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Puck Me, One More Time의 모든 챕터: 챕터 71 - 챕터 80

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Chapter 71 — What is my dad doing here?

Liam's POVSteph was standing there with everything she had built tonight scattered around her feet and the audience was not being kind about it."Seriously… is Steph that desperate?" The voice came from somewhere in the middle of the room, not even trying to be subtle about it. "She had to blackmail Ken just to have a fake boyfriend?""That is so embarrassing." Another voice followed immediately, the way voices followed when a crowd had decided something and each person was just adding their note to the same song.I could not help the grin that came. I was not going to pretend I could. Because Steph had spent months making my life smaller at every opportunity she got and watching her stand in the middle of her own birthday party while her audience turned on her — the audience she had always controlled, whose reactions she had always been able to manage — was something I was going to let myself feel for exactly as long as it lasted."Shut up!" Steph's voice came out sharp and loud, di

Chapter 72 — Like he even cares.

Ken's POVThe house was quiet in that specific way it got when my dad was in it. It was not necessarily peaceful,...just tense. The kind of quiet that had weight to it because it was being held deliberately by someone who had decided words could wait until they had the right setting.He had not said a single word to me on the drive home. Not even one. He had just driven with both hands on the wheel, while his jaw was set and his eyes forward, which was almost worse than if he had started in the car because at least then it would have been over by the time we arrived.Instead it had built the whole way home.He walked straight to the large table in the sitting room the moment we came through the door. I followed because not following was not really an option when my father moved with that particular energy and I had learned that lesson a long time ago.He reached across the table and pulled up the paper that had been sitting there. Held it up and turned it toward me so the page was fac

Chapter 73 —I don't even need a father like you.

Ken's POV"I don't give a damn about your company." I said it steady and direct, holding his eyes the whole time so he understood that every word was exactly what it was — not heat, not impulse, just the truth of how I felt deep down. "Surprised?" I kept my voice level. "I would rather live on the streets than spend my life being your precious little heir."He stared at me without saying anything yet."And I don't care that you think I am useless." I kept going because I had been holding this for too long and there was no version of stopping halfway that made any sense now. "You have never actually been here. You donate money to my school and you call that fatherhood." I shook my head slightly. "I am your son. Not your investment. And I don't even need a father like you."The air in the room between us changed immediately.Not loud and not dramatic either. It was just the specific shift that happened when something had been said that could not be unsaid and both people in the room kne

Chapter 74 — He is taking the bet.

Ken's POV"Are you okay, Liam? Oh my God!"I was still on the floor beside him before the words finished coming out — both hands on him, still checking and looking for the thing that would tell me how bad this actually was. The blow had landed with the full weight behind it and for one terrible second when he hit the floor and went still, something in my chest had stopped working properly.Then I saw his chest move at a closer look at him.At least, he was breathing. That was the first thing and everything else was secondary to that. Not long, he opened both his eyes.I helped him up — getting one arm under his’ and pulling him to his feet slowly and not rushing it. While watching his face the whole time for anything that said he needed to stay down."Yeah, fine. I am fine. I'm fine, I'm fine." He said it four times, which was exactly how many times someone said something when the shock had not fully cleared and the words were coming on autopilot. His hand came up and he wiped the blo

Chapter 75 — If this is a dream, I don't want to wake up.

Ken's POV"We will see." My dad said it with no warmth attached to any of the words, lowering the finger he had been pointing at me, and then he turned and left the room without another word.I stood there and listened to his footsteps until they faded into another part of the house.Then I let out the breath I had been holding somewhere in my chest since before he had grabbed my collar. It was all long and slow which could be related to the specific exhale that came when a situation had resolved just enough that your body finally got permission to release what it had been carrying.Liam turned to face me."You did not do anything wrong." He said it quietly and directly, with that specific eye contact he used when he needed you to actually receive something rather than just hear it. "Okay?" He held my gaze. "You are going to ace every single one of your final exams and you are going to make your dad so proud."I looked away from him.Not because the words did not land…because they act

Chapter 76 — Working on myself academically.

