Yoongi drives Aliya back so she can pick up her car. She has to admit that she is so relaxed that she is close to dozing off. He offers to drive her home and pick her up in the morning, but she politely declines since he's done so much for her already.

Yoongi walks her towards her car and when she is about to get in, she gives in to the drive to reach up for him and give his mouth a quick peck. "Thanks for tonight." She tells him with a grateful smile. He is nothing but sweet to her tonight and she finds herself liking this side of him.

He looks stunned for a moment and she could've sworn that his ears turned bright red. She starts her car and opens her window to wave at him. "Good night Yoongi and drive safely." He nods his head in response before getting on his own car.

Over and over, she had been thinking about the kiss she gave him. There's nothing wrong with it specially when they have done so much things together that's way beyond kissing. What's a little kiss right? If this is the case, why is she feeling so flustered about it that it's driving her crazy? She let out a quiet squeal of frustration.

"What is wrong with you? You scared the hell out of me." Aliya forgot she's walking with Taehyung at the parking lot to get lunch.

Aliya's face burned guiltily. "Nothing. I just had a flashback of something embarrassing."

"Do you want to share it?" He asks her.

"No." She replies back.

"I thought you don't keep secrets from me." He tells her before hooking his arm around her neck. "Come on spill it."

"Stop it Taehyung I'm not telling you because it's nothing." She lightly hits his arm that's holding her. They stopped in front of his car but he is not letting the issue go.

He looks down and stares into her eyes. "You're lying. I can always tell when you're not telling the truth."

"Do you seriously want a blow by blow detail of my sex life?" She tells him with a wicked grin. Honestly, she just wants him to stop staring. She's trying not to resurface the feelings she has for him.

Taehyung immediately released her and clears his throat before speaking. "Is that what's bothering you?"

Aliya shrugs. "Kind of but no." They both got into the car which he starts but did not drive yet.

"What does that even mean? Is Yoongi making you do something you don't like?" He asks.

"Of course not. I like what he does and what I do, I do it because I like it." She peeks at her best friend's face. She's testing his reaction if she speaks something so blunt. His face shows a number of emotions before settling to disbelief.

"I can't believe you're telling me this."

"You asked for it, you're my best friend remember? I tell you everything." She grins up at him throwing his words back at him. "By the way, Yoongi invited me to their company's kick off party on Friday."

"He what? He's taking you as his date?"

"I guess we can put it that way though we both know he doesn't date. He asked because of my social skills and my ability to entertain myself even if he is off somewhere and not be whining about it."

Taehyung chuckles. "True. You have great social skills and you're smart."

Aliya gave an exaggerated sigh. "And here I am thinking it's because of my beauty that I got invited." She's joking of course.

Her bestfriend started laughing. "Fishing for a compliment huh? That is already given Iya, any guy who doesn't notice how beautiful you are is dumb."

"Ha!" Aliya exclaims before laughing too. "Then I guess you're dumb."

"Excuse me, I know you're beautiful I always tell you that." He tells her.

"Yeah whatever. Let's go have lunch I am hungry." She tells him, he just didn't get what she meant with her previous statement.

Friday comes and Aliya checks herself at the mirror all set for the party. She had her hair and make up done at the same place she visited for Taehyung's wedding. Her nerves were all worked up as she starts to think it might've been a bit much. She'll just have to rely on Yoongi's reaction when he sees her tonight.

Her doorbell rings at exactly 7 as he promised and as she opens the door, she hears him utter a string of curses and for some reason, he doesn't sound happy at all. Could he possibly be having second thoughts for asking her? She asks herself as she walks out of her door. "Good evening to you too Mr. Min." She greets him with her head down, her cheeks burning in embarrassment. She finally looks up and sees him for the first time and her expression changed as she felt her heart skip a beat.

She takes a long look at him and she can't help but hold her breath over how he looks tonight. His suit fits him well accenting his lean body, his hair is sleekly combed back and yet a few strands falls over his forehead adding more to his charm. Dangerously handsome, that's what he is. If looks could kill, there'd be dead women falling on the ground like flies as he walks and that will include her for sure.

"Why are you so quiet?" He asks her while they were driving.

"Why are you so quiet?" Aliya asks him back. "Tell me, is there something wrong with the way I look tonight?" Maybe she's gotten used to the men she knew that flatters and compliments her. She has to remind herself this man before her isn't into that at all.

"No." He quickly answers. "Why would you even ask that?"

"Nothing." She replies staring outside the window.

Yoongi pulls over at the side of the road and turns to her. "What's going on? Is there a problem?"

