Chapter XVII
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열일곱번째 왕관 (17)
“Ugh, my head...”
Holding her head as she sat up, Jae Kyung winced at the throbbing sensation inside her head. She grunted as she slowly massaged her head and slowly stood up. She felt dizzy but it's manageable so she managed to walk towards the bathroom to wash her face.
“Why is the whole house so silent? Oh well, I guess it's better. My headache is killing me,” Jae Kyung sighed as she washed her face once again. “Aw, s**t,” she touched her lips and felt that it's swollen so she looked at her reflection.
Her eyes almost fell from sockets when she saw how her lips were swollen red, how disheveled her hair and the three buttons of her shirt were all undone and she saw so many red spots on her collarbone and neck.
What are these marks? Are these mosquito bites? But this place has no mosquitos lurking around. And these are really looked like bites.
“What happened—” suddenly, a memory flashed in her mind.
“Why are you asking like you'll gonna make me fall for you?”
“Why? Are you going to take a risk?”
“I hate you. Why would I?”
“Yeah, I hate you too.”
“f**k, why did you kiss me?”
“The f**k, you're the one who kissed me, you idiot.”
“Then, shall we do it again?”
“What the…”
She felt the carpet on her back. Panting, Jae Kyung covered the Crown Prince's mouth as he hovered on her. She felt Prince Yi Eul's warm breath on her palm as he stared at her in drunk eyes.
“Let me breathe for a sec, okay?” she muttered. The Crown Prince stayed silent for a second then he suddenly licked her palm, bit her finger, and kissed her knuckles. She exhaled and pulled Prince Yi Eul into another heated kiss. She felt Prince Yi Eul’s arm wrapped on her back as his other hand cupped her head as he deepen the kiss. Tongue against tongue, tasting every inch of each other’s caverns, nibbling and tasting each other's lips.
Jae Kyung felt her collar loosing as Prince Yi Eul's lips settled from her lips to her chin and jawline down to her neck, sucking and licking her skin. She breaths, she felt hot as she gripped the Crown Prince's hair.
“What the—” her eyes even grew wider when she remembered what happened last night after she and the Crown Prince got drunk last night. “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!”
“What the f**k—” she turned to the door and saw Prince Yi Eul half-naked and scratching his disheveled black hair. His eyes widen when she saw Jae Kyung with the same sober state as he is. They pointed at each other and shouted hysterically. “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!”
“Uh… Jae Kyung-ssi, are you okay?” Secretary Jeong asked while eyeing Jae Kyung.
“Hmm? Me? Oh, I'm good. I'm good.” she gritted her teeth to grin. “Nothing to worry about me.”
Damn it, my head is pounding because of my hangover what the heck.
Why did I freaking agree to drink with that i***t of a prince?! Just because he's brokenhearted because of Da Hyun. Ugh, I'm suffering so much with this major hangover.
“Is His Highness alright? He's not coming out of his room since earlier. You know he has so many things to do today, right?”
“Ah, yes, I know. Of course, sir. just...I’ll just deal with His Highness.”
She knew that Secretary Jeong is staring at her so she averted her attention to Do Wan who just came in holding a white plastic bag. “Oh, Do Wan-ssi!”
“Good morning, Jae Kyung-ssi,” Do Wan smiled at her. “As what you asked me, I bought two ha—”
Before Do Wan could finish his sentence, Jae Kyung grabbed the plastic bag from her as she laughed and spoke a bit louder than usual. “AHAHA! Thank you so much, Do Wan! I know you're busy but thank you so much for helping me! I'll talk to you later, His Highness is calling me already. Thank you!”
Do Wan couldn’t even say something to her anymore since she already went inside to the Crown Prince's room and closed the door. But it suddenly got opened and Jae Kyung peeked from it. “Secretary Jeong, His Highness said that you can wait for him downstairs. He has something to deal with right now. Okay, later sir!”
Before Secretary Jeong could respond, Jae Kyung already closed the door.
“What was that just now?” Secretary Jeong asked.
“Uh… I have no idea either, sir,” Do Wan answered.
“What did she ask you to buy?”
“Uh…” Do Wan scratched his cheek with his index finger and smiled awkwardly at the royal secretary. “It’s kind of… personal, sir.”
“So, it's really that personal, huh? It's really personal that she wore a scarf and His Highness' long sleeves.”
