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No response.

You glance toward the door.

And your stomach drops.

Nakamura Kazuha hasn’t changed much. Same heart-shaped face. Same way of standing—weight on one hip, head tilted slightly, like she’s waiting for a camera to find her. Her hair is shorter now, cut just above her shoulders, and she’s traded the loose sweaters she used to wear for something sharper: a fitted blazer, dark slacks, heels that click against your new floor as she takes a step forward.

“Y/n,” she says.

Just your name. No hello. No surprise. She says it like she expected to find you here, like she’s been looking.

“Kazuha.” Your voice comes out steadier than you feel. “It’s been a while.”

“Three years. Four months.” A pause. “Six days.”

The glass in your hand creaks. You set it down.

“That’s specific.”

“I’ve been keeping track.”

She takes another step into the restaurant. Her eyes move across the space—the empty tables, the bar you built yourself from reclaimed wood, the chalkboard menu still blank because you haven’t decided on the final dishes yet. Taking inventory. Kazuha always did that. Walked into a room and catalogued everything in it, like she was filing information away for later.

“Nice place,” she says. “Very you.”

“You don’t know me well enough to say that. Not anymore.”

The words land harder than you intended. Kazuha flinches—barely, a flicker at the corner of her mouth—but she doesn’t argue.

“Can we talk?” she asks.

“I’m working.”

“You just said you’re not open yet.”

“Still working.”

She exhales. It’s not quite a sigh. More like she’s releasing something she’s been holding onto for a long time. “I’ve been trying to find you for months. You changed your number. Moved out of your old apartment. Deleted your social media.”

“Yeah. Kind of the point.”

“I went to your old job. The café on Fourth Street. The manager said you quit two years ago.”

“Also the point.”

Kazuha’s jaw tightens. “I deserved that.”

You don’t answer. Because what is there to say? Yes, you did? It feels petty. No, you didn’t? That would be a lie. So you just stand there, arms crossed, watching her like she’s a customer who wandered in by mistake and you’re waiting for her to realize it and leave.

She doesn’t leave.

“I’m not here to make excuses,” she says. “I just… I need you to know that I think about it. All the time. What I did.” Her voice drops. “What I said.”

The night she dumped you comes back in fragments. The smell of her apartment—vanilla candles and whatever liquor she’d been drinking. The way she’d laughed, light and careless, when you told her you were worried about her. This relationship wasn’t gonna last long at all. She’d said it like it was obvious. Like you were stupid for thinking otherwise.

“You laughed,” you say quietly. “I told you I cared about you, and you laughed.”

Kazuha’s face crumples. “I know.”

“I was terrified. You were going out with guys you’d just met, coming home drunk at three in the morning, and I couldn’t sleep because I kept thinking something was going to happen to you. And you told me I was jealous.”

“I was an idiot.”

“Yeah.” You pick up the glass again. Set it down again. Your hands need something to do. “You were.”

The silence that follows is brutal. Kazuha’s eyes are wet now, but she’s not crying. Not quite. She’s holding it together the way she always did—by a thread, but a strong one.

“I was scared,” she says.

“Of what?”

“Of you.”

That catches you off guard. “What?”

“Not… not of you hurting me. Nothing like that.” She wraps her arms around herself. “I was scared of how much I felt. When I was with you, I stopped wanting to go out. I stopped wanting to see anyone else. I just wanted to be there, on your couch, listening to music, watching those terrible dramas you pretended to hate but always ended up getting invested in.” A tear escapes, sliding down her cheek. “I didn’t know how to handle that. So I ruined it.”

You should feel something. Anger, maybe. Or vindication. Instead, there’s just a dull ache in your chest. The same ache that’s been there for years, that you’ve learned to live with, like a trick knee or a bad back. You’ve built a whole life around it.

“Why are you telling me this now?” you ask.

“Because I can’t stop thinking about you.” Kazuha’s voice breaks on the last word. “I’ve tried. I’ve dated other people. I moved back to Japan for a year. Nothing worked. Every time I closed my eyes, I saw your face. The look you gave me when I ended it. I’ve never seen anyone look at me like that before. Like I’d broken something they didn’t even know could break.”

“You did.”

“I know.”

“No.” You step out from behind the counter. “You don’t. You don’t know what happened after you left. You don’t know about Yena, or Yeji and Chaewon, or—or Asa. You don’t know what you started.”

Kazuha blinks. “What do you mean?”

And just like that, you’re ten seconds from spilling your entire history to the woman who kicked off the whole disaster. The urge is there—to tell her everything. To make her understand that she was the first domino. That every relationship after her was a variation on the same theme: girls who seemed sweet, who seemed different, who ended up proving that they weren’t.

But you’ve spent three years trying not to think about any of it. And now she’s here, in your restaurant, in the space you built to escape from memories like her, and she’s asking you to open the wound all over again.

“It doesn’t matter,” you say.

“It does. Please.” She takes another step closer. You can smell her perfume now—something floral and expensive. Not the vanilla body spray she used to wear. “I came here because I need to make this right. I don’t expect you to forgive me. I don’t expect anything. But I need you to know that I’ve changed.”

“Everyone says that.”

“I’m not everyone.”

Your laugh is hollow. “You sound exactly like Yena.”

“Who’s Yena?”

“Nobody.” You run a hand through your hair. “Just someone else who said she cared and then proved she didn’t.”

Kazuha’s expression shifts. Something flickering behind her eyes—curiosity, maybe. Or concern. It’s hard to tell with her. It always was.

“You’ve been through a lot,” she says. Not a question.

“You could say that.”

“I want to hear about it. All of it. If you’ll let me.”

The bell above the door chimes again.

You both turn.

And there, standing in the doorway with a takeout cup in one hand and a confused expression on her face, is Choi Yena.

She looks different. That’s the first thing you notice. The Yena you remember was all energy and motion—hair pulled back in a messy ponytail, always wearing band t-shirts and ripped jeans, always tapping her fingers against her thigh like she was counting out a beat only she could hear. This Yena is… still. Her hair falls in careful waves past her shoulders. She’s wearing a simple blouse, dark slacks, flats. Professional. Contained.

But her eyes are the same. Wide and bright and sharp, taking in everything at once—the restaurant, you, Kazuha.

“Oh,” Yena says. “I didn’t realize you had company.”

Kazuha’s posture goes rigid. “I was just leaving.”

“No, don’t leave on my account.” Yena’s voice is light, but there’s an edge to it. She steps inside, letting the door swing shut behind her. “I just came to see the place. Heard through the grapevine that you’d opened something. Thought I’d stop by. Offer my congratulations.” Her gaze flicks to Kazuha. “I’m Choi Yena. I don’t think we’ve met.”

“Nakamura Kazuha.”

Something passes between them. You can’t quite name it—a current, a recognition. Two people who know something about each other without knowing anything at all.

“Kazuha,” Yena repeats. “The ex.”

“One of them,” Kazuha says evenly.

“Right. One of them.” Yena’s smile doesn’t reach her eyes. “Small world.”

You clear your throat. “Yena. What are you doing here?”

She turns to you, and for a second, the mask slips. You see something underneath—guilt, maybe. Or regret. It’s gone before you can be sure.

“I wanted to see how you were doing,” she says. “It’s been a while.”

“Two years.”

“Two years, three months.” Her smile turns wry. “I’ve been keeping track too. Seems like that’s a habit with the people who’ve wronged you.”

Kazuha makes a small noise—not quite a laugh, but close. “He has that effect.”

“Okay.” You hold up both hands. “This is weird. Both of you showing up on the same day, at the same time. What is this? Some kind of intervention?”

“I didn’t plan this,” Yena says.

“Neither did I,” Kazuha adds.

“Great. Fantastic. So it’s just a coincidence that two of my ex-girlfriends decided to track me down within five minutes of each other. On a Tuesday.”

Yena takes a sip of her coffee. “It’s Wednesday.”

“Whatever.”

The three of you stand there in a triangle of awkward silence. You behind the counter. Kazuha near the bar. Yena by the door. Three points of a shape you never wanted to draw.

“I should go,” Kazuha says finally. “This was a mistake.”

“No.” The word comes out before you can stop it. Both women look at you. “If you’re here, and she’s here… maybe there’s a reason. Maybe this needs to happen.”

“Needs to happen?” Yena raises an eyebrow. “What does that mean?”

“I don’t know.” You lean against the counter, suddenly exhausted. “I’ve spent three years running from everything that happened. Every single one of you left a mark, and I just… I packed it all away and tried to pretend it didn’t hurt. And now you’re both here, in the one place I built to get away from you, and maybe that means something.”

Kazuha’s voice is quiet. “I’m sorry.”

“You said that already.”

“I’ll keep saying it. Until you believe me.”

Yena sets her coffee down on the nearest table. “I’m sorry too. For what it’s worth.” She pauses. “I know it’s probably not worth much.”

“You missed my birthday,” you say. “You were supposed to come over. I made dinner. I waited for two hours. And you didn’t even call.”

Yena’s face goes pale. “I know.”

“You sent a text. The next day. ‘Sorry, band stuff.’ That was it. Two years together, and that’s what I got.”

“I was scared too.”

You laugh, but there’s no humor in it. “You and Kazuha should start a club.”

“It’s true.” Yena’s voice tightens. “I was terrified of how much I loved you. The band was… it was easier. It was something I understood. Something I could control. You were—” She breaks off, shaking her head. “You were everything. And I didn’t know what to do with that.”

“So you ignored me.”

“I threw myself into the one thing I knew I was good at. And I told myself that you’d be there when I was done. That you’d wait for me.”

“Well.” You spread your hands. “I didn’t.”

The silence stretches.

Kazuha shifts her weight. “I should really go. This feels like a conversation the two of you need to have.”

“Stay.” Yena’s voice is sharp. “You started this. Before me. You should hear how it ends.”

“How what ends?”

“Whatever this is.” Yena gestures between the three of you. “This moment. The universe doesn’t just drop two ex-girlfriends in the same restaurant on the same day for no reason. Right? That’s not how things work.”

“You believe in fate now?” you ask.

“I believe in consequences.” Yena looks at you. “I’ve been wanting to find you for a year. Ever since the band broke up. I just didn’t have the courage. And then I heard about this place, and I thought… maybe.”

“Maybe what?”

“Maybe I could explain. Make you understand.”

“Understand what? That you chose your career over me? I got that message loud and clear.”

“That I was wrong.” Yena’s voice cracks. “I was so wrong. And I didn’t realize it until you were gone. Until I came home to an empty apartment and all your things were gone and there was just… silence. No one waiting for me. No one to call after a late rehearsal. No one who remembered how I take my coffee.” She gestures with the cup. “You still do. Don’t you.”

You don’t answer. Because she’s right. You remember exactly how she takes her coffee—oat milk, two sugars, a dash of cinnamon if it’s available. You remember the way she hums when she’s nervous, the way she taps her fingers, the way she laughs with her whole body. You remember everything.

That’s the curse. You always remember.

“I gave you three years of my life,” you say. “And you made me feel like I was invisible.”

Yena flinches like you’ve slapped her.

Kazuha speaks up. Quiet. Tentative. “He did the same for me. And I threw it away because I was too immature to handle being loved.”

You look at her. “Why are you defending me?”

“Because someone should have. A long time ago.” She meets your eyes. “I’ve been in therapy. Did you know that? Started about a year after I went back to Japan. My therapist said I had commitment issues. Attachment problems. All these big words that basically meant I was so afraid of being abandoned that I abandoned people first.” Her laugh is hollow. “Ironic, right?”

“Sounds familiar,” Yena mutters.

“Doesn’t it?” Kazuha turns to her. “What’s your excuse?”

“Excuse me?”

“You heard me. You had him for three years. Three years of him loving you, supporting you, probably showing up to every single one of your shows. And you couldn’t be bothered to spend his birthday with him? What the hell is wrong with you?”

Yena’s mouth opens. Closes. “I—who do you think you are?”

“Someone who made the same mistake. Someone who’s been living with it for longer than you have. Someone who knows exactly what it feels like to wake up every morning and realize you ruined the best thing that ever happened to you because you were too much of a coward to just let yourself be happy.”

The words hang in the air.

You should say something. You should step in, defuse this, tell them both to leave. But there’s a part of you—a small, petty part—that wants to watch. That wants to see them tear into each other. That wants someone else to feel even a fraction of what you’ve felt.

“I loved him,” Yena says quietly.

“So did I.”

“Then why are we the ones standing here apologizing? Why couldn’t we just—”

“Because we’re broken.” Kazuha’s voice is matter-of-fact. “Both of us. Different ways, same result. And he paid the price.”

You clear your throat. “I’m right here.”

Both women turn to look at you.

“I’m right here,” you repeat. “And I’ve been here this whole time. You’re talking about me like I’m a thing that happened to you. Like I’m a lesson you learned. But I’m a person. I’m standing in my own restaurant, in the middle of a day that was supposed to be about finalizing the menu and hiring a sous-chef, and instead I’m watching my past walk through the door and unpack its trauma all over my new floor.”

Yena has the decency to look ashamed. Kazuha just looks tired.

“You’re right,” Kazuha says. “I’m sorry. Again.”

“Stop apologizing.”

“I can’t.”

“Try.”

She falls silent.

The restaurant feels too small now. The walls are closing in. You can feel the weight of everything you’ve been carrying pressing down on your shoulders—Kazuha’s laughter, Yena’s indifference, the tangled mess of Yeji and Chaewon, Asa’s tear-streaked face begging you to forgive her. All of it. Every betrayal, every disappointment, every night you spent staring at the ceiling wondering what was wrong with you.

