7MOH SS 1 Part 4

4. House Call

After locking his computer screen and roughly organizing the scattered memos and lab notes on his desk, Jeong-in picked up his bag and stood up. As he came out of the office, the sunset light that had begun to spread beyond the corridor windows colored his view.

He got on the elevator mixed in with people leaving work. Each face bore fatigue and a sense of liberation, and among those expressions, he felt a strange sense of kinship that only people who had safely endured the day could share.

Walking through the lobby, he scrolled through bus routes on his phone. From Jeong-in’s workplace, Verixxa, to Brannum Medical Center wasn’t far distance-wise, but required two transfers.

Jeong-in slipped one shoulder strap of his backpack off and shoved his employee ID hanging around his neck into the bag’s front pocket. And it was just as he was about to move toward the entrance again.

“Leaving work?”

At the voice from behind, Jeong-in flinched his shoulders slightly. When he turned his head, Victoria Ferguson’s glamorous face came into view. Jeong-in let out a short breath and greeted her.

“Victoria.”

Victoria Ferguson was a beautiful Latina mixed-race woman with long, voluminous chocolate-colored hair and amber eyes. As always, she flashed a warm eye-smile and approached closely beside Jeong-in.

She wore a sky-blue silk blouse with sleek silhouette slacks and glossy black heels. Her height seemed to be about 5 feet 7 inches (170cm), but with heels, Victoria was slightly taller than Jeong-in.

Whenever he saw her, she looked like she should be an entertainer rather than a pharmaceutical company employee. However, being a pharmaceutical company sales rep might be better than being a mediocre entertainer.

Pharmaceutical company sales reps like Victoria were famously hot commodities. Outstanding looks and eloquence were basic, and they were known to receive unimaginable compensation based on sales performance.

She exaggeratedly puffed her cheeks to express dissatisfaction.

“I keep asking you to call me Vicky.”

But Jeong-in wasn’t such an easy target.

“Miss Ferguson.”

“Oh my God, never mind. Just call me Victoria.”

“That’s some serious wall,” Victoria grumbled, shaking her head as if he was formidable.

The two walked side by side through the lobby and outside. The automatic doors opened smoothly, and the slanting sunlight of late afternoon stretched their shadows long on the ground.

“What do you do after work, Jay? Want to have dinner together?”

Victoria once again asked Jeong-in out on a date.

At first, he thought it was just playful teasing. Around the third time, he felt it was surprisingly sincere, and from the fourth time on, it started to become burdensome.

She had always revealed her ideal type, saying she liked wise, intelligent, and thoughtful people. That she couldn’t stand stupid men who were all talk as if they were something special.

However, Jeong-in couldn’t be her match.

“As I’ve said before, I have a partner. He’s a man, and I’m on my way to see him now.”

To borrow Justin’s expression, Jeong-in was a “girl magnet.” Strangely, women around him often fell for him.

For Jeong-in, it was completely incomprehensible.

A researcher working in the same lab who had come out as gay was also quite surprised to hear that Jeong-in’s partner was a man. He acted as if it were a blemish on his record, saying his gaydar had never been wrong before.

Sure enough, Victoria didn’t take Jeong-in’s words at face value either.

“Don’t you have a more sincere lie?”

Victoria wasn’t someone who backed down easily. Perhaps that tenacious nature was directly linked to her sales performance.

Jeong-in looked at her directly and spoke clearly.

“My boyfriend and I have been dating since high school. We went to Harvard together, and he went through medical school and is now working as a cardiothoracic surgery resident.”

At that, Victoria clasped her hands in front of her chest and let out an exclamation.

“Oh my! That’s such a fairytale story!”

“It’s true.”

“What about his looks? Is he by any chance a prince with blond hair and blue eyes?”

He was momentarily speechless because it was exactly as she described. Jeong-in helplessly moved his lips, then turned his head sharply.

“…Don’t believe me if you don’t want to.”

Deciding not to respond anymore, Jeong-in hastened his steps. But the clicking sound of heels striking the floor followed quickly from behind, and before he knew it, Victoria was beside him again.

“Are you going home? By bike again today?”

“I’m going to the hospital. To get my stitches removed.”

Today, Jeong-in planned to stop by the hospital where Chase was to have his stitches removed and leave work together with him.

“Ah, you said you were in a traffic accident recently, right? No aftereffects?”

Victoria looked at Jeong-in with a worried face. The playful expression from just moments ago had become serious. Jeong-in answered in a somewhat softened voice.

“Yes, I’m fine. Just a few stitches, that’s all.”

“I’ll give you a ride to the hospital. Where is it?”

Watching Victoria smile brightly while tossing and catching car keys in the air, Jeong-in let out a laugh as if giving up.

“Brannum Medical Center.”

“Alright. Let’s go.”

When Victoria pressed the remote, a black Mustang parked right in front of the building in the best parking spot flashed its headlights as it started. The gleaming black body and red leather seats visible through the closed windows suited her well.

Victoria stared at Jeong-in, who had gotten into the passenger seat.

“You need to buckle up. Unless you want me to do it for you.”

A sly eye-smile with slightly raised corners of her lips, a playful yet nonchalant tone, timing that didn’t miss any opening, and a smooth attitude.

He’d felt it was strangely familiar, and now he understood. She was the female version of Chase Prescott.

Since he happened to think of him, Jeong-in took out his phone and sent Chase a message.

To Chay❤️: [A coworker is giving me a ride to the hospital]

: [Should take about 20 minutes]

A simple reply came from Chase saying he’d wait.

Meanwhile, the black Mustang exited the parking lot with a growling engine sound. As soon as it entered the road, the car quickly picked up speed and glided smoothly, weaving through lanes. Jeong-in gripped the passenger seat belt tightly like a lifeline and briefly regretted his decision. At this speed, it seemed they’d arrive in 10 minutes, let alone 20.

