Flowers Are Bait Novel - Chapter 66

His breath, tickling the crown of her head, paused for a moment.

Yiyeon just rolled her eyes, gazing silently at his subtly trembling Adam’s apple. A taut silence filled the space between them, and the man’s tongue nervously grazed his dry lips. It was then that Yiyeon, holding her breath, waited for his answer.

“Yiyeon, are you hurt anywhere?”

“…”

At that single, calm remark, the strangely swirling atmosphere scattered in an instant. Was it just her imagination, or did it feel like Kwon Chaewoo was deliberately changing the subject? He even stepped back, creating distance.

“Does it hurt here?”

He reached a hand towards Yiyeon’s stomach, then abruptly clenched his fist. It seemed he was quite bothered by having pushed her abdomen when he kicked the backpack.

“…I’m fine.”

Yiyeon stared intently at Kwon Chaewoo, unlike her usual self. Her two requests, made with every ounce of courage she could muster, were rejected without a second thought. Her cheeks burned, but an odd stubbornness began to creep up on her.

Not this, not that, then—

“Don’t get a job.”

Her voice was small but firm.

Kwon Chaewoo tilted his head slightly and scratched the end of his eyebrow. He was inwardly flustered by Yiyeon’s unpredictable behavior.

“You don’t want your husband to earn money?”

“It’s no good, Kwon Chaewoo, you keep getting hurt whenever you go into the mountains.”

“I think that’s something I should be saying.”

He glared disapprovingly at Yiyeon’s hospital gown.

“You don’t have to earn money. I may not be a successful tree doctor, but I won’t let you starve, Kwon Chaewoo.”

Her determined eyes shone like dew.

Kwon Chaewoo couldn’t look at her innocent sincerity for long and, for some reason, acted distractedly, like someone being chased. He would suddenly turn his head, nervously rake his hand through his hair, or place his clasped hands on the crown of his head and stare at the ceiling for a moment.

He closed his eyes tightly and mumbled something. But it was too quiet for Yiyeon to hear; at a glance, it just looked like his lips were moving.

“…Yiyeon, don’t make me into an incompetent man.”

The man, having calmed his fervor, steadied himself and opened his eyes.

“We’re not just living for a year or two. We have to look at the long term.”

At his words, Yiyeon flinched. Lowering her head, she listlessly tugged at the man’s sleeve.

“Even if… I throw a tantrum?”

“A tantrum?”

“Really, truly, if I ask you to just stay home because you don’t need to work?”

“…”

“Still, you have to go out?”

Her gaze, hesitant as she looked at Kwon Chaewoo, wavered.

“The content is different, but this is already my third request.”

Kwon Chaewoo looked with strange eyes at Yiyeon, who was clutching his sleeve and constantly fidgeting.

It was similar to, yet different from, when she first feared him. She was still scared, but it didn’t seem to be because of him. Rather than trying to pull away, it seemed she was anxious because she couldn’t burrow in.

It was the moment the long, long wait finally came to an end. As soon as he realized that fact, Kwon Chaewoo immediately became a burning fuse.

“Are you nagging me right now?”

He narrowed his eyes, ignoring his throbbing pulse.

“Are you saying I shouldn’t listen to my wife?”

The man barely managed to hide his impatient expression, but he couldn’t control the amusement in his voice.

“What’s so good about me just staying home? Are you going to keep ‘pounding rice cakes’ for me?”

“…Huh?”

“I’m curious how much Yiyeon can ‘tease’ me.”

At his interviewer-like demeanor, Yiyeon’s shoulders stiffened for a moment. Th-this isn’t right? She blinked rapidly.

“There has to be that much merit for me to stay quietly at home. I only have my body, so this is the only way I can negotiate. I might be going out to catch wild animals from now on, so if you want to tie down such a vigorous husband, Yiyeon, you’ll have to show some tricks.”

“…What, how, how many, how many times do you want?”

“The number of times doesn’t matter, and I’ll be the one to finish it, day and night, every day.”

“…Kwon Chaewoo, there’s a reason people only work five days a week. Ex-excessive is—”

“You said you’d lock me up where I couldn’t see a single ray of light, so why are you so soft-hearted?”

“…”

“I’m going to decide based on what you do, Yiyeon.”

Yiyeon was utterly dumbfounded, her mouth agape.

‘When did I ever say that?!’

Because of Kwon Chaewoo, who was strangely distorting what was, at most, a childish plea, she unconsciously glanced at the exit door. Then, a suddenly lowered voice warned her.

“If you’re hurt anywhere, tell me now.”

The topic, which she thought he had brought up to change the subject, was repeated, but the feeling was distinctly different.