“You want to know what happened after you?” you say. Not sure which of them you’re addressing. Maybe both. “After Kazuha, I met Yena. And for a while, she was perfect. But perfect doesn’t last. She chose her band over me. Over and over. Until I stopped asking.”

Yena looks away.

“And after Yena, there were two girls. Yeji and Chaewon. They wanted an open relationship. I didn’t even know what that meant. They had to explain it to me. And I was so desperate to feel wanted that I said yes.” You shake your head. “They used me. My apartment. My bed. They’d have sex with each other, and sometimes they’d let me join, and for a little while I thought maybe this was it. Maybe this was what I deserved. But then they started cheating on each other. And on me. And I realized I was just a place for them to crash.”

Kazuha’s hand covers her mouth.

“And then there was Asa.” Your voice drops. “She was friends with you, actually. Kazuha. She said she’d treat me better than you did. And at first, she did. She was sweet. Caring. Attentive. I thought maybe I’d finally found someone who wouldn’t break me. But she cheated too. With a guy named Jae. He posted the video online. She came to me crying, begging me not to leave.” You close your eyes. “I left anyway.”

The silence that follows is absolute.

When you open your eyes, both women are staring at you. Kazuha’s face is wet. Yena’s is pale.

“So if you came here looking for forgiveness,” you say, “I don’t have any left. I used it all up. You’re standing in a restaurant built by a man who doesn’t know how to trust anyone anymore. A man who’s spent three years trying to convince himself that he’s not the problem. That he’s not fundamentally unlovable. And honestly? I’m still not sure.”

“You’re not,” Kazuha whispers.

“You don’t know that.”

“Yes, I do. Because I’m the one who made you feel that way. I’m the first one. I set the pattern. Every girl after me was just… repeating what I started.”

Yena shakes her head. “I made my own choices. Don’t take credit for my mistakes.”

“We all made our own choices.” Kazuha’s voice is fierce now. “But none of us thought about what those choices would do to him. We were selfish. All of us. And now we’re standing here, years later, trying to apologize because we finally realized what we lost.”

“And what did you lose?” you ask.

“Someone who actually saw me.” Kazuha takes a step toward you. “Do you remember our third date? You took me to that little ramen shop near campus. The one with the plastic chairs and the broken air conditioner. And you asked me about my grandmother.”

You blink. “Your grandmother?”

“I’d mentioned her once. In passing. Weeks before. I said she raised me, and I missed her. And you remembered. You asked me about her cooking, her stories, her garden. No one had ever asked me about her garden before. No one had ever listened long enough to know it existed.” Her voice breaks. “That was the moment I fell in love with you. And it scared me so much that I ran.”

Yena is watching this exchange with an expression you can’t quite read. Something between guilt and recognition.

“You did the same thing for me,” she says quietly. “Different details, same result. You remembered everything. My songs. My dreams. The way I like my coffee.” She lifts the cup. “I threw it all away for a band that broke up six months after you left. We couldn’t even finish the album. The label dropped us. And I realized I’d traded the only person who ever truly believed in me for a career that didn’t even last.”

The room feels heavy. Charged. Like the air before a thunderstorm.

You don’t know what you’re supposed to do with this. All this honesty, all this pain—it’s not what you expected. You thought you’d never see them again. You thought you’d made peace with that. But here they are, offering you something you’re not sure you want.

“I don’t know what you want me to say,” you admit.

“You don’t have to say anything,” Kazuha tells you. “That’s not why I came. I just needed you to know. Even if you never speak to me again. Even if you throw me out of this restaurant right now. I needed you to know that it wasn’t your fault. None of it. You weren’t unlovable. You were—are—too easy to love. And some people can’t handle that.”

Yena nods. “What she said.”

“That’s it? That’s your big apology?”

“It’s not an apology. It’s the truth.” Yena sets her cup down and straightens her shoulders. “I spent two years telling myself you were boring. Reliable. Predictable. I told myself that’s why I didn’t prioritize you, because you’d always be there, because you didn’t need me the way the band did. But that was a lie. You needed me. I just didn’t want to see it, because seeing it would mean admitting I was hurting you.”

“You were.”

“I know.” Her voice drops to barely above a whisper. “God, I know.”

Kazuha reaches out. Her fingers brush your arm. Light. Hesitant. Like she’s asking permission just to be in your space.

“Can we sit down?” she asks. “Just for a few minutes. I think… I think we all need to breathe.”

You look at her hand on your arm. At Yena, standing by the door like she’s not sure if she should stay or flee. At the empty tables and the blank chalkboard and the life you built from the ashes of everything they broke.

“Fine,” you say. “Five minutes.”

They sit at the table nearest the window. Kazuha folds her hands in her lap, perfectly still. Yena leans back in her chair, arms crossed, one foot tapping against the floor. You stay standing. Old habits.

“Tell me about the restaurant,” Yena says. “How long has this been in the works?”

“Two years. Saved up. Found the space. Renovated it myself.”

“It’s beautiful.”

“Thanks.”

“What kind of food?”

“Korean-Japanese fusion. My grandmother’s recipes. Some things I picked up in culinary school.”

Kazuha’s eyes light up. “You went to culinary school?”

“After everything fell apart. I needed something to focus on. So I went back to school. Learned how to cook. Turns out I’m good at it.”

“You always were.” She says it like it’s obvious. Like it’s something she’s known all along. “You used to make me dinner in your dorm room. Do you remember? A single hot plate and a pot you borrowed from the communal kitchen. You made japchae for my birthday.”

You’d forgotten about that. The hot plate was ancient and temperamental, and the japchae came out slightly burnt on one side, but Kazuha had eaten every bite and told you it was the best thing she’d ever tasted.

“I remember,” you say.

“I think about that night a lot. When things get hard. It’s like a warm memory I can pull out and hold onto.”

Yena shifts in her chair. “For me, it’s the night we went stargazing. Junior year. We drove out to the middle of nowhere, laid on the hood of your car, and you pointed out all the constellations. Even though you got half of them wrong.”

“I did not get half of them wrong.”

“You said Orion was a planet.”

“That was a joke.”

“It didn’t sound like a joke.”

“You laughed.”

“I laughed because you were cute, not because you were funny.”

The exchange catches you off guard. It’s almost… normal. Banter. Like the kind you used to have. Before everything went wrong.

Kazuha smiles—a small, sad thing. “It’s strange. Hearing about your life after me. The life I wasn’t part of.”

“A lot of people weren’t part of it,” you say. “Mostly by choice.”

“Ours or yours?”

The question lands. You consider it. Really consider it.

“Both,” you say finally. “You chose to leave. I chose to build walls. We’re all architects of our own misery.”

Yena lets out a humorless chuckle. “That’s dark.”

“It’s true.”

“Doesn’t make it less dark.”

Silence settles again. But it’s different now. Less tense. More thoughtful. Like the three of you are sitting in the wreckage of your shared history and finally, for the first time, actually looking at it.

“The other girls,” Kazuha says carefully. “Yeji and Chaewon. Asa. Do you ever hear from them?”

“No. And I don’t want to.”

“Asa… she was always insecure. Even when we were friends. She compared herself to everyone. I’m not surprised she made the choices she made. That doesn’t excuse it. But I understand it.”

“Understanding doesn’t fix anything.”

“No. It doesn’t.”

Yena leans forward, elbows on the table. “So what now? Do we just walk out of here and go back to our lives? Pretend this conversation never happened?”

“Is that what you want?” you ask.

“No.” Her answer is immediate. Sure. “I want… I don’t know what I want. I didn’t come here with a plan. I just wanted to see you. Make sure you were okay.”

“I’m okay.”

“Are you?”

Another question you have to think about.

“I’m getting there,” you say. “This place helps. Building something. Creating instead of destroying. It’s the first time in a long time I’ve felt like I’m moving forward instead of running away.”

Kazuha nods. “That’s good. That’s really good.”

“What about you two? Are you okay?”

Kazuha and Yena exchange a glance. It’s strange, watching them communicate without words. Two women who’ve never met before today, united only by the fact that they both broke your heart.

“I’m getting there,” Kazuha echoes. “Therapy helps. Time helps. Coming here, talking to you… that helps too. Even if you never forgive me. Even if this is the last time I ever see you. At least I got to say it.”

“And you?” You look at Yena.

She shrugs. It’s a defensive gesture, one you recognize from years of watching her deflect questions about her feelings. “The band broke up. I work in a recording studio now. Produce for other artists. It’s not as glamorous, but it pays the bills.”

“Are you happy?”

A beat. “I’m functional.”

“That’s not the same thing.”

“No. It’s not.” She meets your eyes. “I don’t know if I know how to be happy. I spent so long chasing something—success, recognition, whatever—that I forgot to figure out what actually matters. And by the time I realized, you were gone.”

“I didn’t disappear. I just stopped being available.”

“Same thing.”

“It’s really not.”

The afternoon light is shifting. Golden hour creeping in through the windows, painting long shadows across the floor. You should be working. You have a list of things to do—health inspector coming next week, a supplier meeting tomorrow, four different recipes that need tweaking. Instead, you’re sitting here with two ghosts from your past, trying to make sense of something that might never make sense.

“I don’t hate you,” you say. “Either of you. I thought I did. For a long time. But I think what I actually hated was the power you had over me. The way you could make me feel worthless without even trying.”

Kazuha’s face crumples. “We never meant to—”

“I know you didn’t mean to. That’s the worst part. If you’d done it on purpose, I could be angry. I could point at you and say you’re the villain. But you weren’t villains. You were just people. Flawed, scared, selfish people. Same as me.”

Yena’s voice is thick. “You weren’t selfish.”

“I was. After you left, I closed myself off. I stopped trusting. I went into relationships expecting them to fail, and they did. Self-fulfilling prophecy. I’m not blameless in any of this.”

“You were hurt. You had every right to be scared.”

“Being right doesn’t make it better.” You stand up. Your legs are stiff from sitting too long. “I think I’ve spent enough time being right. Being angry. Being the victim. It’s exhausting. And honestly? I’m tired of it.”

Kazuha rises too. “What are you saying?”

“I’m saying… I’m done letting the past define me. You two showing up here—it felt like the universe trying to drag me backward. But maybe it’s not backward. Maybe it’s closure. Maybe this is what I needed to finally, actually move on.”

Yena stands as well. “So this is it? We say goodbye and that’s the end?”

“That depends. Do you want there to be more?”

She hesitates. And in that hesitation, you see everything—the uncertainty, the regret, the faint, fragile hope that maybe things could be different.

“I don’t know what I deserve,” she says. “But I know I’m not ready to walk away. Not yet. Not for good.”

Kazuha nods. “Same.”

“Then don’t.” The words come out before you can second-guess them. “I’m not asking for anything. I’m not promising anything. But if you want to be in my life—if you really want to make things right—then stay. Figure it out. Both of you.”

They stare at you.

“You mean… together?” Yena asks.

“I mean as people. As human beings who share a history. We don’t have to be what we were. We can be something new. Or we can try.” You shrug. “Or you can leave and we can pretend today never happened. It’s your choice.”

The bell above the door chimes.

For the third time that day, someone walks into your restaurant.

And this time, it’s Hwang Yeji. Followed immediately by Kim Chaewon.

The lesbian couple. Your exes. The ones who taught you what an open relationship was and then showed you exactly how badly it could go wrong.

Yeji stops in the doorway. Her jaw drops.

Behind her, Chaewon freezes mid-step, her hand still on the doorframe.

“Oh,” Yeji says. “This is… unexpected.”

Kazuha and Yena turn to look at the newcomers. The four women—all of your significant exes, all standing in the same room, all looking at you with variations of the same expression: guilt, hope, fear, desperation.

Chaewon’s eyes sweep the room. “We’re not the only ones who got the idea to find him, are we?”

Yena’s laugh is sharp and humorless. “Apparently not.”

“What are you doing here?” you ask. Your voice comes out steadier than you expect.

Yeji takes a step forward. She’s still striking—sharp features, intense eyes, the kind of presence that commands attention without asking for it. Chaewon hangs back, softer, rounder, her expression already crumpling with emotion.

“We’ve been looking for you for months,” Yeji says. “We heard about the restaurant. We just wanted to…”

“Apologize,” Chaewon finishes. “We wanted to apologize.”

“Get in line,” Kazuha mutters.

The room is too full now. Too many memories. Too many faces you never thought you’d see again, all converging on the one safe space you built for yourself.

You should throw them out. All of them. You should tell them that apologies don’t fix anything, that years of pain don’t disappear because someone finally feels guilty, that you’re done being the dumping ground for other people’s emotional baggage.

But you don’t.

Because standing here, surrounded by the women who broke you, you realize something: they’re all broken too. Every single one of them. Cracked and flawed and desperately trying to put themselves back together, just like you.

“Fine,” you say. “Fine. Everyone sit down. It’s going to be a long night.”

Yeji and Chaewon exchange a look, then move toward the table. Kazuha and Yena shift to make room. Four chairs. Four exes. One man who never learned how to stop caring.

You look at them—the girls who ruined you, the girls who loved you, the girls who couldn’t figure out how to do both—and you wonder if this is the beginning of something or the end of everything.

Either way, you’re not running anymore.

“Alright,” you say, pulling up a chair. “Let’s talk.”

The bell above the door chimed.

And chimes, apparently, could go fuck themselves today.

Enami Asa stumbled through the doorway like she'd been running—hair disheveled, cheeks blotchy, eyes red-rimmed and spilling over before she even spotted you. She was thinner than you remembered. The soft curves you'd traced that first night together had sharpened into something hungrier, something desperate. Her blouse hung loose on her shoulders, and the hem of her skirt was slightly uneven, like she'd dressed in the dark. Or in a hurry. Or both.

