Correction Chapter 113

“Sunbae, sunbae.”

Limp and exhausted, Jungmin opened his eyes to the voice calling him so earnestly. But his throat was already too parched, and when he tried to speak, only a hoarse sound came out.

“Are you thirsty?”

Jungmin nodded at the gentle voice tinged with laughter. Joohwan took a sip of water from the glass on the nightstand and kissed Jungmin’s lips. The water flowed through the gap between their parted lips, moistening his throat.

“Want more?”

When Jungmin nodded again, the man kissed him again as if he had been waiting.

Gulp, gulp.

Even after all the water had been swallowed, the man’s lips did not pull away. Instead, feeling a tongue carefully enter, Jungmin bit the man’s lip.

“Ouch.”

Jungmin furrowed his brow as he looked at the man who was pretending to be in pain when it didn’t hurt at all. At that, Joohwan pressed down on the space between Jungmin’s brows, smoothing it out.

“You’ll get wrinkles. Don’t do that.”

“Let’s… rest a bit….”

When Jungmin spoke in an exhausted voice, Kim Joohwan smiled, lay down next to Jungmin, and hugged him from behind.

“I said let’s rest….”

It was understandable why he would say that. Since last night, Kim Joohwan had held Jungmin again and again. All traces of Yoo Shinwoo inside his body had long since vanished. He had covered them all.

Jungmin’s pheromones had also weakened considerably, which seemed to indicate his rut was ending soon, making him feel a little disappointed. Kim Joohwan buried his nose in the nape of Jungmin’s neck and inhaled. As expected, it was a sweet… and clean pheromone. It was truly amazing that a pheromone so perfectly suited to him existed in the world.

“Hey…”

Jungmin said, annoyed. And for good reason, because Kim Joohwan’s member had gotten hard. Tucked between his buttocks, there was no way he couldn’t feel it. Kim Joohwan pretended not to notice and kissed Jungmin’s shoulder. Really, why was he acting so coyly? He was like a playful rascal, and also like a boy full of laughter.

In just a single day of rut, Kim Joohwan had shown many sides of himself to Jungmin. He would stroke his hair for a long time, and at other times, he would kiss him until his lips were swollen and puffy. He kissed his entire body, and his insertion was slow and deliberate, making sure not to cause any pain. Thanks to that, even though Jungmin was an ‘alpha,’ and even in ‘rut,’ he was able to accept Kim Joohwan gently.

Countless times until he came, Kim Joohwan thrust only where Jungmin felt it most, and thanks to that, he sobbed breathlessly. He screamed in pleasure, and feeling like he might die right then and there, he hugged him and bit his ear. His voice was hoarse, and Kim Joohwan’s body was also a mess with scabs in places, but they both spent a night so satisfying that it could be called the best sex of their lives. They just didn’t say the words to each other.

Kim Joohwan was afraid Jungmin would run away, and Jungmin thought such words were unnecessary because he and Joohwan were nothing to each other.

“You’re not… going to do it?”

Jungmin asked Kim Joohwan, who was hard but remained still without entering him.

“No, I’m not.”

“Why?”

“You said you wanted to rest.”

“You’re a good listener.”

“Then you should praise me or something.”

Looking at Kim Joohwan grumbling and nuzzling against him, Jungmin sighed and raised a hand to stroke Kim Joohwan’s hair. Startled by Jungmin’s touch, Kim Joohwan lifted his head, and Jungmin looked back at him with a bewildered expression.

“What?”

“Ah, no. It’s nothing. Please keep stroking my hair.”

When Kim Joohwan offered his head like a puppy that had long awaited its master’s praise, Jungmin continued to stroke it as if he had no choice.

“Kim Joohwan.”

“Yes.”

“Do you think I can become an omega?”

At Jungmin’s question, Kim Joohwan felt the feeling of floating in the sky like a bit of down suddenly sink again. The hope that this relationship could change, even just a little, seemed to be disappearing again. What a cruel person.

“I told you I would make it happen.”

“From what I can see, it seems your company can’t make a proper drug.”

“Whoa, that one hurts my pride a little.”

“It’s true, though. After trying this hard and it’s not working… either the drug is strange, or I’m strange. Or we’re both strange. I can feel that my body is quite broken. My eyesight has gotten a lot worse too. No, what’s the use of saying this now. It was all my decision. But… there’s a reason I feel a sense of emptiness….”

