Sweet Shot

#45

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Lee Tae-rim was a sociable person.

He knew how to smile appropriately and exchange pleasantries with people who naturally gravitated towards him even when he was just standing still. This was a skill Tae-rim had acquired before he came of age. Thanks to his good looks and wealth, it was easy for him to gain favor with others, and due to his innate aura that others couldn’t imitate, there were many admirers around him. Responding once and smiling at them would immediately become Tae-rim’s connections. These were somewhat necessary for his position.

“It’s been a while, hasn’t it?”

For example, gatherings like this. Where prominent families gathered to have drinks and chat. Though he found it tedious, it was somewhat necessary. At least it was a place for killing time, but when he was bothered, it was a gathering he wouldn’t even glance at. Due to an unexplained poor condition, he wasn’t in the mood to laugh and chat with boring people, but he had attended, half-forced by the pressure from a noona he had bumped into at a restaurant recently.

The gathering Tae-rim appeared at was more chaotic than usual. Both men and women gathered around to greet him and ask how he’d been. Tae-rim smiled and responded appropriately as usual. It was something he always did, but today it felt more tedious and irritating than usual. Damn, he thought, he should have just sprawled out and slept. After responding appropriately to the people who approached him, Tae-rim slumped onto a fabric sofa.

“I heard you broke up with Hee-jae, is it true?”

One of the sons from some family crawled up next to him and asked. He was laughing like an idler, dressed head to toe in luxury brands. Though Tae-rim couldn’t remember who he was, he responded nonchalantly.

“Yeah.”

It was the question he’d heard the most since arriving at the gathering. Even though he hadn’t gone around talking about it, news about him seemed to have spread widely, as people were whispering about it here and there like gossip. He was starting to get tired of answering.

“I heard you’re hanging around with a guy these days instead.”

Unexpected words came out of the mouth of the nameless guy. Tae-rim’s expressionless eyes, which had been directed elsewhere, moved. The man, having succeeded in catching Tae-rim’s attention, spoke with quite an excited face.

“You never used to give them a second glance, but you’ve developed an interest these days?”

Tae-rim furrowed his brow with a look of incomprehension.

“What the hell are you talking about?”

The words of this stranger who suddenly came and started babbling hit a nerve.

“Look at you pretending not to know. Hey, Kim Sa-hyun’s been going around telling everyone. That you’ve developed an interest in men’s backsides.”

Tae-rim let out a deflated laugh with an incredulous expression. Only then did he fully understand what was being said.

This is why he didn’t want to show off the things he cherished. Because they immediately became the talk of the town. The gossiping mouths were lighter than their lower halves. It was also a characteristic of this field.

“Are you curious about who I fuck too?”

Tae-rim smiled gently as he put a cigarette in his mouth. His smiling lips were quite seductive.

The idler seemed excited that Tae-rim had responded to his words, giggling and babbling excitedly.

“It’s just that your partner is a man. The people here were talking about it even before you arrived.”

“They really have nothing better to do.”

Tae-rim muttered, letting out a scornful laugh. The sound of ice clinking in the glass he brought to his mouth was leisurely. He drank the alcohol in a relaxed posture, matching the sound.

“It’s something to see. You dumping your girlfriend to fuck a guy’s ass”

The man’s words were vulgar as he poured whiskey into his glass. Tae-rim’s peaceful eyebrows twitched slightly.

“Dumping? We just broke up.”

He said in a gentle tone.

“Bullshit, it’s the same thing.”

The man just giggled as if Tae-rim’s soft voice was funny. Every time he laughed, the tattoo on his neck moved. And several brutal piercings could be seen in his ears. Tae-rim narrowed his eyes, finding these features particularly vulgar. Then suddenly, a neat side profile came to mind. Clean earlobes without a single piercing and a long, clear nape. Even the beautiful eyelashes that fluttered every time he blinked quietly.

At the sudden image, Tae-rim unconsciously licked his lips. Then he turned his gaze away. Once again, the vulgar appearance of the nameless guy came into view. Seeing his state, it seemed this gathering had gone downhill. Tae-rim lit the cigarette in his mouth, took a deep inhale, and then exhaled the smoke with a sigh.

“Hey.”

As the smoke dissipated, he spoke again.

“If you keep talking like that, won’t others see me as trash?”

You bastard.

Tae-rim chewed on the profanity. But the man, not noticing Tae-rim’s cynical gaze, continued speaking as if making a joke.

“So who’s the guy you’re working on?”

Ha. Tae-rim let out a short sigh.

“No one in particular.”

