Burning The House Of Cards: taking revenge on my billionaire family
Chapter 109 - 108. Baby Steps

Chapter 109: Chapter 108. Baby Steps

"This is unexpected..." Sarah muttered while stroking the dark hair strewn across her chest.

Her clothed chest.

"What?" Hajin raised his head, a smirk on his lips. "Did you think I’d fuck you all night in all positions, Princess? Or have you swallowed my--"

"Your mouth!" Sarah smacked the naughty lips lightly, glaring at the curling grey eyes. "...but yes."

Hajin just laughed and lay his head back on her chest. When Sarah said she’d let Hajin do anything, she was ready for some weird request--even some spanking and bonding. She thought it was an apt reward for seeing Hajin looking all pathetic.

When else could Sarah see this perfect man dripping snot, sweat, and tears?

Sol said Hajin didn’t even look like that after a gas chamber simulation while training in Aegis.

And yet, they didn’t even strip. All Hajin did was pull Sarah to bed and hold her loosely while lying his head over her chest. For a full minute, Sarah could only blink in confusion, thinking if the man was doing some trick.

But he didn’t. Hajin just lay there, inhaling and exhaling softly, and when Sarah moved her hand curiously to stroke his head, she heard something that suspiciously sounded like a purr.

It really did seem like Hajin just wanted to...cuddle.

"I’m confident about seducing you physically, but..." Hajin muttered, stroking the girl’s waist absentmindedly. "You wouldn’t let me do this kind of thing easily, would you?"

"Well, that’s..."

Sarah bit her lips, thinking about what she would do if Hajin asked for something like this without a ’ticket’. Her face heated all of a sudden, and Sarah turned her head away.

"It’s kind of... embarrassing."

It was something new for her to be in this kind of relationship. Somehow, the physical aspect was easier since she couldn’t think much during sex anyway. But this...tenderness was something new. Lying there, in bed, limbs tangling and skin against each other and yet with no lust squirming around them.

This...cuddling...was a bit too much for someone who had been locking her heart and was new to affection.

Naturally, Hajin knew that--hence why the ’anything’ ticket worth so much more used for this kind of stuff than a mere adventurous sexual activity.

Looking at the face glowing softly from a relaxed laugh, Sarah asked curiously. "You...really like this?"

Hajin looked up and smiled. "It’s nice hearing your heartbeat."

Sarah’s eyes widened slightly. The answer didn’t sound like a flirty comment, carrying a solemnity that reminded her of his promise to protect her.

"Were you always doing that?" Sarah asked quietly. "Checking my heartbeat."

"Mm..." Hajin hummed. "My mother died in her sleep."

Sarah felt her heart stop beating for a second. "Oh..."

Hajin chuckled and raised his head again, propping himself to hover above the girl and stroking her cheeks. "You’re very soft-hearted, Princess," he leaned down and kissed the bitten lips. "I’m going to keep taking advantage of that, you know?"

Sarah rolled her eyes. "Wow...what an asshole."

Hajin smirked and whispered against her lips. "But this asshole holds your heart, you know~"

"So confident," Sarah scoffed, pinching and stretching the bodyguard’s cheeks as punishment. "I’m going to take it back if you don’t behave."

Again, Hajin just laughed and let Sarah do whatever to his face. To him, in fact. And Sarah enjoyed it too, squeezing the man’s face and making the handsome face look all silly until she couldn’t hold back her laughter.

But as her mind remembered what Hajin said about his mother, Sarah couldn’t help but think about her remaining parent. Her laughter diminished gradually as her face turned contemplative.

"Father--" she paused, and then corrected herself. "The chairman’s condition seemed weird."

It was the second time she saw him that frail-looking. The first time, she just thought the old man was tired from the party--and perhaps a little argument with the mistress. But as a chairman of a group, he would have gone to a doctor if his condition were bad, so Sarah had expected the old man to be back on his usual vigor not long after, especially because he also consumed all kinds of herbal medicines to support his adventurous lifestyle.

Hajin propped his head against the pillow and offered an answer. "Stress?"

"What kind of stress would make him that tired?" Sarah scoffed. "He wasn’t even fazed when he still had three women in the mansion and things became chaotic."

"But he wasn’t this old back then," Hajin shrugged.