Victoria, lightly turning the steering wheel, glanced at the passenger seat.

“Apply the medicine well. A scar on that pretty skin, even I feel sorry about it.”

Victoria usually envied Jeong-in’s skin particularly, often asking what cosmetics he used and how he took care of it.

“And, Jay. I’m serious. When I said I’m interested, I didn’t just say it casually.”

“I’m serious too. When I said I have a partner, I didn’t just say it casually.”

Even at Jeong-in’s words, she remained firm.

“Do you know how many hospitals I’ve gotten to cancel their Noderma contracts and switch to our medicines?”

Great confidence with relentless drive, eyes full of conviction. When he’d heard she’d risen to branch manager candidate with outstanding sales performance, he’d been surprised, but now he could only nod.

The Mustang speeding down the road stopped in the Brannum Medical Center parking lot. Jeong-in felt slight relief as he unbuckled and placed his hand on the door handle.

“You could have just dropped me off on the street… Thank you.”

Jeong-in gave a brief thanks and got out of the passenger seat. Just as he closed the door and was about to walk away, he heard another car door close behind him.

Looking back, Victoria had gotten out of the car and was walking toward him, pulling with one hand the trunk that sales reps always dragged around.

“Why are you getting out?”

“Since I’m here, I thought I’d drop by and show my face to this hospital’s pharmacy director.”

“…”

Jeong-in squinted suspiciously. But Victoria didn’t care and approached with a brazen smile.

“Let’s go.”

As they naturally walked shoulder to shoulder, he saw someone’s silhouette approaching from afar. A tall man wearing a white coat over blue scrubs.

Golden hair that shone like gold under the sunset rippled like waves.

“You’re here?”

Chase, who had quickly approached, cupped Jeong-in’s cheek with one hand as if he couldn’t see anyone else beside him, and lowered his head.

He thought Chase would kiss him lightly as usual. But immediately his tongue pushed in, parting his lips and reaching deep inside his mouth.

“Mm…”

Chase was really good at kissing. At first Jeong-in had tried to push him away, conscious that they were in the middle of a hospital parking lot, but the moment his tongue lightly rubbed the gums beside his molars, his eyes closed automatically.

At Chase’s tongue softly swimming inside his mouth, all the strength in his body released as if a switch had been flipped. The hands that had tried to push him away settled on Chase’s shoulders. Meanwhile, Chase pulled Jeong-in’s waist tight as if squeezing it.

Only after kissing leisurely as if they had all the time in the world did Chase let Jeong-in go. By then, Jeong-in’s eyes had gone hazy and unfocused.

“Ahemm…”

At the sound of Victoria clearing her throat, focus returned to Jeong-in’s dreamy eyes.

In his sharpened vision, he saw Chase’s face. With one corner of his mouth lightly raised, he wore an expression as if he’d seized victory.

Only then did Jeong-in realize. Chase hadn’t been unconscious of their surroundings. Rather, he’d kissed him precisely because he was thoroughly conscious of them. The sight of Victoria walking close to Jeong-in, Victoria’s favorable gaze looking at Jeong-in, it seemed to have triggered his wariness.

Victoria gave a bitter smile.

“…It wasn’t a lie. It was so fairytale-like I thought it was a story you made up to reject me.”

It was a calm tone, but the emotion hadn’t completely disappeared. Within her somewhat cool resignation, he could feel something like lingering attachment that had inevitably seeped in.

Having finished speaking to Jeong-in, Victoria turned her head toward Chase. And extended her hand with good manners.

“Hello. I’m Victoria Ferguson. I work with Jay at Verixxa.”

Chase squinted and slowly scanned her face. Then he nodded briefly and accepted the handshake.

“I’m Chase Prescott.”

As soon as he let go of her hand, Chase conspicuously pulled Jeong-in’s shoulder into an embrace.

“Thank you for bringing him all the way here when you must be busy.”

There was hidden meaning in the politeness. Expressing thanks on his behalf was a kind of declaration. A very simple and clear display of ownership: this person is mine.

Victoria raised the corner of her mouth.

“I wanted to bring him, so I offered first. Jay is so charming, you know.”

She continued, looking intently at Jeong-in’s face.

“Actually, I like Jay very much. We even work at the same company, and no matter how much I see him, I never get tired of it.”

Those words carried a nuance that seemed to subtly show off the fact that she spent a lot of time with Jeong-in.

An unexpected power struggle broke out. With Jeong-in in the middle, tense tension flowed between the two people smiling on the surface.

Chase pointed to the car she’d gotten out of.

“Then you should get going. You must be busy.”

“No. I’m also planning to meet a doctor I know.”

“I see, then.”

Chase, who had shown a sweetly professional smile, turned around with his arm still around Jeong-in’s shoulder.

“Let’s go, baby.”

He felt his face heat up slightly at the embarrassing term of endearment that he must have deliberately used. Jeong-in turned his head toward Victoria and gave a brief greeting.

“I’ll head in first. Thanks for today.”

“…Alright.”

At the unexpected turn of events, a slight sense of defeat passed over Victoria’s face. It must have been quite an unfamiliar feeling for her. It seemed she’d really considered the boyfriend story that Jeong-in had consistently told as just an excuse to avoid dates.

While walking to the hospital attached like one body, Chase rubbed his face against Jeong-in’s shoulder and acted spoiled.

“I only managed to eat half a sandwich all day today.”

Watching Chase act as if for someone’s benefit, Jeong-in swallowed his laughter inwardly. And pretending not to know, he went along and gently stroked his hair.

“Oh no…”

“It was tiny, like a baby’s palm.”

“I keep telling you to at least buy a chocolate bar from the vending machine. Let’s go eat something good after you get off work.”

“Should we eat at Noel House Tavern? I want steak.”

“Yeah, let’s do that.”

