AR Ch 7 part 2

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“你还喜欢我吗.”

Do you still like me?

Seokju’s Adam’s apple bobbed up and down. He kept his gaze on Jiwon as he tilted his head. He let out a sigh. When she felt his hot breath against her cheek, her body trembled. A little while later, Seokju answered her in a low voice.

“Your pronunciation is dog shit. I can’t understand what you’re saying.”

The thick tension in the air finally relaxed. Jiwon let out a sigh of relief.

“I can’t help it. I never properly learned Chinese…”

Her open lips were covered by his. Jiwon closed her trembling eyelids and embraced his scorching body. The rough waves that rocked her body grew gentle. After tangling his tongue with hers, Seokju pulled away. His lips kissed her jaw, her ear, her neck… Then they followed the line of her body down to her breasts. She felt as if her whole body was turning into honey with his kisses. She felt like she was melting.

Seokju’s swollen cock began to thrust in and out of her entrance. When Jiwon pressed her nails down onto his back, Seokju began to press that specific spot even harder. Jiwon’s inner thighs began to shake. Her legs bobbed in the air as if they were at a loss for where to go. Seokju took her legs and wrapped them around his hips. Jiwon clung her whole body onto his.

“Good, hnng… Feels… good, Seokju.”

Seokju pulled out halfway before plunging back inside with quick, shallow thrusts. Before her dizzying climax was finished, another wave of ecstasy surged through her. It was only a matter of time before she fell off the edge of the cliff.

“Seokju… Hnng… nng…! Haa… Hnnnng!!”

Her body began to shake uncontrollably. Jiwon tried to hold back her moans by closing her mouth, but she was not in the right mind to do so.

“If you hold back your voice, I’ll end all negotiations here.”

Jiwon gazed at him and widened her eyes. Her love-drunk eyes tried to observe whether he was being serious or not. Seokju’s breaths were becoming more strained. If he decided to accept her request, if she could pull him out of Hanseong, anything was okay.

“I’m going to come inside. If you let even one drop escape… that will also be the end.”

“Okay… Got it.”

Jiwon moaned as she raised her hips. She embraced him in a tight hug and squeezed her entire body around his. Seokju let out a shaky breath as he plunged deep a few more times. Suddenly, his body stiffened. He ejaculated with a long, animalistic groan. By the time Seokju finally pulled away, Jiwon’s breathing had almost returned to normal.

“…Seokju.”

Jiwon lay on the bed as she watched Seokju get up.

“You’re going to run away, right?”

Her resolve had only become more firm after she had met with her mother. She was determined to protect him no matter what this time. She made a promise to herself. She would never show him her back ever again.

“I’m not going to run away.”

Seokju picked up his crumpled shirt and put it back on as he looked down at her. When he sat back down on the bed, the old mattress springs creaked in protest. Jiwon was still unable to move. He slowly rubbed his thumb against her lips. Possibly due to his rough kiss, her lips slightly stung. Seokju continued in a low voice.

“Instead, I will make sure to send off Choi ChulYoung. You said that’s what you want.”

“But…”

Chief Hong would not be satisfied with just Choi ChulYoung. He would only rest once Choi ChulYoung and Seokju were captured and taken in. When Jiwon couldn’t find a way to reply, Seokju ripped off some wet wipes from a package that was lying around. Jiwon watched as he cleaned his groin with an indifferent expression on his face. Her face flushed. She looked away to pretend she hadn’t seen it, but when their eyes met, he looked back at her with the same indifferent look on his face. 

“What are you looking at?”

“You’re the one who’s looking.”

Seokju pulled out a few new wet wipes and slipped his hand between her legs. It seemed like he was going to clean her up.

“Don’t!”

Jiwon raised her knees and turned her hips away. When Seokju saw this, he paused for a moment before bursting into laughter. This was the first real smile she had seen from Seokju ever since they’d reunited.

“Do the other policemen also know how stupidly you act?”

“I don’t really care if you’re laughing at me, but I can’t change my posture. So you should keep your promise, too.”

Seokju’s hand gently grazed the skin between her legs before tapping his fingers as if he were playing the piano. His fingers traveled up to her lower abdomen. When he pressed down, her body collapsed as if it had suddenly switched off.

“Do you trust me?”

Jiwon quickly covered the area between her legs with her hands. She blocked her entrance so that none of the traces left behind by Seokju could escape. She made a confession to Seokju.

“I’m ovulating today, Seokju.”

“…So?”

“I’m really excited to see what’s going to happen from now on. If I get pregnant, I’m going to keep it.”

