By Zephyria 
“Really…? Hey, Wilkins! Wilkins! Yes, you. Come over here.”
The Station Chief, who had been tilting his head, soon called out to one of the group drinking and gestured. Wilkins, who had been drinking with the other staff, approached them reluctantly, holding his beer glass.
“Yes, Station Chief. What is it?”
The Station Chief, casting a glance at Grayson with a displeased look, said to him.
“Miller is looking for someone. You were the one who went into the mansion with the team back then, weren’t you?”
The Station Chief introduced Wilkins to Grayson.
“This is Darius Wilkins. Wilkins, this is Grayson Miller, as you know. He will be working in your team from now on. Grayson, he is the Team leader of the team you will be working with.”
Wilkins’ face immediately contorted. Looking down at the Station Chief, he spread his hands wide, as if shouting, ‘What is this nonsense?’ Despite his blatant rejection, Grayson nonchalantly grabbed Wilkins’ hand and shook it as he pleased.
“I look forward to working with you. Nice to meet you.”
Wilkins, once again dumbfounded, pointed at Grayson with his remaining hand and shrugged. The Station Chief, deliberately ignoring Wilkins’ protesting gaze, patted both of their arms.
“Work well together in the future. Wilkins is a good Team leader, so follow his instructions well, got it? Miller.”
“Of course, I will do exactly that.”
Grayson said as if he had been waiting for it, but Wilkins looked like he didn’t believe it at all. Shaking off his hand roughly as if he had touched something dirty, he glared at Grayson and said to the Station Chief.
“Then, are you done with me? I’ll go back to my team.”
“Wait, hold on.”
The Station Chief called out to Wilkins, who was about to turn around and leave immediately. Wilkins reluctantly turned around, and the Station Chief pointed to Grayson and said.
“You have to take your team member with you.”
Wilkins opened his mouth wide and mouthed, “What?” Seeing him spread his arms wide again and lift them up and down once, the Station Chief sternly scolded him.
“Isn’t this a good opportunity? Take this chance to greet your team members and get to know their faces. That’s why we created this gathering.”
He wasn’t wrong. Wilkins sighed towards the sky and just turned around. The Station Chief gently pushed Grayson and said.
“Follow him. They are your colleagues who will be working with you in the future, so say hello…”
“That team is the one that went into the mansion back then, right?”
Once again, Grayson cut off the Station Chief’s words. The Station Chief, already used to his attitude as if his interest had completely drifted elsewhere, nodded with a resigned expression.
“Yes, if you go and ask, you’ll find out who it was…”
Grayson had already left his spot when he said ‘if you ask’. Left alone, the Station Chief sighed, finishing his sentence weakly.
Desire Me if you can
When the Team leader went after being called by the Station Chief, he was definitely alone, but he wasn’t alone when he returned. The team members, who were gathered around a round standing table, drinking and waiting, were all bewildered and looked at him as he brought an unwelcome tail. Wilkins mouthed, “I know,” but there was no way around it. The team members naturally came to their table, and looked at Grayson, who took a spot, with disapproving eyes.
“Hello, hello, hello.”
Grayson nodded lightly and greeted them one by one, smiling brightly, but no one smiled back. In this kind of situation, one might feel intimidated by the awkward atmosphere, but unfortunately, the other party was Grayson Miller. Just how thick was his skin? This shameless man didn’t seem embarrassed at all. Rather, his actions of smiling brightly and even asking for a handshake were so off-putting that the team members were completely fed up, and soon they lost all motivation. Grayson, to the team members who were silently drinking beer with a despondent expression, brought up a topic first.
“Last time, when the Fire broke out at Mendez’s mansion, this team went inside to rescue people, right?”
“Mendez?”
“Why, the Pheromone Party.”
Another team member bumped the arm of the team member who asked without realizing it and said.
“It’s when Dominant Alphas gather in droves to get rid of Pheromone by fucking. Here, I’m shooting cum! Brrrrrrr. Ughhhhh! Pheromone, my Pheromone is escaping! My brain is also escaping!”
The team members who were gathered burst into laughter at the man’s actions of shaking his waist back and forth and screaming. Naturally, it was even more enjoyable because it was a mockery aimed at Grayson. They laughed loudly, leaning back, but stopped when they saw Grayson laughing just as loudly.
What? Is he crazy?
Everyone thought of similar thoughts. One by one, their expressions disappeared, and they looked at him with bewildered faces. Grayson, who had been laughing alone in the silence, also stopped. Seeing him become expressionless like a mask, everyone was now beyond bewildered and felt goosebumps. What the hell? This bastard.
“Why? Keep going. It was fun.”
“……”
“Is it over? Well, whatever.”
