The Smell of Something Fishy Chapter 11.4

Like a broken doll spouting words at random, Yeonseo laid bare the inner self he had hidden for so long.

“I came to… love you.”

An undeserved greed.

“It was okay even when you tormented me. B-boyfriend… I liked it when you called me your lover.”

A desire that was not satisfied even after possessing.

“Mr. Tae Shinju… I liked you more and more, so much.”

The attention he craved because he couldn’t bring himself to ask for his love, and therefore, the thirst that was never quite quenched.

“…I was happy. That there was something I could do for you. All my firsts were with you… I think I wanted to have your first. And also… rather than lose Hyung in front of my eyes again….”

Drip, drip, the tears that fell ceaselessly now held a sorrowful warmth.

“Eoh-heong….”

Please understand. My sincere heart, this much at least is a feeling that does not fall short of yours, you who have everything.

“Th-then why… heuk, why are you… saying things like that.”

I love you, Hyung…. I liked you first.

Yeonseo sobbed, not even knowing what he was babbling. He felt more and more sorrowful. He liked him first, and he had only done what he could for Hyung, yet he felt wronged by the current situation where he was being questioned.

The tear-soaked sense of injustice even silenced Tae Shinju.

‘I had guessed that he would have done it for my sake, but….’

“That… is all in the past. It ended a long time ago.”

“Heuk… b-but when Hyung was suffering, I couldn’t be of any help….”

Only six years old. A small child whose best course of action was to run and report it to the police.

It was a time when both Park Yeonseo and Tae Shinju were young.

Tae Shinju held Yeonseo tightly. He presses the back of his head, pulling his upper body closer.

“You grew up.”

“Ah…!”

A large hand squeezed his soft buttock. At the unexpected lewdness, Yeonseo flinched in Tae Shinju’s arms.

“What do you mean you did nothing. You grew up enough for me to… fuck Like a broken doll spouting words at random, Yeonseo laid bare the inner self he had hidden for so long.

“I came to… love you.”

An undeserved greed.

“It was okay even when you tormented me. B-boyfriend… I liked it when you called me your lover.”

A desire that was not satisfied even after possessing.

“Mr. Tae Shinju… I liked you more and more, so much.”

The attention he craved because he couldn’t bring himself to ask for his love, and therefore, the thirst that was never quite quenched.

“…I was happy. That there was something I could do for you. All my firsts were with you… I think I wanted to have your first. And also… rather than lose Hyung in front of my eyes again….”

Drip, drip, the tears that fell ceaselessly now held a sorrowful warmth.

“Eoh-heong….”

Please understand. My sincere heart, this much at least is a feeling that does not fall short of yours, you who have everything.

“Th-then why… heuk, why are you… saying things like that.”

I love you, Hyung…. I liked you first.

Yeonseo sobbed, not even knowing what he was babbling. He felt more and more sorrowful. He liked him first, and he had only done what he could for Hyung, yet he felt wronged by the current situation where he was being questioned.

The tear-soaked sense of injustice even silenced Tae Shinju.

‘I had guessed that he would have done it for my sake, but….’

“That… is all in the past. It ended a long time ago.”

“Heuk… b-but when Hyung was suffering, I couldn’t be of any help….”

Only six years old. A small child whose best course of action was to run and report it to the police.

It was a time when both Park Yeonseo and Tae Shinju were young.

Tae Shinju held Yeonseo tightly. He presses the back of his head, pulling his upper body closer.

“You grew up.”

“Ah…!”

A large hand squeezed his soft buttock. At the unexpected lewdness, Yeonseo flinched in Tae Shinju’s arms.

“What do you mean you did nothing. You grew up enough for me to… fuck your tits and pussy, didn’t you.”

“Aheut….”

“You grew up enough for me to… fuck your tits and pussy, didn’t you.”

“Aheut….”

“Because you reported it in time, my finger is fine too. And with that hand, I dug into my baby’s cunt and even got you pregnant with twins, so why do you think you did nothing.”

The hand that had been gripping his buttock came around to the front and pressed down firmly with its palm exactly where his pussy was located.

Even Tae Shinju hadn’t expected to be touching Yeonseo’s pussy as soon as he regained consciousness. Before the crotch of the hospital gown could get wet, he thrust his hand inside the underwear and touched the soft skin, then slid his middle finger through the folds of the pussy lips. Unfortunately, since the cave had been dry for a while, nothing came off on it.

