chapter 17.1

The comfort was so sweet enough to fill the empty heart. As Geonwoo deeply overlapped her lips, the sweet peach scent spread to the tip of his nose. As the keen senses awakened everywhere, the gap between Geonwoo’s eyes narrowed. Originally, he was only thinking of kissing her lightly, but contrary to the plan, the back Yeonhwa’s head gradually gained strength as if she responded to Geonwoo’s lips. She turned her head to the right without removing her lips so that her lips could not escape his.

Her messy breath coming out tickled Geonwoo’s lips. He put his arms around Yeonhwa’s waist, trembling softly, taking her in. When Geonwoo’s breath poured through her lips, Yeonhwa realized it wasn’t just a light kiss. Her heart, which had stopped rapping, thumped loudly, and her hands were floating in the air. When Geonwoo’s arm, which was wrapped around her waist, hugged herself even stronger, Yeonhwa gathered her eyebrows and poured out the breath she was holding.

A parr convulsion occurred on the inner lid of Yeonhwa, which had been sitting halfway down by her whole body pressure. When Geonwoo raised his teeth and bit Yeonhwa’s lips, her lips opened up and created a space for him to enter. Her eyes with a hazy light were obscured by her eyelids, and the cold air hit her lips. However, just as she was about to close her eyes and surrendered herself to the sensation, her short kiss had ended.

Yeonhwa suddenly felt embarrassed and closed her shiny lips with the back of her hand. Stillness lasted for quite some time, then she took her hand off her lips and stared at Geonwoo. There has never been a consolation between the two. And they never kissed. She was just trying to share her warmth, but her lips were taken away. Yeonhwa wanted to say a lot, but she held it back. It was because when she opened her mouth, she felt like she would uncover a secret that was not revealed until now.

“It’s comforting.”

Geonwoo’s voice, neither high nor low, fell in the quiet living room. And that was it. He left the room without commenting or expressed his feelings. Yeonhwa, who was left alone, relaxed her legs and sat down on the sofa. Should she be glad to hear that the kiss just consoled him? Shouldn’t he ask if he took her kiss without permission?

Today wasn’t the first time their lips touched. There was one time at the wedding shoot, and just a few days ago when she saw him off to work, she accidentally kissed his lips. But at that time, each other’s breath was not entangled. She couldn’t even feel how soft his lips were. Yeonhwa asked, curling her bitten red lips in.

‘’How is that comfort?”

It was clear that it was satisfying the desire to comfort.

He was a man who hadn’t touched her body for the past year they’ve been together. Yeonhwa wanted to know what kind of change of heart had happened to him. But before she pretended to lose her memory, they didn’t mention anything about kissing for comfort. Yeonhwa, who touched her lips with her fingertips, looked toward the room where Geonwoo was in, as if she wanted to do this comfort, many times more.

Yeonhwa hated herself for trying to satisfy her desires from him, who had a difficult time today. She shook her head from side to side, struggled quite a bit to calm her beating heart. As time passed and she went to the bedroom, Geonwoo was already lying in bed sleeping. After changing to her pajamas in the bathroom, Yeonhwa quietly rolled up the blanket and lay on the bed.

Unlike Yeonhwa, Geonwoo’s heart was constantly rising and falling to see if she was sleeping. After 12 o’clock, Yeonhwa, who fell asleep with her back turned to him. Geonwoo turned his gaze to the side and looked at Yeonhwa, who had already fallen asleep. With a long sigh out of his lips, he muttered, pressing his forehead with his palm. “I am crazy.” He was crazy for his wife so he kissed her lips recklessly. Yeonhwa’s face, who couldn’t say a word due to embarrassment, appeared in front of his eyes. ‘I shouldn’t do that again’. Even though he thought so, Geonwoo couldn’t forget the warmth of Yeonhwa’s lips that remained on his lips. Then he doubted himself if he could stop wanting to kiss her again.

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Today was the day of the delayed planning team meeting. The nervous employees’ facial expressions were the same as three days ago, but Geonwoo was strangely different from before. As he touched his lips with his finger with a small smile, he seemed to be immersed in a deep thought. The team leader pointed at Go Joon’s work on the screen and spoke.

“It received great attention in the French art world five years ago for its brilliant colors and unique coloring methods. Visitors to the private exhibition in New York four months ago, have been praised by many countries.”

Geonwoo, who had removed his hand from his lips, looked over the report on the table. Among the portrait paintings that Go Joon drew two years ago, there was a work called ‘Father’, and the black and white painting still remained in Geonwoo’s mind. After seeing the painting, he became interested in an artist named Go Joon, and while on a business trip to France, Geonwoo took a break from his busy time to visit Go Joon’s solo exhibition. After seeing it, he wanted to meet Go Joon in person, but meeting the well hidden artist was near impossible.

“Can you contact artist Go Joon?”

He was the most suitable artist for the project. But Geonwoo wondered how the staff could find out where Go Joon was, which he had not even figured out.

“I heard that he entered Korea some time ago.”

“Are you sure? I don’t want to waste time on rumors.”

The team leader stiffened his voice at Geonwoo’s sharply flying words.

“ It wasn’t rumors, I personally checked. We will do our best to get in touch with him as soon as possible.”

“Good.”

Geonwoo nodded once and stood up from the seat.

“Is three days enough?”

The team leader opened his mouth as he saw Geonwoo’s glances.

“If you give me a week I’ll try hard and run with my feet.”

“I look forward to the good news in a week then.”

After Geonwoo left the conference room, the employee’s anger poured out.

“Team leader, we don’t have any information right now. How do we find artist Go Joon in a week?”

“That’s right, I don’t know if we can even find him after a month.”

“We don’t know the artist’s phone number, and I think this is too reckless, sir.”

The team leader did not back down despite the voices of the employees complaining.

“We can do it, that’s our team’s creed from today. Since Go Joon is still in Korea, I told you not to give up.”

Unlike the motivated team leader, the employees have already lost their fighting spirits.