Cherry Cake Chapter 3.2

“What do you mean ‘what’?”

A firm finger intruded into the wet opening without hesitation.

“I have to loosen it up to fuck you, don’t I?”

Seo Soohyun pushed his toes against the floor, trying to crawl forward. His toes, clad in white socks with only his pants and underwear removed, wiggled pathetically.

“Ah!”

But his feeble resistance ended there. His posture crumbled as the finger inside pressed against his inner wall.

“Ow, it hurts…”

“An Omega shouldn’t feel pain.”

A low chuckle came from behind him. It sounded like a reprimand.

“Hmm, ah…”

He wanted to struggle, but the thought of someone else’s finger inside him sent a wave of instinctive fear. Seo Soohyun just trembled, trapped between fight and flight. The tension in his body made the intruding finger even more noticeable.

“Haa, Soohyun. Are you going to make this difficult?”

“Ah!”

A hand slapped his buttocks as if telling him to stay still, and a wave of pheromones washed over him. His barely maintained consciousness seemed to flicker, and his backside became suddenly wet. At the same time, he felt a strange illusion that his tightly clenched insides were subtly loosening.

“Ahk!”

Without a moment to react, a second finger entered, spreading him open.

“Ahh, uh…”

Soohyun, barely managing to put strength into his trembling shoulders, finally looked back. The first thing he saw was the menacingly erect penis, its zipper already down. Since he had turned on the bedroom light before leaving the store, unlike last time, its grotesque form was clearly visible. Unlike himself, who had no hair down there, the presence of pubic hair didn’t seem strange, but the penis, poised as if to pierce him, was so large and thick that it evoked a visceral sense of rejection.

“You have the composure to look at my dick?”

Gi Taeyeon asked with a smirk, as if he had noticed his gaze, deliberately rubbing the tip of his penis, dripping with pre-cum, against his buttocks. Seo Soohyun flinched at the slick, hot sensation against his skin. His head dropped downwards without him even realizing it.

“Heuk!”

Even though his head was spinning, the movement of the fingers was vivid. The two fingers inside swirled, spreading apart and forcibly stretching his twitching insides. Every time the fingers pressed against a certain spot, his stomach contracted and expanded repeatedly.

“It’ll hurt when you’re being stretched open for the first time, so bear with it.”

“Haa, heuk…”

Seo Soohyun didn’t understand Gi Taeyeon’s words. He was just slightly relieved by the sensation of the fingers withdrawing. But his relief was short-lived. As if gauging the size, a firm finger traced the wrinkles around his opening, and then a large hand gripped each buttock, spreading them apart. He couldn’t understand why he was spreading them, as if they were legs that could be moved apart.

“Ah, what are you…doing…”

Just as a sense of foreboding washed over him and he tried to look back, a blunt object touched his opening. It was before his body, anticipating what was about to happen, could instinctively flee.

“Aack! Ahh, uh…”

Then, a hard glans pushed into his unprepared opening. Seo Soohyun involuntarily opened his mouth at the feeling of the large, fleshy object, seemingly bigger than a newborn puppy, forcibly intruding and stirring within his narrow walls. His scream lasted only a few seconds.

“Haah…”

The pain was so intense that he couldn’t make any other sound but gasps. All he could do was stare blankly as saliva dripping from his parted lips soaked into the bedding.

“Haa, fuck, why is it so tight…”

“Huh, ah…”

“Relax.”

Seo Soohyun shook his head. It wasn’t something he could control.

“Ah, it hurts…”

“This is why first-timers are such a hassle.”

Goosebumps erupted across his skin as a wave of pheromones washed over him, as if trying to crush him.

His body, designed to open up when receiving an Alpha’s pheromones, slowly began to relax. Seo Soohyun gasped. The moment the excruciating pain that felt like it was crushing his throat shifted into a different sensation was vivid.

“Relax.”

Gi Taeyeon murmured, kneading his pale, upturned buttocks. It sounded gentle, but it was an order. Seo Soohyun struggled to relax, wriggling. Not only because of Gi Taeyeon’s chiding tone, but because it felt like it would hurt more if he didn’t.

“Ahk…”

As if rewarding his efforts, his inner walls gradually opened. At the same time, as if waiting for that opportunity, the glans, which had been caught shallowly, pushed in deeply.

“Haa! Heuk!”

Seo Soohyun grabbed at the bedding beneath him. Thin tendons stood out on the back of his hand.

‘Grandmother said to bite his dick in times like this…’

The pheromones made his thoughts scatter. His grandmother’s voice, telling him to bite the Alpha’s penis if he forcefully pushed it in, floated in his mind.

“Huu…”

But the low breaths coming from behind him immediately dispelled that voice.

Seo Soohyun couldn’t follow his grandmother’s advice. His body, vulnerable to pheromones, rejected rational thought. Perhaps it was because his body remembered the stimulation he had tasted once before. His inner walls, as if they had never been tightly constricted, wriggled and clung to the Alpha’s penis.

He couldn’t be sure if the sensation that dominated his body was pleasant. Everything was vague and unclear.

“Ahh!”

Only when the man, leaning over him, grabbed his erect penis did Soohyun realize that the sensation he was feeling was clearly pleasure.

