⏱Part II 🥀 

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Its no surprise that the launch of the snow globe project is huge a success.

"Magical, right?" 

Startled, you turn to see the hot technical engineer at your shoulder. He stands there next to you casually looking on as Jackson schmoozes with the investors at the auction which has now come to a close.

Several clients have already bought out  all the spaces for shops and retail units within the development- Jackson is very happy. Everyone else on the team is cheering, congratulating each other and shaking hands.

You stand back meekly as your name isn't even mentioned once and not even the smallest ounce of credit is thrown your way.

"You did great, Wren. The project is really a masterpiece. Thanks for that." Taehyung whispers.

You don't know what to say but either way, Taehyung's words were appreciated. He seemed like the only decent one out of the bunch. The only one who had a conscience.

When the investors clear the board room, only the team is left and Jackson couldn't be in higher sprits. He grins, almost Cheshire cat-like inviting everyone out to celebrate the successful funding of the project and you take it as a new opportunity to start over, and perhaps get to know the people you were working with.

"I'll text everyone the time and place, see you all later." Jackson announced and the crowd dispersed from the venue.

"So I'll see you there?" Taehyung turned to ask with one fascinatingly raised eyebrow which made you blush before you could help it. 

His good looks were so disarming and he stood there with a small smile as if he weren't even aware of them.

"Sure," you nodded meekly and headed in the direction of your cab.

When you arrive at the place and time sent to you in the text message, you found it just a little strange that you were the first to arrive but figured everyone else was running fashionably late.

Maybe some people went home to change into something even flashier for the night. After all appearances were everything in Base 3 and so, you wouldn't be surprised if that was the reason why.

Your excitement begins to dwindle quickly as the minutes slowly drip by and no one else has arrived.

The waiter asks if you'd like to order and you request just a few more minutes. He raises his eyebrows sceptically when you say that you're just waiting for your friends to get there.

You want to die.

Perhaps if you slipped away to the restroom and didn't return to the table it would be less humiliating than having to admit to a stranger that you'd been stood up. 

Discreetly grabbing your purse, you are about to rise from the chair when a pair of darkly clad long legs breathlessly approaches the table. With wide eyes, you look up- only to find the handsome technical engineer looking down at you.

He smiles apologetically and you blush, feeling pitiful.

"I was just about to go," You say in a miserable, flustered rush keeping one hand on your shoulder gripping at your purse strings.

"So you got the other text?"

"What text? There was another text?" You enquired, feeling foolish. "The only text I got said to come here, to this restaurant about an hour ago..."

Taehyung shook his head in disappointment.

"No. There was a second text that changed the time and place at the last minute. The whole team was there except you and I felt something was off so I came here.."

"Oh." Was all you could say, not being able to help thinking that it might have been on purpose.

You were the outsider, nobody really wanted you there. They just needed your talents. nobody cared to get to know you or hang out with you. You wanted to go home.

Taehyung offers you a warm and generous smile and you know that he probably just feels bad for you. 

His eyes are deep and soft as they meet yours and you can see it, he knows. He knows what they did. 

"Do you really have to go?" He asks in a curious tone and you blink, not expecting him to want to stay.

"Yes," You reply, desperately clinging to whatever self respect you had left after being treated like the last one picked for your middle-school dodge-ball team.

Taehyung's gaze is pained even though he tries to make a visible effort to put on a pleasant expression.

Instead of letting to you leave, he plops down in the seat opposite you and opens the menu.

"So, have you chosen yet?" He raises an eyebrow seriously considering the offerings on the menu.

"W-what?" You're flabbergasted. 

"I'll have a bottle of your best red wine, please," He hands the waiter the menu, "Vintage, of course."

His eyes gleam at you followed by a stunning and equally charming smile. Oh God, he was so handsome. You couldn't stop yourself from feeling a sudden pulse somewhere down below at Taehyung so suddenly changing the mood of your evening from crashing humiliation to an intimately pleasant surprise.

You stayed, just the two of you and ate, drank while having a much better time than you ever imagined you would.

Taehyung was bright. Full of ideas, some antiquated but mostly, new and he was interested in you. He asked you your thoughts and opinions on architecture and listened to your musings on history which you made sure to keep brief so as not to bore him.

By the time you both tipped your lucid bodies, filled to the brim with food and alcohol into a waiting taxi, it was late.

Taehyung instructed the driver to take you home first so he could make sure that you got there safe.

"Are you sure you don't want to come up?" You asked him through half closed eyelids.

Taehyung grinned at you widely and you could tell that he was a little bit drunk too but you didn't want the night to be over. Up close, he looked much better than you remembered him at work. He moved in a little towards you, his expression turning warmer as your eyes lingered on each other. 

