TMWCL Extra 2 part 2

A long while later, the car finally arrived at a luxury villa built on top of a very expensive plot of land in Seoul.

It looked magnificent from the outside, but the entrance and the corridors that led up to the house were obviously built with careful planning. Following Haegun’s orders, Junghan went home as soon as they arrived. Haegun then carried Yeoreum in his arms and entered the house.

Haegun headed straight for the bedroom and laid Yeoreum down on the bed. Yeoreum slowly blinked as she woke up. She opened her mouth and spoke up in a groggy voice.

“…We’re here?”

”Yeah.”

”I want to take a shower.”

”Do you want me to wash you?”

“If we go in together, it won’t end with us just washing. If we do it more than this, I don’t think I’ll be able to walk. I just want to shower by myself. Can you find me something to wear when I’m done?”

”Alright.”

After the vigorous sex they had in the car, Yeoreum fell asleep as if she had fainted from exhaustion. As he brought her inside the house, he told himself he would not push her any farther tonight. Even though she had grown extremely exhausted from being pestered by him all weekend long, his body seemed to react to her before his head did, as if it wanted to be rewarded for the time apart.

Yeoreum yawned as she entered the bathroom that was connected to the bedroom. Haegun also took a shower in a different bathroom. Both of their clothes and bodies were covered in each other’s fluids, and they needed to change into a new set of clothes once they were done. Wearing a white t-shirt and black sweatpants, he pulled out a large t-shirt for Yeoreum to wear and walked into the bedroom.

”…Ah, that’s…”

Yeoreum came out wearing a bathrobe and her hair wrapped in a towel. When she saw him, she was surprised.

”That’s from my bucket list, right? Having a date at home with Ahjussi while wearing sweatpants.”

”Who knows.”

He tossed Yeoreum a black t-shirt. When she saw it, she laughed.

“And this is the one where I wear my boyfriend’s clothes?”

“It looks like Yeoreum wants to walk around in the nude.”

“Ah, okay. I’ll stop.”

Yeoreum glanced at him before heading back into the bathroom to change. When she came out, she was wearing the t-shirt. It covered her bottom and her thighs to a certain point, so it looked like a dress on her. Yeoreum looked around at her surroundings.

“Where is the hair dryer?”

“Sit down.”

He gestured to the chair he had placed next to the bed with his chin. Yeoreum obediently sat down. Haegun perched himself on the bed and picked up the hair dryer. Then he began to dry Yeoreum’s hair.

Even though his hair wasn’t completely dried yet, he dried her hair in earnest. He didn’t have any hair serum, and his hands were a bit rough and clumsy, but his attention was warm. Whenever his hand began to move the way it did when he dried his own hair, he’d remember that he was drying Yeoreum’s hair and adjust it accordingly.

I think this was also on the bucket list… With that thought, Yeoreum began to drowse in her chair, her head bobbing up and down. The dryer promptly turned off, and Yeoreum woke up.

“Do you want to go to sleep?”

“A little later. I want to finish looking around.”

She yawned and stretched. Her entire body was throbbing, but it wasn’t so bad that she couldn’t wander around.

“That’s the dressing room over there, right?”

“Yeah.”

Yeoreum walked to the dressing room. It was only full of suits. Shirts, watches, and even neckties… Among the neckties, Yeoreum saw the tiger tie placed in an area that was easy to see. She chuckled. Haegun languidly crossed his arm and watched Yeoreum from the dressing room door.

“Nothing to see, right?”

“Yeah. Other than the tiger necktie, it doesn’t feel like there are any traces of life.”

“The house is nearly empty. Ju Taehyuk came and went more often than me because he had to pick up my clothes.”

“Then where did you sleep, Ahjussi?”

“I was usually overseas.”

“But you’d come back to Korea often during the summer.”

“Looks like you got better at tailing me while we were apart.”

“I only looked you up. Openly through newspapers and articles.”

Haegun’s lips stretched into a smile. Whenever he was back in Korea, he’d spend his time in the apartment above Yeoreum’s. Whenever it was summertime, there would be days when he felt like he was losing his mind.

“I spent a lot of time outside during the summer.”

Yeoreum nodded as if she understood. Even when Haegun was in Korea, he would travel all over the country, so she assumed he was going in and out of hotels on various business trips.

“Then this place is no different from a model home. When we head back to our place later, make sure to pack a few extra clothes. I don’t think all of your clothes will fit, though, since our place is a bit small.”

“Alright.”

Yeoreum turned around and walked out of the dressing room. She passed through the living room that didn’t show any signs of life and headed for the refrigerator. Wow, this really is a model home. She murmured in a low voice as she peered into the completely empty refrigerator. Next, she entered his study. This space, at least, was a bit better. Unexpectedly, the bookshelf was packed full of books.

She examined the bookshelf and opened her mouth.

“I heard you graduated from Korea University. I saw it on Namuwiki. I heard that you were famous on campus for being handsome back then too. Why did you become a gangster when you were so good at studying?”

“You have the order wrong. They thought I was a bit smart, so I was sent to college by the group.”

“I see.”

Yeoreum still didn’t know how Haegun came to enter the criminal organization. But it seemed that he had been a part of it from a very young age.

“Huh? This looks like a graduation photo.”

