Siwon picked up the blanket with a sunken expression. The rough texture of the summer blanket was felt at his fingertips.
Staring at the empty bed where Seongyeom should have been, Siwon took a deep breath and pulled out his phone, suppressing his boiling anger.
He checked the security camera footage outside the house. When he rewound the video to find the scene of Seongyeom leaving the residence, there was only footage of him being carried home on a subordinate’s back last night—there was no sign of him leaving.
No matter which video he checked, it was the same. Siwon stroked his lower lip, deep in thought.
They said there’s a dog hole in the back wall. Don’t tell me he escaped through there?
Siwon let out a hollow sigh and laid the thin blanket down on the bed.
Actually, this works out better. Just let him go.
Malice suddenly popped out from a corner of his heart, speaking cynically.
The situation with Kwonmyeonghoe had changed drastically, and Lee Seongyeom was an outsider. It was already overwhelming just protecting Kwonmyeonghoe, so it would be difficult to protect an uncooperative outsider as well. So letting him escape like this would be shedding one burden.
“…Right, it would reduce the burden.”
Siwon plopped down heavily on the bed. The old bed frame creaked.
“Then I should be feeling comfortable right now.”
He stroked the middle of the bed where Lee Seongyeom had been lying. It smelled warm and cozy, like something from a young child. It wasn’t the smell of fabric softener or perfume. How can a guy’s body odor be like this?
He slowly felt the surface of the sheets with his fingertips, then roughly clutched them.
“…Then why am I angry?”
Siwon let out a self-deprecating laugh like someone who’d lost all energy. The laughter that started with trembling shoulders didn’t know how to stop.
“He didn’t trust me enough, running away with an injured body.”
Well, that makes sense.
As he muttered to himself, another self inside his heart chimed in agreement.
“……”
After pressing his eyelids firmly for a moment and releasing them, Siwon looked around with a drained face. On the dresser beside the bed sat an unpacked suitcase.
It must be Teacher’s. He probably barely managed to escape from here with his injured body. He wouldn’t have had the energy to take his luggage with him.
“I’ll have to tell them to throw that away.”
Before leaving the room, Siwon looked back at the room interior, which somehow seemed empty. It was a strange feeling. Only now did he realize that he had been paying quite a bit of attention to Seongyeom.
Their first meeting was absurd even thinking about it now. The sight of him acting like he wasn’t scared when he was terrified, and the moments when he unexpectedly did his assigned work quite well, quickly flashed through his mind.
He decided to shake off his obsession and lingering attachment. The only traces of Seongyeom left in the room were the disheveled blanket and a faint unfamiliar scent. He quietly closed the door.
Siwon entered his own room across the hall and sorted out his emotions. Unlike Seongyeom’s dimly lit room, the moment the door closed to Siwon’s room, complete darkness descended without a single ray of light.
He blinked several times to adjust to the darkness. Soon he familiarly crossed the dark space and turned on the stand lamp he’d set up next to the sofa.
The room revealed in the orange lighting was very spacious. It included a bathroom, and the bedroom inside was separated from the reception area by opaque sliding doors, as if it were a secret sanctuary.
“Hoo…”
Siwon slowly rubbed his stiff, pulling neck. He also pressed his tired eyes firmly. Entering his own space, his tension loosened a layer and the fatigue he’d been holding back burst out.
He’d been to the mountains and the sea in two days, so he needed to wash first. With darkened eyes, he removed his wristwatch. Before he knew it, the time had passed 6 AM.
What’s my schedule today?
With somewhat rough movements, he unbuttoned his shirt, removed the leather belt from his waist, then took off his pants and underwear completely.
The muscular naked body revealed under the lighting had scars of various sizes scattered throughout, as if showing Kwonmyeonghoe’s twists and turns and hardships over the years.
Siwon, who had thrown his removed clothes in front of the bathroom, entered the bathroom after turning on the switch, not noticing the bulging form protruding on the bed.
Shaaaa—
Standing under the cold stream of water, his mind became crystal clear. He closed his eyes for a moment, feeling the cold water flowing over his entire body, then opened them when he felt heat from below instead.
“Tsk.”
His genitals, which he hadn’t touched in a while, were raised heavily, proportional to that time.
“How annoying…”
Siwon, grasping his member, moved his hand mechanically as always, trying not to think about anything.
