By Zephyria The tightly closed sliding door creaked open, revealing the employee who had been attending to the meal. The employee, who had been responding politely with an expressionless face that didn’t reveal any personal feelings, looked unusually troubled. The way she fidgeted, unsure of what to do with her tightly clasped hands, suggested that something bad had happened.
“What…”
Lee Do-hyeon, who was about to ask what was wrong, paused for a moment and then frowned. It was because a familiar and annoying pheromone was seeping in through the crack in the open door.
“Does this place let employees bring people into the room as they please?”
Setting aside his dismay, Lee Do-hyeon glared at the employee, openly expressing his displeasure at the situation. Ryu Jeong also sensed the unfamiliar Alpha’s pheromone and hardened his puzzled expression. Ryu Jeong, who had been relaxed in front of Lee Do-hyeon, stiffened and glanced at the embarrassed employee. As he was trying to figure out the situation, footsteps echoed in the hallway, which had been quiet until then. The employee’s face contorted as if she was about to cry when she saw who was approaching.
“Don’t scold her too much. I forced her to do it.”
It was a man who defended the employee’s mistake with a swaggering tone. The man, who appeared with a smiling face, casually put his arm around the shoulders of the employee who was standing still. The gesture of caressing her round shoulders and arms seemed like he was treating a lover, but the employee who had lent her shoulder didn’t respond and was completely frozen.
“Our brother’s presence is so great that this girl’s loud voice reached my ears.”
The man, who lowered his head to match the height of the short female employee, blew hot air into her ear. The employee’s face, flushed with shame, was trembling so much that it made the onlookers grimace.
Lee Do-hyeon, who glanced at Ryu Jeong, who was surprised and stiffened by the sudden situation, opened his mouth in a low, cold voice.
“Stop it. We have a guest.”
Although the employee was wrong to invade the customer’s privacy and bring someone else to join them without consent, it didn’t mean that the man’s attitude of harassing and ridiculing her was right. Lee Do-hyeon growled at the man, Lee Gyu-hyeon, as if warning him for crossing a clear line.
“You’re such a boring bastard.”
Lee Gyu-hyeon, who poured out criticism towards Lee Do-hyeon, told the employee to leave. Even then, as if he couldn’t control his hands, he grabbed her buttocks hard under her skirt and slapped her as if urging a racehorse. The employee, who was hit on the buttocks, ran away in fear, and Lee Gyu-hyeon chuckled as he watched her leave, then closed the door and came inside.
As if he couldn’t believe what was happening in front of him, Ryu Jeong looked at Lee Do-hyeon with a nervous face. His eyes were desperate, as if asking for unspoken help. Lee Do-hyeon wanted to grab Ryu Jeong’s hand and leave the place right away, but he composed himself, thinking that he might provoke Lee Gyu-hyeon if he did. Lee Do-hyeon glared at Lee Gyu-hyeon even more fiercely, trying not to reveal his emotions.
“What are you doing?”
“Are you the only one working? I came here for business too. I heard you were comfortably eating, so I came to see your face. Are you unhappy? Is the food going down well?”
Lee Gyu-hyeon, not even thinking of covering his bulging crotch, put his hand down his pants and lifted his genitals, then placed that hand on the table. Lee Do-hyeon’s gaze, filled with contempt, briefly touched his hand and then fell away. It was clear that he regarded anyone, regardless of gender or type, as nothing more than a tool for relieving sexual desire.
“Leave. Can’t you see I have company?”
Lee Do-hyeon, who had been following his actions with his eyes, frowned openly. Even though there was no direct contact, he felt disgusted, as if he had caught a dirty germ.
“You rude bastard. You’re making your only Hyung look like a blind idiot?”
Lee Gyu-hyeon, who had his hands on the table, leaned his upper body forward and met Lee Do-hyeon’s gaze. The sight of him licking his lips with a white-coated tongue, as if he had eaten something, added to the disgust. Lee Do-hyeon, who didn’t feel it was worth dealing with him, sighed deeply and looked away first.
On the other hand, Ryu Jeong carefully examined the man who called himself Lee Do-hyeon’s “only Hyung.” He was a man who was very different from Lee Do-hyeon in appearance and atmosphere. There was nothing similar about them, and above all, the way he uttered unpleasant words and actions without any hesitation was alien to being brothers. Moreover, Lee Do-hyeon also seemed to dislike the man’s appearance.
A few months ago, Ryu Jeong recalled the woman who had appeared with Lee Do-hyeon at the cafe where he worked. And at the same time, he remembered Lee Do-hyeon’s confession that he had a half-brother. So this person is that… Just as his head was spinning, the man’s gaze, who had been constantly muttering curses, suddenly turned to Ryu Jeong.
“…Company?”
Lifeless eyes, like those of a dead fish, slowly scanned Ryu Jeong up and down. Lee Gyu-hyeon, who narrowed his eyes, leaned his face in as if to see more clearly.
“Omega?”
Since Lee Do-hyeon was the only person who had recognized that he was an Omega at once, Ryu Jeong’s eyes widened in surprise. Lee Gyu-hyeon, who sniffed as if he was going to smell the pheromones, clicked his tongue as if he was bored.
“Never mind.”