“What?”

“I’m going to give birth. To your kid.”

Although she didn’t want it to, her voice shook. Silence settled in the room. Jiwon stared at him with a flushed face as she gulped. His sharp eyebrows frowned as he observed her. Then he slowly opened his mouth.

“…Who’s going to let you get pregnant?”

She tried to think of a reply, but there was no need. Seokju laid her back down again and kissed her. His thick staff slid back in between her legs and entered inside. The fluids that had been trickling out of her entrance were pushed back deep inside. The sound of the rain falling outside the window was refreshing.

“To me, when I confess to someone that I like them, it means that I want to sleep with them. It means that I can touch your breasts, have sex with you, get you pregnant, and ultimately own everything in your life. Do you still want me to confess?”

Did Seokju understand what she was trying to say? As she listened to the sound of his hot breaths and the falling rain, Jiwon closed her eyes.

* * *

Outside the police station, the sound of crying cicadas filled the air. Jiwon clicked her ballpoint pen on and off against her cheek. The eyes of Chief Hong and the surrounding detectives were grave as they stared at her.

“Is that true?”

When she saw their piercing eyes filled with suspicion, Jiwon leaned back against her chair and answered in a curt voice.

“Yessir.”

“Shin Seokju is going to betray Choi ChulYoung and hand you the evidence of all the drug dealings?”

“That was your plan, Chief.”

When Jiwon twirled the pen around her fingers as she answered nonchalantly, one of the team members frowned and asked.

“Didn’t you say that you weren’t able to have a proper word with Shin Seokju when you went to go see him with Chief Hong because of Choi ChulYoung’s unexpected appearance?”

“Shin Seokju came to see me that night.”

The team members’ eyes bulged at the news.

“Is that true?”

“Yessir.”

“Why?”

“He said he’s in love. With me.”

Jiwon calmly opened her mouth without any shame. Of course, Seokju hadn’t said those exact words, but it wasn’t something she could only know through his words, so it wasn’t technically a lie either.

“Ah, fuck. Stop joking around!”

The detective threw down his documents as he shouted out. If she wasn’t careful, they were going to grab her by the nape of her neck.

“Shin Seokju changed his mind just because of a woman? Are you sure you don’t suffer from delusions of grandeur?”

“Fine. Don’t believe me. Ah… my thigh feels stiff.”

“Wh… What is this punk saying?!”

In the middle of his colleagues stuttering in disbelief, Chief Hong was the only one who listened to her words in earnest. His wrinkled eyes pierced her with a fierce look.

“In two weeks, on Wednesday. Mukpo Harbor. The exchange will be made at 2 AM?”

When Jiwon nodded, Chief Hong grabbed the hand of a nearby subordinate detective. It was a man with thick eyebrows and a beard, Detective Oh.

“What are Choi ChulYoung’s current movements?”

When Chief Hong asked, Detective Oh opened the file in his hand.

“Last week, he went to visit a casino in Gangwon Province. That same night, he met up with some administrators from the Department of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries for a secret meeting.”

It was information that supported Jiwon’s claim. Chief Hong’s eyes gleamed as he looked at her.

“The exchange date and location are a sure thing, right?”

The other detectives weren’t the only ones who found it hard to believe that Jiwon, a new recruit in the team, had dug up evidence of Hanseong’s drug trafficking operation. As expected, Chief Hong was also skeptical.

“He said that the goods will arrive on the same day the resort has its grand opening. He said there will be enough meth to distribute domestically for the next three years. It’s definitely big enough to draw out both Choi ChulYoung and Shin Seokju.”

“Ah… Chief. Something feels off about all this.”

Detective Oh was blatantly in disbelief. Jiwon looked at Chief Hong and blinked.

“You really didn’t tell your team members anything? About how Shin Seokju and I lived together when we were young?”

 “Wh… What?”

Jiwon looked around at the bewildered detectives and clicked her tongue. How could they call themselves detectives without doing a proper background check?

“That’s the reason why you put me on this team, Chief. You wanted me to seduce him with my body.”

Chief Hong angrily clicked his tongue before shouting out.

“So what is it that Shin Seokju wants? I’m sure it’s not merely because he wants to sleep with a detective!”

“Of course not.”

They’d already done plenty of that already. Jiwon swallowed those words and pointed her pen at Chief Hong.

“Just as you said, once you arrest Choi ChulYoung, he plans on moving up to the top of the organization. So all he wants is for our team to turn a blind eye to him once we arrive at the drug smuggling headquarters.”