“Sunbae.”

“Hmm?”

“What is there to hide from me now? So just tell me everything. I’m your secret room, sunbae.”

Kim Joohwan said, hugging Jungmin even tighter.

“Earlier… before you came, I asked Shinwoo hyung. If he loved me. If he wanted to hold me because he loved me. I know it’s childish. I’m too old now to be whining about love… and it’s true our relationship is twisted. But a person’s… heart isn’t like that. I still wanted to hear that one thing, that one childish word. It felt like if I did, I could truly endure anything.”

He couldn’t tell Kim Joohwan, but… Jungmin hadn’t wanted to be held by Yoo Shinwoo. At that very moment, he truly didn’t want to be held by him, so he had resisted somehow. In a way, what had happened with Yoo Shinwoo was no different from being raped. However, since it was all his own doing, he couldn’t tell anyone, and he especially didn’t want to tell Kim Joohwan about his feelings at that time. Because he felt he would cause a huge scene. And… because he felt he would get hurt….

“……”

Jungmin fell silent for a moment. Jungmin would never know how terrified Kim Joohwan was during that brief time. What answer had Yoo Shinwoo given to that word he himself couldn’t bring himself to say?

“But hyung asked why that was necessary in the current situation.”

Jungmin’s voice trembled. He didn’t cry, but his heart must have already been torn to shreds and wept. He remembered Jungmin’s face as he lay in Yoo Shinwoo’s arms, staring blankly at the ceiling. It was the face of someone who had given up on everything. It would not be an exaggeration to say he had died after hearing that answer.

But why? It was a truly terrible thought, but Kim Joohwan was angry and, at the same time, happy. He was glad that Yoo Shinwoo was the kind of person he thought he was. He doesn’t love Shin Jungmin. He had never once done or said the things one would to a person they love. Jungmin would be in pain from having that confirmed, but Kim Joohwan was happy. Now you… will fall into my arms.

“I wonder what he meant by that. I keep mulling it over.”

“Sunbae.”

“What.”

“Shall I make it so you can’t think about anything?”

“How… ah!”

Kim Joohwan’s member plunged right into Jungmin’s body. As Jungmin’s body arched from the sudden shock, Kim Joohwan quickly hugged him tight, caressing his chest and slowly releasing his pheromones. In response, Jungmin’s pheromones also flowed out, pushing back against Kim Joohwan’s pheromones like an alpha’s should, but it was not enough.

Kim Joohwan moved his hips, thrusting hard and deep inside Jungmin’s body. Soon, the position changed from fucking on their sides to missionary, and Jungmin, with a moan, looked up at Kim Joohwan diligently thrusting his hips above him and let out a smirk.

“Why are you laughing?”

“I was just wondering what’s so delicious about another alpha that you’re trying so hard.”

“Wow sunbae, you’re so fucking delicious, and I’m the only one who knows this taste.”

How hateful. But why did those words comfort him? Right now, it wasn’t that anyone would do, but that he was glad it was this guy, Jungmin thought, wrapping his long legs around Kim Joohwan’s waist.

“Can I knot you?”

He had covered every trace of Yoo Shinwoo. But the one thing he hadn’t done was knot him. Because he didn’t know what kind of wounds Jungmin’s insides might have sustained. But he was getting greedy. He couldn’t help it. Wanting to completely erase the traces of another bastard.

“…Do it.”

“Don’t give your permission so easily, sunbae. What are you going to do if you end up carrying my baby?”

“Haha. Well, I’ll give birth to it, so you can raise it.”

Jungmin said playfully. He naturally expected Kim Joohwan to retort something like “what are you talking about” and joke back with him, but instead, he was quiet. Flustered by the silence, he looked at Kim Joohwan and saw his eyes were trembling in a way he had never seen before.

“You can’t take it back.”

“What?”

“I said you can’t take it back. I’m going to pour it into you until you get pregnant, sunbae. Be prepared.”

Kim Joohwan released his pheromones. But these pheromones were not released to overpower him. They were to hold him gently, approaching cautiously to mix with Jungmin’s pheromones and move in harmony.

He had slept with Kim Joohwan countless times until now, but this was the first time they had sex so comfortably and gently, sober and without the help of drugs. Even the knotting was so tender it felt like he might cry. Jungmin held it back and, for the first time, willingly opened his body for Kim Joohwan.