“Hoo…”
He gripped himself below with familiar hand movements. Everything he’d been holding back because he couldn’t properly release it for a while burst out all at once. It throbbed as if struck by lightning. Siwon gritted his teeth and moved his hand as if forcibly pushing it out.
“Hoo…”
Siwon’s breathing gradually became rougher. Heat that couldn’t reach anywhere swelled endlessly.
“…Kkeut.”
His parted lips swallowed a small breath and closed. The more pleasure rushed in, the more his mood felt like it was being shoved deep into the bottom of a sewer. Siwon moved his hand faster toward the final stretch.
“Hoo…”
After exhaling a short breath, Siwon dropped his head. What came after the mechanical ejaculation was self-loathing.
Masturbating at thirty-nine?
Siwon turned on the hot water, mocking himself.
“Unnecessarily fucking healthy…”
He tried to shower as usual, but the feeling was strange. Looking down, the heat still hadn’t subsided and his center stood erect. Siwon looked down at his member with a perplexed expression.
“…Really?”
Siwon grasped his member again. No matter how many times he tried stroking it up, instead of feeling as intense as the first time, only emptiness grew.
What the hell is going on?
Siwon looked down at his own thing in bewilderment.
His mood was already low from Lee Seongyeom running away, but it would be troublesome if he was already developing erectile dysfunction at thirty-nine. In a situation where the Dogang Faction was threatening Kwonmyeonghoe, this could become a huge weakness of his.
“…Kkheut?!”
Siwon furrowed one eyebrow at the sudden rush of ejaculatory urge. When he thought of Lee Seongyeom, heat suddenly rushed down below as if electricity had been turned on.
“Damn it…!”
It was an expression the usual Siwon would never show. Siwon focused and slightly parted his lips, lightly rubbing the tip of his urethra with his thumb.
“…Shit. Kkeut, kkeuk!”
Unlike his heart, his head was definitely releasing powerful dopamine just by recalling Lee Seongyeom’s face.
In an instant, Siwon’s buttocks contracted strongly. Whitish mucous liquid shot out forcefully onto his palm. His whole body trembled with the afterglow of ejaculation for quite a while. Liquid of a completely different consistency from before dripped from his palm. Soon it was washed away by the flowing water and quickly disappeared, but it was too shocking to pretend he hadn’t seen.
Siwon staggered and leaned his head against the bathroom tiles. He felt like his entire life was being completely denied.
“I resolved it with Lee Seongyeom…?”
Siwon wiped away the flowing water with a feeling of fully waking up and looked down.
“I’m going crazy.”
Ignoring his member that was still ambiguously raised despite two ejaculations, he finished his shower. Even after awkwardly coming out of the shower booth, his member didn’t subside. In the end, Siwon came out wrapped in a body towel, turned off the bathroom light, and uncomfortably headed to the sofa.
He familiarly prepared to catch some sleep. Since his wife’s death, he never used the bed at all and slept and worked on the sofa. Only occasionally when he needed to stamp documents did he use the desk inside the bedroom.
As he was shaking his wet hair dry with a towel, suddenly beyond the opaque sliding door, the middle of the bed bulged and moved slowly.
“……?”
The arm that had been shaking his hair slowly lowered, and Siwon’s eyes froze coldly. Among the organization members, there was no one gutless enough to pull such a prank. Everyone knew that he hadn’t used the bedroom since his wife died.
Then is it a Dogang Faction bastard sent by Choi Jeongcheol?
What crazy bastard would hide their body in the bed?
He killed his footsteps and silently opened the door leading to the bedroom. There seemed to be no other enemies besides that presence felt on the bed.
Suppressing the urge to immediately twist the neck blanket and all, he quietly approached. Then he lifted the blanket edge in one motion. A curled-up body was visible. From the not-small frame, one leg was stretched out straight.
“Lee Seongyeom?”
Seongyeom was curled up in a ball on the bed, fast asleep. Soon Siwon’s sharply contracted pupils instantly relaxed and widened.
“Ha!”
Absurdity rushed in. As if mocking himself who had been swept up in emotions just moments ago, the sight of the sleeping Seongyeom looked far too peaceful. Siwon sat on the edge of the bed and scanned his exhausted face.
So the place he ran away to was just here.
The regularly rising and falling chest clearly announced Seongyeom’s survival. Even when Siwon lightly brushed aside his bangs, the long eyelashes didn’t move at all.
“Uuum… go…”
Suddenly smacking his lips, at the lips that slightly parted, Siwon opened his mouth and let out a chuckle.
“Where am I going?”
