By Zephyria 
It would have been too early to rejoice at finally landing a blow on Seo Baek-han… His gaze was far too profound. All expressions had vanished, leaving behind a bottomless, black stare. So intense and distant that it felt as though it were burning red… like that.
“…Tae-hyun.”
Seo Baek-han didn’t take his eyes off him as he slowly sat him down on the sofa, adjusting his posture to make him comfortable.
“……”
Even after achieving his goal, Seo Baek-han didn’t remove his hand, which was lightly placed on his knee. He just kept clenching and unclenching his fist as if he couldn’t bear not to grab something, silently looking up at him.
“Are you… very uncomfortable right now?”
A low voice, its edges frayed, leaked from his parched lips. It was a hoarse sound that scraped his throat, barely extracted, enough to make the listener’s shoulders flinch.
“Am I… making you unbearably angry by acting so freely? Or are you perhaps scared?”
“…No.”
“Hmm…”
“What is it?”
“No, never mind if you’re not-.”
“So, what is it?”
Seo Baek-han, still kneeling on one knee, swept back his bangs. Then, he placed his hand on his forehead and tightly shut his eyes.
“…Your pheromone wouldn’t be running wild like this unless it was due to such intense emotions.”
That’s why he asked.
It was as if a black flame flickered at every break in his words.
My… pheromone? Joo Tae-hyun raised his arm and sniffed near his wrist. The wood scent did feel a bit stronger than usual, but it seemed much more stable than when he had been criticized for not being able to control his pheromones…
Wasn’t it? Was it leaking out that strongly? Enough to make Seo Baek-han so flustered…?
“…I think it was better when I was just thinking about you and enduring it alone.”
Ah, shit.
Seo Baek-han clearly added that curse at the end of his sentence. He spat it out through his teeth, trying not to be heard, but it was probably the first time he had uttered such vulgar words in front of Joo Tae-hyun while sober.
“Ah… I’m not trying to blame you, Tae-hyun. This is… just my problem. It’s okay.”
Saying that with his clenched masseter muscles and the tendons of his sternocleidomastoid bulging out offered no persuasion. Joo Tae-hyun could tell that Seo Baek-han, responding to his imprinting partner’s pheromone, was trying his best not to lose his mind somehow…
“…I said I’m okay.”
“Yeah, yeah, really okay.”
Joo Tae-hyun still couldn’t perceive Seo Baek-han’s pheromone. But Ihe could roughly guess what state he was in now. Just looking at the thigh of the leg Seo Baek-han was kneeling on… He was amazed that nothing had happened already.
“Want to go up?”
“……”
“Hmm, the smell of alcohol seems to be wafting into the living room.”
I’ll clean it up. Even as he said that, Seo Baek-han couldn’t get up from his spot first. His cock was swollen as if one side of his pants would burst any moment, so moving was obviously impossible.
Even though there was nothing to swallow, Joo Tae-hyun gulped. He reflexively showed such a raw reaction, fully knowing that Seo Baek-han would hear it. It wasn’t because he was surprised by this first-time sight of Seo Baek-han, whom he had liked for a long time and was still entangled with after experiencing all sorts of things… This was just… Wouldn’t anyone act like this if they suddenly encountered such a suggestive scene?
Joo Tae-hyun finally decided to admit that he was a bit drunk. It wasn’t as much as when he had shared drinks with Seo Baek-han at the hotel, but the aftermath of hastily gulping down strong liquor seemed to be hitting him now.
Rubbing his face roughly as if washing it, Seo Baek-han whispered with his lips. Hurry up and go up. The sound of his wet tongue touching his dry palate and cracking echoed clearly in his ears. Just how much strength was he using? The frighteningly bulging blue veins on the back of his hand, and the beads of sweat on his forehead, were also… clearly fixed in Joo Tae-hyun’s vision. Even amidst the rising intoxication, that sight was vivid.
“…It would have been better to have gotten properly drunk to the point of not being able to control my body.”
Was it thanks to the half-baked intoxication? Joo Tae-hyun was aware that his reason was fading. That’s why it was even more of a problem.
Words that Joo Tae-hyun absolutely shouldn’t say right now kept tickling the tip of his tongue. Seo Baek-han also seemed to have a premonition of something, as he kept trying to stop him with his eyes.
“Do you want to?”
Was that why? Unable to overcome his childish rebelliousness, Joo Tae-hyun blurted out a impulsive suggestion.
“…Hyung.”
