Whip Me Harder
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Lightning split the sky above the old estate. Min-jae stood in the courtyard bare to the storm, rain running the pale scars across his chest. The chain in his hand was only a broken gate latch. The house behind him still burned with every window lit, as if someone inside refused to sleep.
Hae-rin stepped from the roses.
“They said you would never come home.”
“I came back because the quiet was worse than the wound.”
Wind tore the dark cloth from his shoulder. He did not hide the marks.
“Then look at me,” he said. “Love me harder than rumor. Harder than the night I left. If you stay, stay when the thunder stops.”
She did not look away. The roses kept their thorns. The storm, for once, waited.