Ken's POV You know that saying — that you become better when you are in love. I actually experienced it firsthand. And the thing about it was that Liam never sat me down and gave me a speech about it. He never made it feel like a condition or a project. He showed up consistently, and somewhere in between all of that showing up, I started showing up too. For the classes, for the material, for the parts of studying I had spent most of my academic life actively avoiding. I was beginning to actually love it. That part still surprised me every time I noticed it. We had fixed a schedule — classes whenever we could carve out the time, any gap in the day that was long enough to sit down and actually work through something. And instead of counting down the minutes until each session ended the way I used to do with everything school-related, I was counting down to the next one before the current on

Chapter 77 — The ball is in my court.

Ken's POVLiam set the assessment paper down on the desk and looked at it for a moment with that focused, quiet expression he had when he was being fair in his assessment rather than just being kind.Then he nodded."Not bad, Ken." He said it genuinely, the way he said things he actually meant with no inflation and no performance of encouragement. Just the honest evaluation of someone who had been watching the work develop and was reporting what he saw. He looked up at me. "You are improving." He nodded again slightly. "You are really improving, you know."Something settled in my chest when he said that.Not because I needed the validation… or at least that was what I told myself, but because Liam did not say things he did not mean and I had known that about him since early enough in all of this that hearing it land was different from hearing it from anyone else.I smiled…the quiet kind or let's say, the one that came before I decided to let it."We will stop here for today." He picke

Chapter 78 — He wants more!

Ken's POVYou know, just when I thought Liam was in the mood too — just like I was — and carried to something close to cloud nine, he grabbed my bag which I had almost forgotten was right behind me, as a result of the mood that made me forget that every other thing actually existed.I fully understood for a fact that he was more concerned about my academic improvement to the pleasure…but for me, I want all of it, so far as it has to do with him.Then, in that position, Liam stood up from my lap with that smirk boldly written on his face."Are you kidding me?" I had to ask him right away, returning the smirk, though it didn't quite get to anywhere close to my heart or whatsoever."No!" He said, still maintaining the smile on his face. "Better head home, boyfriend."Then he slightly threw the bag to me.I caught it slowly and deliberately, while my eyes never left his face.‘Boyfriend.’He said it so easily like it was nothing. Like it hadn't just lit something up in my chest that I was

Chapter 79 — Caught in the act.

Ken's POVI kissed all through his neck, caressing his body slowly, the way someone does when they are in no hurry because they have decided that this moment belongs to them.He exhaled against me…soft, barely there, but then I heard it.I always heard it, you know."Every inch of me is yours to explore." He went on to confess with closed eyes, still in that mood, his voice lower than it had been all evening.Something about hearing him say that, did things to my chest that I wasn't going to examine too carefully right now.I let my lips drag along his jaw before I pulled back just enough to look at him. His eyes were still closed, lashes sitting still, and the expression on his face was the specific one he wore when he had stopped fighting something and had simply let it happen.I liked him like this unguarded and soft in a way he didn't show the rest of the world."I am going to take my time," I said against his skin, "and see where it ends."Then I dipped my hand down, and I felt h

Chapter 80- You have to leave, now!

Ken's POV Liam and I stood at that spot, not able to move a spot.We still had our hands to our lips, not knowing what to say exactly, because I could see the disappointment on Liam mum's face clearly — and her tone had already told the rest of the story. The anger wasn't loud yet. Which meant it was the other kind; the kind that sat under the surface and had already made up its mind.And you know, that kind was always worse.I looked at Liam from the corner of my eye. His face had gone somewhere unreadable, which I had never seen on him before. Not once, in all the weeks I had known him. He always had an expression, even a controlled one but this was different. This was the face of someone who had just watched something they had been quietly dreading arrive exactly as they'd feared it would.*****Liam's POVI ruffled my hair in confusion, knowing the level of mess that I had gotten myself into.There was no version of this that didn't require damage control. And the honest part of

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