Aliya shakes her head and refused to look at him. "No." The last thing she wanted is to become the whining girl he mentioned before. She just can't help feeling that she didn't meet up to his expectation.

Yoongi takes her chin and makes her look into his direction. His eyes studies her face. "What is it?"

"It's just that, you didn't sound happy when you first saw me this evening. It made me think that maybe," Aliya paused as she realized she is pouring out her thoughts to him just like that. "you're having second thoughts for taking me tonight."

He scoffs "You need to know that when I decide on something, I don't give room for second thoughts. You seem to be not so confident about yourself tonight."

Aliya agrees with him, she isn't. She can't understand why she is being a bit sensitive with him lately.

"Do I need to work on building that confidence back on you?" He asks as his hand wandered down her neck, to the exposed skin on her chest tracing the mounds of her breast with his fingers before his hand pulls her gown higher so he can caress her knee and inner thigh. "I'd fuck you here and now just to show you what I mean if it weren't for your fancy make up and pretty hair. But maybe later yeah? Let's drive those insecurities away from you."

Aliya's body is in heat with his words, his voice and his touch. He has that control over her, because whatever doubts she had earlier has slowly disappeared. She also finds herself counting the hours for this party to be over just so she'd get to have him put his words into action. She can't help smile at her stupid thoughts.

Yoongi relaxes and moves back at his seat. "Good, you're smiling now. I want to see more of that from you ok?" He starts driving again and it didn't take that long when they arrived at the venue.

Yoongi leaves the car with the valet and they headed towards the elevator. She hears him take a deep breath and his hand goes around her waist drawing her close to him. "Please do me a favor, don't smile."

"What?" She looks up at him questioningly over the strange request, it's the complete opposite of what he said in the car earlier.

A gentleman who looks slightly older than Yoongi calls out to him. The man then looks at Aliya appreciatingly scanning her from her head down to her feet then going up pausing at her breasts before moving up her face. She could feel Yoongi's hand holding on to her tighter.

"So, I hear you're the second lead in this project, congratulations." He tells him.

"Thank you." Yoongi simply replies and when the elevator opens, he pulls Aliya with him. Unfortunately, the other guy follows them inside too.

"So, who is this beautiful lady with you? You always say you're gonna stay single, have you changed your mind?" He asks.

This other guy is such a dickhead, Aliya thought to herself. He makes her feel uncomfortable too, if it isn't for Yoongi's arm around her waist, she wouldn't be feeling very secure with him. "This is Aliya Lee." Yoongi introduces her to him. "Dong Hyun Choi."

Mr. Choi bows at her then reaches out a hand. "Nice to meet you Ms. Lee."

Aliya stares at his hand, she didn't want to touch him at all but that would be rude so she bows a little before touching just the tip of his hand but he grasps her hand into his giving it a squeeze before letting go. She steps back towards Yoongi leaning against him until the door opens.

Fortunately, there's a small crowd gathered near the elevator so they all got busy. More introductions were made and Aliya finds herself switching languages as she met with clients and other contractors in the project. Yoongi got busy too but he'd always turn his head to find where she is which she's very grateful for. This is not her event in the first place.

When they had a chance to be together, Yoongi asks her if she's doing ok. She nods her head and smiles at him. "Sorry about that asshole earlier."

He's talking about Mr. Choi. "Who is he?" Aliya asks.

"He's my senior. He trained me when I was starting in this company. He has too much confidence in himself that he can't accept it when the other team leaders saw potentials in me. He moved to a different company, our competitor, just to prove himself better. Unfortunately, they're invited because they just finished a project from the client. Seeing him here pisses me off specially when" he stops talking as a familiar looking woman comes up to them.

She is wearing a bright red body clinging gown with a slit in front showing off her long legs. "Hello Yoongi." She greets him moving too close to him deliberately brushing her breasts against his arm.

Aliya watched his reaction but he isn't showing any as his guarded look came on again when he greets the other woman. "Ma-ri."

Mari, where did she hear that name, Aliya asks herself. Oh, she's the woman at the club she saw Yoongi with before, the one he sees regularly. Now that they're in a bright room, she gets to see her better now. She's got a short bob cut hair that matches her small square face and full lips. Damn, does he like women who looks like a model? She wonders. Mari whispers something in Yoongi's ears and Aliya takes a few steps looking away from them for privacy. She didn't get far before Yoongi snatches her wrist and pulls her back with him before walking away. She looks at Mari who was left standing with her mouth open in disbelief.