If You Want Me - Episode 27
<Episode 27>
“Haa…”
For a moment, my head felt hazy from the suffocating amount of alpha pheromones pouring out.
It was already stimulating just being in the same space as the person I liked. But with his pheromones enveloping me, even the air felt hot.
The man in front of me was far too attractive, and from up close, his black eyes looking at me, his elegantly shaped nose, his moist-looking lips – there was nothing about him that wasn’t provocative.
I wanted to immediately reach out my arms, embrace his neck, kiss his lips, and head to the bed. I felt a strong desire to make him my alpha.
However, Seo-won endured the urge, tightly closing his eyes. Doing that wouldn’t make Do-gyeom his alpha. He would just become a low-fertility omega partner to relieve pheromones like before.
“…I’m sorry.”
“…”
“Could you please withdraw your pheromones? It’s hard…”
I tried to answer nonchalantly, but my voice trembled.
As Seo-won averted his gaze, finding it burdensome to look at him up close, he suddenly felt a sharp sensation on his earlobe. Do-gyeom had bitten his earlobe with his canine teeth.
“Ah!”
“Change your mind before next week comes.”
Seo-won looked at Do-gyeom with a wronged expression at the stinging sensation that almost brought tears to his eyes, but Do-gyeom just said what he wanted and left.
He wasn’t going out to stretch, he left through the front gate. It seemed he was going back.
The alpha pheromones filling the entrance diminished. Some pheromones that hadn’t dissipated still lingered, but it wasn’t enough to lose reason.
Feeling a bit of inexplicable regret, Seo-won bent his body slightly and looked at the gate.
Was it an act when he said his head hurt because of pheromone buildup, or did it get better that quickly?
Considering he was someone who overlapped bodies without getting tired of it even once a week, the thought that his pheromones must have really accumulated made him think he should have at least given him a kiss.
No matter how much he tried to push him away, his heart remained the same, so he couldn’t help but worry.
* * *
“Let’s go back to Seoul.”
“Yes.”
As Do-gyeom spoke while getting into the back seat of the car with an arrogant face, Secretary Bae started the car right away without asking or arguing further.
The car was so good that he usually couldn’t even feel any shaking, but driving on an unpaved road inevitably made the car body shake a bit. The small shaking stimulated Do-gyeom’s already sensitively strained nerves.
Why is he living holed up in this backwoods village? Lately, there’s nothing he likes about Yoon Seo-won. Just one thing. Except for his pheromones.
Do-gyeom clicked his tongue softly, and Secretary Bae, who was driving, glanced at Do-gyeom and asked.
“Did you convince him?”
“…No.”
Do-gyeom started to answer, then let out a hollow laugh at the image of Seo-won that popped into his head.
A few days ago, when Secretary Bae returned without being able to persuade Yoon Seo-won, he had doubted if Secretary Bae’s abilities were this poor.
He couldn’t even bring back just Yoon Seo-won. Suspecting he had just wasted time and returned, he ended up going down to Seo-won’s residence himself.
But to think he would be completely ignored like this. It was the first time he had been reproached this much even at this age.
“Tsk, it’s ridiculous.”
Do-gyeom clicked his tongue and closed his eyes, then pictured the situation right before leaving Seo-won’s house in his mind.
The moment he tried to go out to the yard, a splitting headache came and he leaned his body against him. Then his body started to react. He thought he had become impotent since he didn’t react to other omegas, but it turned out his body had become one that only reacted to Yoon Seo-won.
That wicked Yoon Seo-won. In fact, Seo-won had only faithfully fulfilled the contract, but Do-gyeom shifted the blame, saying this happened because of Seo-won, not him.
So, cowardly as it was, he poured out his alpha pheromones. He poured them out as if showering him with pheromones, as if imprinting that he was his omega.
Seo-won definitely reacted to it, opening his eyes hazily and looking at him like when they were in bed together, but contrary to his gaze, the words that came out of his mouth were only cold.
He didn’t believe the nonsense about finding someone he loved, so he had no idea what the problem was.
Could it be the sex they had all this time? He had always done as he pleased, but for five years, Yoon Seo-won never expressed any dissatisfaction. And each time they had relations, Seo-won climaxed more times than him, so the sex life couldn’t have been unsatisfactory…
As Do-gyeom pondered hard, making his nerves sensitively on edge, the flow of pheromones in the car reversed. Secretary Bae, noticing his mood, coughed slightly and asked.
“Ahem, what should we do? It seems difficult for Mr. Seo-won to return, so should we look for another omega again?”
“Never mind. Rather, how’s what I told you to look into going?”
“It’s not much different from last time. Most of the salary we’ve paid so far has been almost entirely used to secure a residence for Mr. Yoon Seo-won’s mother, and there’s also money steadily going out since his mother is currently receiving knee treatment. We presume he’s not financially well-off.”
“But he refuses those conditions?”
“Yes. He seems to have no greed for money at all. Even when he was a partner, there were only a few times Mr. Yoon Seo-won bought something for himself, right?”
“…”
At Secretary Bae’s words, Do-gyeom narrowed his brows and stroked his chin. It was true. The only noticeably large expenditures were buying a house for his mother and his mother’s knee surgery.
