Flowers Are Bait Novel - Chapter 125

But Yiyeon couldn’t tell if he was friend or foe. Especially when his eyes, filled with anger, precisely pinpointed her location, the feeling of her heart plummeting was more akin to despair. As he approached with hurried, anxious steps, her mouth gradually dried up.

It was the same look he had on the first day they reunited, when he stopped her car.

Yes, he had come to catch her again. Concluding that, Yiyeon hugged the tree trunk tightly and trembled.

She endured the pounding in her temples, but suddenly lost sight of him. The man had vanished as if absorbed into the darkness, and Yiyeon looked around in all directions.

It was then that the leaves rustled, and a heavy vibration was felt.

“…”

At the strange pressure, she looked back to see Kwon Chaewoo climbing the tree with fierce momentum, without any warning or prior notice.

“Gasp…!”

Every time she blinked, he got closer and closer.

He seemed to have barely moved his feet, yet he climbed as if defying gravity, like someone practicing parkour. His strength and agility, comparable to a leopard’s, were astonishing to witness again.

Yiyeon couldn’t even scream and gnawed at the inside of her lips. The urge to run away again fanned her, but this time there was nowhere to go.

Finally, Kwon Chaewoo grabbed Yiyeon’s arm firmly with his bony, hook-like knuckles.

The moment she instinctively opened her mouth, he whispered lowly,

“Not a word. Don’t say a word.”

“That…”

“I told you not to babble.”

The whites of his eyes, enduring the heat, were red and cracked as if on the verge of exploding. Yiyeon looked at the vein bulging on his forehead, then let her gaze slide down to the bridge of his nose. His menacing eyes suffocated her.

“Come here and quietly wrap your legs around my waist.”

“…”

“Wrap them.”

“…Why? What, what are you going to do with me if you take me?”

Despite her wary voice, Kwon Chaewoo abruptly slipped his hand into her side.

“Let go of me…! Th—”

It was the moment Yiyeon, helplessly pulled, settled into his arms. For some reason, his neck, which she gripped to balance herself, was damp with cold sweat.

Kwon Chaewoo buried his face in Yiyeon’s neck and let out a breath that was either relief or pain. It was so heavy and long that her body, which had been trying to resist, froze like a statue. She whispered in a low voice,

“…If you, if you lay even a fingertip on me—!”

“I’ll cut them all off.”

“Huh?”

“The fingers that brush against Ms. Yiyeon’s clothes, I’ll shove them all into the mouths of their owners.”

Yiyeon had a confused expression. His words alone were more terrifying than the base desires of the crowd.

“…No, no, you came to catch me too, didn’t you?”

He was the person who had watched from the sidelines and then left when Yiyeon was buried by the neighborhood residents. Moreover, he was the young master of the family hosting such parties, so objectively, there was no reason to trust him at all.

“How much more do you want to humiliate me? You damaged the sacred tree, ruined my mood, turned the house into a mess, and even when I was getting hurt, you pretended not to see it and walked past.”

The warm breath that had settled on her neck suddenly stopped.

“What’s different between then and now?”

Her whispering voice continued breathlessly. As Yiyeon squirmed and pushed his rock-like shoulder, for some reason, he readily gave way.

“Do you think I’d sell you off?”

“Aren’t you?”

Their eyes, with starkly different temperatures, met in the air.

“You’re not on my side. You’re not.”

“…”

“Because you hate me, you’ll just watch me get beaten up by people and cry, like last time.”

Her smooth pupils were strange. Kwon Chaewoo’s face slowly hardened at the clear distrust.

“…Yes, if it weren’t for the simpleton, I wouldn’t have been on your side.”

She hadn’t expected anything in the first place, but her heart still plummeted helplessly at his cold gaze.

“Still, come here.”

“…”

“Instead of your clothes, before I strip those bastards’ skin first, come to me.”

“…No.”

Yiyeon crumpled her face in disgust and turned her head away.

“Are you not understanding the situation?”

“I understand perfectly. My nerves are sharper than ever. So you go down. I don’t trust you either, and I don’t want to be seen. This place, next to the tree, is the safest. At least the tree won’t betray me.”

Yiyeon pressed one cheek against the rough tree bark as if it were gum.

But Kwon Chaewoo pulled her without warning. He sat the struggling Yiyeon on his thigh and spread her legs to wrap around his pelvis. No matter how much Yiyeon twisted and tried to escape, she couldn’t overcome his oppression.

Just as Kwon Chaewoo suddenly positioned himself as if to descend, Yiyeon, in her urgency, bit his Adam’s apple hard.