“Even your little white dick is hard?”

“Heuk, eut, uhnn!”

Unable to withstand the intense stimulation from the slow stroking, his upper body tilted towards the floor. His posture was one of offering his hips to the man. Whether pleased by the sight, or satisfied with the wriggling insides, Gi Taeyeon let out a low chuckle and thrust his hips.

“Aack!”

The penis, which he thought was already fully inside, pushed in further, crushing against his inner wall. Seo Soohyun only realized it was finally fully inside after he felt the rough pubic hair against his skin. His body stiffened, shocked by the sudden, deep thrust.

“So unruly, cumming in an adult’s hand.”

A sticky sensation touched his stomach. He, who hadn’t even moaned, didn’t immediately realize that Gi Taeyeon was rubbing his stomach with his semen-covered palm. A delayed moan finally escaped him.

“Heuk… Haa, ah…”

“Still small, since you’re a baby?”

“Ahh, heuk…”

“My dick goes all the way in here.”

The man pressed his thumb somewhere, and his stomach trembled again. It felt like the penis would pierce through his stomach. Seo Soohyun struggled to push away the hand pressing against his stomach, but it was useless. His weakly outstretched arm collapsed before it could reach Gi Taeyeon’s wrist.

A low chuckle, as if amused by the sight, sounded, and then the man grabbed his hand. His limp, white hand was dragged along as the man led it. The hand was placed on his right buttock. Needing something to hold onto, Seo Soohyun unconsciously gripped his right buttock tightly.

“Holding on tight?”

With a tone as if coaxing a child, the penis that had been filling him completely withdrew. It’s over now, his muddled mind thought, relieved, misinterpreting his first experience.

“Ahk!”

Thwack! Before the penis could fully withdraw, it thrust back in. A dull thud echoed as his buttocks rubbed against the man’s body. His body lurched forward, and his hand, gripping his buttock, slipped.

“Haa, I told you to hold on tight…”

Clicking his tongue at Seo Soohyun’s limp form, the man grabbed his round buttocks with his own hand. The opening, barely holding onto the penis, was flushed red around the edges.

“It’s a nice view, though…”

“Ahh, uh, uhnn!”

Gi Taeyeon continued thrusting his hips, as if observing the penis moving in and out of the small opening, placing his thumb against the smoothly stretched skin. His insides, which had given him trouble earlier, now readily accommodated the thrusting penis, eagerly sucking it in.

The wet opening, soaked from the pheromones, endured the rough movements remarkably well, as if it wasn’t its first time receiving an Alpha’s penis.

“Huu…”

Thud! Each time the glistening penis, slick with precum and fluids, pulled out of the stretched opening, Gi Taeyeon applied pressure with his fingertips.

Perhaps because of the reddish fingerprints on his pale skin, his buttocks looked like peaches.

“Mmm, D-Director…”

A faint voice came from beneath him. Gi Taeyeon shifted his gaze slightly upwards. Seo Soohyun, having managed to turn his head, was looking at him with tear-filled eyes.

“My knees… Heuk… they hurt…”

Even with the thick winter bedding, it was only natural for his knees to get sore from being pressed against the floor without a mattress. Gi Taeyeon, looking at the teary eyes, smiled faintly.

“Baby, haa, sex…”

“Haa, uh, aaah!”

His words were cut off with each thrust of his hips. The man lowered his upper body, completely covering Seo Soohyun. The penis buried itself deep inside, and the coarse pubic hair grazed against his sensitive skin.

“…is more fun when you do it like a dog.”

For Gi Taeyeon, sex wasn’t about tender intimacy with a partner. It was merely the act of thrusting and cumming. And during rut, he was no different from an animal.

He didn’t even mind orgies. A dominant Alpha’s rut was long, and not many Omegas could handle the unrestrained sex of an Alpha in rut without problems, so there was no more effective sex than having multiple partners.

This meant sex held no special meaning for him. For Gi Taeyeon, sex was nothing more, and nothing less, than a way to relieve his urges whenever he pleased.

“Heuk, ah, aah, heuk!”

Ignoring the complaint about his knees, the man moved roughly, unconcerned about his bony knees becoming red from friction against the bedding. With each thrust, as the wet, soft inner walls gripped his penis, an immense sense of satisfaction filled him.

“Ahh, ch-cheon… Uhnn…”

Maybe because I saw blood at the golf course today.

Gi Taeyeon thought uselessly and lowered his hips again. His soft, cream-colored knit crumpled against the gaudily patterned shirt, completely unsuitable for the holiday. A large hand grasped Seo Soohyun’s penis without any preamble. The hairless, pale penis, despite being fully erect, felt as soft as it looked.

“Our Soohyun also… huu…”

“Heuk, eut, no…”

“Pees like a dog?”

Gi Taeyeon thrust his hips while stroking the penis in his hand. The penis, unaccustomed to such stimulation, quickly ejaculated. Chuckling lowly as he caught the semen in his palm, the man thrust his penis, which had been roughly plowing his insides, even deeper.

“So I’ll cum like a dog too?”

