episode_0015

Minho entered the emergency room and saw Mira lying on a patient bed. Mira, who had not yet regained consciousness, lay quietly with her eyes closed.

It seemed her clothes had been changed to a hospital gown due to the previous vomit. As Minho watched Mira worriedly, the emergency room doctor approached and asked.

“Are you this patient’s guardian?”

“Ah, yes. That’s right. How is her condition? Will she be okay?”

“There doesn’t seem to be anything unusual with her body. Has the patient experienced severe stress recently?”

Minho recalled what happened this morning. There was no way Mira hadn’t been stressed by it.

“Yes, she has, but…”

“I see. It’s called neurocardiogenic syncope, a symptom that occurs in situations of severe stress. It’s the most common type of fainting. While there’s nothing much to worry about, she should rest and be observed, so it would be best for her to be admitted for now.”

“When might she be discharged?”

“It depends on her condition, but it should be in about a day or two.”

“Yes, I understand.”

Minho, after leaving the emergency room, sat on a waiting room chair and let out the breath he had been holding. He had worried Mira’s condition might be serious, but it seemed his fears were unfounded.

Fainting was serious, of course, but Yunyoung had worried that Mira might lose consciousness forever and never return.

With the doctor, an expert, saying it wasn’t that serious, he felt much more at ease.

When Mira, who was getting dressed to leave the motel, suddenly vomited and then fainted, his heart truly trembled with dread. No matter how much he shook her, she wouldn’t regain consciousness… This situation was new to him, so his hands trembled as he called the fire department.

It would have been a disaster if she had died, so it was a great relief that she had gotten through it safely. As the tension he had been under finally relaxed, Minho felt hungry.

After going to a nearby restaurant to eat, Minho returned to find Mira had already been moved to a hospital room.

He asked the nurse at the desk for her room number, confirmed it, and then went to find her. She was in a four-person room, but there were no other patients besides Mira. Seeing how desolate it was, it seemed the hospital wasn’t doing well.

He recalled that the emergency room had also been relatively quiet.

Mira was lying by the window. Seeing her lying in a hospital gown, memories of last night suddenly began to resurface.

It had been dark then, so he couldn’t see anything, but in such a bright place, every part of Mira was clearly visible.

Starting from the moment his lips had overlapped with her attractive light pink lips, the sensation of stroking her thighs and fondling her breasts vividly returned to his hands.

At some point, Minho’s breathing grew ragged.

-1-

It had been a long time since he’d felt a woman’s body, ever since breaking up with his girlfriend a few months ago. Moreover, the person wasn’t a stranger, but Mira. The twisted emotions and sense of immorality that came with being intimate with someone he knew made it even more thrilling.

Minho looked at Mira lying on the bed by the window.

With her eyelids closed, she looked very beautiful. Her eyelashes were long and dense, and her skin looked smooth and soft. Moreover, from last night’s events, he was well aware of Mira’s hidden physique. The sensation of her body from yesterday remained vivid in his hands.

Mira usually didn’t dress up, so her body was hidden, but she possessed a rather excellent figure. Even though she was wearing a hospital gown, thinking of yesterday made it seem as if her alluring body was fully revealed.

Her rather large breasts were prominent enough to be noticeable even under the loose hospital gown, and her hair partially covering her face and neck looked sensual.

Just by looking at her, the memories of yesterday kept resurfacing. Her soft, delicate skin felt pleasant just to caress, and her secret parts too…

He swallowed.

Minho swallowed and turned his head, gazing down the corridor through the open door of the hospital room.

Perhaps because it was a quiet hospital, no patients passed by, and only nurses occasionally appeared and disappeared at a fast pace. Even if passersby weren’t likely to pay attention to this room, it bothered him that it was an exposed space.

Minho pulled the patient privacy curtain, half-closing it. Fully closing it would be too obvious and might attract the nurses’ attention.

If he only covered the side facing the door, it wouldn’t seem suspicious at all if he excused it by saying he put up the screen because he was bothered by passersby’s gazes.

In this environment, he could move discreetly without being caught by anyone.

Minho thought he shouldn’t, but once his libido surged, it easily overpowered his reason and began to consume him.

Moreover, the excitement and sense of immorality he felt in this situation, as tense as it was, provided a unique stimulation he couldn’t find elsewhere.