“Ugh…!”

The man let out a short groan. At the same time, goosebumps, like burrs, sensitively brushed against Yiyeon’s lips. His pulse was pounding wildly like a pump. At that immediate reaction, Yiyeon awkwardly pulled her lips away.

“You, you heard me, right? Don’t let me get caught too, just go down by yourself…!”

“Did I make the warning too lightly?”

His voice, which seemed to have suppressed and suppressed the urge to shout, was quite hoarse.

“I told you not to set foot here, and not to show a pathetic sight.”

The last words were what he had sneered at her once when her cousin had slapped her.

“If you break a promise, at least don’t be stubborn. Are you afraid of being caught by those bastards, but not afraid of pushing me away?”

“…”

“Yiyeon-ah, those things, although ill-mannered, are still human, but I told you I was raised like a dog from the start.”

He had an even more ferocious look than when he had mocked Yiyeon and left Hwaido. She looked at the raging man’s face with a slightly bewildered feeling.

“…Why are you angry? If anyone should be angry, it’s me, and if anyone should be scared, it’s me, what does it have to do with you?”

“Well, I’ve been wondering that all along.”

He pulled Yiyeon’s buttocks closer again, aligning their lower bodies tightly. Yiyeon flinched and averted her gaze at his heavy size between her legs.

But as he lifted Yiyeon once, his penis rubbed against her, and an explicit warmth transferred to her.

She immediately felt repulsion, but at the same time, a part of her also felt hot. Kwon Chaewoo seemed to feel the same, as his face glistened with anger, or some unnamed lust.

“Why is it that whenever I see you, I want to catch and kill someone?”

“…”

That was the scariest confession in the world, no, a threat.

“Ms. Yiyeon, you’ve always wanted me to be a kind and gentle person, but ironically, you’re the one who ruined it every time. Just looking at your heels makes my head throb with violent thoughts, and I want to throw all able-bodied men into a pit. Why am I angry?”

A cold smile touched Kwon Chaewoo’s lips.

“Because you’re getting beaten up for reasons that aren’t me.”

“I told you to wrap your legs around me,” he added, clicking his tongue. While Yiyeon blinked, frozen, Kwon Chaewoo supported her buttocks.

—Blocked.

A hunting dog reported monotonously through a tiny in-ear monitor. He paused and clicked something on the receiver.

“The villa.”

—Not yet.

“Time.”

—At least thirty minutes.

Kwon Chaewoo irritably furrowed his brow.

Inside the villa, approximately 248g of methamphetamine was being traded. Considering that a single dose is about 0.03g, it was an enormous amount that could be used by over 8,000 people simultaneously.

That was Kwon Giseok’s personal property and transaction, and Kwon Chaewoo had stripped and deployed all his hounds to secure the scene as evidence.

Therefore, this absurd game of hide-and-seek was the optimal means to buy them time, but unfortunately, So Yiyeon had appeared.

Kwon Chaewoo stared silently at her bewildered face and opened his mouth.

“Twenty minutes. Get the scene and get out within that time.”

A person’s unique voice instantly disappeared, replaced by an unfamiliar, husky tone. Yiyeon observed him, as if he was on a call with someone, with a strange fascination.

Then the man, holding Yiyeon’s slender chin in one hand, spoke as if giving an order.

“If you understand, exactly twenty minutes.”

“…”

“Just endure with me for twenty minutes.”

“Suddenly, what—”

Suddenly, he tore off his tie in one swift motion, cutting her off mid-sentence. As he impatiently ripped open his shirt, which had been buttoned all the way to his neck, one button popped off. Yiyeon looked down at the base of the tree with an anxious face, and fortunately, there was no one lingering. The man, having finished undressing, put his shirt on Yiyeon.

“Take off your shoes too. Someone will recognize them.”

But the one who truly stood out was Kwon Chaewoo himself. His long, thick collarbones, the taut shoulder muscles clinging to them, his firm, well-defined waist, his bulging external obliques. She subtly crinkled her nose.

“Are you really going to help me? How?”

Kwon Chaewoo pulled Yiyeon, who still hadn’t dispelled her suspicions, close and descended the tree in one swift motion.

As he skillfully grabbed branches and lightly dropped his body as if falling, Yiyeon instinctively clutched his naked body tightly.

“Is there anything else to do here besides fucking?”

“What…!”

“Originally, you hide a tree in the forest.”

Kwon Chaewoo, whose feet were now on the ground, brought Yiyeon’s two still-bleeding fingers to his mouth and began to suck them so hard his cheeks hollowed.