Seo Soohyun trembled all over. He didn’t have time to feel ashamed by the words about peeing like a dog, as the pleasure overwhelming his body made his mind collapse. The stimulation became so intense that it went beyond pleasure, evoking a desperate urge to escape.

Thwack!

“Ahk!”

The penis, buried so deep that his pubic hair rubbed against his perineum, spurted semen. Seo Soohyun could only gasp, overwhelmed by his first sex and the semen flooding his insides. He felt a strange sensation as if his stomach was bloating.

“Ahh, hmm…”

“Ha…”

His hips twitched and trembled as if convulsing. If it weren’t for the hand gripping his pelvis, his weakened legs would have given way completely.

“Haa, ha, hmm…”

As he was catching his breath, his cheek buried in the cotton-filled bedding, Gi Taeyeon grabbed his chin and forced him to look up. The man looked down at his half-lidded eyes and burst into laughter.

“Haha. This is fucking amazing…”

Seo Soohyun just fluttered his eyelashes. He couldn’t do anything, overwhelmed by the unbearable pleasure and the pheromones pressing down on him. Even with physiological tears wetting his eyes and lashes, all he could do was gasp for breath.

“Huu…”

The man, who had been shallowly thrusting even after cumming, finally pulled back. Seo Soohyun moaned and shuddered at the feeling of the metal rod that had been stirring his insides being pulled out. His body, which had been arched with only his buttocks lifted, collapsed.

It was while he was panting, trying to catch his breath.

“Ahh…”

He felt a large hand grip his waist and pull his whole body down.

“Director, hmm… I want to… ha… stop.”

He resolved to follow his grandmother’s words and bite the man’s penis to escape, but his body refused to cooperate, his muscles wouldn’t work. In the meantime, the hard flesh touched his twitching opening.

“Heuk… Ah!”

He wanted to struggle, but it wasn’t easy in his current position, practically straddling Gi Taeyeon’s prone thighs. In the brief pause, the glans pushed in relentlessly.

“Baby, do you know when dogs stop mating?”

“Haa, heuk…”

His constricted inner walls began to stretch little by little, following the movements of the penis. Unlike the first penetration, his semen-soaked insides allowed for a somewhat easier entry. His flushed, swollen flesh eagerly clung to the penis, stretching and contracting along the lines of his blood vessels.

“It ends… haa… when we knot.”

“Ahh!”

His head, which had been resting on the bedding, fell downwards. His face was buried in the soft cotton, but it was hard to turn his head to the side as his body was shaken by the man’s thrusts. Seo Soohyun parted his lips, gasping. He could feel his own pheromones leaking out like dripping saliva.

“Haaa…”

The thrusts weren’t particularly fast. The penis moved slowly, stimulating his sensitive insides, as if forgetting the frantic pace from earlier. His penis, crushed between the soft bedding and his stomach, continued to leak semen as if it were pheromones.

“Heuk!”

His whole body felt heavy. Not just from the weight of the man pressing down on him, but also because of the intense pheromones that made it impossible to even move a finger. Seo Soohyun could only gasp for hot breaths. The man had chuckled at the mention of alcohol, but his pheromones were no different from hard liquor. The more he inhaled the scent, the more his mind clouded and his tongue loosened.

“Huu, your cheeks were so fucking squishy too…”

“Ahk, uh, st-… heuk… stop… c-come… hmm…”

His slurred tongue couldn’t form proper words. Instead, the more he spoke, the more pressure he felt on his chest, and the penis pushed in deeper, grinding against his insides. Even though he was inhaling air through his nose and mouth, he felt suffocated. Perhaps it was because his stomach felt too full.

“Stop coming in?”

“Mmm, mm…”

Seo Soohyun nodded dazedly. The white undershirt he wore under his knit for neatness chafed against his bare skin.

“What will you do for me if I stop?”

“Haa, I don’t… know…”

“Our Soohyun cums all over and wants me to stop?”

He was already struggling against the pressure. His waist convulsed as a hand slipped between the bedding and his stomach, toying with the tip of his penis.

“Ahh…”

“Even loan sharks don’t do business at such a loss, boss.”

“Ah!”

With a nip to his ear, the slow thrusts resumed.

“Hmm, eut, uhnn…”

Even though the movements weren’t as urgent and rough as before, it was hard to endure. The friction of the man’s pants against his bare legs made it even more difficult. Finally, Seo Soohyun moaned, pinned beneath the large body.

“Haa…”

He gasped in pain from his swollen opening and the chafed skin on his thighs, yet at the same time, he was drowning in immense pleasure. It felt like he was going crazy, able to feel how his inner walls wriggled with each thrust of the penis, now moving at a noticeably slower pace. His mind flickered, as if on the verge of collapse.

“Fuck, this is frustrating…”

He was panting, letting out moans mixed with his ragged breaths. The weight pressing down on him suddenly disappeared, and a hand reached for the back of his right knee.

Thwack!

“Ahk!”

There was no time to be surprised by the sudden change in position. The thick penis began pounding inside him rapidly, as if forgetting its previous slow pace. His upper body remained slumped against the floor, lacking strength.

Seo Soohyun was being pounded with only his right leg and hip raised diagonally. It was a vulgar position that could be mistaken for a male dog urinating.

“Haa, eut, heuk…”

The man chuckled as if amused by the sight.