Wanting to at least taste the texture, the man licked the finger that had swept the pussy and planted kisses all over the flushed face. Then, unable to hold back, he bit his cheek. He licked the soaked cheek with his lips and sucked on his eyelids as if to swallow even his eyeballs.

“Never again.”

In the gap while moving his lips elsewhere, Tae Shinju warned him. It was a plea that looked like a warning.

“Never do that again. Just stay in my arms. Stay by my side, and reassure me. Because that’s something only you can do, Mr. Park Yeonseo.”

“Yes… yes. I’ll do that.”

“I won’t forgive you if you regret it. No, it’s useless even if you do regret it. You are now trapped with me forever. Do you understand?”

Perhaps that was the last trace of his remaining conscience.

Even though he has no intention of letting him go even if he says he regrets it.

Yeonseo hugged Tae Shinju with dazed, excited eyes.

“I love you….”

Aah… you young thing. So young that you are lovely and simply make me sigh.

Why are you so pretty. Why were you born so fragile. Making one’s heart ache.

Tae Shinju lifted Yeonseo onto his lap. As their lips met, even the hint of a smile disappeared.

“Heup…!”

No more laughter comes out. His brows furrowed endlessly and he grew increasingly breathless.

He was suffocating like crazy while Yeonseo was gone. Only after feeling Yeonseo’s presence and holding him in his arms could he breathe somewhat.

“Huu….”

If this is love, it is truly a tenacious thing. It’s not the soft, fluffy feeling commonly associated with ‘love’, but a much darker, suffocating feeling, as if trapped in an abyss.

Nevertheless, Tae Shinju liked this thing called love. Whatever it may be, it could serve as a rope to tie Park Yeonseo to him for life. The opposite was also true. He too could settle down with Park Yeonseo for life in the name of love.

If that’s what love is, it truly wasn’t bad.

And it was certain that as long as the love continued, Park Yeonseo would not run away in such a manner again. For the sake of the future he desired, Tae Shinju intended to love Park Yeonseo passionately.

During the long kiss, Yeonseo stopped crying. Tae Shinju left small kisses on Yeonseo’s lips and seriously considered.

Can I kiss him one more time and then call the doctor?

🕷️

After finishing his check-up, Yeonseo fell asleep with a peaceful expression. His body wasn’t well, so he might have looked haggard in the hospital, but his face, with its faint smile, was also pure in its gauntness.

‘This is serious.’

Tae Shinju stepped out of the hospital room for the first time in days. His feet were reluctant to move, but there was something he needed to tie up. If he had to go, it was better to do it while Yeonseo was asleep.

Baek Heonjae, who had been waiting in the reception room, naturally fell in step behind him.

“What about Tae Hyunwoong?”

“I’ve prepared a place for him in the basement.”

“The basement…. It brings back old memories.”

In the basement of Keumwoong Hospital, there was a room known only to a few. A place that could, in a sense, be called a high-security VIP room. Tae Shinju had once stayed there.

Secretly having his finger sewn back on, trying everything to find his lost memories… he had been locked up in a prison-like hospital room.

That was a story from over a decade ago. Even though he remembers the events of that time vividly, he no longer gets excited or trembles with rage. He had become that much more skilled at controlling his expression, and he also understood. After all, he himself had now locked Tae Hyunwoong in the same place as his father had.

‘Though the intentions are different.’

Ding.

Just then, the elevator reached the basement floor. It was chilly, as it was where the morgue was located.

Tae Shinju passed through the door that Baek Heonjae opened and set foot in the hospital room that was like the Minotaur’s labyrinth. As if to hide their shame, not only did they put the hospital room in the basement, but one had to go down stairs again from there to reach the desired destination.

A fishy smell….

It wasn’t clear if the smell, which was like the metallic smell of iron or the fishy smell of water, was real, or if it just felt that way because of the cold air stinging his nasal passages. However, from the cement walls with peeling paint here and there, Tae Shinju read the barbarity of a bygone era.

Could a gangster family, if old enough, be described as having a long and distinguished history? The building, constructed at least in his great-grandfather’s time, must have been focused on the purpose of hiding and recovering bodies away from the public eye. Or the opposite, capturing enemies and torturing them.

As times changed, the nameless building became a respectable hospital, and the place where traces of the old days remained became known to extremely few. Even Tae Shinju only learned of the basement’s existence after entering it himself. If he hadn’t had to go in then, would he have only found out when he inherited the group?

