I've Been Possessed, But What If I Get Pregnant First? - C30
#30
“Taebeom, you should eat quickly too.”
I tore the bread into small pieces, dipped it in the soup, and put it in my mouth. While munching on the bread, I also urged him who was just staring at me. Nevertheless, Kwon Taebeom didn’t eat and instead cut the steak and placed it in front of me, or poured water into my empty glass, taking care of various small tasks for my meal.
“Ha…. I’m full.”
I rubbed my stomach with a happy face, feeling the fullness for the first time in a while. It had been days since I had a proper meal. Kwon Taebeom, who was wiping the sauce off my mouth, also smiled at my satisfied expression.
“But you spent a lot of money today…?”
I asked him carefully, suddenly worried. The very spacious hotel room, and the cost of the food I couldn’t even eat earlier. Feeling sorry that it would be quite a lot, I hesitated before opening my mouth.
“I’m sorry. Because of me for no reason….”
“Yuwon.”
“Yes?”
“Nothing is too precious for you.”
“……”
“No matter what it is. No matter how important it is.”
My heart trembled with his every word. I was reflected in his deep black eyes. It was as if he was telling me that I was in his heart.
“So do whatever you want to do. I’ll help you so you can do that.”
My heart pounded at the heavy gaze approaching me. His intense eyes staring at me intently were no longer scary. I just really liked being in the same place with Kwon Taebeom. I was happy.
Ah… what should I do? I think I like Kwon Taebeom.
The precariously wavering emotions overflowed, unable to overcome the surface tension. In the end, I acknowledged my feelings for him. However, my love with him had a set ending. He would come to love someone else, not me. Imagining my future without him, I burst into tears without realizing it.
“Sob, what should I, hic….”
The moment I faced joy, fear caught my ankle. It wasn’t Kwon Taebeom that scared me anymore. I was just afraid of how he would change after meeting Yoon Seolah. The sight of him abandoning me and pouring his love onto her. I was afraid of being left alone.
I cried like a child in his arms. The startled Kwon Taebeom tried his best to comfort me when I couldn’t breathe properly from crying. I clung to his neck as he tried to get up to bring a blanket.
“Don’t go….”
My tear-soaked eyes stung. I clenched my trembling fingertips and pulled him.
“Please don’t leave me alone….”
At my desperate cry, Kwon Taebeom sat down as if he couldn’t resist. Then he gently stroked my back. I closed my eyes, hugging him for a long time, enjoying his comforting touch.
Thanks to him stroking my back for a long time, my fear gradually subsided. Leaning into his broad embrace, comfort washed over me.
“You should wash up.”
“I’m tired….”
I had no energy from the exhausting emotional consumption. When I drew out the end of my words, Kwon Taebeom picked me up.
“Oh, I-, I got up. Taebeom, I got up!”
“Stay still.”
“No, my fe-, feet aren’t hurt!”
“Shorty, let’s just go.”
At the word shorty that I heard for the first time in a while, I closed my mouth. Sigh… why do I always choose to do things I regret? Today, in the end, my body was dangling from Kwon Taebeom’s hands as we headed to the bathroom. Kwon Taebeom didn’t leave the bathroom until the end, claiming that water shouldn’t touch my hand.
I really begged him to please leave, even to the point of sobbing, but Kwon Taebeom easily ignored my pleas. This bad guy…. I faced him, trying not to lose to Kwon Taebeom. Of course, it was a lonely fight I was having alone, but I tried my best. In the end, having lost the fight with myself, I surrendered to his touch drying my hair and closed my eyes with my mouth shut tight.
‘I am a stone. I am a stone….’
As I chanted the spell inwardly and engaged in silent practice, Kwon Taebeom, who had finished drying my hair, put down the hair dryer.
“Cha Yuwon.”
Hmph. I ignored him even when he called my name and kept my eyes closed.
“Cha Yuwon.”
I can’t hear you, I can’t hear you at all….
“I’ll buy you clothes tomorrow. The most stylish ones.”
“…Really?”
I quickly turned my head and perked up my ears. When I looked up at Kwon Taebeom, asking if he would really buy me clothes, he grabbed my cheeks and kissed me.
“Yeah.”
Tsk…. Why are you kissing me again….
I didn’t hate it since I realized my feelings for him, but it was still embarrassing. I thought I might be too easy, but still, the clothes…. When I looked earlier, it was a bit embarrassing too. So I decided to be an easy guy just for today.
