Correction Chapter 46

“Are you okay? I told you to rest.”

“An unwelcome guest showed up.”

“Unwelcome? Guest?”

Soohan looked at the man who was approaching. He was a very famous figure. Moreover, he had seen him before. It was none other than Kim Joohwan from Karl Front, whom he’d seen at the Shinseong Group’s founding anniversary party.

It felt like this back then, too. Just like this situation…. For some reason, he hadn’t felt very pleasant then either. It was because Kim Joohwan had released a wary pheromone. But now, the concentration of that pheromone was even thicker. Why on earth was he displaying such displeasure?

Ji Soohan looked at Jungmin. Jungmin just sighed with a tired face.

“Jungmin sunbae.”

Kim Joohwan approached, looked at Jungmin, and gave a slight nod with a faint smile. However, he didn’t greet Ji Soohan. No, he treated him as if he weren’t there.

“You weren’t answering your phone.”

Kim Joohwan tapped his own cell phone.

“I don’t carry my phone when I’m working, only my pager.”

“Ah… I see. It was my fault for not thinking of that. I thought you were avoiding my calls.”

Well, he’s not wrong about that, Jungmin didn’t reply to that remark.

Meanwhile, the surrounding patients, doctors, and nurses were looking at Kim Joohwan with sparkling eyes. A few were even secretly taking pictures. Honestly, he didn’t care whether Kim Joohwan’s face got out or not, but since the patients could also end up in the photos, Jungmin decided he needed to take Kim Joohwan outside.

“Ji sunbae. I’ll be right back.”

“Jungmin.”

For some reason, he didn’t want to let Jungmin go with Kim Joohwan.

“Let’s go eat when you get back. I’m craving hangover soup.”

“Okay….”

“You, follow me.”

As Jungmin walked ahead, Kim Joohwan followed with a smile. Soohan just watched them, and his eyes met Joohwan’s when he turned around. Joohwan gave Ji Soohan a contemptuous once-over before looking forward again.

“Huk.”

He couldn’t breathe properly from the momentary sense of fear. It was the possessiveness of a dominant alpha, filled with an intent that felt like it would tear his entire body to shreds.

The force of it was so strong that even the other alphas nearby were struggling. He didn’t know why he was being targeted so aggressively, but Ji Soohan didn’t want to lose to his pressure either, so he stood his ground firmly, watching until they disappeared from sight.

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“What brings you all the way here?”

Jungmin asked as he closed the office door. Joohwan looked at him, then raised a hand and placed the back of it against the nape of his neck. Goosebumps crawled up his skin. What’s with him all of a sudden, the jerk.

“Are you sick? You don’t look well.”

“My stomach just hurts a bit from drinking too much yesterday.”

Jungmin said, swatting Kim Joohwan’s hand away.

“Hmm… So you were in the arms of an alpha.”

“…That sounds oddly sarcastic. I don’t know what you’re misunderstanding, but he’s my fiancée Ji Sooeun’s older brother. He’s someone who takes care of me like a younger brother.”

“He treats you like a younger brother with that kind of look in his eyes?”

“What? What kind of look?”

Jungmin asked, genuinely curious. Seeing his eyes, which held no suspicion or misunderstanding, Joohwan said it was nothing and changed the subject. Then, he strode over and sat in the chair Jungmin was supposed to sit in. In contrast, Jungmin pulled up a visitor’s chair and sat down.

“Why are you here?”

“The sales team had business here, so I came along. I’m a salaried employee, you know.”

It was a plausible story. Joohwan had currently joined Karl Front and was learning the ropes from the bottom up. According to the rumors, he was quite capable, so he had actually become a team leader not long after joining, and would probably become an executive within a few years.

They said that even those who had initially complained about him had softened up a lot. Of course, Joohwan wasn’t the type to care about such people, and since he had no interest, Jungmin wasn’t worried one gram. He’d just heard it was so.

“So you came to see me since you were here? What an honor.”

“Well, that’s part of it, but something interesting happened, so I thought I should tell you, sunbae. We’ve started a joint research project with the U.S. on a drug related to alphas and omegas, and the results seem promising. Especially the hormone therapy.”

“Hormone therapy?”

“Yes, setting betas aside for now, isn’t the ratio of alphas to omegas too unbalanced? To even things out a bit, a beta could become an alpha… or an omega could become an alpha… or… an alpha could become an omega….”

Jungmin’s eyes widened. As if he knew, Joohwan smiled slightly and drew out his words slowly.

“Isn’t it a shame? If it had been a few more years, sunbae, you might have been able to become an omega.”

“…What bullshit is this. I’m very satisfied with my life as it is.”

“Then I’m glad.”