"There you are," she breathed. "There you are, there you are—"

She crossed the restaurant in a blur of motion and tear-streaked skin and that familiar floral shampoo she'd never changed, not in all the months since you'd last seen her. Before you could stand, before you could brace yourself, before you could do anything but register the warmth of her body colliding with yours—

She was in your arms.

"I found you," Asa sobbed, her face pressed into your chest, her fingers clutching fistfuls of your shirt like you might dissolve if she let go. "I finally—I looked everywhere—your old apartment, your old job, I even went to Kazuha's parents' house in Osaka and they said she wasn't there and I thought maybe you'd gone with her and I—"

"Asa."

"—called every Lee in the phone book and there are so many, oh my god, there are so many Lees, and nobody knew who I was talking about and—"

"Asa."

She pulled back just enough to look up at you. Her face was a wreck—mascara streaking in gray rivulets, lips chapped and trembling, eyes so swollen you wondered how long she'd been crying. Days. It looked like days.

"I'm sorry," she whispered. "I'm so sorry. I know you said you didn't want to see me. I know you said—but I couldn't—I just needed to—" Her words dissolved into hiccups. "Jae is an asshole. He's such an asshole. I was so stupid. I was so, so stupid and I ruined everything and I just want you back, please, please, I'll do anything—"

The words tumbled out in a torrent, and before you could respond, before you could even process the fact that your fifth ex-girlfriend had just materialized to complete the set, Asa rose up on her toes and pressed her lips to your cheek.

Once. Twice. Three times.

Quick, desperate kisses. Salt-wet and trembling. Her breath hitched against your skin—no, hitched was the wrong word, a word you'd read in bad romance novels and promised yourself you'd never use—her breath stuttered, catching in her throat like a sob that couldn't decide if it was happy or devastated.

The room went very, very still.

At the table, Kazuha's mouth opened slightly. Yena's eyes narrowed. Chaewon's expression crumpled further, her hand finding Yeji's under the table.

And Yeji—Yeji's gaze had sharpened into something calculating. Something hungry. Something that made the hairs on the back of your neck prickle with an awareness you didn't want to name.

"Um," Chaewon said. "Who's that?"

"Asa," Kazuha answered, her voice flat. "The one who cheated."

"I didn't—" Asa pulled away from your cheek, still clutching your shirt. "I mean, I did, but he—Jae, he—it wasn't supposed to happen like that, he said he wouldn't tell anyone and then he posted it everywhere and I didn't know, I didn't know he was recording, I swear—"

"Asa." You caught her wrists gently, stilling her ramble. "Breathe."

She breathed. Or tried to. The sound was ragged and wet and utterly pathetic, and some small part of you—the part that had spent three years building walls—wanted to push her away. But the rest of you, the part that remembered the sweet, attentive girl who'd asked you to be her first, who'd moaned your name like a prayer, who'd held your hand so tenderly in the dark… that part kept your grip gentle.

"You found me," you said. "What do you want?"

"To say sorry. To make it right. To—" She swallowed hard. "To do whatever it takes. Anything. I'll do anything, Y/n. Just don't send me away. Please."

From the table, Yena made a sound—half laugh, half scoff. "That's a familiar tune."

"Shut up," Kazuha said, but without real heat. "You sang the same one ten minutes ago."

"We all did," Yeji murmured. Her eyes hadn't left you. Hadn't left the way Asa's body pressed against yours, the way your hands circled her wrists, the way the evening light caught the tears still sliding down her cheeks.

And then Chaewon moved.

It happened so smoothly that you almost didn't register it—the way she slid off her chair, the way her soft, round limbs carried her forward, the way she sank onto the floor in front of you. Yeji followed a half-second later, her sharp features alight with something you recognized. Something you'd seen in her eyes during those long nights in your old apartment, when she and Chaewon would use your bed and your body and you'd let them, because being used was better than being alone.

"What are you doing?" you asked.

Neither woman answered.

Chaewon crawled forward—actually crawled, her knees whispering against the polished floor you'd varnished yourself, her hands reaching for your belt. Yeji flanked her, those intense eyes locked on your face, watching your reaction with the focus of a predator sizing up prey.

"Chaewon." Your voice came out sharper now. "What the hell do you think you're—"

Her fingers found your buckle.

"Stop."

She didn't stop.

"We owe you," Yeji said quietly. Her voice was different than you remembered—lower, rougher, scraped raw by two years of something she hadn't named. "We used you. All of us, every single one of us, we used you. And we never gave anything back."

"That doesn't mean—"

Chaewon's fingers worked the buckle free. The metal clinked. The sound seemed to echo through the empty restaurant like a gunshot.

"We want to make it right," Chaewon whispered. She looked up at you through her lashes, and her face—God, her face was still crumpled with guilt, still wet with tears she hadn't bothered to wipe away. "Please let us make it right."

Your hands were still around Asa's wrists. She was trembling. Or maybe you were. Or maybe the whole room was shivering apart at the seams, reality coming unspooled in the golden-hour light.

"I don't—" you started.

And then Asa's arms wrapped around you from behind.

"Let them," she breathed against your ear. "Let us."

Her grip was stronger than it looked. The softness of her body pressed against your back, her cheek hot against your shoulder blade, and when you tried to turn, she held you in place.

"Asa—"

"Please." The word came out broken. Splintered. A plea and a prayer folded into one. "Please, I need to—we need to—just let us show you. Let us prove it. Let us be better than we were."

Chaewon pulled your belt free in one smooth motion. The leather whispered against fabric, and then her fingers were on your button, and then—

"Wait." Yena's voice cut through the haze. You looked up, half-expecting her to stop this, to be the voice of reason, to drag everyone back to the table and resume the careful, painful conversation you'd been having before Asa burst in.

But Yena wasn't moving toward the table.

She was rising from her chair.

Kazuha, too.

And both of them were wearing the same expression—something dark and hungry and desperate, something that mirrored the look on Chaewon's tear-streaked face and Yeji's predatory stare and the hot, trembling weight of Asa against your spine.

"Oh," Yeji breathed, and her lips curved into a smirk. "This is going to be fun."

"No." You tried to pull back, but Asa's arms tightened around your chest. "No, this is—this is insane. All of you, in my restaurant, on the same—we were just talking, we were just—"

"We've talked enough." Kazuha's voice drifted across the room, low and husky and nothing like the prim, controlled tone she'd used when she first walked in. Her heels clicked against the floor. Clicked closer. "We've been talking for years. In our heads. In therapy. In the middle of the night when we couldn't sleep because we kept thinking about what we did to you."

She reached you. Her fingers brushed your jaw. Light. Tender. The same way they'd touched you on your third date, in that little ramen shop with the broken air conditioner.

"I told you I was scared of how much I felt," she murmured. "I'm not scared anymore."

Yena appeared at your other side. Her hand found the back of your neck, her fingers threading into your hair with a familiarity that made your breath catch. "Neither am I."

"Ladies." Yezi had risen to her feet now, and she was close—too close—her body heat radiating against your front as Chaewon's fingers kept working at your pants. "I think we all want the same thing."

"And what's that?" you managed.

"To give you what we never gave you before." Chaewon's voice was muffled, her cheek nearly pressed to your thigh. "Everything."

The button of your pants came undone.

Your zipper slid down. The sound was obscene in the quiet restaurant, a metallic hiss that seemed to go on for hours.

"Stop," you said again. But your voice cracked on the word, because Asa was kissing your neck now, her lips trailing hot and desperate along the column of your throat, and Kazuha's fingers were tracing your collarbone, and Yena's nails were scratching lightly against your scalp, and Chaewon—

Chaewon was pulling your pants down.

"We've got you," Yeji whispered. Her hand cupped your chin, tilting your face toward hers. Those intense eyes burned into you, and for a moment, you couldn't look away. "All of us. This time, we're not going anywhere."

"Promise," Chaewon breathed against your hip.

The fabric of your pants bunched around your knees.

Asa's teeth grazed your earlobe. "Let us take care of you."

Kazuha's lips found the hollow of your throat. "Let us make it right."

Yena's fingers tightened in your hair. "Let us love you."

And Yeji—Yeji just smiled, sharp and dangerous and achingly familiar, and then she leaned in and pressed her mouth to yours.

The kiss hit you like a physical blow. Not tender, not gentle—fierce and demanding and full of two years of guilt and hunger and need. Her tongue swept across your lower lip, and your mouth opened on instinct, and then she was kissing you deep and wet and filthy, her free hand sliding down your chest to join Chaewon's at your waistband.

Behind you, Asa whimpered. The sound vibrated against your neck.

"Not fair," she breathed. "I want—"

She tugged at your shoulder, spinning you slightly, and then her mouth covered yours before Yeji's taste had even faded. Asa kissed differently—softer, messier, desperate in a way Yeji hadn't been. She kissed like she was drowning and you were oxygen. Her tongue slid against yours, and she moaned into your mouth, and her hips ground against your lower back in a rhythm that was already shaking.

When she pulled back, her lips were swollen. Her eyes were glassy. "I missed you. I missed you so much."

Your pants hit the floor.

Cool air hit your thighs. The restaurant's ventilation hummed somewhere overhead. And four women—five women—surrounded you like a living cage of warmth and perfume and want.

Chaewon looked up from her position on her knees. Her face was flushed now, the tears drying into tracks on her cheeks, her soft lips parted as she took in the sight of you. "You're still beautiful," she said, and the wonder in her voice made something twist in your chest. "You're still the most beautiful thing I've ever seen."

Yeji knelt beside her. The two of them, shoulder to shoulder, gazing up at you with matching expressions of devotion and hunger. "Tell us what you want," Yeji murmured. "Anything. Everything. It's yours."

"This is crazy," you said. But your hands had found Asa's arms around your waist, and you weren't pushing her away. You weren't pushing any of them away. "All five of you, together, in the middle of my restaurant—"

"Your restaurant." Kazuha's voice was thick with something that might have been shame or might have been desire. "The place you built to get away from us. And we're here anyway. Doesn't that tell you something?"

"That you're all insane?"

"That we can't stay away." Yena's breath ghosted across your ear. "That we've been trying to find you for years. That the moment we heard about this place, every single one of us dropped everything and ran here. That you're the only thing any of us have been able to think about since we lost you."

Kazuha's hand slipped beneath the hem of your shirt. Her palm was warm against your stomach. "Let us show you how sorry we are. Let us prove it. Please."

"Please," Chaewon echoed from the floor.

"Please," Asa whimpered against your shoulder blade.

Yeji's fingers hooked into the waistband of your boxers. She didn't pull. Not yet. Just rested them there, a silent question, her dark eyes searching your face. "Y/n," she said quietly. "Do you want us to stop?"

The question hung in the air.

And you realized, with a clarity that cut through the haze of sensation and disbelief, that she meant it. They all meant it. If you said stop, they would. If you told them to leave, they'd go. Even now, even with their hands on your body and their mouths on your skin and their eyes burning with years of suppressed hunger—they would stop.

They'd learned. Somehow, they'd actually learned.

Your voice came out hoarse. "I don't know what I want."

"That's okay." Yeji's hand didn't move. "We can wait."

"But I—" You swallowed hard. "I'm tired of running. I'm so fucking tired of running."

Asa's arms tightened around you. "Then don't run."

Kazuha pressed her forehead to your temple. "Stay with us."

Yena's lips brushed the corner of your mouth. "Let us stay with you."

Chaewon rose up on her knees, her hands braced on your thighs, her face tilted up toward yours. "We won't leave this time. None of us. We'll stay as long as you want. As long as you'll have us. Forever, if you'll let us."

"That's a long time," you said.

"You deserve a long time." Her voice cracked. "You deserve everything."

Yeji's thumb traced a slow circle on your hip. "Well? What's it gonna be?"

Five faces. Five women. Five ghosts from a past you'd spent years trying to outrun, all of them kneeling at your feet—literally, figuratively, in ways you'd never imagined and never asked for and maybe, just maybe, always wanted.

The restaurant was silent. The golden light had faded into dusk, the windows darkening to indigo, the streetlamps outside flickering on one by one.

You took a breath.

"Okay," you said.

And then five pairs of hands were pulling at the rest of your clothes.

It happened so fast you couldn't track whose fingers were whose—Asa's unpicking your shirt buttons from behind, Kazuha's sliding the fabric off your shoulders, Yena's tugging at your boxers while Chaewon helped you step out of the puddled fabric of your pants. Yeji just watched, her predator's gaze drinking in every inch of exposed skin as it was revealed.

"Look at you," she murmured. "Still so perfect."

Your shirt fell away. Your boxers followed. The restaurant's air—cool and conditioned and smelling faintly of sesame oil—kissed every newly bared inch of you.

And then Chaewon pressed her lips to your knee.

A kiss. Just a kiss. Soft and chaste and trembling, her mouth hot against the knob of bone and tendon. But the tenderness of it—the reverence of it—made your legs unsteady.

"We hurt you," she whispered against your skin. "We all hurt you so much. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry."

She kissed higher. Your thigh. Your hip. Your stomach. Each press of her lips was a prayer. An apology. A promise.

Asa guided you backward. Your shoulders met the edge of one of your own tables—the reclaimed wood one you'd spent three weekends sanding and staining and sealing. The table you'd imagined hosting first dates at. Anniversaries. Birthday dinners. All the normal things normal people did in restaurants.

Not this.

Definitely not this.

