24 – Probability and Statistics

As a child, Hae-ah was an imaginative child. Whether he was reading a book, walking down the street, or drawing a picture, Hae-ah was deeply immersed in his own world.

‘What if my real mom and dad suddenly come looking for me? What if I was actually switched at the hospital when I was a baby? What if they say they lost me because of that, but now they’ve found me, so let’s go together?’

‘If Superman were real, it would be nice if he could beat up Hyung for me.’

‘When I grow up and become an Omega, a cool Hyung or Nuna will appear out of nowhere and say, let’s not be apart anymore and live together? Then I’ll draw a lot of pictures and buy them a lot of delicious things. We should travel together every day.’

Kang Hae-ah’s imagination was not much different from that of other children. The only two differences were that his imagination drew a savior more desperately and earnestly than anyone else, and that he actually went looking for the savior in his imagination.

From his mid-teens to his early twenties, mainly in Paris, occasionally in Florence, and two seasons in the United States, Kang Hae-ah met countless people and put them to the test. To put it nicely, he dated freely, and to put it badly, he was promiscuous. Because he changed partners so often, he was labeled a playboy, and occasionally he was the subject of sordid rumors about having sexually transmitted diseases or having something wrong with his backside.

Nevertheless, Hae-ah failed to find his own savior. Apart from a grand savior, there was no one anywhere who could give him trust as he was and love only him.

‘I don’t think we can make it work because of cultural differences. You understand, right?’

‘Your personality must be extremely sensitive.’

‘Postponing sex is proof that you don’t respect me.’

For various reasons, Kang Hae-ah was dumped, and he dumped others just as often. Looking back, they were all terrible, terrible, terrible… only terrible people who needed to be disposed of urgently.

At the age of twenty-two, when he received a call to come back to Seoul, Hae-ah gave up. He thought that he himself was a terrible person, so he inevitably attracted similar terrible people. Even as he made Korean friends who clung to his arms, eager to leech off him for drinks and meeting fees, he thought that his level was only that high, so his acquaintances were like that.

And then came the year he turned twenty-six. The long-awaited awakening had not yet occurred, but as already promised, a new directive was issued to meet an ideal Alpha and start a family. Hae-ah took a deep breath as he checked the man in the documents that Secretary Hwang had given him.

“Heok! …Cough, keuk….”

After quickly gulping down a glass of cold water and patting his chest, Hae-ah examined the man in the photo again and again. He had a face that was more handsome than anyone Hae-ah had ever met while traveling around the world.

His name was ‘Cheon Tae-rim’. His trait was Dominant, his family was respectable, and there wasn’t a single line of messy scandals, a truly flawless and perfect person. Wanting to see him in motion, he searched for videos and found a documentary about futurist businesses. Although he only appeared for about 1 minute and 20 seconds, Cheon Tae-rim captivated both his eyes and ears with his tall height, frighteningly handsome face, and very low voice.

‘If you were to mold the word ‘perfect’ into a human, would it look like this?’

While repeatedly watching the section where he appeared, Hae-ah thought.

‘Would someone like that even glance at a guy like me…?’

At first, he was anxious. He thought to himself that he was too tall to live as a ‘pretty Omega’ and his body wasn’t delicate enough, and that he had overly pale skin to play the role of a ‘cool husband’, and that he was uselessly fluent in five languages and knew a little about aesthetics and philosophy to be an ‘intellectual partner’, but he knew nothing about business or politics.

Even before meeting Cheon Tae-rim, Hae-ah imagined being rejected by him. Nevertheless, he was greedy. The sprouting expectation of ‘maybe’ overcame his self-deprecation.

‘Maybe this person will… like me, too.’

As his Father said, he tried to comfort himself by thinking that if he acted like a decent writer as he always did, it would work out.

“Now I’m going to have a real family.”

It was particularly upsetting that he was beaten by Kang Il-hae for blurting out that thought without being able to hide it.

“Don’t be arrogant, Kang Hae-ah. What does a stupid bastard like you know…? What? ‘Real family’? What a load of crap. If you weren’t the youngest in our family, do you think CEO Cheon would have even glanced at someone like you?”

He realized his slip of the tongue and regretted it, but it was already too late. Only after being kicked and falling from his seat did Hae-ah suffer from familiar self-deprecation.

“Just pretend to be a good writer. Once he knows what kind of bastard you are, how betrayed do you think the great Dominant Alpha will feel?”

Hae-ah couldn’t come to his senses until the next day because he had been hit so hard that his head was ringing and he felt like he was going to throw up. Even on the day he was scheduled to meet Cheon Tae-rim, the swelling on his cheek hadn’t disappeared, so he had to go to the salon early in the morning to get his makeup done.

Pretending to believe his ridiculous excuse that he had fallen and unfortunately hit his face, the makeup artist picked up a sponge. After mixing concealer and foundation and dabbing it several times, the swelling on Hae-ah’s cheek disappeared.

“Actually, I’m going on a blind date today.”

At his gloomy addition, the makeup artist’s eyes lit up. After grabbing Hae-ah, who was about to leave, and sitting him down, she neatly trimmed Hae-ah’s hair and even his eyebrow texture. Then she confidently said.

“Writer, there’s no sign of the bruise at all, and you look very handsome today. I don’t know who your blind date is… but they’ll like you a lot as soon as they see you.”

Hae-ah stared quietly into the sparkling mirror in the frame with the incandescent lights on. Then he practiced smiling. He smiled brightly and blinked his eyes slowly, then rolled the name ‘Tae-rim-ssi’ around in his mouth. He firmly resolved not to let the fact that he was a terrible person be revealed.

And Hae-ah met a strange savior.

He confessed that he knew more about Kang Hae-ah than anyone else, and said that he would like him and love him even knowing that. On the day he received the confession, which was like a vow, he was truly grateful. He was so moved that he was trembling.

The following ten days were days when weight disappeared. His whole heart was so full of happiness that he felt like he could fly away if he beat too hard. Cheon Tae-rim was a man who always kept his word. He still knew more about Kang Hae-ah than anyone else. He liked him even knowing that. He loved him.

“Would you like to date me with the intention of marriage?”

He burst out laughing on the night he received the stiff proposal. It was because there was whipped cream on the ring he had given him in the car on the way home.

The ring, wrapped in a restaurant napkin, was originally supposed to be found by Hae-ah in the dessert that was served as a dessert. But Hae-ah had taken a big bite with his fork, saying, ‘Let’s eat together,’ and the ring was in that piece.

At the awkward and clumsy confession, Hae-ah shouted ‘Yes’.

“Yes, I will! I will, marry you! I like it. I really like it. I like it so much! I like you, Tae-rim-ssi….”

After sharing a deep kiss and a long hug, he smiled and returned home, then sat down in the shoe closet and burst into tears. With the whipped cream butter-slick ring on his ring finger, he cried out loud until his eyes were swollen and his voice was hoarse.

That day, he couldn’t sleep, lie down, sit down, or even stand. Overwhelmed by the happy impulse to record all of his overwhelming feelings, he took out a diary that he didn’t usually write in and poured out his love for Cheon Tae-rim.

‘La licorne. Les oasis, îles du désert. L’arc-en-ciel après la pluie. L’étoile la plus brillante du ciel nocturne. Le feu inextinguible malgré brise de neige….’

Then he stopped, realizing ‘Oops’. Since deciding to become a partner who would be a good match for Cheon Tae-rim, Hae-ah had been studying Korean militantly.

Even considering that he was an early international student, Hae-ah’s Korean skills were terrible. Because he had only heard criticism, scolding, and ridicule in Korean so far, learning Korean itself was painful. But these days were different. These days, he was getting into the habit of thinking even the thoughts he usually had in French in Korean. He thought that he was learning Tae-rim’s language, so his skills improved rapidly.

After wiping away his tears with his index finger, Hae-ah wrote the meaning of the French words in Korean below the cursive handwriting.

‘Unicorn. Oasis, islands of the desert. …Rainbow after the rain. The brightest star in the night sky…. Unquenchable fire. …Wind. No, uh….’

Sniffling, Hae-ah took out his phone and opened the Korean dictionary app. After slowly searching and reading the new word ‘seolhan’ (snowstorm) and its meaning for a long time, he blushed with belated embarrassment. Embarrassed by his emotions, he buried his face in the notebook, which was a mixture of French in an adult-like font and Korean in a flat, angular font.

Hae-ah was so helpless in front of the savior he had met for the first time in his life. He was a kind of absolute being to Hae-ah. He never ordered Hae-ah to do anything, but Hae-ah absolutely obeyed each and every request that came to him in a persuasive way. He absorbed Tae-rim’s words like a sponge and upheld Tae-rim’s will as his own.

If he wanted it, even taking a break from his activities as a writer was not a big deal.

So he met Im Geon.

“The size of the heart, you know, is smaller than I thought.”

Sitting across from each other at a table for two, Hae-ah said that. Holding the end of the teaspoon with his index finger, the gaze looking at the teacup was more indifferent than usual. He didn’t even know that his engagement ring on his finger was reflected in the eyes of the person sitting across the table for several minutes.

“I thought my heart was huge. I thought it was full under my ribs. Because it was pounding so hard every day, so I was anxious. I was worried that it would burst.”

The mumbling voice was as small as a monologue. But Im Geon didn’t miss a single word Hae-ah said.

Even though it had only been a month since they last met, his expression was noticeably more blunt than before, his brown eyes no longer held him with a sparkling gaze, and his attitude was like a wall, as if he was lost in thought and walking in another world,

“But it’s not like that these days.”

Even up to the cheeks that blushed with a small smile.

“…You look good, Writer.”

There weren’t many words Im Geon could say. Hae-ah smiled, showing his teeth, at the formal compliment.

“Yeah, I’m so happy these days.”

Then he packed his bag without even taking a sip of the teacup. Im Geon also got up from his chair, following Hae-ah, who was leaving, saying he had a dinner appointment. Then he found a coat that had fallen on the floor where Hae-ah had been sitting.

He unfolded the blue cardigan and approached him, but Hae-ah refused to be helped with his coat. He just accepted the coat that was handed to him with a smiling face.

There were many things he wanted to say and many questions he wanted to ask, but Im Geon could say little.

“You didn’t even take a sip. You like herbal tea.”

Hae-ah’s ears turned red at the question that was asked after being filtered out like that.

“I’m just… trying to quit now.”

Then he gave a shy smile and bowed lightly. Im Geon just watched his back as he ran to the driver who was waiting for him as soon as he finished his greeting. For a moment, he felt like the dumbest person in the world.

