Chapter 93: Seon-Ho /Seo Yeon

I took her by the arm and sat her besides me as I finished all of the alcohol in sight. I tried to get up to look for more but she placed her small hands into mind and pulled me down and placed her hands on my face, pleading me with her eyes to stop. I could only look at her in sadness...before I pulled her onto my lap with my hands around her arms so she couldn't move as I placed my face into her neck and fell asleep, engulfing myself in her scent and warmth.

I woke up the next morning still a little drunk...with Yeon asleep on my chest holding onto fistfuls of my clothes as if she was clinging onto me. I thought I had forgotten what it was like to smile long ago but when I saw her in my arms all I could do was bury myself in her as if I was afraid of my own smile. I waited for her to wake up as I began to trace her features that I hardly took notice of before with my fingers. As I did, I couldn't help but to go from her face to her body, as lightly as I could. I was beginning feel things I had never felt before in my body. I should have stopped there I knew but I really honestly truly didn't want to. But before I could do anything more she had woken up and kissed me on the cheek suddenly out of nowhere before getting up and making her way to the door. I started to panic and I grabbed her by the arm "Where are you going?" I asked. She looked over at me "I I wasn't supposed to stay overnight, you know how Hwi is when he's back in the village" she replied sadly. She looked as dejected as I felt, but before I could say anything we both heard Hwi storming in, asking where his sister was, with Hui-Jee trying to pacify him. I grabbed Yeon and pulled her to my side and hid her behind my back before we heard him sigh and walk away. Hui-Jee then knocked on the door telling us that she told him that she invited Yeon to stay the night and the he wanted her to see him in a few days while he was here. We both sighed in relief and without saying a word to her I took her hand into mine and propped her onto my horse as I took her to my new place that I had renovated to suit my new job. I knew that she wasn't particularly fond of horses due to her height and I couldn't help but chuckle when she basically held onto me for dear life when I played around with my horse. She followed my lead without question and I loved her even more for it.

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I followed him without question; hoping to cure him off all his vices. He seemed to be in a better mood already. The whole ride I kept thinking about his actions last night; how intimate he was being with me in public, how he held me last night and how he held onto me all night long. There was a part of me that didn't dare to believe he could return my feelings after all these years but another part of me couldn't deny his behaviour towards me currently. I dared to lay my face into his neck and I felt him tremble a little. I smiled a little and gave him a small kiss on the neck that made his face grow hot. I think this was the happiest I had been in a very long time. But I wasn't too happy about him being close with the ginseng's in Ihwaru.

He helped me off the horse and took my hand on his and walked me to a slightly smaller mansion that his father's. The decorum was a bit plain to be honest and it was rather cold. I just shook my head "This place seriously needs a woman's touch" I said wistfully without thinking. He stopped for a second and replied "that's exactly what I was hoping for. I want it to suit my new position but I don't want it to be overly grand either. I will most definitely need your help with this". I was a little staled but I eventually agreed. He showed me around some more before leaving me to take a shower. I made way to kitchen which was surprisingly empty. From what I saw last night, I was beginning to worry if he was feeding himself or not, and why wasn't he keeping warm? And why where there just stacks of liquor and not much of anything else? Frustration took over me ad before I knew was cooking him a meal. This was pretty much the first time he was going to taste my cooking but that was the least of my worries right now.

Seon-Ho was domineering, a bully when he didn't get what he wanted from me and he used his power to bind me to him; but his devotion to me pierced me like an arrow lodged very deeply in my hear that I didn't even want to remove. Even though he took over certain parts of my life with an overbearing force, he did accept me for the troublesome brat I could be, which was more than I could ever had hoped for in our current day and age where most women were still locked up in their homes; married or otherwise. So I made sure to make the things I knew he liked. I found some material in the mansion nowhere in the back and started setting up dish after dish on what I could assemble to be a temporary table with cloths, chopsticks and glasses with only water. I set up some seats as well after figuring out that he didn't have any servants yet. I also helped clear his office space while he was getting dressed. I even managed to light the fire, ideally bringing warmth to the place.