By Zephyria It was a winter day with thick, fluffy snowflakes falling—the first snow of the season. Do Yi-hyun, impeccably dressed in a perfectly tailored three-piece suit, glanced at his wristwatch. Beneath his neatly slicked-back jet-black hair, his straight forehead, high nose bridge, and well-defined lips formed a clean, sharp line.
Friday, 7 p.m. Normally, he would still be working overtime at the office. A faint crack appeared on Do Yi-hyun’s face, which had been as expressionless as a white plaster statue.
He couldn’t stand the thought of wasting time inefficiently in such an unexpected place. Do Yi-hyun was a workaholic who loved overtime and late nights. It was rare enough for him to leave work on time that you could count the instances on one hand throughout the entire year.
And today, for the first time in a long while, Do Yi-hyun left the office at the same time as everyone else. Intrigued by this unusual sight, his colleagues, without exception, stopped him out of curiosity.
“Where are you going at this hour?”
“I’m leaving work.”
“Huh? Now? Are you feeling unwell?”
“No.”
“You’re leaving work now?”
“Yes.”
“Are you not feeling well? Is there something going on at home?”
“No.”
No matter who it was, Do Yi-hyun cut off any unnecessary concern with a single word. Yet, being stopped repeatedly nearly made him late for his appointment. While he wasn’t exactly sick, people’s worries weren’t entirely off the mark.
After all, Do Yi-hyun’s destination was the hospital. For the past three or four days, he had started to feel others’ pheromones more intensely than usual. It seemed like the irregular heat cycle, which occurred maybe two or three times a year, was approaching.
Do Yi-hyun intended to quickly get a prescription for strong suppressants and return to the office.
“Hmm.”
However, the gray-haired doctor alternated between looking at the blood test results and Do Yi-hyun’s impassive face, unnecessarily dragging out the time.
“Is there a problem?”
Do Yi-hyun asked quietly, furrowing his brow. His voice was as cool and impassive as his sharp features. The pungent smell of disinfectant, already irritating, felt particularly bothersome today.
The delay was even more unwelcome.
“Yes, a very big problem.”
The doctor replied stiffly, wearing a displeased expression, as if scolding a young grandchild.
“Doctor.”
Do Yi-hyun called out, as if reprimanding the doctor for beating around the bush. The doctor pursed his chapped lips under Do Yi-hyun’s pitch-black, black-hole-like eyes. Then, he scrutinized Do Yi-hyun, who sat upright.
Do Yi-hyun had been the doctor’s patient for over ten years. Standing over 180 cm tall with broad shoulders, he had a handsome face that couldn’t even be called pretty as a compliment.
With his low, cool voice and consistently rigid expression, Do Yi-hyun didn’t look like an omega no matter how you looked at him. In fact, he was often mistaken for an alpha.
It was because he had manifested as an omega belatedly, around the time he graduated from high school at nineteen. Since his manifestation occurred near the end of his growth period, Do Yi-hyun had abnormally weak pheromones and rarely experienced heat cycles. The only omega characteristic visible in him was his pale, white skin—a side effect of suppressants.
Whether it was a blessing or not, Do Yi-hyun had lived a life no different from a beta even after manifesting as an omega. That made it even more problematic. The doctor’s expression visibly darkened.
“Please tell me.”
Only after Do Yi-hyun urged him again did the doctor reluctantly open his mouth.
“You’re pregnant.”
“……What?”
An unexpected word escaped the doctor’s lips. Do Yi-hyun asked again, bewildered.
“I’m not in the mood for jokes right now.”
“Do I look like I’m joking? The test results say so, the results. We even did a blood test, so it’s certain.”
Though Do Yi-hyun drew a firm line with a serious expression, the doctor instead pointed indignantly at the square screen.
“Let’s see. Based on these levels, it’s about four weeks. You said others’ pheromones feel uncomfortable? Normally, you wouldn’t feel any symptoms at this stage, but it’s likely your constitution has become sensitive due to the pregnancy.”
