Correction Chapter 49

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At the loud ringing of the bell, Jungmin fumbled for his phone with his eyes still closed. He managed to pull out the phone that was trapped beneath him and put it to his ear.

“Yes… hello.”

─Is this Dr. Shin’s phone?

It was a man with a thin voice he’d never heard before. When he checked the number, the caller’s name surprisingly showed up as Ji Soohan. Jungmin’s mind snapped awake, and he shot up from his seat.

He had fallen asleep on the sofa right after the call with Joohwan, so his back was a little stiff, but right now, he was more curious about the state of the owner of the caller ID.

“Who is this? Isn’t this Soohan hyung’s phone?”

─Ah, that’s right. I was drinking with Dr. Ji Soohan today, but he’s very drunk now… and he keeps asking only for Dr. Shin…. Could you come and pick him up? I don’t think I can handle him alone.

“Ah, yes. I understand. Please tell me the location.”

Jungmin quickly jotted down the location. But it was strange. The place wasn’t their usual company dinner spot, but a secluded bar. Did they have their company dinner somewhere else today? No. What does that matter now. Jungmin put on his jacket and hurried out of Soohan’s house.

Fortunately, he caught a taxi right in front of the house and rode for about 30 minutes. The fact that it took this long even at 2 a.m. meant it was farther away than he’d thought. The hospital and Soohan’s house were close, so for the bar to be this far away… it was full of questions.

Furthermore, the bar was a place with private rooms. Was the company dinner perhaps for entertaining clients? Strange. Hyung hates entertaining clients and doesn’t attend such events, so what happened? The closer he got to Ji Soohan, the deeper the questions became.

“Excuse me. In here-”

Jungmin opened the door to the room the waiter had guided him to and was startled. He momentarily held his breath at the overpowering scent of dominant omega pheromones. He let his eyes roam around the room.

Messy liquor bottles. And a man slumped over them, while the source of the pheromones, a male omega, was fidgeting and straightening his clothes.

And that omega was someone Jungmin knew. It was the dominant omega who had been brought to the hospital a while ago.

Jungmin assessed the situation in an instant. He didn’t know how it happened, but the company dinner was an excuse, and Soohan had been drinking with the dominant omega who had been his patient. And perhaps the two of them had even had sex here. But why call him? Nothing was clear.

“Tsk.”

He couldn’t just leave Soohan here after coming all this way. Jungmin clicked his tongue and first helped the slumped Soohan up and sat him on a chair.

“Hyung, Soohan hyung. Are you okay?”

He was a mess, as if he’d drunk himself into unconsciousness. His neat hair, his always-creased clothes… everything.

Jungmin calmly tidied his shirtfront and jacket and looked for his bag.

“E-excuse me-”

The dominant omega called out to Jungmin, but Jungmin was in no state to answer. He felt he needed to get Soohan out of there quickly. The omega’s heated pheromones were, damn it all, even seducing Jungmin. No matter how indifferent he was to omega pheromones, he wasn’t immune. Faced with such a blatant temptation, an alpha’s body couldn’t help but react according to instinct.

“Here, this….”

The omega held out a bag to Jungmin.

“I’m… sorry to Dr. Shin for meeting like this.”

Why did this patient meet hyung? Could it be, though it’s unlikely, that something happened? Feeling it was his duty to check, Jungmin took a slow breath and looked at the omega. He was sniffling and wiping away tears.

“Why are you here?”

“Well… I work here…. And earlier, Dr. Ji Soohan came with other doctors. The others took omegas and left… and I was with Dr. Ji Soohan… but Dr. Ji Soohan said he couldn’t with a patient and just kept drinking….”

He could roughly guess what had happened. Jungmin, who had suspected Ji Soohan for even a moment, wanted to slap his own cheeks repeatedly. Right. Ji Soohan would never be that kind of man. That was why I trusted and followed him.

“I-I took some medicine earlier, so my pheromone control….”

It was probably a cheap heat inducer the bar fed them.

Jungmin sighed, sat Ji Soohan back down on the sofa, then took out his wallet and gave him the powdered suppressant he always carried as an emergency medicine.

“It’s an emergency suppressant, so you’ll be fine within five minutes.”

