“Why did you take Baltimore’s Place? I thought we already agreed on this.”

            “It’s so early for us to argue, Chanyeol.”

            “Don’t you Chanyeol me, mister!” He dropped his bag on Kris’ table.

            He went to Kris’ office immediately when Joonho told him that the Wu Corporation already got the Baltimore’s Place.

            “Why did you do that, Kris? You are such an annoying, insensitive prick!”

            “My company needs it, Chanyeol.”

            “I need it too!”

            “What for?”

            “That’s hardly your damn business.”

            “I make it my business since you’ll have to convince me to give you that building. That building is the perfect spot for the annex building of Wu Corporation. So, unless you can give me a good reason to give you Baltimore’s, that place will stay in my care.”

            Damn him! He outwitted Chanyeol without any difficulty. Why did he believe his words?

            “When I give you my reason, you’ll give me Baltimore’s?”

            “I’ll think about it. Like I’ve said, you need to convince me first.”

            He didn’t answer back. He’s used to his family not listening to him when he explains himself. But he tried anyway.

            “I need Baltimore’s because that’s the perfect place for my business.”

            “Which is?”

            “A restaurant. I’ve planned it for a long time. I wasn’t able to get the place because you’re the reason why I have lost my money.”

            He leaned back against his seat. It’s obvious that he’s thinking about what he had said – which was new to him. Because usually, they will just listen to what he had said but they are not really thinking about it. Kris, on the other hand, looked like he was interested enough to contemplate on his words.

            For the first time, someone did listen to him.

            “You don’t have to work, you know.” Kris said. “If we separated, you will get a huge sum of money since we didn’t sign a prenuptial agreement.”

            “I just want something that I know I worked hard for.”

            “Or you want to prove yourself to others?”

            “What if that’s the case? Is it wrong?”

            “No.” Kris reached for something in his drawer and handed it to him. “Just sign this and Baltimore’s is yours.”

            Chanyeol gawked at Kris. He just gave him the place without any conditions?

            “Don’t think of this as a charity case.” Kris said. “I just want your plan to take effect. But if you failed, I’ll take back Baltimore’s from you, Chanyeol. You only have one chance, so make sure you do everything right.”

            Without any conditions, huh? But he didn’t complain anyway. He had given him a chance to prove himself. That’s enough to make up for what he did earlier. Chanyeol took the papers and Kris resumed his work. But Chanyeol remained looking at Kris. This man can be a good-hearted person even just for a while. The good thing is he liked that attitude of his.

            He realizes that Kris is not that bad.

            “I don’t like it when someone’s watching me while I’m working.” He looked at Chanyeol. “Do you need anything else, Chanyeol?”

            “Nothing, Kris.”

            With the papers in his hands, Chanyeol sat on the couch to sign the papers.

            “Don’t forget, Chanyeol. You’re a Wu now and not Park.”

            He was startled when he heard Kris’ voice. Especially when he sat beside Chanyeol and gave him another copy of the contract.

            “I already expected that you’ll be having a mistake so I reproduced another copy.” Kris gets the papers that he signed earlier. He shook his head. “Please accustom yourself to be Chanyeol Wu. We will be together for a while.”

            Chanyeol didn’t know what crossed his mind as he just stared at Kris instead of focusing on signing the papers. Why does it look like Kris has changed? He can’t seem to be pissed at him easily unlike before. What’s happening to him? When Kris looked at him, he’s suddenly back to reality.

            “Where should I sign again?”

            “Here.” Kris pointed at the line at the bottom of the page.

            “Should I include Park to my signature, Kris? Or should it be just Wu?”

            “I’m not really sure.” He handed Chanyeol a piece of blank paper. “Just practice your signature while I ask our lawyers about it.”

            Chanyeol likes that light atmosphere between his husband and him. Husband. Well, would you look at that? It seems like he’s really used to their situation. It seems like the events last night didn’t happen. That they almost killed each other because of a bed.

            “Is this okay?” He showed Kris his new signature. Kris moved his body near Chanyeol to look at his paper. Chanyeol felt weird for a while, but after a few seconds he was able to adjust at his proximity to Kris. And it felt good, just like that time when he leaned against his back.

            “Not good.” Kris remarked. “Change it. Try using different style and .”

            He never thought signing papers could feel this nice. “How about this?”

            “It looks like a child did this one.”

            “This is the best that I can do.” He showed him another signature. “If you insult this one again, I’ll stab you with this pen.”

            “No, that one’s okay.” Kris answered without looking at his new signature.