Not stopping there, the doctor pushed up his round glasses and read out the results sheet, densely filled with incomprehensible numbers.
“Wait a moment, Doctor. Are those really my test results?”
Do Yi-hyun, who rarely showed strong emotions, distorted his distinct features as he raised an objection. Pregnant? Unless someone else’s data had been mixed up, it was impossible.
“Are you calling me a quack now? Do Yi-hyun, 30 years old, omega. It’s your results sheet.”
As if his pride was hurt by the repeated doubts, the doctor turned the monitor completely toward Do Yi-hyun and glared with his wrinkled eyes. Do Yi-hyun confirmed his name clearly displayed at the top of the screen and furrowed his thick brows. An omega approaching their heat cycle becomes sensitive to alpha pheromones.
Even Do Yi-hyun, who was extremely dull to others’ pheromones, could vaguely distinguish who was an alpha when his heat was near. But starting about a week ago, he began to feel uncomfortable not only with alpha pheromones but also with omega pheromones. Showing a rejection to pheromones of the same type was an unusual phenomenon.
Another omega would have rushed to the hospital immediately, but Do Yi-hyun brushed it off, assuming it was due to his heat. After all, he was far from being a typical omega in every way. For Do Yi-hyun, abnormality was the norm.
‘Me, pregnant?’
Despite the doctor’s assertion, Do Yi-hyun couldn’t accept the fact.
“I’ve never even…”
I’ve never done it, so how could I be pregnant? It wasn’t that he couldn’t, but rather that he hadn’t—regardless, Do Yi-hyun had never been in a relationship. As he was about to refute the doctor, a sudden memory flashed through his mind, and he quickly closed his mouth.
‘……Could it be from that time?’
His pitch-black eyes, so dark that the pupil and iris were indistinguishable, trembled slightly. About a month ago, Do Yi-hyun had gotten extremely drunk and spent a night with a stranger for the first time in his life.
“Aren’t you drinking too much? Did you get dumped or something?”
The man he met at the bar approached him as if he had known Do Yi-hyun for a long time. Do Yi-hyun didn’t respond and simply tilted his glass. Though he could have been embarrassed, the man smoothly took Do Yi-hyun’s glass and took a sip.
“What is this?””This is a drink with no flavor and just high alcohol content. Wait and see.”
Perhaps it was because he drank too much of a liquor he wasn’t used to. His hazy, unclear memories became fragmented and sparse starting from the moment Do Yi-hyun lifted his head and looked at the man. The wine glass shimmering with a golden glow.
The man smiling faintly and whispering in his ear. A kiss that felt like being devoured as he was crammed into the back seat of a car. The rapidly ascending elevator numbers.
And before he knew it, Do Yi-hyun was lying face down on the bed, being shaken relentlessly. Thump, thud. Something hot and hard ruthlessly invaded between his buttocks.
Unable to withstand the tingling sexual sensation, Do Yi-hyun gritted his teeth and buried his face in the pillow.
“Ugh, ah, hng…!”
But no matter how hard he clenched his jaw until the veins in his neck bulged, he couldn’t stop the unfamiliar sounds from leaking out. His widely spread thighs convulsed intermittently.
“Haa. Why are you so tight? Try to relax a bit. It’s only halfway in.”
The man traced his fingertips down the deep groove of Do Yi-hyun’s spine and whispered softly. Contrary to the sigh-laced reproach, the man skillfully coaxed and soothed Do Yi-hyun while persistently pushing deeper. Soon, the man gripped Do Yi-hyun’s buttocks firmly and buried his cock to the hilt.
“Ah-ugh…!”
Do Yi-hyun helplessly came from an intense pleasure he had never felt before. He could feel the inner walls pressed by the man’s hard cock trembling finely.
“You already came? How cute.”
The man grabbed Do Yi-hyun’s cock and playfully rubbed the glans with his thumb.
“Don’t touch, ngh, ah!”
Stimulated at his peak sensitivity, a sensation bordering on pain arose. Do Yi-hyun grabbed the bedsheet and shook his head, but the man let out a clear laugh and used his fingernail to tease the urethral opening without causing pain.