Minho reached out his hand to Mira’s quietly sleeping body.

Kneading.

Fidgeting.

He didn’t know how much time had passed. What was certain was that he could no longer suppress the surging desire just from touching her.

How wonderful it would be if he could embrace the soft skin visible before his eyes—

But no matter how much the curtains covered them, doing such a thing in a four-person hospital room was impossible. It could be discerned by sounds or shadows beyond the curtain, and if he were caught, it would undoubtedly become a huge problem.

Instead, Minho tried to kiss Mira’s attractive lips, if only to satisfy himself. The moment he moved his head towards Mira’s charming, reddish lips, Mira slightly shifted her body.

Startled, Minho quickly sat back in the caregiver’s chair and pretended nothing had happened. Soon after, “Mmm…”

Mira let out a soft groan and opened her eyes. Realizing she was lying in an unfamiliar place, she looked around in confusion until her gaze met Minho, who was sitting beside her.

Minho froze completely. Not only was he anxious that she might have noticed what he had just done, but the incident at the motel also weighed on his mind.

Even if she hadn’t fortunately noticed what he had done in the hospital room, Mira would surely remember the motel incident.

He couldn’t bring himself to face Mira. He regretted that he should have just left without visiting the hospital room, but it was already too late.

Minho, not knowing what to say, remained silent. Mira spoke first.

“When did you arrive?”

Minho was considerably flustered by Mira’s informal speech.

Was she deliberately using informal speech to mock him because she was angry with him…?

There had been an awkward incident this morning, and it wasn’t just Minho who found it uncomfortable to face her; Mira must have felt the same.

However, it wasn’t like Mira to use informal speech brusquely just because she was upset. Moreover, her voice had a bright and gentle tone. Even though he had the impression that something was off, Minho spoke.

“I just arrived a little while ago.”

As always, he used polite speech with her. Even if Mira suddenly started using informal speech, it felt a bit strange for him to do the same.

Mira asked with a puzzled expression.

“Why are you suddenly using polite speech?”

“Huh?”

Minho blinked, as if he didn’t understand the meaning. Seeing him, Mira smiled slightly and said.

“It’s strange. Speak to me the way you usually do. Or are you going for some kind of concept?”

What was going on with this situation?

Minho’s mind was complicated. From Mira’s words, it seemed she wanted him to speak informally, not politely, but it was completely strange.

Suddenly asking him to use informal speech? Moreover, she was talking as if they had always spoken informally.

He couldn’t even guess what was going on. Furthermore, the person in front of him was Mira, who was usually gloomy and spoke very little.

Even if she were suddenly playing a prank on him or being sullen because she was upset, she wouldn’t act like this. And that wasn’t the only thing bothering him.

Mira’s eyes, gazing at him, were bright and clear, pure and innocent. If she remembered what happened at the motel, she would never look at him like this.

He felt something was strange, but for now, he decided to use informal speech as Mira requested. What else could he do when she asked that?

It was an answer brimming with awkwardness, as it was the first time he had spoken informally to Mira, to whom he had always used polite speech.

“Ah, alright.”

Hearing his answer, Mira replied as if something was strange.

“That’s strange…”

“Huh?”

“You seem like a different person than usual.”

“You… seem like it too.”

Minho answered honestly. Mira’s attitude toward him felt too bizarre. Then Mira let out a small laugh. Minho hesitated, unsure how to react to her laughter, but Mira calmly spoke.

“So, when did you arrive?”

“Ju… Just now?”

Minho tried to feign ignorance, fearing he’d been caught touching her body, but his acting was clumsy.

“Why are you raising the end of your sentences? You’re speaking as if you don’t even know yourself. You’re not lying, are you?”

“Not really.”

“Suspicious. By any chance… were you just watching me while I was sleeping?”

Recalling his fondling, Minho inadvertently blushed and hastily denied it.

“N-no.”

For a moment, he suspected Mira might have noticed, but it didn’t seem to be the case after all. He was probably just acting unnaturally due to guilt and anxious thoughts.

In the first place, no one would fail to get angry if their body was groped while they were sleeping. If Mira knew what Minho had done in the hospital room, she would definitely be furious and scream. She must not know.