⚠️ Trigger Warnings:

Forced behaviours

Discomfort

Strong language

Manipulation

Angst

If you are sensitive please skip the parts marked with 🙈 and you can read again when you see 🤗

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Jin's POV

Eun-Tak had whisked off to her desk on the same floor as me, with a determined look set on her adorable face.

I grinned to myself as I made my way from the printing room to my own office, nestled among the other finance staff.

"Jin, Eun-Tak-ssi has been looking for you! She came all the way down here, just to speak with you!" One of my team members, Tina exclaimed nervously.

"That's okay. What did you say to her?" I asked politely, though I knew she was nervous mainly because she had a crush on me.

Most of my colleagues do...

"We just told her to ask Jin oppa." She grinned at me in response, her cheeks turned a bright shade of pink.

"Smart move T." I say to her, ruffling her short, page styled hair. She was one of my closest colleagues here.

She blushed a little more, and scuttled off to her desk to complete her tasks for the day, keeping her head down all the while.

The rest of the day was as uneventful as the news these days. Eun-Tak had sent me a 'strongly worded email'. Which, I'll admit, had merit.

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Good day Mr. Kim

I trust you are well.

Please forward all invoices from JFH and the corresponding proof of payment documents to me regarding the following purchase orders:

1. PO 235: 50 000 units of Karoo dry white wine.

2. PO 236: 50 000 units of Karoo dry red wine.

3. PO 237: 50 000 units of KWV Sweet Rosé.

4. PO 345: 100 000 units of KWV premium blend cognac.

5. PO 346: 100 000 units of Klipdrift brandy.

Kindly treat this as a matter of urgency, as we are yet to receive the above mentioned consignments and these, according to the books, have been paid and cleared a month ago. South Korean customs claims that the goods were 'cleared three weeks ago' and I need a paper trail to prove that we have paid the South African company, JF Hillebrand in full, for the goods.

Note that this matter has been escalated to upper management, as there has been a great deal of negligence on our part as a team.

Kind regards,

Ji Eun-Tak

Operations Manager
Hana Enterprises (Pty) Ltd.
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She's just adorable.

Her tiny waist, sharp eyes, full lips and her confidence, did something to me each time I annoyed her. This was precisely why I enjoyed irritating her, it made it worth annoying her when she gets all fiesty like she was today.

I could kiss her.

'And I almost did earlier.'

If she hadn't mumbled about me pressing my uh... member... into her, I may just have kissed her.

Our lips were so close. Just a nano metre away... I could feel her breath on me, I could smell the Channel No⁰5 off her clothes.

I looked at my right palm.

It was still stained with her red lipstick. I guess she uses the regular kind. Not the stain free kind.
Which is good. Because I want to smudge her lipstick so badly.

I shake my head violently to clear the thoughts I knew were following. The thoughts that sometimes haunt me at random. Whether I am alone, at the office, in a meeting with her present or simply just with her, alone as Jin.

"Hyung? Why are you covering your ears like that?" Taehyung asked me suddenly.

When did he barge in?

'Argh... my little brother could be so annoying at times.'

"What is it Tae!" I demand in annoyance.

"Chill hyung. Eun-Tak just wants a reply to her email. Why are you toying with her?" He asked me earnestly.

I pushed back from my desk, rolling my chair away and sighed heavily.

"Because Tae, I know who's behind the lagging deliveries and I know the reason why. I also know that I can't have her, so I'd rather she hate me than to even know who I really am." I say to my brother as I hold my head in my hands, bending forwards, trying to keep my composure.

"But you're the director hyung! You can date a manager. Our policies don't advise against such things." My little brother insisted.

"I don't see why you hurt yourself like this, hyung. She has feelings for you too, you know. You should have seen her today after she left you behind in that printing room." He smirked.

"She- She what?" I looked up from my mini-pity party.

"She likes you too, hyung. I can tell. In fact, the entire company knows this!" He chuckled, looking at me as if I were the stupid one.

