An Affair Trip More Serious Than I Thought
After that, I spent the next two weeks in France in a daze.
I still couldn't reach my wife, Eun-ho.
No replies came to calls, emails, or KakaoTalk messages.
With no way to return to Korea and no way to convey my intentions to Eun-ho, I gave up on everything from the seventh day onward and stopped trying to contact her myself.
Normally, I would have enjoyed my free time on business trips, sometimes spending pleasant moments with colleagues who had come along. But this time, I had booked a separate hotel and holed up in my room, so some colleagues must have found it strange.
Of course, that curiosity didn't last long.
The flight attendants were busy meeting their French lovers after a long time, going on wonderful dates, and having sex in hotel rooms or at their homes.
The only flight attendant who came to see me was...
Min Seo-hye.
"Senior, stop drinking alone. Drink with me."
Min Seo-hye found me drinking heavily at our usual bar and gladly shared drinks with me.
The sense of betrayal toward my wife.
The guilt toward myself for committing adultery.
The self-reproach for using Min Seo-hye as an outlet to vent my immature emotions.
Filled with negative feelings, I couldn't even look her in the eye, but Min Seo-hye pulled me into her generous embrace.
"Don't blame yourself. I did it because I wanted to."
She encouraged me not to blame myself.
And as if to prove it, when we staggered back to the hotel room drunk together, Min Seo-hye wrapped her arms around my neck and showered me with sweet kisses.
"Ah, I feel too guilty toward my wife... I can't do this."
Even though I resented my wife so much for not even answering my calls, that feeling was genuine.
Then Min Seo-hye gave me a truly devilish smile and pulled out a condom.
"Then put it on and do it, us♥ That way it's not cheating, right?"
"What the hell are you... hup..."
Overwhelmed by her shocking logic that it wasn't an affair if I didn't come inside, I was pushed down and pinned.
What a fool.
What a piece of trash.
I should have resisted more strongly.
But the moment Min Seo-hye aggressively yanked down my pants, my cock stood erect as if it could pierce the sky.
"Wow! Senior, you were totally ready for this!"
The instant I saw her delighted, lovely face, my will to resist vanished.
Min Seo-hye swiftly rolled the condom on, climbed on top of me...
And we had sex for the second time—far more intense and sweet, like real lovers.
"I'm... I'm going to come, Seo-hye-ssi..."
"Senior, senior, ah, together...!"
"Kuh...!"
"Haaah...!"
...Simultaneous orgasm, something I'd never experienced even with my wife...
"Haa, haa... Senior, that was amazing again♥ I appreciate it."
She even thanked me,
planting a kiss on my cheek.
...I wondered if all of this might be an act.
After all, it was only about five minutes of short sex.
I wasn't the type to last long during sex anyway.
My cock was average too.
Of course, I tried hard with foreplay...
But since Eun-ho was my first and only woman, how good could my foreplay really be?
And Eun-ho, who absolutely hated it when women faked orgasms in bed to please men, would never pretend to feel something.
Yet we reached climax together, and she even thanked me?
How could I believe that was real?
However...
"Senior... Can I stay here with you tonight...?"
How could I not be fooled by such a lovely lie?
From then on, it was almost like a honeymoon trip.
Min Seo-hye dragged me to her favorite restaurants every day.
We filled our stomachs with warm oyster jjim and fish dishes, tasted cakes slathered in chocolate, and shared cappuccinos and mocha coffee at Paris's best coffee shops, our noses touching.
She never once asked my opinion about the menu.
She always knew exactly what she wanted to eat.
"Senior, let's hurry to the next store! We don't have time!"
Following Min Seo-hye as she shopped to her heart's content through every department store in Paris, I thoroughly enjoyed watching her try on all sorts of outfits like a fashion show.
Unlike Eun-ho, who was always certain about what she wanted but coordinated every opinion with me and spent time calmly even on trips,
Min Seo-hye seemed overflowing with desire—there were always places she wanted to go and things she wanted to do, and she never asked for my input.
Even the experience of following behind her like a porter, carrying her shopping bags, was something I'd never done with Eun-ho.
