By Zephyria Listless days continued. It seemed to be because he was sleeping all day. Recently, his body had been shivering, but as the weather warmed up, it suddenly became hot, and it seemed that taking a cold shower had been the problem.
“Oh my, are you catching a cold?”
It was the first time in a long time that Ryu Jeong had met the CEO and his wife since the closure of the chicken rib restaurant. The store’s belongings had already been cleared out, but the CEO, who had been busy with various matters, contacted him a while ago, saying he had something to say about severance pay.
Ryu Jeong, who had never dreamed of receiving severance pay, was surprised by the call. The CEO added that he couldn’t not give it to someone who had worked hard for quite a long time, and that he was legally obligated to pay it, and suggested meeting up to catch up.
The deliberation didn’t last long. Ryu Jeong gladly accepted the reunion with the people who had cherished him like his own parents, and he couldn’t hide his excitement as he told Lee Do-hyeon about this fact.
Lee Do-hyeon, after hearing the situation, pointed to the card he had given him before and told him to buy them something delicious, but the CEO and his wife invited him to their house, so eating out was canceled. Instead, Ryu Jeong prepared tissues, wine, and baby clothes for their grandchild and went to visit them with gifts in both hands. He was ignorant about wine, so he received help from Lee Do-hyeon, and he spent a long time agonizing over the baby clothes before deciding on them.
The CEO couple smiled brightly at the familiar face they hadn’t seen in a long time, and while they were sorry for the unexpected gifts, they were ultimately very happy.
Since it was a private home, they couldn’t light a charcoal fire like in a restaurant, but the Madam, who rolled up her sleeves, saying she would make it delicious even with a gas fire, inadvertently looked at Ryu Jeong’s face and was startled. The spring weather was so perfect that short sleeves wouldn’t have been awkward, but it was strange to see him shivering even in a thick hoodie that he would wear in winter.
“Oh my… you have a slight fever.”
Ryu Jeong, who gave her his forehead before she could stop him, widened his eyes at the mention of a fever.
“What’s with catching a cold in this spring weather?”
“You can catch it even in summer. Ryu Jeong-ah, have you been to the hospital?”
The CEO frowned and lumbered over at the mention of being sick. Ryu Jeong also felt a little embarrassed at the mention of a fever, as he thought it was just a cold because he had the chills.
“It’s not bad enough to go to the hospital…”
“Why are you deciding that? A doctor decides whether you’re sick or not. After you eat, go get a checkup before the hospital closes.”
Ryu Jeong nodded at the Madam’s words as she stroked his back with concern. In fact, he thought a cold was a disease that could be cured without medicine, so he nodded, but he had no intention of going to the hospital.
Then let’s eat first, the Madam said, turning on the stove. Ryu Jeong, who picked up the rice paddle to scoop rice, as the meat would cook quickly, opened the lid of the electric rice cooker that had just finished cooking. A faint steam spread out, and the moment he lowered his head to stir the rice evenly, he suddenly dropped the rice paddle.
“Ugh…”
The smell of rice, which should have been savory, was particularly nauseating. He felt like he was going to throw up as if he had suddenly put food in his mouth after starving for days. Ryu Jeong, who hurriedly covered his mouth and nose, staggered back, and the Madam, who heard the sound of retching, widened her eyes.
“Did you get burned?”
“Ah, no…”
The Madam seemed surprised, thinking he had been burned by the hot steam. Ryu Jeong, who raised his unharmed hand and smiled awkwardly, looked down at the fluffy, well-cooked rice in bewilderment.
Did he not eat much for breakfast? As he calmed his stomach, which was slowly sinking, he picked up the rice paddle, and again, a nauseating smell rose up. This time, he felt like he was going to throw up even the fruit he had eaten in the morning. As he hurriedly covered his mouth, the Madam, who was looking at Ryu Jeong with concern, quickly pulled out a kitchen towel and approached him.
“Oh my… you must have gotten really sick. We could have seen each other next time, why did you insist on coming?”
The CEO also couldn’t hide his surprise and stood far away, not knowing what to do.
After a while, his stomach felt better again. Did he have indigestion? The thought suddenly occurred to him.
“What I ate for breakfast… must have upset my stomach.”
“Yes, that’s why. Sometimes when you have severe indigestion, you get a fever. It wasn’t a cold, it was indigestion.”