Kazuha knelt beside Chaewon. The sight of them together—the proper, polished woman who'd broken your heart first and the soft, tear-streaked one who'd finished the job—was almost too much to process. Kazuha's blazer had come unbuttoned somewhere in the chaos, her neat hair loosening from its careful cut. Chaewon's face was still blotchy from crying, her round cheeks wet with fresh tears.

"Beautiful," Kazuha breathed. Her hand cupped the back of Chaewon's head, fingers threading into her hair. "You're beautiful when you cry. Has anyone ever told you that?"

Chaewon let out a sound that was half laugh, half sob. "Not really the mood."

"It's always the mood." Kazuha leaned down and pressed a kiss to Chaewon's forehead. Then she looked up at you. "You were never the problem, Y/n. Do you understand that now? You were never the one who was broken."

"Then why did everyone leave?" The question escaped before you could stop it. Raw. Honest. The same question you'd asked your ceiling on a hundred sleepless nights.

Five voices answered at once, overlapping, interweaving:

"Because I was scared," said Kazuha.

"Because I was stupid," said Yena.

"Because I was selfish," said Yeji.

"Because I didn't know what I had," said Chaewon.

"Because I didn't think I deserved you," Asa whispered against your neck. "And Jae—Jae was just there, and he didn't care about me, and I didn't have to be afraid of losing something I never valued in the first place."

Chaewon's lips continued their pilgrimage across your skin. Kazuha joined her, pressing feather-light kisses to your other hip. Yena slid into position behind you, her hands braced on your shoulders, her body a wall of warmth at your back.

And Asa—Asa stayed where she was, wrapped around you like a second skin, like she'd wrap herself around you for the rest of her life if you'd let her.

"We're not leaving," she said. "Not ever. Not unless you tell us to."

Yeji circled around to face you, her gaze heavy-lidded and dark. "So tell us. What do you want?"

What did you want?

You wanted to stop hurting. You wanted to stop running. You wanted to believe them when they said they'd changed. You wanted to let yourself fall and trust that someone would catch you this time.

You wanted to not be alone.

"Show me," you said, and your voice came out steadier than you'd thought possible. "Show me what you came here to show me."

Chaewon looked up at you. Her lips were swollen, her eyes luminous. "Are you sure?"

"I'm done being sure. I'm done overthinking. I'm done—" Your breath caught as Kazuha's teeth grazed your hip bone. "—building walls."

"Good," Yeji purred. "Then let's tear them down."

She closed the distance between you. Her body pressed against your front—lean and warm and familiar in a way that made your chest ache. Behind you, Asa's arms tightened. At your sides, Chaewon and Kazuha continued their slow, reverent exploration of your skin. Yena's fingers traced patterns on your shoulder blades.

And Yeji kissed you again.

This time, it was slower. Deeper. Her tongue swept into your mouth, and she tasted like mint and regret and something sharper underneath—something that might have been hope. Her hips rocked against yours, a gentle rhythm, and Chaewon's mouth followed the line of her spine where she'd wedged herself between you and Yeji.

"Remember our apartment?" Yeji murmured against your lips. "Remember the first night? When we explained what open meant, and you looked at us like we'd grown second heads?"

"Hard to forget."

"You were so nervous. So sweet." Her hand slid down your chest. "We didn't deserve you then."

"And now?"

"Now we're going to earn you." She pulled back just enough to meet your eyes. "All of us. Together."

Chaewon's fingers curled around your wrist. She guided your hand to the front of her blouse—the delicate buttons, the soft fabric, the warmth of the body beneath. "Touch me," she breathed. "Please. I need you to touch me."

Your fingers found the first button. Worked it free. The second. The third. The fabric parted, revealing the lace edge of her bra, the pale swell of her breasts, the flush creeping up her throat.

"Gorgeous," Kazuha murmured, and for a moment you weren't sure if she meant Chaewon or you or both of you together.

Probably both.

Yeji's fingers found Chaewon's blouse from the other side, helping you ease it off her shoulders. The garment pooled on the floor alongside your pants and boxers, a growing pile of discarded clothing that seemed to symbolize something larger—the shedding of old selves, old hurts, old patterns.

"This is happening," you said. Not a question.

"This is happening," Yena confirmed from behind you. Her lips found the curve of your neck. "Unless you want it to stop."

"No."

The word came out faster than you expected. Surer.

Chaewon's bra came next. Her breasts spilled free—soft and full and exactly as you remembered them, the nipples pebbled and dark against the pale cream of her skin. She shivered when the cool air hit her, and then shivered again when Kazuha's hand slid around her waist and cupped one of them.

"Oh," Chaewon breathed.

"Pretty," Kazuha said. "You're so pretty. All of you."

Her eyes flicked to you. To Yeji. To Asa and Yena. Something passed between the five women—a current of understanding, a silent negotiation. And then, slowly, deliberately, they began to undress each other.

Yeji's shirt came off first. Then Yena's blouse. Asa's was already half undone, and Kazuha finished the job with her free hand while her other kept kneading Chaewon's breast. Bras unhooked. Skirts unzipped. Heels kicked off and abandoned.

It wasn't frenzied. It wasn't the desperate, fumbling race you'd expected. It was almost ceremonial—each piece of clothing removed with intention, each newly bared patch of skin acknowledged with a touch or a kiss or a murmured word of appreciation.

And then they were all naked.

Five women. Five bodies. Five different shapes and sizes and shades of skin, all arranged around you like a living altar. Chaewon: soft and round and trembling with want. Yeji: lean and sharp and burning with intensity. Kazuha: elegant and poised even now, her compact frame perfectly proportioned. Yena: athletic and lithe, the muscles in her arms flexing as she reached for you. Asa: slender and vulnerable, her dark hair spilling over her shoulders.

"Now," Yeji said, "we're all on equal footing."

"Or equal kneeling," Chaewon amended, glancing down at her position on the floor.

Yeji laughed—a real laugh, surprised and genuine, and the sound of it cracked something open in your chest. "Get up here, baby. You're missing the view."

She pulled Chaewon to her feet, and then all five of them were standing—surrounding you, pressing close, a wall of warmth and soft skin and perfume.

"Let's move this somewhere more comfortable," Yena suggested. "He's got a back office, right?"

"I'm not—" you started.

"Yes, you are." Kazuha's hand found yours. "You're done running. You said so yourself. So let us take care of you. In a place where the windows don't face the street."

She had a point. The restaurant's front windows were broad and uncurtained, and while the street was quiet now, it wouldn't stay that way forever. The last thing you needed was a passerby getting an eyeful of the neighborhood's newest restaurateur surrounded by five naked women.

"Back hallway," you said. "Second door on the left. There's a couch."

"A couch," Asa breathed. "Perfect."

They herded you through the restaurant—a strange, shuffling procession of bare skin and tangled limbs. Chaewon kept one hand on your arm; Kazuha kept the other. Yeji walked ahead, her sharp hips swaying with each step, while Yena flanked the rear. Asa pressed against your side like she couldn't bear to put even an inch of space between you.

The back hallway was narrow. Dim. The fluorescent light hadn't been installed yet, so only the emergency exit sign cast any illumination—a faint red glow that painted everyone's skin in shades of crimson and shadow.

Second door on the left. You fumbled for the handle. Asa's hand covered yours, helping you turn it.

The office was small. Mostly storage, really—a desk you'd salvaged from a flea market, a filing cabinet that stuck when you tried to open it, and the couch. The couch was old and worn and you'd meant to replace it before the restaurant opened, but right now, in the red-tinged darkness, it looked like a throne.

"Sit," Yeji commanded.

You sat.

The leather creaked beneath you. Cool against your bare skin. And then Chaewon was climbing onto your lap, her soft thighs bracketing your hips, her bare breasts brushing your chest.

"Hi," she whispered.

"Hi."

"I'm really sorry about everything."

"I know."

"I'm going to spend the rest of my life making it up to you."

"Chaewon—"

She kissed you. Soft and slow and sweet, her tongue tracing the seam of your lips before sliding inside. Her hips shifted, grinding down against your lap, and the heat of her—God, the heat of her—made your hands fly to her waist on instinct.

Behind her, Yeji pressed against Chaewon's back. Her hands slid around to cup Chaewon's breasts, thumbs flicking over the nipples, and Chaewon moaned into your mouth.

"We've been thinking about this," Yeji murmured. "For two years. What we'd do if we ever got you back."

"And?" The word came out rougher than you intended.

"And we came up with some ideas." Yeji's smile was sharp and hungry in the dim light. "Want to hear them?"

Kazuha settled onto the couch beside you, her hand finding your thigh. Yena mirrored her on the other side. Asa knelt at your feet, her chin resting on your knee, her dark eyes gazing up at you with something that looked terrifyingly like worship.

"Yeah," you said. "Tell me."

Yeji leaned in, her lips brushing your ear. "We're going to show you what you're worth. All night. Maybe longer. We're going to touch you and taste you and fuck you until you can't remember a single reason you ever doubted yourself."

Chaewon's hips rolled again. A shudder ran through her, and you felt it—the slick heat of her pressing against your stomach, the tremble in her thighs.

"We're going to apologize with our mouths and our hands and our bodies," Kazuha added, her voice low and husky. "Every inch of you. Every scar we left. We're going to kiss them all better."

"And then," Yena said, her nails tracing down your spine, "we're going to do it again. And again. Until you believe us."

Asa pressed a kiss to your knee. "Until you believe you're worth loving."

The word hung in the air. Loving. Spoken so simply, so earnestly, by the woman who'd cheated on you and the women who'd abandoned you and the woman who'd laughed at your fear and the women who'd used you for your apartment.

And somehow, impossibly, you believed them.

"Okay," you said. "Okay."

And then there were no more words.

Just hands. Mouths. Skin. Heat. Five women moving around you like a tide, and you at the center of it all.

Chaewon kissed you again, and this time, you let yourself drown.

Chaewon’s mouth found yours again, but this time it was hungrier—less apology, more demand. Her tongue pushed past your lips as her hips rolled against your lap, the slick heat of her cunt smearing across your stomach. The kiss broke with a wet sound, and she pulled back just enough to look at you, her eyes glassy and dark in the emergency light’s red glow.

“I want to taste you,” she whispered. “Please. Let me taste you.”

Before you could answer, Yeji’s hand fisted in Chaewon’s hair and tugged her backward. Chaewon let out a startled moan, her spine arching, her breasts bouncing with the sudden movement.

“Not fair, baby,” Yeji purred. “You don’t get to hog him. We all agreed.”

“Agreed on what?” you managed.

Kazuha’s fingers traced up your thigh, feather-light. “On taking turns. On worshiping you. On showing you exactly what you’re worth.”

“We’ve been planning this,” Yena added from your other side, her breath warm against your shoulder. “For weeks. Ever since we found out about the restaurant.”

“We talked,” Asa said from her position at your feet, her chin still resting on your knee. “All of us. On the phone. In group chats. Kazuha reached out first, and then Yena, and then—” She swallowed. “And then we all realized we wanted the same thing.”

“Me,” you said. Not a question.

“You.” Yeji’s smile was sharp and satisfied. “Always you.”

She released Chaewon’s hair and stepped back, her lean body cutting a silhouette against the red-lit wall. Chaewon slid off your lap, reluctantly, her soft thighs dragging against yours until the last possible moment. The absence of her weight left you feeling strangely hollow.

“On the floor,” Yeji commanded. “All four of you. I’ll go last.”

Kazuha, Yena, Chaewon, and Asa moved without hesitation—sinking onto their knees in a semicircle before the couch. Four naked women. Four pairs of eyes fixed on your cock. It was fully hard now, curving up toward your stomach, the head slick with a bead of pre-cum that had gathered during Chaewon’s grinding.

“Look at him,” Chaewon breathed. “He’s even more beautiful than I remembered.”

“Longer too,” Kazuha murmured. Her tongue darted out, wetting her lower lip. “And thicker.”

“Five inches?” Yena guessed.

“Five and a half,” Asa corrected quietly. “Perfect for hitting the—” She blushed, the color visible even in the dim red light. “The spot.”

Yeji laughed, low and throaty. “You’ve all done your homework. Good. But talking isn’t worshiping.” She pointed at Asa. “You first. You’re the one who broke him last. You should be the first to make amends.”

Asa crawled forward. Her dark hair spilled over her shoulders, the ends brushing the floor. Her eyes—still red-rimmed, still swollen—never left your cock. She settled between your legs, her hands braced on your knees, and just… looked.

“I missed this,” she whispered. “I missed you. Every night I thought about this. About what I threw away.” Her fingers curled around the base of your shaft. Light. Trembling. “Jae was nothing. He was just—he was just there. You were everything.”

She lowered her head.

Her tongue touched the tip. A kitten lick, barely there, lapping at the bead of pre-cum. The sensation made your thighs twitch. Asa made a sound—half moan, half sob—and then her lips parted and she took you into her mouth.

Wet. Hot. Soft. Her tongue pressed flat against the underside of your cock as she slid down, taking the first three inches in one smooth motion. Her cheeks hollowed around you, and she moaned, and the vibration traveled up your shaft and settled somewhere deep in your spine.

“Fuck,” you breathed.

“She’s good at that,” Kazuha observed, her voice husky. “Aren’t you, Asa?”

Asa hummed an affirmative, and the vibration made your hips jerk. She took you deeper—another inch, another—until the head of your cock bumped the back of her throat. She gagged, a wet choking sound, but didn’t pull back. Her throat muscles spasmed around you, and her hands tightened on your knees, and she held herself there, trembling, her nose nearly pressed to your pubic bone.

“That’s it,” Yeji murmured. “Show him you’re sorry. Show him you mean it.”

