By Zephyria Ashley put strength into the hand that was holding his shoulder and then released it. With just a light push, Koi fell straight back and lay on the bed. Ashley leaned over Koi, who was bent in half with his knees folded and dangling off the bed. Ashley’s face, looking down at Koi from above with one knee on the edge of the bed, showed no expression, like a mask.
Koi felt his heart pounding in a different way than before. He wanted to run away, but his body wouldn’t move. Like a pedestrian who couldn’t move while watching a car coming towards them, he just lay there and stared at Ashley.
Ashley’s gaze slowly scanned Koi’s body. As if he would never miss even one remaining trace.
But there wasn’t any. He had taken off all his underwear and thoroughly searched Koi’s naked body, but he couldn’t see any new wounds.
He should be relieved, but he wasn’t. Ashley’s anger had now lost its direction and began to run wild in all directions.
“A-Ashley.”
Koi called him urgently. The gold in Ashley’s eyes appeared and disappeared rapidly. Koi almost got up and ran away. It wasn’t that difficult. All he had to do was push Ashley away and run. He couldn’t even think about other things, such as Ashley catching him soon, or him not budging no matter how hard he pushed, or what to do after all the plans succeeded.
Ashley, who grabbed Koi’s arm tightly, bit his neck violently. Koi couldn’t help but scream at the feeling of his teeth sinking in.
“Ah, it hurts, it hurts, Ashley! Stop it!”
He shouted repeatedly, but he didn’t listen. He bit his shoulders, his chest, his arms, everywhere. As if he was going to devour Koi. Koi had never been so afraid of him. Ashley’s eyes, which had been biting at Koi’s body, who was trembling with a pale face, were completely covered in gold.
Was he in heat?
Koi inadvertently swallowed hard, but his thoughts were wrong. Ashley was completely sane. He knew exactly what he was doing, and that made him even crazier.
“Why.”
Ashley raised his head after burying his nose in the spot he had bitten and taking a deep breath. He opened his mouth with a dazed face.
“Why isn’t there any reaction?”
He couldn’t understand at all. He had poured out so much Pheromone, but Koi had no reaction. He must have had his Manifestation. Why wasn’t he shaken at all? Why doesn’t he react to my Pheromones? Why?
“That’s.”
Koi swallowed hard. He realized the situation from Ashley’s words and the color-changed eyes, and he spoke with difficulty.
“I’m, I’m a Beta… sorry.”
“Huh,” Ashley exclaimed in disbelief. That couldn’t be. That was definitely a womb back then. There should be my child in this belly.
But it wasn’t? I was mistaken?
“Don’t lie.”
Ashley muttered through gritted teeth. Soon after, he bared his teeth and bit Koi’s ear.
“Ah… Ack!”
A different scream than before burst out of his mouth. It hurt when Ashley bit his body everywhere, but this time it was so painful that he blacked out. Soon, the soft flesh was torn and blood flowed. Koi tried to push Ashley away for the first time, but Ashley didn’t budge and continued to bite and suck on his ear.
And when he raised his head, his heart was completely shattered by an indescribable sense of misery and futility.
“A mark.”
He muttered like a soliloquy.
“A mark isn’t left…”
Koi could only look at him with wide eyes. As if he couldn’t understand at all what was happening. But Ashley’s eyes were still fixed on his ear. Blood was flowing from his ear, but it was just a common wound, not a mark.
“Ah, it hurts, it hurts, stop it, I said stop it!”
Koi screamed repeatedly. But Ashley bit his ear repeatedly. But the result was the same. No mark was left. There was only Koi’s battered ear and crying face in front of him.
“Ha…”
Ashley let out a short breath like a sigh. He was so dumbfounded that he wanted to laugh.
Koi has never reacted to my Pheromones.
A fact he had forgotten suddenly came to his empty mind. Koi had been exposed to his Pheromones several times since Ashley’s Manifestation. But the result was the same every time. Koi had never felt Ashley’s Pheromones. Not even once.
That wasn’t all. Ashley hadn’t smelled any scent from Koi since earlier. He inhaled several times and put his nose all over his body to check, but there was no Pheromone scent. Only a very faint body odor and the sweet Pheromone scent he had poured out were overflowing. That fact completely drove Ashley crazy.
I definitely felt it.
In a state close to panic, he recalled.
It kept coming from you, didn’t it?
The Pheromone scent that seduces me.
Ashley became dazed as if he was going out of his mind.
But why isn’t there any scent now? Am I crazy? Or am I dreaming? What the hell is going on?
“Ashley…”
Koi opened his mouth in a trembling voice. Ashley gasped and slowly lowered his gaze. Koi was looking at him with a pale face. Ah, a low sigh escaped Ashley’s lips. Only then did he clearly realize what he had done so far.
Koi’s body was covered in bruises and bite marks, large and small. All left by him. If a new mark had appeared on top of that, he would definitely know. Of course. Ashley remembered even the smallest details about Koi.Yes, Ash knows everything.
Those fearful eyes, too.
Ashley thought. And it stirred up an unpleasant memory for him.
The same eyes Koi used to look at his father with.
“…Haa.”
Ashley sighed again. He wanted to laugh, but his face contorted as if he were about to cry. Koi’s heart sank at that expression. Even though Ash would never cry, he didn’t know what to do and reached out his arms.
“It’s okay, Ash. I’m okay… I don’t hurt, really.”
Koi repeated the same words, trying to soothe Ash somehow. That only made Ash feel more miserable. Even in this messed-up state, Koi was still trying to comfort Ash. Ash was the one who should be apologizing.
“…I love you.”
After a long silence, Ash opened his mouth with a choked voice. Koi, who had paused at the whispered words in his ear, hugged him tightly and replied.
“I love you too, I love you too. You’re all I have.”
Koi continued desperately.
“Really, nothing happened. I would never do that with anyone else, you’re the only one I love… Please believe me.”
Ash, hearing Koi add “Please,” mumbled in a voice that seemed completely drained.
“I believe you.”
A still-weak voice flowed out.
“I don’t doubt that you love me.”
But Koi became even more uneasy. Ash said he loved him and that he didn’t doubt his sincerity, but why did he feel this way? It’s different from back then.
What’s different?
Suddenly, another voice echoed from a corner of his mind. Now we’re both adults, and we’ve been intimate. We have each other’s everything. Koi comforted himself.
But his heart was already fractured. Ash’s expression was stuck to his cornea, impossible to forget. He hugged Ash and opened his mouth with difficulty.
“I’m sorry I’m a Beta.”
No matter how much Pheromone Ash poured onto him, it was useless. Koi felt miserable at the fear that this relationship might end again.
“I wish I had Manifested like you.”
“No, Koi.”
Ash said without hesitation to his lamenting murmur.
“Whether you’re a Beta or an Omega, it doesn’t matter to me. It’s better if you’re a Beta.”
Koi hesitated before opening his mouth.
“Really?”
“Yeah.”
Ash replied briefly.
“I don’t need Omega Pheromones or anything.”
He muttered as if vowing to himself. Hugging Koi’s body tightly as if to reassure him, Ash took a deep breath. Still, he couldn’t smell anything from Koi.
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