Ryu Jeong, who had been nervous that he would be caught, exhaled thinly. However, Lee Gyu-hyeon scanned Ryu Jeong with the same sticky gaze as he had looked at the employee earlier, as if he had no interest in types. Even in the state of being mistaken for a Beta, Ryu Jeong felt a suffocating feeling from the momentum of emitting pheromones all over his body.
“I thought you were an Omega because you’re pretty. How old are you? Are you a minor?”
“Ah, I…”
“You don’t have to answer.”
He was about to touch him without caring even if he was a minor. Lee Do-hyeon cut off Ryu Jeong’s words firmly as he was hesitating. Then, he picked up his coat and told him to leave. Ryu Jeong hurriedly got up from his seat as if he had been waiting for it. Lee Gyu-hyeon, with a face that had lost its energy, huffed and puffed.
“Guest my ass, you son of a bitch. You’re trying to deceive me with ridiculous words. What, do you sponsor trainee kids?”
“……”
“You’re not a trainee? Then what, did you get caught by a sucker? I don’t think I’ve seen a kid like that. Where is he from?”
A simple yes or no was a luxury for a piece of trash that didn’t need to be dealt with. Lee Do-hyeon didn’t even pretend to listen to what he was barking in front of him, and led Ryu Jeong out of the room. There was no sign of anyone in the quiet hallway as when they came in, but it was clear that anyone with decent hearing would have heard the commotion a little while ago. Lee Do-hyeon pressed down on his throbbing temples.
The situation was getting more and more tiring. Lee Gyu-hyeon, who was far from being gentle, was the type to hold even a meal with the board members of his parents’ age in a club where the lights and music were blasting. The fact that a rambunctious man who was always unruly in the absence of Chairman Lee Kang-sun showed up at a private Korean restaurant meant that he had something up his sleeve.
“……”
Lee Do-hyeon, who swallowed a groan, bit his lip in dismay. It was a mistake to overlook the leashes attached to him in the first place. He had been wary of Kim Mi-hee, and the result of neglecting Lee Gyu-hyeon, who he thought was just a scarecrow, had come back like this.
Lee Do-hyeon, who gritted his teeth, threw the words to the employee who was waiting at the entrance to charge him as he pleased and passed by. The employee didn’t try to hold him back, perhaps because she knew she had done wrong. Just as he was about to press the elevator button, Lee Gyu-hyeon, who had followed him out in the meantime, grabbed Lee Do-hyeon’s shoulder roughly with a very angry face. Lee Gyu-hyeon, who hated being ignored more than death, was very angry at Lee Do-hyeon, who had been consistently ignoring him to his face.
“Ah, you son of a bitch, where are you going without respect when your Hyung is talking?”
Lee Do-hyeon reflexively hid Ryu Jeong behind his back and frowned at Lee Gyu-hyeon’s breath that was exhaled close to his face. Lee Do-hyeon, who was looking at Lee Gyu-hyeon with dark eyes that didn’t know what he was thinking, put Ryu Jeong in the elevator that had arrived first.
Lee Gyu-hyeon’s facial muscles twitched at one small act of consideration. A sinister look appeared on his face, thinking that he was pretending to be fine on the outside, but was plotting black intentions on the inside.
“Hey. You’re a minor, right?”
Unlike before, his eyes, which were shining with a different color, were directed at Ryu Jeong. Ryu Jeong, who was uneasy because he didn’t understand the situation, couldn’t answer and moved his lips, and Lee Gyu-hyeon, who interpreted it as he pleased, grinned as if he had finally done something.
“What did this bastard do for you? A house? A car? Or just cash?”
Lee Do-hyeon turned around at the continued questions. Lee Gyu-hyeon, who raised his chin as if asking what he was going to do, paused for a moment. It was because a chilling gaze and a sharp pheromone tightened his breath.
“Keep talking.”
“…What?”
Lee Do-hyeon, who looked at his half-brother, who was stupidly asking back, with contempt, let out a sigh mixed with annoyance. He wanted to dig out the eyeballs that contained Ryu Jeong right away, but unfortunately, South Korea was a country with laws that punish assault and battery. Since there was no benefit to being caught with a weakness, Lee Do-hyeon barely suppressed his rising annoyance.
Above all, he didn’t want to create a bloody situation in front of Ryu Jeong. Lee Do-hyeon, who bit his lip hard until the blood drained, warned in a low, cold voice.
“Then I might really push you off.”
The first time he brought up the story about the hotel construction project at the main house in Pyeongchang-dong, he had driven the car threateningly towards Lee Gyu-hyeon, who couldn’t control his anger and chased after him. At the time, Lee Do-hyeon had made Lee Gyu-hyeon’s liver cool by skillfully manipulating the accelerator and brake as if he was going to hit him. As if the memory came to his mind a beat late, Lee Gyu-hyeon’s red face quickly turned blue.
The rumor that he had committed murder after only doing what he was told like a dog was widespread in this industry, so the warning that he would kill him would not have sounded like a bluff.
His blue face soon turned as white as his mother, who had put on makeup. Lee Do-hyeon, who was looking at Lee Gyu-hyeon coldly, sent a final warning not to follow him and got on the elevator.
The door closed, and a scream full of malice was heard from outside while going down, but Lee Do-hyeon only regarded it as a loud noise.