Asa pulled back with a gasp, a string of saliva connecting her bottom lip to your cock. Her face was flushed, her eyes streaming fresh tears. “I’m sorry,” she babbled. “I’m so sorry. Please let me keep going. Please.”

“Keep going,” you said. Your voice came out rougher than you expected. “Don’t stop.”

She dove back down.

This time, she worked you with more urgency—bobbing her head in a steady rhythm, one hand pumping the base of your shaft while her tongue swirled around the head on each upstroke. The wet sounds of her mouth filled the small office: shluck, shluck, shluck. Drool dripped down her chin, splattering onto your balls and the leather couch beneath you.

“Thirty seconds,” Yeji announced. “Then Chaewon’s turn.”

Asa whimpered around your cock. Her pace quickened, her head bouncing faster, her hand twisting on each downward stroke. The pleasure built low in your stomach—a tightening, a heat—but before it could crest, Yeji snapped her fingers.

“Time.”

Asa pulled off with a reluctant pop. Her lips were swollen, her chin slick with spit. She crawled backward, making room, her chest heaving.

Chaewon took her place.

Where Asa had been desperate and messy, Chaewon was reverent. She cupped your balls in both hands, her soft fingers kneading the weight of them, and pressed a single kiss to the tip of your cock.

“Thank you,” she whispered against the head. “Thank you for letting us do this.”

Then her mouth opened wide and she swallowed you whole.

Chaewon’s throat was different—tighter, hotter, the muscles working in a ripple down the length of your shaft as she took you into her gullet. Her nose pressed against your groin and she didn’t gag. She just held you there, her throat milking you, her hands still cupping your balls like they were something holy.

“She’s been practicing,” Yeji said, and there was pride in her voice. “Haven’t you, baby?”

Chaewon pulled back. She didn’t release you—just slid up the shaft until her lips wrapped around the head, her tongue flicking against the sensitive spot just beneath. She sucked hard, her cheeks hollowing deeply, and the sudden intensity made your back arch off the couch.

“F-fuck,” you stuttered.

She released you with a slurp. “I wanted to make sure I could take all of you. Every inch. I used to practice with a toy, but it wasn’t the same. Nothing was the same as you.”

She took you back into her mouth, and this time she didn’t go deep. She focused on the head, her tongue tracing circles around the rim, her lips sealed tight just below the crown. One hand slid up to wrap around the base of your shaft, squeezing in a steady pulse—tight, loose, tight, loose—while the other kept cupping your balls.

The dual sensation was almost overwhelming. Your hands flew to her hair on instinct, your fingers tangling in the soft strands.

“Thirty seconds,” Yeji said again.

Chaewon doubled her efforts. Her head bobbed faster, her tongue working overtime, her hand pumping in time with her mouth. The wet sounds grew louder, obscene: schlorp, schlick, glrk. Your thighs trembled. Your stomach clenched. The heat built again, climbing higher, tighter—

“Time.”

She pulled away, and the sudden absence of her mouth left your cock bobbing in the air, slick and aching.

“Kazuha,” Yeji said.

Kazuha rose from her knees and crawled forward. But she didn’t go straight for your cock. Instead, she pressed a kiss to your inner thigh. Then another. Then another, trailing up the sensitive skin until she reached the crease where your leg met your hip.

“I’m going to make you feel so good,” she murmured against your skin. “Better than I ever did before. Better than anyone.”

Her tongue traced a path along the vein that ran up the underside of your shaft. Slow. Deliberate. She took her time, savoring each inch, her eyes half-lidded and heavy with want. When she reached the head, she circled it with the tip of her tongue—once, twice, three times—before finally taking you into her mouth.

Kazuha’s technique was different from the others. Controlled. Measured. She applied pressure in exactly the right spots, her tongue pressing against the sensitive ridge on each upstroke, her lips sealed tight to create suction that made your toes curl. She worked you like she was performing a piece of music she’d memorized—each movement precise, intentional, devastating.

“Look at her,” Yena whispered from somewhere to your left. “She’s been waiting for this the longest.”

“Three years, four months, six days,” Kazuha murmured, pulling off just long enough to speak before sinking back down.

The reminder of her tracking hit you somewhere in the chest. All that time. All that counting. She’d been thinking about you every single day.

Her mouth slid down your shaft. She took you deep—not as deep as Chaewon, but enough that the head bumped the soft palate at the back of her throat. She held there, her tongue still working, her jaw slack to let you rest inside her. And then she swallowed.

The constriction was intense. Your whole body jerked, and a groan ripped out of your throat before you could stop it.

“Good boy,” Yeji purred. “Let it out. Let us hear you.”

Kazuha swallowed again. And again. Each squeeze of her throat muscles sent a bolt of pleasure up your spine. Your hips bucked involuntarily, driving yourself deeper into her mouth, and she moaned around you—a sound of pure satisfaction.

“Time,” Yeji said.

Kazuha released you slowly, her lips dragging along your shaft, her tongue giving one final lick to the head before she pulled away entirely.

“Yena.”

Yena didn’t crawl. She rose gracefully to her feet and bent at the waist, her lips meeting your cock from above. It was an unusual angle—the head brushing against her tongue while she stood over you, her breasts swaying inches from your face.

“You remember how I like my coffee,” she said quietly. “Do you remember how I like this?”

Before you could answer, she took you into her mouth from above, her head bobbing in a reverse rhythm. Her technique was enthusiastic, less practiced than the others but full of raw energy. She sucked hard, her tongue lashing against the underside of your shaft, her hand gripping the base tight enough to make the veins stand out.

“Two sugars,” you managed. “Oat milk. A dash of cinnamon.”

She moaned around you, and the sound was so intensely erotic that your eyes rolled back in your head. Her pace increased, her mouth working you with the same passionate intensity she’d once reserved for her music. Wet sounds filled the room: shlurp, shlick, mmnph. Drool dripped from her lips and splattered onto your stomach.

“Time’s almost up,” Yeji warned.

Yena pulled out all the stops. She took you deep—deeper than you’d expected—and hummed, a melody you didn’t recognize, the vibrations traveling through your cock and into your bones. Her free hand cupped your balls, rolling them gently, and the combination of sensations sent you teetering toward the edge.

But before you could fall, she pulled away.

“My turn,” Yeji announced.

She didn’t kneel. Didn’t bend. She climbed onto the couch, straddling your thighs, her lean body pressing against yours. Her hand found your cock—slick with four women’s saliva—and pumped it slowly while her dark eyes bored into yours.

“Do you know what I thought about, all those nights after we left?” she asked.

“Tell me.”

“You. The way you looked at us when we explained what open meant. The way you trusted us even though you didn’t understand. The way you let us into your bed and your body and never asked for anything in return.” Her grip tightened. “I thought about how stupid we were. How cruel. How we had the most precious thing in the world and we treated it like it was nothing.”

She leaned in and pressed her lips to your ear.

“I’m going to spend the rest of my life making it up to you,” she breathed. “Starting now.”

She slid off your lap and lowered herself to her knees, positioning herself between your legs. But she didn’t take you into her mouth immediately. Instead, she licked a long, slow stripe up the underside of your shaft—from the base to the tip—and then did it again. And again. Mapping the landscape of your cock with her tongue while the other four women watched.

“She’s teasing,” Chaewon whispered.

“She does that,” Yena agreed.

“She’s good at it,” Asa added, her voice small and reverent.

Yeji’s tongue circled the head. Flicked against the frenulum. Traced the ridge where the head met the shaft. And then, finally, her lips parted and she took you into her mouth.

The difference was immediately apparent. Yeji sucked cock like she did everything else—with intensity, focus, and an almost terrifying competence. Her jaw unhinged, her throat relaxed, and she took you all the way down to the root in one smooth motion. Her nose pressed against your pubic bone. Her throat opened and closed around you. Her hands braced on your thighs, nails digging in slightly, and she held herself there for five seconds. Ten. Fifteen.

You couldn’t breathe.

She pulled back, gasping, a thick strand of saliva connecting her lip to your cock. “Your turn to make noise. Tell me how it feels.”

“Good,” you choked out. “So fucking good.”

“Just good?” She took you deep again. Held. Released. “How about now?”

“F-fuck. Yes. Yes.”

She smiled around your shaft and began to move. Her head bobbed in a steady, punishing rhythm, her throat swallowing around you on each downstroke. The wet sounds were obscene—sloppy and loud and unrelenting: glrk, glrk, GLURK. Spit ran down her chin in rivulets, pooling on your balls and the couch beneath you.

“Thirty seconds,” Chaewon said, and there was something like glee in her voice.

Yeji’s pace increased. She fucked her own throat on your cock, her hands gripping your hips now, her nails leaving crescents in your skin. The pressure built at the base of your spine—intense and undeniable. Your stomach tightened. Your thighs trembled. Your balls drew up, heavy and full.

“I’m gonna—” you started.

Yeji pulled off immediately. “Not yet.”

Your cock throbbed. Ached. The denial was almost painful, leaving you hovering on the edge of climax without release. A bead of pre-cum welled at the tip, thick and pearlescent.

“We’re not done with you,” Yeji said. She rose to her feet, wiping her mouth with the back of her hand. “Girls? I think he’s ready for the next part.”

What followed changed the atmosphere in the cramped office from spiritual worship to something heavier, more electric. The women rose from their positions on the floor, and suddenly you were surrounded by bare flesh again—breasts brushing your shoulders, hips pressing against your arms, hands roaming over your chest. But now they were moving differently. Slower. Their touches were deliberate, far from desperate, almost teasing.

“Stand up,” Kazuha murmured, taking your hand.

You let her pull you to your feet. Your legs were unsteady from the oral assault, and she steadied you with a hand on your hip.

“We want to show you something,” Yena said.

“A surprise.” Asa’s voice was breathy with anticipation. “We planned it.”

“All of us.” Chaewon stepped forward, her soft body pressing against your side. “We wanted to make it special.”

They arranged themselves in a loose semicircle before you—five women, all naked, all gazing at you with the same expression of need and devotion and heat. And then, without any signal you could detect, they began to dance.

It wasn’t a coordinated routine. It wasn’t choreographed. But it was undeniably a striptease—even though they were already naked. Kazuha led, her compact body undulating in a slow, serpentine rhythm, her hands tracing down her own torso. She cupped her breasts, thumbs flicking over her nipples until they pebbled and stiffened. Her hips rolled in a figure-eight, and her eyes never left yours.

“Do you like watching me?” she asked. “Watching all of us?”

“Yes,” you said.

“Good. Because we like being watched. By you. Only you.”

Yena joined her, her athletic frame moving with the musicality that had once made her famous on campus. She swayed and dipped, her arms lifting over her head, her breasts rising with the motion. Her fingers traced down her neck, her collarbone, the valley between her breasts, and her smile was small and knowing.

“I used to imagine you in the audience,” she said. “At all my shows. Even after you left. I’d look out at the crowd and pretend you were there, watching me.”

“I never missed a show,” you said. “Not one. Until the end.”

“I know.” Her hands slid down to her hips, her fingers hooking in the curve of her pelvis. “That’s why I’m here.”

Chaewon and Asa came next, their bodies pressing together in a slow grind. Chaewon’s soft curves molded against Asa’s slender frame, their breasts sliding against each other, their mouths inches apart. Asa’s hands cupped Chaewon’s ass, squeezing, and Chaewon let out a small moan.

“We want you to see everything,” Chaewon breathed. “Everything we are. Everything we have.”

“It’s all yours,” Asa added, and her voice cracked on the last word.

Yeji circled behind the group, her sharp eyes tracking every movement of the other women while her hands roamed her own body. She pinched her nipples—hard enough to make her hiss—and trailed her fingers down her stomach to the dark triangle of hair between her legs. Her cunt was visibly wet, the lips gleaming in the red emergency light.

“You see what you do to us?” she asked. “What just the idea of you does?”

She turned, presenting her back to you, and bent at the waist. Her ass was taut and muscular, the cheeks parting to reveal the tight pucker of her asshole and the slick, puffy lips of her cunt beneath. She reached back and spread herself open, showing you everything.

“This is yours,” she said. “All of this. Every single one of us. We’re yours.”

The other four women mirrored her—turning, bending, spreading themselves open for your inspection. Five cunts, all wet and swollen and ready. Five pairs of eyes, looking back over shoulders, watching your reaction.

“Fuck,” you breathed.

“That’s the idea,” Kazuha said, and the giggle that escaped her was unexpected—light, girlish, nothing like the composed woman who’d walked into your restaurant an hour ago.

They straightened and moved toward you as a group, their naked bodies pressing against yours from all sides. Soft skin. Warm skin. The scent of their arousal—musky and sweet and overwhelming. Hands stroking your chest, your back, your ass. Lips pressing kisses to your shoulders, your neck, your jaw.

“We want to play a game,” Chaewon whispered against your skin.

“What kind of game?”

“The kind where you can’t see,” Asa said.

“Or move,” Yena added.

“And we do whatever we want to you,” Yeji finished.

Your cock twitched. Kazuha noticed and laughed—another genuine giggle. “He likes that idea.”

“I thought he might.” Yeji’s smile was predatory. “Take him. Storage room.”

They herded you out of the office and into the dark hallway. The concrete floor was cold against your bare feet. The storage room was at the end of the hall—a cramped space filled with boxes of restaurant supplies: napkins, takeout containers, paper towel rolls. And, as Yeji quickly discovered, a coil of nylon rope you’d used to secure box stacks during the move-in.

“Perfect,” she said. “Chaewon, Asa—help me.”

They guided you to the center of the room, positioning you beneath the bare bulb that hung from the ceiling. Yeji looped the rope around your wrists and pulled them behind your back, binding them together at the base of your spine. The nylon was smooth but unyielding, and when she tugged the knot tight, you tested the give—minimal.