-I don't like you carrying my bags like you're my servant. If it's really heavy... then, then help me...!
Eun-ho's way of treating everything equally and even thinking carefully about small kindnesses had perhaps been a little suffocating.
Though that was one of the reasons I married her.
On the other hand, my time with Min Seo-hye was forceful, but never unpleasant.
Maybe it was because my insides felt completely empty from the huge shock.
For the first time in my life, I thought that being pushed around by a woman wasn't so bad.
"Uh... but..."
This really was an affair.
Right now...
I was experiencing what it would have been like if I had married Min Seo-hye instead of Jung Eun-ho.
When that thought occurred to me, I was already being led by Min Seo-hye's hand into a famous jewelry brand store.
Before I knew it, it was the last day of our business trip to France.
"Wow! It's all so beautiful!"
Even though she herself sparkled enough that she didn't need jewelry,
Min Seo-hye tried on countless earrings and rings displayed in the store,
then suddenly slipped on a small diamond ring and looked at me.
"Senior. Can you... get me this...?"
My heart tightened painfully.
The finger wearing the ring was
her left ring finger.
The next day, when the crew boarded the return flight, they noticed the unfamiliar ring on Min Seo-hye's finger.
Since it was on her left ring finger, everyone looked like they were dying of curiosity, but given their usually distant relationship, no one dared to directly ask Min Seo-hye about the ring's origin.
"Team leader, did you see Min Seo-hye's ring...? She must have gotten proposed to by her local boyfriend. Crazy... wearing that so proudly while working..."
"I'll tell her to take it off after takeoff."
"Haven't you heard anything? You're close with Seo-hye-ssi, team leader. Last flight, you two seemed pretty stuck together too."
So in the end, the questions poured toward me.
Of course, no one imagined that I—the famously devoted husband at the company—would have had an affair with Min Seo-hye.
We had thoroughly avoided places frequented by crew members even locally, used taxis for transportation, and always reserved private rooms at restaurants to avoid rumors.
"I don't know. If she's found someone nice, isn't that something to congratulate her on?"
"Try asking her."
"If she wants to tell us, she'll say it herself."
"Tsk, you're no fun, team leader. You didn't even hang out with us this trip... What did you do alone? And you don't even have a girlfriend..."
Some people grumbled in annoyance, but everyone left without gaining anything.
It seemed no one knew about my misconduct with the busty female passenger on the plane,
the big incident with my wife,
or the affair I had committed with Min Seo-hye.
Is that so?
For now... nothing had happened.
For now...
The only thing that had changed was the ring on Min Seo-hye's finger.
...It was fortunate that I had emergency funds saved without my wife knowing.
It was also the first time in my life that I had used them to buy a gift for another woman.
-Senior, don't worry about it.
When I hesitated to pay for the ring, Min Seo-hye spoke as if she could see right through my heart.
-I won't make things more difficult for you. This is just for memory. Something to remember... us.
She told me not to attach meaning to the ring.
That it was just our memory.
She said it as if she could see through everything.
I left the store and pulled Seo-hye into a tight hug.
-...Thank you, Seo-hye-ssi. And... I don't know how this will sound, but when I say I love you, I mean it...
-Hehe... Why are you thanking me, senior? I thank you.
I hugged her again as she smiled and thanked me while showing off the ring cutely.
Tears welled up slightly.
-Thank you for everything. All of it.
At that moment, Seo-hye, who had been quietly nestled in my arms, whispered while hugging my waist tightly.
-...And I'm sorry.
This was the full story of the trip to France that Seo-hye and I took.
So I know for certain.
That I did not rape her.
And that Seo-hye herself never thought of it as rape either.
However, I couldn't tell Kim Jung-yeon any of this.
Who the owner of that ring was.
What the meaning of that ring was.
But there were still things I didn't know.
Why Min Seo-hye had done this.
Why Min Seo-hye had apologized to me.
And... where my wife had gone.
Upon arriving at the empty house without my wife, I finally began thinking about Eun-ho again.