Even without turning his head to check, he could tell Victoria’s gaze was directed this way. But he decided not to care. If it could ease Chase’s anxiety even a little, he could gladly put on this kind of scene. Incidentally, it would also help draw a clear line with her.

The two passed through the hospital entrance and headed down the corridor toward the treatment room.

Chase still had his arm around Jeong-in’s shoulder. It wasn’t particularly inconvenient to move, but Jeong-in tapped his arm and said.

“Chae, you can let go now.”

“Don’t want to.”

Chase continued in a somewhat sulky tone.

“I really can’t let my guard down for even a moment.”

“Hm?”

“That person just now was the one you mentioned before, right? The person who was number one in sales last quarter. Victoria?”

“Yeah. Victoria Ferguson. She apparently also made it to the candidate list for Boston regional sales director this time.”

Chase shook his head and said.

“Justin wasn’t wrong at all. Jeong-in, you’re really a girl magnet. In high school it was Madison Wilkes, at Harvard it was Andrea Sherman, during your master’s program… who was it, that Korean American girl who played cello.”

“Amy Kim?”

“Right, her. And now it’s Victoria Ferguson.”

Jeong-in let out a laugh and gently pulled down Chase’s hand around his shoulder.

“Even so, they don’t compare to you, Chae.”

Whenever he went to a pub or club together with Chase, it was to the point where he couldn’t maintain conversations. People sent drinks at intervals of a few minutes, approached directly to talk, and asked for contact information.

Phone numbers written on napkins, meaningful glances, even blatant comments that openly revealed their intentions.

It happened so often that eventually they had a manual for dealing with such situations.

“The people who approach me are just those whose lower half is stirred. There’s only one thing they want from me.”

Chase continued with a bitter smile on his lips.

“But the people who approach you are different. They approach sincerely. Wanting to spend a long time with you. On top of that, every single one of them has outstanding looks and is solid too.”

Jeong-in shrugged lightly.

“Is that so.”

“When I die, donate my body to a research facility. My heart will probably be burned black.”

Chase tapped his chest area with his fist a couple of times as if complaining of chest pain.

While walking side by side down the corridor like that, Jeong-in’s gaze inadvertently touched a sign hanging on the wall. The moment he saw the sign that read ’Supply Room,’ an old memory suddenly came to mind.

About 10 years ago, the Halloween party at Wincrest.

Chase had worn a doctor’s coat then too, just like now, and he wore a patient gown while Justin was dressed as a nurse in scrubs.

Egged on by Justin, the two had entered a supply room as if reenacting a scene from a medical romance drama, and shared a thrilling kiss there. A strange and secretive kiss in the dark, narrow space.

Before he knew it, Jeong-in had stopped walking and stood blankly in front of the supply room door, reminiscing about the past.

“Jeong-in?”

At Chase’s voice, Jeong-in’s shoulders bounced up lightly. He stood at the end of the corridor with the treatment room door half-open, gesturing. Jeong-in hurriedly moved and entered the treatment room.

The air faintly carried the smell of disinfectant, followed by the metallic scent of medical instruments. On one wall, cabinets lined up neatly storing medical supplies like sterile gauze, IV packs, bandages, and gloves, and in the center was a simple bed. It was a space prepared for suturing, dressing, and simple procedures.

“Please sit, patient.”

Chase said playfully and had Jeong-in sit on the bed.

He put on nitrile gloves with familiar movements and pulled over a round wheeled chair with his toes to sit in front of Jeong-in. Jeong-in’s two legs, perched on the bed, were trapped between the knees of Chase sitting with his legs spread.

Chase took and held Jeong-in’s hand. Long fingers fiddled with Jeong-in’s wrist. Jeong-in’s wrist was thin enough to be easily grasped even with just Chase’s thumb and index finger.

“So slender.”

“Your hands are big.”

“It’s just fascinating.”

“There’s a lot to be fascinated by.”

Chase was always amazed. That someone with such a slender and delicate body could simultaneously be so solid and strong.

Jeong-in lightly pushed away Chase’s hand that was fiddling with his wrist, not knowing how time passed.

“Stop the sexual harassment and examine me.”

“Ahem… Let me take a look.”

The white gauze slowly peeled away, revealing the skin that had been hidden underneath. Chase tilted his head slightly and looked closely at the wound. The reddened, swollen flesh had subsided to white, and the laceration marks visible between the stitches were also smoothly healed.

“It’s healed well.”

“Thanks to you, doctor.”

Though he spoke as if playing along with his joke, there was sincerity in it.

Even while exhausted from hospital work, Chase had disinfected Jeong-in’s wound and changed the dressing without missing a single day. No matter how late he returned from the hospital, no matter how exhausted he was to the point of collapsing, he never once forgot.

There was even one day when Jeong-in fell asleep first. When he woke up in the morning, Chase had already showered, changed clothes, and left for work again. And on Jeong-in’s arm, new gauze was neatly attached. He had cared for him so carefully that he hadn’t even felt a sign of his presence.

Chase, holding sterilized scissors and forceps in both hands, carefully pulled and cut the end of a stitch. With a stinging sensation, the thread brushed through the flesh and came out. That process had to be repeated four more times.

Jeong-in stared at Chase with his mouth half-open.

From the softly waving hair to the sculpted smooth bridge of his nose, broad shoulders covered by a white coat, and large hands skillfully handling instruments.

Thinking that these were the hands that had skillfully explored every part of his body beneath the ivory-colored thin medical gloves gave him a strange feeling. The back of his neck tingled with an untimely heat rising up.

Chase spoke without taking his eyes off Jeong-in’s forearm.

“Don’t look at me with such heated gazes, patient.”

“Ah…”

“Will you take responsibility if my hand shakes and there’s a medical accident?”

“…I’m sorry, doctor.”

It felt like some kind of provocative role play. Perhaps that’s why. Words that normally would never leave his mouth came to mind.

“Um… Doctor.”