“Too tight?” she asked.

“No.”

“Good.” She knelt and bound your ankles together, leaving just enough slack that you could stand without falling but not enough to walk. “Now the blindfold.”

Asa stepped forward, her panties dangling from her fingers. The fabric was black and lacy and still damp from her arousal. She reached up and pressed the panties over your eyes, the wet spot aligning with your nose, flooding your nostrils with the scent of her cunt—salty and tangy and unmistakably feminine. She tied the fabric behind your head, plunging you into complete darkness.

“There,” Asa breathed. “Now you’re ours.”

The darkness heightened everything. The scent of five aroused women. The whisper of their bare feet on concrete. The brush of their bodies as they circled you. The sound of their breathing—quickening, heavy, full of want.

“Round two,” Yeji announced. “We take turns. Each of us gets five minutes with him. First to go picks the position.”

“I want him from behind,” Kazuha said immediately. “Bent over the boxes.”

Hands guided you forward until your thighs bumped against a stack of boxes. Strong hands—Yena’s, you thought—pressed between your shoulder blades, bending you at the waist until your chest rested on the cardboard. Your bound wrists lifted behind you, and your bound ankles made you unsteady, but the boxes supported your weight.

Kazuha’s hand found your cock in the darkness. She stroked you a few times, bringing you back to full hardness, and then she guided the head to her entrance. Her cunt was slick and hot, the lips parting easily. She rubbed the tip against her clit—once, twice—and then positioned you at her opening.

“I’m going to fuck you now,” she said. “And you’re going to listen to all of us moan for you.”

She pushed back.

Her cunt swallowed you in one smooth motion. Tight. Wet. Fucking perfect. She took you to the hilt, her ass pressing against your groin, and then she began to move—not a gentle ride, but a hard, fast, desperate fuck. Her hips slammed back against you, her cunt gripping your shaft on each withdrawal, her moans filling the storage room.

“Aaahn~” Her voice pitched high and wavering. “Yes… yes… I needed this… needed you…”

The sound of flesh slapping flesh echoed off the walls: thwap, thwap, thwap. Her cunt made wet suctioning noises around your cock, loud and obscene: squelch, shlorp, schlick. She was dripping, her juices running down your shaft and dripping onto your bound ankles.

“I’m close,” she gasped. “I’m so close, please, please, let me come, please—”

“Come,” you said. “Come on my cock.”

Kazuha screamed. Her cunt clamped down around you—tight, tighter, a rhythmic milking pulse that dragged the orgasm out of her in waves. Her body convulsed, her hips jerking, her thighs trembling. She collapsed forward onto the boxes, taking you with her, and you felt her cunt spasm around you again and again.

“Fu-hu-huck,” she stuttered. “Oh, god… that was…”

“Time,” Yeji said. “My turn.”

Kazuha pulled off with a reluctant moan, and the sudden absence of her heat left your cock aching and slick with her cum. You heard the sound of her stumbling away, and then another hand wrapped around your shaft—smaller, more tentative.

“I want to ride him,” Asa said. “From on top. I want to see his face.”

“Then we’ll untie his ankles. But only his ankles.”

The rope around your ankles loosened and fell away. Hands guided you backward, lowering you onto something—a stack of flattened cardboard boxes, making a makeshift mat on the concrete floor. Your bound wrists dug into your lower back, but the discomfort only heightened the sensation as Asa climbed onto your lap.

Her thighs bracketed your hips. Her cunt pressed against the head of your cock, hot and wet and trembling. She rose up, positioning you, and then sank down—slowly, inch by inch, her tight little pussy stretching to accommodate you.

“Ohhh…” she moaned. “Oh, you’re so—I forgot how—mmmm~”

Her hips began to roll. Grinding. Circling. She rode you like she was trying to fuse your bodies together, her movements desperate and uncoordinated and utterly sincere. Her hands braced on your shoulders, her nails digging in, and she leaned forward to press her forehead against yours through the blindfold.

“I love you,” she whimpered. “I never stopped. I love you, I love you, I love you—aaahh!”

Her cunt spasmed. She’d barely started riding and she was already coming, her climax hitting her by surprise. Her whole body shuddered, and she buried her face in your neck, sobbing and moaning simultaneously while her cunt milked your cock.

“That’s two,” Chaewon said. “Both of them came before him. We’re making progress.”

Asa climbed off, her legs visibly unsteady from the way her feet scuffed against the cardboard. Chaewon took her place, but she didn’t climb on top. Instead, she lay down on the cardboard mat, her legs spread wide, her cunt glistening in the dim light that filtered past your blindfold.

“I want him on top,” she said. “Missionary. I want to feel his weight on me.”

They untied your wrists—finally—but the relief was short-lived. Yeji guided you down between Chaewon’s spread thighs, and she immediately wrapped her legs around your waist, locking her ankles at the small of your back. Her hands framed your face, her thumbs brushing your cheekbones.

“I want to see your eyes,” she said. “Even if you can’t see me.”

She pulled the blindfold up just enough to uncover your eyes, and there she was—faces inches from yours, her eyes wet with fresh tears, her lips parted and trembling. She smiled, and it was the saddest, most beautiful thing you’d ever seen.

“Put it in,” she whispered. “Please.”

You reached down and guided yourself to her entrance. Her cunt was different from the others—softer, more pillowy, the lips plump and yielding as you pushed inside. She gasped, her back arching, her legs tightening around you.

“Yes,” she breathed. “Yes, yes, yes…”

You fucked her slowly. Deliberately. Each thrust deep and full, burying yourself to the hilt in her soft, welcoming heat. Her cunt gripped you on every withdrawal, like it was trying to pull you back in. Her breasts bounced with each impact, the nipples brushing your chest. And her face—God, her face—was a portrait of ecstasy. Eyes half-lidded. Mouth open. Cheeks flushed.

“Don’t stop,” she begged. “Please don’t stop. Please. I’m so close. I’m so—ah! Aah! AAAAAAHHHH!”

Her orgasm hit hard. Her cunt clamped down, squeezing rhythmically, and she let out a wail that echoed through the storage room. Her legs thrashed, her hips bucking up to meet your thrusts, and she came and came and came, her whole body convulsing beneath you.

“That’s three,” Yeji announced, her voice tight with arousal. “Yena, your turn.”

Yena chose doggy style. She positioned herself on hands and knees on the cardboard mat, her ass presented high, her cunt exposed and dripping. Her head hung between her shoulders, and when you knelt behind her and gripped her hips, she let out a shuddering moan.

“Fuck me,” she said. “Hard. I want it hard.”

You slammed into her.

She cried out—a sharp, high sound—and her arms buckled, dropping her to her elbows. You didn’t slow down. You fucked her with a brutal, punishing rhythm, your hips pistoning, your balls slapping against her clit. Her cunt was tight and athletic, the muscles resistant at first, then yielding, then gripping you like a fist.

“Ooh~ ooh~ fuuuuuck!” Her voice pitched higher with each thrust. “Right there! Right—yessssssss—!”

Her orgasm was explosive. She screamed—actually screamed—and her cunt erupted, squirting fluid that splashed against your thighs and dripped onto the cardboard beneath you. The wet sound was incredible: splurt, splortch, gush. Her arms gave out completely, and she collapsed onto her chest, her ass still raised, her cunt still spasming around you.

“Four,” Yeji said. “And now… me.”

She pushed you back onto the cardboard mat and climbed on top. Her lean body straddled your hips, her cunt positioning itself over your aching cock. She was so wet that the head slipped in without resistance, and she sank down with a satisfied groan.

“I’m going to drain you,” she said. “Every drop. All that cum you’ve been holding back. It’s mine now.”

Her hips lifted and dropped. Fast. Hard. Riding you with athletic precision, her cunt gripping and releasing in a rhythm that had your eyes rolling back. She leaned forward, bracing her hands on your shoulders, and her dark eyes burned into yours.

“You feel that?” she asked. “Feel how tight I am? Feel how wet? That’s for you. All for you. Everything we have is for you now. Every cunt in this room belongs to you. We’re your harem now. Your lovers. Your worshipers. Whatever you want us to be.”

Her words sent a bolt of heat through your veins. Your hands found her hips—gripping, guiding, slamming her down harder on each thrust.

“Breed me,” she whispered. “Breed all of us. Fill us up. I want your cum inside me. I want to feel it for days. I want—”

Her voice broke as her own orgasm hit. Her cunt clamped down like a vise, rippling around your shaft, milking you with vicious intensity. She threw her head back and howled, her spine arching, her nails raking down your chest.

And then, before you could recover, she climbed off and another woman took her place.

Chaewon. Riding you reverse cowgirl, her soft ass bouncing against your groin, her cunt so wet it sounded like you were fucking a pool of warm water: splish, squelch, splort. She came in under a minute, screaming your name, and then she was replaced by Asa—who climbed on top and rode you missionary-style, her tears dripping onto your face while her cunt spasmed around you.

Asa came. Kazuha replaced her. Kazuha came. Yena replaced her. Yena came and squirted again. And then Yeji was back—straddling you, slamming herself down on your cock, her cunt a tight, wet heaven that seemed determined to wring you dry.

The atmosphere in the storage room was thick with the smell of sex—sweat and female arousal and the salt of tears. The cardboard beneath you was sodden with their juices. Four of the five women were still trembling from their orgasms, their legs unsteady, their voices hoarse. But none of them stopped.

“Come inside me,” Yeji begged, her hips grinding in circles. “Please, please, fill me. I need it. I need your cum. I’ve been dreaming about it for two years. Please.”

She leaned down and pressed her mouth to yours, her tongue sliding inside, and the taste of her—mint and regret and desperate hope—pushed you over the edge.

Your orgasm hit like a detonation.

“FUHHHH—!” you grunted, your voice muffled by her lips.

Your cock erupted. Rope after rope of thick, hot cum blasted into Yeji’s cunt, painting her walls white. She moaned into your mouth, her hips slamming down to take every pulse, her cunt milking you for everything you had. Splurt. Splurt. SPLURT. The jets of cum flooded her, filling her up until there was no more room and it started leaking out around your shaft and dripping down your balls.

“Yes,” she hissed, pulling back from the kiss. “Yes, yesssssss, give me all of it—”

But you weren’t done.

Even as Yeji climbed off, your cock still hard, still throbbing, still leaking a thin stream of cum that hadn’t made it inside her. And Chaewon was already crawling into position, lowering herself onto your still-rigid shaft, her cunt already so slick that it took her three tries to get the head aligned.

“More,” she breathed. “More. I need it too.”

She rode you through your hypersensitivity, her soft body bouncing, her cunt squeezing. And somehow—impossibly—you felt another orgasm building. The pleasure was almost painful now, teetering on the edge of too much, but Chaewon’s desperate moans and the sight of her breasts bouncing and the wet, obscene sounds of her cunt taking you deeper kept you right on the edge.

“Fill me,” she begged. “Breed me. Please. I want it. I want it s-so—AAAHHHNN~”

She came as you did, your second orgasm forcing out a guttural groan. More cum—thinner now but still plentiful—shot into Chaewon’s cunt, joining Yeji’s load. The mixture of cum and her own juices overflowed, running down your shaft and pooling on the cardboard beneath you.

And still, you were hard.

Asa took you next, lowering herself onto your cum-slick cock, her tight pussy gripping you like a fist. “I don’t deserve this,” she sobbed, even as her hips began to move. “I don’t deserve your cum, but I need it, I need it—mmmph—!”

Her orgasm triggered yours. Or maybe your orgasm triggered hers. It was impossible to tell anymore. The sensations blurred together—the tight wet heat of her cunt, the convulsive squeezing of her climax, the searing rush of your own release flooding into her. She collapsed onto your chest, her tears hot against your skin, and whispered “thank you, thank you, thank you” over and over while your cock pulsed inside her.

Yena came next. She squatted over you, her athletic thighs trembling, and guided your slick, aching cock into her cunt. She was tight from her previous orgasms, almost too tight, and you could feel every ridge and fold of her canal as she sank down.

“One more,” she said. “One more load. For me. Then we’ll let you rest.”

She rode you slowly this time. Deliberately. Her hips rolling in a deep, grinding circle that dragged your cock against her G-spot. Her moans were low and throaty, her eyes fixed on yours, and when she came—fluttering and gasping and clenching—you followed her over the edge for the fourth time.

The orgasm was almost dry. A few weak spurts of cum, a few convulsions of your spent shaft. But the pleasure was still intense, radiating through your whole body, leaving you trembling and weak.

Yena climbed off. You lay there on the sodden cardboard, your chest heaving, your cock finally softening.

But Kazuha had other plans.

She knelt between your legs and took your sensitive, cum-slick cock into her mouth. The sensation was so intense it was almost painful—her tongue lapping at the head, her lips sealed around the shaft, her throat swallowing the remnants of four loads mixed with the juices of five women.

“Mmmmmmm".

Kazuha's hips hadn't stopped.

That was the thing your overloaded brain kept circling back to, the single impossible fact anchoring you to the sodden cardboard mat while the bare bulb buzzed overhead and the scent of five women's arousal thickened the air into something you could taste. She'd been riding you for—how long? Minutes? Hours? The concept of time had dissolved somewhere around your second orgasm and now there was only the relentless rhythm of her cunt sliding down your shaft, the wet clutch of her walls, the obscene symphony of flesh meeting flesh.

thwap thwap thwap

"S-see?" she stuttered, her voice shredded raw. "See how much I need you? How much I—nnngh—how much I need this?"