Grayson shrugged as if to show off.
“Anyway, I happened to be at that mansion. I’m the Dominant Alpha, so I was going to get rid of some Pheromone. Fortunately, it ended in failure because of the Fire, so my brain didn’t escape.”
As Grayson’s words continued, the faces of the people standing there darkened moment by moment. They felt with their skin that he was not someone to be taken lightly. If he was simply bad-tempered or had a trash personality, they could just fight him or whatever, but since ancient times, the answer was not to associate with crazy people.
“Uh, well, I… have something to do.”
The man who mocked Grayson tried to leave quickly, and the others also moved quickly. But before they could even take a step, Grayson grabbed them first.
“Stop.”
At the chilling word, those who were trying to escape stopped dead in their tracks. Reluctantly turning around, Grayson said as if ordering, still with no expression on his face.
“I have something to ask, so gather again. Quickly.”
“……”
“Come here right now.”
At the action of tapping the table with his index finger as if to show off, they had no choice but to return hesitantly. In the awkward silence, they only looked at each other, and Grayson, after looking around at everyone once, spoke.
“Are these all the people who went into the mansion that day?”
The team members, confused by the chilling tone that was different from before, only blinked. For some reason, it felt like an interrogation, so they couldn’t speak easily, but Wilkins asked first.
“Why suddenly? Why are you curious about that?”
Grayson smiled at the blunt tone. Once again, the team members felt a strange feeling. Was now the time to smile like that? Smiling to ease the other person’s hostility was a common act that everyone did. But that man’s smile was somehow unsettling. What was it?
While they couldn’t find the answer, Grayson opened his mouth.
“I want to find the person who saved me back then. I don’t know how I lost consciousness, but when I opened my eyes, I was in a hospital room. If that person hadn’t saved me, I would probably be dead.”
He put one hand on his chest with a touched expression and sighed deeply.
“Thanks to them, I’m alive like this, so I want to repay them. I want to at least say hello, but can anyone tell me who it was?”
At those words, Wilkins looked around at the remaining team members. As if asking if anyone knew. Then, Ezra, who was quick-witted, quickly stepped forward and asked loudly.
“Well, I don’t know because I wasn’t in my right mind back then. Does anyone remember?”
The other team members all shook their heads and only repeated that they didn’t know. Grayson narrowed his eyes and frowned, but their reactions didn’t change. Grayson slowly swept back his hair and muttered to himself, as if speaking to himself, but loud enough for everyone to hear.
“I’m going to repay them, but everyone says they don’t know…”
Soon after, he smiled brightly and said.
“Then I have no choice but to find them myself.”
16 – 16
Grayson was smiling, but the employees who saw his face were sweating bullets.
“No, we really don’t know…”
“Give us a clue, anything. How are we supposed to figure out who did what in that situation?”
“Yeah, once the job’s done, it’s over. We don’t bother figuring out who did well or not. Even if we find someone who messed up, we try to come up with a solution to prevent it from happening again, not to blame anyone.”
Everyone spouted platitudes, but Grayson wasn’t interested. His only concern was who the Dominant Omega was that had doused him with Pheromones and knocked him out.
“This is the whole team, right?”
Grayson pointedly asked, and Wilkins said with a disgruntled look, “Yeah.”
“Oh, Dane is missing.”
At someone’s words, everyone looked at him at once. Grayson muttered over the team members who were cursing him with their eyes.
“Dane?”
As he said the name, twitching his eyebrows slightly, another team member smirked and replied.
“Yeah, the bastard who tried to smash your head in with a fire extinguisher.”
Snickers erupted here and there. Grayson also smiled, but his eyes remained cold.
“He only tried, he didn’t hit me.”
“Ah, what a shame. He could have.”
To the man who joked with regretful sighs, Grayson smiled back and said.
“I think so too.”
They knew what the hidden meaning in those words was without having to ask. In the atmosphere that froze again, Grayson emptied the remaining beer and looked around the group once.
“Excuse me for a moment.”
They stared blankly at his back as he turned and walked towards the bathroom.
“Why is that bastard looking for Dane?”
Ezra, who spoke first, was asked by the others as if they had been waiting.
“Ezra, what happened back then? I mean, we went along with you.”
“Wasn’t that the first time Dane clashed with him today? Wasn’t he out of his mind back then? There wouldn’t have been any time to talk.”
“What happened that made that bastard grind his teeth and come all the way here! Tell us, we need to know to respond!”
“Wait, wait a minute.”
Overwhelmed by the flood of questions, Ezra put his hands forward in embarrassment. Receiving everyone’s attention, he looked troubled.
“I don’t really know. I just arrived at the scene with you guys.”
“I wasn’t there. Explain it in detail.”