Jungmin felt his throat go dry. Using the excuse of making coffee for Joohwan, he got up and drank water from the dispenser. He cleared his throat and barely calmed the churning sensation in his chest by clutching his stomach as if it were hurting.

Jungmin handed the coffee to Joohwan and sat back down.

“Shouldn’t you be going now?”

“Are you trying to kick me out?”

“I’m still on duty.”

“I can’t just leave after coming all this way. If I don’t at least have a meal with you, sunbae, my recent disappointment with you won’t go away.”

“Disappointed?”

“Yes, ever since you got a fiancée, it feels like you’ve been neglecting me.”

“Have we ever eaten a meal together? In the first place, I find it uncomfortable even just talking with you like this, just the two of us.”

“That’s a pity. To think I was the only one who felt that way.”

“What are you… wait a minute….”

The pager inside Jungmin’s gown went off. It was an emergency patient. Jungmin’s face turned professional, and he ran towards the emergency room. Watching him go, Joohwan crumpled the empty paper cup, threw it into the trash can, and got up, slowly tracing his fingers over Jungmin’s desk. It was neat and tidy, just like him.

“Hey, Jungmin.”

The door opened with a knock. Joohwan’s fingertips, which had been tracing Jungmin’s desk, stopped, and Ji Soohan, who was entering, also stopped upon seeing Joohwan.

Soohan, confirming that Jungmin wasn’t there, sighed, placed the porridge and medicine he’d brought on the desk, and turned to leave. Joohwan’s pheromones kept pressing down on Soohan, but he tried his best to ignore them and left the room.

It seemed that one way or another, Jungmin’s surroundings were full of people who gave him a headache.

Shin Youngmin, Kim Joohwan…. And a man named Shinwoo. Hoping that he himself was not among them, Soohan turned and walked away.

Kim Joohwan, left alone in the office, picked up the medicine packet Ji Soohan had left and turned it upside down. The pills fell out with a clatter. Judging by their shape and color, they seemed to be stomach medicine. He rolled a pill slowly between his fingers. The pill soon crumbled into powder with a crunch.

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“Ah, Soo, Soohan-ssi-. Th-there- Ah!”

An omega who had entered his heat cycle approached, luring the alpha with his pheromones. It was an omega he’d had casual relations with several times, so Soohan had readily responded to the omega’s call.

As soon as the omega saw Soohan, he released his pheromones, and Soohan’s body also began to grow excited by the scent of an omega in heat. It was a natural phenomenon. Since he hadn’t enjoyed a sex life for a while, his body reacted even faster, and he thrust himself into the omega’s body.

The omega below him moved his hips, wanting Soohan to cum. The uterus, hidden deep inside the body, brushed against Soohan’s penis.

He wanted to knot, wanted to have Soohan’s child. The sensation of the uterus bumping and stimulating his penis from the inside brought another kind of pleasure, making an alpha lose his mind.

As if responding to that pleasure, Soohan moved his hips forcefully, and along with the creaking of the bed, the omega’s moans were heard as the entrance to his womb opened. Soohan, too, felt the sensation of ejaculation approaching and frowned, looking down at the person beneath him.

He was shocked. The omega beneath him had transformed into the image of Jungmin. Soohan was startled by the sight of Jungmin—his face flushed red, his eyes wet with pleasure, his legs spread wide, taking Soohan’s member below while panting—but at the same time, afraid that Jungmin might run away, he quickly pressed down on his shoulders with his hands. He didn’t know why he did it, but there was no sense of revulsion. In fact, he even felt his chest swell with emotion.

“Jungmin….”

Jungmin, who had completely become an omega with no trace of an alpha left, called Soohan’s name, crying that he wanted to have his child, begging him to cum inside. Soohan felt a sense of urgency. He wanted to impregnate his omega quickly. Then he would become his.

‘Soohan hyung….’

He remembered his crying face from whenever he drank.

That face, shedding tears while calling the name of someone he didn’t know…. What if he were calling his name, not someone else’s?

“Ugh!”

As the omega clenched tightly and his body shivered with pleasure, Soohan also gave a final thrust. And just as he was about to ejaculate inside, Soohan realized that the omega in front of him was not Jungmin and quickly pulled his penis out of the body. Staring at the semen that trickled out as soon as he withdrew, his mind went blank. Staggering off the bed, Soohan went into the bathroom and splashed cold water on himself to come to his senses.

My god—what was I just thinking? What on earth was I thinking, even for a brief moment? To equate Jungmin with that omega and think of filling him. I’m crazy. I must be crazy.

Soohan slammed his head against the wall and closed his eyes. This is ridiculous. This… is ridiculous.