There's another silence. You can hear your own breath coming, short and fast as he leans in even closer.

Without preable, his lips crushed sweetly against yours, his long delicate fingers cupped your chin, claiming your mouth. He tasted so good and you felt starved. The tender force of his tongue probed your lips apart causing a needy whimper to escape your throat.

"Come upstairs with me.." You said and he responded eagerly by kissing you again.

Somehow, you both managed to make your way up 70 floors in the elevator. And stumbling into the safety of your hotel room, he pressed up against you, pinning you to the walls. His hands sliding all over your body. Tempting you, torturing you. His smouldering kisses making you desperately wonder what it would be like to feel him deep inside you.

He lifted you up, his hands moving down your sides and then to your ass. Gripping you hard and holding your legs open against him. His fingers slide into your panties, spreading you wide and stroking your wetness. You bit your lip moaning as one pressed down rubbing over your clit.

You reached for him too, hooking your thumbs in the waistband of his briefs and pulling them down low enough for him to spring free and for you to be able to hold the hot length of him in your hand.  You couldn't even get your fingers curled all the way around it.

Taehyung let out a whiny grunt as you marvelled, running your thumb over the tip. He broke the kiss with a growling moan, his eyes finding yours. Steady, he looked deep into your eyes and waited until you nodded.

Then, it was a rush. Clothes flying everywhere and once he had you naked, he carried you over to the bed. Covering you with the delicious weight of his body, his mouth moved from your jaw and then down to your throat.

Lost in ripples of pleasure, his soft dark locks tangled in your grasp as you sighed and pulled making him hiss and suckle your skin as if he would find some sweet nectar within.

You felt wild, your mind was spinning.

"Now." You urged him, remembering how thick and hot he was in the palm of your hand a moment ago. You wanted him. 

One savage thrust upward and you were overcome by a sweet pain that burned all the way to your centre making you ache for more.

"More!" You muttered against his wet mouth.

You could feel your juices running down your legs, no doubt mixed with the stickiness of his pre-cum. With his fist tangled in your hair and his teeth catching the nape of your neck, you clung to him, floundering in desperate hunger, overwhelmed in pleasure and pain.

"More!" You demanded breathlessly. The sound of his deep moans turning you on more than ever.

Holding you tight, Taehyung fucked you just the way you wanted it. Rough. His strong hips hammering into you, His thrusts so deep, grinding into your dripping heat until he was sealed to the balls inside you.

A sharp bellow tore from your throat as you felt your orgasm cresting.

"Cum with me," He whispered in a jagged breath as he felt himself getting close and he knew you were too by the way your greedy walls drew him in, closing and tightening around him.

He stroked you deeply, twisting his hips sharply upwards, you scream feeling yourself break. Bricks of pleasure crashing all around you but Taehyung wasn't there yet. You clawed at the tufted foam of the bed head, shrieking from oversensitivity as he pulled out almost to the tip before thrusting into you again. You felt you would loose your voice as Taehyung's relentless passion drove the breath from your body and every senseless thought from your head.

The next day at work was agonising.

Hung over and feeling sorry for yourself, you avoided the rest of the team, claiming one of the drawing rooms and choosing to work on your own.

Unfortunately after such a long night, you found it  hard to keep your head up and gave into to the need for a lifesaving cup of coffee. This required a trek to the office canteen which resulted in you bumping into none other than, your conquest from the night before, Taehyung.

His perfect face seemed tired but he smiled when he saw you.

"Hey."

"Hey," you felt uneasy and a little guilty. Your memory of last night wasn't very clear, you just remembered feeling really bad, seeing Taehyung show up at dinner and then feeling really...really good.

Oh God

"Taehyung, I'm... sorry for coming on to you last night." You blurted out, figuring you'd be the first to rip the bandaid.

Taheyung chuckled and gave you an easy smile.

"I didn't mind you coming-on to me at all, Wren." He said and your fingers tremorred slightly around your paper coffee cup. 

"As a matter of fact," His dark eyes glinted with mischief as he ran his long fingers through his dark tousled hair, "I'd really like it if you did again sometime..."

Over the next few weeks of the snow globe project, you and Taehyung continued to meet, you continued to go to lunch together, take long walks together after work and you continued to fuck each other at every single given opportunity that life allowed.

Now, you were eight weeks in to your stay at Base 3 and on a night of one those many given opportunities, you looked up at Taehyung, face glowing as he crawled on top of you.