With his fist clenched, he trembled slightly. For some reason, he was angry, and then he felt empty.

‘He’s going to take a break… for a year.’

The unilateral notice he heard today painted his eyes black. Kang Hae-ah, the genius writer that Seoul loved and that he cherished, wanted to get Im Geon’s confirmation even when deciding on the smallest thing in his work. That was the case until last year.

It was unprecedented for him to decide something on his own and notify him like today.

‘Or… maybe he didn’t decide this on his own either.’

Feeling all the strength drain from his body, Im Geon couldn’t help but feel empty.

As a critic, he had been taking care of Kang Hae-ah, thinking that he was becoming a springboard for a young writer, giving him wings. Im Geon himself knew that those excuses were not true at all.

If he had sincerely thought about his vision as a writer, he should have stopped Kang Hae-ah from coming to Korea in the first place. Instead of helping him with his exhibition in Seoul and helping him settle down, he should have told him to go back to Paris now and live around the world.

But Im Geon couldn’t bring himself to do that. It was partly because of the contract with Chairman Kang Jun-il. In addition, personal greed was also a problem. He wanted to make Kang Hae-ah, the most amazing, young, and brilliant person he had ever met, the representative writer he had raised, and thus be tied to him, a vague greed that was neither a desire for an individual nor an obsession limited to work….

Im Geon stared down at his palm for no reason before shoving his hand into his pocket. His slowly plodding feet felt heavy for some reason.

Hae-ah watched Im Geon disappear beyond the car window before turning his head toward the driver’s seat.

“That’s it for today. Take me home.”

“Yes, Writer.”

The car, which had been stopped, moved onto the road. As he smoothly turned the steering wheel at the green light, Driver Oh Geon-min glanced at the rearview mirror. The young master’s face, admiring the scenery of Seoul outside the window with a faint smile, looked more peaceful than usual.

“You seem to be doing well these days.”

So, when he cautiously started a conversation,

“I hear that a lot.”

The smile on Kang Hae-ah’s face deepened. There was no way he wouldn’t be doing well these days, having even stopped drinking tea to avoid kissing his lover, who had a herb allergy.

“These days, I’m doing well….”

The trailing words followed like a soliloquy. It was half-true, as he had never chosen ‘rest’ as comfortably as he was now. On the other hand, it was a spell he was casting on himself.

‘I’m doing well these days. I’m… doing well these days. I’m really doing well these days.’

That was why he was afraid. His heart was racing, and his happy feelings kept growing, so as his confident words and actions became his own, and the lovely excitement became a part of his daily life, his fear also grew in size.

The problem was that he had never been happy even once. So, he didn’t know how to enjoy happiness. He only endured it, anxiously wondering how he could avoid losing this happiness, as if he were carrying a heavy burden. Happiness was heavy for him, love was heavy, and Cheon Tae-rim’s existence was heavy.

Even if he had to die, Hae-ah didn’t want to disappoint Cheon Tae-rim, his savior who was too good for him. That was why he was thirsty, and that was why he was afraid. Hae-ah knew very well Tae-rim’s desire to become a couple, form a bond, and become one. There was no way the quick-witted Kang Hae-ah wouldn’t know. How could he not know when his dark eyes were blatantly staring only at his face, checking the ring on his ring finger, and seemed to be shouting that he loved him and wanted to be with him for the rest of his life?

He had the desire to love only Tae-rim for the rest of his life and live happily by his side. How affectionate and warm would a life growing old with him be? Every day until the day he died would be like spring. Eternal love, a savior of his life, a companion in life. Hae-ah had longed for and envied those things all along.

However, for Hae-ah, legally binding Tae-rim’s life to his own was not easy.

He had always wanted a family so what was the problem… After agonizing and pondering, Hae-ah found the answer.

‘Later, Tae-rim-ssi might… regret it.’

He didn’t have the confidence to keep Cheon Tae-rim by his side for the rest of his life. That was the problem.

‘…He might regret choosing me, thinking, ‘I shouldn’t have decided so quickly’…’

As soon as he got home, Hae-ah headed to his studio. Humans were creatures of adaptation, and he was already used to the studio without a canvas that wasn’t still wet with paint. His footsteps stopped in front of the desk in the corner. Squatting down under the desk, he opened the third drawer of the cabinet. Then he let out a long sigh. The secret drawer, which he opened whenever he felt anxious, was already over-saturated. From one to ten, the contents were all about Cheon Tae-rim.

Inside the lavender-colored file was a new marriage contract. If gazes had fingerprints, Article 3, Clause 1 would have already been worn away.

The bundle of letters tied with a ribbon was what Tae-rim had started giving him after the day he declared he would study writing, and the contents of the letters were Korean poems. Hae-ah memorized all the poems that were neatly written, one character at a time, in a mature handwriting. He had transcribed famous poems several times to give back, but he hadn’t given them yet.

The wrapping paper placed on the other side was the paper that wrapped the box he received on the day he received the pheromone essence necklace. Now, it was carefully folded into the shape of a crane.

Hae-ah’s hand, which had been examining the traces of each date one by one, went inside the drawer. He picked up a small box that had been hidden deep inside and carefully opened it. Inside the wooden music box was a small Unicorn ornament, with a key ring hanging on its front legs.

When he was telling him about his business plan to spend half of the year in the United States starting next year, Tae-rim gave Hae-ah this box, who was trying to hide his gloomy expression.

‘I want to give you the house I’ll be living in in the United States.’

Hae-ah didn’t understand those words right away and hesitated, but soon he was greatly shocked. There was no way to convey the same message more powerfully than that.

‘Let’s go and live together, whether it’s in the United States or anywhere else, without ever breaking up…. Will you follow me?’

Instead of saying that, Cheon Tae-rim gave Kang Hae-ah the house in the United States that he had acquired. It was truly a reversal of roles.

Hae-ah had been in a relationship where giving was 10 if receiving was 1. In that sense, Cheon Tae-rim was the only man like Cheon Tae-rim in his life. If Hae-ah gave 10, he gave 11. If Hae-ah loved 100, he returned 101. If Hae-ah prepared for 1000, he planned for 1001.

In order to repay the 10000 love that Tae-rim had given him, Hae-ah was now desperate. He became desperate and thirsty. With all his heart, he wanted to become an Omega. He wanted to awaken as soon as possible, form a bond beyond that of ordinary lovers. He wanted to embrace Tae-rim with his body, mind, and soul.

Tae-rim was such a good person that he had never mentioned awakening or his constitution again since the night he swore that he would love him even if he couldn’t awaken and ended up as a Beta. However, Hae-ah thought that his consideration revealed his desire for his awakening. He was only refraining from speaking on purpose so as not to put pressure on him.

‘I’ll love you forever even if you’re a Beta’…. That meant that instead of looking for an Omega during the rut period, he would isolate himself and rely on drug treatment. The rut of an Alpha, especially a Dominant Alpha, had an uncertain cycle and a random duration. Sometimes it would subside in a day, while other times it would last for more than a week.

Hae-ah didn’t want to give Tae-rim such anxiety, living his whole life in a state like a bomb that could explode at any time. It wasn’t because he felt sorry. It was because Hae-ah himself hated the thought of Cheon Tae-rim having to live like that.

On the day he adopted a Jindo mix abandoned dog and brought in his belongings, starting with living together, Hae-ah looked at each of Tae-rim’s belongings that filled the house. Behind the bathroom mirror in the master bedroom were skin lotion to eliminate Alpha body scent, a vibrating razor, and a square navy blue perfume bottle. The two people’s toothbrushes were stuck together on the sink as if they were close friends. On the bedside table next to the bed was the second volume of the novel Bible Island. When he opened the bedside table drawer, a black bag came out.

Hae-ah opened the bag with a smiling face and was surprised. There were about six syringes and sealed vials in the bag that had not been unwrapped. At first, he thought that his lover might be sick somewhere. He became very serious in his own way, checked the labels of the vials, and memorized their names.

And late at night, when Tae-rim was asleep, he hid in his studio, hugged his laptop, and searched for the names of the drugs.

It turned out that it was an Alpha-only suppressant. While learning about the efficacy of the drug, Hae-ah’s stomach was churning. He thought it was an anesthetic that reduced the pain of the rut period, saying, ‘It’s okay if you get a suppressant,’ but in reality, it was closer to a stimulant that woke you up. It was common for Alphas experiencing rut to lose their reason due to excitement and pain, but by injecting a stimulant, they forcibly awakened their lost mind and endured the pain raw.

“……”

As he bit his lower lip and scrolled down with the mouse, he saw research papers containing various side effects.

There were times when the body accepted the suppressant well, but suddenly changed, causing skin diseases that didn’t exist before, suffering from allergic reactions, and sometimes accompanied by mental anxiety.

‘Tae-rim-ssi already has a herb allergy, so maybe…. …Then Tae-rim-ssi knows all this…. Knowing all this, he’s doing this for me….’

At that time, he heard rustling noises from upstairs. He quickly shut down his laptop, and Hae-ah wiped away the tears that had wet his left cheek.

As he tried to calm his anxious breathing and went outside, he could see the second floor clearly. Tae-rim was standing holding onto the railing. Wandering around the hallway with a sleepy face, he was looking for his lover who had disappeared while he was asleep.

“Why did you come out, Tae-rim-ssi….”

“I woke up because you weren’t there.”

Smiling, Hae-ah walked up the stairs.

“Silly… Why are you worrying about me even when you’re asleep?”

After hugging Tae-rim’s waist, who was rubbing his sleepy eyes, and patting his back, he took his hand and returned to the bedroom. As soon as they sat on the same bed, Tae-rim grabbed Hae-ah’s cold feet with both hands and rubbed them to warm them up. Hae-ah laughed because he was cute, making a dissatisfied face with his eyes swollen with the lingering effects of deep sleep.

“Your feet will wear out if you do that.”

As Hae-ah whispered,

“I don’t like it when you’re cold.”

Tae-rim kissed the top of his right foot.

That affection gave Hae-ah faith. And Hae-ah made a decision.

“Tae-rim-ssi.”

…He would not covet anything from Cheon Tae-rim in his current state, where he could not resolve anything for him.

“I want to take a little more time… and proceed step by step. Would you wait for me just a little longer?”

Even after hearing the incomplete sentence, Tae-rim knew what the subject of the sentence was. The only thing left between them was the wedding.

