By Zephyria 
I love you, Koi.
It was a phrase he’d whispered countless times throughout his life, yet each time he said it, his heart swelled with emotion. Feeling his own pulse begin to race again alongside Koi’s, Ashley gently slid his tongue into Koi’s mouth.
“Mmm…”
Koi, who had naturally accepted the kiss, felt Ashley twitch beneath him. It was probably because the member nestled inside him was growing heavy again. Without needing to explain, Ashley slowly began to move his hips. This, too, was a common occurrence, so Koi accepted it as a matter of course.
“Ahh…”
A deep moan escaped Ashley’s lips. As he moved slowly, his seed welled up again, and the urge to release surged within him. He savored the inside of Koi, drawing out the moment as long as possible.
You’re mine. Forever.
Ashley thought this as he mingled his heated breath with Koi’s.
I’ll never let you go for the rest of my life.
“Haaa…”
Exhaling a sigh that sounded like a moan near Koi’s ear, Ashley stopped moving. As he poured the seed he’d been holding back once more into Koi’s belly, he held Koi tightly, pressing their bodies together without a single gap.
* * *
“What kind of people even think of selling things like this?”
Koi muttered with a frown, using his fingertips to lift the stocking that had been tossed haphazardly onto the bed as if it were something unsightly. The stocking, designed with a hole only between the legs to blatantly expose the genitals and the opening of the buttocks, had been mercilessly torn apart, leaving none of its original form. As Koi stared at the scrap of fabric he had worn hours earlier with apparent disgust, Ashley handed him a cup filled with water and said,
“People who know there are buyers for such things, I suppose.”
The overly casual tone made Koi feel awkward for having questioned it. Oh, right, he thought, accepting the cup and taking a sip of water before hesitating for a moment.
“What’s wrong?”
Ashley, who had naturally climbed onto the bed and sat beside Koi, asked while kissing his cheek and ear. Koi felt tickled by the breath and shrugged his shoulders unnecessarily.
“No, it’s just…”
“Hmm?”
For some reason, the hesitant response prompted Ashley to suck on his neck again, urging him. Koi shrank back further and said,
“It’s just… a bit… not exactly normal, I think…”
Ashley stopped moving, his lips still pressed against Koi’s neck. It seemed Koi’s hesitation was an attempt to avoid a particular word he really wanted to say.
“Perverted?”
“Huh? Wha—?”
At Ashley’s single remark, Koi jumped as if struck right on the mark. Consequently, the lips that had been sucking on Koi’s neck were left hanging in the air. Koi, who had hastily pulled back, belatedly snapped to his senses in the unusual silence. Realizing that his overreaction was no different from admitting it, he finally waved both hands frantically and shook his head vigorously.
“No, not that, I wasn’t planning to go that far, I just, um, thought your hobby was a bit, special, yeah, that’s it! I wasn’t thinking anything else, really!”
“Was it Al?”
Cutting off Koi’s flustered, rapid-fire attempt to smooth things over with a single question, Ashley asked. Seeing Koi freeze for a moment, Ashley crossed his arms and continued coolly.
“The only person who’d teach you that kind of thing is Al. Right? Be honest, and I’ll let it slide.”
You.
He naturally didn’t voice the rest. The only person on Earth who could smile and let things slide no matter what words or actions were directed at him was Koi. Anyone else, Ashley would never tolerate. Especially not when that person was Koi’s closest friend, whom he cherished more than anything in the world.
“N-no, that’s not it! Al didn’t go that far! It’s just, well, Al…”
Koi trailed off, mumbling. In that case, it was an even more serious problem. It meant Koi had thought of it himself. Ashley furrowed his brow and slowly stroked his chin.
When did my Koi become so clever?
Of course, the culprit was likely Ariel. Naturally, Koi was capable of thought and didn’t blindly accept everything others said. The only person he absorbed words from unconditionally, like a sponge, was Ashley.
…Or so he wanted to say.
Unfortunately, there was one more person. Namely, Ariel. In high school, Ashley had briefly dated her. Of course, like before, she was just one of the many girlfriends he’d dated and broken up with, but the problem was that afterward, Ariel had picked up Koi at an inopportune time, and the two had become best friends.
If they were just close friends, he could have endured it with a generous heart, suppressing his jealousy, but the situation wasn’t that simple. Ariel was intelligent and, fitting for her profession as a journalist, possessed keen insight into people.
Of course, until now, Ashley had enjoyed Koi to his heart’s content according to his own tastes. Occasionally, Koi would show signs of being flustered or finding things strange, but Ashley always smoothly brushed past it. Naturally, Koi’s blind trust in Ashley played a part. Ashley also found Koi incredibly cute and adored him, but…
“More than that, I’m curious about something.”
Koi, sweating profusely and only thinking of escaping the current crisis, hastily brought up a topic.
“The kids came in again today, but they left right away. Their reaction was different from yesterday’s. Did you do something? What was it?”
When Koi quickly asked what he was curious about, Ashley responded with an enigmatic smile instead of an answer.
“Ash, hurry!”
Seeing that face, Koi grew more impatient and called his name again, urging for an answer. Waving his arms and asking once more, Ashley gave in and readily opened his mouth.
“I just sprayed my pheromone in the dressing room.”
“Huh?”
At the unexpected answer, Koi blinked. Ashley continued nonchalantly.
“I sprayed it before going to work. Did the kids hate it?”
In response to the returned question, Koi stammered and averted his gaze.
“Well… not to that extent…”
“Good.”
At the unexpected reaction, Koi looked up at Ashley again. Was he not displeased? Koi had been worried Ashley might feel hurt about the kids, but he looked completely unfazed. To the bewildered Koi, Ashley said plainly,
“Extreme Alphas don’t distinguish between their own pheromones and others’. Those kids instinctively knew and avoided it.”
Ah, only then did Koi understand. Looking down at him with a face of realization, Ashley smiled again.
“See? That was enough, right?”
Yeah, instinct. Reacting to an Omega’s pheromone.
Ashley narrowed his eyes and thought. As expected, the kids were drawn by Koi’s pheromone and caused that commotion. He knew well that, being young, it was just a matter of feeling good or relaxed. But even if they posed no threat, Ashley would never tolerate it.
How dare they touch my Koi.
Parents should teach their children what is and isn’t acceptable to do. And this was absolutely something that should never be done.
They must know by now.
Thinking this, Ashley spoke up.
“Koi.”
“Yeah.”
Looking down at his one and only love, who answered promptly, Ashley smiled.
“It might be better not to meet Al too often.”
“Huh? Why?”
As Koi flustered at the sudden return to the topic, Ashley calmly explained, “It’s just…”
“Al’s a journalist, so he’s busy, right? And he has to date Bill, too. It’d be rude to take up too much of his time.”
“Ah, yeah.”
This time, too, Koi readily nodded.
“Don’t worry, I’m being careful. We haven’t seen each other for two months already.”
“Really?”
He almost said, “That’s a relief.” The top lawyer in America, who had narrowly avoided a crisis, naturally pulled Koi by the waist. Snatching the cup Koi had hastily grabbed with both hands and placing it on the side table, Ashley turned his attention back to Koi.
“Koi, it’s true my tastes aren’t normal. But you still love me, don’t you?”