Beneath Silent Eye

For one year, Sumni Li had worked under Park Cho. One year of controlled silence, of feeling his eyes on her when no one else noticed. When the office emptied and the lights dimmed, he asked questions that felt too personal—about her habits, her thoughts, her fears. Always calm. Always watching.He told himself it was curiosity. It wasn’t.Kim, her closest friend, felt a similar presence. Lim Gu appeared whenever she was alone—offering help, small talk, a quiet smile that stayed too long. He remembered things she never told him. Her favorite coffee. Her routine. It unsettled her… and drew her in.Park Cho and Lim Gu never spoke of it. But both knew.They stayed late. They listened. They learned. Not to harm—but because their feelings refused to stop growing. Obsession wrapped itself in concern. Control disguised itself as protection.Sumni and Kim felt it too. The strange pull. The warning in their stomachs. The feeling of being chosen—and watched.Some secrets were never meant to be confessed.They were meant to be felt.