Chapter 39

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Translator: Harry Potta
Chapter: 39
Chapter Title: Climax
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“Should I turn off the lights?”

“Huh?”

“I thought it might be less awkward if we can’t see.”

“Oh, okay.”

Taeseo went to the sunroom entrance and turned off even the string lights. A deep darkness fell over the cypress tub.

With the lights off, their view of the immediate area around the tub was obscured, but their surroundings became clearer. The chirping of insects, which they hadn't even noticed before, rang out sharply, and the scent of summer enveloping them grew stronger.

Only then did the two of them face each other in the darkness.

They had thought that blocking their sight would make them less conscious of each other. But instead, their other senses grew sharper.

The ripples in the water originating from each other, the sound of their breathing, even the soft plink of condensation dripping from the glass—every little thing stimulated their nerves.

“This is more awkward than I thought.”

“I know…”

Another silence followed, broken this time by Yuna.

“But why did you introduce me as your girlfriend?”

Why? Did he need a reason to introduce her as his girlfriend? If there was one, it was probably…

“After we’ve kissed, you want me to say we’re nothing to each other?”

“Oh…”

The aftershock of the word “kiss” was another suffocating silence.

Taeseo stared with a conflicted gaze at the gentle ripples spreading through the tub.

He was twenty-eight, and it wasn't as if he had no experience with women. He'd had girlfriends he'd slept with, and there was a time he'd frequented clubs for one-night stands.

He had always been proactive about releasing the heat that built up in his body, but for some reason, he acted like a complete novice in front of An Yuna.

This must all be because of An Yuna.

Her twenty-year-old shyness must have transferred to him, making him tense and bashful as well.

Just as he thought that, a scream-like cry of ‘Kaaang!’ echoed from somewhere.

Startled, Yuna shot up and scrambled toward Taeseo.

Her feet must have gotten tangled in the tub, and as she fell, Taeseo opened his arms and caught her.

With a splash, the water shot up in the shape of a crown. Fortunately, Yuna landed safely in Taeseo's arms.

“What… what was that sound?”

Yuna's pulse was racing, so fast it was palpable even through her bathrobe.

“Probably a water deer?”

Having been born and raised in Seongwu, there was no way Yuna wouldn't know the cry of a water deer.

“Oh, a water deer.”

She was probably startled because it was her first time hearing one where the walls were so thin, and because the sound had suddenly shattered the silence.

“There must be a lot of them around here. They make even more of a racket in the spring and fall.”

In fact, Taeseo's mother had been startled by the deer's cry several times while bathing here and had run out.

But that was in the spring and fall. He could understand them searching for mates in the spring or foraging for food in the fall, but he hadn't expected them to be lurking around houses in the summer too.

Taeseo brushed Yuna's wet hair back from her face as she trembled in his arms, and on impulse, he kissed her round forehead.

Yuna looked up at Taeseo.

Taeseo slowly traced her lips with his thumb.

A faint tremor still lingered on her forehead where his lips had touched, and on her lips where his finger had brushed.

He couldn't tell if the trembling was from the shock of the deer's cry or the subtle tension between them, but it felt as if Yuna's entire body was pulsing against his hand.

“Still scared?”

“…Yes.”

“Then how about this?”

Taeseo wrapped his arms around her, lifting her onto his lap. Then he covered her small lips with his own.

Lips heated by the warmth of the bath, saliva hotter than usual, the warm spring water enveloping their bodies. But hotter than all of that was the breath they shared.

Their tangled breaths grew ragged. Louder than the sound of the water sloshing with their movements was the wet sound of their tongues entwining, which bored into their ears.

Taeseo delved deep into Yuna's mouth, his tongue playing over hers.

His hand found the knot of her bathrobe. The knot loosened, and the robe slipped down.

The moonlight reflecting off the water illuminated her rounded shoulders. Scattered across them were the blue hydrangea petals Taeseo had sprinkled.

Taeseo pressed his lips to a petal on Yuna's shoulder. He crushed it with his lips, and the skin beneath flushed red.

He moved his lips downward, following the petals dotted on her white skin.

Lifting her as if to hold her up, he positioned her on top of him, using his lips to part her bathrobe and slowly strip her bare.

Perhaps after this, their relationship could never be the same.

His desire to leave Seongwu as soon as possible might be replaced by a wish to stay longer because of this woman. Or perhaps, because of her, the land compensation issue that could have been easily resolved would now become complicated.

