The Pet's Temptation - Chapter 52

“Noona.”

“…….”

As soon as Ha-jin reached out and tried to hold onto Hae-soo, she pushed him away first. It was obvious that she was hurt. At the same time as he reached out to her again, Ye-jin raised her voice even more.

“Hmm! Honestly, it’s not like Hae-soo got divorced. No, what if she got divorced? If you don’t want to buy something, it’s natural to return it and get a refund, so if you choose someone to live with you for the rest of your life, do you have to endure it even if you don’t like that person? What kind of stupid, wacky idea is that?”

“It’s… yeah, I said it wrong. But the reality is different. People look at it differently. Why should my son have to listen to the whispers people make in the background? Huh? Hae-soo, is it fair for Ha-Jin to hear those things because of you? You know better than me because you’ve been through it. How dirty and hideous the words are.”

“…….”

“Do you love Ha-Jin?”

Hae-soo, who was silently listening to her words, raised her head to the question. Hae-soo’s eyes shook.

“You don’t care if the man you love is insulted like that? Even if it’s because of you, do you just have to satisfy your greed?”

“Don’t listen. And stop it, mother!”

Ha-Jin dragged Hae-soo by the arm and hid her behind his back, then he said to his mother.

“I don’t care. I don’t care what anyone says.”

“Ha-jin!”

“Now, I’ve had enough of this!”

He shouted at his mother. The wind kept the mother speechless and her mouth shut. It was because she had never seen her always gentle son shouting like this. That too, at her. Ye-jin also opened her eyes wide in surprise. However, Ha-jin continued as if he did not care about the reaction of his mother and sister.

“I thought I wouldn’t be given a chance. There was already another guy next to Hae-soo, so I thought I’d never be able to convey my feelings. But like a miracle, the opportunity came. A chance to stand in front of Min Hae-soo as a man. You’re saying I have to give up that opportunity just because I care about others?”

“There’s not only one woman in the world.”

“No! Hae-soo is everything to me. Min Hae-soo is the only woman I want to kiss and hug. Min Hae-soo is the only woman I want to live with, and Min Hae-soo is the only woman I want to have a baby with.”

“……you really.”

“Listen up, too.”

Ha-jin saw his mother speechless, but turned and looked at Hae-soo. Then he held her slender shoulders in both hands and said firmly.

“If you want to make me die of old age after living as a eunuch all my life, you can listen to my mother.”

“……!”

Hae-soo’s eyes widened at Ha-jin’s unexpected words. At the same time, Ye-jin laughed, and the mother said, “This boy, you are crazy…….” she uttered a harsh word. However, Ha-jin and Hae-soo fully focused on each other as if they were alone.

“I’m not going to have sex with any other woman, even if it’s rotten.”

“……I can’t bear to ask. What’s rotten?”

While listening to Ha-jin, Hae-soo murmured, her face red and ripe. Then Ha-jin giggled and laughed mischievously and hugged her shoulder.

“So mother, you have to thank Hae-soo.”

“What?”

“Your only son, she’s saved me.”

“I was so dumbfounded…. What the hell does that mean in front of your mother? Rotten or whatever……. Oh, I can’t even bring myself to say it.”

Ha-jin’s mother murmured in a lament as she mumbled. In the meantime, Ye-jin giggled and laughed in a strange tone.

“Hey, Hae-soo. You’ve got a good one.”

“……What?”

Hae-soo tilted her head toward Ye-jin, who suddenly talked to her. Then Ye-jin pointed at Ha-jin with a chin gesture and continued.

“I didn’t know he was such a pervert. I wasn’t in a situation to oppose you. I should have said thank you. Who would take that pervert? Don’t you think, Mom?”

“Oops! Are you really calling your brother a pervert?”

Ha-jin’s mother glanced at Ye-jin and shot back, and then looked back at Hae-soo. Her eyes were very complicated.

“I’m just going to go today. That doesn’t mean I’m in favor of your relationship. I’m just trying to think about it.”

“Ah…… Auntie.”

“I’m sorry I said something I shouldn’t say to you a while ago. I went overboard.”

His mother left at the end of the sentence. Ye-jin also looked at them for a while, then shrugged her shoulders and followed her mother.

“………I think the storm swept away. My mind is all over the place.”

Hae-soo was blankly staring forward and belatedly opened her mouth. Ha-jin put his arm around her shoulder, then turned his head and looked at her side face. She sighed, then pushed him away and sat back on the bed. Her drooping shoulders made her look smaller. As soon as he saw it and tried to asy something, Hae-soo’s mouth opened first.

“I couldn’t say no in front of her.”

“…….”

Ha-jin immediately closed his mouth and swallowed his words. Hae-soo looked up again, at him, and asked.

“I’m very selfish, right?”

“Is being selfish a bad thing? A fool who can’t even find his share. If Noona denied what I said in front of her earlier, she would have been disappointed. She must have been very angry.”

Ha-jin answered, sitting up next to her. Hae-soo looked back at him and smirked. The end of the smile was bitter.

“But honestly, she’s not wrong. It’s true that you will hear things that you don’t have to hear because of me.”

“What I said was not wrong. I don’t have to use this without you.”

As soon as Hae-soo was finished, he touched his bottom and said, Then, Hae-soo blushed and pushed Ha-jin.

“Right! How can you do that in front of your mother and Ye-jin? Her face even turned red all of a sudden. Are you out of your mind?”

“Of course I was out of my mind.”

“What?”

“My girl might run away because she doesn’t like me. So would I have been sane?”

“…….”

“Right? You were shaken by what my mother said. It’s for me. It’s not even what you want.”

Ha-jin said, looking directly at Hae-soo. Hae-soo faced the gaze, turned her head gently and murmured.

“You’ll regret it later and don’t say anything else.”

“That won’t happen.”

“Don’t make a false statement. Even if you don’t care about the people around you, it’ll be different when it happens.”

Just like what she went through in the company. A bitter smile crossed Hae-soo’s lips. Ha-jin reached out and caressed her around her mouth. As if he was trying to erase that bitter smile.

“Noona, don’t make a false declaration, either. They’re just your ideas, not mine.”

“…….”

She wanted to believe his words. Hae-soo looked at him with shaky eyes. Unlike her, Ha-jin’s gaze was not shaken at all and was fixed entirely at Hae-soo.

Can she trust him?

Expectations crept up in her heart. And as if to live up to those expectations, he overlapped his lips on Hae-soo’s.

The warmth of softly layered lips. Breath piercing through gaping lips.

Hae-soo grabbed Ha-jin’s shoulder without realizing it. At the same time, Ha-jin wrapped around her neck’s back and hugged her waist with his other hand.

To share more deeply, one another.

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