The Madam quickly brought a glass of lukewarm water and told him to drink it slowly, and then suddenly stopped, saying that he should be careful with water when he has indigestion. The Madam, who was troubled as she looked at the uncooked chicken ribs, shook her head.
“We can eat next time, so let’s go to the hospital first.”
“What hospital? If it’s indigestion, it’ll go down quickly if you prick your finger. Ryu Jeong-ah, the CEO will get the needle.”
“You be quiet. Can’t you see the kid’s face is pale white? This can’t be solved by pricking his finger.”
The Madam firmly stopped her husband and rummaged through the upper cabinet. What she held in her hand was an empty food container. She was going to pack everything anyway, and she was ready to pack even their share.
Knowing that he wouldn’t back down if she tried to stop him, Ryu Jeong could only repeatedly mutter words of gratitude. He didn’t eat that much in the morning… Just as he was tilting his head in doubt, the Madam, who was scooping up the chicken ribs marinated in sauce, muttered to herself as if talking to herself.
“If it were a girl, I would have thought she was pregnant.”
It was clearly a passing remark, but the words flew sharply and pierced Ryu Jeong’s heart. Ryu Jeong, whose face suddenly stiffened, slowly began to roll his eyes.
The CEO drove Ryu Jeong to the hospital himself, but Ryu Jeong couldn’t bring himself to go inside. He couldn’t muster the courage to go in.
Ryu Jeong, who had been wandering in front of the shopping center where the internal medicine and obstetrics and gynecology clinics were located for a long time, concluded that it would be better to consult with Lee Do-hyeon first and headed home.
Ryu Jeong, who arrived home in the driver’s car that had rushed over after receiving a late call, barely hugged the luggage, which was twice as heavy as when he had left, and got off the elevator. He was planning to put everything in the refrigerator first and then take it out and eat it together when Lee Do-hyeon returned. Although it wasn’t food he had made, the thought of being able to show Lee Do-hyeon the Madam’s cooking skills calmed his restless heart a little.
“…”
By the way, could he really be pregnant? Ryu Jeong paused before pressing the door lock password. His body condition was different from before, but his stomach was still flat. Ryu Jeong, who was blankly stroking his lower abdomen, shook his head. He wouldn’t know until he checked.
Ryu Jeong, who familiarly pressed the password and opened the front door, immediately stopped walking. It was because a pair of shoes was neatly placed in the hallway, which should have been empty.
Did he come home early? Ryu Jeong, who was puzzled because he hadn’t heard that he was coming early, quickly realized that the size of the shoes was smaller than Lee Do-hyeon’s while taking off his sneakers, and he froze in an instant.
“Who are you?”
“……!”
Someone other than Lee Do-hyeon is in the house. As he stood stiffly without making a sound, an unfamiliar voice suddenly came from the living room. Before he could feel fear, Ryu Jeong’s eyes widened, and a strange man, Lee Gyu-hyeon, appeared.
“Oh, I was surprised because I thought the homeowner was here. Ugh, damn it.”
“Ah…”
“I’m asking who you are? Did you come to see your gigolo? Too bad. He’s not here right now.”
Lee Gyu-hyeon, who seemed surprised, stroked his chest and scanned Ryu Jeong up and down. Then, as if he suddenly recognized him, he narrowed his eyes and tilted his head.
“I’ve seen you somewhere…”
“……”
“You know me, right.”
“……”
Ryu Jeong shook his head without saying a word. He instinctively decided that he should say no. But Lee Gyu-hyeon didn’t seem to believe him. He grumbled that he had definitely seen him somewhere, and then, as if he had recalled that day, he pointed wildly.
“That’s right. It’s him from then.”
“……”
“So you were already going in and out of his house?”
“How, how did you get in here…”
Ryu Jeong turned to look at the door that had just closed and opened his mouth haltingly.
“How did I get in? I opened the door. The security guard let me in just fine because I said I was family? It was more lax than I thought.”
“……”
“Why are you making that face? I still kept my manners because it’s someone’s house. I took off my shoes before coming in.”
Lee Gyu-hyeon, who raised his socked feet as if to show off, chuckled. The frivolous laughter echoed through the hallway.
