** Haeundae Marine City, Busan - Song Residence - Autumn 2011 **

The hall was filled with a mass of people she did not recognize. The curtains were drawn down and the incessant chatter did not help the headache that was forming. Holding her head, Ji Hyo stood up and stumbled through the crowd, heading for her bedroom. Reading of the will be damned. She needed her sleep. As she closed on the staircase, she bumped into what seemed like a wall. 

“Funny… I don’t recall having a wall here..” She mumbled.

Taking her hand off her head and eyes cringing, she reached for the wall in front of her. As her hands d the soft material covering the wall, a pair of large hands loosely gripped her wrists. 

“Song Ji Hyo-sshi, are you alright?”

“Owh?” 

Forcing her eyes open, she blinked a few times. The blurry image of a wall slowly morphs into a wide muscular chest covered by a soft lavender shirt. Her eyes raked up to find an angular face, a pointed nose and a pair of small squinty eyes staring at her. But what attracted her the most were his lips, which was currently moving too quickly for her to register anything.

“Aegisshi!”

At the familiar stern voice, Ji Hyo whipped around to face her bodyguard. The hands holding on to wrists dropped abruptly. The sudden movement caused her to lose her balance. She let out a cry and shut her eyes waiting for the pain that was to come. But it never did. Opening one eye and then another