“Thank… you.”

He took it carefully with both hands, his voice choked with tears. Jungmin once again helped Ji Soohan up.

“Thank you for that time, too. You helped me so much that I… was able to be discharged safely without anything happening.”

“It was my duty as a doctor. I’ll ask the waiter to call a taxi for you. Well then.”

Jungmin helped Soohan out of the bar.

“Hyung, snap out of it. Huh?”

“Ughm….”

He put Soohan in the waiting taxi first and sat down next to him. The taxi door closed, and Jungmin opened the window slightly. The smell of alcohol—and omega pheromones….

He probably drank this much to avoid getting caught up in those pheromones. What an amazing person he was.

They arrived at Soohan’s house a little faster than it took to get there. After managing to lay the still-unconscious man on the bed, Jungmin drank a glass of cool water.

“Hoo….”

Wiping his mouth, he leaned against the table for a moment.

It was frustrating to see Soohan acting so unlike himself lately. He wondered what on earth was wrong with him… or if it was simple gratification of his desires. Or maybe he had some other wound. When he’d asked before, he’d said nothing was wrong… but for that, his wandering was going on a bit too long.

‘By the way, was he really the one who called me? I should have asked.’

It was strange if he had called, and strange if he hadn’t….

Jungmin took a cup of cold water and approached Soohan. He had no intention of waking him, so he placed the cup on the bedside table and took off his jacket.

“Ughm-”

Soohan frowned and exhaled. The smell of alcohol was overwhelming.

“Hyung, are you awake? Have a glass of water. Hyung.”

Jungmin called to Soohan and looked at his face. Just then, something grabbed Jungmin’s arm and pulled. Jungmin lost his balance and fell onto the bed, hitting his head on the headboard with a thump. With a faint ringing in his ears, Jungmin, who had closed his eyes for a moment, opened them at the weight of a heavy pheromone pressing down on him.

In front of him, Soohan, who was now wide awake, was looking down at him from on top.

And he was exuding a full blast of pheromones, provoking Jungmin’s own alpha pheromones.

“Hyung- withdraw your pheromones. It’s difficult.”

“Shin Jungmin…?”

Jungmin was relieved to see that Soohan recognized him. He thought he would now retract the sharply piercing pheromones, but not even a few seconds later, Soohan’s pheromones pressed down on Jungmin even more intensely.

“Soohan-!”

The moment he opened his mouth, Soohan’s tongue invaded.

“Oof- ugh-”

Jungmin tensed his arms and tried to push Soohan away. He kept refusing Soohan, who was devouring his lips, shaking his head from side to side, but Soohan pursued him relentlessly.

Soohan tore off Jungmin’s clothes as if to rip them, and Jungmin, calling Soohan’s name, pounded on his back with his fists, but he didn’t budge.

The alpha pheromones clashed with each other, and the thought crossed his mind that if an omega were here, they might have died from having their energy drained. Jungmin’s aggressive pheromones and Soohan’s desire-filled pheromones mixed together, and even Jungmin felt like he was suffocating.

But he couldn’t win against Soohan in a pheromone battle. Jungmin was a near-recessive alpha, while Soohan was a near-dominant one. Besides, it was difficult to win against an alpha who was soaked in alcohol, with only his instincts remaining. More than anything, he hadn’t realized that the original difference in their physiques would work so disadvantageously.

Still, he had no intention of letting this turn into a horrific situation. Even though he had experience being taken by an alpha, Shinwoo had been the last. He had never once been held by anyone since then, nor had he even thought about it.

Because…. even if the first time couldn’t be helped, he wanted the last time to end with being held by Shinwoo. He didn’t want to be covered by someone else’s traces.

Jungmin clenched his fists and pushed Soohan away. When it didn’t work after several tries, he apologized to Soohan and then, with all his might, struck the solar plexus of Soohan, who had started to lick his chest after stripping off his clothes.

With a loud thwack, Soohan’s movements stopped, and with a pained groan, Soohan collapsed on top of Jungmin.

Jungmin pushed the fallen Soohan to the side and got off the bed. His hands, which were picking up his scattered clothes, were stinging. I want to get out of here. I’m suffocating. I hate this.