“…Okay, Hae-ah. Do as you wish.”

That was all Tae-rim’s answer. Without any objections or complaints, he kissed the top of Hae-ah’s left foot as well.

Even while making a decision that was only regrettable for each other, Hae-ah was confident. He thought it was the right path, even if it wasn’t what he wanted. He thought it was absolutely necessary for each other and for the future.

Just that much, Hae-ah loved the Alpha named Cheon Tae-rim. His black eyes, which seemed to see through everything, even what Hae-ah himself didn’t know about him. He was happy when he held him in his affectionate gaze, full of affection, and hugged him tightly with his strong arms, as if he would bind him forever. He also liked the fact that he poured out pheromones and body scent as if he didn’t care about such things to him, who was no different from a Beta because he hadn’t awakened yet.

It was the first complete love he had ever felt in his life. It was a happiness he had never had. All of that was very heavy and burdensome.

So, he needed time to wait. Time to slowly pick up the affection that was pouring out without rest and make it completely his own, for Cheon Tae-rim’s sake and for Kang Hae-ah himself. Until his damp soul found its way to seep into his body, which seemed to be floating in happiness.

But today,

‘I should have just gotten married! I should have grabbed his ankle and never let go….’

Hae-ah regretted his choice.

‘When Tae-rim-ssi said he liked me, that he loved me… I should have bitten him and never let go, even before his heart changed even a little bit….’

Sighing, Hae-ah dragged the bottom of his slippers. His body, crossing the wide living room, was as slow as if it were made of mud. Standing by the window where the sunlight was streaming in, he stared out at the brilliant midday garden scenery with empty eyes without focus.

As if it had noticed its protector’s unusual behavior, the good dog that had followed at his feet made a ‘heck’ sound. It put its moist nose on his ankle, which was exposed under his pants, sniffed, and sat down with its butt on the floor with a thud.

Hae-ah carefully picked up the young puppy, which had just finished taking a bath, its fur was white, and it smelled of shampoo. As he supported its chest with one hand and grabbed under its butt with the other, just as he had learned in puppy class, Do-jin also leaned its head on its owner’s chest.

Just feeling its warm body temperature gave him the gentle strength and comfort that he could receive from a dog. Thanks to that, a small smile spread across Hae-ah’s listless face.

“Our Do-jin, were you worried about your little Hyung?”

Stroking Do-jin’s forehead with his fingertips, Hae-ah headed to the living room sofa. He put the dog down on the soft cushion seat, but the human himself plopped down on the bare floor. With both knees on the ground in a collapsed posture, he looked up at the dog as if it were a sacred offering.

“It’s okay, Do-jin…. Hyung is okay.”

As soon as he whispered that, Hae-ah shut his mouth.

“……”

He realized that he was lying even to a dog that couldn’t understand his words. A season had passed since he had vowed not to live a lie anymore, to find his true self from now on, and to draw pictures in his own colors. But Kang Hae-ah was still Kang Hae-ah. Nothing seemed to have changed.

“What should I do….”

His pale face was buried in the sofa cushion with a thud. Allowing his powerless hand to touch its front paws, Do-jin sighed through its nose. Hae-ah chuckled softly at the sound of the dog’s sigh. Then, all his strength was gone.

“Do-jin. You and I are in big trouble. Actually, big Hyung is weird these days.”

That’s right. Recently, Do-jin’s ‘big Hyung’, Cheon Tae-rim, was strange. To be exact, the slightly strange aspects had gathered one by one and became a huge strangeness. The strange Cheon Tae-rim itself made Hae-ah suspicious. He wondered if there was someone else he was contacting and meeting separately from him… a reasonable suspicion.

…That’s right. Kang Hae-ah’s Korean skills had improved to the point where he could put the expression ‘reasonable’ in front of suspicion. He also had circumstantial evidence to the extent that such an expression was not embarrassing.

The first suspicion stemmed from the following. When participating in the Beta Test of the AOM program, there was an acquaintance who the company pointed out as an active participant. ‘Active participation’ meant agreeing to the cognitive copy chip implantation and making time.

The list of targets was as follows. Parents, siblings, and best friends. So, Hae-ah asked his father, Kang Jun-il, as his parents, his older sister, Kang Hae-in, his Hyung, Kang Il-hae, and his friend, critic Im Geon, to participate, excluding his younger sister, Kang Mi-hae, who was running an overseas branch, as his siblings.

To be honest, Hae-ah didn’t know exactly what AOM did. The words ‘cognition’ and ‘copy’ were too difficult for him. He just vaguely thought that they were looking at compatibility in a more scientific way. Even though he didn’t know much, Hae-ah wanted to get a good score if possible, so he wanted to remove Kang Il-hae from the list. Instead, he wanted people who liked him more to participate.

So, he asked Helper Hwang Ok-hye and Driver Oh Geon-min, but it didn’t work out. Both of them readily agreed, but Kang Jun-il cut them off, saying it wouldn’t work. He was bombarded with nagging, saying what would they think if he put a 10 million won recognition chip into a housekeeper and a driver.

In Cheon Tae-rim’s case, he put his father, Cheon Hee-jung, his Mother, Kang Mi-yeon, his secretary, Si Eun-cheol, as his friends, and Kim Min-soo, the development team leader, as another person on the list. While deciphering the proposal that AOM had roughly written and sent, Hae-ah was a little dissatisfied.

‘There’s another person here too! Development… no, Development… Team… Leader. There’s another person here too….’

At that time, he was upset that he couldn’t put Hwang Ok-hye and Oh Geon-min on the list, so he didn’t focus much on the name ‘Si Eun-cheol’.

But today was different. Today, right now, after exchanging engagement rings, sharing affection every night that he didn’t know if it was just playing around or playing with fire, and having only each other, Cheon Tae-rim had never introduced him to his friend, Si Eun-cheol, who was close enough to willingly undergo implantation surgery for him and for the company.

At first, he thought he had forgotten because he was too busy. But for someone who was busy, Tae-rim spent quite a bit of time with Hae-ah.

Later, he thought that he was waiting for him to introduce his friend first. So, he tried to invite Im Geon to create a meeting for the three of them. He suggested that Tae-rim-ssi bring his friend and treat him to dinner, but Tae-rim shook his head sharply. Hae-ah was easily fooled by the seductive words that he wanted to just roll around in the bedroom all weekend.

‘I shouldn’t have done that! I should have interrogated him then!’

Do-jin yawned, watching its owner banging its forehead on the sofa cushion.

That wasn’t the only strange thing. The second problem was that Secretary Yoon Eun-ah’s movements were highly suspicious. Ever since he brought the flower basket, Hae-ah had been going in and out of AOM like it was his own home. It was only a matter of time before he became close with Secretary Yoon. As a result, he had the opportunity to notice her unusual behavior.

On Wednesday of the week before last, Kang Hae-ah arrived on the 13th floor, and as soon as he got off the elevator, he ran into Secretary Yoon, who was heading somewhere. When she greeted him with a smile, Hae-ah mistakenly thought he had caught her at the wrong time. He naturally assumed that any gift the CEO sent through his secretary would be for him.

As Hae-ah grinned and reached out his hand, Secretary Yoon Eun-ah waved her hand dismissively, looking very awkward. She said that this gift was for the CEO’s friend.

“I have an acquaintance who’s hospitalized, so I often take care of them.”

“A friend just now, though?”

“Oh. Um. A friend is a type of acquaintance! Hahaha!”

Then, with a very awkward movement, she got on the elevator and disappeared.

Last Monday, she even called a courier to deliver the gift. While waiting for Tae-rim, who was in a meeting with the team leaders, Hae-ah sat on the sofa in the hallway and watched Secretary Yoon’s work. She packed a box of chocolates and a novel, then directly entered the address into the helmeted courier’s phone.

At this point, Hae-ah couldn’t help but wonder about this acquaintance or friend who would receive the gift. Chocolates and a novel—neither was the kind of gift you could easily give to just anyone. Giving a sweet dessert seemed overly romantic.

The novel was also suspicious. The book with the red band was one that Hae-ah had read as soon as it was published. It had two main characters, one of whom died tragically in the end, while the other enjoyed great wealth and fame, leading to sharply divided reactions depending on which character the reader favored. It was not an easy book to give as a gift to someone whose tastes you didn’t know well.

‘No, it could be…’

Hae-ah thought.

‘I’m just being jealous for no reason. I want to receive chocolates and a novel from Tae-rim-ssi, so I’m being ridiculously jealous. It could be. …Up to that point, it could be.’

The problem was that a third piece of evidence had been found. It happened just yesterday, on Sunday morning. Tae-rim went out, saying he was going to stop by his parents’ house for a while, but 40 minutes later, his Mother, Kang Mi-yeon, called Hae-ah. It was even a video call, and only Kang Mi-yeon was smiling in the screen; Tae-rim was nowhere to be seen.

There was one fact that Cheon Tae-rim had overlooked. He didn’t know how much his Mother liked her prospective son-in-law, Kang Hae-ah. He vaguely knew that she treated him like her youngest son and adored him, but he didn’t realize that her affection was so deep that she worried every day that Hae-ah might call off the engagement, calling him every day to ask if he had eaten and video-calling him once a week.

As was typical of the Cheon family, she was an incredibly cool Mother, but that was only in front of her own taciturn and giant-sized son.

When he answered the phone, she would exclaim,

“Wow!”

And say without hesitation,

“I was just thinking about what Mother might be doing; how did you know what I was thinking?”

And,

“That scarf looks really good on you. Tae-rim-ssi has a good eye, as expected.”

The situation was different in front of her cute son-in-law, who was quick to praise her son in front of her, even though she knew perfectly well that he was the one who had given her the gift to bring.

That was how Cheon Tae-rim’s strange behavior was exposed. The first two circumstances were too weak to be considered evidence. At least Cheon Tae-rim hadn’t lied, even if he had condoned it. The third piece of evidence was that strong.

A day had passed, and Hae-ah couldn’t shake off his suspicions.

‘Who on earth is it that he has to go see from Sunday morning… even using his Mother as an excuse?’

Now his head was starting to hurt. He felt so depressed that he just wanted to collapse on the sofa like a wet towel and cry.

‘No, no.’

But shaking his head violently, Hae-ah got up from his seat. He had made a promise to Tae-rim that he wouldn’t misunderstand things on his own, wallow in anxiety, and be alone. Of course, what Cheon Tae-rim wanted when he made that promise was for Hae-ah to confide his misunderstandings and anxieties to him, but Hae-ah, as always, didn’t move the way Tae-rim wanted him to.