Soohyun whimpered. He couldn’t do anything but breathe. In fact, even breathing was difficult. He felt his lungs expanding and contracting to their limit.

His body, consumed by pheromones, readily accepted all the stimulation, but his mind, which had never specifically imagined sex with an Alpha, was overwhelmed by the constant onslaught of pleasure.

Not to mention the movements of the flesh thrusting inside him. Furthermore, with each thrust of Gi Taeyeon’s hips, his heavy testicles, as large as his penis, slammed against the underside of the flesh connecting to his buttocks. His excited inner walls eagerly tightened around the throbbing penis, but his perineum was swollen red.

“Haa, haaa…”

He blinked, and the bedding, stained with tears and saliva, came into view. I just washed this…

The man who had done his laundry for him came to mind, and a wave of inexplicable sadness washed over him.

He managed to move his hand to wipe his tears when Gi Taeyeon suddenly released his leg. Thinking it was finally over, he sniffled and turned his head, meeting the man’s dark eyes. As if reading the flicker of hope on his face, the man brushed back his sweat-drenched hair and smirked.

Not immediately understanding the meaning, Soohyun blinked again. It was only then that he shifted his weight onto his knees, as if preparing to escape.

“D-Director. Don’t… Ah!”

As he tried to move forward, a large hand pressed down on the back of his head. At the same time, his twitching opening was mercilessly pierced by the hard penis.

“N-no. Heuk, d-don’t, don’t do it!”

He now understood why his body had instinctively tried to escape. Seo Soohyun struggled to remove the hand pressing against the back of his head. But before he could grab the man’s wrist, the penis inside him began to swell.

“Ahh, uh, aaah!”

Seo Soohyun’s sex education had, of course, included knotting. So he couldn’t not know what it meant for a penis to swell inside him.

“I don’t… want… this… heuk, huu… Don’t, don’t do it.”

“Haa, don’t do it?”

Unlike Seo Soohyun, who cried out in alarm, Gi Taeyeon just laughed as if he was watching something amusing.

“You’re taking it well, our Soohyun.”

“Ahh, ah, it hurts…”

With his insides filled by the swelling penis, the pheromones no longer had any effect. His body trembled with arousal, but the pain inside him was so intense that it was hard to bear the disparity. Yet, Seo Soohyun didn’t give up and continued to struggle. His socks-clad feet, much smaller than the man’s, scraped against the bedding in a feeble resistance.

“Bear with it, even if it hurts.”

“Ahk, ah!”

The arm that had snaked around his waist tightened its grip. His upper body was lifted, and he was now straddling the man’s thighs as he knelt. Seo Soohyun burst into tears at the sudden change in position and the deeper penetration.

“God, you’re so fucking hot when you cry…”

A hand reached out from behind him and gripped his cheek, and a slick tongue licked his lips.

“Haa, ha…”

Seo Soohyun closed his eyes. Tears, welling up and wetting his lashes, streamed down his cheeks and touched the man’s lips.

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“Eut…”

Seo Soohyun barely managed to open his eyelids. A moist, black nose came into his limited field of vision, his eyes swollen shut. Noticing that he was awake, Bokshil nudged his cheek with his nose again.

Cute… He tried to stroke the soft fur like he did every morning, but frowned at his uncooperative arm.

“…Ah.”

His slow moan sounded raspy, as if he had a terrible cold.

“Kking.”

As if wondering why he wasn’t getting up, Bokshil circled him, trying to push his small head under his arm. It seemed like he was trying to help him up.

“Bokshil, I’m okay.”

With those words to soothe Bokshil, Seo Soohyun finally managed to put some strength into his palm. He was able to sit up only after pushing away the arm resting heavily on his stomach, just like last time. As he groaned, clutching his aching back, Bokshil whined and paced around him.

“Okay, I’ll get up now.”

He felt like he needed to move his body.

Soohyun groaned and managed to push himself up. Thanks to his naturally diligent nature and his hobby of tending the garden since childhood, he had good stamina and decent muscles for his slender build, rarely experiencing muscle aches. But now, every small movement made his whole body ache. Just like the grandmothers said, he felt sore all over.

“Eut…”

As he managed to stand on his toes, he looked down at the sleeping man.

The man, asleep in a prone position, had his upper body exposed because the blanket had slipped down. Even in his relaxed state, the muscles covering his body looked menacing.

“Wow.”

Even though he knew it wasn’t the time, Seo Soohyun couldn’t help but let out a gasp of admiration. It was because of the tattoo he was seeing for the first time. A large, black snake was coiled on the man’s broad back. It was his first time seeing a tattoo in person, and the intricate drawing felt so real that it gave him goosebumps.

“Oh, Bokshil.”

Just then, Bokshil placed his paw on the man’s back and jumped over the snake. The snake, much larger than Bokshil, wriggled as the man shifted slightly, as if it were alive. If it had been a real, living creature instead of a tattoo, it would have been large enough to swallow Bokshil whole.

But the slight movement ended there. The man only stirred minimally, as if an ant, not a puppy, had walked over him.