You were at his apartment. The two of you preferring over time to have sex there rather than at your catered condominium. Which was nice because it didn't involve a walk of shame for Taehyung just to get breakfast at the buffet all the way down past the concierge who'd most likely seen him coming up to your room the night before...

You love being intimate with Taehyung. 

His face looks brightly down at you and you run your fingers over his soft smooth skin. The smell of him is sweet and masculine. 

You weren't sure what it was exactly but whenever you were with him, you could just feel yourself, let go.

Lying below him, warm and naked, he kisses your shoulder. You immediately feel all the tension in your body melt away as he keeps on going, kissing downward until he takes a nipple into his mouth. You sigh, relaxing even more. Taehyung must sense the change in you because then he gently pushed your legs wider and slides smoothly inside you.

"Mmm!" You seal your lips together enjoying how good it feels.

Taehyung loves hearing you moan and picks up the pace, his eyes staying on you, dark and fiery.

All you can think of is Taehyung on top of you, inside you, around you and the strong connection you feel with him, stronger than anything you've ever felt before.

Your body is in overdrive.  Every nerve ending was alight, the hot feeling of his soft skin rubbing against your own as he sighs deeply and whimpers, thrusting, pushing, tearing you apart and giving you his all.

His dark hair falls into his eyes as he leans down to kiss you so hard, feeling himself about to loose control. 

You wrap yourself around him, clawing at his skin, your legs quivering as you both came together.

"I love you," He finishes in a hoarse shout and you question whether you've heard correctly until he whispers it again. "I love you, Wren..."

Hearing what he just said makes your breath stop in an instant.

Your body is heated, chest rising and falling, sweat beads all over the surface of your skin but inside, you lie frozen.

Did he just say, he loves me?

You decide not to say anything. 

Sometimes men often spout nonsense when they're caught up in the moment, right? Its normal.....it happens.

You stay quiet, letting Taehyung pull out and roll off of you. 

When you both caught your breath, he suggests you take a shower together and helps you wash yourself clean. Tenderly lathering your hair and carefully rinsing every last sud of soap from your body.

After that, you tumble into bed together, warm and cosy under the covers. He wraps his strong arms around you, instinctively stroking your hair as he held you close and you close your eyes.

You didn't want to admit it to yourself but you never wanted to leave, not this place and not him. 

 Lost in the hazy aftermath of lust, suddenly the idea of life back in Base 9 without Taehyung seemed like it would feel empty. 

He nuzzles into the crook of your neck and you allow yourself to fall asleep.

The next morning Taehyung stands there, handsome and bleary-eyed. One hand on the doorknob holding the exit to his apartment building open. Clutching a flaky croissant stuffed to the seams with strawberry jam in one hand and your handbag in the other, you hurried to stuff each foot into your ballet flats before getting out the door. You had to hurry to another drawing-up meeting with Jackson to go over plans. And as much as you would've loved to skip it in favour of spending the entire day in bed with Taehyung, you wouldn't be able to today. 

He flashed you that gorgeous boxy grin of his as you turned to go wearing nothing but his boxers and a rumpled white t-shirt pulled on hurriedly over his torso he'd only just pulled on over his head so that he could walk you downstairs because previously, you two remained naked the entire time while at his apartment.

He paused to kiss you again, "Wren, can I ask you something?"

"Hmm?" You looked up in question fumbling and fixing your coat properly over your shoulders.

Taehyung bit his lip deep in thought, "This uh.....this thing we have going on between us...."

"Yeah?" You said slowly not sure where he was going.

"It is just fun, right?" he asked.

Your stomach plunged.

Just like that feeling from the sudden drop on a roller-coaster ride, you reeled in disappointment. 

Still, a part of you wasn't at all surprised. 

You weren't from Base 3 and your purpose here was only temporary. Why wouldn't you want to keep it casual... just long as you could both agree this wasn't anything serious, no one would end up getting hurt, right?

You shook your head, feeling stupid for thinking the way you did last night about him and about staying.

How could you forget your own rules?

Get in, do the job, get out. Don't get attached to anyone or anything. 

Right.

"Fun?" You repeated with an awkward laugh, "Yeah, of course. That's all I want, for this to be just fun, you got that right."

Giving him an awkward thumbs up, Taehyung studied your face and you didn't want him to think that you were lying.

"So no strings attached?" He questioned eyes narrowed.

"What?" You waved him off joking with one hand, "Strings? Nope....none."

"Ok." He nodded.

Backing away, you tucked a loose strand of hair behind your ear. 

Strangely you felt.. fragile, empty.

"I...better go."

You walked away seemingly unfazed on the surface but something deep down inside told you that you were in for deep trouble.

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