Instead, he remembered the picture on the vest of the courier who had left the secretary’s office. It was a brown pony with an orange scarf tied around its neck. He took out a memo pad and quickly drew the same pattern a few times, then opened his laptop and searched for a list of courier companies in Seoul.

After finding the company, things moved quickly. When he asked for the contact information of the courier who had visited AOM last Monday, the employee seemed hesitant for a moment, but that was it.

“I have something to ask. I think it would be good to make a phone call… Would it be difficult to tell me?”

Unable to resist the voice that sounded somehow clumsy and kind, the employee gave him a phone number. Hae-ah hung up the phone, listening to the kind greeting that if there was a problem in the service process, he would be connected to a counselor again.

Then he changed his expression and called courier Yang Jun-tae. He asked if he remembered the gift box he had received from the 13th floor of the AOM company building, and what the address was where he had delivered the box, using direct language. He said that if he told him the truth, he would give him a reward.

“I’m not asking you to tell me what’s inside. Just tell me where you took the package, just the destination. It’s not a trade secret or anything, so don’t worry.”

Of course, that was also confidential enough in a sensitive corporate society. However, the courier didn’t seem to have that much of a sense of professionalism. As soon as Hae-ah told him to call out his account number and deposited the advance payment on the spot, he called Hae-ah “boss” and readily gave him an address.

After depositing twice the advance payment to the courier, Hae-ah went straight to the shoe cabinet. Do-jin, who was excited and followed him, thinking they were going for a walk, sat in front of the small closet where his clothes and leash were hung and whined, but when Hae-ah waved his hand and said, “No,” he looked dejected.

“Writer. Are you going out alone like that? Driver Oh isn’t here today…”

Hwang Ok-hye, who was holding the dog with its tail drooping in her arms, followed him. She seemed worried about Hae-ah, who had been listless all morning. Hae-ah showed a face as dejected as Do-jin at the apron around her waist and the sweet stew smell coming from the kitchen.

“Ok-hye-ssi, I’m sorry. I’ll eat after I come back.”

“Sorry for what? Then wait here for a moment.”

Soon, Ok-hye went up the stairs to the second floor and disappeared. When she came back down, she was holding a yellow cardigan and an olive-green field jacket in her hands.

“The weather is quite chilly today. There’s also a chance of rain in the evening. You should put on a jacket before you go.”

Hae-ah smiled at the kind Ok-hye. He pretended to be thinking, resting his chin on his hand and making a long ‘Euuuuum’ sound, then chose the field jacket and left the house.

“If Tae-rim-ssi comes home early, tell him I went to puppy class.”

“And you’re leaving Do-jin at home?”

“Yeah… tell him it’s a class for humans.”

“Yes, yes.”

As soon as Hae-ah stepped outside, he hailed a taxi. He held up his phone and showed the address written in the message he had received from the courier, and the taxi driver glanced back at Hae-ah.

“Oh my, sir. Are you sick somewhere?”

Hae-ah shook his head at the worried question.

“It’s not me, but someone I know is hospitalized… I’m going to visit them.”

He had never met them, but since he knew their name, it was as good as knowing them. Since the address where the chocolates and novel had been sent was ‘Juhan Hospital, Building D, Room 802,’ he was, strictly speaking, going to visit them.

Driving the car on the wide road, the driver exclaimed loudly, “I see.” He seemed to be a bit clueless. Without knowing that the young, handsome passenger in the back seat had had the worst morning, he began to chatter on one-sidedly.

“That’s fortunate, haha. Actually, you know, beta customers are our taxi drivers’ favorite customers, you see. Oh, not long ago, I didn’t hear it myself, but I heard it on the radio, an Omega customer who was taking a taxi to go out suddenly gave birth.”

“…Gave birth?”

Hae-ah involuntarily retorted at the sensational story. He immediately regretted it. The driver, even more excited now that he had fuel to burn, raised his voice.

“Oh my, you couldn’t tell at all from the outside, so I didn’t know. That customer didn’t know either, well, she must have been abused somewhere and got pregnant…”

“…Excuse me.”

Tilting his head, Hae-ah glared at the rearview mirror. His kind-looking face was hardened with a slight annoyance. The moment his eyes met the driver’s through the rectangular mirror, the driver realized his mistake.

“Could you please be quiet?”

Hae-ah said. Then he licked his dry lips and began to look out the window with a tired expression. The driver, suddenly embarrassed, slurred, “Yes, yes.”

“That’s…, oh my. I’m sorry. Sometimes, very rarely, when I pick up customers like that, I’m really scared, that’s what I meant…”

Despite being a Parisian, Kang Hae-ah was still Korean. When he actually heard the words “I’m sorry” from an elderly man with graying hair, he couldn’t help but feel uncomfortable. He loosened his hardened expression a little and smiled helplessly.

He signaled that it was okay and said,

“That won’t happen…”

He leaned his head against the hard car window.

“Because I’m a beta.”

The driver said, “Yes, yes,” and began to drive in silence. The atmosphere became very uncomfortable, but Hae-ah thought silence was better than hearing him blather on about other people’s misfortunes. He found it hard to understand why he glossed over the facts of the crime as if they were nothing, but showed no sympathy for the innocent people, saying things like “gave birth in a taxi” or “didn’t even know she was pregnant.”

Soon, Hae-ah fiddled with his phone, feeling a little gloomy. His eyes slowly read the address on the screen. The reason why the taxi driver suddenly brought up Omegas and pregnancy was obvious. As soon as you searched for Juhan Hospital on a portal site, it was a famous Omega specialty hospital that appeared even higher than the power ad banners.

‘I really hate this…’

Hae-ah hated the fact that he himself vaguely desired “Omegas” and “pregnancy” even while hearing about other people’s misfortunes, and felt like a person without empathy or compassion.

He had recklessly come all the way to the hospital, but Hae-ah’s courage ran out there. After repeatedly entering and exiting the lobby of Juhan Hospital, he looked around the nearby buildings as if he were sightseeing, then stopped by a flower shop and bought a air-purifying plant. Next, he stopped by a cafe and bought a box of the most expensive chocolates. Finally, he stopped by a department store and bought a set of red ginseng extract gifts, even though he didn’t really know what the benefits were.

Only after holding the get-well gifts in his arms did he regain some energy. Summoning his courage again, Hae-ah entered Juhan Hospital. Looking at the address, he slowly walked to Building D, got on the elevator, and pressed ‘8,’ next to which was a kind guide that read ‘Private Room (Special Room, VIP Room).’

Hae-ah was plagued by unfounded worries that someone would stop him as soon as he got off, but that didn’t happen. There were two nurses at the small counter, busy sorting charts. They only asked Hae-ah to write down his name, number, and trait.

“Are you here to see the patient in 802? Did you make an appointment? He must be sleeping now…”

“Ah… no. But he’s a friend.”

The nurse easily believed Hae-ah’s lie. The visitor, who was holding gifts in his arms and couldn’t hide the most exciting expression in the world, had a face and clear eyes that anyone could trust.

Guided by the nurse, Hae-ah walked down the 8th floor hallway. Passing through the clean and spotless hallway, he stood in front of room 802, and tension burst out in a sigh. Hae-ah read the patient’s name written next to the sliding door.

‘Si Eun-cheol.’

After swallowing hard, he knocked on the door.

“Oh Geon-min-ssi.”

Oh Geon-min’s shoulders twitched at the sound of his name being called. Sitting at the information counter, Yoon Eun-ah chuckled. There were hardly any visitors who came to see the CEO who didn’t flinch at the sound of that voice. Picking up her pen, Yoon Eun-ah drew a line on the last page of her notebook.

With this, Cheon Tae-rim had scared his twenty-sixth person with his voice.

‘It was an undefeated myth.’

Secretary Yoon was sorry that the previous record, which had been shattered by Vice President Kang Hae-in’s visit. After bowing to her and saying, “Then,” Oh Geon-min went inside the CEO’s office and disappeared.

Secretary Yoon smiled as she looked at his polite back,

“He’s married.”

Cheon Tae-rim, who was standing stiffly with his hand on the doorknob, said abruptly. “Huh,” Secretary Yoon scoffed.

“I know. …Seriously, I can’t believe it. He stood here and bragged about his wife for 20 minutes.”

Oh Geon-min’s clearing of his throat leaked out, as if his voice could be heard even inside the CEO’s office. Secretary Yoon shrugged her shoulders and said nothing.

Lately, because she had been feeling very lonely, she had been complaining to the CEO, who had become much more comfortable. As a result, whenever a visitor who seemed even slightly decent came, the CEO would tell his youngest secretary about the person’s gender, trait, and whether they were married, dating, or had children, without even asking.

“Ugh, please. CEO, please don’t try to introduce me to any male Omegas who are better looking and kinder than you. And don’t do any pointless blocking either.”

“Hmm…”

Cheon Tae-rim leaned against the doorframe with a hum. He looked like a model in a fashion magazine as he stood askew with his arms crossed. Secretary Yoon stared at him blankly, then shook her head.

“Do you know why I can’t date? It’s because I’m already tired of looking at the CEO’s face. But it still has an effect. I’m not surprised when I see the CEO’s face anymore, but instead, when I see other faces, they’re so ugly that I get angry.”

“Thanks for the compliment.”

“……”

“There’s an important contract, so don’t let anyone in for 10 minutes.”

Then he closed the door, so Cheon Tae-rim didn’t see Secretary Yoon pick up the trash can and pretend to vomit. Even if he had seen it, Secretary Yoon wouldn’t have cared. Lately, CEO Cheon Tae-rim had been so generous and had such a good personality that even when a new employee messed up the computer network, paralyzing work for half a day, he didn’t fire him but called him in and ‘scolded’ him.

‘That new employee probably wanted to be fired…’

After thinking about it, Secretary Yoon tilted her head. Oh Geon-min was said to have been a driver, but Secretary Yoon, his chief secretary and sometimes driver, had never heard of any ‘important contract’ that he would be closely involved in.

Meanwhile, as soon as he closed the door to the CEO’s office, Cheon Tae-rim relaxed his expression and put on a smile that was so-called likable.

“It’s a pleasure to see you separately like this.”

Then he uttered a warm greeting that he had never given to even a senior executive of Hanseong Group, let alone Chairman Kang Jun-il. Oh Geon-min smiled back as if he were used to Tae-rim’s attitude and bowed lightly.

