I've Been Possessed, But What If I Get Pregnant First? - C97
#97
“Why is your phone turned off!”
“Lower your voice. People will think you’re uncouth if they hear.”
Although he was the head of Taeho Group, which started as a construction company and now ranked among major corporations, Chairman Kwon couldn’t hide his true nature and shouted angrily as usual.
“So what! Can’t I do as I please in my own company?”
“Sigh… You can all leave now. Chairman, please sit down and let’s talk.”
Taebeom eventually told the bewildered secretarial staff to leave. Chairman Kwon sat down angrily on the main sofa seat, and Taebeom, seated next to him, cut to the chase without speaking at length.
“I’m not going on the blind date.”
“Do it.”
“I won’t. I have no intention of getting married.”
Taebeom firmly refused and continued.
“Being responsible for someone, having to be in the same space – it’s burdensome. Especially with someone I don’t even like.”
“How do you know without meeting them? That’s how you fall in love and all that. That’s how everyone starts.”
“Wouldn’t it be more troublesome if I fell in love?”
Silence filled the office at Taebeom’s words. As everyone knew, the father and son had experienced pain. The pain of losing a beloved wife and mother.
Recalling his wife who suddenly passed away one day, Chairman Kwon called out to Taebeom with a deep sigh.
“Taebeom.”
Unlike usual, he looked serious. Taebeom also erased the slight annoyance from his expression and looked at Chairman Kwon. The two stared at each other’s eyes for a long time. Chairman Kwon was the first to break the silence.
“Someday, a good relationship will come to you too. But if you’re so closed off like that, even such a good relationship will just pass you by.”
“……”
“Fall in love. Even though we lost your mother like that, I’ve never regretted loving her for a single moment. I want to teach you that kind of love too. Just this once, do as your father says. I’m asking you.”
Taebeom let out a long sigh as he looked at his father conveying his sincerity with an unusually serious face.
There was only one thing his father wanted from him. To create a happy family. It was what his father wanted most, but also what he was least able to give.
Taebeom still had no thoughts of marriage or keeping someone by his side. But since it was his father’s long-standing request, he reluctantly nodded.
“Good. You’ve thought well.”
With a much brighter face, Chairman Kwon wrapped his hands around Taebeom’s.
“Let go of my hand. It’s disgusting.”
Taebeom stood up first, telling him to leave now. Chairman Kwon, who had poured out emotions enough to make his chest feel heavy even if not to the point of tears, shouted at his expressionless son.
“…This kid, till the end!!”
The quiet office became noisy again with Chairman Kwon’s angry voice. It was just another ordinary day.
As the price for angering Chairman Kwon, Taebeom had a busy time. Adding up all his available and unavailable time, he could only visit the boxing gym once every few days. However, even that came to an end as of today.
“Your rut will likely start tomorrow. Did you overdo it last month? The timing has moved up a bit.”
Taebeom let out a long sigh at the earlier than expected rut, though he knew his physical condition wasn’t good. He still had a lot of work to do, and he had a business trip to Hong Kong scheduled for this weekend. And Yuwon, who would be waiting just for him…
“Ha.”
“Is something wrong?”
“It’s nothing.”
Taebeom let out a hollow laugh at Yuwon’s face that suddenly came to mind. It was absurd. Yuwon, of all people. Why did Yuwon’s face come to mind here? He must have spent a lot of time with Yuwon lately. Thinking that, he erased the boy from his mind.
It seemed he would need to maintain an appropriate distance from now on. Taebeom, who had let out an absurd laugh, returned home with the suppressants he had been prescribed.
“Haa… Phew.”
Taebeom opened his closed eyes at the rut that started earlier than expected. When he turned his head, a lot of time had passed as if he had fallen asleep without realizing.
Taebeom exhaled a hot breath at the scorching heat that seemed to burn his whole body. Following primal instincts, his lower body hardened and he wanted to end this heat right away.
Taebeom’s unique pheromone scent mixed with hot breaths began to dampen the air. Taebeom got up from the bed with difficulty and poured the prescribed medicine into his mouth.
Zing-
[Hyung, are you not coming today?]
Taebeom lowered his head at the vibration in his hand. It was Yuwon. Looking at the clock, it was the time he usually went to the boxing gym.