Kwon Chaewoo walked towards the sliding door, securely locked it, and returned. Watching his leisurely gait, her heart pounded wildly. The man sat on the bed and patted his thigh.

“Come up on me.”

He stared intently at Yiyeon and took off his hospital gown. Perhaps because of the large bandage compressing one shoulder, his flat abdominal muscles below it were immediately visible. Yiyeon’s neck flushed, and she hesitated, but eventually, her legs moved.

“Earlier, from the moment you stirred me up asking for a hug—”

As she straddled his thigh, her hips were strongly pulled in, and her waist pressed tightly against him. His already hard penis was now firmly poking somewhere between her legs.

“—It was like this.”

Close up, at a similar eye level, their gazes met.

“I even got turned on by Yiyeon’s loose hospital gown, thinking it was pajamas.”

Kwon Chaewoo pressed his thumb firmly against Yiyeon’s face, which was scratched here and there from being scraped by stone fragments. She winced at the stinging sensation, but he didn’t budge.

“I held back once. Because if we had sex in the hospital room, I was afraid Yiyeon wouldn’t be able to make a sound and would just cower.”

“…”

“But then you throw a tantrum?”

Finally, the corners of his mouth, revealing his true nature, curved upwards.

“…Kwon Chaewoo, you don’t know anything.”

Yiyeon’s clear eyes shimmered with moisture. With trembling hands, she grabbed the man’s face and pulled him closer.

Before their lips met, she saw Kwon Chaewoo’s hard pupils widen. He seemed utterly disarmed, as if he had dropped everything he was holding, by her dizzyingly approaching lips.

Hot breath spreads thickly. As Yiyeon pressed her soft lips firmly, his scent rushed into her nose, disorienting her. She tried sucking his lower lip once, mimicking his usual actions.

Kwon Chaewoo twitched, reacting immediately. She carefully licked his lips, which she sometimes thought were sensual, with her tongue and rubbed them freely. Then, hurried breaths escaped, and her gripped waist tightened painfully.

Yiyeon’s kiss was slow and deliberate, enough to drive one crazy with anticipation. It was completely different from how Kwon Chaewoo would hurriedly push and take, as if quenching a thirst.

Nevertheless, Yiyeon felt her neck grow hot and heat collect in her lower abdomen. All because of Kwon Chaewoo, who was groaning even though she was only lingering on his lips.

Every time she pressed and sucked his lips, he would twitch his large upper body as if hit by an electric shock.

Then, the moment she parted Kwon Chaewoo’s lips and thrust her tongue in, the flesh that had been heated all this time, as if breaking through bars, snatched Yiyeon’s.

“…!”

A hot breath hit her face somewhere, and the man let out a long groan. He savagely ravaged Yiyeon’s mouth as if he had been waiting. The tickling sensation gradually intensified, becoming more tantalizing.

“Ugh…! Haa…”

Her waist arched involuntarily. Her mind felt like it would fly away from the sticky, sucking kiss.

Kwon Chaewoo firmly grasped her soft buttocks and pressed his penis close. Wet sounds escaped every time their touching lips hurriedly met and parted.

“Hoo…”

He pressed down and sucked her soft tongue, then attacked from another direction. When his fiery tongue pressed against the soft mucous membrane inside her cheek, goosebumps inevitably rose.

Yiyeon tried to clumsily follow his movements, but the more she did, the more Kwon Chaewoo rampaged.

He lowered his lips and sucked on her earlobe and outer ear. At the sudden chill, she tried to push Kwon Chaewoo away by putting her hands on his shoulders, but the bandage bothered her, so she withdrew them. He lowered his lips again and bit her neck, and Yiyeon let out a moan.

“Ha-eut…!”

Every time he toyed with her delicate skin, the area between her legs strangely throbbed softly. Finally, as she fidgeted and showed discomfort, his hot hand naturally slipped under her top.

At that moment, the man stopped abruptly, as if by magic.

“What about your underwear?”

His bloodshot eyes stared at Yiyeon accusingly.

“Well… I didn’t have any clean underwear, so I just…”

“Below too?”

“…Yes.”

As she lowered her gaze, she saw Kwon Chaewoo’s jawline bulge and then recede.

Soon, he grasped her soft breasts and kneaded them like a hungry man. He greedily lifted the overflowing flesh from below her breasts, which visibly swelled from her ribcage, and sucked her neck even more ravenously.

Kwon Chaewoo, who had briefly pulled his lips away, raised the hem of Yiyeon’s clothes with heated eyes, and she responded by raising both arms.

Before her eyes, her pale breasts swayed as if spilling out.

“Haa… Fuck…”

He swallowed her bulging nipples as if possessed.