Oh Geon-min had been hired by Chairman Kang Jun-il at the same time as Kang Hae-ah’s return to Korea and had been in charge of his driver’s duties. Kang Hae-ah was not without his picky side, but compared to his experience of serving other CEOs, he was a much less troublesome young master. Because he was an artist, he sometimes did strange things and swore in French when he was angry, but he was basically pure and affectionate by nature, and once he liked someone, he didn’t easily change his mind.

However, as of yesterday, Oh Geon-min had quit that job. And today, he was trying to sign a contract with CEO Cheon Tae-rim to become Kang Hae-ah’s new driver.

“You’ll be doing the same work as before, as you well know.”

Cheon Tae-rim said, placing the file containing the contract down. In response, Oh Geon-min straightened his back and flashed a smile.

“Yes, I know. I will continue to take good care of the writer.”

“Good. I trust you.”

Oh Geon-min’s hand, which had reached for a pen and stamp with the intention of signing quickly, stopped abruptly in mid-air. The contract was much longer than he had anticipated, almost seven pages long.

This flustered Oh Geon-min. He wondered if any unreasonable clauses that hadn’t been discussed before had been included, so he put down the stamp, narrowed his eyes, and carefully read through the contract. He had just been nagged by his wife, who said, ‘It’s suspicious that they’re giving you an incentive of over 50 percent while making you do the same work.’

Oh Geon-min’s expression, which had been scrutinizing the contract with narrowed eyes, squinting, and then widening them, soon relaxed again. The employer was Cheon Tae-rim, but the ‘Party A’ on the contract was Kang Hae-ah. Numerous clauses had been added, but everything from start to finish was very reasonable. It was just that it had become more detailed and elaborate compared to the previous contract, which mainly consisted of confidentiality clauses.

Some clauses even made Oh Geon-min smile. In particular, Article 3, Paragraph 1, ‘If A, Kang Hae-ah, requires medical assistance, B, Oh Geon-min, is obligated to transport A to the hospital regardless of whether A requests it,’ was one such clause.

When Oh Geon-min finished signing without hesitation and pressed the stamp, Cheon Tae-rim offered a handshake. There seemed to be a sense of camaraderie in the eyes of the two Alphas as they shook hands.

“Ah… right. Take this.”

As he said that, Tae-rim handed over a flat box, inside which was a crisp leather wallet. As a commemoration of the new contract and making him his own, the carefully purchased wallet had a black card inserted in it. Tae-rim spoke matter-of-factly to Oh Geon-min, who was examining the wallet with a surprised expression.

“This is a card for you to use when you go out with Kang Hae-ah. The transaction history will be sent to me via text, and you can use it to pay for meals regularly. Please take special care to ensure he doesn’t skip meals if possible.”

“Ah, yes, yes.”

Secretary Yoon glared at Cheon Tae-rim’s handsome profile as he elaborately told him not to let his lover go hungry.

‘I knew it would be like this, even though he said it was an important contract….’

She knocked on the representative’s office door, which was already half-open. At the sound of the knock, the two men’s gazes simultaneously turned to Secretary Yoon. Adjusting her posture, Secretary Yoon cleared her throat.

“Representative. I apologize for interrupting your important discussion, but we received a call from Juhan Hospital.”

“…From the hospital?”

“Yes. Um… a guest has arrived in Si Eun-cheol-ssi’s hospital room, and there seems to be a problem…. It seems to be Kang Hae-ah.”

“……”

No sooner had the words left her mouth than Tae-rim jumped up from his seat. Looking up at his firmly hardened face, Oh Geon-min also awkwardly rose from his seat. It was a moment when the height difference between the two men, which had not been apparent while sitting, became strikingly prominent.

Looking down at Oh Geon-min, who was fumbling with the documents while still holding the received wallet, Tae-rim said,

“Can you start working right away from this moment?”

Oh Geon-min quickly nodded. Without either of them saying who would go first, the two Alphas left the office.

Throughout the drive to Juhan Hospital in the car driven by Oh Geon-min, Tae-rim’s phone never left his hand. Even after repeatedly making calls, only the ringing tone continued for a long time, and his lover did not give him the pleasant ‘Hello.’

As he gripped the steering wheel and headed to the hospital via a shortcut, Oh Geon-min heard a strange ‘clacking’ sound. Glancing through the rearview mirror to check the situation, he unexpectedly found the source of the sound to be Cheon Tae-rim, whose complexion was close to gray. Every time he tightly closed his mouth, unable to overcome his anxiety, his molars collided, making a clacking sound.

Tae-rim was unaware of his bad habit. The incident, which was unfolding completely differently from the Beta Test, had paralyzed his reason.

It had been three months since he had forcibly separated Si Eun-cheol and admitted him to the hospital. He had given him paid leave and even a bonus, separating his friend, who was showing anger and resentment, from his side. He had prevented him from meeting Hae-ah even by doing so, but Hae-ah had stubbornly gone to find him.

‘No….’

Tae-rim shook his head slightly. Perhaps things were flowing in an even more wrong direction than the test.

He had admitted Si Eun-cheol to the hospital for the purpose of alleviating One-sided Imprinting Symptoms, but it was only ‘alleviation,’ not ‘cure.’ In the first place, Imprinting was an ambiguous symptom that could not be resolved by surgery or treatment. Even the most renowned Doctors in academia could not distinguish whether Imprinting Symptoms originated from physical reactions or mental illness.

Si Eun-cheol, Cheon Tae-rim’s oldest friend and chief of staff, had also admitted that he had imprinted on him a long time ago. Then, he agreed to be hospitalized to alleviate his anxiety symptoms. He had heard that his condition had improved a lot a month ago, but yesterday, he had received a call that he had caused a commotion from the morning, so he had to rush to the hospital.

However, Tae-rim had only checked some necessary documents and paid for the damaged items, but he had not even stepped into the ward where his friend was. Si Eun-cheol was receiving psychological treatment in conjunction with medication. The most important thing for alleviating symptoms was to distance himself from the Imprinting target and endure that state.

No matter what kind of contact he received, Tae-rim did not visit his friend. Inevitably, he would just send Secretary Yoon with gifts, filled with apologetic feelings.

‘Secretary Yoon….’

Perhaps Hae-ah had learned of Si Eun-cheol’s existence through her.

Instead of blaming his diligent youngest secretary, Tae-rim chose to blame himself. He had been too careless, he had thought too easily. He had mistakenly thought that he could move Hae-ah as he pleased because Hae-ah believed in his words, followed his requests, and smiled at his confessions. Even though he knew that he was a person who was anxious as much as he was lonely and suspicious as much as he was anxious.

Above all, he was worried about Si Eun-cheol’s reaction. It was obvious from the test alone that he would hate Kang Hae-ah. Moreover, he was extremely anxious about how he would react if they met in a mentally shaken state.

Si Eun-cheol had broken a chair and shattered a window just yesterday. If he met Hae-ah, and if he recognized who he was, he didn’t know what would happen then.

As soon as he arrived at the hospital, Tae-rim moved almost like lightning. He quickly went up to the 8th floor and headed towards the group of nurses who were standing at the desk and murmuring.

“Where is the patient in room 802?”

Almost simultaneously with the question, the nurse had to run to catch up with Tae-rim, who was heading to the hospital room.

“He’s still in the room. Um, we tried to separate them, but he wouldn’t listen….”

“…‘Tried to separate them’?”

Without even having time to listen to the explanation, Tae-rim burst open the door to room 802. The interior of the hospital room that unfolded before his eyes, after running in imagining the worst chaos, was surprisingly neat, peaceful, and even affectionate.

“Tae-rim-ssi?”

His heart was still racing, but Tae-rim’s reason calmly settled down like someone who had confirmed that the fire had been extinguished. Towards Tae-rim, who was letting out a long sigh, Hae-ah brought his index finger to his lips and gestured for him to be quiet.

He was lying lengthwise on the hospital bed, with Si Eun-cheol’s head in his arms.

“He just fell asleep.”

“……”

Si Eun-cheol’s upper body, which was panting with rough breaths, completely covered Hae-ah’s stomach. His arms were wrapped around his waist as if to restrain him, and tears that had flowed down his temples had created stains on Hae-ah’s chest. Fatigue could be felt on his face, exhausted from crying.

All the scenes before his eyes were unfamiliar to Tae-rim. Si Eun-cheol, who was sobbing like a lost child and obediently clinging to someone’s arms, was Si Eun-cheol, but Kang Hae-ah, who was holding him with a gentle smile as if he were a grieving Maria, was also Kang Hae-ah.

“What… happened?”

Tae-rim’s voice escaped in a terribly trembling manner due to his embarrassment.

“Nothing much happened. I told the nurse not to call you because I thought you’d worry… I guess it’s too late.”

Looking at such Tae-rim, Hae-ah smiled even more deeply as if he was embarrassed.

The outline of the incident was simple. Hae-ah came to find out who the Omega ‘Si Eun-cheol’ was, to whom Tae-rim secretly sent gifts. ‘Hello, I’m Kang Hae-ah, I’m sorry for coming so suddenly, but…’ He could only utter ‘An’ of the prepared greeting. It was because Si Eun-cheol had rushed at him before he could even say his name and the purpose of his visit.

As a result, Hae-ah staggered greatly, but he was caught by such a strong grip that he couldn’t fall even if he tried, and he was swept into Si Eun-cheol’s arms as he was.

‘Oh, I guess this is what they call reciprocity….’

Hae-ah thought so. It was a somewhat brazen and even relaxed thought. Reflecting on the past when he had arbitrarily hugged and shaken Do-jin, who was growling that he didn’t like it, he let the strange Omega hug him as he pleased, sniff his scent, and shed tears. It was because he had quickly grasped the situation with his clever mind even in the midst of his surprise.

Hae-ah didn’t have anything that could be called a scent that an Omega trapped in a hospital room would desperately cling to with a crazy face. The pheromone that lingered around his body was only Tae-rim’s. Si Eun-cheol roughly burrowed into Hae-ah’s arms with an unquenched thirst. Hae-ah hit his back against the wall, unable to withstand the surging weight, but that was it, he didn’t resist much.

The strange man in a patient gown who hugged him tightly and smelled him looked so desperate and sad. He even seemed to be sick. So Hae-ah didn’t push him away.

‘Sometimes there are days when you need a hug….’

Today was such a day for Hae-ah himself. So he hugged him back.

Then, he slowly soothed him.

‘Yes, yes. I’m sorry, Si Eun-cheol-ssi. I’m sorry for coming without permission.’