As he stood there, observing the movement, he noticed red marks near the man’s shoulder blades, on the part of his back not covered by the tattoo. Seo Soohyun belatedly realized they were his own nail marks. He usually kept his nails short, so he must have been gripping them with excessive force.

“Kang!”

“Are you hungry?”

Just then, Bokshil barked. It seemed he had come in to wake him up because he was hungry. He probably stepped on the man’s back because he was in a hurry, instead of turning back like usual.

“Okay, I’ll give you something delicious.”

Seo Soohyun slowly started walking. His waist and thighs ached, but he knew he had to move his body to ease the muscle soreness.

“Eat slowly, I’ll be back after washing up.”

Bokshil immediately started eating after he mixed the beef he had boiled for him for Seol with his dog food. Crunch, crunch. Listening to the sound of Bokshil’s few teeth crunching on the food, Soohyun went to his room, grabbed some clothes, and entered the bathroom.

Fortunately, or unfortunately, since only his pants and underwear had been removed, he could wash up after taking off just his top and socks.

Groaning, Soohyun took off his knit and unbuttoned his shirt with trembling hands. Then, he turned on the shower.

“Ah, cold.”

Shivering, he stepped under the showerhead fixed to the wall. He wanted to wash up with hot water, but the area between his buttocks was so sore and burning that he thought cold water would be better.

“It hurts…”

After some deliberation, Seo Soohyun carefully reached between his buttocks. He could feel the swollen opening without even having to search for it. He had been stung by a bee once when he was very young, visiting a neighbor’s apiary, and it felt even more swollen than that.

“Heut.”

But he had to shower. After shivering under the cold water for a while, he gave up on washing his hair sitting down as usual and slowly turned around. Standing with his head tilted back slightly, he let the water from the showerhead wash over his hair and forehead.

“It’s hard to wash my hair with cold water…”

Finally, Seo Soohyun adjusted the temperature to get hot water. Warm water started pouring down soon after. His skin, chilled from the cold water, tingled as the hot water hit it, as if submerged in carbonated water.

Soohyun raised his still trembling hand and rubbed his chest. He felt a strange pang in his heart as well.

I must have been really shocked yesterday. He wet his hair with warm water, lathered it with shampoo, and lost himself in thought as he scrubbed his scalp.

Thinking back, it was indeed a shocking situation. He had been momentarily happy to see the man, but he had then faced an Alpha in rut for the first time in his life. And it wasn’t just seeing him. It was followed by a semi-forced kiss.

The memory of the fingers and tongue invading his mouth made him instinctively bite his lip. Lukewarm water flowed into his mouth, wetting his throat as his wet lips were pressed against his teeth.

“I should drink some water after washing up.”

The thirst came a beat later, as if his senses were returning belatedly.

It was only when he rinsed off the shampoo and lathered the shower towel with soap that Seo Soohyun sorted out the emotions he had felt at the time. It was his long-standing habit to calmly retrace and process any troubling events while showering.

“Normally, I should report this…”

Soohyun murmured to himself as he rubbed the cucumber-scented towel against his arm.

According to what he had learned, he should report it to the police. Even if he was an Omega and the Alpha before him was in rut, he had no obligation to help him. Moreover, he had suppressants in the store. Since the other party hadn’t listened even after he mentioned it, no one would blame him for calling the police.

“It’s difficult…”

But he hesitated. It wasn’t because he was afraid of Gi Taeyeon being a gangster or worried about the repercussions, but rather, something in his heart held him back. Seo Soohyun carefully lathered the area between his buttocks, checking his body. He couldn’t see clearly without a mirror, but his eyelids seemed swollen, his whole body ached as if it had been crushed, and there were bruises on his knees. Above all, the area between his buttocks stung even at the touch of the soap suds. He looked like he had been thoroughly ravaged.

Yet, he hesitated to report it. He must have had some sort of fondness for the man.

“I should talk to the Director after he wakes up.”

Seo Soohyun groaned but washed himself thoroughly. It wasn’t a light matter that he could simply overlook, so he thought it would be best to talk to the man after he woke up and ask him why he did what he did.

Sex without consent was practically rape, but Seo Soohyun felt strangely calm. The moment the large penis forced its way into him, the long moments it stirred inside him before swelling, were all painful and agonizing, but there were definitely moments of pleasure mixed in.

Of course, he didn’t think that experiencing pleasure negated the fact that it was rape. Such an argument would be a shameless thought of a rapist deserving of divine punishment. But the reason he could remain calm was that he didn’t see having sex with the man as something particularly significant.

He even thought, Since people aren’t objects and their worth doesn’t diminish after having sex, there’s no need to attach great meaning to the first experience, right?

He was aware that his thought process was quite different from most people’s. But it couldn’t be helped, as he was naturally averse to complex thoughts and tended to quickly forget and move on from bad experiences.

“But I should still tell him to apologize.”

Seo Soohyun meticulously rinsed off the soap.

Even if the man was in rut, it was clearly his fault for having sex with him without consent, and even knotting him. He vaguely recalled from sex education that even between partners, knotting shouldn’t be done carelessly. Even though he, as a recessive, couldn’t get pregnant, he still intended to demand an apology.

“I’m hungry, but my stomach hurts…”

Soohyun rubbed his damp stomach. He had a feeling he wouldn’t be able to eat anything today.

