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Side Story 3 Episode 16

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Lee Sehwa picked up his tumbler from the bedside table and murmured softly. Although he had fewer opportunities to sit in a fighter jet himself, Ki Tae-jeong was always busy, taking charge of everything from devising new operations to directing training. In the midst of all that, he had been going back and forth to General Oh Seon-ran’s residence for over a month to take care of Hae-rim, and he had even stopped by his hospital room several times while working.

Judging by the looks of the adjutants who followed him around, his workload didn’t seem to have decreased at all… But he must have managed well, right? He always strictly adhered to his exercise and sleep schedule even during peacetime, so he must have taken good care of his condition.

“…Huh?”

Sehwa, who was trying to soothe his unnecessarily sentimental heart by drinking some water, took his lips off the tumbler and looked around it. For some reason, the water inside was as cold as ice. He had been thinking about gulping down some cold water. Ki Tae-jeong always handed him lukewarm water first, telling him to think about his body even when he begged for something cold… Why did he prepare cold water today?

Feeling inexplicably excited, Sehwa was gulping down the cold water until his head buzzed when he heard familiar footsteps climbing the stairs beyond the bedroom door.

Oh, is it Lieutenant General? Sehwa perked up his ears like a rabbit and quickly wiped his wet lips with the back of his hand.

Unconsciously, the corners of his lips slowly curved into a semicircle. The fact that the man, who knew how to perfectly conceal his presence, was sending him a signal that he had returned, and that even that gesture was so cautious, made Sehwa’s heart flutter every time.

Sehwa, who was very excited about Ki Tae-jeong’s earlier than expected return from work, moved to the end of the bed in an instant on his knees. Wait, was that too fast for a pregnant person? It was only right before his feet touched the floor that he was overcome with belated worry, but fortunately, the Sunshine in his belly was quiet.

“Good boy, our Sunshine.”

The second child, who had made Sehwa half-dead with his powerful morning sickness, became surprisingly quiet after the tumultuous early stages. The problem, if there was one, was that he still didn’t have much of an appetite these days because he was too quiet… But he was grateful that he could at least eat something, unlike before.

“Honey.”

“Lieutenant General!”

Sehwa forgot that he was going to greet Ki Tae-jeong and was stroking his belly, telling Sunshine that he was so good and so pretty, when the bedroom door burst open without warning. The movement was so rough and rushed, as if the person who had carefully climbed the stairs earlier was someone else entirely, that even Sehwa, who knew he was about to enter, was slightly startled.

“Lieutenant General! You’re back…?”

Anyway, he stood up to greet him happily… But now that he looked at it, Ki Tae-jeong’s attire was a bit strange. It was definitely the same uniform as usual… But why? He wore that outfit this morning, but why does it feel so unfamiliar now?

Unconsciously tilting his head and diligently scanning Ki Tae-jeong, Sehwa belatedly realized that the stars on his rank insignia and the epaulettes on his shoulders were much simpler than before. Huh? Why did the stars suddenly decrease to one? Lieutenant General has three stars… If there’s one star, it’s not Lieutenant General, but Brigadier General… right?

“Um, Lieutenant General. Why is your uniform-.”

“Lieutenant General?”

Ki Tae-jeong smiled crookedly as he stopped taking off his jacket.

“Lieutenant General, huh….”

Brushing his hair back from his forehead with his large hand, Ki Tae-jeong strode towards Sehwa… There was a completely different atmosphere from when he had kissed him all over his face this morning, saying he would be back. The bittersweet scent of cologne, and the slightly mixed scent of baby fabric softener, were definitely the same, though.

“Were you waiting for a Lieutenant General all this time?”

“Lieut… enant General?”

He was embarrassed that he was suddenly thinking this, but the current him, with his tone and expression… gave off a similar vibe to the moment when he first encountered him at the House. Ki Tae-jeong would probably hate to hear it, but….

“What are you doing? Take it off.”

Sehwa couldn’t readily approach Ki Tae-jeong because of the strange sense of unease, when an outrageous order pierced Sehwa’s ears. Did he just… What did he tell me to do…?

“…Pardon?”

“Take it off. I’ll suck you out down there.”

Sehwa’s mouth dropped open at Ki Tae-jeong’s sudden lewd remarks. Where, how…?

Ki Tae-jeong was a pervert who constantly made dirty jokes, but he had been refraining from it a lot lately. To borrow his words, he didn’t want to be horny all by himself when his body wasn’t in good condition due to pregnancy, and he had even been avoiding kissing lately. He showered him with kisses all over his face, but he couldn’t even remember when he had a deep kiss that intertwined tongues. But the first thing he said as soon as he got off work was to take it off because he would suck where…?

“Lieut… enant General…. Why are you suddenly… being like this?”

“Shit, there he goes again.”

“Huh…?”

