GC Ch 14

“…I’m sorry, Boss. It’s not that I hate sucking yours, Boss, but because I have a principle I keep to myself, as pathetic as it may be. No matter how tough the situation gets, I don’t sell my body—”

“Is this bitch crazy?”

A hand that cut in and interrupted me grabbed my chin hard. Pulled up by force, before my eyes was Boss Chu, contorted as contorted could be, glaring at me.

“What did you just jabber? Sell what?”

My captured chin was squeezed as if it would shatter, and Boss Chu’s face came right up against mine.

“When did I tell you to sell your body? When did I ever open my mouth like that?”

“I’m—I’m sorry. Since you were giving me such a large sum of money….”

“It’s a tip, a tip! Money given because you’re having a hard time! Money given because you’re pretty! Pocket money! Then fuck, drop everything else and just suck the dick and go!”

“….”

Bellowing at the top of his lungs, Boss Chu gave a sneer as if he found it absurd. “What principle?” Then, dropping all facial composure, he glared fiercely at me.

“What that means is. I treated you like a bitch who sells her body, is that it? You saw me as a guy who gives out money to drain his nut. Right?”

“N—no, Boss. That can’t be.”

“Why. Did it make you feel bad? Motherfucker, did you want to kill me? Then don’t just sit there, come at me! I’ll adjust to match and treat you right!”

“…No. No, Boss.”

“If you don’t like it, say you don’t like it, without making shitty excuses! Where does a fucking bitch think she is?!!”

As if he were a guy with some kind of trauma over the words about not selling one’s body, Boss Chu was genuinely flying into a rage. I was someone who wouldn’t get scared easily by most things, but with the contorted scar right in front of my eyes, the thought naturally came to me that this was true terror. Without looking, my face was bound to be pale white. I felt like I wouldn’t be able to hold it in and would piss myself. To think he’d fly into a fiery rage over a mere matter like this—what was all that about him boasting that he was excessively kind and an excessively gentle guy?

Boss Chu’s jaw muscles twitched. His hot nasal breath touched my lips as if it would melt them. It was definitely my chin that was grabbed, but it felt as if I were being strangled. I couldn’t breathe well. Thinking I’d really mess myself with shit or piss at this rate, I begged for forgiveness.

“…I—I was wrong. I was wrong, Boss.”

Words of apology that wouldn’t easily come out to Kim Jeongsuk or Gang Munsu rolled out in front of this man as smoothly as if playing a cassette tape. When had Woo Minjo ever had any pride or sense of shame left anyway? A guy whose remaining asset was nothing more than his physical body.

“…I’ll mind my words. R—really….”

“….”

The bloodshot eyes that looked into mine as if to devour me shifted down to my lips as I finished speaking. A moment later, a breath like a sigh was exhaled from his mouth. The scent that rushed into my nose was the exact same scent that emanated from his body. It was a refreshing scent, as hard to believe as his clean fingernails. Though it might be only natural since he had straight, white teeth.

“I don’t buy women with money to eat them. I’m a person whose stomach bursts just eating what throws itself at me.”

“….”

“That kind of thing is what small-dick dumbasses do, dumbasses. You fucking treated me like a dumbass just now. Do you understand!”

“…I’m sorry.”

It wasn’t because he had some trauma, but because his pride in himself was fucking sky-high that my words had irked him, it seemed. Lowering my gaze, I apologized properly again.

“…I’m sorry. I… thought wrong. I’m sorry.”

Whether my terrified and cowering appearance looked pitiful, the strength in the hand gripping my chin began to fade. Before long, Boss Chu released me completely. Where his hand had rested and then pulled away, my heart seemed to thud heavily. It was such a relief that it ended at this.

He clicked his tongue with a tch and picked up the pack of cigarettes on the table. Holding it upside down, he tapped it against his palm a few times, pulled out a cigarette, and said bluntly:

“Forget it, just stop and leave. Becoming a dumbass killed my dick completely, so what’s the point of staying any longer. Pack your things.”

Killed my ass, it wasn’t at all. His dick was still erect as if it were about to tear his pants apart.

