Free The Fall of Gods (A Welcome to the Underworld Novel, Book 2) by Con Template Page B

using them. There’s always little pieces of lint and hair and blood and goo stuck to the – ”  
    “Thank you for the mental image,” Yoori promptly dismissed, shuddering as she held up her hand to stop him from continuing. Great. Now she was a hater of band-aids too. She downed another shot to clear the disgusting band-aid thought from her head.  
    “I have another question for you,” she went on after drinking from her shot glass. She held it up and waited as Tae Hyun poured her another round. “What is the one thing you haven’t done in your life that everyone else has done – that you want to try?”
    Tae Hyun deliberated while he poured her drink. Judging by his countenance, he was impressed with her good question. After a couple minutes of awkward thinking, he finally answered.  
    “Go on a date with a girl,” he muttered quietly, his cheeks turning a bit red.  
    Yoori nearly choked on the vodka when she heard Tae Hyun’s innocent answer. Dramatically spitting the vodka out to the side, Yoori slammed her hand against her chest to get the excess liquid out from her throat. She didn’t know what she expected Tae Hyun’s answer to be, but she would never in her life think that Tae Hyun had never gone on a date with a girl.  
    Clearing her throat, she smiled apologetically and returned her gaze to him. He took another swig from his shot glass and he did not look amused.  
    “Sorry about that,” she said clumsily, picking up the Southern Comfort to pour into his shot glass. “My throat clogged up.” 
    “Uh huh,” Tae Hyun replied blithely. He held up his shot glass while she poured the drink in. The expression on his disapproving face said it all: he didn’t believe her lie about why she choked.  
    “Anyway, wow. Never been on a date, huh?” she started casually, filling up her own shot glass. “I would’ve thought you’d have dozens of girls hanging off of you.”  
    Hearing this, Tae Hyun gave her a defensive look. “I do.”  
    Yoori bunched her brows in confusion. “But you said –”  
    “You’ve got it all wrong, Choi Yoori. I don’t  need to take girls on dates to successfully court them.” 
    Yoori gave him a strange look. “Well, what do you do to successfully court them?”  
    He thought about it and shrugged.  
    “I don’t know,” he stated, looking askance. It was as if he was trying to figure out why earth was created. “I walk into a room and girls stare. I choose the one I like, talk to her for a bit, turn on the charm and next thing I know…I’ve made a new friend.” 
    Yoori clenched her teeth at Tae Hyun’s sinful misuse of the term “friend.” She felt a tinge of jealousy bubble within her when a mental image of Tae Hyun hitting on a girl appeared in her head. She had never seen him interested in other girls, let alone hit on them. The thought of him sweet-talking some random girl made her mad. 
    Unable to contain her outrage, she demanded, “What charm?”  
    Was it his constant teasing? What charm was he talking about?
    “You have to be there to experience it. I can’t explain it.” 
    “ Show me .” 
    “What?”  
    “Show me. I’m curious what your charm is like. Since you know...you have been anything but charming since we’ve met.” 
    Tae Hyun grimaced at her statement and shook his head.  “I’m not going to turn it on for you. If I do, you’d be ready to pounce me. We’re going to move on from this topic. It’s your turn to answer that question.” 
    Yoori was about to keep pushing the “magic charm” that Tae Hyun insisted he had but decided against it. What if he actually used it on her and it worked? She shook her head mentally at the thought.  
    She shifted her attention back to the question. She took another gulp of alcohol and played with the brim of the shot glass with her teeth. She didn’t want to share, but she knew she was going to have to since Tae Hyun shared the innocence of his “never gone on a