"Okay, I'll admit that I picked up on her feelings for me, too. But there's something you should know Tae." I look at my brother more seriously now, considering if I should share what I've been instructed by the boss.

"Go on hyung. I'm listening." He gives me his adorable boxy grin. His blond hair fell into his eyes and he swiftly flicked his hair away, waiting for me to share my secret.

"Nevermind, Tae." I say dismissively, rolling my chair forwards again until I reached my laptop.

"Hyung! Come on! Please?" He begs.

"Kim Taehyung you wouldn't understand the pain of loving someone but being forbidden to have anything to do with them." I say bitterly to my youngest brother as I stab the keys in reply to Eun-Tak's email.

"Y- you're in love with her?" His jaw dropped to the ground.

"Yes, little brother." I reply, simultaneously clicking on the send button.

'There's her fucking answer!'

"Hyung... you should confess your feelings to her."

"Have you gone completely insane Taehyung? The woman's father has forbade me to even lay a finger on his precious daughter! There's a reason I haven't kissed her yet, despite the many chances I've had. Okay!" I yelled at him, frustrated by his persistence.

"Hyung, you know you've done far more than just lay a finger on her. I saw what had happened earlier on in the printing room between the two of you, from the camera room just now." He says conspiratorially.

"That was an accident Tae." I looked up at him disbelievingly.

Why was he dragging this conversation on?

"But you almost kissed her. I saw the pained look in her eyes. She wanted you to kiss her! And you would have! Why did you stop?" He pressed on.

"Because of this." I say, flinging a printed copy of the director's policies at him.

"It's all there. Highlighted in orange. Read it. Since you're going to become the marketing director anyway." I say off-handedly to him.

"You're really following this to the 'T'?" My brother pressed on.

He just didn't know when to quit.
Bloody gremlin.

"Tae, you've been friends with her for how long now? Does she even know that we're siblings? Has she even seen me with you even once in the 26 years that you know each other?" I countered his silly little questions with my own rhetorical ones.

"Uh... no. She hasn't. It's just pure coincidence I guess." He says, completely stumped by my questions.

"Exactly. She hasn't. And it's not a coincidence. Her father loathes me." I say bitterly.

"Loathes you? How so? Mr. Ji speaks very highly of you at every meeting. Some of the staff are actually very jealous if you." He says, his eyebrows knitted together in deep thought, he was trying to connect the dots.

"Yeah well... business and personal matters don't mix well Tae. He keeps them well apart."

"What exactly did you do hyung? What did you do for him to hate you enough to have a special policy restraining you from dating his only daughter?" Tae asks me seriously, probably the most serious I have seen him since he'd signed his contract with us.

"Nothing." I shrugged nonchalantly.

"Then?" Hep mirrored my shrug.

"He believes that I am the reason his eldest daughter killed herself." I sighed, raking my fingers through my hair.

"He... Wait, what-?" My poor baby brother stood in front of my glass desk and stared at me in shock.

He and Eun-Tak were the same age. She's born a few hours after him. Growing up, the Kim and Ji families were extremely close.

Little Taehyung and Eun-Tak were always found running along the corridors of either family's home.

But what Tae didn't know is that while he and Eun-Tak were running around and having innocent fun, Eun-Tak's eldest sister, Yoon-ah, was running around after me.

And not in an innocent way either.

At first, it was just innocent puppy love. I liked her. She liked me. But she quickly became obsessed with me.
By the time she tried her tricks on me, it was already two years since I'd gotten over her as my crush.

I'd never willingly done anything with her. Except perhaps kiss her, just once.

We were only seventeen years old when Yoon-ah first began to show any signs of an unhealthy obsession.

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Flashback

It was during the summer vacation our families had always taken together.

This time, it was at a forest lakeside.

We'd rented a string of cabins for privacy - the adults had their own fun I guessed.

There I was, sitting on the deck, shirtless due to the heat of the day, fishing and simultaneously watching over Taehyung and Eun-Tak as they sailed their paper boats on the lake's shore.