“Yes, what is it?”

Chase answered while carefully cutting the last stitch and cautiously pulling it out.

“Do you make house calls?”

Chase’s hand holding the forceps paused.

“…Of course. I may not look it, but I live with the Hippocratic Oath deeply engraved in my heart. As long as there’s a patient, I’ll rush there immediately whether it’s in a blizzard or the other side of the world.”

At his solemn declaration, Jeong-in finally couldn’t hold back and burst into laughter.

“All done.”

White ointment was thinly spread where the stitches had been removed, and a thin band carefully covered it.

Chase said in a stern tone that he needed to consistently apply ointment to prevent scarring. As he took off his gloves and stood up first, Jeong-in asked.

“You’re going to change clothes, right? I’ll wait in the lobby.”

“Um… no, will you just stay here? I’ll come back here.”

“Hm? Well, okay.”

He thought he knew what Chase was thinking without having to ask. He didn’t want him to be alone in the lobby and run into Victoria again.

“I’ll be here. Go ahead.”

Chase lightly kissed Jeong-in’s cheek and left.

After the door closed and it became quiet, Jeong-in lay sprawled on the bed and stared blankly at the ceiling, lost in thought.

They say when you fall in love, you see the other person through rose-colored glasses. Flaws become blurred, and good points shine even brighter.

It seemed that in Chase’s eyes, he appeared that way. As someone so wonderful and great that it was worrying and anxiety-inducing.

When the wait grew longer than expected, Jeong-in took out his phone. Lately, he’d been looking into doctoral degree programs.

Verixxa, where Jeong-in worked, had industry-academia cooperation agreements with Harvard and several nearby universities, and his master’s degree had been obtained as part of that. This time would be a longer-term challenge, but he thought it was something necessary eventually.

Just as he entered Harvard’s admissions website, the door burst open. Jeong-in reflexively sat up. Fortunately, it wasn’t a stranger.

“Chae?”

Chase was still in scrubs. Sweat he hadn’t managed to wipe off glistened on his forehead, and an excited look lingered around his mouth. Judging by his disheveled breathing, it seemed he’d run all the way here.

“Are you okay? What happened?”

“Jeong-in, what do I do? I got a chance to enter an emergency surgery. A senior resident wasn’t available, so they said anyone could come in as a substitute.”

Jeong-in’s eyes widened.

Participating in surgery was every resident’s dream. Especially for first-years, the operating room was a very restricted area. It was only possible to enter when an experienced senior resident wasn’t available. Though they only performed basic tasks like passing instruments and assisting with hemostasis, it was still an opportunity to learn by directly observing a patient’s heart.

Jeong-in became even more urgent and shouted.

“But what are you dawdling here for? You need to go right now!”

“I’ll make it up to you later.”

“Stop talking and run!”

Chase turned to run, then stopped. He rushed back, his coat fluttering, and left a short, intense kiss on Jeong-in’s lips. Then he ran out into the corridor as if launching himself.

At the sound of his light footsteps echoing through the corridor, a gentle smile seeped onto Jeong-in’s lips.

* * *

Knock knock.

At the faint knocking sound, Jeong-in’s hand stopped on the keyboard. The cursor blinked on the laptop screen. Thinking he might have heard wrong, he turned his head slightly to look at the door.

Knock knock.

This time he heard it clearly. Someone was knocking on the door.

The biggest advantage of this building was security. There was a common entrance on the first floor, and visitors mostly had to press the intercom there to enter.

Even if they entered the building, concierge staff were always stationed in the lobby, and packages or deliveries were received through a separately designated storage area.

So if someone came all the way to the door to knock like this, there was a high possibility they were a neighbor in the same building or a concierge staff member.

Getting up from his seat and walking to the door, Jeong-in looked outside through the peephole. Then he tilted his head and opened the door.

The person standing at the door was Chase.

“Did you lose your key?”

When Jeong-in asked, Chase blinked innocently and said,

“Key? I’m here for a house call.”

Jeong-in smiled and turned toward the living room first, and Chase followed with familiar steps.

“I wanted to come wearing scrubs and a coat, but the hospital said no.”

Chase grumbled as he took off his sneakers and changed into house slippers. Taking surgical clothing outside was prohibited in principle for infection control.

Jeong-in moved further into the living room and asked in a pleasant tone.

“How was entering surgery today? Did you learn a lot…”

Before he could finish speaking, his arm was grabbed. The next moment, his body was swept into Chase’s hands, and when he came to his senses, he was held tightly in his embrace.

It was so sudden that he was bewildered at first, but soon a soft smile appeared on Jeong-in’s face.

“Hmm, what on earth happened?”

“Dr. Campbell, the attending surgeon, let me touch the heart with my hands.”

Chase’s voice trembled slightly with overwhelming emotion.

“To be exact, it was the moment the heart started beating again. Blood circulating, and the heart that had stopped began to pound under my hand. As if someone had caught a life trying to escape and put it back in.”

The surgery he participated in today was coronary artery bypass grafting. During surgery, they activate a heart-lung machine and temporarily stop the heart, then go through the process of reconnecting blood flow and reviving the heart.

Though it was a relatively commonly performed surgery, the heart was always special.

An organ that makes things start and makes stopped things move again. Life itself, and the starting point of existence.

Today, Chase had returned after seeing with his eyes, touching with his fingertips, and engraving deep in his heart the moment that life was breathed back in.

“It’s all thanks to you, Jeong-in.”

“You studied to death to take the MCAT, you went to medical school, why is it thanks to me?”

“Because if you hadn’t been there, I wouldn’t have even chosen this path in the first place.”

Jeong-in’s hands that had been hanging down gently patted Chase’s back. Suddenly, mischief appeared around Jeong-in’s lips.

“True. If I hadn’t been there, you’d probably be doing a Harvard MBA or something and running some mega financial corporation. Flying around in a private jet and getting tons of offers to enter politics. Wow, that would have been really pathetic.”

