By Zephyria 
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“…Mmm….”
His head tilted, and their tongues intertwined through parted lips. Cha Se-jin delved in relentlessly, as if he intended to suck every last breath out of Eun-won. Tongues tangled and rubbed against each other, and pooled saliva spread through their mouths.
The sensation of their tongues rubbing felt so good that Eun-won lost all sense of surroundings. He barely managed to grip Cha Se-jin’s robe. His body leaned forward, and their lips were pressed together so tightly that there wasn’t a single gap to breathe, but he didn’t mind. He didn’t feel the need to breathe; he only felt that he didn’t want to pull away.
“…Haa….”
Just as he felt he had reached his limit and was running out of breath, their tongues untangled and Cha Se-jin pulled back. Unsteady breaths burst out from between their parted lips. Cha Se-jin gazed at Eun-won, who was panting with disheveled breath just like himself, then tilted his head again to suck on Eun-won’s lips. This time it wasn’t rough; it was soft and ticklish, as if he were slowly melting a piece of candy.
“Nng….”
A ticklish sound echoed in his throat, mirroring the sensation on his lips. Eun-won leaned his body into Cha Se-jin, who kept coming back to suck on his lips with small, kissing sounds.
“Did it feel good this time too?”
After sucking deeply on the lower lip and pulling away, Cha Se-jin asked while lightly pressing his lips against the corner of Eun-won’s eye and cheek. Eun-won nodded while catching his breath.
“I want to do more, but then you won’t be able to have that conversation you wanted to have, Darling.”
Cha Se-jin gave another quick kiss to the hair of Eun-won, who was catching his breath in his arms, and stroked his flushed cheek. After catching his breath a few more times, Eun-won opened his eyes and, realizing he was being held, quickly straightened his posture in surprise.
“…I’m sorry.”
“What are you sorry for? We’re married. You can just sit here and talk.”
Cha Se-jin playfully patted his own thigh and gestured for him to come closer. With red ears, Eun-won shook his head and sat a bit further away. Cha Se-jin smiled as if he had expected that and took a sip of cognac.
“From now on, never expose your pheromones in public. This won’t do. Even without pheromones, your face alone is a problem, but if you add, fuck, pheromones to that….”
He was happy to have married the most beautiful person, but it seemed that safely protecting that beautiful person wouldn’t be easy. Anyone with eyes would inevitably approach him after seeing that face, and if they happened to be an Alpha bastard, they would surely lose their reason and pounce the moment they encountered that scent. A well-educated Alpha like himself could control it, but since most were bastards who couldn’t, he couldn’t help but be concerned.
Just looking at it now, some old bastard had the audacity to engage in sleazy harassment even at someone else’s wedding. Thinking about it again made him feel a surge of irritation. Cha Se-jin let out a short breath, plotting his future revenge.
“You must have had a hard time because of your face throughout your life, right? If there’s a bastard doing that shit at someone else’s wedding, it must have been worse normally.”
“…Strangely, things like that did happen quite often. I don’t think my face is particularly special, though….”
“Why not? There’s no one with a face like yours on the street.”
“You’re just exceptionally handsome, Director. I think I’m just ordinary.”
“Darling, your standards are fucking high. You look like that and you’re not satisfied?”
To call himself ordinary when he had a face that would make anyone scramble to do whatever he wanted just by smiling softly. Well, it was better than using a decent face as a weapon to push others around or acting entitled because of his looks.
“There were plenty of those fuckers at the convenience store too, right? Since anyone can walk in there, it probably was even worse.”
“Ah…. Yes…. There were some at the convenience store.”
“I’ve been wondering about this for a while, but why did you work at a convenience store? With your specs attending Korea University, couldn’t you have done tutoring or something? I heard my friend’s younger sibling does tutoring to gain experience. Do you not like teaching people?”
“Ah….”
At the mention of ‘tutoring,’ Eun-won let out a small sigh. Now that he looked back on it, he felt it was just a series of unfortunate events, but at the time, it had been so terrifying and disillusioning that he sighed just thinking about it.
“…I did two during the first semester…. but I… quit.”
“Why? Did it not suit you?”
“…One of the students I taught was a high school freshman, and he kept asking me to date him… and he kept following me after class, wanting to hang out, which scared me, so I quit….”
