Dolls Chapter 1.5

“Eup… heueup….”

Tears finally welled up in the eyes of Joy, who was gasping for painful breaths.

“Heuk….”

A look of bewilderment flashed across Jace’s face when he saw the tears streaming from Joy’s eyes. Jace sat up and ran a hand through his hair.

“Sorry… I’m sorry, Joy….”

“Heuk… Jae….”

“But… I….”

Jace wiped away Joy’s tears and whispered in his ear.

“I can’t stand it when I see you with Noah.”

“Noah….”

“Even you saying his name… even you having him in your eyes….”

“Jae….”

“Please… I’m begging you… don’t sleep with Noah.”

As tears flowed from Jace’s eyes, a flustered Joy stirred. Dad… Dad is crying. He wanted to wipe away his tears, but his bound body could not move.

As Joy continued to move, Jace spoke with a cold expression.

“It’s no use moving, Joy. I have no intention of letting you go.”

Jace smiled brightly and stuck a syringe needle into Joy’s arm. A pleasant haziness washed over Joy.

“Ah…. haa….”

Presently, Joy’s pupils dilated, and a heated moan escaped his lips. As Jace stroked Joy’s hair, Joy’s body trembled minutely. He chuckled at the sight of Joy and whispered in his ear.

“Sweet dreams…. Joy.”

*

“Do I… really have to accept that product.”

The blond man who spoke up in front of Adrian, his face thoroughly scrunched up, asked as if annoyed. His towering height in the late 180-centimeter range and his well-muscled, sturdy frame made the high-end suit he was wearing stand out even more. His blue eyes, which seemed to draw in the beholder, were as cold as his expression.

“You saw grandpa’s will. If you hate it that much, just have all your assets revert to PersoCorporation.”

The blond man, who had been glaring at the indifferent Adrian, took out a cigarette and put it to his lips. Noah Cypress. Adrian Pers’s maternal cousin and one of the executives at PersoCorporation.

“Two people with the exact same face as me are rubbing their bodies together to make a baby, and another person like me is born… Does that not bother you at all.”

“……”

“It’s truly… utterly grotesque.”

Noah spoke irritably, lit his cigarette, and exhaled smoke like a sigh.

“You know very well it can’t be helped. We need a bloodline to carry on the Pers family.”

“Exactly! I am not a Pers.”

Looking at the sneering Noah, Adrian said nonchalantly.

“A half-Pers is still a Pers.”

“Ha….”

As Noah looked at Adrian with a fed-up expression, Adrian smirked and looked Noah straight in the eyes. His unfathomably deep purple eyes silently constricted around Noah.

They were eyes one could not defy. A tall stature of over 190 centimeters, a handsomely straight nose, and white skin that contrasted with his intellectual black hair. Adrian’s charisma, which seemed to overwhelm everyone, made not only Noah, who was not much different in age, but also company executives of his father’s generation bow their heads at his feet. In particular, his endlessly mysterious purple eyes gave a sense of pressure, as if reading the other person’s thoughts.

“Every time you stand up the research institute, a product that looks exactly like you dies. You wouldn’t want a pile of corpses with your face, would you?”

“…I do not wish to leave my mark on the world in this manner.”

“So?”

“……”

“So where is your fiancée now, the one who believed natural pregnancy was possible?”

At Adrian’s words, Noah bit his lip hard.

“I plan to revisit the research institute next month.”

“……”

“You will have to come along too.”

“…Yes.”

When Noah answered, Adrian gestured with his chin as if to tell him to leave. Noah stubbed out his cigarette and stood up from his seat. Noah, who was heading out, stopped in his tracks and looked back at Adrian.

“If it weren’t for that madman at the research institute… Joy wouldn’t have left like that.”

There was a hint of moisture in Noah’s voice.

*

“Joy… Joy….”

Joy opened his eyes at the sound of someone calling him. He was lying in his own room, and Jace was looking at him with a worried expression. When Joy gasped and sat up, Jace supported him by wrapping an arm around his back.

“Are you okay, Joy?”

“Jae, Jae….”

As Joy hesitantly called Jace’s name, Jace’s eyes widened in surprise, then he soon smiled bashfully and said.

“You shouldn’t call your dad’s name so carelessly.”

“…Dad?”

— What a relief. It’s the usual Dad.

Joy threw himself into Jace’s arms. As Jace laughed softly and stroked Joy’s back, Joy’s wildly pounding heart gradually began to find its calm.

“What’s wrong, Joy.”

“Dad…. It’s just… I was a little, a little scared.”

“What could have scared our Joy….”

At Jace’s gentle voice, Joy lifted his head and looked at him. Jace’s smiling face was reflected in his brown eyes, and then it shimmered with welling tears.

Joy let a tear drop and kissed Jace’s lips.

“Joy?”

“Heuk… Dad….”

Joy reached out his arms to Jace and hugged him with all his might.

“Dad…. You’re Joy’s partner, right?”

“Joy….”

“Because Dad… because Dad is Joy’s alpha.”

“……”

“Since you’re Joy’s alpha, we’ll be together… forever, right?”

“Joy….”

Joy cupped Jace’s cheeks with both hands and kissed him again. His soft tongue cautiously tapped against Jace’s lips, and then shyly entered between his parted lips. Jace quietly opened his lips, letting Joy do as he wished, and drank his saliva.

“Haa…. Dad… be pretty to me… touch me….”

As Joy spoke, breathing hot air into Jace’s ear, Jace gripped Joy’s shoulders, met his eyes, and said.

“You want Dad to touch you?”

“Yes….”

“You want… Dad to be pretty to you?”

“…Yes.”

“That feeling, Joy… is what they call ‘love’.”

“Love….”

“Yes. Love.”

At Jace’s words, Joy, with a flushed face, whispered shyly.

“I love you, Dad.”

At Joy’s shy voice, Jace swallowed dryly.

“Joy… when it’s just the two of us, will you call me Jae?”

A shadow of fear momentarily crossed Joy’s eyes, but then they curved into thin crescents.

“Jae.”

At Joy’s call, Jace hugged him and buried his face in the nape of his neck.

“Joy… Joy….”

Joy stroked Jace’s hair and said.

“I love you, Jae.”

“Nng-nng… ah, ah!”

Hugging the head of Jace, who had buried his face in his chest and was sucking on his nipple, Joy let out a heated moan. It was a familiar spot that Jace always sucked on when he was being pretty to him, but for some reason, it felt different from usual.

“Eut… heek!”

When Jace lightly bit his nipple, his entire chest felt like it was ringing, zing-, and his body trembled.

“How is it, Joy? How does it feel?”

“At… haut… Jae… it’s strange… strange… it feels strange.”