Jeong-in even added an exaggerated sigh on purpose. It was his way of joking.

But Chase didn’t laugh. Instead, he spoke in a low, deep voice.

“I love you.”

“…”

At the suddenly thrown sincere confession, somewhere in Jeong-in’s chest felt a bit heavy. The playful atmosphere settled quietly in an instant.

Jeong-in slowly ran his hand that had been patting his back down his muscular, uneven back. Then he carefully pushed his chest away.

“Aren’t you tired? Let’s wash up and sleep quickly.”

“I washed after surgery. And I told you, I’m here for a house call.”

Before those words were even finished, Chase lifted Jeong-in by placing his arm under his hips. Jeong-in, suddenly lifted into the air, gasped in surprise.

Chase headed straight to the bedroom. Soon Jeong-in’s body was laid down on the bed with a plop.

“Excuse me, I’m a patient.”

“Since I’m a doctor, I know the patient is all better. You can do strenuous exercise now.”

The two were young, and no matter how busy they were, they made love by cutting into their sleep. The sex that had continued at intervals of a day or two had stopped after Jeong-in got hurt.

Since then, it had been limited to what was called ‘sweater action,’ where he would reach under his clothes and touch his chest. They had drawn a line for themselves, knowing they wouldn’t be able to stop if they went further. It had been two weeks, like returning to their high school days.

Perhaps because they’d been starved for so long, Chase today seemed much more impatient than usual. His rough, panting breaths conveyed a palpable, heated excitement.

“Let me see. I’ll kiss your boo-boo.”

‘Boo-boo’? That was a term used for children’s injuries. Jeong-in chuckled and narrowed his eyes, looking up at Chase.

“Are you really a doctor?”

“Yeah. Let me see. Where did it hurt?”

With the weather having just turned cool as September began, Jeong-in was wearing thin long-sleeved pajamas. If he’d intended to look at the wound, just rolling up the sleeve would do, but Chase began unbuttoning the pajama top.

Impatience could be felt on his flushed face. His hasty fingertips slipped several times, missing the buttons.

As soon as all the buttons were undone, Chase spread open the front of the pajamas with both hands, revealing Jeong-in’s upper body, his pale skin and prominent small nipples, and his slender waist.

His persistent gaze swept over Jeong-in’s bare body, then returned to his face. His eyes, which had been a very bright blue, darkened with lust.

Chase, staring intently at Jeong-in’s lips, which parted slightly as if in discomfort, lowered his head as if he could no longer bear it.

As if he had been waiting, their lips met moistly. Chase licked Jeong-in’s lips and pushed his tongue in, tilting his head.

Soon, a hot mass of flesh pushed through their parted teeth and entered. Jeong-in’s cheeks bulged and receded like rolling candy as his tongue swam throughout his mouth.

The saliva that flowed over was sweet. Jeong-in, realizing that he too had been longing for this moment, wrapped his arms around Chase’s thick neck.

Chase’s tongue, which rubbed against the slippery frenulum and then curled upwards, guided Jeong-in’s movements. A moan escaped Jeong-in’s throat.

“Mmmph…”

Jeong-in sucked Chase’s tongue frantically, their tongues entwined. The overflowing saliva acted like a lubricant, making their tongues slide.

His thick arms dug under Jeong-in’s waist and pulled him in as if to crush him. Chase twisted his head several times, thrusting his tongue deep as if to reach Jeong-in’s uvula, licking the inside of his palate.

“Hic… Ugh…”

A gurgling sound, like drowning in water, came from Jeong-in’s panting throat. The moment a brief gap opened for breath, Chase whispered.

“Haa… I want to write it on the t-shirt you used to wear, right where the math formulas were drawn. Right here. ’Property of Chase Prescott’.”

Chase’s lowered lips lightly kissed the center of Jeong-in’s chest. As his hot breath spread, his nipples instantly hardened.

Before meeting Chase Prescott, Jeong-in had never once thought of a man’s chest as a sexual part. Rather, he wondered why it hadn’t atrophied since it served no function. But Jeong-in’s chest now felt like another sexual organ.

Was this what it meant to be developed? Chase never skipped caressing Jeong-in’s chest before penetration, and now, just his breath touching his chest made his body anticipate penetration, his lower abdomen tingling.

As expected. Blood pooled below his navel, and he felt his center gradually swelling.

Did Chase feel it through their joined lower bodies? Chase lifted his head and looked down at Jeong-in. His pitch-black eyes were hazy, his lips, now redder and wet, parted slightly, exhaling moist breaths. Even his cheeks were flushed red, as if from a fever. All traces of his usual sharp demeanor were gone, replaced by a face steeped in color.

“You’re so beautiful.”

With a look of great distress, Chase continued.

“I love you. So much that I want to shout to the whole world that you’re mine.”

Chase looked at Jeong-in with eyes filled with mixed emotions. He clearly possessed Jeong-in, and still did, yet he felt an insatiable longing. Like thirst growing even greater after drinking seawater, he was desperate for more.

With a deep sigh, Chase lowered his head to Jeong-in’s chest.

As their eyes met, Chase’s tongue lightly flicked the nipple like he was tasting it, Jeong-in’s thighs twitched and his brow furrowed. His dick, trapped inside his underwear, were stiffly erect and uncomfortable. Wanting to rub it somewhere, he couldn’t keep his body still and twisted his waist, eliciting a low, satisfied chuckle from Chase.

He gripped Jeong-in’s dry chest with all his might, making his nipples stand out. Then he swallowed the entire areola in one gulp.

“Aangh…”

Chase sucked on his chest greedily, making smacking sounds. As Chase applied pressure with his mouth and rolled Jeong-in’s nipple with his tongue, Jeong-in’s hands, clutching the sheets, tightened.

