I’ll Warm You Up 23

※ All characters, organizations, and settings that appear in this book are entirely fictional and bear no relation to reality. Please be advised that the work contains depictions of coercive, violent acts and relationships. Please keep this in mind before reading.

Heo Dooyoung, barely holding on through a life as wretched as a cursed sewer.

When Seungpyo enters the life of Dooyoung — who has nothing left but chronic, learned helplessness — cracks begin to form in the sunken existence he has been living.

Confused by Seungpyo's attitude of being kind one moment and then wounding him the next, Dooyoung finds himself, before he even realizes it, caged within Seungpyo's grip and desperately craving his affection.

Whether it was because he found Dooyoung's blank staring unbearable, Hong Seungpyo stepped boldly into the elevator. He grabbed Dooyoung's forearm and yanked him roughly outside.

"Ugh! Why, why, what are you—!"

His legs tangled and his face collided with Hong Seungpyo's chest.

"Looks like you thought I was going to do something to you……"

"…."

"If you'd fought back a little more, I really might have."