It was a completely predictable reason. With a face that was bound to be beautiful even in the eyes of a young brat. Moreover, because Eun-won treated him with soft kindness, the boy’s heart must have easily swelled.
“What about the other one?”
“…The father of the student I was teaching… kept saying he’d drive me home, and he asked to meet me privately in secret, so I quit.”
This was an unexpected reason. To quit because not just the student, but the student’s father was hitting on him. Whether they were young brats or old bastards, men were the problem. He felt like he could only stop being irritated if he did something to all their fucking eyes.
“So that’s why you went to the convenience store? There must have been cafes or other places. With that face, wouldn’t everyone be fighting to hire you?”
“Ah…. It was a place I worked at back in high school… so it was comfortable, and they said I only had to cover a few hours at night. After quitting tutoring like that, I didn’t like the idea of working in a place where I had to face people for a long time, but I was in a situation where I couldn’t just not work… so I figured I’d work at a familiar, comfortable place for two or three months to calm my mind.”
“There are plenty of weird bastards there too; were you okay?”
“Aside from the occasional strange customer, it was fine.”
Eun-won smiled softly, suddenly remembering that the strangest customer he had seen while working at the convenience store was Cha Se-jin.
“Why?”
“Oh, nothing.”
“What do you mean nothing? It’s not nothing. Why are you smiling? Tell me.”
Looking at Cha Se-jin, who was drawing out his words, Eun-won hesitated before speaking.
“I just remembered when you came to the convenience store.”
“Me?”
“Yes….”
“Why did you think of me while we were talking about nightmare customers? What, was I a fucking nightmare too?”
“…….”
“You’re not saying no.”
“…Honestly, at the time… you did seem a bit like that.”
Seeing Eun-won express his firm opinion while speaking softly, Cha Se-jin laughed playfully and draped his arm carelessly over the head of the sofa.
“Why me? I practically boosted your sales by raiding the convenience store back then. I bought the most expensive liquor, wine, and everything.”
“That’s true, but…. You kept asking personal questions, so I did think you were a strange customer.”
“I found it ridiculous back then too. I wanted to see who my marriage partner was, so I asked for the address and went there, only to find a convenience store. Well, I understood after hearing the circumstances. But even if I hadn’t, how could I give up on this face?”
Cha Se-jin moved closer to Eun-won, who was sitting at a distance, and toyed with Eun-won’s cheek, which was still slightly flushed. It was so soft and squishy that he couldn’t stop touching it.
“How do you handle your heats?”
“I take suppressants during my cycle, or if I feel too unwell, I go get an injection. But usually, if I take suppressants, I just feel like I have a cold for a few days and then I’m fine… that’s how it was.”
“Maybe it’s because you’re young. You spent them quite wholesomely. Then again, since you’re twenty, it’s probably not been long since you manifested.”
“Yes…. I manifested a bit late, the day after I took the CSAT.”
“Huh? Then it’s been less than a year?”
“Yes. I worry a lot… and the pressure from those worries delayed my manifestation, but the center told me that once the CSAT was over and the tension broke… that’s when I manifested.”
Cha Se-jin nodded as he listened, stroking Eun-won’s hair. If he worried a lot, then the solution was simply not to give him anything to worry about. Then there would be no pressure, and no stress because of it.
“…What about you, Director?”
“Huh?”
“How do you… spend your Rut and cycle? I think I should know.”
It was fine when he asked, but when the same question came back to him, he hesitated to answer. It wasn’t that he was the type to hesitate, nor did he have any intention of denying how he had lived, but the problem was that he only realized after the question was returned that this wasn’t a topic to bring up on the first wedding night.
To be honest, his memories of Ruts weren’t very vivid. All he remembered was spending them with Omegas who had decent faces and who actually enjoyed it when he acted recklessly without any reason.
In any case, the desire to release the heat that surged during a Rut was everything, and having sex then didn’t necessarily create a longing or any particular emotion for the partner. It wasn’t the kind of thing that happened.
However, it was true that the partners changed every time and the details were promiscuous, so looking into Eun-won’s clear, innocent eyes—someone who knew nothing and had no experience—he felt a strange sense of guilt. Even though there was no need for it.