Yoon-ah, deciding to capitalize on the fact that our parents were all preoccupied with each other, wanted some attention of her own.

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"Oppa." She had called out to me.

I turned to face her, taking my eyes off the younger ones for a few minutes as they moved towards the board games and table tennis.

"Yup. What's up?" I asked her in English, as I spoke English more out of habit.

"Nothing. Just wondering where everyone is." She said quietly.

"Well... our parents are a bit occupied with some sort of game they're playing and I'm watching over our siblings." I say to her innocently.

She nods, looks left and right and then slides closer to me at the railing.

"I want to kiss you." She said bluntly, making me blush.

I began to feel a little awkward, and put on my shirt before she got any more ideas.

But it was a little too late.

The girl had already gripped my shirt and pressed herself forwards on me. She got on her tip toes and briefly pressed her lips to mine, which felt a little weird to me.

At 17, I hadn't had my first kiss and this was my first.

Later, I found out that she'd already had her first kiss and wanted to kiss me because she had a crush on me for years.

Apparently, the brief contact of our lips touching was not good enough for her, and Yoon-ah insisted that I kissed her 'properly'.

"Oppa. You're not doing it right." She insisted as she ran her hands over my chest and stared into my eyes.

"I don't want to Yoon-ah. Stop this now." I said to her firmly.

"But you said you'd be there for me if I ever needed anything." She pouted, looking at me teary-eyed.

I had said that, yes. But I meant that in an older brother way. And I said that about five years ago.

"That's not what I meant." I said to her as I pried her skinny arms off me and shoved her aside.

"Please? Please? Please? If you don't, then I'll tell my dad you tried to shove your hands up my skirt." She pressed on, then threatened me, even rubbing her busty chest against mine, not taking no for an answer.

"Okay. If I do it just this once, will you leave me the fuck alone?" I asked her harshly, hoping to push her away.

"Aha." She nodded emphatically.

I cast an eye on my brother and her sister before steeling myself for something I really didn't want to do. Then I took a deep breath and tried to recall all the kissing scenes I'd watched on television when I couldn't sleep.

I was hoping to save it for someone special.

Now I had to waste it on this bitch that treated me as if I were her plaything. All because she had threatened me - using her father's status over my father, against me.

We were standing behind the cabins, behind hers, in fact.

She stood against the wall of the cabin, pulling me closer to her by the collar of my cotton shirt.

Because I made sure to wear it. I didn't trust her.

This act itself irritated me because I always imagined a girl that I liked doing it to me. Not this rich, self-entitled brat.

She tugged my shirt again and I ended up bumping into her huge chest once more.

"Kiss me Jin." She said, pouting at me.

"How am I supposed to when you're pouting?" I snapped.

"Oh... right." She smiled and closed her eyes.

I rolled my eyes and hoped to heaven that she'd leave me alone after this.

I forced myself forwards, bending to touch my lips to her thick, oily, glossy ones. As soon as my lips met hers, it became clear to me what I needed to do next.

I held her face and interlinked our lips, brushing them a few times as if speaking silently.

And then I pulled away and walked off to find my brother. I'd left him alone for far too long.

I felt nothing.

"Jin! Wait!" She came running behind me.

"Go away Yoon-ah. You said just once." I said dismissing her.

"No. Wait. That was amazing. It was better than my first kiss with my boyfriend." She says proudly, oblivious of the self insult.

"Good for you. Good bye." I said and walked off towards Tae, who was now pulling Eun-Tak's ponytails as if they were light switches.

"Tae! No, you little Gremlin! Stop that now, Taehyung. You'll hurt Eun-Tak." I said to him and pulled him away, dragging him off to our shared cabin.

A day later, she was back.

Damnit. There was no getting rid of this girl.

And it's not like my parents would believe me. They held this family with such high regard.

"Jin!" She hissed outside my door.

"What?" I called back from the tiny bathroom, brushing my teeth after breakfast.