He slowly walked into the hospital room with the stranger in his arms, and

‘I won’t go. I won’t leave Si Eun-cheol-ssi alone, so don’t cry.’

He laid him down on the bed in the center of the room and lay down next to him. Once his mind calmed down, his head became calm as well. It wasn’t difficult to infer what the situation was. It was thanks to his diligent study of Alpha and Omega traits, One-sided Imprinting, and Imprinting Symptoms in recent days.

Hae-ah was disheartened by Si Eun-cheol’s appearance, which was quite different from what he had imagined. Seeing Tae-rim, who had followed him with a surprised face, he felt embarrassed as if his unnecessary jealousy had been discovered. And he was slightly resentful.

“Why didn’t you tell me honestly, Tae-rim-ssi.”

Hae-ah said. The action of removing the sleeping Si Eun-cheol from his body continued very carefully.

“Is it because you were worried that I would worry or get angry? How attractive is Tae-rim-ssi…. Even a Beta knows that much. I didn’t think there wouldn’t be an Omega who likes Tae-rim-ssi.”

Of course, he had not imagined that an Omega who had even imprinted on him would be close to him as a friend and colleague. But that was it. The action of hormones was a very good excuse and pretext. ‘Then there’s no choice,’ it was an excellent mitigating circumstance that could be overlooked in most cases unless it was a major accident.

Raising his head while waiting for an answer, Hae-ah was a little surprised. With his eyes wide open and his lips slightly parted, he quickly lowered his feet to the floor. Then, he ran closer to Tae-rim.

“…I’m sorry. Were you very surprised?”

Tae-rim’s complexion was as pale as a corpse. The hand he reached out and held was even damp. After checking his sweaty palms, Hae-ah was taken aback.

“Tae-rim-ssi, are you okay? Why are you so….”

Soon, Tae-rim’s hand grabbed Hae-ah’s left arm tightly.

“Let’s go out.”

However, he only said that, but he couldn’t pull Hae-ah hard. Thanks to that, Hae-ah, with one arm grabbed, could reach out with his remaining hand and cover Si Eun-cheol’s body with a blanket. Only after untangling and arranging the tangled IV line did he follow Tae-rim at a frustratingly slow pace.

After leaving the hospital room, passing through the hallway, and standing in front of the elevator, Tae-rim said.

“Don’t ever… do something like this again.”

It was a voice that was so hurt that it was heartbreaking just to hear it. At that sound, Hae-ah’s heart dropped.

“Were you… very worried about me? I’m okay. There’s no need to worry….”

Hae-ah quickly captured Tae-rim’s profile, which was frozen and even somewhat dazed, in his eyes. Shaking off the arm that had been grabbed, he reached out with both hands and turned his lover’s head, which was hanging very high, towards him.

“Tae-rim-ssi, look at me. Yes?”

Then, Hae-ah was reflected in the black, bloodshot eyes that had sunk down. Lowering the ends of his eyebrows, Hae-ah groaned without realizing it.

“Oh my god. I’m sorry, I should have asked Tae-rim-ssi before coming…. I didn’t know you’d worry this much…. Don’t worry, I’m okay. Yes?”

Tae-rim didn’t say anything. He couldn’t say anything. He couldn’t say no, I’m worried now. I’m scared that I can’t calculate you. I’m afraid that I can’t predict what will happen in the future. I clearly have the answer sheet in my hand, but you are a different problem from yesterday and today.

The more he loved, the more afraid he became. He had never been so afraid, Tae-rim was unfamiliar with himself. From time to time, he wanted to plead.

‘Don’t get hurt. Don’t get sick. …Don’t die.’

Don’t die. Don’t die. I’ll try not to let that happen, so please don’t get hurt, don’t get sick, and don’t die.

After swallowing several words, Tae-rim felt a sense of discomfort. However, he reached out his right hand and said this.

“Let’s… go home.”Yes.””

Then, Hae-ah took his hand. The temperature of his hand, overflowing with worry and affection, was warm. Gripping it tightly, Hae-ah brought Tae-rim’s large hand and kissed it on his hard finger bones. The two men got on the elevator.

And Tae-rim said.

“Today, let me hold you.”

“……”

Hae-ah gaped in surprise. The elevator door closed silently.

“Let me hold you, Hae-ah. I want to hold you. I can’t stand it anymore…. I love you. You don’t have to answer, just, you….”

“I… love you.”

Hae-ah held onto the flood of words that flowed uncontrollably. Saying it as if groaning, he trembled his lips slightly. Barely swallowing dry saliva over his Adam’s apple, he confessed as if coughing.

“…I love you, Tae-rim-ssi.”

When he raised his gaze, he saw the black eyes of the giant man. Wherever he walked and whatever he did, when Hae-ah looked up at the seat next to him, Tae-rim’s eyes were always looking at him. The tender emotions in that gaze gave Hae-ah courage. The weakest affection given by the strongest and most independent person in the world made Hae-ah a different person.

“Okay. Let’s go to our house….”

At the end of his whisper, Hae-ah pressed the ‘1st floor’ button.

After returning home, Hae-ah didn’t walk even a single step. There was no need or room for it.

Tae-rim rushed at Hae-ah, who had barely taken off one shoe. Opening his arms wide, Hae-ah received the pouring kisses. By the time he belatedly touched Tae-rim’s cheek in the deep kiss that felt as if he was devouring him, he was already fumbling under Hae-ah’s collar. When he tried to awkwardly take off his top, Tae-rim had already picked up Hae-ah and ran up the stairs to the second floor. Still not out of the afterglow of the kiss, Hae-ah was thrown onto the bed mattress.

“Ugh (Eugh)….””

He screamed in surprise and then covered his mouth with his hand. His heart was pounding and the skin all over his body was burning hot. Tae-rim grabbed Hae-ah’s left ankle, whose hair was disheveled and clothes were half-undressed, panting.

Hae-ah looked up at Tae-rim, who was standing tall like a predator, panting.

“Do-jin?”

Tae-rim asked, taking off the shoes that were caught on his feet. Staring blankly at him taking off his socks and grabbing his pants, Hae-ah barely managed to put together an answer.

“Uh, Ok-hye-ssi… today, …said she would take him home and let him sleep….”

“Did you contact her?”

“Earlier… I sent a message, a text message, earlier.”

Simultaneously with the answer, his pants and underwear were pulled down with a whoosh. As he pulled them off in one breath, Hae-ah fell onto the sheet half-naked. Unable to withstand the fierce force and persistent gaze, his red genitals were already half-erect.

“Tae-rim-ssi….”

Showing his belly and disheveled, Kang Hae-ah gripped and crumpled the sheets. Hesitantly, as he spread his knees, Cheon Tae-rim placed one of his knees on the mattress. The mattress tilted slightly under the heavy weight.

Swallowing hard, Hae-ah watched the man crawl like a black, massive beast, burrowing between his legs.

‘No way, no way…’

Still in his jet-black suit, Tae-rim slowly lowered his head. First, his white ankles, firm calves, a knee with a small mole, thighs straining with strength… then, his lips touched the tip of Hae-ah’s penis.

“Ack…”

Before Hae-ah could react, his sensitive flesh was sucked into Tae-rim’s mouth. As if savoring the head, he opened his mouth wide and, without hesitation, took half of his lover’s penis inside. A wide tongue wrapped around the circumference as if gauging its size, then licked upwards.

So startled, Hae-ah’s manhood, instead of becoming erect with excitement, only wilted further.

“D-don’t… I’m dirty right now. Don’t!”

Hae-ah struggled, pushing against the sheets with his toes. Tae-rim forced his shoulder under the legs that were resisting roughly.

“You’re not dirty.”

Looking at the handsome face nestled between his thighs, Hae-ah felt like he was losing his mind.

“You’re very cute…”

Again, Tae-rim took the soft flesh into his mouth. He licked the head with his tongue as if sucking on candy, wetting the shaft with saliva, and before long, the softness began to harden.

“Ugh, eugh…”

Hae-ah’s back arched involuntarily at the pleasant, hot stimulation. Each time his stiff, swollen manhood bobbed, its round outline was visible through Tae-rim’s cheek.

Gathering his lips and bowing his head, Tae-rim savored the heat filling his mouth.

“Haa! Ah, eugh, eugh…!”

Hae-ah’s hands wildly stroked Tae-rim’s forehead, hair, and ears. His face was flushed, unable to contain his pleasure. The words of protest and dislike were long gone.

‘Cute.’

It was his first time sucking someone else’s penis, but as had always been the case, the first time became inconsequential when Kang Hae-ah was the subject. With the firm flesh of his thighs pressed against his ears, Tae-rim pursed his lips. And without hesitation, he moved his head. He bobbed up and down, enveloping the hot shaft with his wet tongue, rounding his lips and sucking hard.

Before long, Hae-ah willingly began to sway his hips.

“Ah, ah…”

The movements, with his chest heaving, were subtly flexible. Feeling the penis thrusting into his throat, Tae-rim swallowed the copious saliva and precum. At the sensation of his cheek contracting and rippling, Hae-ah let out a shrill moan and pounded the sheets.

The moment he squeezed his eyes shut and exhaled a hot breath, Tae-rim pulled away.

“…Ah. Haa, …ah….”

The brown eyes, unable to hide their disappointment at the cessation of stimulation just before climax, frantically chased his face.

“Want me to suck it more?”

Tae-rim asked, and

“…Y-yes, yes….”

Hae-ah nodded quickly.

“Feels good?”

The bobbing penis was wet and slick with saliva. As Tae-rim laid his index finger and gently stroked upwards, the reddened penis moved like a living thing. Saliva and fluids smeared on his finger, and a few drops of precum dripped from the tip.

Hae-ah nodded repeatedly.

“Yes… it feels good….”

Tae-rim smiled at his docile and eager appearance. Licking his lips, glistening with fluids, he whispered.

“Just wait a little, darling.”

He then reached for the nightstand and picked up a bottle of oil. Tilting the round bottle with his thumb to open it, the small cap flew towards the wall. As he turned the bottle over, pink oil dripped, one drop then another, onto Hae-ah’s body, before flowing in a stream.

Relaxed and mellow, Hae-ah was neither surprised nor resistant, simply watching the oil pouring onto his stomach. The fellatio must have been very satisfying, as his eyes even held a hint of anticipation.

Tae-rim’s large hands slowly stirred the oil pooled on Hae-ah’s stomach, smearing it onto both palms.

