Chapter 51: Before We Talk About Us

“I won’t move. I’ll just keep it inside. Hmm?”

“I don’t believe you.”

Kangeun knew from a few experiences now that he was the kind of person who would say he wouldn’t move, only to lift her, sit her on top of him, and make her move instead.

At dawn, he had pretended to do it for Kangeun’s sake and sat her on top of him. Even though she was already a mess from several climaxes, she felt embarrassed by taking the lead in their intimacy. However, Siheon met her eyes as she struggled, whispered playfully, and grasped her hips, urging her to do it herself.

[Huu…… I can’t.]

[Try it. I’ll wait for you. Hmm?]

[I can’t, I can’t— hup……!]

Watching Kangeun shake her head as if she were cute, Siheon simply thrust his member deep inside her. As Kangeun arched back, crying out as she was pierced from below, he pulled her into his arms.

[Hah……. Do you know? Go Kangeun here, she chews on me really tightly.]
[Heuk, don’t. Don’t say that.]

When she raised a hand to cover the mouth that kept spouting dirty words, he just smiled. Then, meeting her gaze, he stuck his tongue out and licked her hand. Seeing Kangeun tremble, he grasped her hips as if amused and thrust into her with a wet, squelching sound.

[You do it so well, why did you say you couldn’t? f*ck…… you’re so good, it’s making me want to come fast.]
[You’re…… hup, you’re the one doing it…… hah-eut!]
[Hah, look at how it bulges here. I guess I’ve gone all the way up to here inside Go Kangeun.]
[Hah, eu-eut, don’t press it, hup, don’t do that……!]
[Don’t do it?]
[Yes, yes…… don’t, ah…….]
[Then kiss me. I’ll be gentle.]
[…….]
[Hmm?]

He said he would be gentle, so she clumsily met his lips, but what returned were ruthless thrusts of his hips. Last night, he had constantly tricked Kangeun in this manner, and she had fallen for his tricks every time.

And yet, he was trying such tactics again. Yoon Siheon—no, Cha Siheon—must definitely think of Go Kangeun as a fool.

“After I take a nap, I’m going down to my place.”

“What……?”

“I said I’m going home. I need to pack my things, and I have a lot to do. I told you I submitted my resignation.”

“Right. You said you submitted your resignation. But why do you have a lot to do?”

“I’m quitting without a handover. I need to organize files, upload them to the shared folder, and finish what I was working on. It’s not a holiday in Italy right now, so if I contact them regarding related tasks, I should be able to get them handled.”

At Kangeun’s clear and precise answer, Siheon frowned. Reading his expression, Kangeun clamped her mouth shut and stealthily scooched her hips to the corner of the sofa. Then, feeling a sharp pain down below, she winced.

“Ah……”

“……Does it still hurt?”

“Of course it does!”

Even though she had taken a long half-bath, her swollen nether regions still hurt.

“Things like that get better if you put some saliva on them. Go Kangeun, come here.”

“Spouting nonsense again.”

“I’m just saying I’ll lick it for you. There’s no other reason.”

“No. You said you’d apply medicine at dawn, and look what you did.”

“You liked it. Don’t you remember crying uncontrollably because you liked it so much?”

“…….”

“You must have been secretly proud. Thinking you raised me well.”

“…….”

Kangeun stood up to escape Siheon, who spouted dirty words without a change in expression. She looked around, intending to grab her bag so she could go downstairs to her place, but her bag was nowhere to be seen.

“Have you seen my bag?”

“I saw it.”

“I think I left it here?”

“You did leave it there.”

“……Siheon-ah.”

Siheon had definitely hidden the bag containing her laptop and external hard drive. The moment Kangeun placed her hands on her hips, intending to say something, the phone she had left on the table vibrated.

It was Hyunwoo. Kangeun sighed and pressed the side button on her phone to decline the call. She had only realized this morning that Hyunwoo had been calling her continuously over the past two days.

Even looking at the accumulated missed call log, she had no desire to call him back. It was because her trust in him had already crumbled.

However, there were also two missed calls and a message from Jihwan from yesterday.

[Manager, the Branch Director is making a huge fuss right now because he can’t reach you. 😢 He says there are continuous CS complaints regarding the 1st store soft opening event, so I think you need to talk to him. I called you because I was anxious, but as expected, you’re not answering. 😢 I even went to your house and rang the doorbell, but you weren’t there……. Manager, nothing happened to you, right? You’re not sick, are you? 😢]

Kangeun snapped to attention after checking Jihwan’s message. She hadn’t thought the calls from Ahn Hyunwoo would actually be about work.

