Chapter 72
Contrary to what he’d expected, Mu-gyeong didn’t come back that night.
Hongju spent the night on the living room couch, staring blankly at his phone on the table, just in case Mu-gyeong contacted him.
He tapped the dark screen over and over again, waking it up, but no messages or calls came from Mu-gyeong.
"......."
He looked outside, where dawn was beginning to break.
By now, the game must’ve ended.
They didn’t find out, did they? Guppping and Yang Siljang didn’t catch on, right?
Hongju gnawed his lower lip until it puffed, then pulled up Mu-gyeong’s number on his phone.
"Should I call...?"
Maybe he was still with the House guys.
Would a text be better?
His dry hand hovered indecisively above the call button, unable to press it for a long while.