Yeoreum stopped walking when she discovered a series of framed photos. The first photo was of Haegun with a stiff face and Taehyuk and Junghan grinning next to him as they held up his graduation robes in front of him. It looked like Haegun had refused to wear his robes, so they held it up in front of him as they took the photo.

When he saw this, Haegun laughed.

“Looks like Ju Taehyuk put this here.”

“You all look like you’re having fun. Who took the photo?”

“Your dad.”

Yeoreum’s eyes turned back to the framed photo. It seemed that the two of them had been very close. The more she spent time with Haegun, the more she’d learn about her late father. How he spent his days, what kind of person he was…

“And this photo is…”

Yeoreum’s voice faded away.

The next photo was a picture of Han Kiju, Haegun, Taehyuk, and Junghan. Haegun was looking ahead with an indifferent look on his face, and the other three were looking at the camera with a determined look on their faces. There were buckets of popcorn and bottles of cola between them. They seemed to be at a movie theater. Everyone looked much younger, so it was clear that this photo was taken a long time ago.

“What is this?”

“Ju Taehyuk pestered us and made the four of us go to see a movie. It was taken then.”

“But why is Taehyuk-ahjussi crying?”

“I think the movie was a noir movie where the gangster gets a happy ending.”

Yeoreum laughed.

Her eyes lingered on the photo for a long time. More specifically, she was staring at Han Kiju. She had only seen his face through the photos that were inside the phone he had left behind after his death. But the photos were all taken poorly, so she hadn’t been able to get a good look at his face.

“If you want to keep the photo, go ahead.”

“Is that okay?”

“Of course. You can leave it right there, and I’ll tell someone to pack it.”

“I want your graduation photo too.”

“Do whatever you want.”

Yeoreum nodded and continued to look around. Suddenly, she froze. A little further away, she found another photo.

“…Did Taehyuk-ahjussi do this too?”

“No, I ordered someone to put it there. It seems that Taehyuk brought the other photos with him while he was putting this one here.”

“……”

She walked over to the photo and gasped.

It was a photo of Yeoreum as she smiled brightly while holding her employee ID card up to the camera. She knew that he had been watching over her all this time, but she never thought he would have framed one of her recent photos.

“As expected. Looks like you missed me too, Ahjussi.”

“Very much.”

“What?”

“If you didn’t hear me, never mind.”

Haegun grinned.

Yeoreum’s cheeks grew flushed.

She felt ticklish inside again. He would tickle her heart like this from time to time as if it were nothing. Feeling embarrassed, she suddenly recalled something and turned her eyes back to the photo.

“Huh? Wait. Now that I think about it, I think someone else took this photo. I think it was Heejae-sunbae?”

“You’re right. Seo Heejae.”

“You know Heejae-sunbae, Ahjussi?”

“She works under Ju Taehyuk.”

“My goodness. Sunbae does?”

She suddenly remembered something Heejae had said to her.

“Make sure you let him know that I was especially good to you.”

So that’s what she meant.

“No wonder. She has treated me so well ever since I joined the company.”

“She must have really liked you because she requested to follow you to your new company.”

“No, that’s okay. I need to enter my next company with my own strength.”

“You entered your company on your own last time too. Because you told me not to help you when it came to work.”

That was true. Heejae had never helped Yeoreum with her work. Because she was really good at separating work from personal life, Yeoreum didn’t have to be wary of her.

“Even if I change jobs, you’re just going to stick someone else around me if it’s not Heejae-sunbae, right?

“Looks like you’ve gotten a lot more observant.”

“Then I’ll just stick with Heejae-sunbae.”

She felt like she could hear Heejae-sunbae cheering from somewhere far away. Yeoreum gave Haegun a meaningful look.

“…But is Heejae-sunbae the only one?”

“Your immediate supervisor, Assistant Manager Kwon Jiyeon. But that’s it.”

“No wonder. Whenever the CEO or the team leader seemed to cross a line, she would take the lead and cut them off. I just thought it was because she was a cool person, but it seems that it was just a part of her job.”

“Yeah.”

“I think I heard that she got a significant raise in salary recently.”

“Quite a lot.”

“Then I better ask her to buy me lots of tasty food as my farewell meal.”

Yeoreum chuckled. Then she approached Haegun, who was leaning against the doorframe, and hugged him. She could feel his firm muscles through the thin fabric of her shirt.

“Shall we just sleep here for today?”

“We can do that. There are many days ahead of us, so do whatever you want.”

He was right. The two of them would be together for the rest of their days.

Whenever she thought of this, she became so happy. With this in mind, her lips stretched into a smile.

“Ahjussi. I hope you are just as happy as I am. I don’t think I can be happier than I am at this moment.”

Instead of answering her, he laughed and gently stroked her head. He seemed to be telling her that he felt the same way.

“I want to rest now.”

“Wind your arms around my neck.”

Yeoreum did as he said and wrapped her arms around Haegun’s neck as he lifted her into his arms and walked to the bedroom.

“But I haven’t seen you call for Taehyuk-ahjussi these days.”

“He’s busy with some other work.”

Meanwhile, Taehyuk was in the middle of properly disciplining the men who had eyed Yeoreum at the groundbreaking ceremony.