“Did you finish your food?”

After coming out of the bathroom, Seo Soohyun put the towel in the washing machine and checked Bokshil’s food bowl. Fortunately, he had licked it clean, as if he had enjoyed the beef.

Bokshil, who had been sitting quietly, licking his nose, suddenly trotted towards the store. He was old and hard of hearing, and these days, he was easily bothered, so normally, he wouldn’t have reacted, but today was different. It seemed like he sensed a presence he couldn’t ignore. Seo Soohyun realized it was quite late after seeing the dim store through the open doorway.

‘Why is it still evening?’

He looked for his phone, lying around somewhere, and checked the date. He had thought it was strange that the night, which had felt excruciatingly long, had only lasted a few hours, and sure enough, a whole day had passed. Now he understood why Bokshil had come asking for food.

“Soohyun! Soohyun!”

Just then, he heard someone knocking on the glass door.

“Oh…”

Seo Soohyun belatedly realized that the figure looming outside the store wasn’t just a customer.

What should I do? My eyes are so swollen, they’ll look strange… Pulling the hood of his fluffy hoodie over his head, Soohyun slowly walked towards the door. He hadn’t been able to put on underwear because his backside was so swollen, but his loose sweatpants would hopefully conceal it.

“Oh my!”

As he approached the entrance without turning on the store lights, the youngest grandmother, who had been peering inside, flinched and then clutched her chest. Seo Soohyun smiled awkwardly and opened the latch. Now he saw that not only was it late, but the weather had also taken a turn. The sky was dark.

“Grandmother.”

“Honey, why is your voice like that?”

“Ah… I think I caught a cold.”

He belatedly remembered that he hadn’t ventilated the store. The youngest grandmother was a Beta, so she wouldn’t be able to detect the pheromones, but he felt uneasy.

“You have a cold? Now that I look, your cheeks are flushed too.”

The grandmother reached out and touched his cheek. Seo Soohyun leaned into her hand like a spoiled grandson. He felt guilty for lying, but her warm touch made him feel better.

“Is that why the store has been closed for two days?”

“Two days?”

“It seemed closed since yesterday afternoon.”

“Ah… That’s right. I must be out of it because I just woke up.”

The youngest grandmother looked at him with concern and craned her neck to examine his face closely.

“I came by because I wondered if something had happened. I told the other grandmothers that I would come since my house is closest. Let’s go inside. I’ll make you some porridge.”

“It’s okay.”

He quickly replied. Right next to the counter leading to his house, a large pair of shoes lay scattered. The grandmothers would be shocked if they found out.

“You need to eat something to regain your strength. Or shall I make you something else? I didn’t bring anything because I thought you must have eaten plenty of holiday food at your Seoul grandmother’s house. I thought you might be tired of oily food.”

“I’m really okay, Grandmother. I already made something for myself.”

Seo Soohyun lied again. He was touched by her offer, but aside from the fact that there was a man in his house, he wasn’t in any condition to eat. His stomach felt bloated from being ravaged. And it had started to ache.

“I’m going to take some medicine and go back to sleep.”

“Oh dear, our puppy’s face has become half its size.”

“If the other grandmothers are worried, please tell them I’m okay. I don’t think I’ll be able to contact them, I’m a bit out of it.”

“Alright, then. I’ll be going. Call me if you want to eat something, okay?”

“Yes.”

Seo Soohyun waved at the woman who kept looking back at him. She tilted her head as if noticing the car parked in front of the store for the first time, but hurried on her way due to the gloomy weather. It looked like it was about to snow.

Soohyun, who had been contemplating whether to go inside, came out of the store only after confirming that the youngest grandmother had entered her house. He sniffled from the cold, but he thought it would be good to walk around a bit to loosen up his stiff muscles.

“Heewoon…”

“What’s wrong, Bokshil?”

Bokshil, poking his head out of the slightly open door, whined. It seemed like he was telling him to come inside.

Should I walk around the garden instead? He thought it might be better to walk on the soil rather than the cement road. Just as he turned to go inside, a familiar car slid in and stopped with a screech.

Seo Soohyun looked back. A man jumped out of the car that had braked abruptly. It was the man Gi Taeyeon called his manager.

“Greetings. Is the Director inside, by any chance?”

He wondered how the man knew to come here, but Seo Soohyun nodded readily. Seo Jihwan, who had been wearing a troubled expression, asked cautiously, with a deeply apologetic look.

“Would it be alright if I came in?”

“Ah, yes.”

Seo Soohyun scooped up Bokshil, opened the store door, and went inside first. His muscles screamed in protest from the sudden effort of picking up Bokshil, but he couldn’t show it.

“But he’s sleeping…”

“Excuse me.”

How should I explain that he’s naked? Seo Soohyun felt embarrassed, but he couldn’t stop the man from entering.

Since he’s practically his right-hand man, he might know about the Director’s habit of sleeping naked. The problem was that he was also an Alpha. Even though it had been a while since he opened the windows to ventilate, if any pheromones remained, the man would realize what had happened.