"True, but it’s still weird," Sarah twisted her lips, brows furrowed in curiosity. "It’s understandable if he looked like that later, once we detonate the bomb. But there’s not enough stuff to faze him at this point, isn’t there? It’s not like he cares about Axton or Jasper..."

Hajin stroked the furrowed brows to smooth them. "We’ve gotten the devices, so maybe we’ll find something after the little lamb does her job."

Sarah chuckled at the thought of her little spy. "She’s almost a shepherd now. Anyway, get off--you’re heavy," she pushed away the head that was about to lay on her again.

"Oh, come on, Princess. It had only been--"

The whine stopped when Hajin froze, blinking in surprise as Sarah shuffled and shifted, slotting herself between Hajin’s arms and laying her head on his broad chest. The girl exhaled softly and curled herself, muttering against his shirt.

"What can I do if you’re so heavy?" she mumbled. "Do you want to crush me to death?"

Hajin grinned widely, circling his arms around his princess and hugged her tightly. So tight Sarah coughed at the pressure.

"Ugh--"

Hajin whispered through his grin. "I can crush you like this too, you know~"

Sarah smacked the constraining arms. "Bad puppy!"

Hajin laughed and, while the hold loosened, he didn’t let go of her until the morning came.

* * *

"Hello!"

Sarah strolled into her company, looking all fresh and radiant. Embracing her COO role, she no longer came looking like a celebrity at a club. She shifted to a celebrity doing office lady cosplay with a branded blouse and a tight skirt. The sound of her stilettos was almost as loud as her cheerful greeting.

"Oh--"

The receptionist and the employees were already used to her loud entrance, but they still got surprised every time she appeared. After all, she did it randomly; she would come diligently for several days and stay until late, and then didn’t come at all for a few days. She would come one day, and then not, and then come again. Sometimes she would come in the morning, sometimes in the afternoon. She would spend a whole day in the office one day, and then only an hour the next.

It was like everything was done according to her mood.

But the employees didn’t really care. While her presence brought tension--they didn’t want to offend her after all--the second young miss just spent time in her office with that handsome bodyguard of hers. She didn’t bother them, didn’t hound them for work or scold them for nothing. They didn’t even have to prepare her drink or anything--since the bodyguard did everything.

She was just there, sometimes bringing a box of cakes or other food for the employees. Sometimes, when she was there during lunch hour, she would order her lunch and suddenly, the employee would have whatever she was having delivered to them, be it regular pizza and burger or a whole ass box of expensive sushi.

What’s not to like?

The employees stood up instead of freezing this time, bending their waists at the sight of coffee and a bag from a famous bakery. "Good day, Miss!"

"Feels like it’s been a while since I came here," Sarah laughed while Hajin placed the bags of coffee and bread on the receptionist desk. "Is the CEO here?"

The receptionist shifted her gaze away from the bag emitting a delicious aroma. "No, Miss. The CEO is away on a meeting."

Sarah’s eyes gleamed at that. The CEO had never been away every time she was in the company, so it had been a bit hard to make a move. It was a hard chance to come by, so...

Sarah groaned.

"Oh, what to do? Uncle Park wants to see me later, but I haven’t studied anything at all," she pursed her lips and clasped her cheeks in worry. "Uncle CEO said he’d give me some summaries, but...did he leave anything before going?"

"Uhh...I don’t think so, Miss..."

Sarah stomped her feet, and the employees gulped, worried that the young miss would explode for the first time. Without the CEO there, what could they do? They looked at each other, eyes asking the same thing. What to do now?!

"I’ll make the summary, Master."

And then, the handsome bodyguard came to their rescue.

The young miss gasped and turned around, eyes sparkling as she laid her hand on the man’s chest. "You’ll do that, puppy?"

"If you give me the order," the man smiled charmingly.

"Oh, as expected of my puppy!" the young miss clasped his cheeks and kissed his lips briefly, beaming as she turned her head to the employees again. "Can you bring all the proposals and the projects you’ve done to my office?"

"E-everything, Miss?" the receptionist cleared her throat.

"Of course! I have no idea what Uncle Park will test me with!" Sarah pursed her lips and flicked her gaze briefly toward the CEO’s secretary. "You can bring them to us, Sunny."

"Y-yes, Miss!"

Sarah smiled sweetly and, after telling the employees to enjoy the treat, strolled to her office with a deep smile.

It’s time to see if they could get their second little spy.