"I want to do that again. For longer." She said unconscious of her words.

I chuckled, but she mistook it for my eagerness.

"I see you want to do it again too." She smirked, oblivious to the sexual connotation.

"No. You said just once. And I'm kind of busy now." I said and shut the door, but she'd stopped it with her foot and forced her way into the cabin, shutting the door closed behind her.

"It's really unbecoming of a girl to force herself on a guy, you know." I said to her, trying to buy myself time as I thought up an escape plan.

"Hmmmm.... yeah. But you're so hot, I can't help myself." She says, running her hands up my chest, and then rubbing her waist against mine.

Involuntarily a third party decided to join. Which was not fair, as I didn't want her.

"Hmmmm .... see even your dick is excited for me oppa."

"Get off me, you sick bitch." I said shoving her off me and stomping out of my own cabin.

"Jin. Wait! I need you."

'Yuck.' I shivered as I ran to find my parents or hers.

But they were nowhere to be seen in this godforsaken deserted forest.

"No one is here oppa." She said in a deep voice into my ear.

Fuck.

This bitch wasn't going to leave me alone, was she?

She eventually forced me into a corner of her cabin, and sat on me. Then she undid a few of my buttons, which made me feel uncomfortable and used.

I tried to push her off without hurting her because she could switch the story around if I left a mark.

She could accuse me of sexual assault.

And she threatened to do so, once again.

The sick, twisted, bitch.

After a few minutes, she was kissing me. And before I knew it, she was kissing my neck.

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She'd let me go after a while and promised to come back for more.

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Thankfully, the holiday had miraculously ended later that day, owing to the fact that some miraculous deal hit the shores of South Korea and her father simply had to go back.

That seemed to do the trick.

And it sure wiped the smirk off her ugly face for a while.
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After the trip, I avoided their family at all costs, either saying that I was busy with homework or studying for exams. Later, I got accepted at a university but didn't tell anyone where I was going.

I couldn't risk her joining the same university as me. Her father was an influential man and could easily palm the Dean to admit her into any faculty, despite her low IQ.

But she'd gotten her revenge.

She'd told her father some invented story about me sleeping with her and leaving her pregnant. She even had a real pregnancy test showing she was positive.

I never slept with her. Ever.

Yes, she wanted to have sex. But it never happened!

And I made sure to keep my distance from her ever since that holiday!

Seeing as I was at university the entire semester and hadn't left campus as I was writing my third year's final examinations, it was both impossible for me to impregnate her and then "kill her".

Yoon-ah had jumped off their twelve-story office block and blamed me for it in her suicide note.

It was someone else's child.

I know this for a fact.

And I have proof. But the court had dismissed it. Instead, I was blamed for her death.

I guess her father knew she was lying because he never asked for me to go to jail. He even offered me a job here and promoted me, rather quickly, to the Director of Finance post.

Maybe he wanted me close by to watch over?

Or perhaps he felt guilty about all the things his daughter had done to me all those years ago?

Perhaps he just felt embarrassed.

That could also be why he forbade me from being with the daughter I actually had feelings for.

Perhaps he didn't want the press to dig out the story he worked hard to bury. Ever.

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"Hyung. I'm so sorry you had to go through all of that alone." Tae began to cry and hugged me.

"It's okay Tae. It's okay. Shhh..." I assured him.

"Bu- but she's dead now and she's ruined your concept of true love."

"I know, Tae. I know. But do you now see why I can't have anything to do with Eun-Tak?" I ask him, hoping he understands.
"And for the record, I don't have a ruined concept of love. I have you and Eun-Tak whom I care for." I smiled at him.

He nodded his understanding and hugs me again.

"Good lad." I say, pecking his head as siblings often tend to do.

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A/n: I had to edit out what I initially wrote, but I think this version is better because Jin is my Bias and I'd never let that happen to him. So I wouldn't do that to a character modeled around him.

Although it's not common, these things tend to happen between close family friends every so often. I felt it was necessary to discuss by means of this story.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.