            Chanyeol laughed. Kris just grinned while getting the papers. And they just remained sitting silently on the couch. He can’t think of anything to say, Kris is also the same. He can feel that they don’t want to leave each other yet. Nice.

            But as much as he wants to stay, he still has to do some stuff for his restaurant. “I’ll go now.”

            “Okay.”

            They stood up at the same time. They are both acting really weird. But Chanyeol is really surprised when Kris walked beside him.

            “I’ll just accompany you to the elevator.” Kris said. “You might get lost.”

            “This entire floor is your office, why would I be lost?”

            Kris pressed the elevator button. “Don’t complain, okay? Good thing I accompanied you here.”

            “So I should be thankful then?”

            “I don’t expect you to do it. I know you don’t know how to say thank you.”

            “I know how to say it!” Chanyeol entered the elevator. “Thank you. `See?”

            Kris just smiled and raised his hand as a goodbye. “Take care, Yeol.”

            Kris smile is in his mind when the elevator closed. Chanyeol leaned against the cold steel wall of the elevator with a smile on his face.

            “You looked stupid, Chanyeol.” He said to himself. “You’re smiling without a reason.”

            What do you mean without a reason? There is! Right. And his reason was that guy he thought he would never get along with. His husband.

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            Chanyeol is busy supervising the renovations of Baltimore’s Place and purchasing the necessary furniture for his restaurant. He has few savings on his bank account and that is what he had used for buying his things. It also helped that he didn’t need to pay for Baltimore’s because Kris already paid for it.

            The place is fully furnished so just a few renovations are needed for him to get what he’s visualizing for his restaurant. It’s already evening when he saw that half of the needed work is already done. He’s happy but not yet satisfied.

            “I want to put a space outside for a few plants.” He said to Eunhye, the landscape artist that he hired. “A little garden. Then, we can put a small waterfall. The sound of running water can be appealing to the customers. Maybe ornamental plants would be good instead of the ordinary plants? Yeah, I want ornamental plants. And then–”

            “Sir, excuse me.” Eunhye cut in. “I think you have a visitor.”

            “Huh?” He saw Kris standing at the door of his restaurant while looking at the whole place. “Ah, my husband.”

            “Your husband? He’s so handsome!”

            Eunhye just bit her lip when Chanyeol looked at her with knotted forehead. Maybe she got the message that she can’t fantasize at his husband. He left her and walked towards Kris.

            “Hi. What are you doing here?”

            “Just checking out the place. A day has just passed and there’s so much progress at this place, huh.”

            “Of course. I won’t stop until I’ll get what I want for this place.” He pointed out the different parts of his restaurant. “This will be the bar counter. Here, the restroom. There’s also one on the second floor but you can’t see it since the renovations are not yet finished–”

            “It’s already late, Chanyeol. Don’t you have any plans on going home yet?”

            “Maybe later. I still need to give instructions to my workers for the–”

            Kris grabbed the clipboard that he’s holding and threw it at one of the vacant chairs beside him. Then he held Chanyeol’s hand and pulled him towards the exit.

            “Kris, what the heck are you doing? My work is not yet finished.”

            “The reason why God created night is for people to get their rest. And that’s why there’s still tomorrow.”

            He wasn’t able to do anything when Kris put him in the passenger seat of his car. “How about my car?”

            “Your workers can watch over it.” Kris climbed into the driver’s seat. “Is this the first time that you handled your own business that’s why you’re really into it?”

            “Yes.” He took out receipts and other papers in his bag. “I should not waste time. I need to open my restaurant soon.”

            He’s looking at the papers on his lap when Kris doesn’t respond. He also continued his monologue.

            “I didn’t expect the furniture that I want to be so expensive. Good thing I know some stores that sell for a low price. You know, I got almost a fifty percent discount on the furniture stores that I went to. Maybe tomorrow we can fix the interior of the restaurant, and maybe next week the restaurant will be fully operational. I can’t really wait for that day.”

            Kris just remained silent while driving. Well, if he doesn’t want to talk then its fine with him. It’s better that way because he can concentrate on his self-inventory. But after a while, he felt that he’s sleepy.

            “Please talk to me, Kris. The silence is making me sleepy, you know?”

            “What should I talk about?”

            “Anything…” Chnayeol yawned. “Just tell me a story or something so that I won’t sleep. I’ll just sort out these receipts…”

            He yawned again. “Oh, my…”

            Chanyeol rubbed his eyes. He’s really sleepy. He’s really tired with all the work that he did today. He let himself to be pulled by sleepiness. He just closed his eyes when he felt Kris pulled him to his chest.

            “Just sleep, Yeol.”

            “Hmm.”

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