Chapter 19 (1/1)
Mi Hi left the hospital ten days later. From there she went to Jeju Island to convalesce for a couple of weeks. Taecyeon called two, three times per day and spent the weekends there with her. When she returned to Seoul she went straight back to work. He would have like her to take it easy at the beginning but Mi Hi was stubborn and he didn’t want to push their budding relationship too far. They had developed a kind of close friendship with benefits. He pampered her and she let him. The sleeping arrangements remained the same, to Taecyeon’s relief. He had got used to sleeping with his wife warmth in his arms and missed it greatly during the weeks she was away. He observed her, her moods and body language, trying to accertate how she was feeling, if she was up to “it”. Damn, she missed her, her body and her smell. He wanted her and, even though he would never force himself onto her, he was finding it very difficult to carry on like nothing. Every night he would lie down next to her and his blood would boil. As soon as he could feel her steady breathing he would go to the bathroom to take care of his “problem” and he was tired of it. Then, one evening just after getting into bed, Mi Hi was lying snuggled up to Taecyeon with her head resting on his chest. He hugged her body with his left arm and closed his eyes trying to sleep. “Tae?” “Yes?” “I was wondering…?” He lifted his head a bit to look at her face as she rested her chin on top of his heart. “You know those breaks we used to take away every month?” “Aha...”