Zing-
Another message arrived in succession.
[Hyung, are you not coming because you’re afraid I might win?]
[I’m sorry, it was a joke.]
Taebeom burst into a faint laugh at Yuwon’s text, which made an unexpected provocation but quickly backed down. Ah. He realized he had laughed again and hardened his expression. Why…?
He rubbed his mouth but soon shook his head. He’s just a cute kid. That’s all.
People can laugh sometimes. Telling himself it wasn’t a big deal, he was about to send a reply to Yuwon when he noticed his lower body had swollen more tightly than before and stopped moving.
It’s because of the rut.
It was just because of the rut, not because of someone. Taebeom turned off his phone and threw it carelessly on the sofa. Then he took off everything he was wearing.
As Taebeom cooled his body with cold water in the bathroom, a familiar face came to mind. His pupils shook slightly at the Taebeom reflected in the mirror. Gritting his teeth, he spat out words mixed with curses through his clenched teeth.
“Shit, you crazy bastard.”
***
Whether he was very busy with work or not, I kept checking the message window that still had no reply. I couldn’t go home with the hope that he might come late. As I wandered aimlessly around the boxing gym, endlessly waiting for Kwon Taebeom, the coach asked,
“Yuwon, are you waiting for that Kwon Taebeom guy again today?”
“Huh? Not, not really… well…”
I don’t even know what I’m saying. As I rubbed my heated cheeks while making incoherent excuses, the coach wrapped his arm around my shoulder and said as if he understood,
“That guy won’t be able to come for a while. What will our youngest do, being so disappointed.”
“What? Why, why?”
Even though he said it wasn’t that he wouldn’t come at all, but just for a while, why can’t he come? I asked the coach again in confusion, but he answered nonchalantly.
“He can’t come because of his rut.”
“Rut…?”
Rut was a term I had heard in phenotype manifestation class. A kind of heat that people who manifested as alphas experience.
“Taebeom hyung was an alpha?”
“You didn’t know? He’s one of the few dominant alphas in Korea.”
Not just an alpha, but dominant. I felt like everything in front of me was turning white. Even if he was just a regular beta, there was a clear gap between us, but hyung was a dominant alpha.
“Oh my, were you very surprised? I guess so. It’s not like you can easily see alphas in everyday life.”
The coach patted my head and disappeared, telling me to go back quickly before it got too late. But I couldn’t move, just standing blankly in the middle of the gym.
Kwon Taebeom being an alpha. My heart sank at the shocking news I never expected. It felt like all the feelings I had secretly built up alone were crumbling down.
It took 30 minutes to arrive on a path that would normally take less than 10 minutes. Even though I hadn’t overdone my workout today, I felt completely drained and unmotivated. But seeing the restaurant packed with customers through the window, I took a deep breath.
“I’m back.”
“Yuwon, if you’re here, take this to table 2.”
“Okay.”
Fortunately, grandmother had regained her strength and reopened the restaurant a few days ago. While the restaurant was closed, it was featured on some blog, which brought in more customers.
Especially after hearing that the thick and springy rolled eggs were excellent, orders for rolled eggs increased a lot. Because of that, it became my job to make the egg mixture after coming back from working out.
“Enjoy your meal.”
After delivering the rolled eggs to table 2, I came to the kitchen and beat eggs in a large bowl. Holding 4 eggs in each hand, I cracked them with quick movements and made the egg mixture.
Then I peeled onions and garlic, moving my body busily like a machine. Only by moving my body without rest like this did it seem like no thoughts would come to mind.
Dominant alpha…
The sense of loss that term gave was truly enormous. Looking at figures in the media or history books, dominant alphas occupied almost all of them. That’s how genetically superior dominant alphas were by nature. As there weren’t many phenotype carriers, they formed relationships among themselves, and especially the extremely rare dominant alphas were said to only marry dominant omegas.
Only omegas could handle dominant alphas. I heard that the ruts alphas experience are extremely painful and long-lasting, so they can only endure that period with an omega. Betas couldn’t withstand a dominant alpha’s rut. I couldn’t be with hyung during his rut.
‘Then Taebeom hyung must be…’