KTS 65

“Tsk.”

Harold clicked his tongue briefly. Instantly, Yu-jin turned pale and froze. Seeing his fear-filled expression as he looked at him with a bloodless face, Harold reached out his hand without a word. Seeing him beckoning with his finger as if telling him to come, Yu-jin really wanted to cry.But what he did was, instead of crying and running away, he reluctantly turned his steps toward Harold. Even though he hated it to death, he had nowhere else to go, and only one option. Just to do as Harold told him.

While he dragged his feet slowly toward him, Harold stared intently at Yu-jin, his hand outstretched.

Gulp. Yu-jin swallowed hard, hunching his shoulders as much as possible, covering his chest with one arm and his front with the other, and went closer to him. With each step closer, the sweet scent became suffocatingly intense.

Finally, when he stopped at a distance close enough for their knees to touch, a smile flickered across Harold’s face. Harold turned the hand he had been holding out and stroked Yu-jin’s waist, praising him.

“Good job, Yu-jin. You’re a good boy.”

Yu-jin couldn’t answer and just trembled. Harold’s touch was gentle, but it only gave him goosebumps. Ignoring his reaction, Harold grabbed Yu-jin’s waist with both hands and brought his face to his stomach. *Sss*, he heard a sound of deeply inhaling from below, along with his breath. Yu-jin clenched his hands together and squeezed his eyes shut, trying to resist the urge to push him away. After making that sound a few more times, Harold opened his mouth.

“The scent is really good. It’s ripening nicely.”

With those words, Harold brought his nose close to Yu-jin’s skin again and inhaled the scent. Yu-jin felt embarrassed at the sight of him closing his eyes and savoring it deeply. What scent is he talking about? Could it be that I smell? He was so uncomfortable that he didn’t know what to do, but Harold said as if he knew everything.

“Yes, you wouldn’t be able to smell your own scent. You don’t know men yet, after all.”

He looked up at Yu-jin’s face with a satisfied expression. Yu-jin had no choice but to lift his eyelids at his gaze, which he could feel even with his eyes closed. As soon as his eyes met the deep purple eyes, he got goosebumps. Harold, misunderstanding his noticeably startled reaction, smiled and said.

“It seems my pheromones have scared you.”

The pheromone scent that spread around him became so thick as if it were surrounding Yu-jin. Yu-jin wanted to cover his nose, but his whole body was frozen and he couldn’t move.

“It’s okay, don’t be afraid. You’ll grow to like it very soon.”

Harold gently stroked Yu-jin’s bare arm.

“When you grow up a little more, your reaction will be different. I’m looking forward to it.”

He smiled gently, deep wrinkles forming around his eyes. Yu-jin’s reaction, so ignorant of everything, made him even more pleased.

“When this scent ripens even more, I’ll teach you myself then.”

With those words, Harold tilted his head again and groped Yu-jin’s skin with his nose. Yu-jin stood there like a wooden doll, struggling not to push him away.

* * *

“Well, have a good dream.”

Harold smiled and said goodnight in front of the front door. Yu-jin, completely frozen, only mumbled, “Mr. Campbell, you too.” He still stroked Yu-jin’s cheek with a smiling face, then soon took his hand away and turned around. Yu-jin stood there watching Harold get into his car and disappear into the darkness, then belatedly turned around and ran to the bathroom.

“Ugh, uweeek…”

The nausea he had been holding back surged up at once, and his stomach churned several times. He sat in front of the toilet and vomited several times, but all that came out was bitter stomach acid.

Haa, haa.

After a long time, Yu-jin finally calmed down and blinked, panting. Reflexive tears streamed down his face, and he hurriedly wiped them away with his hands. After Harold went back, he was always completely exhausted. He wanted to collapse and lie down, but he couldn’t. The house was filled with Harold’s pheromone scent. Yu-jin staggered to his feet and threw open all the windows and doors. Fortunately, no one comes here. For several years now, the only visitor has been Harold.

After opening all the windows, the first thing he did was, of course, wash his body. Yu-jin hurriedly went to the bathroom, washed his whole body, and scrubbed it with a towel. In particular, he scrubbed the parts that Harold’s hands had touched several times until the sensation disappeared, so after he left, his skin was often red and swollen for days.