In their first time, the crucial mission given to Tae-rim was to use all his strength to ensure Hae-ah didn’t hurt. No, ‘to remove all his strength’ was a more accurate expression. Moving even the tips of his fingers very gently, he caressed Hae-ah’s stomach and chest as if massaging him.

Hae-ah surrendered his entire body to the sensation of the large, rough skin of his hands slowly caressing his upper body.

“Eung… it tickles.”

He completely removed the half-undressed top over his head, smiling slightly as he placed his hand on the back of Tae-rim’s hand.

Filled with the essence of oil, the painter’s entire body glistened pink. His concave navel and protruding ribs were more visible. Each time his chest swelled and deflated, the oil on his nipples caught the light.

The glossy, large hands touched his chest, then his shoulders, his sides, and again his hips. Hae-ah wriggled his hips slightly, wanting his penis to be touched, but Tae-rim’s hands moved to an unexpected place.

As his fingers slipped between his buttocks and touched his anus,

“Heok….”

The tightly closed wrinkles twitched and opened without their owner’s intention. Smiling to feign composure, Tae-rim felt the desire inside him writhing like a serpent.

He forced his oily, slick middle finger into the hole. Hae-ah’s body was definitely different from other Omegas, and different from other gays. So tightly closed that the oil droplets on his finger were pushed out of the hole, it seemed to be protesting, ‘Go back! This is not an entrance, but an exit.’

As soon as he inserted the tip of his middle finger deeply, Tae-rim bent his finger and moved it around as if stirring. Then, the hot inner walls contracted, as if resisting, tightening around his finger. Thirsty because of it, he pulled his finger out with a slightly rough motion, then reinserted it, searching for the prostate and pressing around inside.

“Haa…, ah! Eugh…”

Suddenly, Hae-ah arched his back sharply. As if more surprised by his own reaction, his already flushed face turned even redder. The gazes clashing in the air were intense in many ways.

As if pulling his middle finger back, Tae-rim increased the number of fingers. Adding his index finger and thrusting in two fingers, he again stirred, searching for the spot that felt good in the same way as before.

“Eugh….”

Whether it was the increased foreign object that was burdensome, or whether he felt a sense of rejection at feeling it from behind, Hae-ah twisted his hips from side to side in an uncooperative manner.

“Tae-rim-ssi, this is, a little…”

Looking down at the lower hole that was tightly gripping his fingers, Tae-rim made a meaningless soothing sound, saying, ‘Yes, yes.’ Bending down as gently as possible, he pressed his lips to Hae-ah’s lips. Hae-ah never refused a kiss. If he brought his face close and opened his lips, Hae-ah would push his tongue between his teeth and even cling to him.

Lost in the kiss of exchanging saliva and tangling tongues, Hae-ah ended up letting the fingers stirring below become three and the slick sounds become rougher. Before long, he began to moan, twitching his hips. The sensation of being pressed and squeezed made it feel as if white lights were exploding in his head.

“Ah, ah…! Eugh, heu, Tae-rim-ssi….”

Pulling his lips away, Tae-rim blocked the mouth that was barely begging again.

“Eugh, eugh…”

Hae-ah’s thighs trembled finely at the sensuality that surged like a wave deep inside his stomach. He kicked and tried to push away the massive body pressing into his arms, but instead, his ankles were grabbed. Tae-rim dropped Hae-ah’s left foot as if throwing it away. In a clumsy position with his legs spread, Hae-ah hit his shoulder.

“S-stop, stop…!”

Hae-ah said, panting.

“I don’t like it like this.”

Thinking he was refusing sex, Tae-rim became very dejected. Then, Hae-ah grabbed Tae-rim’s tie as if frustrated and pulled him hard towards him. The large upper body lurched forward, and the two men’s foreheads bumped slightly.

“The clothes! Take them off. Only… only I’m all naked, so it’s weird like this….”

Then Tae-rim’s expression changed abruptly. Folding his eyes and raising the corners of his mouth refreshingly, he laughed.

“Take them off for me, darling.”

‘He pretended to be dejected, but it was an act….’

Knowing the fox hidden inside the bear-like Tae-rim, Hae-ah carefully reached out to appease him. He took off the large man’s suit jacket as if unwrapping a baby’s swaddle, loosened the tight tie, unbuttoned the shirt one by one, and kissed the skin that was revealed each time. By the time he unbuttoned the last button, Hae-ah’s face was buried in Tae-rim’s lower abdomen.

Smooch….

Kissing the flat, hard skin below his navel, Hae-ah unbuckled Tae-rim’s pants. As he did so, he couldn’t bring himself to look straight up. He was embarrassed that his erect penis was swaying each time he raised and moved his upper body.

But being embarrassed alone was the end of it. As he pulled down his pants and underwear at once, Tae-rim’s penis revealed itself to the outside. Not only did it rise upwards, throbbing, but it even bounced out, lightly hitting Hae-ah’s cheek.

“Ah, uh….”

Turning his face bright red, Hae-ah lowered his eyes for no reason.

Tae-rim slowly watched him retreat hesitantly with heated eyes. The blush covering both cheeks had spread to his earlobes, and his upper body, covered in pink oil, glistened. Sitting quietly on his butt in the center of the bed, he slowly spread the legs that were the most wet and flushed of his body.

Tae-rim chuckled at the awkward and passive seduction. Then he pounced like a madman.

The two men each forgot one vow. Hae-ah forgot his determination to prevent the progress of the relationship until he awakened as an Omega, and in Tae-rim’s case, he completely erased his goal of providing the softest sex in the world.

As soon as he placed the thick tip of his penis against his back hole and inserted it as if pressing down, Tae-rim lost his mind. Grabbing the round, raised buttocks with both hands and spreading them wildly, he pushed until his pubic hair touched Hae-ah’s buttocks.

“Ah, ah…, ah….”

As soon as he rammed it in all the way to the root, heat rose to the top of his head. Letting out a low groan, Tae-rim gritted his teeth. No matter how much he spread it with his fingers, applied oil to wet it, and soothed it with flowing precum, Hae-ah’s body did not open up at all. The inside of the hole was so hot that it was almost burning, and the muscles seemed to be tightening around his penis to the point of breaking it off.

“Heok, heoeok….”

“Heueu, eugh….”

Hae-ah struggled to move his legs, which were floating in the air with his buttocks spread open. The feeling of his lower abdomen being heavily filled was unfamiliar and strange. He even felt that if he shook hard like this, he might throw up. Saliva glistened at the corners of his mouth, and tears that had seeped out beside his eyes drew a horizontal line.

“It hurts…!”

Bending his toes hard, Hae-ah wrapped his legs around Tae-rim’s waist, which was covering his body.

“Tae-rim-ssi, hick… it hurts….”

Enduring the desire to crush his lover with his entire body, Tae-rim gripped the headboard with both arms. After exhaling a long, hot breath, he pulled his body back slightly and then pushed forward hard.

“Aeugh, eugh! D-don’t move…, ah!”

As Tae-rim moved only his waist forward with his knees kneeling on the mattress, Hae-ah’s body began to shake from head to toe. The area under his buttocks was all wet with the precum flowing from the Alpha’s penis, and the sound of flesh hitting flesh was mixed with the sound of water. The sounds of meat colliding and high and low moans were intertwined.

“Ah, aah…!”

In an instant, Hae-ah shook his head from side to side and twisted his body roughly. Bending his waist so that his ribs stood out and trembling all over, he ejaculated. The red, ripe penis twitched and spat out semen. The white liquid that popped out in droplets splashed on his chest.

After taking a deep, hot breath, Tae-rim thrust his waist up again.

“Ah, eugh, eugh…!”

Hae-ah screamed something at the thrusting that started before the afterglow of ejaculation had even faded. Words that were indistinguishable as French or English burst out mixed with sobs. He put his arms on Tae-rim’s chest and pushed back, pushing back and struggling with his legs.

“Eueung, stop… heuk, stop…!”

“Heoeok, keuk….”

Tae-rim gritted his teeth at the sensation of the penis contracting and tightening as it moved roughly. With his pheromones and body scent pouring out as he pleased, veins popped out on his forehead as he held back his ejaculation.

“Heuk, heuek….”

As the Alpha moved his excited body as he pleased, Hae-ah’s upper body shook as a whole. Then he ejaculated in succession. The second ejaculation was more painful than pleasurable. Liquid that was unidentifiable as oil or precum splattered from the joint, and the penis that was spitting out semen in dribbles felt pain from excessive excitement. For some reason, it was difficult to breathe. It felt like the air was more humid than before.

With the veins in his Adam’s apple standing out stiffly, Hae-ah raised his face. With his bloodshot and soaked eyes full of the Alpha, Hae-ah tried to close his legs. He bent his left leg and pushed Tae-rim’s knees and thighs with his toes.

“Tae-rim-ssi, Tae-rim-ssi…, please, please….”

He had tried to endure until he ejaculated inside him, but it seemed impossible. He felt like he was about to lose his mind right away. He felt like he was going crazy.

“I can’t, heu…euk, I can’t do it…. I-it’s weird….”

The penis that had ejaculated semen was limp and soft, but the muscles of his whole body trembled and contracted before limply relaxing repeatedly. Hae-ah trembled, coughing again. His lips parted involuntarily, and tears dripped down, following the already drawn path.

Tae-rim watched Hae-ah’s sensitive body repeatedly feeling it from behind, panting. The red, open hole seemed to be chewing on his penis, and his whole body was flushed with a tingling sensation.

“Heut, eugh….”

The moment he saw Tae-rim’s eyes looking down at him, Hae-ah was swept up in a strange emotion. Realizing that there was not a drop of pity in his eyes as he looked at him crying and struggling, but only seething lust and instinctive desire to conquer, and the joy of being an Alpha, Hae-ah pushed Tae-rim’s body away with all his strength.

“Heok, heok….”

Enduring the feeling that his organs were being sucked out, Hae-ah tried to pull out the penis stuck in his back. Wriggling his waist from side to side, he started to crawl backwards, pushing against the sheets with his arms. As soon as the hot foreign object filling his insides disappeared, he crawled on all fours across the bed and ran away.

Tae-rim only watched silently as he ran away, sobbing with half his mind gone. Exhaling a hot sigh, he lowered his right hand and stroked his heated manhood. Hae-ah, who was trying to run away to the opposite side of the bed, didn’t get far and collapsed in a prone position.

“Heueu, heuk….”