Wilkins had been directing operations from outside at the time. If he had known things would turn out like this, he would have gone in himself. After the incident, he would hear the incident report, but who saved whom was generally completely useless information. He had no idea what was happening in his team.
“Um… well, I followed Dane, and there was him and two other victims. You know, those crazy twins… They were already out of it, and only that bastard was okay. But no matter what he did, those two kept freaking out and giving us a hard time…”
“And?”
Unable to contain his impatience, Wilkins urged, and Ezra pointed in the direction Grayson had disappeared with a distorted face.
“Suddenly, that bastard fainted.”
“What? Why?”
“Suddenly?”
Everyone showed the same reaction to the unexpected words. Ezra also shook his head in embarrassment.
“I don’t know why it happened. I didn’t see it, but I think Dane did it.”
“Dane? How?”
As someone wondered, another voice picked up as if remembering something.
“Ah, come to think of it, didn’t Dane say he was in the military?”
“That’s right, he said he was also dispatched to the Middle East.”
With that, the same thought came to everyone’s mind. He must have used a special technique learned in the military.
“Why, you know, like on YouTube, they knock people out by hitting them on the neck like this?”
One person made a gesture of striking with the edge of their hand, and another person spread the knowledge they knew.
“I heard you can knock someone out by grabbing them tightly here.”
“There must be more than that, right? They’ll receive special training.”
The gathered people nodded in turn, forming a consensus.
“Anyway, when that guy fainted, the other two calmed down a bit… The two of them were rescued separately, and Dane and I threw that bastard out the window.”
“…Could there be something wrong with his head because of the way he was knocked out?”
“No, knowing his personality, he might just be angry about being hit in the first place.”
“Yeah, if that’s the case, then it makes sense that Miller is trying to find Dane.”
“He was looking for the person who hit him. So, that reward is actually revenge?”
As someone said, Ezra stepped forward and added a word.
“That’s why I tried to hide it somehow. He already had that incident during the day, and if he knew it was the same guy who hit him and knocked him out, he would really try to kill him.”
As everyone understood, one person raised an objection.
“No matter how much it is Miller, it would be difficult to get away with murder.”
“If it’s Miller, there are plenty of ways to do it without using physical force.”
The objection soon subsided. In the end, their opinions were united. Absolutely, definitely, no matter what, they would keep the fact that the person Grayson was looking for was Dane a secret.
Betting on their life-or-death loyalty with their colleague.
Desire Me if you can
You morons.
With a stiff expression, Grayson crossed the hall and headed to the secluded bathroom. He could clearly tell that they were hiding something. Should he grab them one by one and break their fingers?
There were many methods that came to mind, but there was no guarantee that they would tell the truth. There are countless research results that torture is not effective for confession. Unless it’s just for a hobby or pleasure, there’s no reason to go to such trouble. Above all, what was important to Grayson was the truth. If it didn’t help him get the truth, he didn’t want to waste time on such useless things.
Is waiting the only way after all?
It’s not that he didn’t expect this situation. Isn’t that why he became a firefighter in the first place? Anyway, if he keeps watching closely, he will be able to find him someday.
Thinking that, he wasn’t tired at all, even though it was quite late. He can finally meet his destiny. Just the thought of it made the annoyance disappear far away, and instead, his whole body was overflowing with strength.
Even though he fails every time, he is always excited and thrilled with anticipation again. This time when he imagines someone approaching is the most enjoyable time in Grayson’s life. Maybe he won’t be able to sleep properly until he finds his destined one. Even so, he won’t be tired at all. Grayson is facing the most important moment in his life.
Right now.
Whistling and opening the door, something came into view. A woman groaning with her arms leaning against the wall and her upper body bent over, and a man moving his waist behind her…
Chest.
Grayson stood there without even blinking, staring intently at the man’s large, firm breasts. Every time the man moved, the luscious things were stretched taut and then loosened repeatedly. Grayson was momentarily mesmerized, watching the muscles rise and fall firmly.
The man’s body was like a well-carved statue. A heavy penis was faintly visible and disappeared, then visible and disappeared again below his abs with a clear six-pack. The two were connected as one, and the man was holding the woman’s breast with one hand and her waist with the other, going in and out.
Grayson vaguely realized that he had mistaken the store’s supply room for a bathroom. It was only a few seconds, but when he belatedly recalled that he had been blankly watching other people’s sex, or rather, the man’s body engrossed in sex and pounding into the woman.
Suddenly, the man turned his head. A neat face, somewhat flushed from sex, came into Grayson’s view. The moment red-blond hair and blue eyes were imprinted on his retina, his handsome brow furrowed as if annoyed.
Oh.
The memory ended there.