Correction Chapter 104

“It hurts!!”

The voice he longed for snapped him to his senses. Until just a moment ago, he had been trapped alone in a black world. Stupidly unaware of anything… not knowing what to do… he was able to emerge from that world, where he had been wandering aimlessly, into the light.

In his arms was the person he had been searching so desperately for in the darkness… the one he had caught but who had scattered away. What happened? Why… why did this situation occur? His head was spinning.

Kim Joohwan looked around. The room was a mess…. The bedsheet was stripped off and lying on the floor, and the mattress itself was a mess of bodily fluids and semen.

‘Ah…’

Rut. He was even still in rut. And the one pinned beneath him, enduring the rut of a dominant alpha, was also in rut. But in his already exhausted body, not a trace of excitement could be felt.

‘Pheromones…’

The fully ripened pheromones were sweeter than those of any omega. In fact, they even made him feel at ease. It was always like that. He was just so at ease that he had never realized it.

‘Mine.’

He felt the strength of the muscles clenching tightly around his penis. He could feel that the space inside was already full and there was no more room to accept anything else, but it still wasn’t enough. He had to go deeper. He had to create a space inside and establish his place. Only then could he imprint himself on him.

“Aargh!!”

He struggles with his whole body, trying to escape. But it’s no use. Because I will never let go. He released more pheromones and pinned him down. He grabbed the head of the man trying to pull away and didn’t let go. Pressing down even harder, he pushed more forcefully so he absolutely couldn’t pull his hips back. Soon, his fully settled and swollen penis was hoping to take root by sowing its seed in a womb that didn’t even exist.

“Ugh—fuck…. It hurts… I said it hurts….”

I know it hurts. But I can’t help it. That’s how desperate I am. If at least one thing that can connect me to you doesn’t take root inside your body… once this night is over, it’s really the end.

Kim Joohwan kissed Jungmin’s forehead to soothe him. He instinctively treated him gently to help him relax and tried to calm him with pheromones, but for Jungmin, who was an alpha, it was only more agonizing. Normally, it would have been right to withdraw his pheromones. But right now, Joohwan couldn’t think straight due to the rut. He was only desperately trying not to lose what was in his arms.

“It’s okay… It’s okay.”

“Heuk—euk…”

He tried to calm Jungmin’s body, stroking it as he cried silently. Jungmin, too, was finding it hard to stay sane as the forcibly induced rut and the dominant alpha pheromones constricted him.

Everything was a mess. There was no sweetness, no affection for each other. It was even more of a disaster than the first time the two had mixed their bodies. One tried to escape, and the other tried to possess. Nothing was agreed upon, and they just continued the clumsy and foolish act.

“Look at me. Huh?”

Kim Joohwan said, nuzzling his head against the nape of Jungmin’s neck. Alphas are strong. But they were endlessly weak to their own omegas. They always craved love from their omegas. For them to love them more, to hold them, to please, just look at them…. But Jungmin had no intention of wanting to hold Kim Joohwan. There was no way Kim Joohwan didn’t know that. That’s why he craved and clung even more, growing anxious.

“Shinwoo hyung….”

No. That’s not the name.

“Hyung… Shinwoo hyung….”

I said no.

Kim Joohwan hugged Jungmin’s body even tighter. He loosened his grip slightly when Jungmin’s body trembled in pain, but he had no intention of letting him go from his embrace.

“sunbae… say my name.”

“Shinwoo….”

He felt a surge of anger. He almost cursed for a moment but held it back. Not now.

“I said that’s not it.”

Kim Joohwan smiled as gently as possible and whispered to Jungmin.

“You have to say my name. sunbae. You know it.”

“Hyung… Shinwoo hyung.”

“No, I said that’s not it. sunbae. That’s not it. It’s my name. The person holding you right now isn’t him.”

He pleaded, forcing a smile. Why does he keep calling another alpha’s name while receiving my penis inside his body and taking my seed? I’m the one holding you.

“sunbae… Shin Jungmin….”

I’m calling your name so clearly like this. I know who is in my arms, so why don’t you?

“Please….”

He pleaded again, nuzzling his head against the nape of his neck, but Jungmin was only in agony. In the end, the one who cherished him more was the one who gave up. He couldn’t help the continuous knotting, but he suppressed his pheromones and released his strength from everything that was binding him. Thanks to that, Jungmin’s breathing eased a little, and he gasped for air before his body went limp.