Chase’s hand, which had been under Jeong-in’s waist, moved lower and pressed firmly over Jeong-in’s buttocks through his clothes. Jeong-in let out a guttural sound.

“Mmm…”

Chase pulled his lips away from the chest he had been sucking and reached for Jeong-in’s waist.

“Let’s take off your pants. I’ll kiss your boo-boo.”

“That’s… Hng, not a boo-boo.”

“You’re going to get hurt soon. I’ll kiss it beforehand.”

His pants and underwear were stripped off in one go. The pajama top he had been wearing, which was worse than not wearing anything, also fell to the floor.

Chase quickly shed his own clothes and knelt on the bed, bare-bodied. His massive, club-like dick swung heavily with his movements.

A chill, whether from anticipation or nervousness, traced down Jeong-in’s back. Goosebumps erupted all over his arms and legs.

Just as he thought Chase would soon cover him with his warm, stable weight, two hands slipped under his armpits and gently sat Jeong-in up.

“Come on top of me.”

Chase lay down on the bed first and adjusted his position. Jeong-in carefully climbed onto his stomach. As he was about to crawl up his body, Chase, lifting Jeong-in like a doll, spun him around to face his feet.

“Ah…”

Jeong-in immediately understood what he intended to do. Having spent so much time together, they had tried every position, and there was no place left in this condo they hadn’t explored.

Jeong-in’s body was pulled backward. As a moist heat touched his butt crack, Jeong-in found himself sitting on Chase’s face.

“Hng, Chae!”

Chase’s large hands spread Jeong-in’s buttocks apart like splitting a fruit. And the moment his wet tongue touched the sensitive membrane, Jeong-in jolted as if he had sat on a fire and then collapsed forward.

His temples met Chase’s hard pelvis.

“Haa…”

As his blurry vision returned, the first thing he saw was the massive fleshy mass throbbing right in front of his face. It was a length and thickness he could never get used to. The person who carried such a thing was amazing, but the fact that he could embrace it all the way to the root now felt even more miraculous.

“If you’re bored, play with that.”

Looking at Chase’s dick always evoked a peculiar sensation.

That fleshy mass, erect like a rod, was a part of his body, yet it entered Jeong-in’s body and became a part of him. It was a body part that performed entirely different functions normally, but in bed, it was used as a tool to arouse his pleasure.

“Ah…”

Meanwhile, Chase’s tongue, which had been gently tracing the hole, moved with increasing intensity. Chase, holding Jeong-in’s buttocks apart with one hand, moved his other hand to Jeong-in’s dick, which were reaching towards his collarbone, and gently cupped them.

“Hng…”

Jeong-in’s back trembled as he sat on Chase’s lower jaw. He exerted all his strength in his thighs to avoid putting weight on Chase. However, his trembling body only resulted in him vibrating his hole and perineum against Chase’s lips and chin.

“Ugh, hng…”

Jeong-in’s body, which had been half-raised, collapsed again, bringing his face closer to Chase’s crotch. From his always neatly shaved crotch, a rich, musky scent wafted.

With trembling hands, Jeong-in gripped Chase’s shaft. He pulled Chase’s dick, which had been curving towards his navel, towards him and brought his lips to the blunt tip.

“Mmm…”

Chase’s reaction was immediate. As if returning the favor, he vigorously rubbed and licked Jeong-in’s hole, then suddenly thrust his tongue deep inside.

“Ah… Haa…”

As he pulled his lips away from the tip, Chase nudged his pelvis forward insistently. Jeong-in grabbed his aroused dick again and opened his mouth wide, taking the large glans into his mouth.

Even swallowing just the glans filled his mouth, making proper oral sex impossible. Jeong-in cupped the shaft, bulging with veins, with one hand, stroking it up and down to maximize the surface area of friction. But even that didn’t last long.

“Haa, I can’t… anymore.”

His jaw ached so much that Jeong-in finally spat out Chase’s penis. He then collapsed onto Chase’s groin, signaling his surrender.

By then, Jeong-in’s hole was not just wet but overflowing with thin saliva that soaked his perineum and scrotum.

Chase withdrew his tongue, which had been deep inside, and gently rubbed the wet folds with his thumb as if examining them. Jeong-in reflexively tensed his hole. The hole twitched, expelling foamy saliva.

Chase licked it up with his fingertips and then thrust three fingers inside at once.

“Ungh…”

His movements were unhesitating. With his fingers deep inside, Chase rotated his wrist, pressing and massaging the insides. Jeong-in’s hips bucked ceaselessly.

After stretching the hole for a longer time than usual, Chase withdrew his cluster of fingers.

He lifted Jeong-in’s body and then sat up himself. Jeong-in, kneeling and panting, had Chase’s large body pressed close behind him.

Chase tightly embraced Jeong-in’s upper body with one arm, then gripped his own dick and fitted the shaft into the crevice of Jeong-in’s buttocks. As he slowly moved his hips, his long dick moved back and forth in the split.

Pre-cum, leaking in anticipation of penetration, wet the area around Jeong-in’s tailbone.

“Haa… I can’t wait. I’m putting it in.”

The tip, heavy and already touching the heated, reddened entrance from the continuous stimulation, kissed it. Then, the stone-hard glans began to penetrate, pressing against the skin.

“Agh…”

Jeong-in’s entire body tensed up, and his startled eyes flew open. Even with just the tip of the glans entering, he felt an oppressive pressure, as if his pelvis would split.

He could feel the passage of two weeks with his body. They used to be intimate almost every day, and Jeong-in could sometimes accommodate him without having to loosen up too much and it won’t cause him any pain. But now, he worried if he could even take half of him.

Jeong-in turned his head back to look at Chase.

“Haa… Did you get bigger?”

That was almost the only logical explanation for how he felt right now.

“Hng, no. Don’t go all the way in.”

“Okay, I understand.”

Chase answered readily, but seeing his hazy eyes, Jeong-in knew he couldn’t take his words at face value.