“Ooh, ah, haah…!”
Do Yi-hyun let out a low moan that couldn’t even form proper syllables. As the man moved his hips even faster, his vision blackened again. After that, his sight flipped dizzyingly with every blink.
Do Yi-hyun was pinned beneath the man, stomach to stomach, and at other times, he was straddling the man’s thighs, groaning in agony. Sometimes he shuddered from shocking stimulation that felt like his belly might burst, and other times he blacked out completely. The fragmented shards of his brief, splintered memories were entirely etched with sharp pleasure.
Biting his ankle until it stung, then provocatively licking his chest with his tongue, then showering him with deep kisses until he was breathless. In the constantly shifting scenes, the man never once removed his lips from Do Yi-hyun.
“Haa, do you know you’re really pretty?”
The man kept readjusting his hold on Do Yi-hyun with his firm arms. Each time Do Yi-hyun buried his face in the man’s smooth skin, the fragrant scent stole his soul away.
“Hoo.”
The man, who had been embedded deep inside Do Yi-hyun, slowly pulled out his cock.
“Ah-ugh…!”
Do Yi-hyun, who had been lying sprawled with his legs apart, trembled violently at the startling sensation and arched his back. Thin semen dripped intermittently from the tip of Do Yi-hyun’s softened cock, exhausted from continuous orgasms. The entrance, swollen plump from the prolonged penetration, gaped open as if feeling empty.
“Ha, I really was going to stop. Why are you acting so lewd? Hmm?”
The man, who had been looking down while brushing back his sweat-dampened hair, impatiently shoved his finger deep into Do Yi-hyun’s flushed, feverish entrance. After briefly teasing the hole, the man pushed his cock all the way in at once. Whatever he was made of, despite countless orgasms, the man’s cock remained stiffly erect.
“Haa, ngh…!”
Do Yi-hyun dug his short nails into the man’s broad shoulders and slowly blinked his unfocused eyes. There was no pain. Do Yi-hyun’s inner walls, thoroughly loosened, accepted the man’s forearm-thick cock without resistance.
Rather, they clung softly to the cock as if eagerly waiting for the penetration.
“Kiss me.”
The man rubbed his high nose bridge against Do Yi-hyun’s cheek and begged for a kiss. In contrast to his sweet voice that tickled the ears, the man moved his hips wildly. With his hard tip, he persistently crushed only the spots that made Do Yi-hyun feel.
“Hng…!”
A transparent fluid flowed from Do Yi-hyun’s limp cock. Do Yi-hyun reached climax without even properly ejaculating.
“Ah, so pretty.”
The man grinned and planted kisses all over Do Yi-hyun’s face. Ending with the sight of bluish morning sunlight faintly gathering at the tips of the man’s long eyelashes, Do Yi-hyun, whose stamina had hit rock bottom, fell into a slumber as if fainting. By the time Do Yi-hyun barely regained his senses, it was already bright outside.
He blankly stared up at the monotonous yet elegant ceiling before sitting up.
“Ah…”
His voice cracked from a hoarse throat, and his head throbbed as if it would split. Despite waking in an unfamiliar place, Do Yi-hyun calmly surveyed his surroundings. Clothes strewn haphazardly on the floor, the disheveled bed, and the faint sound of a shower coming from the bathroom.
Even the most oblivious person couldn’t possibly fail to understand the situation.
“Ugh.”
Do Yi-hyun slowly pressed his forehead. Though his memories were unclear, his waist tingled from the vivid sexual sensations still lingering throughout his body. What was done couldn’t be undone.
Do Yi-hyun left the hotel before the man came out of the bathroom. Troublesome things were the absolute worst. He had been drinking at the bar on Friday night, but checking his phone, it was Monday morning.
It seemed he had spent the entire weekend losing his mind and having sex with a man he’d just met. Do Yi-hyun had to rush home and then head to the office. No matter how much he drank, he had never lost entire chunks of memory as if carved out with a knife.
