By Zephyria 
“Are you okay? I told you to rest.”
“An unpleasant guest has arrived.”
“Unpleasant? Guest?”
Su-han looked at the man approaching. He was a very famous figure. Moreover, Su-han had seen him before. It was Kim Ju-hwan of Cal Front, whom he had seen at the Shinseong Group’s anniversary celebration.
It felt the same then. Exactly like this situation…. For some reason, he hadn’t felt particularly pleasant back then either. It was because Kim Ju-hwan had released a wary pheromone. But now, the concentration of that pheromone was even thicker. Why on earth was he expressing such unpleasantness?
Ji Su-han looked at Jeong-min. Jeong-min simply sighed with a weary face.
“Jeong-min Sunbae.”
Kim Ju-hwan approached, gave a slight nod of greeting, and smiled at Jeong-min. However, he did not greet Ji Su-han. Rather, he treated him as if he didn’t exist.
“You weren’t answering your phone.”
Kim Ju-hwan tapped his phone.
“I don’t carry a phone while working, only a pager.”
“Ah… I see. It was my mistake not to think of that. I thought you were avoiding my calls.”
Well, that was also true. Jeong-min didn’t respond to that.
Regardless, the surrounding patients, doctors, and nurses’ eyes sparkled as they looked at Kim Ju-hwan. A few even secretly took photos. Honestly, Jeong-min didn’t care whether Kim Ju-hwan’s face became public or not, but since patients might appear in the photos, he decided he had to take Kim Ju-hwan outside.
“Ji Sunbae. I’ll be out for a moment.”
“Jeong-min.”
For some reason, he didn’t want to let Jeong-min go with Kim Ju-hwan.
“Let’s go eat after I get back. I want hangover soup.”
“Okay….”
“Follow me.”
As Jeong-min walked ahead, Kim Ju-hwan followed him with a smile. Su-han simply watched them until Ju-hwan looked back and their eyes met. Ju-hwan scanned Ji Su-han as if he were insignificant and then looked forward again.
“Gasp.”
For a moment, Su-han couldn’t breathe properly due to a sudden surge of fear. It was the possessiveness of an Extreme Alpha, a will that felt as if it would tear his entire body apart.
The momentum was so strong that other Alphas nearby were also struggling. He didn’t know why the man was so sharp and aggressive toward him, but Ji Su-han, not wanting to lose to that pressure, stood his ground firmly and watched until they disappeared from sight.
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“What brings you all the way here?”
Jeong-min asked as he closed the office door. Ju-hwan looked at Jeong-min and raised his hand, placing the back of it against the nape of Jeong-min’s neck. Goosebumps broke out. What’s with this suddenly, how annoying.
“Are you sick somewhere? Your complexion is poor.”
“I just drank too much yesterday, so my stomach hurts a bit,” Jeong-min said, brushing Kim Ju-hwan’s hand away.
“Hmm… so that’s why you were in an Alpha’s arms.”
“…That sounds like sarcasm. I don’t know what misunderstanding you have, but he’s the older brother of my fiancée, Ji Su-eun. He takes care of me like a younger sibling.”
“Does he look at you with those eyes while treating you like a sibling?”
“What? What eyes?”
Jeong-min asked, sounding genuinely curious. Seeing eyes devoid of any suspicion or misunderstanding, Ju-hwan said it was nothing and changed the subject. He then strode forward and sat in the chair where Jeong-min was supposed to sit. Meanwhile, Jeong-min pulled over a guest chair and sat down.
“Why did you come here?”
“I heard the sales team had business here, so I came along. I am a salaried employee, after all.”
That was a plausible story. Ju-hwan had recently joined Cal Front and was learning the ropes from the bottom. According to rumors, he was quite capable, so he had actually been appointed to a Team leader position shortly after joining, and he would likely become an executive within a few years.
It was said that many who were initially dissatisfied with him had softened their stance. Of course, Ju-hwan wasn’t the type of person to care about such people, and he had no interest in them, so Jeong-min wasn’t worried in the slightest. He had simply heard it was so.
“So you came to see me since you were already here? I’m honored.”
“That’s partly true, but I thought I should tell Sunbae about something interesting. We’ve started a joint research project with the US on drugs related to Alphas and Omegas, and the results seem promising. Especially the hormone agents.”
“Hormone agents?”
“Yes. Setting Betas aside, isn’t the number of Alphas and Omegas too unbalanced? To balance those numbers, a Beta could become an Alpha… an Omega could become an Alpha… or… an Alpha could become an Omega….”
Jeong-min’s eyes widened. Knowing this, Ju-hwan smiled slightly and dragged out his words slowly.
“Isn’t it a shame? If you had just waited a few more years, Sunbae, you might have become an Omega.”
