"You don't even remember how you got in here last night. Perhaps you received that from someone down in the club for misbehaving, Mr Geon." She gave her boss a tight-lipped smile.
'F*cking stop, Alice! Can't you control that tongue!" Junho could have never guessed that the girl who was looking back into his eyes, unfazed by how close the CEO was to her, was a whole panic mess inside.
"So you think I misbehaved with a girl?" Junho's morning started with a crash landing on the floor. It was surprising how he slept on the couch the entire night considering the fact that he never slept on a couch and it was too uncomfortable and small for his liking. It was as if someone had put him under a spell, or something, more like that kiss.
When he walked into the bathroom to splash water over his face, he did have snippets of moments after he got drunk. He kissed someone. The feeling of another pair on his lips was still present. But it was fading and he did not know why his heart was squeezing at it. He admitted that it was so unlike him to kiss a random girl in an intoxicated state, let's say the kid who was trying to flirt with his assistant got the best of him. However, the taste of those lips was not new. He was sure if he kissed the same pair of lips, he would recognize the girl without seeing her face.
"I'm just stating the possibility, Mr Geon." All the time Alice was trying to get her hand out of Junho's hold. He was ruminating on foggy memory of kissing the girl. Just a single cue to recognize who she was, but his assistant could also be right. Although he did not have a record of behaving badly with girls after getting drunk, there could be a mere likelihood because he had not been himself lately, also because of his assistant.
"Mr Geon, somebody is knocking at the door. Will you---," Alice hesitated before tilting her head to look back at Junho. And oh, so wrong move it was.
"Will you let go of my hand so I can open it?" The CEO stared into her eyes, then switched his gaze at her lips. So close their faces were to have a move of an inch and their worlds would collide just like how it went for Liang and the princess.
When did it start getting this awkward? No one was moving back. Alice was recollecting the thousands of years' old moment of the couple who had their faces the same as the CEO and his assistant, and Junho, he was not sure what was pulling him in. Or what was holding him from retreating.
"A lemonade with a strawberry toast." He said releasing her hand and stepping back. Finding the puzzled expressions on his assistant's face, he went on, "I need my breakfast ready in 15 minutes."
"You'll have it here or down?" Asked the girl, trying hard to keep her eyes from trialling down. She could not be blamed for watching the same man as his boss without any clothes on and looking for the dissimilarities now.
"In my room."
"Okay. I'll bring it." She did not wait if Junho had anything else to say. She needed to clear her head. How could she work when a heated scene of their lookalikes continued flashing into her eyes? California air looked doing wonders with her mind.
Rushing out of the bathroom, she walked up to the door and pulled it open. There a girl was standing in a black bodycon, her wavy honey-brown highlights standing out her charismatic personality. Judging by her appearance, she did not come off as less than a model to Alice. Irony. She was.
"You doesn't look like his type." She eyed Alice from her face to shoes then back to her face before getting herself inside.
"Excuse me, you can't enter someone's room without permission." Alice shortly went after her. She was only given fifteen minutes to bring the breakfast of a baby who might start throwing tantrums if not fed on time.
"I don't need permission to enter my ex-boyfriend's room." She turned around and smiled at Alice, yes, the sweet yet bitter type of curve.
"Xiu." Appeared the surprised CEO from the bedroom in the same robe. The last time he saw her was when they broke up. After that, he deleted all of their pictures, blocked her contact and any other resource that would remind him of her.
However, seeing her standing there, he was lost in the mesmerising eyes of the model momentarily. She looked so flawless and bright just like she was when they were together. And there he was, dealing with a broken heart. No, he was not broken anymore. He was over her. He will show her that he was over.
"Junho, you've got a new assistant I see. Aren't you going to introduce her to me?" Xiu was acting all cool but seeing Junho in a bathrobe with a girl in his room, she was not very much pleased. Her friends told her that they saw Junho getting wasted in the club last night. To confirm it herself, she came to the hotel and to her luck, her friends were not misunderstood. There were two rooms booked under The Geon Corporations.
The CEO clicked his tongue, a rough chuckle sounding in the air as he stepped towards Alice. Xiu was acting as if nothing had happened between them. She even got the nerves to show up at his door unannounced.
Standing beside Alice, he slipped his arm around her waist. Pulling her close before connecting their lips. Being caught off guard, Alice's eyes widened, so as Junho's when he had the similar taste, the same scent he remembered when he kissed a girl last night; redbud. Nonetheless, he composed himself. His assistant and he would have a long day ahead. For now, there was time to pay back.
"Xiu, meet my secretary and girlfriend, Alice."