So that Shin Seokju can run far, far away.

“That fucking bastard’s got big dreams.”

“That guy has had a lot of guts and big aspirations ever since he was young.”

In the midst of all the detectives’ cursing, Jiwon met Chief Hong’s eyes and raised her hand.

“Chief! Can you and I talk about something privately?”

“What is it?”

Once they exited the building, Jiwon heard Chief Hong click his e-cigarette on. She handed him a few photographs. They were of Seokju receiving an envelope from Choi ChulYoung.

“Shin Seokju, that bastard, had it all along. Choi ChulYoung also needed information regarding your weakness, Chief. But if this all gets exposed, what crime did Yejin commit to deserve this? Her father’s insurance didn’t cover her mother’s hospital and medicine fees, so he had no other choice but to take the money. She’s already sensitive enough as it is due to being in the middle of her adolescent years. Do you think she’ll be able to easily accept her father’s corruption?”

“Are you blackmailing me right now?”

“I wouldn’t dare.”

Jiwon frowned as if she heard something unpleasant and shook her head.

“I believe that you, Chief Hong, are living a better life than my father did. My father… how should I put this… was not one to lick his wounds.”

The Chief Hong Jiwon knew was a man with a strong mentality who could endure a few gulps of bitter water.

“Chief, you should get promoted to the superintendent’s position within five years. That way, you can support people like my dad who are hands-on in the field. In order for that to happen, you need results.”

“So?”

“Let’s capture Choi ChulYoung according to Shin Seokju’s plan. And once Shin Seokju rises up the ranks in the organization, let’s use that to our advantage and get him once the opportunity strikes. Because the more we dig into Hanseong, the more criminals will come out.”

Chief Hong looked at Jiwon and smiled bitterly. He pulled out his vibrating cellphone from his jacket pocket. Jiwon watched as he checked the message and popped her head closer. The message came from ‘Unknown Number’ and contained the location and the time that Jiwon had told him earlier.

“What are you doing?”

“Isn’t sharing information all a part of team play?”

“The person in charge has a responsibility to lower the possibility of danger as much as possible. Mind your own business.”

She knew he had a spy inside the organization. Either way, now that her information had been corroborated, she was certain that Chief Hong would support her plan. Jiwon stared at him, and he gazed back at her as he put his hand on his hips.

“Detective Park. I’m going to be direct, so answer me honestly.”

“Yes, sir.”

“Do you trust that Seokju punk?”

Jiwon bit her lips at Chief Hong’s sudden question before pointing to a tall skyscraper with her finger.

“If my trust for you was the first floor of that building, my trust in him would be the roof?”

“Even though he said those vulgar words about you and your father in front of Choi ChulYoung?”

“He’s always been good at lying. He’s different from me.”

Chief Hong scoffed. He gazed at a tree where a cicada was loudly crying and spoke in a soft voice.

“Did Seokju ever say anything about Choi ChulYoung to you?”

“I already told you everything. Three years worth of meth is going to arrive for this transaction.”

“Not about that.”

“…Then what else is there?”

Chief Hong’s small eyes blinked. He let out a short sigh and opened his mouth a beat later.

“The one who made your father like that was that bastard, Choi ChulYoung.”

Jiwon’s face grew pale.

“What are you talking about all of a sudden?”

She wanted to make some sort of counterargument, but the expression on Chief Hong’s face was incredibly sincere and grave. She had never seen it like this before.

“That is the reason why I need to catch Choi ChulYoung no matter what. Because I was there when Detective Park-nim passed away like that. Of course, I was hiding and couldn’t do anything, but… Back then, my wife was pregnant, so I was too scared.”

As she looked into his bloodshot eyes, Jiwon was certain that he was telling the truth. She recalled how he was drunk when he came to mourn at her father’s wake. Her mouth ran dry, and her heart began to thud inside her chest.

“He’s a nasty man who started out by selling organs on the black market. There’s still a high chance that he’s still in that business. Those kinds of bastards only see humans as bags of meat that they can sell for money, so their way of thinking is completely different from ours. They’re basically identical to pure beasts. No, even beasts won’t do the things they do.”

Bastards. Punks. The way Chief Hong spoke about them made her feel unpleasant as it was, but he had even gone as far as to use his masked question to shoot a pointed arrow at her.

“What’s more likely? Seokju not knowing this piece of information? Or did he know this from the very beginning?”

“…What is it that you want to say?”

