Lunar Pub (2)
“What are you saying like that? You’re making the dealer uncomfortable.”
Isol pretended to look out for Jeongbae.
“That pathetic thing, sitting there spouting nonsense.”
This time even Isol was at a loss for words. Jeongbae raised his gaze. The murmuring surroundings soon fell quiet. He was caught between the two people, somehow maintaining a smiling face. He had to smile. That’s how he got paid.
“Why aren’t you answering?”
Jaehyuk’s expressionless voice dropped low and deep.
“You got the wrong person.”
Jeongbae’s fingertips trembled very slightly.
“I apologize. I made a mistake.”
“What kind of relationship do we look like to you?”
Kyaa. Isol let out a short scream. Jaehyuk pulled him close and sat him right on his lap. The table thudded.
“Say it again.”
Jaehyuk’s voice was low and cold. The murmuring customers turned their heads one by one. Jeongbae was frozen, cards in one hand. Though Jaehyuk was blunt, he’d never been rude to him before. Maybe he’d mistakenly thought they’d gotten a bit close from meeting often at the rice soup restaurant. His hands trembled with humiliation and embarrassment, but he had to smile. But his lips wouldn’t lift even a little anymore.
Jaehyuk’s arms strongly embraced Isol, but his eyes were staring straight at Jeongbae.
“I… don’t know.”
“Where does someone who doesn’t know anything get off running their mouth?”
Jaehyuk barked in a cold voice. Jeongbae was gripping the cards until his fingertips turned white. That’s when it happened.
“Customer, we apologize for the inconvenience. We’ll change the dealer right away. Jeongbae-ya, go to that table over there.”
“Yes.”
The manager quickly intervened and sorted out the situation.
“A bottle of your most expensive liquor.”
Jaehyuk said quietly and smiled.
“And leave the dealer.”
The manager tried to say something with a troubled look, but Jeongbae shook his head slightly.
‘It’s okay.’
He spoke carefully only with his lips. And as if nothing had happened, he approached the table again. Jaehyuk’s gaze slowly followed him.
“Jaehyuk-ah, you’re being too harsh on the dealer.”
“Who are you to suddenly act nice?”
“…That’s not it.”
“You’re spouting nonsense. You and I are just fucking around, what the hell are you sitting there talking about being married or whatever.”
Clunk. At that moment, Isol stood up abruptly from his seat. His lips trembled with anger as he whirled toward Jaehyuk.
“What did you just say?”
“You heard me. That’s why I said let’s just go to the hotel, you’re so annoying.”
Smack.
Isol’s palm struck Jaehyuk’s cheek directly.
“You unlucky bastard.”
Isol turned and left just like that, and everyone in the pub froze. Everyone except one person—Yoon Jaehyuk.
“What are you doing? He left because of you. Hurry up and deal the cards.”
“Yes.”
Jeongbae quickly moved his hands.
‘Why is he so angry?’
Jaehyuk, who frequently visited the rice soup restaurant, was expressionless but hadn’t been this arrogant before…
But contrary to his worries, from then on Jaehyuk silently received cards and just sipped his alcohol.
Without changing a single look or expression. As if what happened earlier hadn’t occurred. But strangely it felt like their eyes kept meeting, so Jeongbae kept bowing his already lowered head again and again.
“Take care.”
“Yeah, you worked hard today. Some troublemaker came and made a scene.”
“Still, sales went up quite a bit. Ahaha. A customer who buys a lot is a good customer.”
Though it was a tough day, Jeongbae laughed hehe again. The gap where his canine tooth was missing looked exactly like a mischievous kid. The manager patted the back of Jeongbae’s head as if he were admirable. Unlike his flawless image, he particularly looked after Jeongbae, who’d only been working there a few days.
“Go ahead. I have some accounting to do and orders to place.”
“Yes. See you tomorrow.”
The other employees had left early, and Jeongbae was the only one who stayed until the end to help clean up. His daily routine of finishing restaurant work and coming to work at the pub. He hadn’t even eaten dinner properly, so his stomach was growling. Jeongbae briefly felt dizzy and touched the wall before slowly moving his steps.
He was just passing through a narrow alley. A large shadow blocked Jeongbae.
“Ah…”
Yoon Jaehyuk. Black eyes of unknowable thoughts stared down at Jeongbae. He’d seen him empty an entire bottle of liquor alone earlier, but strangely there was no sign of intoxication on his expressionless face.
‘He’s not even a customer anymore…’
Jeongbae just bowed his head briefly and tried to pass by, but his wrist was grabbed strongly and he was pulled away.
“I keep thinking about you.”
Jaehyuk’s voice cracked low.
“I don’t know why I’m like this either…”
A stiff expression. But the black eyes staring intently at Jeongbae were wavering.
“……”
Jeongbae was at a loss for words for a moment. It wasn’t his imagination that their eyes kept meeting. He’d thought it couldn’t be… The violent way of speaking that had ignored and pressured him at the pub. That was just childish spite.
Twisted affection that torments the object of interest.
Jeongbae took a deep breath as if grasping his reason. It was a childish provocation from an alpha who didn’t even suit him.
‘I shouldn’t accept something like this.’
But at that moment, Jaehyuk grabbed Jeongbae’s shoulders with both hands. His eyes were desperate. The arrogant expressionlessness was distorted in an instant. Jaehyuk was genuinely at a loss. Just twenty-two or twenty-three. A college student alpha in his prime. Jeongbae’s mouth clamped shut.