She had ended up quitting suddenly like this, but she still wanted to fulfill her assigned responsibilities. So, dragging her body that felt like it could collapse at any moment, she had done her best. Taking the place of the Branch Director who had holed himself up in the hospital without a word, she had wanted to make the soft opening event a success, if nothing else.

She thought she would only be satisfied with herself if she did that. She had overexerted herself because she strongly desired to be seen as someone no one could look down upon, so her heart sank at the mention of continuous CS complaints.

“I need to make a quick call……”

Just as Kangeun asked Siheon for his understanding and was about to touch ‘Branch Director’ on her call log, she looked at him with puzzled eyes as his hand blocked her.

“Chief Hyun.”

Even though she didn’t know who Chief Hyun was, curses flew out from the other end of the phone. The voice was so loud that even Kangeun could hear it. But Siheon simply waited calmly for his profanity-laced tirade to end with an indifferent expression.

“Enough. Check if there are any CS complaints regarding the Tenuto Coffee 1st store soft opening event. Yeah, right now. What’s wrong with you. I bought you several phones because you said you needed them. I’m not hanging up, so hurry.”

Ah. Catching onto his intention, Kangeun bit her lip. Kangeun, who had been listening intently with an anxious heart, suddenly had a thought, opened her phone, and searched for ‘Tenuto Coffee’ on a portal site.

In the meantime, quite a few reviews from people who had attended the Tenuto Coffee Korea 1st store soft opening event had been uploaded. Among them seemed to be several influencers. Since they boasted great influence on social media, Kangeun quickly skimmed the review of one of them.

“…….”

The reviews were universally praising, making her worry seem pointless. They even slapped on ‘Highly Recommended’ marks, advising even those unfamiliar with Italian coffee to definitely give it a try. They said the beautifully decorated space where tradition and modernity harmonized was excellent, and that they liked how the skilled staff explained things in an easy-to-understand manner and brewed coffee proficiently.

However, she couldn’t relax her mind. While Kangeun scrutinized the reviews of other influencers and ordinary people one by one with a hawk’s eye, Siheon finished his call and spoke to Kangeun.

“There are no major CS complaints. He says there are just a few minor ones. Things like why aren’t they selling Americanos, isn’t it just adding water to brewed espresso anyway, and having to wait a long time because there were too many people. That’s about it, but those were expected anyway, weren’t they?”

“……Yeah.”

“Hah……. That stupid bastard, it seems he does have the makings of an excellent scammer after all.”

“Still, wouldn’t it be better to call just in case?”

When Kangeun brought up a small possibility and tilted her head cautiously, Siheon shook his head firmly. The hand that hugged her, sat her on his lap, and patted her had become quite natural over the past few days.

“If it’s not on social media in this day and age, that says it all. He says there hasn’t been anything related submitted to the ‘Voice of the Customer’ on the Hyungyeong Commerce website either. Tenuto Coffee Korea doesn’t have a website yet, right?”

“Yeah. They said that will be finished sometime next week.”

“He says there are no separate matters submitted to the Hyungyeong Commerce AI Customer Center either. That means the complaints came through the Branch Director’s personal route……. Who would find out the Branch Director’s phone number to submit a CS complaint?”

“That’s true……”

“That pathetic bastard is just pulling a trick. Just to get Go Kangeun to exchange a few words with him. Don’t call him. Unless you want to see my eyes roll back. Whether it’s for work or anything else, I hate you contacting that bastard in any way.”

Kangeun, who had been staring at Siheon blankly, obediently nodded her head. Kangeun didn’t want to converse with Hyunwoo anymore either, so she nodded in agreement. At that, a soft smile appeared on his face like magic.

“What do you want to do now? Shall we go out together? Oh, I know a delicious Hanjeongsik (Korean table d’hôte) restaurant. Let’s go there.”

“……I told you I’m going home.”

“Okay, then. We can just go down together, pack your things, and come back up. You can just do your work here.”

He wasn’t like this when he was young, so she didn’t know why he was acting so persistently and trying to restrain her now that he was fully grown. Kangeun suddenly realized that because she had been so engrossed in crossing the line with him over the past few days, she hadn’t had an important conversation with him.

“Siheon-ah, about us.”

“Yeah, what do you want to do?”

As he smiled brightly and looked down at her, Kangeun shook her head at him.