Seeing that he was just frozen and not reacting, Lee Gyu-hyeon, who seemed to have lost interest, told him to come in quickly and went back into the living room. Should he leave? There was no problem opening the door and coming in, so it should be the same for leaving. But if he did, he felt like that person would grab him by the collar.
“……”
His attention was focused on the cell phone that was quietly in his pants pocket, but he couldn’t call Lee Do-hyeon right now, as it was the same as being in the same space. Ryu Jeong swallowed hard, neatly arranged the sneakers he had only partially taken off, and carefully walked inside.
“Wow… what, are you a house elf?”
As soon as he entered the kitchen, Lee Gyu-hyeon’s sarcasm flew at him. As if he was watching Ryu Jeong, who was organizing and putting away the food that the Madam had packed, one by one, the gaze with his arms crossed was very stinging and unpleasant.
But Ryu Jeong endured it. Although his attitude was bad, he didn’t seem threatening, so he thought he could send him back without any problems if he did well.
But that was a delusion. As he finished organizing and closed the refrigerator door, Lee Gyu-hyeon was already right in front of him.
“Hiss…!”
Ryu Jeong, who was startled, stepped back, and Lee Gyu-hyeon grabbed his wrist tightly to prevent him from running away. The more he tried to shake it off, the tighter the grip became, and as Ryu Jeong became more anxious and gasped, Lee Gyu-hyeon glared suspiciously.
What’s the problem? He hadn’t said anything to avoid offending him. An unpleasant gaze slowly crept up from his grabbed wrist to his face.
“You’re really not an Omega, are you?”
As he was just trembling, Lee Gyu-hyeon frowned subtly. He thought he had passed it off as a Beta at the restaurant that day. Ryu Jeong, who couldn’t understand why he kept asking about his traits, shook his head with a tearful face.
“Judging by the fact that you can’t feel pheromones, it seems like you’re really a Beta.”
“Please, let go of this.”
“No… you don’t look like a Beta at all.”
“Wh, what…”
“Huh… Lee Do-hyeon is meeting a Beta?”
The conversation didn’t make any sense. Lee Gyu-hyeon, who muttered incomprehensible words, narrowed his eyes again and observed Ryu Jeong. Just as tears were about to well up, that unpleasant Alpha Pheromone that he had felt at the restaurant was suddenly poured over him.
“Ugh…”
“Ah, damn it…”
The pheromones, which had only been unpleasant before, now caused him to vomit immediately. As he couldn’t stand it and threw up what was inside him, Lee Gyu-hyeon was horrified and stepped back. As he did so, his wrist was released.
Ryu Jeong didn’t have time to look back at his wrist, which was likely bruised, and vomited again. After throwing up everything, his body felt lighter, but his stomach was still churning. Ryu Jeong, who was leaning against the sink and gasping for breath, retched again. As he gasped, dripping sour gastric acid, Lee Gyu-hyeon, who was frowning as if he was disgusted, burst out laughing.
“Is this bastard crazy, really.”
Lee Gyu-hyeon, who was shaking off his clothes as if he was disgusted, opened his eyes wide. He wondered if there was anything he could salvage, and he had sneaked in hoping that what he was looking for might be in the house, but he felt like he had been ambushed.
“He’s an Omega, what do you mean he’s not. Damn it.”
He knew he wasn’t a Beta. How many Omegas had he fucked so far? He couldn’t ignore that feeling. He couldn’t fool his eyes. From the way he looked, he was clearly an Omega, but he was being sly and pretending not to be, which was infuriating. If he hadn’t pointed it out for sure, he would have almost passed by an Omega, thinking he was a Beta.
“Lee Do-hyeon, that bastard. He was hiding something like this so well.”
He was attracted to him when he first saw him, but he looked even better up close. He had just thrown up a lot, but as he looked at his face with tears welling up, his groin throbbed. The desire to taste him slowly rose up.
Lee Gyu-hyeon, who was more confident than anyone else in being a gigolo, grinned. He was even more greedy because he wasn’t just any Omega, but an Omega that Lee Do-hyeon seemed to cherish.
“Do you want to sleep with me too? I’ll give you more than Lee Do-hyeon gave you. If we get along well, I’ll even get you an apartment…”
“Oop…”
It would be nice to fuck him on the bed where he had rolled around with Lee Do-hyeon, so he released his pheromones. There was a certain taste to making ambitious people writhe and cling to you, but there was also a different taste to forcing someone who didn’t want to get excited and fucking them. He thought he would be able to see a face that was ashamed but couldn’t help but feel itchy in the back, but Ryu Jeong’s face turned white in an instant and he started vomiting again.