“I’m just wondering what are the chances that this is all a coincidence? The fact that he found Choi ChulYoung as soon as he was discharged from his military service. Him hiding his identity as he worked inside that criminal organization. And that I… No, as soon as you stretched out your hand, he sided with the police as if he’d been waiting for it.”

Jiwon felt as if the ground underneath her feet was growing warm, and her breaths became strained. She glared at Chief Hong and chewed on her lips.

“…I guess the fastest way for me to answer that is to ask the person himself. No matter how much we try to pick apart Shin Seokju’s head, we won’t find the answer ourselves.”

As the humid air stuck to her skin, a bead of sweat trickled unpleasantly down her neck. She felt dizzy.

“Yeah, you’re right. I brought you in front of Shin Seokju, but it was confusing.”

Chief Hong frowned underneath the sunlight as he gazed at her. His dry skin was filled with wrinkles.

“I’m certain that the punk is still concerned about you, but… I can’t tell if it’s because he likes you or because he hates you. So I began to consider the possibility that it was both. If he likes you but also hates you, what will a punk like Shin Seokju do? He opened up his heart to people he thought of as his family, but he only ended up getting despised and kicked out for something that wasn’t even his fault. With his self-esteem at rock bottom, for a Chinese son-of-a-bitch like Shin Seokju whose pride can pierce the sky, what would he do?”

Jiwon felt as if her heart was being slashed by Chief Hong’s sharp words.

“…Please do not say such reckless things when you don’t even know anything about Seokju.”

“Ever since Shin Seokju’s father got arrested for the first time when he was eight years old, do you know how many counselors he’s seen? It’s all thanks to Detective Park’s concern for him that the son-of-a-bitch didn’t end up in juvenile detention and managed to live a relatively normal life! I read his files over and over again, memorizing every word!”

“I told you not to talk such bullshit after only reading a few reports. I don’t really care if I have to resign from the police force for beating you up, Ahjussi…”

Jiwon’s clenched fists began to tremble. She used all her strength to refrain from shouting out.

“Back then… after everything happened at my dad’s wake… he went on his knees and begged my mom to let him stay around until my dad was cremated. You were there, so you should know this very well. So how can that kind of guy stay by Choi ChulYoung’s side after finding out the truth? No, you said that he knew from the start and approached him first? Haha. If that’s the case…”

Jiwon was talking like someone who had lost her mind when she suddenly stopped. Her head throbbed, and her heart felt like it was going to burst out of her throat. If by any chance… Seokju had knowingly approached Choi ChulYoung, there was only one answer.

“If that was the case…?”

When Chief Hong prodded her to finish her thought, Jiwon glared up at him as she clenched her fists.

“It makes sense if he did that to avenge my dad in place of his retarded daughter.”

Chief Hong sucked on his e-cigarette before breathing out the smoke. Then he nodded.

“Yeah, I saw that as one possibility. That’s why I went to see him. I thought it was a hill worth climbing. Because in my eyes, back then, he was being sincere.”

“Fuck. Then what is it that you want to say, Chief…!”

Jiwon drew in a breath as she watched him through her disheveled hair. Her neck and shoulders were covered in bandages. She could still clearly feel Seokju’s lips on her skin. The marks underneath her clothes were even more of a sight to see.

“Don’t trust Seokju too much. With your personality… he’s more than capable of using you.”

“…That’s kind of funny coming from you, Chief.”

The muscles on Jiwon’s stiff face cried out in pain as she laughed. She didn’t want to be shaken like this. She tried to pretend she didn’t care, but it was too difficult.

“Fine, let’s assume you’re right. Let’s say Seokju became a gangster to avenge Detective Park.”

“He does a lot of things that defy expectations. I know because I’ve experienced them myself.”

“Okay. Let’s say that’s all true. But if that’s the case…”

He murmured as if talking to himself, but the following words pierced Jiwon’s heart.

“Do you really think there hasn’t been a single opportunity where Seokju could have killed Choi ChulYoung?”

“……”

He glanced at Jiwon’s stiff face and patted her shoulder. Then he whispered in a low voice.

“I’ll give you twenty four more hours, so make sure to figure out his motives by then. If Seokju is truly willing to come over to our side, I will personally make sure he does not get prosecuted.”

“……”

“If this case goes south, you’re not the only one who will have to resign. I will, too. If I want to continue to send Yejin to the tutoring center, I’ll have to quit and gather enough money to open up a fried chicken shop.”

Jiwon leaned her back against the hard wall and tiredly closed her eyes. The sound of the crying cicadas pierced her ears.