After coming out of the bathroom, he hurriedly put on his pajamas, checked to see if Harold’s pheromones were still lingering anywhere in the house, and then closed all the doors except for the window in the bedroom. The scent of grass and trees always calmed him down. Yu-jin lay down on the bed, pulled the sheets up to his neck, and only then breathed a sigh of relief and tried to fall asleep.

Harold’s attitude had become strange not long after he manifested. As always, Harold, who had come to the Separate Residence/Annex, first hugged Yu-jin and rubbed his nose all over his body to check his scent. It was the first time they had been in such close contact, so Yu-jin was embarrassed and just stiffened, watching what he was doing. Harold inhaled deeply several times, savoring the scent, and then let out a satisfied sigh.

“It’s the same scent as him. Ah, how I’ve missed it.”

Yu-jin couldn’t understand the words that continued like a soliloquy. But it wasn’t an atmosphere to ask, so he just listened to him in silence.

Harold smelled Yu-jin’s pheromones like that for a long time, then left with a smile on his face. Until then, Yu-jin just thought it was a good thing that Harold liked it so much. That he had finally made him happy.

After that, Harold visited Yu-jin more often than before. Even so, it was only that he came once every few months instead of once every one or two months, but it was still a very welcome visit for Yu-jin. Every time, Harold would sit Yu-jin on his lap and deeply inhale his scent before leaving. Even though he was an extreme alpha who couldn’t be intoxicated even by drugs, it was as if Yu-jin’s pheromone scent was an exception.

It was about a year later that Harold started making strange requests. At first, he ordered Yu-jin to take off his pants. Yu-jin was, of course, embarrassed by the unexpected words and didn’t obey. But Harold suddenly changed and scolded and threatened him with scary eyes, so he had no choice but to do as he was told, terrified. Harold smiled and praised Yu-jin, who hesitated and took off his pants, saying he had done well. He didn’t forget to say he was sorry for scaring him. Of course, he added that he wouldn’t have scolded him if he had obeyed willingly.

From then on, Yu-jin had to take off his pants every time he came. After giving the same instructions several times, Harold ordered him to take off his pants before he even came. Yu-jin had no choice but to obey, even while crying. Harold was the only person he could rely on, and this isolated Separate Residence/Annex was his whole world.

After a few months, when he got used to taking off his pants, the next thing was his shirt. Similarly, at first, he took it off in front of Harold. And after repeating it several times, he now had to take off all his clothes, top and bottom, and wait for Harold.

It took a full year and a half to get to this point. Even a three-year-old child would probably know what would come next. Yu-jin was so scared just imagining it that he couldn’t stand it. Around that time, Yu-jin started vomiting when he heard that Harold was coming. After vomiting in front of Harold and getting his pants wet, he didn’t eat anything for a whole day when he was coming.

“I’m worried because you’re so sick.”

Harold said that and worried about him. He was tall, but he wasn’t eating properly, so he was getting thinner and thinner. Thanks to that, the final stage hadn’t come yet, but that wasn’t the only reason. The bigger reason was that Yu-jin hadn’t had his heat cycle yet.

Alphas and omegas don’t emit pheromones until after they manifest and before they have their heat cycle or rut. But sometimes they release pheromones very weakly, and that was the case with Yu-jin. As he got older, the scent gradually became stronger, and that was nothing more than a sign that his heat cycle was gradually approaching.

Harold was relaxed enough. He even enjoyed waiting for that moment. The time would inevitably come someday, and Harold could take Yu-jin’s body whenever he wanted.

Isn’t it obvious? That’s why he had kept that child locked up in a world known only to him for so long.

There was no need to rush. Not at all.

But Yu-jin’s position was different. He felt like he was going crazy with the premonition of ‘that day’ approaching day by day. I have to think of something. There must be something…

Tossing and turning all night, he suddenly thought of something.

…Maybe, that person will listen.

The moment he thought that, he unknowingly jumped up and sat down. That’s right, he’ll definitely help. Why didn’t I think of that sooner?

He felt a sense of hope blooming in his heart. Yu-jin felt his heart pounding and lay back down on the bed. He had to sleep for tomorrow, but he couldn’t calm down easily. He tossed and turned several times before finally falling asleep. And for once, he fell asleep without even dreaming.