Her compact body glistened with sweat, the red emergency light painting her skin in shades of rust and shadow. Her short hair clung to her temples in damp spikes. Her breasts bounced with each impact, the nipples pebbled and dark, and as you watched through half-lidded eyes, Chaewon's mouth latched onto one of them.

Kazuha screamed.

Not a moan. Not a gasp. A full-throated scream that ricocheted off the storage room walls and burrowed into your spine. Chaewon's soft lips sealed around the nipple and sucked—hard—her cheeks hollowing while her tongue worked the sensitive peak in circles. Her other hand cupped Kazuha's free breast, kneading the flesh, rolling the nipple between thumb and forefinger.

"That's it," Yeji purred from somewhere to your left. "Feed her. Feed all of us. We've been starving for two years."

Her mouth found your balls.

The sensation hit you like a physical blow—her tongue lapping at the cum-slick skin, tracing the seam between your testicles, sucking first one and then the other into the wet heat of her mouth. Your hips bucked involuntarily, driving your cock deeper into Kazuha's cunt, and she let out a sound that was more animal than human.

"YES! Yes, right there, right there—"

schlorp schlorp SCHLORP

The suctioning noises from between your legs were pornographic. Yeji wasn't just licking—she was devouring, her mouth sloppy and hungry, her tongue tracing every ridge and fold of your balls while Kazuha continued to ride you into the cardboard. The dual sensation was almost too much: Kazuha's tight wet heat milking your shaft, Yeji's hot mouth worshiping your sack, and now—

And now Asa's tongue was tracing the seam of your abs.

She'd crawled up from wherever she'd been recovering, her tear-streaked face hovering inches above your stomach, her dark hair spilling over your hips. Her tongue dipped into the grooves of muscle, lapping at the salt-sweat that had accumulated there, and her eyes—God, her eyes—were glassy and unfocused and fixed on your face with an intensity that bordered on derangement.

"You taste like heaven," she whispered against your skin. "Like everything I threw away. Like everything I'm never letting go of again."

shlurp shlurp shlurp

Her tongue traced higher. Your chest. Your collarbone. The hollow of your throat. And then Yena was there too, her athletic body pressing against your right side, her mouth finding the sensitive spot just below your ear.

"You're doing so well," she breathed. "Taking all of us. Taking everything we have. We're going to give you so much more."

Kazuha's rhythm stuttered.

"I'm—I'm close—I'm going to—aaaaahhnnn—"

Her cunt clamped down. The familiar convulsive squeeze of her orgasm rippled along your shaft, her walls milking you in rhythmic pulses that dragged a strangled groan from your throat. She threw her head back, her spine arching, her nails raking down your chest hard enough to leave red furrows in the skin.

"FILL ME!" she screamed. "Breed me! Give me your baby! I need it—I need your cum inside me—I need to be full—"

The orgasm hit you like a freight train.

Your fifth. Or maybe your sixth. You'd lost count somewhere around the time Yena squirted for the second time, and now the numbers didn't matter—only the searing rush of pleasure that erupted from the base of your spine and exploded outward through every nerve ending. Your cock pulsed inside Kazuha's clenching cunt, and what little cum you had left jetted into her in weak but insistent spurts.

splurt… splurt… splurt…

"Yessssss," she hissed, her hips grinding down to take every drop. "Yes, yes, yes, I can feel it—I can feel you filling me—"

Her eyes rolled back. Literally rolled back, the whites showing as her lids fluttered, and for a moment she looked possessed—by pleasure, by need, by something darker and more consuming than either. Her mouth opened in a silent scream, and then she collapsed forward onto your chest, her heart hammering against your ribs, her cunt still fluttering weakly around your softening cock.

The room went quiet except for the sound of five women breathing.

No. Four women.

Kazuha had stopped breathing entirely for a three-count, and when she finally sucked in air, it came with a sound like a sob and a prayer folded into one.

"Thank you," she whispered against your neck. "Thank you thank you thank you…"

Chaewon released her nipple with a wet pop. "Did you feel it? Did you feel him fill you?"

"Every drop." Kazuha's voice was reverent. "Every single drop. It's inside me now. It's staying inside me."

"We should keep her elevated," Yena said, and there was something clinical in her tone that was utterly at odds with the situation. "Hips up. Give the sperm the best chance."

You blinked. "Are you—are you serious?"

"Dead serious." Yena's hand slid under Kazuha's lower back, guiding her into position. "She wants your baby. We all want your baby. Why do you think we've been going for so long?"

"To apologize?" you managed.

"That too." Yeji's mouth released your balls with a final, lingering suck. "But mostly to get bred. Every single one of us. We talked about it in the group chat. Kazuha's been tracking her ovulation for two months."

"Two months," Kazuha confirmed, her voice still dreamy and distant. She'd rolled onto her back beside you, her knees drawn up toward her chest, her hands pressed flat against her lower belly. "Ever since I found out about the restaurant. I knew—I knew—I'd find you here. And I wanted to be ready."

Your brain struggled to process this information. "You planned to get pregnant?"

"Not planned." Chaewon's soft body pressed against your left side, her breast squishing against your arm. "Hoped. Wanted. Dreamed about." Her fingers traced a lazy circle on your hip. "We all did. Every night we spent away from you, we thought about what it would be like to carry your child. To have that piece of you inside us forever."

"That's…" You trailed off, searching for a word that fit. Crazy? Terrifying? The hottest thing anyone had ever said to you?

"Insane?" Yeji supplied. "Obsessive? Completely unhinged?" She grinned, her sharp features softening with something that might have been self-awareness. "Yeah. We know. We've been in therapy. Separately and together. And you know what our therapists all said?"

"What?"

"That we needed to stop running from what we wanted. That denying ourselves—denying our feelings—was what made us so destructive in the first place." She propped herself up on one elbow, her intense eyes finding yours. "So we stopped running. And we came here. And now Kazuha's going to have your baby, and the rest of us are going to take turns until we're all pregnant too."

"Assuming tonight takes," Yena added, still holding Kazuha's hips elevated. "If it doesn't, we'll try again. And again. However long it takes."

Asa's head lifted from where she'd been pressing kisses to your shoulder. "Is that… is that okay? Is that something you want?"

The question hung in the air. Five faces turned toward you—five sets of eyes, some wet with tears, some burning with intensity, all fixed on your face with an expression you'd never seen directed at you before. It took you a moment to recognize it.

Devotion.

They were looking at you like you held the sun in your hands.

And maybe, in some strange way, you did. You held their guilt and their hope and their desperate, clawing need to make things right. You held their apologies and their promises and their bodies and their futures—all of it focused on you, all of it yearning toward you like plants toward light.

"I don't know if it's okay," you said, and your voice came out hoarser than you expected. "I don't know if any of this is okay. But I know I'm done running from it."

"Good." Yeji's smile sharpened. "Because we're not done yet."

She rose to her feet—fluid and predatory, her lean body cutting a silhouette against the bare bulb. Her cunt was still dripping, a mixture of her own juices and the cum that had leaked out of her during her turn. She looked down at you, and the expression on her face made something twist in your chest.

"Kazuha got her fill," she said. "Now it's Chaewon's turn."

Chaewon made a sound—half gasp, half whimper. "Already? But he just—he needs to recover—"

"He'll recover." Yeji's hand found Chaewon's hair, fisting in the soft strands, tugging her head back. "Won't you, baby?"

Your cock twitched. Still soft, still sensitive, still slick with the combined fluids of five women—but twitching nonetheless. The sight of Yeji manhandling Chaewon, the sound of Chaewon's breathy moan, the knowledge that they wanted this so badly they'd planned it for months…

"Yeah," you said. "I'll recover."

"See?" Yeji pulled Chaewon into a kiss—hard and demanding, her tongue pushing past Chaewon's lips, her free hand cupping Chaewon's breast. Chaewon melted into her, her soft body pressing against Yeji's lean frame, and the sight of them together—the sharp and the soft, the predator and the prey—sent a bolt of heat through your exhausted body.

Asa's mouth found your cock.

Not sucking. Not yet. Just pressing soft, reverent kisses along the shaft, her lips barely brushing the sensitive skin. Each kiss sent a tiny shock of sensation up your spine, and you felt blood beginning to flow south again despite the exhaustion weighing down your limbs.

"Let me help," Asa breathed against your cock. "Let me get you ready for her."

Her tongue traced the ridge where shaft met head. Light. Feather-light. The gentleness was almost unbearable after the brutality of the past… however long it had been. Your hips jerked, and Asa made a pleased humming sound, and then her lips parted and she took you into her mouth.

mmmmnnngh

The vibration traveled up your shaft and settled somewhere deep in your spine. She sucked softly, her tongue pressing flat against the underside of your cock, her cheeks hollowing with just enough pressure to coax blood into the tissue. It wasn't the desperate, frantic cock-sucking from earlier—it was patient. Worshipful. She nursed at your cock like it was the only thing keeping her alive.

"Look at her," Kazuha murmured from her position on the cardboard. She was still holding her knees to her chest, her hips elevated, her cunt leaking a slow trickle of cum onto the sodden mat. "She's so pretty like that. So pretty with your cock in her mouth."

Chaewon broke her kiss with Yeji, gasping. "I want—I want to ride him. Like Kazuha did. I want to feel him fill me."

"In a minute." Yeji's hand tightened in Chaewon's hair. "Let Asa get him ready. And while she does…" Her dark eyes swept the room, landing on Yena. "You. Eat Chaewon's pussy. I want her dripping before she gets on his cock."

Yena didn't hesitate. She crawled across the cardboard mat—still trembling slightly from her earlier orgasms—and positioned herself behind Chaewon. Her hands gripped Chaewon's soft hips, and then her face was buried between Chaewon's thighs, and Chaewon let out a cry that was half surprise and half pure, undiluted pleasure.

"Oohhh! Oohhh, Yena—your tongue—yes—"

shlurp shlurp shlick

The sounds were wet and obscene. Yena's head moved back and forth, her tongue working Chaewon's cunt with the same passionate intensity she'd once reserved for her music. Chaewon's legs trembled, her hands flying to Yena's hair, her fingers tangling in the strands.

And through it all, Asa kept sucking your cock.

Patient. Devoted. Her head bobbing in a slow, steady rhythm, her tongue swirling around the head on each upstroke, her hand gently cupping your balls. She wasn't trying to make you come—she was just… preparing you. Getting you hard. Letting the pleasure build without pushing you toward climax.

"Good girl," Yeji murmured. "Good fucking girl. You're going to make him so hard for Chaewon. And Chaewon—" She released Chaewon's hair and grabbed her chin instead, tilting her face up. "You're going to take every drop he gives you. Understand? Every single drop. You're going to hold it inside you just like Kazuha did."

"Yes," Chaewon gasped. "Yes, yes, I will—aaaahh—Yena, right there—"

Her hips bucked against Yena's face. Her thighs clamped around Yena's head, and then she was coming—screaming, shaking, her whole body convulsing as the orgasm ripped through her. Yena didn't stop. Her tongue kept working, lapping up Chaewon's release, drawing out the climax until Chaewon was sobbing and begging for mercy.

"Enough… enough… please, I can't…"

"Good." Yeji nodded at Yena, who pulled back with a final, lingering lick. "Now get on his cock. Asa, move."

Asa released your cock with a reluctant pop. You were hard again—not fully, but close, your shaft thick and heavy against your stomach. Asa crawled backward, making room, and Chaewon stumbled forward on trembling legs.

"Let me," she whispered, positioning herself over your hips. "Let me ride you. Let me take everything you have."

Her hand wrapped around your shaft, guiding the head to her entrance. Her cunt was soaked—from Yena's mouth, from her own orgasm, from the arousal that had been building since Yeji first mentioned her name. The lips parted easily, swallowing the head of your cock, and Chaewon let out a shuddering moan as she sank down.

"Ooohhh… you're so… you're still so… mmmm…"

She took you to the hilt. Her soft thighs pressed against your hips, her cunt gripping your shaft like a warm, wet fist. She paused there, trembling, her hands braced on your chest, and looked down at you with eyes that were already welling with tears.

"I love you," she said. "I know it's crazy. I know we've barely talked. But I've been in love with you for two years and I never told you and I'm going to spend the rest of my life telling you."

"Chaewon—"

She started to move.

Her hips lifted and dropped in a slow, deep rhythm, her cunt sliding up and down your shaft. She wasn't frantic like Kazuha had been. She wasn't desperate. She was thorough—each stroke deliberate, each grind of her hips pressing your cock against her G-spot, each downward motion taking you so deep you could feel the kiss of her cervix against the head.

schlick… schlick… schlick…

The wet sounds were slower now. More deliberate. Her cunt made soft squelching noises each time she lifted, like it was reluctant to let you go, and her breath came in short, hitching gasps that matched the rhythm of her hips.

"Feel that?" she breathed. "Feel how tight I am? How wet? That's for you. All for you. Every inch of this pussy is yours."

Behind her, Yeji knelt and pressed her body against Chaewon's back. Her hands slid around to cup Chaewon's bouncing breasts, thumbs flicking over the nipples, and Chaewon moaned and arched into the touch.

"She's beautiful, isn't she?" Yeji murmured, her eyes finding yours over Chaewon's shoulder. "Riding your cock like she was made for it. Made for you."

"She was," you said, and the words came out rougher than you intended. "She was always the softest. The kindest. Even when she was hurting me, she cried afterward."

Chaewon sobbed. "I'm sorry—I'm so sorry—I was so stupid, I didn't know what I had, I didn't know—"

"Shhh." Yeji pressed a kiss to Chaewon's shoulder. "We know. We all know. That's why we're here." Her hand slid down Chaewon's belly, fingers finding her clit. "Now stop crying and come on his cock. He's earned it."