As the entire glans lodged inside, Chase released his grip on his dick and wrapped his arms around Jeong-in’s stomach. Then, he slowly began to thrust his hips.

He felt an immense presence entering, parting the delicate folds of the inner walls one by one. Jeong-in’s lower abdomen involuntarily tightened and loosened, squeezing the intruder.

“Haa… Good.”

Chase rested his chin on Jeong-in’s shoulder and shivered. He moved his hips up and down with his dick half-inserted, and sometimes circled his hips. The hot shaft of flesh swirled inside, widening the hole.

As the inner walls slowly began to adapt, the penetration deepened as if it had been waiting. Chase, who had been entering deeper bit by bit, suddenly thrust his pelvis forward.

“Haa…!”

“Haa…”

They both moaned simultaneously. It was a deep penetration, pressing Jeong-in’s buttocks against Chase’s hard pelvis until they felt crushed. Jeong-in shuddered from a sensation like sparks igniting inside his belly. If he hadn’t been held tightly by Chase, he would have fallen forward and buried his face in the mattress.

“Haa… Good?”

Chase kissed Jeong-in’s shoulder and began to thrust his hips rapidly. Their upper bodies remained pressed together, but their lower bodies parted and met with loud slapping sounds.

“Hng… Ugh, hng… Hngk…”

“I can feel it. Haa… Here, me inside you… Haa… I love it so much.”

Chase pressed his palm firmly against Jeong-in’s lower abdomen, where the outline of his dick was bulging.

“Hng…”

It felt like his stomach was being pierced. Jeong-in struggled and tried to escape his hand. His freed body collapsed downward. He ended up face down on the mattress, with only his buttocks raised.

Chase, as if he had been waiting, grabbed Jeong-in’s buttocks. He squeezed them so hard that flesh squeezed out between his fingers. With his other hand, he gently stroked the hole, which was stretched wide as if to embrace his dick.

The insides of Jeong-in’s thighs trembled. It was an unbearable itch, like insects gnawing at him.

“Chae… Hng… Agh…”

Chase collapsed onto Jeong-in, his chest pressing against Jeong-in’s back. He kissed Jeong-in’s forearm and nuzzled the skin around the band.

“Jeong-in, haa… I’m so deep and warm inside you…”

“Hng, ugh, hng…”

“Can I go harder?”

Jeong-in had already fallen into the realm of instinct. If he had wanted to do something more, he would have nodded.

As soon as he received the signal of affirmation, Chase pushed himself up and grabbed Jeong-in’s pelvis like reins. Gritting his teeth, he began to thrust wildly. Sweat beaded on his forehead in concentration.

His shaft, with its veins bulging like earthworms, rapidly entered and exited the hole. It fit so tightly that it felt like his internal organs were being dragged out like hooks when the glans withdrew.

Jeong-in was sobbing without realizing when it started.

<Good… Hng… Hng, So good…>

Korean words slipped out again, but Jeong-in himself didn’t notice.

Chase’s hip movements widened. His dick, which had withdrawn enough for only the glans to be exposed, plunged back in like a stake.

Just as the accumulated pleasure was about to burst, Chase pushed Jeong-in’s shoulder to one side.

“Haa… Jeong-in, try this. I want to cum while looking at your face.”

“Haa!”

His body spun around with the dick still buried inside him. The inner walls were stimulated, and a thrilling sensation spread down his spine, causing his toes to curl involuntarily.

The next moment, Jeong-in found himself lying on his back, looking at the ceiling. He curled his legs, placing the soles of his feet on Chase’s chest.

Chase grabbed Jeong-in’s ankles and brought them over his shoulders. Then, he began to thrust towards orgasm like a madman.

A sensation like an electric shock shot from inside his perineum to the crown of his head. Stars burst before his eyes. He felt like his brain was melting into a mush, turning him into an idiot.

“Chae… Chae…”

The extreme pleasure approaching orgasm sometimes brought fear. It felt like being pushed off a thousand-foot cliff.

Jeong-in looked up at Chase with tear-filled eyes and reached out a hand.

“Hng, hng, hold me…”

Chase immediately covered Jeong-in with his body. His large, hot body was so heavy it made it hard to breathe. Whether it was his shoulders, back, or forearms, everything he touched felt like solid stone.

Even if he had been born as something other than human, Jeong-in would have been captivated. Chase Prescott would have been a leader of the pack, wherever he was.

As their eyes met, and he thought Chase’s blue eyes resembled those of a wolf, Jeong-in stiffened his entire body and began to cum. As his massive dick plunged in and out, semen poured out as if being squeezed.

“Haa… I’m going to cum too… Hng, can I cum?”

Jeong-in nodded frantically.

As Chase lowered his head to look at their joined parts, Jeong-in quickly cupped his face with both hands, making him look at him.

Jeong-in loved watching Chase cum.

Chase often maintained an infuriatingly calm demeanor. The moment he lost that usual skill and composure was now. Seeing his face contort with an expression that seemed angry, or pained, gave him a more intense mental high than ever before.

“Agh… Hng… Jeong-in…”

Chase panted like a hungry beast before its prey.

“Hng… Ugh, kgh…”

He let out groans of great pain as he thrust his hips in an irregular rhythm. Watching him writhe in extreme pleasure, Jeong-in felt a secret delight.

His large, muscular body tensed and relaxed several times. Jeong-in could clearly feel Chase’s dick pulsing inside him, ejaculating.

Chase, who had been persistently thrusting even during orgasm, collapsed downward only after ejaculating the last drop.

The room, now several degrees hotter, was filled with their ragged breaths.

“Haa… Jeong-in… I love it so much…”

“Hng, you’re heavy…”

“I don’t want to pull out…”

Jeong-in tapped Chase’s back with his palm, urging him on. A sticky sound came from the skin slick with sweat.