‘Maybe I wouldn’t have known.’

Since Chairman Tae had tried so hard to raise a successor who was free of the gangster blood.

If he had been his father, he would have completely demolished the basement floor first when renovating the building. But he had deliberately left this place.

Tae Shinju felt he understood that sentiment a little.

No matter how much you pretend not to know, turn a blind eye, and drain the blood, you cannot deny your roots.

His father, his grandfather, and his grandfather’s father must have all hidden their shame somewhere and repeated the same deeds until it rotted and festered, or the rotten smell became too strong to hide any longer.

Beep, beep….

Tae Hyunwoong was lying motionless.

“His condition?”

“It seems he is leaning towards brain death.”

Even if he wasn’t brain-dead, it meant they would make him so.

“Hmm.”

Tae Shinju scanned the rather spacious hospital room meaninglessly. Brain-dead or not, Tae Hyunwoong would not leave this place alive. Unlike with Yeonseo, Tae Shinju felt no guilt whatsoever for imprisoning this thing.

“Wooljung said they would cover the expenses.”

“My eldest uncle?”

“Yes.”

“What’s the demand?”

It was obvious without even looking. He must want me to get his sons out.

The abandoned factory incident was concluded as a dispute between organizations. Tae Shinju added a little spice to it and framed his hyung-deul, Taesan and Taehyuk, as the ringleaders. Since the police had been dispatched due to the mansion’s alarm, all he had to do was hand over a copy of the CCTV footage. In the process, Tae Hyunwoong became a moron who was tricked by his cousins into participating in the crime, but that was expected. His stepmother wouldn’t stand idly by when her own son was involved.

Since he himself was injured, and unlike Tae Hyunwoong whose attempt ended in failure, his cousins were arrested at the scene. A large part of it was that they were found entangled with the gang members. Of course, the influence of his stepmother, who had to get her son out, would have played a part too.

Tae Shinju smiled brightly.

“Refuse. My little brother is a respectable adult too, he should pay his hospital bills with his own money.”

“Yes.”

The assets he earned by swindling others are still assets, and Tae Shinju planned to make him spend his money lavishly on this occasion.

“I’ll let him spend the money he earned like that without reservation, so let’s see how well he lives.”

He had pondered it even as he came down the stairs.

Should I kill this bastard or not. What would make him suffer more.

He rubbed his chin with his index finger.

“Since I’m about to become a father soon… I should probably try to be a bit more kind-hearted.”

I should keep Tae Hyunwoong alive only until his assets run out.

“Liquidate all businesses owned by Tae Hyunwoong in the near future.”

“Yes.”

“What should I do about the loan shark business….”

With the idiot who acted as the boss now lying in a hospital bed, the position of person in charge was vacant again. It might be time to truly get rid of it.

His business with Tae Hyunwoong was finished with this. At most, he might see him at his funeral. He was willing to meet the corpse of Tae Hyunwoong one more time.

I’ll think about that when the time comes.

Tae Shinju turned around with a sense of relief. His footsteps as he returned to his beloved were incredibly light.

Having regained consciousness, Yeonseo recovered smoothly. After being fed this and that, being told that one must eat well during recovery, his skin regained its glow.

Yeonseo had an excited expression. It was understandable, as he had just returned from a check-up at the obstetrics and gynecology clinic.

Perhaps sensing the intense gaze on him, he scratches his cheek with an embarrassed look.

“It’s amazing. That it’s really twins….”

“I’m not that surprised.”

Because I felt your pussy widening to fit my cock.

“Eut….”

At the lewd whisper, Yeonseo’s ear and cheek flushed red. Tae Shinju bit the reddened ear gently so it wouldn’t hurt.

“A person who got pregnant with two babies at once is still shy about words like this? Wanting to eat your husband’s cock so much your pussy spreads wide….”

“I-I was wrong. I was wrong.”

Yeonseo frantically tried to cover Tae Shinju’s mouth, as if he would jump up and down. Even if he acted shy, pretending he wasn’t such a lewd man, Tae Shinju was not one to miss the heat in those eyes.

Pretending not to know after pissing yourself while eating cock….

Thinking that it might be Yeonseo’s own way of being cute, Tae Shinju chuckled.