But strangely, apart from his body feeling sore, his condition was unusually good. With complex emotions, Do Yi-hyun went to work and learned that a new employee, who had been with the company for less than a week, had messed up big time. By the time he finished a hectic day fixing the new hire’s mistakes, last weekend had long been blacked out in Do Yi-hyun’s memory.
To Do Yi-hyun, the one-night stand with the man was only that significant. A meaningless incident, less important than the new hire’s blunder—a trivial deviation he brushed off. Who would have thought it would come back to haunt him now?
If it was a month ago, it roughly matched the timeline the doctor mentioned.
‘I definitely used a condom.’Doh Yihyun tapped the armrest of the chair. The pile of condoms in the trash can beside the bed flickered before his eyes.
‘I was careless.’
He had assumed, as a matter of common sense, that contraception would have been used. More precisely, he had overlooked the fact that he was an omega capable of pregnancy. It seemed his mother was right when she repeatedly said that people shouldn’t start doing things they’ve never done before.
Doh Yihyun suddenly looked down at his wrist. The skin peeking out from between the white dress shirt was impeccably clean, but just a few days ago, faint, multicolored marks had still lingered. And it wasn’t just his wrist.
His neck, shoulders, chest, the insides of his thighs—his entire body had been covered in handprints and bite marks. Is that what sex is always like?
“Did your heat cycle trigger?”
The doctor cautiously asked as Doh Yihyun suddenly fell into a daze, lost in thought.
“I don’t know.”
After a brief moment of hesitation, Doh Yihyun confessed truthfully. His unclear memory was causing problems in many ways.
“…Are you considering termination?”
The doctor, pushing his round glasses up, deliberately averted his gaze and asked the sensitive question in a businesslike tone. The doctor had always insisted, even during heat cycles, that the probability of pregnancy was extremely low.
Doh Yihyun lowered his gaze. He was aware that he was far from being a romantic person. Not only did he have zero interest in sex, but he also begrudged spending time and emotional energy on others.
To begin with, it was unlikely anyone would like an omega who, far from being delicate, was more robust than your average alpha. Instead, Doh Yihyun had an unusually strong attachment to family. It was because his father had passed away early.
Even if he didn’t marry, he had planned to have a child alone via a sperm bank by the time he turned thirty-three.
‘The plan has just been moved up.’
The shock of the sudden pregnancy news was brief; Doh Yihyun quickly regained his composure. Although the plan had been thrown off by three years, it wasn’t an unmanageable level.
“I’ll have it.”
Doh Yihyun raised his head calmly. His pale face showed no hesitation. The doctor, who cherished Doh Yihyun like a grandson, twitched the corner of his mouth, his face full of things he wanted to say, before letting out a deep sigh.
Instead, he launched into a string of other admonishments.
“You’re not alone anymore, so you have to take good care of yourself. Eat three proper meals a day, absolutely no overworking. If you keep living recklessly like you do now…”
Doh Yihyun let the doctor’s endless lecture flow in one ear and out the other, as was familiar.
“Next time you come, be sure to bring the guy who planted the seed too.”
Annoyed that Doh Yihyun seemed to only half-listen even to his concern, the doctor raised his voice in frustration.
“Ah, Doctor! You know you can get in big trouble for saying things like that these days!”
A nurse who happened to enter the examination room at that exact moment scolded the doctor in alarm.
“Tsk tsk, these days, the slightest thing and they…”
The doctor grumbled unnecessarily. Just as Doh Yihyun was used to the doctor’s nagging, the doctor also seemed accustomed to being scolded by the nurse.
“Yihyun, your omega traits are weak, so you’ll definitely need the father’s pheromones.”
“I am the baby’s father.”
Until the moment he left the examination room, the doctor repeatedly urged him, but Doh Yihyun had no intention whatsoever of looking for his one-night stand. No, even if he wanted to, he couldn’t. The only thing Doh Yihyun remembered about that man was a vague impression of a strikingly dazzling appearance.