He replied calmly and continued drinking. But the man didn’t give up and opened his mouth again.

“Come on, let’s share the good stuff.”

“…”

“If you’re interested, it must be really good, right? I know a trainee, I’ll give him to you. You share yours too.”

“…”

“It’s just a guy anyway, what’s wrong with sharing?”

He was right. It wasn’t a woman to date, just a guy, so it didn’t matter if they shared his hole or sucked the same dick. In the first place, getting involved with a man was beyond common sense for Lee Tae-rim, so even if such low-class words were spoken, it had nothing to do with him. Exposing a dark cock, a sweaty, dripping man…

The problem was Song Ha-min. The kindest and most innocent kid Tae-rim knew. The problem was that this innocent-faced kid had become so brazen. Both suddenly offering to suck his dick and saying he didn’t need anything else, just to see him during sex – all these words came from the innocent Song Ha-min’s mouth. Tae-rim suddenly burst into laughter. He thought he was just a young kid following him around because he liked hyung, but that wasn’t it. He always says unexpected things. With his eyes and mouth trembling.

So Song Ha-min, being innocent and brazen, might give in if a bastard like this asked for it. In the first place, if pushed, he clearly wouldn’t be able to refuse and would just tremble his eyes.

“What, you don’t like it?”

A voice asking in dissatisfaction was heard as Tae-rim was lost in thought without answering. Tae-rim looked at the nameless man with an expressionless face. What did he mean by sharing? He hadn’t even eaten it in the first place.

At the probing question, Tae-rim suddenly stared at the man with a cold face. Not seeming to notice the gaze, the man smiled lewdly and opened his mouth.

“Hey, crazy. If you don’t even want to share…”

“Ah, with every word, fuck…”

A low voice interrupted the laughing sound. At the chilling tone, the man’s face suddenly hardened. The man flinched at Lee Tae-rim’s suddenly cold face.

“Where did you pick up such trashy talk?”

Tae-rim murmured quietly at the vulgar words that came out every time he opened his mouth. The giggling sound stopped abruptly. As the frivolous face hardened, Tae-rim immediately put on his public smile. At the suddenly changing face, the man blinked in confusion, and Tae-rim continued speaking with a smooth smiling face.

“Why don’t you use more polite language?”

“…”

“My ears are getting sore.”

At the sudden words spoken with a kind face, the man closed his mouth. The warning with a smiling face was quite brutal, so it was effective. Only then did Tae-rim calmly continue smoking his cigarette as if nothing had happened, amid the now quiet surroundings. Thanks to this, his unexplained poor condition had worsened even more.

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Tae-rim walked through the underground parking lot with languid steps. Perhaps due to the late hour of the night, the parking lot was quiet. He headed towards where his sedan was parked, holding his coat in his hand.

Lee Tae-rim had made an appropriate appearance at the gathering that lasted until dawn and left. He had thought about drinking heavily, but there were too many annoying people sticking to him, so he gave up and left. Usually, he would have responded appropriately and gone to a hotel or car for a messy tumble, but his bored mood didn’t lift easily, so he gave up.

Tae-rim, who hadn’t had a single drink, got into the driver’s seat with a clear mind and stepped on the accelerator. The dawn road was quiet with no traffic lights or cars. While holding the steering wheel, Tae-rim licked his lower lip. Looking at the street where all lights had gone out, he suddenly remembered Ha-min’s one-room apartment neighborhood without a single streetlight. At the same time, it was a natural progression to recall the image of him moaning with a face struggling due to the poor soundproofing. Tae-rim let out a hollow laugh and threw his cumbersome coat into the back seat. Just then, a watch case that had fallen on the floor of the back seat caught Tae-rim’s eye.

He was bothered by the sight of something he had carelessly thrown and forgotten about. The reason was that he didn’t expect Song Ha-min to refuse it. He thought he would naturally accept it obediently and wear it on his pretty wrist. In the first place, as far as he could remember, it was the first time he had personally chosen a gift for someone. He hated the hassle of personally looking, personally buying – he would either have someone do it or just give a card to buy it themselves.

And what he said was even more ridiculous. Telling him not to be so nice and just to have sex. It was also the first time he had been treated like that. There had been opposite cases, but this was the first time for this kind of situation, so only a deflated laugh came out. While driving with a languid smile, Tae-rim slowly stopped the car at a red light. As the car slowly came to a stop, Tae-rim’s smiling face gradually shifted to an expressionless one.

Screech.

“This is annoying,” Tae-rim muttered quietly, suddenly turning the steering wheel. The stopped car immediately crossed into another lane.