“Alright. They say you can have sex even during pregnancy, so don’t be too disappointed. I’ve prepared a device to help with safe sex. I’ll give it to you as a discharge gift, so look forward to it.”

“……Yeees….”

Look at this.

The person who pretends not to, but in the end answers in a voice only his husband can hear, was Park Yeonseo. Tae Shinju found his unspeakably lewd lover incredibly cute.

It was a bright, sunny day. Warm sunlight streamed in through the window, and a slightly chilly, yet softened, wind blew. It seemed spring was trying to come early, as this year was warming up faster than usual.

Spring.

The cold winter passes, and a season of beautifully colored flowers arrives.

Tae Shinju suddenly found himself staring at Yeonseo’s side profile. Cheeks with a faint blush remaining. Large, gentle eyes and soft lips. He looks like he grew up just as he was when he was young, yet he gives the impression of being a completely different person.

“……?”

Come to think of it, when I first made a move on Park Yeonseo, it was this face that I liked.

“Is there… something on my face?”

Yeonseo fumbles and strokes his cheek. With his head tilted slightly, Tae Shinju opened his mouth.

“Mr. Park Yeonseo.”

“Yes?”

“Mr. Yeonseo.”

“……?”

“Yeonseo-ya.”

From Yeonseo’s nape to his forehead, his entire face flushed in an instant. Thump, thump, thump, thump…. His chest feels tight from the suddenly explosive heartbeat.

‘He could at least give me a signal before calling me like that….’

Although he often speaks informally, isn’t this the first time he’s softly called just his name, ‘Yeonseo-ya’?

The deep, low voice was always his type, and the gorgeous features sparkled even more under the sunlight. Yeonseo glanced at the man like a boy suffering from his first love. The times when his breath caught at a single glance from that man would come to mind just when he was about to forget.

It’s the same now. Whether their eyes meet or their hands touch, Yeonseo was invariably flustered in front of Tae Shinju.

“Hmm. So this is it.”

Tae Shinju muttered an incomprehensible monologue.

When Yeonseo’s eyes filled with question, he reached out his arm, brushed the flushed cheek with his thumb, and said.

“Yeonseo-ya. Shall we get married.”

Is this what it feels like to faint while fully conscious?

Yeonseo’s jaw dropped blankly. Tae Shinju’s thumb moved to his red lips. He was smiling comfortably.

“I want to call you the mother of our baby… and now I can’t breathe if I don’t see your face.”

The calmly murmured confession sounded less like a confession and more like a confessional. I was wrong. I repent for my past days. So please, give yourself to me now.

The man who had been so lewd looked as pious as a clergyman before God.

“Save me, Yeonseo-ya.”

Hm? The habit of his voice rising at the end was still present even in the fantasy where Tae Shinju had turned into a clergyman. The way he brought the tip of his nose close and gave a peck, peck, was not a fantasy.

“I love you.”

The fantasy of him clad in a black priest’s robe shattered with a sharp sound. Yeonseo looked straight at his confessing lover. It wasn’t easy to gaze steadily because of the tears that had already welled up, but he didn’t want to miss even a sliver of his gaze.

Tae Shinju. Tae Shinju….

Even before I knew your name, I—.

“Heuk…. M-me too. I… love you too.”

Before you, from a long, long time ago, I have only looked at you.

“Haha….”

Tae Shinju laughed out loud for the first time in a while. He licks Yeonseo’s cheek with his lips.

“It’s my first time too.”

“Yes…?”

“Love is a first for me. You are my first love, Mr. Yeonseo.”

Heuk…. Heo-eong.

Yeonseo, who finally burst into loud sobs, hugged his lover. He throws away any hesitation and embraces him tightly.

Tae Shinju’s shoulders shook again.

“You didn’t cry even when we played so dirty, but when I say I love you, you’re a total water faucet.”

Though that’s cute. The man who spoke to himself hugged Yeonseo back.

Heart and heart meet.

“When I confess, I want to see you smile….”

“Heuk….”

Yeonseo tried to force his tears to stop, but failed. Tae Shinju sighed lightly while kneading his lover’s buttocks.

Well, not doing as I wish is our Yeonseo.

In any case, the buttocks were soft and felt good to knead, and the brilliantly sunny day, and even Yeonseo who had finally become a water faucet, were all perfect.

So,

“Tell me when you’re done crying. I need to have a taste of that well-cooked clam.”

“Heu, aaht…!”

This is happiness.