Joo Tae-hyun leaned his upper body towards Seo Baek-han, crossing his legs. It was uncomfortable to be like this with his knees poking near his chest while leaning over, but it couldn’t be helped. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be able to hide his lower body, which had also started to harden little by little.
“That’s because of me, isn’t it?”
Seo Baek-han just furrowed his brow without replying. His tightly closed eyelids were trembling. It seemed like Joo Tae-hyun was getting stimulated just by his breathing now.
“…Then.”
An embarrassing sense of elation swept over Joo Tae-hyun. The fact that the man who was always so composed was so flustered in front of me, and that he was the cause, brought about a strange sense of superiority.
“Shall we just do it?”
“…Tae-hyun.”
So what. We won’t see each other anymore once I return to Korea anyway. I said I would keep my promise, so, so…
Desperately attaching all sorts of excuses, Joo Tae-hyun sneered inwardly. He knew that such things weren’t even excuses. Seo Baek-han was the one intoxicated by pheromones, not him. So if he gave him an opening like this, he wouldn’t be able to blame him afterward.
“I won’t be as broken as before, so my back won’t get wet.”
Even so… My mouth moved on its own due to an inexplicable, strange impulse.
“But if you don’t mind-.”
“Don’t say that.”
Seo Baek-han shook his head greatly, lightly gripping Joo Tae-hyun’s knee.
“Don’t say things like ‘broken,’ Tae-hyun.”
Tae-hyun could feel that Seo Baek-han’s hand was soaked with sweat even though it was only lightly touching him over the clothes. He was scattering a ferocious aura that even he, whose pheromone organs were broken, flinched at, but his actions and words towards him were as gentle as could be. It was as if a huge beast was desperately trying not to harm a small human.
“You’re drunk right now. Don’t do something you’ll regret later-.”
“So, do you want to do it with me or not?”
When Tae-hyun nudged his body with his toes, Seo Baek-han finally met his eyes. It was a sticky, messy gaze that didn’t even need a forced answer.
“It might be difficult to receive Hyung’s thing in my back like before.”
“……”
“It might just end with hand jobs… Is that still okay?”
“……”
“I’m asking you one last time. Do you want to do it with me?”
Only then did he nod his head with difficulty. It was such a subtle movement that it would have been difficult to notice without being this close.
“I might just get off and end it right away, is that okay too?”
“……”
“Even if I… wanted to spit on Hyung instead of kissing you?”
The reason for dragging out a first time that he didn’t even remember was… Well. It was a pointless tantrum that even Joo Tae-hyun himself couldn’t understand. He thought he had forgotten all about it because the place he had scratched was too painful to keep such a thing in mind… But he guess not.
Seo Baek-han, who immediately understood what Joo Tae-hyun was bringing up, didn’t even blink, as if he was surprised for a moment. After some time, he just chuckled briefly.
“Oh, please.”
The hand that Seo Baek-han had placed on Joo Tae-hyun’s knee, circling it, gradually gained strength. His ribcage repeatedly swelled and subsided to a frightening extent as he greedily inhaled his pheromones.
“Please… do that to me, Tae-hyun.”
The image of me reflected in Seo Baek-han’s eyes gradually became distorted. …Because he narrowed the distance in an instant.
“Please.”
The area below his solar plexus throbbed at the low voice whispering right in front of him. Seo Baek-han, who was keenly aware of Joo Tae-hyun’s reaction, brought his lips to just below Joo Tae-hyun’s ear as if he had been waiting for it.
“Tae-hyun.”
Seo Baek-han didn’t even kiss his neck. He just placed his lips there and kept whispering softly. That alone made all the strength drain from his body. As if he had already mixed bodies with him several times.
“…Tae-hyun, huh?”
As if he had never kept his mouth shut, Seo Baek-han kept pressing for an answer.
“Why won’t you do it?”
Seo Baek-han spread Joo Tae-hyun’s legs apart with his knees, supporting himself on the back of the sofa with both hands. Joo Tae-hyun was embarrassed because hecouldn’t hide his erection either, but he didn’t seem to notice such a thing.
“Joo Tae-hyun.”
While acting as if he would tear his body apart any moment, the act of pressing his lips firmly against his was cautious. He stayed still like that for a long time, then gently kissed him several times as if asking for permission. Each time their lips touched and separated, an out-of-place, embarrassing sound was made.
“…Haa.”
As soon as Joo Tae-hyun’s tightly closed lips slowly opened, his warm, no, hot tongue slipped in. Seo Baek-han’s shoulders rose and fell greatly at that act, which couldn’t even be called a kiss yet. Crack. The sound of the sofa leather being crushed in his grip was chilling.