At first, he might not be interested in money, but when a large sum of money comes into his hands, people usually have their eyes turn to luxury goods or extravagance, but Yoon Seo-won didn’t. If left alone, he only wore low-quality clothes, so Do-gyeom occasionally gave him gifts, saying he received them from an affiliate company but didn’t seem like he would wear them. Even when gifted like that, Seo-won rarely wore them to cherish them.
It was amazing how frugal he was despite not lacking money, and it was puzzling considering he continued the pheromone partnership with him.
It was true that Do-gyeom proposed the partnership to Yoon Seo-won, but then why did Seo-won continue the partner relationship?
Well, there are people who only save like crazy, so he could understand not spending… But is there anyone in the world who dislikes being given money?
He was offering to let him save to his heart’s content, so he should come back, but it didn’t work. It was absurd and ridiculous that the easiest method he thought would work for everyone didn’t work.
As Do-gyeom emitted an uncomfortable air, Secretary Bae carefully offered his opinion.
“No matter what conditions we propose, he won’t even read the documents… As expected, another omega…”
“Never mind, I’ll persuade him. Tell them to keep a close eye on Yoon Seo-won and report immediately if he does anything unusual.”
“…Yes.”
When Do-gyeom didn’t back down, Secretary Bae answered in a small voice.
As Secretary Bae glanced at Do-gyeom through the rearview mirror, he fell into serious thought again.
…Why is he like that?
Do-gyeom felt as if his necktie was choking him, so he roughly adjusted the tie string.
The feeling he had for Seo-won had been the same from childhood until now. Because he was young, his eyes were often drawn to him, he was worried about him, and he was a bit pretty, that kind of younger brother he knew.
Even when he studied abroad, he thought of him several times, but it was purely because he was cute. Unlike his furry-looking younger brothers, people couldn’t dislike a child who was alone and fluffy, blushing and liking him.
So he was a bit sad to hear he was leaving the mansion and wouldn’t be able to see the kid anymore… Proposing to be partners was purely impulsive. He also thought if they were partners, he could keep Seo-won by his side, and that day, he had particularly high pheromone levels from taking a long flight. He wanted to relieve his pheromones as quickly as possible.
They had continued as partners for six years…
“…Is it sexual desire?”
Do-gyeom muttered to himself, only audible to him, and turned his gaze out the window.
Since it wouldn’t be that he loved Seo-won, the conclusion was only sexual desire. That’s why there’s a saying that sexual desire is scary.
It would be best if he could embrace an omega other than Seo-won, but it didn’t seem like a problem that would be resolved quickly.
Do-gyeom vowed to somehow get Seo-won out of this unpleasant backwoods village and bring him back to Seoul, to his side, and clenched his fist tightly.
* * *
After that day, Seo-won often thought of the times he had been with Do-gyeom.
The way he leaned his forehead on Seo-won’s shoulder and seduced him to kiss kept haunting him. Because of that, he made countless mistakes he never usually made.
Because he had always been in a subordinate position both emotionally and in status, it was the first time Do-gyeom had clung to him like that. It was a bit contradictory to say he clung, but the situation was unfamiliar and stimulating, so he almost got swept up if he wasn’t careful. On top of that, he even used pheromones… It was dizzying to think about again.
If he stayed by his side, it seemed he would keep getting entangled like this… By impulsively accepting the deal, it had come to a situation where he had no choice but to let Do-gyeom come to his house.
Seo-won had clearly put a condition on the deal to make him stop coming to see him, but in hindsight, it was an unfair contract from the start. What could he do if Do-gyeom kept saying he couldn’t believe him until the end?
“Sigh…”
Fortunately, Do-gyeom didn’t seem to know Seo-won was pregnant, but if he stayed by his side, he might find out.
Since he was a low-fertility omega and originally slim, his stomach hadn’t swelled enough to be noticeable, but he had quit coffee, his morning sickness was getting worse over time, he was frequently struggling with a bloated feeling in his stomach…
Decisively, he needed a way to deceive Do-gyeom, but no good method came to mind.
What should I do? As he was furrowing his brows and pondering seriously, a bright voice faintly reached his ears.
“…Teacher. Teacher?”
“Huh, what?”
“I solved it all.”
As Seo-won came to his senses with a start, a little girl sitting next to him solving a workbook was looking at him with sparkling eyes.
She was a child he had started tutoring a few days ago. An elementary school girl named Lee Seulgi, who was as lively as a red cherry when you looked at her.
While Seo-won was distracted thinking about Do-gyeom, the child seemed to have solved all the problems, and the workbook in her small hand was filled with crooked handwriting like scribbles.
“Ah, sorry… I was thinking about something else. Let’s see.”
He made a mistake again while thinking about Do-gyeom. Seo-won hurriedly took the workbook from Seulgi and picked up a red colored pencil in his right hand.
Among the things he did to pass time after coming to the countryside, this was the only thing that wasn’t burdensome and was even fun. He had to focus properly so he wouldn’t get fired for being negligent.
As Seo-won opened his eyes clearly and graded one by one, Seulgi, who usually only stared at the workbook to see what she got wrong, oddly stared at Seo-won today.
Did she have something to say? As Seo-won was thinking it was a bit strange, Seulgi hesitated and spoke first.
“By the way, teacher, I’m curious about something.”
“Hm? What is it?”
“Is it true that you ran away from debt collectors and came down here from Seoul?”
“…What?”
Seo-won was surprised and widened his eyes at the unexpected question.