By Accident, By Design
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Crying wasn’t allowed. He forbade it when he landed a week ago. Not during the pitch meeting. Not after losing the contract.
And certainly not on a cramped flight surrounded by strangers. But now, he felt his throat constrict and tears behind his eyes.
"You want to see something stupid?"
Jisung turned, vision blurry and breath caught. He blinked as the older man angled his phone toward him. A cat dressed as a sushi roll stared back, its wide eyes.
“Such a dumb cat.” The man laughed. High pitched and airy. Much higher than expected. “I’ve got more.”
“Is the dumb cat yours?”
“Nah, my babies are smart.” He scrolled through a text chain to another image. “My friend sends these because he thinks I like them. He’s right, but I won’t tell him that.”
Jisung found himself leaning in to look over the collection of saved cat memes. During all of this he learned the man’s name, Lee Minho. He had three cats who he treated like his children, and one son he treated like his cats.
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Jisung’s work trip has gone from bad to worse when his flight gets canceled, and he’s stuck on standby. But, a handsome older man stuck in the airport with him makes it much more bearable
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- Part 1 of By Accident, By Design
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Jisung hesitated, fingers still moving. “Do you ever think about New York?”
It was the first time either of them had said it out loud. Since returning to Korea, it seemed to be the one topic they both tried to avoid. It had sat between them ever since, an elephant neither of them had wanted to name.
“Every night.”
Jisung’s breath caught, fingers stilling for a moment. He nodded, dropping his eyes to a vein just under the elder’s skin. “Me too.”
“You don’t regret it, do you?” Why Minho would ruin the moment asking something like that was beyond him. Perhaps a touch of insecurity, wondering if New York meant the same to Jisung as it did to him.
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On their first real date back in Seoul, Minho and Jisung have to decide whether New York was a one-time mistake or the first chapter of something neither of them is ready to name.
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- Part 2 of By Accident, By Design