“Then…. I’ll let it slide just this once. But for-, forget it.”
Forget it…. After saying this sentence, that damn first meeting came to mind. I got things this twisted by saying twelve wrong words. As if he also remembered that day like me, Kwon Taebeom rubbed his lower lip and laughed with a small sigh.
“You told me not to forget it then.”
“I-, I think I told you to forget it.”
“To be exact, it was ‘Don’t forget how much I love you, Taebeom’.”
Even as I suffered with a dry cough, he teased me with an amused face.
“And after that-“
Ack! No matter when I think about it, it’s a dark history that easily deserves 20 years of kicking the blanket, so I covered his mouth and closed my eyes tightly.
“St-, stop…. Stop it….”
When I covered my face, burning with embarrassment, Kwon Taebeom grabbed my wrist and pulled it down. He kissed my eyes and brushed my hair back.
“Let’s stop here for today and sleep. We have a lot to do tomorrow, buying clothes and cutting your hair.”
“Yes….”
Just like when entering the bathroom, Kwon Taebeom lifted me up and headed to the bed. As I had become accustomed to sharing the same bed, it was natural to sleep in his arms. I closed my eyes, feeling his scent that calmed my heart. Kwon Taebeom slowly stroked my back and kissed my forehead.
“There are quite a few hotels with great night views in Hong Kong too. There are many places you might like. I don’t know why you hate going there so much, but since we’re going out, let’s eat delicious food and travel before coming back.”
I couldn’t answer his words whispered in a small voice while holding me. Although I realized my feelings for Kwon Taebeom, I had to return to my original world separately from that. Only then could the real Cha Yuwon return. I closed my eyes tightly, pretended to be asleep, and bit my tongue hard to keep from crying.
***
“Yuwon, you need to wake up now.”
“Mmm… five more minutes….”
“That doesn’t work anymore.”
Maybe because I cried out for five more minutes every day and didn’t get up, Kwon Taebeom firmly woke me up. After being carried by his hands and finishing my shower, I went outside and saw unfamiliar people standing in the living room.
“Who are you?”
“Hello, Madam. Nice to meet you for the first time.”
The woman who introduced herself as a personal shopper greeted me with a bright smile. Personal shopper? I heard that term for the first time in my life. I turned to Kwon Taebeom, wondering what was going on, and he said while drinking coffee,
“I told you I’d buy you clothes, didn’t I?”
“He-, here?”
Don’t tell me, this is what you meant yesterday? I thought we were just going to the department store when he said he’d buy me clothes…. He called the department store here. This is crazy. He made me flustered like this and yet he calmly drank coffee. As I glared at him for a while, an employee who came out of the next room pulling a clothing rack stood in front of me.
“These are the new arrivals for this S/S season with a cherry blossom concept. Since Madam has such fair and clean skin, I prepared mainly light pastel tones. In my opinion, a light pink jacket like this or a denim jacket would be nice for you to wear casually. Or a simple designed shirt like this with a cardigan would also suit you well. Would you like to choose directly?”
“Ah, no… I’d be fine with just a t-shirt….”
The woman, who was showing me various clothes with an excited face, stepped back saying she understood when I hesitantly answered. She gestured to the employee standing next to her and said with a bright smile,
“We brought in models with physiques as similar to Madam’s as possible. If there are any products you like, please feel free to let us know.”
With those words, several models came out to the living room. From a model wearing the jacket she recommended earlier to a model wearing a simple logo t-shirt. Finding this situation only confusing, I held Kwon Taebeom’s hand, and he put down his coffee cup and said,
“Why, you don’t like any of them?”
At his single remark, the air inside the spacious living room sank. The models standing with the living room as their stage looked at us, startled. I particularly noticed the expressions of people swallowing dry saliva while glancing at Kwon Taebeom.
“Ah, no. They’re all pretty, but-“
“Yeah? I’m glad you like them. Please send all the clothes prepared today to the house.”
“What? Ta-, Taebeom! Wait a minute!”
No matter how clueless I was, I didn’t think the clothes the personal shopper brought would be cheap. Moreover, it was uncertain whether I could wear all those many clothes during the remaining spring season.
“I think th-, that one would be en-, enough for me.”
I hurriedly pointed to the denim jacket the personal shopper recommended earlier.
“Okay.”
Permission was granted more readily than I thought, so I let out a sigh of relief.
‘Ha…. That’s a relief. That one is enough-‘
“Wear that one today, and diligently wear the rest starting tomorrow.”