As Chase slowly lifted his pelvis, his semi-erect dick, coated in cloudy semen, slid out with a squelching sound.

Plop. The mattress bounced as Chase lay down next to Jeong-in. His chest was still rising and falling heavily.

Jeong-in, lost in a state of exhaustion after staring at the ceiling for a long time, tried to push himself up by resting on his elbows.

“I’ll wash first.”

But his arm was caught, and he was pushed back onto the bed. Lying on his side, facing away from the bed, Chase pressed close behind Jeong-in.

“We’re changing the sheets anyway, let’s do it one more time.”

“You have work tomorrow. I’m tired.”

“You just stay still. I’ll handle everything. Okay?”

There was no time to wait for an answer. Chase wrapped an arm around Jeong-in’s waist, pulling him close, and rubbed his wet dick against the crevice of Jeong-in’s buttocks.

With a little friction, his dick, which was already regaining its hardness, found the entrance. Then, as if it were its home, it burrowed deep inside. The moist, relaxed interior smoothly accepted the large mass of flesh.

“Hng…”

Holding Jeong-in’s waist with one arm, Chase thrust his hips from behind. The sound of flesh hitting flesh mingled with the sticky sound of friction from the semen pooled inside.

“Haa… I love it so much.”

He thrust his hips rapidly in succession, and when the urge to climax washed over him, he paused briefly, gnawing and biting Jeong-in’s shoulder blades to stall. Then, as the urge subsided slightly, he began to move his body excitedly again. Jeong-in’s buttocks and thighs turned red as if he had been whipped.

“Hnngh, look at me. Please? Jeong-in… Look at me.”

Jeong-in turned his head back, and as expected, their lips met. Chase bit and sucked Jeong-in’s lips as if to bite them, then roughly inserted his tongue.

As if unable to insert his tongue freely, Chase grabbed Jeong-in’s jaw with his hand. His mouth opened wide enough to make his jawbone ache, and his thick tongue filled Jeong-in’s mouth. Because he had turned his head back so far, Jeong-in’s sternocleidomastoid muscles clearly stood out along his nape.

The bedroom was filled with the wet sounds of kissing and intertwined tongues for a while.

“Ah, ugh…”

Chase used the strength of his hips to sway his whole body like a wave. His dick, with its prominent coronal ridge, jabbed sharply at Jeong-in’s insides. The prostate, stimulated countless times, was swollen and sent an electric current through his limbs every time it was touched.

“Haaak, ugh… Chae! Heingh…”

“Mmm… Jeong-in, haa… Jeong-in…”

Chase pressed his lips to Jeong-in’s ear and kept calling his name, pleadingly.

Jeong-in’s body writhed uncontrollably, betraying his will. His limbs trembled erratically. He didn’t want to show such an unsightly display, but he couldn’t control it at all.

“Heeuungh…”

The inside of his abdomen tightened, and the area below Jeong-in’s sternum caved in. Along with that, his climax began. Before he could do anything, he had already poured a wet fluid onto the sheets.

It took Chase a bit longer to climax. He poured sticky moans into Jeong-in’s ear, his hips twitching rapidly.

Jeong-in’s insides, now sensitive after climaxing, writhed wildly. As the inner walls twisted and squeezed, Chase couldn’t hold back and ejaculated a second time. This time, it was also a tremendous amount, and it took a long time.

“Haa… Good…”

As if prolonging the afterglow of his climax, Chase stroked Jeong-in’s body here and there with his hands and kissed him.

“I love you, Jeong-in… I really love you.”

Listening to the confession tickling his ear, Jeong-in could no longer resist and drifted into a deep sleep.

He woke up with a suffocating feeling, as if something was pressing down on his body. The culprit was Chase’s arm, resting heavily on his chest.

He was holding Jeong-in’s body, who was lying on his back, as if a child clinging to its parent. However, for a child, his forearms were too thick and solid.

Jeong-in carefully pushed his arm away. Chase stirred in his sleep without opening his eyes, then lay flat on his back, facing the ceiling. Thinking it was fortunate he hadn’t woken up, Jeong-in carefully sat up.

His body felt clean when he felt around, and the bedsheets were as neat as if they were new. He saw the hamper by the bathroom filled with towels and bedsheets. Chase had wiped his body with a wet towel and even changed the sheets.

It was still dark outside the window. Jeong-in reached for the nightstand, picked up his phone, and checked the time.

4:50 AM. Not much time left until Chase had to wake up. Since he was already awake, Jeong-in decided to start his day a little early as well.

He remembered Chase’s efforts every morning to prepare without making a sound, a corner of his heart ached. Today, he decided to warm up some bread and make coffee while Chase showered.

To shake off the remaining sleep, Jeong-in leaned back against the headboard for a moment. Then, he looked down at Chase, who was lying beside him.

A blond man sleeping peacefully. His eyelashes were long, his nose bridge distinct, and his muscular chest rose and fell slowly with each breath. He looked like a young god from Greek mythology he had seen in cartoons as a child, sleeping right beside him.

It was understandable that Victoria might have mistaken him for a fictional character. Even he himself sometimes found it hard to believe that such a dazzling man was his.

Suddenly, he recalled Chase’s words and actions when he had encountered Victoria yesterday.

He had known Chase was a jealous person since he confessed that he was the one who had torn the postcard from Jeong-in’s locker, which Madison had decorated in high school.

He had thought things would improve as their days together increased, but Chase remained the same. Moreover, he seemed anxious lately.

Chase’s words echoed in his ears. There seemed to be sincerity hidden beneath his lighthearted tone, and it wasn’t something he could just dismiss.

“I love you. So much that I want to shout to the whole world that you are mine.”

In fact, Jeong-in had been having similar thoughts lately.

If there were ways to declare to the world that we belong to each other, what would they be?

Even Jeong-in, who prided himself on being smarter than most, became a little cautious before that question.