Startled, Kim Joohwan quickly looked at Jungmin’s face. He was relieved to see his breathing was even, but at the same time, he felt a sudden sense of frustration. He placed a pillow under Jungmin’s head and pressed his forehead against his.

If this were a relationship between an ordinary omega and alpha… they would have sex according to each other’s heats, and if they made eye contact with their foreheads touching like this while knotting, they could form a bond. But no matter how much he knotted with Jungmin and touched foreheads, they could have neither a bond nor a child. Above all, Shin Jungmin wouldn’t make eye contact with him.

He laid his head on Jungmin’s chest. He could see light through a faint gap in the curtains.

Their time together was coming to an end. Along with it, the identity of this foolish heart that lamented that time was also becoming clearer. But since it was an emotion he had never felt before, it was difficult to make a quick judgment. Why, of all times, was he feeling this way now? If only he had known the true nature of this anxiety a little sooner.

“Shin Jungmin….”

Let’s talk to him when this rut is over. Then maybe it won’t feel like such an end. That even if it’s a tiresome bond, it will continue on and on, and one day he will call his name, not Yoo Shinwoo’s. Kim Joohwan thought.

That was arrogance itself. It was an assumption possible only if Shin Jungmin thought of him even a little. And he had naturally thought he would. But he didn’t.

When he opened his eyes after the rut ended, the man he thought would naturally be waking up in the same bed with him was gone. Kim Joohwan quickly got out of bed and searched the entire house, but when he saw that not even a small trace of Shin Jungmin remained, he felt the world go white before his eyes.

He quickly found his phone and made a call. Fortunately, he heard the familiar ringing tone.

─…Yes.

Jungmin answered the phone. Kim Joohwan, who had been pacing the room anxiously, froze on the spot. He wanted to scream right then and there, but he held it in and composed himself.

“sunbae, where are you.”

─I… I’m on my way home now.

“In that state, you’re now… fuck, where are you.”

─Why?

“Just, tell me where you are.”

I’ll go to you. He couldn’t bring himself to say it, feeling like he would run away if he did. A few days ago, he would have said it without a second thought. But now, he was scared. Why? Why am I so scared?

─Joohwan.

“…Why are you calling me that.”

He wouldn’t call me that when I asked him to.

─What you did to me was rape.

Kim Joohwan clenched his fists. What should I do? I should apologize. Will he accept it then?

─But well, it’s a grave I dug for myself, so I have nothing to say. In the end, it’s all my fault.

He could feel the exhaustion in his voice.

─I had the strength to push you away, and I could have refused. But I didn’t. I thought that if I could become an omega, even like this… even if I had to do this, I would let you do it to me a hundred times. But then today, seeing you passed out on the bed, I suddenly wondered what I had done to you. No matter how much I hate you, I was the one who dragged you into this, so I thought it would be too shameless of me to play the victim, and I couldn’t bear to face you. Haha. I’m sorry. I… think I did something terrible to you.

Why are you the one apologizing?

“sunbae… where are you. Let’s meet and talk.”

─It’s fine. It’s over now.

“It’s not over. I’ll have them develop a better drug, so.”

─It’s fine. It’s really fine. I won’t expect or demand anything from you anymore, so you should be a free man now too~

It was always like this. You never once thought about me. I was always the only one thinking about you. Without ever thinking that was strange.

“You said you have to become an omega.”

─Right… I do. But as I said, I started dating Shinwoo hyung… so I won’t sleep with another alpha.

“Then if I develop a drug that doesn’t require you to sleep with anyone… then….”

─…Run your company well. You don’t need to go that far.

“Fuck… then what am I supposed to do.”

Why are you cutting me off so coldly? Can’t you give me even a small opening to squeeze through?

─I’m saying you don’t have to worry about anything. Thank you for everything until now. Take care.

Before he could say anything… before he could say goodbye, he coldly severed the thread that was barely connecting them. Kim Joohwan collapsed onto the sofa and buried his head in his hands. He saw the watch on the table and let out a hollow laugh. It was the only trace of Jungmin that had finally caught his eye. It was always like this. It’s not even new. You always cut me off, and I forcibly reconnected us. I just have to do that again this time.

He hadn’t even noticed himself… but how many years has it been? Adding a few more years to that is no big deal.

Feeling the faint, lingering pheromones of Jungmin, Kim Joohwan unfastened his own watch. He put on Jungmin’s instead and kissed it.