Unsure of how to explain the situation, he just lingered near the bedroom door. A few minutes later, Seo Jihwan came out, carrying the half-naked man draped over his shoulder. What if he had taken off his pants too? Wouldn’t his right-hand man be embarrassed? He was filled with belated worries, but fortunately, it seemed he hadn’t witnessed anything too indecent.

“I apologize.”

Seo Jihwan, about to bow, faltered under the weight of the man’s limp body and gestured towards the bedroom with his chin.

“I’ll leave my business card. Please contact me when it’s convenient for you. We will offer appropriate compensation for this incident.”

Letting out a low groan, as if the sleeping man was considerably heavy, he bowed his head slightly towards Seo Soohyun and headed towards the store. Seo Soohyun, holding Bokshil, just turned his body. He couldn’t think of anything to say in this unexpected situation.

“Ah…”

After some time, he faintly heard the sound of a car starting.

“…”

The house suddenly felt empty. Seo Soohyun stared blankly at the door leading to the store and then slowly sat down on a chair at the dining table. He wanted to lie down and rest, but he had to clean up the messy bedding, and he knew it was better to sit up to ease his stiff muscles.

“Sniff.”

He wrinkled his nose and then tensed his facial muscles. His small, white chin trembled like a walnut shell, and a different sound mixed with his sniffles.

“Kking…”

Bokshil, who had been nestled quietly in his arms, wriggled and started licking the back of his hand.

Seo Soohyun hugged Bokshil tightly. Instead of the pungent scent of pheromones, a comforting, familiar doggy smell emanated from his warm body.

🍑

Seo Jihwan turned towards the sound of footsteps. The man, wearing only a shower gown over his bare body, was walking towards him languidly, as if finally coming to his senses. The tie of the gown was left untied, exposing his collarbone, chest, abs, and even further down, but neither Gi Taeyeon nor Seo Jihwan paid much attention to his near-nakedness.

Having spent their younger days as gangsters, frequently visiting bathhouses together, they were all used to seeing each other naked. It would be stranger to suddenly feel ashamed.

Unconcerned about the water dripping from his hair and body, leaving wet footprints across the marble floor, Gi Taeyeon walked slowly, like a cold-blooded animal emerging from hibernation.

“Where am I?”

Entering the living room after crossing the wide hallway, the man picked up a bottle of whiskey neatly placed on the table and poured it into a glass without ice. The golden-brown liquid quickly disappeared between his lips. He turned to Seo Jihwan while casually drinking the strong liquor.

“The golf course.”

“Golf course?”

“Yes.”

Seo Jihwan simply watched as the man, likely on an empty stomach, drank with a nonchalant expression. He himself couldn’t handle drinking on an empty stomach anymore as he aged, but a dominant Alpha’s fast metabolism wouldn’t make it an issue for the man.

The immediate concern was the drug he had been given.

“Not many people knew about your golf appointment with the CEO of Yusan Construction. What exactly was it?”

“The substance was found in the water bottle you drank on the field.”

“So diligent.”

“Due to our side turning off the CCTV, we haven’t yet identified the person who brought the water, but we’re looking into it. We’re comparing it with the staff records, so it won’t take long.”

Gi Taeyeon sat down on the expensive leather sofa, unconcerned about getting it wet. The liquid in his large hand remained still, despite his rough movements.

After emptying his glass in one gulp, the man reached for a cigarette. As he flicked the lighter, a red glow flickered across his face.

He had first noticed something was wrong shortly after driving off. A faint heat spread through him, and his penis hardened.

Gi Taeyeon didn’t think much of it. It wasn’t his rut cycle, and he always felt a surge of excitement after seeing blood, so he assumed it was the same this time.

“Find the druggie first. If it’s a drug strong enough to affect a dominant, there must be a separate dealer supplying it.”

“Yes.”

The man took a drag of his cigarette, stubbed it out in the ashtray, and refilled his glass. He then brought the brimming glass to his lips, his eyes narrowing slightly. His lips, touching the glass, curled into a smirk, mirroring the slight upturn of his eyes.

“What do you think the bastard who drugged me was after?”

“Considering the hotel project…”

“Not because they needed a stud?”

Seo Jihwan, who had naturally assumed it was because of the hotel construction project, frowned slightly. A stud. It wasn’t an entirely implausible idea. From a 21st-century perspective, it was an extremely primal notion, but Alphas and Omegas had underlying desires that Betas couldn’t comprehend.

Just as many Alphas desired to have children with dominant Omegas, many Omegas wanted to bear the children of dominant Alphas. It wasn’t openly practiced, as it was similar to surrogacy or sperm banks in the Beta world, but transactions did occur discreetly.

The problem was that supply was significantly lower than demand, as dominants mostly paired with other dominants. As a result, some people resorted to using drugs to seduce their targets.

“I’ll look into that as well.”

And Gi Taeyeon was an excellent target. His personality wasn’t exactly stellar, but what those seeking dominants desired wasn’t character, but a superior physique and good looks, so his personality wasn’t an obstacle.

“If they were trying to use me as a stud… which broodmare had such a cute idea?”

“Come to think of it, didn’t CEO Yu Gukheon mention his daughter-in-law back then?”

Seo Jihwan spoke, recalling the man whose knee had been shattered by a golf club. He had bragged so much about his daughter-in-law that it wasn’t without reason Gi Taeyeon had mentioned the ancestral rites prepared by her.