“…What kind of bullshit is that. I’m very satisfied with my life as it is.”
“Then that’s a relief.”
Jeong-min felt his throat go dry. Using the excuse of making coffee for Ju-hwan, he stood up and drank water from the dispenser. He cleared his throat and barely calmed the churning sensation in his chest by clutching his stomach as if it were the pain.
Jeong-min handed the coffee to Ju-hwan and sat back down.
“Shouldn’t you be leaving now?”
“Are you kicking me out?”
“It’s still working hours.”
“I can’t just leave after coming all this way. If I don’t at least have a meal with Sunbae, I don’t think the disappointment I’ve felt toward you recently will go away.”
“Disappointment?”
“Yes, I feel like you’ve been neglecting me since you got a fiancée.”
“When did we ever eat together separately? In the first place, I find it uncomfortable talking to you just the two of us like this.”
“That’s a shame. To think I was the only one who felt that way.”
“What are you… wait….”
The pager inside Jeong-min’s gown rang. It was an emergency patient. Jeong-min put on his doctor’s face and rushed to the emergency room. Watching him leave, Ju-hwan crumpled the finished paper cup, threw it into the trash, and stood up to slowly slide his fingers across Jeong-min’s desk. It was a neat, organized desk, fitting for him.
“Hey, Jeong-min.”
The door opened with a knock. Ju-hwan’s fingertips, which had been stroking the desk, stopped, and Ji Su-han, who had entered, also stopped upon seeing Ju-hwan.
After confirming Jeong-min wasn’t there, Su-han sighed, placed the porridge and medicine he had brought on the desk, and prepared to leave. Ju-hwan’s pheromones continued to target Su-han, but he tried his best to ignore them as he left the room.
For some reason, it seemed Jeong-min was surrounded by people who gave him headaches.
Shin Yeong-min, Kim Ju-hwan…. and a man named Shin-woo. Hoping he wouldn’t be included in that group, Su-han turned away.
Remaining in the office, Kim Ju-hwan picked up the medicine envelope Ji Su-han had left and turned it over. The pills spilled out. Judging by the shape and color, they looked like gastrointestinal medicine. He slowly rolled a pill between his fingers. The pill soon crushed with a snap, turning into powder.
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“Ah, Su, Su-han-ssi—. There, right there— ah!”
An Omega in heat approached, tempting the Alpha with pheromones. Since it was an Omega he had had casual relations with several times, Su-han readily responded to the call.
The Omega released their pheromones as soon as they saw Su-han, and Su-han’s body also began to grow excited by the pheromones of the Omega in heat. It was a natural phenomenon. Because he hadn’t enjoyed his sex life for a while, his body reacted faster, and he began thrusting as he inserted himself into the Omega’s body.
The Omega below moved their hips, wanting Su-han to ejaculate. The womb, hidden deep inside the body, caught on Su-han’s member.
They wanted knotting and wanted to carry Su-han’s child. The feeling of the womb tapping against the member from the inside provided another kind of pleasure, making the Alpha lose his mind.
As if responding to that pleasure, Su-han moved his hips powerfully, and along with the creaking sound of the bed and the Omega’s moans, the cervix opened. Su-han also felt the urge to ejaculate approaching and frowned, looking at the person beneath him.
He was shocked. The Omega below had transformed into the image of Jeong-min. With a flushed face, eyes drenched in pleasure, and legs spread wide, Jeong-min was panting while taking Su-han inside. While surprised, Su-han quickly pinned Jeong-min’s shoulders down with his hands, fearing he might escape. He didn’t know why, but there was no repulsion. Rather, he felt his heart swelling.
“Jeong-min….”
With the image of an Alpha completely gone, Jeong-min, who had become a total Omega, called Su-han’s name, wailing that he wanted a child, that he wanted him to come inside. Su-han was desperate. He wanted to get his Omega pregnant immediately. Then he would be his.
‘Su-han Hyung….’
Every time he drank, he remembered that crying face. That face, shedding tears while calling the name of someone he didn’t know…. What if that person called his name instead of someone else’s?
“Ugh!”
As the Omega tightened and trembled with pleasure, Su-han gave one final thrust. But just as he was about to ejaculate inside, Su-han realized the Omega before him was not Jeong-min and quickly pulled his member out. Watching the semen slide down, his mind went blank. Staggering off the bed and entering the bathroom, Su-han poured cold water over himself to wake up.
My god—what was I thinking just now? What on earth was I thinking, even for a split second? To think of embracing that Omega while identifying them as Jeong-min. He was crazy. He must be insane.
Su-han closed his eyes and banged his head against the wall. This is nonsense. This… is impossible.