 18+ ✔️

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Taehyung and I emerge from our little love nest hours later with him refusing to let me go from his arms. Uncle Kim was already in the kitchen with three shot glasses poured and smiling at us.

"Uncle Kim...you're sneaky! I like it." I joke as I walk up and give him a warm hug to thank him for helping Taehyung come surprise me.

"I knew how badly you two were trying to see each other and how disappointed you both were when you found out you had to stay to take care of the gallery." He smiles and squeezes me a little tighter.

"Let me pay you back for his flight at least." I say looking between Uncle Kim and Taehyung.

"You will not! Consider it a gift." Uncle Kim gently scolds.

"But..."

He holds up his hand to stop me from talking. "End of discussion. Taehyung already tried to let me agree to have him pay me back little by little. It's not happening. Now grab a drink."

Taehyung and I each grab one of the small shot glasses filled with a clear liquor sitting in a straight line on the marble countertop. I hold it up to my nose to sniff it and give a disgusted face once the strong smell of alcohol enters my nasal passageway.

Taehyung smiles and leans down to my ear to whisper. "Soju."

"Huh?" I turn to look at him and realize he's inches from my face.

"Soju." He says quietly. An intense gaze in his eyes sending an unnerving sensation down my spine before he flits his eyes to the tiny glass in my right hand.

He straightens up and turns his head to the side, placing the shot glass in both hands. He takes to the head in one gulp and hisses before setting it back down on the counter. I've never seen Taehyung drink or drunk since he's not too fond of doing it all of the time either, but something about him downing it like it was water made my heart flutter for some foreign reason to me.

I clear my throat to shake my thoughts. We just had sex...a few times. I should be done for the day.

I look over to Uncle Kim and watch him quickly down his and place his shot glass back down on the counter. Both of the men now looking at me expectantly and I suddenly feel small in their gazes. They both already towered over me and now I feel my face flush with embarrassment as I'm put on the spot.

Had I drank before? Sure. Barely. If you call half a wine cooler drinking. Gotten drunk? Never. I don't even know how I'll react to be honest.

And from the looks of it, they plan on getting drunk tonight as Taehyung begins to refill their two shots glasses again before posting himself against the island and raising his eyebrows at me.

I take a deep breath and swallow it quickly. I look back up to Taehyung with squinty eyes as the sharp liquid stings my throat. A smirk appearing at the corner of his mouth as his eyes watch me run my tongue over the liquid on my bottom lip.

"Good?" Uncle Kim's voice snaps Taehyung out of his trance.

"Yeah, that wasn't too bad." I reply honestly. Sure, it stung but it was also sweet. A deadly combination.

"Another?" He holds the bottle over my glass and I shrug.

Screw it. Why not? At least I'm in the presence of two men I wholeheartedly trust and in the safety of home's four walls.

We all take another shot and decide to dig into the pizza waiting on the counter before we drink anymore.

"Okay so tonight, you have to promise me you'll relax and have some fun." Taehyung says as feeds me a bite of his pizza.