“I’m sorry. I’m really sorry. I too… I…”
Before those words could end, Jeongbae’s hand moved. In an instant, his hand rose as if to strike Jaehyuk’s face.
“You’re such an idiot.”
Jeongbae’s cold voice. Jaehyuk squeezed his eyes shut and took a deep breath. But the pain didn’t come. Instead, he felt warm temperature and weight on his shoulder and nape.
Instead of striking his cheek, Jeongbae pulled Jaehyuk into an embrace around his neck.
Jaehyuk’s eyes widened.
Jeongbae’s hand stroked Jaehyuk’s back. As if soothing him. As if saying it was okay.
“Don’t do this anymore. To anyone.”
That tenderness finally broke Jaehyuk down. Jaehyuk hugged Jeongbae hard enough to break him and kissed him frantically. It was a desperate kiss, as if the harsh words from earlier were a lie.
‘I’m really such an idiot.’
Jeongbae was always weak to those kinds of things. Ugly, pathetic, idiotic but honest emotions. Not cool, shabby and foolish, but he couldn’t pretend not to know.
He’d definitely been hungry, but the hunger seemed to disappear.
‘Just for a moment. Just today. Just until Yoon Jaehyuk calms down.’
He thought he shouldn’t, but Jeongbae lost to Jaehyuk’s clumsy passion.
“I’m sorry. I’m sorry.”
Endless apologies pouring from the mouth of proud Jaehyuk. The apologies were sweet and warm, but on the other hand, they hurt so much.
“Wait, let me wash up first…”
A motel room somewhere nearby. Jaehyuk wasn’t listening to Jeongbae’s words. His body was laid down as if thrown onto the bed, and endless kisses poured onto his ear and nape.
“You’re really drunk. So… I…”
“Like that time.”
“Huh?”
“Hold me tight like that time.”
A low voice. A serious expression. A dizzying, intense pheromone scent. It smelled like fresh grass, like a summer night forest.
‘You remembered that night too.’
Jeongbae slowly pressed his face against Jaehyuk’s cheek and stroked the back of his head. That was all it was, but… Heat suddenly spread in Jaehyuk’s eyes. As Jeongbae unconsciously pulled his body back, the sound of belt buckles clicking open rang out.
“W-wait. Slowly.”
“Slowly? Must be nice that you have the leisure.”
Pants and briefs were stripped off entirely and thrown, and his body was pressed down. Long fingers hurriedly swept down Jeongbae’s body. After spreading his legs apart, long fingers began to fiddle with his still-unready lower half.
“Already wet. Are you always this lewd?”
“It’s… because of pheromones…”
When Jeongbae moaned, the number of fingers increased and the hand movements became even faster. Lips covered him and his tongue was sucked. He was out of breath and felt distant, as if his body was sinking into the ground.
Jaehyuk’s eyes were half-crazed. It was hard to believe this was the same person who always loitered around him with an expressionless or indifferent face.
“Y-you’re too excited, hng. So. Just a little slower.”
“You know you smell really good? A cool and sweet scent. I kept wanting to smell it again and again.”
“…I get it, so just calm down a little… Ah, not there.”
“Why? When you like it this much. Today, saying no is forbidden.”
The moment his expression turned rough, Jaehyuk’s hand frantically began to stroke Jeongbae’s member. Even trying to refuse in alarm was useless. When the large, hot hand rubbed painfully, his lower abdomen tingled.
“Ngh… ngh… mmph…”
“Ah, it came out.”
Though he came once while sharing sticky kisses, endless caresses continued without a chance to collapse. His member stood again at Jaehyuk’s intense pheromone scent.
“You like it here…”
“Haa… stop. I’m too exhausted…”
This time fingers roughly dug into his lower hole and finally found the sensitive point. Jaehyuk was also fully erect but didn’t insert, just rubbed it all over various parts of his body.
“Now… stop… put it in.”
“Thinking about it, I was the only one who came four times back then. Is that why you didn’t contact me?”
Jaehyuk grinned and this time started pinching his nipples.
“Ngh. It’s not… like that…”
“Today I’ll make you feel good first. That day felt really fucking amazing. I kept thinking about it.”
“…You don’t need to.”
Jeongbae spoke sincerely. But goosebumps rose at what Jaehyuk whispered in his ear.
“You come four times first.”
“What do you…”
Jaehyuk looked down at Jeongbae and slowly licked his lips with his tongue. It was sexy if it was sexy, but… to Jeongbae’s eyes, he looked exactly like a demon from hell. He unconsciously crawled backward. He pulled his body back, but there was no way he could win a physical fight against a large alpha. With not an inch of space between their overlapping bodies, he began to distantly bite and suck all over his body again.
“I… I was wrong. I… so.”
The innocent Jeongbae unknowingly apologized to Jaehyuk, who was five years younger.
“Tell me everything you did wrong.”
“W-wanted… to have a one… one-night stand…”
“That’s fine.”
“The… problem book…”
“…That was a bit audacious. And not contacting me.”
Jaehyuk, who seemed to be thinking briefly, soon looked down at Jeongbae and smiled brightly.
“…I’ll forgive you. From now on, you only listen to me.”
His eyes creased and his masculine lips curved. It was the first time seeing Jaehyuk smile like that. That face was so innocent and bright that Jeongbae unconsciously nodded as if entranced.
However, it didn’t take long to realize he’d shot himself in the foot.