“Ah, damn it! You crazy bastard!”
Lee Gyu-hyeon, who retreated while chewing on curses, raised his hand as if he was about to hit him. How dare he. Even if he couldn’t spread his legs on his own, how disgusting. It was the moment he was about to slap him on the head as it was.
Why is he reacting like this if he’s an Omega? A line of questions flashed through his mind. Lee Gyu-hyeon belatedly took a closer look at Ryu Jeong’s reaction.
An Omega who doesn’t get wet from an Alpha’s pheromones. Usually, as soon as he released his pheromones, their eyes would be glazed over and they would take off their clothes themselves, begging to be fucked. But instead of getting excited, he was vomiting and trying to get out of this place right away, which was very suspicious. It seemed like he was reacting to his pheromones, so he wasn’t a Beta, and it wasn’t a common reaction for an Omega. It was rare for them to show a rejection reaction to an Alpha’s pheromones. Unless they were the same type of Alpha…
“…What are you.”
Or an Omega who was pregnant.
It was definitely a reaction that couldn’t come out unless it was a pregnant Omega. Lee Gyu-hyeon, who swallowed hard as if he couldn’t believe it, soon asked a question to confirm.
“You, you’re pregnant, right?”
With that one word, Ryu Jeong’s face turned blue in an instant. He didn’t need to hear an answer, his expression was telling the truth.
“Ha… I knew it. That’s why Lee Do-hyeon, that bastard, was like that…”
There was a separate reason why he was protecting him. Lee Gyu-hyeon, who snorted, spun around in place as if he was having too much fun. He couldn’t keep his hands still and kept clenching and unclenching them, laughing and laughing again.
So that’s why. Pregnant Omegas tend to have a rejection reaction to other Alpha’s pheromones. He had only seen Omegas who had chased after him, saying they were pregnant with his child and demanding that he take responsibility, but it was the first time he had seen an Omega who was pregnant with another Alpha’s child, so he felt strange. Lee Gyu-hyeon scanned Ryu Jeong, who had stiffened, in a different sense.
“This could be quite useful.”
Dirty thoughts were revealed in his eyes.
A pregnant Omega. An opportunity to seize his weakness had rolled in.
It seemed like he would be useful in many ways. It was like he would be sending Lee Do-hyeon to hell and getting another nice fuck toy at the same time. They say that having sex while pregnant is good for the baby, right? Although he wasn’t the biological father, the dicks that poked him were all the same.
But Lee Gyu-hyeon didn’t do as he thought. He just twisted the corners of his lips and stepped back. There was a time for everything. He could end up losing more than he gained if he touched it rashly. There was no need to upset Lee Do-hyeon right now.
First, he would finish off Lee Do-hyeon, and then this Omega…
“……”
He felt like he was going to cum just from imagining it. Lee Gyu-hyeon, who was smiling as if he had never been angry, smiled brightly at the pleasant pleasure.
This Omega would become a trophy. Before dragging him down, he should consult with his smart mother first.
Lee Gyu-hyeon, with his glistening eyes, approached Ryu Jeong, who had turned white. Behind him was the sink, and in front of him was Lee Gyu-hyeon. There was nowhere to run. Ryu Jeong, who instinctively sensed danger, staggered and retreated as much as possible, and Lee Gyu-hyeon, who saw that, paused and chuckled as if he was amused.
“See you next time.”
Lee Gyu-hyeon’s lukewarm hand tapped Ryu Jeong’s cheek, who had tightly closed his eyes. As if he was sad to leave him like this, his fingers slowly traced Ryu Jeong’s face. Ryu Jeong swallowed his tears and trembled at the disgusting sensation.
Fortunately, Lee Gyu-hyeon turned around and left the kitchen without saying anything. Soon, the front door closed, and the machine sound of the door lock indicating that it was locked was heard, but Ryu Jeong couldn’t move. Cold sweat ran down his back. Unpleasant body heat still remained on his grabbed wrist.
Ryu Jeong, who had been standing still for a while, trembling, slowly lowered his eyes. His vacant gaze, as if he was out of his mind, lingered on his flat lower abdomen for a long time.