“Here. Drink this,” Prince Yi Eul's gaze settled on Jae Kyung who's now handing him a brown bottle.
“Uh, what is that?” he pointed as he stared at it weirdly.
“It’s a hangover drink. Sort of medicine. I can’t ask the maids nor I can’t make *Haejang-guk for you since Secretary Jeong is there,” she said. “You have to drink it. You have so many appointments to attend later.” (*a Korean hangover soup)
Prince Yi Eul grabbed the bottle from her hand. “You should at least brought me some tea.”
“Ugh, stop complaining and drink it. I don’t want Secretary Jeong to be suspicious about us…” she paused and sat on the couch just in front of Prince Yi Eul. “Yi Eul—I mean, His Highness. That's… that's the only thing that happened, right?”
“What do you mean “happened”?” Prince Yi Eul asked, frowning as if he's confused.
Jae Kyung took a deep breath, calming herself down. “You know, the thing that happened last night?”
“What exactly are you trying to tell me, Jae Kyung?” Prince Yi Eul quirked his brow and Jae Kyung knows that he's freaking teasing her.
“Stop that, you i***t—I mean, Your Highness, you know what happened last night, right?”
“I can’t follow you, Kim Jae Kyung. What exactly happened last night?”
“Ah, what the heck! We only made out last night, right?!” there, she said it.
“Oh~ last night. Hmm. That's why you're wearing my expensive, hand-stitched scarf from London and my Gucci long-sleeved shirt, huh?” he crossed his arms as he continued teasing Jae Kyung.
“As if I have a choice! You left so many marks, you i***t! And I don’t have any spare clothes!” she said, annoyance dripping in her voice.
“Oh~ dropping formalities now, aren’t we?” he asked, grinning sarcastically at her.
“You—!”
“Don’t worry, we didn’t go that far,” Prince Yi Eul's tone became serious. “I did that to you out of being drunk but I will not go to the extent of having s*x with you.”
Jae Kyung felt her temperature rose up as she felt her cheeks burning. What the actual—he has no shame of blunting such words! “H-Hey what the—”
“I apologize that I did such act,” he said which made her stare at him in awe. He, then, cleared his throat awkwardly. “I shouldn’t really take advantage of the situation. I'm a man, you're a woman and I shouldn’t do that. I'm sorry.”
Jae Kyung just stared at him in awe. She was surprised that she couldn’t even come up with a response.
Who would thought that the arrogant prince she finds hard to deal with can lower his pride and apologize to her?
She felt butterflies in her stomach at that moment.
“Oh, umm…” she awkwardly scratched her nape albeit she’s wearing a scarf. “I-It’s okay. I understand. We're both drunk and I kind of have half of the fault so…”
“So, you liked it, huh?” Prince Yi Eul asked and Jae Kyung could tell that he sounded so cocky. “Well, after all, I'm a good kisser though.”
“Excuse you?!” Jae Kyung's eyes widen as she pointed to the Crown Prince as if she's accusing him. “I didn’t like it and I'll never be!”
If it's Prince Yi Ryeo then I might consider it!
“Really, huh?” Prince Yi Eul stood up and leaned towards Jae Kyung and the latter moved her head backward as fast as she could.
“W-What are you doing?” Jae Kyung internally cursing herself for stuttering.
The Crown Prince didn’t respond. He kept on leaning closer to her face and saw Jae Kyung closing her eyes tight and her lips slowly agape a little.
He couldn’t help but chuckle. “Anticipating, huh?”
Jae Kyung opened her eyes and by instinct, she slapped Prince Yi Eul.
“Aw!” Prince Yi Eul cupped his stinging right cheek while glaring at Jae Kyung. “What was that for?!”
Jae Kyung didn’t respond. She just put her hand over her chest and tried to soothe it because anytime, she could feel that her heart might explode because it's beating like crazy.
Why… why my heart is like this? What the heck?
Prince Yi Eul's eyes settled on his room's door when he heard a knock. Thinking it's from Do Wan, he went to the door to open it but he didn’t saw Do Wan.
He saw Secretary Jeong panting like crazy.
“Secretary Jeong? What happened? Why are you panting?”
Secretary Jeong took a deep breath and gulped and after few seconds, he spoke.
“Jeonha, the Queen... the Queen is coming here to see you.”
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