Her fingers circled the swollen nub, pressing hard, and Chaewon's whole body jolted like she'd been electrocuted.

"AH! Ah, ah, ah—Yeji—I can't—it's too—"

"Come." Yeji's voice was steel wrapped in silk. "Now."

Chaewon shattered.

Her cunt clamped down with a force that made you gasp—tighter than before, tighter than should have been possible, the rhythmic milking pulse so intense you could feel every individual contraction. Her back arched, her head thrown back against Yeji's shoulder, her mouth open in a scream that never quite made it out. Her nails raked down your chest, leaving new furrows beside the ones Kazuha had carved.

"Fill me," she begged, her voice cracking. "Please, please, fill me, breed me, I want your baby, I want—"

The orgasm crashed over you like a wave of fire.

dim—

No. Wait. Wrong word. You weren't supposed to use that one. But the sensation was so intense, so overwhelming, that your brain briefly forgot every rule of good erotica and went straight for the cliché. Your cock pulsed inside Chaewon's clenching cunt, and what little cum you had left—God, how many times could one man come?—jetted into her in hot, desperate spurts.

splurt splurt SPLURT

"YES!" she screamed. "Yes, yes, yes, I can feel it—I can feel your cum inside me—it's so hot, so hot—"

Her hips ground down, taking every pulse, her cunt milking you for every last drop. And Yeji's fingers kept circling her clit, prolonging the orgasm, dragging it out until Chaewon was a sobbing, shaking wreck on top of you.

"Good girl," Yeji whispered. "Good fucking girl. Now hold it in. Knees up. Like Kazuha."

Chaewon climbed off on legs that barely held her weight. She collapsed onto the cardboard beside Kazuha, quickly mirroring her posture—knees drawn up, hands pressed against her lower belly, cum leaking slowly from her cunt despite her best efforts to hold it in.

"That's two," Yena said. Her voice was still husky from eating Chaewon's cunt, her lips glistening in the red emergency light. "Who's next?"

"Me." Asa crawled forward, her eyes still red-rimmed, her cheeks still blotchy, her expression one of desperate hunger. "Please. Please let me have his baby. I know I don't deserve it. I know I'm the worst of all of us. But please. I need it. I need something to make up for what I did."

"Asa." You reached for her, your hand finding her cheek. "You're not the worst."

"I cheated. I let Jae—" She choked on the name. "I let him touch me. I let him record me. I let him post it everywhere. And the whole time I was thinking about you, and I still did it, because I was too scared to believe I deserved you, and—"

"And now you're here." Your thumb brushed away a tear. "And you're crying. And you're begging. And you've been searching for me for months. Doesn't that count for something?"

"It counts," Yeji said quietly. "It all counts. Every tear. Every apology. Every second we spend worshiping him." She looked at you, and her expression was softer than you'd ever seen it. "We're all the worst. And we're all here. And we're all going to spend the rest of our lives making it right."

Asa nodded, sniffling. "Let me ride him. Please. I want to feel him inside me. I want to feel him come."

She positioned herself over your hips. Her slender body trembled, her dark hair spilling over her shoulders, her cunt already dripping with anticipation. She reached down and wrapped her hand around your cock—still hard, still slick, still somehow ready for more—and guided the head to her entrance.

"I love you," she whispered. "I know I said it before, but I want to say it while I'm looking at you. I love you, Y/n. I never stopped. I never will."

She sank down.

Her cunt was tighter than the others. Not painfully so, but noticeably—the walls gripping your shaft with an intensity that made you groan. She gasped, her eyes widening, her hands flying to your shoulders for balance.

"Oooh… oooh, you're so… I forgot how… mmmm…"

She started to ride.

Her rhythm was different from the others. Unpredictable. Desperate. Her hips rolled in circles, then slammed down hard, then rolled again. She couldn't seem to decide what felt best, so she tried everything—fast and slow, deep and shallow, grinding and bouncing. Her moans were broken and breathy, interrupted by hiccups and sobs and the occasional "I love you" that slipped out like a prayer.

"Touch her," Yeji commanded. "All of us. Touch her while she rides."

Kazuha reached over and cupped one of Asa's small breasts. Chaewon's hand found the other. Yena crawled behind Asa and pressed kisses to her spine, her tongue tracing the knobs of her vertebrae. And Yeji knelt beside you, her fingers finding Asa's clit.

"Come on his cock," Yeji murmured. "Come hard. Come loud. We want to hear you."

Asa's rhythm faltered. "I'm—I'm close—I'm going to—"

schlick schlick schlick

Her cunt made desperate wet noises around your shaft. Her thighs trembled. Her nails dug into your shoulder blades. And then her eyes rolled back—just like Kazuha's had—and she let out a wail that seemed to come from somewhere deeper than her throat.

"YEEESSSSS—!"

Her orgasm hit like a detonation. Her cunt spasmed around you, squeezing and releasing in rapid pulses, and the sensation triggered your own release—dry this time, or nearly dry, just the convulsive pulsing of your shaft and a few weak spurts of thin cum that were more sensation than substance.

But Asa didn't seem to care. She collapsed onto your chest, sobbing, her cunt still fluttering around your softening cock, and whispered "thank you, thank you, thank you" until her voice gave out entirely.

"That's three," Yena said. "My turn."

She didn't wait. She gently pulled Asa off your cock—Asa whimpering at the loss—and guided her to lie beside Chaewon and Kazuha, knees up, hands pressed to belly. Then she climbed onto your hips, her athletic body glistening with sweat, her cunt positioning itself over your still-sensitive cock.

"You've come six times," she said. "Maybe seven. I lost count." She sank down, taking you inside her tight, wet heat, and let out a satisfied sigh. "Think you have one more in you?"

"I don't—" Your voice cracked. "I don't know."

"Let's find out."

She rode you with the same passionate intensity she'd brought to everything—her music, her band, her apologies. Her hips moved in a rhythm that was almost musical, each stroke timed to an internal beat only she could hear. Her head thrown back, her eyes half-closed, she looked like she was performing. Like this was a concert and you were the only audience member that mattered.

"I used to imagine you in the crowd," she said, her voice low and husky. "At every show. I'd look out at the lights and pretend you were there, watching me. And now you are. Now you're watching me. Now you're inside me."

"Yena—"

"I'm going to come," she said. "And then you're going to come. And then we're going to lie here and hold our knees up and think about the future. About our babies. About our life together. All six of us." Her hips sped up, the rhythm becoming erratic. "Is that okay? Is that something you want?"

Did you want that?

Five women. Five exes. Five ghosts from a past you'd spent years trying to outrun. And yet—here they were. Kneeling at your feet. Worshiping your body. Begging for your seed. Promising to spend the rest of their lives making amends.

You thought about the restaurant. The tables you'd built. The counter you'd sanded. The dreams you'd had of first dates and anniversaries and families gathering for birthday dinners.

Families.

"Yeah," you said. "Yeah, it's something I want."

Yena smiled—a real smile, bright and genuine and full of hope—and then her orgasm hit. Her cunt clamped down around your shaft, her eyes fluttering closed, her breath escaping in a long, shuddering aaaaaahhhhh. Her hips kept moving, kept grinding, kept milking you, and then—

And then you were coming too.

A dry orgasm. Just pulses. Just convulsions. Just the ghost of pleasure that was almost pain in its intensity. But it was enough. Enough to make you groan. Enough to make Yena gasp. Enough to make the other four women murmur words of encouragement and praise.

"That's four," Yeji said quietly. "Everyone except me."

She looked at you. Her dark eyes were still intense, still predatory, but there was something else underneath now. Something softer. Something that might have been contentment.

"I already got my fill," she said. "First round. Before the breeding started." Her hand found your cheek, her thumb tracing your cheekbone. "But I'm going to want more. Tomorrow. And the day after. And the day after that. You understand?"

"I understand."

"Good." She leaned down and pressed a kiss to your forehead. "Then let's get you cleaned up. You've got a restaurant to run, and we've got a lot of making up to do."

"The restaurant," you said, and the absurdity of it suddenly hit you. "The restaurant. It's still unlocked. Anyone could have walked in. Anyone could have—"

"We locked up," Kazuha said from her position on the cardboard. She hadn't moved, her knees still drawn up, her hands still pressed to her belly. "While you were… occupied. I did it. During Chaewon's turn."

"You did?"

"I did." She smiled, and it was the same smile she'd given you on your third date, in that little ramen shop with the broken air conditioner. "I told you. We've been planning this for weeks."

The storage room was a disaster. Cardboard boxes crushed and sodden with bodily fluids. The scent of sex and sweat and tears hanging thick in the air. Five naked women arranged on the floor like a harem—which, you realized with a jolt, was exactly what they were now. Exactly what they wanted to be.

"We should move," you said. "Back to the office. The couch is more comfortable."

"Can you walk?" Yena asked.

"Probably not."

"I'll help." She climbed off your cock—a final wet shlick that made you both wince—and held out her hand. "Come on. Let's get you somewhere comfortable."

It took three of them to get you upright. Yena on one side, Yeji on the other, Asa behind you with her hands on your lower back. Your legs were rubber, your cock was raw and aching, and every muscle in your body screamed with exhaustion. But you were standing. Somehow, impossibly, you were standing.

Chaewon and Kazuha followed on unsteady legs, their hands still pressed to their bellies like they could hold the cum inside them through sheer force of will. The six of you shuffled through the dark hallway—a strange, naked procession—and back into the cramped office.

The couch was still there. The desk was still there. The filing cabinet still stuck when you accidentally bumped into it.

"Sit," Yeji commanded.

You sat.

And then five women arranged themselves around you like a living blanket. Chaewon curled against your left side. Kazuha against your right. Yena draped herself across the back of the couch, her legs tangling with yours. Asa knelt at your feet, her chin resting on your knee. And Yeji… Yeji stood in the doorway, her lean body silhouetted against the red emergency light, her dark eyes sweeping over the scene.

"Two years," she said quietly. "Two years we spent running from this. From you. From ourselves." She shook her head, and for the first time since she'd walked into your restaurant, her expression was completely unguarded. "We're not running anymore."

"No," you agreed. "You're not."

"So what happens now?"

The question hung in the air. Five women. Five apologies. Five bodies warm and soft and pressed against yours. A restaurant waiting to open. A life waiting to be lived.

"Now," you said, "we figure out how to make this work. All of it. The restaurant. The relationships. The…" You glanced at Kazuha's belly, still pressed flat beneath her hands. "The babies. If there are babies."

"When," Kazuha corrected. "When there are babies. I can feel it. I can feel it already."

"You cannot possibly feel it already," Yena said. "It's been ten minutes."

"I can feel it in my soul." Kazuha's voice was dreamy and distant. "Our baby. Your baby. Growing inside me."

"You're insane," you said, but there was no heat in it.

"I know." She pressed a kiss to your shoulder. "We all are. That's why we match."

The quiet that followed was comfortable. Warm. The kind of quiet you'd been chasing for three years, ever since Kazuha first walked out of your apartment and left you staring at the ceiling. The kind of quiet that felt like home.

"So," Yeji said eventually. "Breakfast? I saw a kitchen out front. And after seven orgasms—" she paused, counting on her fingers, "—or was it eight? After eight orgasms, I'm starving."

"Eight?" You groaned. "How am I still alive?"

"Because we need you to be." Her smile was sharp and knowing and full of promise. "And because we're not done with you yet. This was just the apology round. Wait until you see what we have planned for the celebration round."

You looked at her. At all of them. At the five women who'd broken your heart and then come back to glue it together with apologies and promises and the impossible, terrifying, incredible proposition of a future.

"I can't wait," you said.

"This isn't in my job description."

"So quit." She finally turns. Your eyes drop — tits spilling out of the floral top, wet, sun-kissed, nipples hard through the thin fabric. She catches you looking. Doesn't cover up. Pulls you down by your staff lanyard instead. Kisses you — slow, wet, deliberate. Her lips are ridiculous. Plush and sticky with gloss that tastes like cherry. She bites your bottom lip. Sucks on it until you groan. Lets go with a pop. "Work for me exclusively instead."

The bikini bottom's off. Red string dangling from one ankle. She's on the edge of the pool, legs in the water, pulling you between them. Her pussy's pretty. Swollen. Glistening and it's not from the pool.

"Fuck me. Right here."

You push in and her head drops back. Tits bouncing with every thrust, water splashing around your thighs. Her mouth — God, her mouth — lips parted, tongue running across the bottom one, pulling you down by the neck to kiss you filthy and wet between moans.

"You feel so fucking deep — harder — louder. There's nobody here —"

She's right. Every moan bounces off the tile. Every slap of wet skin carries across the empty pool deck. You grab her tits. Full handfuls, heavy and soft, thumbing her nipples until she whimpers into your mouth.

"Play with them — just like — fuck yes, like that —"

"My ass," she pants. Reaches back and spreads herself for you. "I want — switch. Put it in my ass. I want to feel you back there."

You do. Slow. Her rim stretches around you and she gasps — high and sharp. Grips the pool edge, knuckles white, water rippling around you both. Her ass swallows every inch.

"Oh fuck that's — don't be gentle, I didn't ask you over here to be gentle —" Her voice cracks. She bites her own lip. Hard. Those perfect, swollen, ruined lips. "Spank me. I want the whole resort to hear it."

You do. Her ass ripples. She clenches around you so tight your vision blurs.

She comes shaking in the shallow end — clamped around your cock, moaning into the echo of an empty pool, tits pressed against the wet tile.

Sunscreen bottle floating past her like nothing happened.

"...you missed a spot, by the way."