“Was his son an Alpha?”

“Yes. Officially, he’s listed as a regular, but there are rumors he’s a recessive. His daughter-in-law is a dominant Omega, as far as I know.”

“He’s the type who wouldn’t care if the grandchild wasn’t his son’s as long as it’s a dominant. Look into that too. He’s conscious, isn’t he?”

“Yes.”

Seo Jihwan had noticed something was off with Gi Taeyeon because he had gone missing. It was unusual for the man, who was always busy with work, to disappear without a trace, not even showing up at the company. So, just in case, he had gone to the site a few hours ago.

He hadn’t expected him to actually be in that small village.

And the moment Seo Jihwan detected the faint traces of his boss’s pheromones in the small house, he realized that Gi Taeyeon had slept with Seo Soohyun. The nail marks on his back alone were enough to confirm it, even without the pheromones.

In any case, what mattered to him wasn’t who Gi Taeyeon had slept with, but his condition.

He had suspected something when the man, usually sensitive to any presence, didn’t react even when he approached. Seo Jihwan was certain something was wrong when Gi Taeyeon remained unresponsive even when he touched him. It was highly likely he was drugged. The fact that the man, who could easily take down someone even when drunk, wasn’t even opening his eyes, pointed to drugs as the only explanation.

Concluding that he wasn’t in immediate need of detoxification, he had carried him back.

‘This side seems to be more or less resolved. Then the remaining problem is…’

The small, uncomfortably shifting figure came to mind. He couldn’t easily bring it up, unsure of how Gi Taeyeon felt about Seo Soohyun.

“Regardless of that, find the druggie.”

“I’ll keep that in mind.”

“Let’s have a face-to-face meeting, shall we? The drugged person needs to give a review of how the drug felt.”

Gi Taeyeon said sarcastically.

He was in a very foul mood. Being played and drugged was bad enough, but losing control because of it was even worse.

Contrary to appearances, Gi Taeyeon was capable of self-control. The flaw was that this control didn’t extend to alcohol, cigarettes, or sex, but he always made sure to maintain a proper state when working. His temperament, which demanded control over himself and his actions, also applied to himself.

“And I’m asking just in case, but if you were in rut, the aftercare…”

“Rut, my ass.”

Gi Taeyeon chuckled and swallowed his drink. He naturally ran hot, so he had just taken a cold shower to cool down.

“If a rut ends in a day or two, is it even a rut? It’s premature ejaculation.”

He had woken up in the car as Seo Jihwan pulled up to his house. Immediately grasping the situation and cursing under his breath, Gi Taeyeon threw off his jacket and asked Seo Jihwan,

‘How many days has it been?’

‘You disappeared yesterday afternoon, so about a day.’

‘Ah, this is a mood killer.’

He had gone straight to the bathroom to shower after saying that, and had come out just a few minutes ago.

“It seems like the goal was to induce rut…”

Gi Taeyeon murmured, rubbing his glass. It might have worked on a regular Alpha or a recessive, but it didn’t seem to have the intended effect on a dominant like him. If it had been a rut, it wouldn’t have ended in just a day.

“I’ll find out about the drug as soon as possible.”

“Contact Mr. Nam too.”

“…You mean CEO Nam?”

Despite Seo Jihwan’s uneasy tone, Gi Taeyeon simply nodded. Seo Jihwan sighed inwardly at his order. Even though CEO Nam was a suitable business partner, he was the same kind as Gi Taeyeon, and they often felt mutual disdain for each other, so he could foresee the headache of mediating between them. But if Gi Taeyeon ordered it, he had to do it.

“I heard something interesting recently.”

“Is there a new drug being circulated?”

“I heard there’s a drug that makes you addicted to a specific pheromone, so you don’t react to other Alpha or Omega pheromones. If there’s a drug like that, there must also be one that accelerates rut. The one I took seems to be the type that messes with your nerves, not accelerates it.”

“I’ll contact him immediately.”

Gi Taeyeon waved his hand dismissively, as if telling him to leave. Seo Jihwan hesitated instead of leaving immediately.

Judging by the circumstances, it was clear that his boss had slept with Seo Soohyun. If Seo Soohyun was an Omega, he didn’t seem to be a dominant, and even if he was a regular Omega, since Gi Taeyeon wasn’t in rut, the chances of pregnancy were low, but it was better to be safe than sorry. If Seo Soohyun used this incident to make demands, it would cause trouble and potentially disrupt their business.

“What is it?”

Gi Taeyeon raised an eyebrow, sensing that he had something to say. Despite asking, he seemed to have a rough idea of what Seo Jihwan wanted to say.

“Which hole did you fuck?”

“It would be best to handle this cleanly…”

Gi Taeyeon twisted his lips into a grimace. This was another reason for his foul mood.

“That’s the problem.”

Despite calling it a problem, the man continued in a calm tone, taking a sip of his drink as if it were nothing.

“I remember driving, but I don’t remember anything after that.”

The only vague memory he had was of thrusting into a pair of round, white buttocks.

“I think I fucked someone senseless.”

He just couldn’t remember who it was.