DFY Ch 29

The weekend passed, and Monday arrived. Sodam thought things would return to their peaceful routine, but Junwoo didn’t show up at work again.

“I guess the Team Leader is absent again today?”

Arin asked Assistant Manager Park Wonhee while they were eating lunch in the cafeteria.

Sodam, who had been preoccupied with Junwoo all morning, found herself perking up at the mention of his name.

“Yeah, I know. There’s a mountain of documents waiting for his approval since Friday, but he’s not answering his phone.”

Everyone swallowed the comments they wanted to make. Who would dare to question the Vice Chairman’s youngest son for being absent without leave? Even if he had been working diligently recently, he wasn’t exactly known for his dedicated attendance in the first place.

Only Director Park Jongyeol of the Planning and Coordination Department seemed to have a dark cloud hanging over him.

“Do you think he’s sick?”

Arin asked, and Sodam’s heart dropped.

“Maybe. He’s the Vice Chairman’s son, so it’s hard to keep calling him.”

“Yeah, it’s a bit awkward to keep contacting him if he doesn’t answer the first time.”

Sodam’s mind raced as she listened to her colleagues’ conversation.

Is he sick?

Could that monstrous priapism have returned?

He clearly said he was fine that day…

She couldn’t shake off a feeling of unease. Although she felt partly responsible for Junwoo’s persistent erection, she also knew that without him, she would have had to face the consequences of her broken engagement alone. She couldn’t just ignore him. He had helped her, after all.

Barely touching her food, Sodam finished her meal and returned to her desk in the HR department. Everyone else was enjoying their tea break in the lounge, leaving the Planning and Coordination Department empty.

Sodam took her phone and cautiously sent Junwoo a message.

Hello, Team Leader. Is everything alright?

As soon as she sent the message, she regretted it. Was it okay for her to contact him like this after rejecting his confession? Just because they slept together didn’t mean she had the right to interfere in his private life. Sodam wrung her hands, wondering if she had crossed a line.

Buzz.

While she was regretting the message, her phone vibrated in her hand.

Incoming call

Team Leader Yoon Junwoo

Slide to answer

Sodam’s heart pounded as she saw the caller ID. Junwoo, who hadn’t answered anyone’s calls from the company, was calling her back immediately after receiving her message.

Sodam nervously looked around. After confirming that no one else was in the Planning and Coordination Department yet, she answered the call.

“Hello, this is Wang Sodam.”

—Something’s wrong.

“Excuse me?”

—You texted me asking if something was wrong.

“Oh… Yes…”

Anxiety tightened her chest. Hearing the curtness in Junwoo’s voice gave her a premonition of what his answer would be.

—Are you curious about that?

“Is it… that problem again?”

—Yes. My dick won’t go down.

“….!”

Sodam blushed crimson at the overly vulgar word choice, especially in the office. She glanced around again. People from the General Affairs team were starting to trickle back into the Planning and Coordination Department, coffees in hand.

Afraid that Junwoo’s voice would leak out from the receiver, Sodam lowered the volume and continued speaking softly.

“Did you skip work because of that?”

—I can only go to work with a hard-on for so long. My arm’s so sore I can’t even jerk off anymore.

Sodam’s face turned as red as a beet. Jerk off. The word choice didn’t suit Junwoo’s refined appearance at all.

“Shouldn’t you see a doctor…?” Sodam asked cautiously.

—I’d rather die with a necrotic dick than go to the hospital and drop my pants in front of a doctor like this.

“You can’t do that!”

Sodam raised her voice without realizing it. People from the General Affairs team, chatting amongst themselves, glanced at her.

Sodam shrunk down in her seat, as if she had committed a crime, and whispered into the phone, “It’s too much to talk about dying.”

—Whether I live or die, what does it have to do with you, Ms. Sodam?

She couldn’t say it had nothing to do with her. After all, she was partly responsible for Junwoo’s predicament. No matter how much of a stretch it seemed, she was genuinely worried.

While she couldn’t fully understand his suffering as a woman, she at least knew his penis very well.

If it stayed erect like that all day… Junwoo might end up becoming a recluse, confined to his room, unable to have a normal social life.

“Team Leader…”

A wave of guilt washed over Sodam. Junwoo had helped her avoid taking responsibility for her broken engagement, and her conscience wouldn’t let her simply walk away after he’d helped her.

—Let’s end this call.

Junwoo, who hadn’t answered anyone else’s calls, had answered hers only to be curt throughout the entire conversation. It meant he was that upset because of her.

“…Is there anything I can do to help?”

Sodam blurted out the words without even thinking. She knew that the only way she could help Junwoo was through sex, but she couldn’t just ignore his plight.

—…

Junwoo fell silent after her question. Sodam regretted saying anything and tried to end the call.

“I’ve crossed a line. I’m sorry. I’ll hang up now.”

—Wait.

Junwoo stopped her just as she was about to disconnect.

“Yes?”

—Come to my house after work today.

“…To your house, Team Leader?”

Sodam gulped. She knew exactly what would happen if she went to Junwoo’s house. And since she had offered to help, it was practically the same as agreeing to have sex with him.

To fuck, or not to fuck, that is the question!

Sodam was caught in a Hamlet-like dilemma.

—Yes.

“…I don’t think that’s possible.”

—…

Junwoo didn’t respond to her refusal. Just then, her colleagues started returning to the HR department and taking their seats.

Sodam hung up the phone. She regretted offering her help when she didn’t mean it.

✦ ✦ ✦

Sodam had Junwoo’s penis dangling in the balance.

He’d thought she wasn’t interested in him at all, but then he received her message. He’d ignored all of Director Park Jongyeol’s calls, but the moment Sodam’s message arrived, his heart fluttered and he called her immediately.

He was touched that Sodam was worried about his situation. When she asked if there was anything she could do to help, he’d asked her to come over, but, as expected, she flatly refused.

It was only natural. Sodam had already made her feelings clear to him twice. It was his own fault for clinging to a woman who had drawn a clear line without giving him any room for misunderstanding.

Junwoo rolled over in bed, his erection still throbbing. He’d given up on trying to subdue it. Even if he ejaculated through masturbation, it would just get hard again the next day, and it wouldn’t go down until he did. It felt pointless, like pouring water into a bottomless pit.

The heat from his penis spread throughout his body. The blood that should have been circulating was concentrated in his groin, leaving him feeling exhausted.

He closed his eyes, groaning in his half-conscious state. When he opened them again, it was already evening.

Another day had passed like this.

It felt like his life was ending this way too.

Ding-dong.

Just then.

Ding-dong! Ding-dong!

The insistent ringing of the doorbell made Junwoo sit up.

“Is that Mother…?”

He was at a loss for what to do. If his mother found out about his burning body, she would take him straight to the hospital. He couldn’t bear the shame of having an erection in front of a doctor, let alone his mother.

And that wasn’t the only problem. If he opened the door with an erection, whoever was outside would see him in a compromising position.

Junwoo frantically searched for pants that would conceal his lower half. But there was no way he owned anything baggy enough to hide his enormous penis.

He had no choice but to put on a suit and use the jacket to cover himself. He figured if he pretended he had just gotten home from work, his mother wouldn’t notice his predicament.

“What brings you here without calling…?”

Junwoo froze in shock as he opened the door.

It wasn’t his mother standing at the entrance, but Sodam.