@.miniauthor: "Karina." First name. She'd never used it before. Karina went very still. "Why did you really call him out today." The silence that followed was the kind where both people are deciding something and neither wants to go first. Karina closed the folder. "You should focus on your own work." "I am." Winter didn't move. "I'm very focused right now." Something shifted in Karina's eyes. Shut down immediately. "That'll be all." Winter was at the door when the secretary walked in without waiting. "Ms. Yoo, the Daejeon board—" "Not now." "They said it's urgent—" "Not now, Somin." The secretary left. Winter turned around. Karina was already looking at her. Not at her screen. At her. Like she'd stopped pretending and forgotten to start again. "Say it," Winter said. "Whatever you keep not saying." Karina stood. Came around the desk slowly. Stopped close enough that the distance had a name. "You don't want me to say it." "I really do." "Because I watched you laugh at something he said." Her voice dropped. "And I couldn't stand it." Winter stared at her. "That's why you went after him." Karina didn't answer. "You humiliated him in front of his whole team because he made me laugh." "His projections were—" "Karina." "—substandard." "Karina." She finally stopped talking. Winter's hand found her jacket. Didn't pull. Just held. Karina reached past her and locked the door. Then the blinds — cord by cord, panel by panel — the floor disappearing, the city disappearing, until it was just the lamp and the locked door and no more pretending. Winter's back found the wall. Karina's hand pressed flat beside her head. "You're my boss." "I know." "This is insane." "I know what it is." Winter looked up at her. "Then why." "Seventy-eight days." Quiet. Like it cost her. "I've been— seventy-eight days of this and I can't—" She stopped. Winter pulled her in by the lapel. Karina kissed her like she'd already decided how it was going to go. Hand on Winter's jaw. Firm. Certain. Winter's grip twisting in her jacket like she was done waiting and didn't care who knew it. When they finally broke apart Karina's forehead dropped against hers. Both breathing slightly wrong. Winter laughed — small, a little undone. "Seventy-eight days," she said. "You counted too." "Didn't you?" Karina pulled back just enough to look at her. "You're so gone for me," Winter said. "Winter, I swear—" She kissed her again just to shut her up. Karina let her. ------------------- Follow for more 👉👈 #fanfic #winrina #aespa #fyp #viral

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