Oil streamed down between his red, ripe buttocks. Even the sensation of it flowing down his thighs made his skin crawl, and Hae-ah trembled finely. With only his head buried in the sheets and his body exposed, he looked like a bird with low intelligence.

“Hae-ah.”

Watching the twitching, shrinking back hole, Cheon Tae-rim masturbated. As he placed his heavy penis on his right buttock, Hae-ah buried his head in his arms and trembled as he looked back.

For a while, no words were exchanged between the two men. Tae-rim reached out with his left hand and grabbed one of Hae-ah’s buttocks, inserting the tip of his thumb into the contracted hole as if fitting it in. As his finger entered his anus, Hae-ah burned with shame.

“…Let’s do it one more time, just one more time. Huh?”

Wielding and shaking his thing so that the sound of flesh rubbing against flesh was audible, Tae-rim whispered. The tone was clearly like he was asking for a favor, but his attitude was the opposite.

“Huh? Hae-ah….”

But Hae-ah couldn’t even hear that voice properly. His thoughts didn’t work well because of the overwhelming sensuality and the shock caused by it. Because his heart was beating louder than his voice, he only felt the sensation of the finger poking and entering his skin, and his ears were ringing.

“Ah, ah…, no, no…. I, I really….”

Sobbing, Hae-ah reached his arms behind his back. He grabbed Tae-rim’s hand, which was poking in and out of his sensitive hole, and pushed it back.

“I-it’s weird, it hurts….”

Then Tae-rim pulled his thumb out of the red hole and grabbed Kang Hae-ah’s wrists as if snatching them. As he pulled his hands slightly, Hae-ah’s arms stretched out straight. His chest and chin flopped onto the sheet. The end of a heavy lump of flesh pressed between his butt cheeks.

“Uh, uh….”

Making a flustered sound, Hae-ah tried to pull his arms away, but the effect was minimal. He had already come repeatedly, so he had no strength in his arms or legs.

“I won’t hurt you. Were you scared? I’m sorry. Gently… I’ll do it gently. I’ll cum soon. Huh?”

The gaze sweeping over his back felt as if it had physical force. Otherwise, there was no way the skin could tingle and hurt.

“Huh? Hae-ah, just once….”

Even in his pleading voice, he seemed to feel the temperature of his boiling lust. With his captured arms stretched back, Hae-ah took a deep breath. The view he turned to look at was half-covered by his own shoulder. Through the blurry vision, he saw Tae-rim panting and catching his breath.

“Tae-rim-ssi, doing it with me…. Do you… like it?”

At the question asked in a passive voice, Tae-rim’s eyes widened. He had confessed that he ‘liked’ him about a thousand times until today. Each time, Hae-ah would nod his head at his words and just thank him. It was the first time today that he wanted to be reassured of his affection first.

“Yeah, I like you.”

Feeling a sense of accomplishment, Tae-rim smiled. He pressed his lips on his dry shoulder and said in a muffled voice,

“I like you, Hae-ah. I like you… I really like you.”

He whispered repeatedly.

“Then gently… are you going to do it gently?”

“Yes.”

“Y-you promise….”

Then Tae-rim slightly pulled the arm he was holding and hooked his finger on Hae-ah’s pinky. At the small gesture, Hae-ah couldn’t help but smile.

“I like Tae-rim-ssi too…. I really like you.”

As he smiled and turned his head, Tae-rim’s upper body completely covered his round back. His lips met as if to swallow his smile.

The deep kiss seemed to relieve the tension. Hae-ah voluntarily raised his hips back. Feeling the temperature and weight of the hot flesh touching his skin, he mustered the courage to straighten his back, but Tae-rim suddenly released the wrists he had been holding.

“Your arm will break if we do it like this.”

Suddenly, a very rational voice was heard clearly. The moment Hae-ah made a surprised sound, a thick arm came under Hae-ah’s lower abdomen. Very easily, Tae-rim lifted the adult man up and laid him down on his back. Before he could even adjust to the changed position of looking at the ceiling, he grabbed his lover’s knees and lifted them up. His slender upper body instantly flopped onto the sheet. His legs, joined together so that his knees touched, remained stretched towards the sky.

“W-wait a minute….”

In a position that seemed to be folded in half, Hae-ah scratched the sheet. As Hae-ah curled his toes, unable to bear the embarrassment, Tae-rim checked his reddened buttocks and the back hole where his penis had just entered and exited.

The hole, which was clearly more swollen than before, opened and closed as if expecting something.

Tae-rim smiled softly. Then he shoved his thing, which was more erect and wet than before, into Hae-ah.

“Ah, ah…!”

Screaming, Hae-ah thrashed his arms. But with his body folded, he couldn’t crawl away, nor could he stop the foreign sensation that was recklessly stabbing inside. Rough thrusting continued.

“Ah, ha… ugh, ahh!”

“Hae-ah, take some… strength out.”

Swallowing his hot saliva, Tae-rim closed his eyes. Panting, he savored the stimulation of the hot flesh that tightly squeezed his thing.

Tae-rim thought for the first time that it was fortunate that Kang Hae-ah had not yet had his Omega awakening. If he had, he would never have fallen for his obvious lies. He couldn’t control his pheromones and was going crazy, exuding a thick body scent, but Hae-ah came innocently, not knowing any of it. He was deceived by the word ‘gently’ and hooked his pinky, not even knowing that the other person was a Dominant Alpha in heat.

“Ack, Tae-rim-ssi, ah, ah… ah! Ah!”

“Huff, huff….”

The sound of flesh hitting flesh echoed throughout the bedroom. The senses that rushed in from all directions were vulgar and obscene. Every time his testicles hit his buttocks, the friction was so intense that it sounded like he was clapping.

“Heuuh…, sob, ugh….”

With his veins standing out and trembling finely, Hae-ah came for what seemed like the third or fourth time. His back hole twitched and contracted strongly, and his face, covered in tears, no longer had any reason left.

Huff… huff… Only the sound of catching his breath echoed for a long time. Placing Hae-ah’s trembling legs on his left shoulder, Tae-rim looked down at the junction. When he pulled his penis back, the red hole, which was so tightly interlocked with flesh, seemed as if it would come out as it was.

Tae-rim grabbed the base of his penis, which was deeply embedded in the sensitive hole. Then he started shaking it finely up and down. At the feeling of his penis moving inside the inner wall, Hae-ah shuddered.

“Ah, ack….”

As the blunt glans stabbed into the inner wall, his body, which was weak to stimulation, lifted his waist as if trying to avoid the shock. But it was no use because something too big was already deeply stabbed inside. Hae-ah had no way to avoid the large intruder.

“Hic, hic….”

This time, ‘gently’, Cheon Tae-rim moved his penis. Very slowly and leisurely, he pulled his body back, then inserted it deeply again until the relatively small body of his lover was pressed tightly.

“Ah….”

Then two or three drops of water-like semen splattered on Hae-ah’s chin. Even as he was hit in the face with the semen he had cum, Hae-ah couldn’t control his urge to cum.

“……”

Struggling meaninglessly, he came as if squeezing out the last drop. He couldn’t even groan and only his waist was twitching, making it seem like he was being cummed rather than cumming.

Tae-rim stopped moving and breathed heavily. Then he finally released the semen he had been holding back with all his strength. The semen he shot out filled Hae-ah’s insides as they were.

At that moment, Hae-ah smelled a deep fragrance of some kind. After trembling his body finely for the last time, he fainted. Tae-rim rubbed his lips on the forehead of the person who had spread his head and limbs on the sheet and listened to his breathing quietly, then smiled softly.

“Hae-ah.”

Then he started moving his waist alone.

“Kang Hae-ah.”

As he stabbed his rear with his re-erected penis and pushed his body so that his groin was full of flesh, the head of the fainted person moved noddingly. The limp penis also swayed. While watching the cute sight, Tae-rim slammed his body hard enough to make a clanging sound, stabbing his penis in, then pulling it back out, then stabbing it in again.

“Haa…, Kang Hae-ah.”

Unable to bear the bursting affection, he kissed the small face covered in tears indiscriminately. He sucked on his cheeks with a smacking sound, bit his neck, and grabbed his soft nipples with both hands, pinching them upwards and pulling them downwards.

“Heu, eu….”

The fainted person temporarily regained consciousness as if squinting,

“…hic….”

He let out a small breath and collapsed his whole body again.

“Cute….”

Tae-rim muttered, laughing ha ha.

“Why is our Hae-ah so cute?”

Gathering the two limp thighs and holding them in his arms, Tae-rim moved his lower body again. As he shoved his penis in with a splattering sound, the muscles of the inner wall reflexively twitched. Precum dripped from the limp penis.

The Alpha filled his eyes with greed as he watched the body swaying unconsciously.

“Huff, huff….”

After repeatedly thrusting his waist like a dog, Tae-rim became almost dazed. Unable to bear the tingling sensation, he came once again. He had been a Dominant Alpha who had been abstaining for several months. Unable to withstand the amount of semen he had ejaculated, Hae-ah’s lower abdomen, which had collapsed, swelled very slightly.

Tae-rim closed his eyes tightly as if savoring all the senses. As he slowly pulled his penis back, white semen poured out of the open hole.

“Hoo….”

Lifting his sweaty hand, Tae-rim swept his disheveled hair back. One of Hae-ah’s legs, which had slipped out of his hand, fell onto the sheet with a ‘thud’.

Tae-rim gathered the legs that were spread out like a frog again. As if touching a cherished doll, he held Hae-ah’s legs dearly and spread them apart. Then he watched the red hole dripping with semen.

Soon he lifted Hae-ah’s legs and folded them so that his knees touched his chest. He showed no signs of difficulty even while handling the body of a grown man as he pleased. Rather, he seemed to be enjoying it. After adjusting the position so that his buttocks were facing upwards, he began to gently shake Hae-ah’s fainted body.

It was an action performed by instinct rather than consciousness…. It was an act created by the instinct of an Alpha who wanted to impregnate an Omega, with the hope that the seed he had ejaculated would be implanted as it was.

Then Tae-rim gathered all the semen that had flowed out. He swept it up as he could with his fingers and shoved it back into the red hole.

Hae-ah’s mouth was open because he had been handled recklessly and shaken around. Asleep with his white lower teeth and the tip of his red tongue exposed, he did not know what kind of gaze the Alpha looking at him had.

“I love you….”

As if chanting a spell, Tae-rim muttered.

“I love you, Hae-ah….”

Instead of an answer, his Hae-ah only gave him the sound of his panting breath.