Everything except his relationship with An Yuna would likely stall. It was clear that everything but his own heart and desire would go awry.

But his craving for Yuna was so distinct that he couldn't possibly ignore it of his own will.

He rubbed the peak of her breast with his fingertip. The round breast yielded to his touch before regaining its shape.

Soft, yet firm. Not large, but a beautiful handful. He caressed it, letting out a breath of admiration.

Had a woman's breast always been this beautiful? Taeseo nipped the tip he had been teasing with his thumb, then let go.

A peak as pointed as a rosebud. He kissed the pale tip several times before voicing a belated question.

“Can I suck it?”

“What?”

Even though he'd asked directly, Yuna didn't seem to understand.

Taeseo playfully touched her breast with his finger, as if to show her what he meant. A ripple-like tremor passed over it.

“Can I suck this?”

A place no one had touched, a place she had never even touched herself. Taeseo brushed the tip of her breast as if drawing a picture.

Instead of an answer, a moan escaped her lips.

Ah, ah… The faint, soft moan was as good as an answer.

Without hesitation, he buried his face in her chest. Pulling her waist close against him, he took her breast in his mouth.

He took enough of the flesh to fill his mouth and scraped the peak with the tip of his tongue.

Yuna's breath quickened. Through her thin, pale skin, her heartbeat transmitted to Taeseo.

Whether from his own saliva or the spring water, the flesh rolling in his mouth was as smooth as a peeled, boiled egg.

He had never known that taking another's flesh into his mouth could be this pleasurable.

He suckled her breast like a child while peeling off the wet cloth covering her body.

The skin his hands touched was as smooth as silk. Even as he touched her, he wanted to touch her more, to brand the soft flesh as his own.

The moment a strange, unfamiliar impulse gripped him, Taeseo bit down on her nipple.

“Ah!”

Yuna clutched his head. Her spine went rigid.

His fingers traced down her spine before gripping her rounded buttocks.

Resilient flesh, a soft body. Every part of her fit perfectly in his hand.

Taeseo's lips left her breast and moved down to her solar plexus, then her navel.

Doing as he guided, Yuna straightened up in the water, leaning on him.

Taeseo kissed her stomach. His hand caressed the space between her legs.

Just as Yuna's body tensed, Taeseo's own center grew rigid.

An urge rose in him to rub himself against her soft, yielding skin. No, perhaps it was the urge to bury himself inside her.

Feeling a desperate, simmering itch, he settled Yuna on his lap.

With his hardened self nestled between her thighs, he once again captured her lips.

“Hmph!”

Once again, their tongues entwined. As he rubbed against the rough papillae on her tongue, he moved his body back and forth between her thighs.

Living creatures were truly a mystery.

This must have been her first time, yet every time he moved his hips, Yuna tightened her legs, squeezing him.

Was the slickness between her legs from the water? Or was it from the fluid that flowed from her?

Taeseo supported Yuna's waist with one hand and kneaded her breast with the other, as if it might burst.

He rubbed her peak with his thumb and forefinger while his lips caressed the inside of her mouth, mimicking the act itself.

The water sloshed.

Their reflection in the water, now one body, shattered on the ripples.

Yuna's body swayed in time with Taeseo's movements.

Only the sound of splashing water filled the air.

The water deer beyond the wall seemed to have moved on, its presence gone. The insects, too, had fallen silent. Even the moonlight had hidden behind the clouds. Or perhaps his senses, completely consumed by Yuna, were merely perceiving it that way.

They weren't fully joined, but Taeseo rubbed himself against the point of pleasure hidden between Yuna's legs.

Yuna's body grew hot. Her breathing became shallow. Her shoulders tensed, becoming rigid.

Taeseo lowered his hand and rubbed her peak, hidden between her legs.

At that moment, a hot breath burst from her mouth, muffled by his lips.

It was her climax.

Taeseo's lips descended on Yuna's forehead. The sticky fluid from her body soaked his lower half.

In the throes of her climax, Yuna's face was as beautiful as a flower in full bloom, and like a greedy man, Taeseo devoured every part of it with his kisses.

A little more, just a little more.

Taeseo held Yuna's waist firmly with both hands, using the fluid she'd produced as lubricant to rub against her even faster.

Before long, a cloudy, viscous fluid, entirely different from the spring water, hotly drenched Yuna's stomach.

Ah…

It was Taeseo's climax.