As if it were uncomfortable, he kept pulling it down again and again. Sweat dripped down my spine. My palms were damp too. Secretly wiping them on my pants, I softly brought over the glass and packed the bundle. I felt I needed to write a charm or something to carry on my body, or else this wouldn’t do. As I stood up holding the tied bundle, he paused mid-mouth with his cigarette and pointed at the money with his chin.

“Take it with you. Giving it and taking it back isn’t my thing.”

“No, Boss. Today I’ll only take the coffee money. You gave me a large sum of money yesterday too—”

“If I tell you to take it, take it—stop making things difficult. It’s all your pocket money and my goodwill.”

“No, if you’d just listen to my words for a moment—”

“Ha, fuck me.”

When I didn’t act obediently even about taking the money, Boss Chu swore and closed his eyes long before opening them. “Are you playing with my patience right now? Refusing that much was enough, wasn’t it?”

“No, Boss—”

“Fine, I get it! You’re a damn difficult bitch, that’s right! I’ll fucking acknowledge it! Just take it! Take it, please!”

“Th—that’s not it, Boss.”

“Then what?!!”

“Because there’s a reason why I can’t take it!!!”

Feeling like this was going to end up a total mess at this rate, I shouted as loudly as he had. I took a large step toward him as he raised his eyebrows at my loud voice. In an urgent yet calm tone, I quickly began to continue speaking.

“I want to take all this money too, of course. It’s natural for a human being to like money, and besides, how on earth could I earn this kind of big money? But, Boss.”

Before continuing, I took a deep breath. Because there was still a mountain of words I had to pour out. More than that, at the same time I started speaking, I realized it. That the anger inside me toward Kim Jeongsuk and Gang Munsu was far greater than I thought. Also, that I must no longer keep that anger bottled up inside.

Kim Jeongsuk, Gang Munsu. Since there’s what I suffered today as well, specially for the two of you, I’ll scrape up every bit of glibness I have and don’t have to flashily run my mouth off. You two won’t get to take a single cent as the fruit of my labor.

Pledging so, I looked at Boss Chu in front of me with the most solemn gaze I had ever mustered to this day. Far more than when I was explaining the difference between delivery and working as a regi. Though the fear I received from Boss Chu still remained intact in my body, if it was to screw over those two bastards, there was nothing I couldn’t shake off.

“Me. Even if I take this, I can’t spend a single ten-won coin for myself. Because our Boss, who appears like a ghost sniffing out the smell of money, will end up snatching all this money away. Even if I secretly hide it and play innocent, it’s no use in front of our Boss. Just by looking at my expression, she finds the exact spot where I hid it, so I tremble to the point where I wonder if she’s really a ghost or something, making me scared out of my skin.”

“What did you say?”

Boss Chu asked as he violently wrinkled his eyebrows, but I ignored him and just continued my words. I had to.

“It’s not that I don’t understand our Boss. No, I understand a hundred, a thousand times over. It can’t be helped, after all. To that woman, I’m merely a guy to collect debt from in place of his mom.”

“….”

“I thought I’d be fine since I’m immune to being bullied and abused, but as the days go by, she becomes increasingly shameless…. These days she snatches money away like she’s handling a beast, to the point where I get scared just looking at money. Splashing water, beating, making me strip naked down to my panties to check everything, and one day even trying to rummage through my ass. In that manner, all the money you gave yesterday was taken away too. Every single cent of it, without leaving a penny behind.”

Perhaps because my goal to screw over Kim Jeongsuk and Gang Munsu was clear, unlike earlier when I couldn’t even think of the word ‘debt’ and fumbled around, my brain worked fast and sharp. The words came out so smoothly as if greased that even I was amazed. Even if I practiced in front of a mirror all night long, I wouldn’t be able to do it like right now. But the real deal was starting from now.

“But, Boss. I’m not saying this because I’m bitter about having money stolen. I consider it my own fault for meeting the wrong parents, so I have zero complaints about that. As for me, I could take all this money and hand it over to our Boss with my own hands. But why don’t I do that?”