Sehwa was just repeating the foolish answer, ‘Huh?’ He was so surprised by the raw curse word, which he hadn’t heard in a long time, as much as by Ki Tae-jeong’s endless lewd teasing.

Even now, when things didn’t go his way or when he got too heated during sex, he would mutter ‘Shit’ to himself, but it had been a really long time since Ki Tae-jeong had looked him straight in the eye and uttered a curse word with a double ㅅ(Sh).

“Honey.”

“Ah…!”

Loosening his tie knot, Ki Tae-jeong came right up to him. Sehwa swallowed hard at the oppressive feeling of a huge wall pressing down on him. Yeah, something’s wrong. He’s changed 180 degrees from when he left for work.

“You were so scared of the Brigadier General sound that you were trembling. I guess you only get turned on by a Lieutenant General now?”

Ki Tae-jeong, who was saying things he couldn’t understand at all and brushing his hair back with the side of his hand, suddenly grabbed the back of Sehwa’s head.

“Ah…!”

“I told you, I’m not a Lieutenant General, I’m a Brigadier General.”

In the eyes of Ki Tae-jeong, who he was forced to face as his head snapped back, there was an unexplainable lust boiling over.

“Ugh, why… are you doing this….”

It wasn’t new for Ki Tae-jeong to be out of his mind while looking at him, but he had never acted this violently, or rather, it had been a long time… Sehwa couldn’t figure it out at all and avoided his gaze. But all he could do was lower his eyes since he couldn’t move an inch.

“You don’t like it?”

“…….”

“Who’s going to believe you when you say that with your nipples perked up, honey.”

The nipples that were being mercilessly crushed under his hand swelled up thickly.

“I’ve never… done that….”

“Why do you keep trying to pull away? Even though I’m going to suck and fuck you to your heart’s content.”

Why is he doing this? Was today an anniversary? There must be a reason why he even put on a Brigadier General uniform and is acting like this….

Ki Tae-jeong, who seemed so eager to overlap his body with him right away, was treating him so ruthlessly that he wondered if someone else had disguised himself as him… It was unfamiliar and scary, but somehow… a little, a little bit….

“Hah….”

To shake off the irreverent thoughts that were rising without him realizing it, Sehwa recalled Hae-rim’s beaming face and the expected growth chart of Sunshine, who was the spitting image of Ki Tae-jeong. Lee Sehwa, you have a baby in your stomach right now! You can’t just fall for it even if Lieutenant General changes his rank insignia and keeps talking about Brigadier General!

“Um, just a moment, Lieutenant General….”

“You’re asking for it, aren’t you.”

With his voice muttering lowly, his vision changed in a flash. Sehwa blinked dazedly as he fell onto the bed with a thud.

“Did you, did you just throw me…?”

He didn’t gently lay him down, but almost threw him down, so Sehwa, surprised, belatedly hugged his stomach. What the heck…. Is Sunshine okay? What if the baby was shocked…?

“Lieutenant General!”

Sehwa, feeling overwhelmed with sadness, was about to ask Ki Tae-jeong why he was suddenly doing this, but he widened his eyes when he realized that his belly, where he was placing his hands, was excessively flat.

“Huh? Uh…? Why, my stomach….”

Sehwa’s panicked hands roamed over his flat stomach.

“Huh….”

It was a ghostly thing. It wasn’t yet the time for his belly to be bulging, and it wasn’t particularly noticeable in the first place, but until right before he took a nap, it had been drawing a slightly soft mound… Now he couldn’t feel anything. It was as if he had gone back to before he was pregnant.

The man’s huge shadow that had fallen over his body was not even in his eyes. He was just groping his thin stomach like a raccoon that had lost its mind after the cotton candy he had received as a gift had been washed away by the water, when the bedroom door slammed open again.

And….

“Honey, I’m home.”

“Lieut… enant General?”

Sehwa just blinked blankly with his hands in an awkward position on his belly. Am I seeing things…?

“What is….”

The person who knocked him down on the bed and climbed on top of him was definitely Ki Tae-jeong, but the person who just opened the door and entered the bedroom was also… Ki Tae-jeong. The only difference was that the man who had just entered was wearing the Lieutenant General rank insignia and epaulettes, just as Sehwa remembered?

“What’s this? Did you already start?”

“No, not yet.”

Leaving the dazed Sehwa behind, the two Ki Tae-jeongs were having a conversation as if nothing was wrong. As if they knew each other well.

Sehwa, alternating between looking at his spouse who had suddenly multiplied into two, tried to rack his brain, which had become dull from the shock. Could they be intruders wearing special makeup like before? Like when they wore masks that resembled real human skin while going to the shelter.

But back then, they were just imitating a criminal…. What kind of madman would walk around wearing a mask modeled after an officer, and that man of all people? Especially in front of Ki Tae-jeong himself.

“What is this…? Is it a dream…?”