Dolls – Chapter 3.1

Author: nicotine

“Where is my omega?”

The first words spoken by the awakened Jace made Eric’s face twist.

“Omega…?”

“OE01. Where is he?”

“Director. OE01 has already been taken by Mr. Seifried.”

“OE01 is not Noah Seifried’s omega.”

As Jace’s cold eyes turned toward him, Eric felt a slight chill run down his spine for a moment. Jace, who had been asleep for a long time and now awakened, was somewhat different from usual. No, much different. First of all, the wildly fluctuating pheromone levels could not be explained.

“More than that, Director. Why are the pheromones…?”

“Ah.”

“……?”

“Too late.”

“What… do you mean?”

“The manifestation.”

“Yes?”

Looking at the flustered Eric, Jace gave a crooked smile.

“It’s the experiment, Eric.”

“……”

“Do you think that the subjects of the trait mutation experiment were only Joy Green and Noah Seifried?”

“Director!”

“I need to bring my omega.”

Eric’s eyes, looking down at the coldly smiling Jace, trembled finely. The waves indicating the pheromone levels were becoming even more intense.

“Mmm… Haon….”

Noel, sitting on Haon’s lap, sucked thickly on his lower lip. Haon wrapped his arms around Noel’s back and responded to his kiss. While sucking on Noel’s upper lip, he tightly hugged the body that pressed against him as if it were endearing.

But his gaze was following Joy, who had turned his back to them and was taking a book from the bookshelf.

“Ah… haa… good, Haon.”

Noel pulled his lips away and rubbed his face against Haon’s chest as he spoke.

“I missed you. I don’t know how good it feels to be together like this again.”

“Yeah. Me too.”

Haon smiled warmly and stroked Noel’s hair. Noel closed his eyes and took Haon’s hand that had been stroking his hair, putting his fingers into his mouth and starting to suck on them. Soon, the wet slurping sounds filled the space. Joy’s fingertips trembled slightly as he turned the pages of the book.

—Ah, what should I do….

As the wet sounds mixed with ragged breathing began to come in, Joy’s face flushed red. It seemed like he had missed the timing to leave the room. Joy moved his steps little by little to the side without turning around. He intended to leave as quietly as possible.

There was a smack as the lips separated, and then Haon’s voice came.

“OE01, where are you going?”

When Joy turned his head to look, a half-naked Noel was nestled in Haon’s arms, draping his arms around his neck and rubbing his excited body against him. Joy turned his head away again and stammered as he spoke.

“Ah… to… to go into the room.”

“Just stay. It’s rare for us all to be together like this.”

“No! No! Hyung! Spend good time with Noel hyung.”

Joy smiled awkwardly and left the room. As soon as Joy disappeared, Noel became even more aggressive in pressing his body against Haon. Even as he received the endless barrage of kisses from him, Haon’s gaze was directed toward the direction where Joy had vanished.

While Jace was getting ready to go out, dressed in black slacks and an ivory shirt, Eric hurriedly prepared the documents. It was a [Cooperation Request for Performance Inspection on OE01].

OE01 was company property, wasn’t he? Jace chuckled. Since he was company property, he planned to treat him like property. All items from Pers Corporation had to undergo performance inspections before release. Alphas and omegas were sent to customers after having their performance verified, so there was no need for separate performance tests, but that was only for alphas and omegas who had ‘mates’.

Joy was an omega without a mate. The fact that Noah Seifried had taken him was half impulsive, so he had never undergone a performance inspection even once. Joy, or rather OE01, was also Pers Corporation’s property, so of course, a performance inspection had to be conducted, and Jace intended to use that ‘performance inspection’ as an excuse to bring Joy back.

“Are the documents ready?”

“Yes, Director.”

Jace’s lips curved into a pleasant arc as he took the documents Eric handed him.

“I really work too hard….”

Noah was going on a three-day business trip to Pers Capital in the north starting today. Thanks to that, the Seifried household would only have Noah’s alpha and omega, Joy, so Jace hurried to not miss the opportunity.

The things above the company’s regulations were the executives, and among them, the blood relatives, so even if he pushed the regulations, he had to do it when they were absent. Jace’s footsteps quickened as he headed toward the Seifried household.

“Haa….”

Joy sat on his bed in his room and patted his heated cheeks. He had almost seen Haon and Noel’s intimate scene without realizing it. After the time together was permitted, Noel had noticeably regained his stability. However, whenever Haon and Noel were together, it always ended with the two of them mingling their bodies, so Joy had to tactfully make himself scarce.

Seeing them like that, Noah had said that they were not beasts and to consider the time and place, but Noel seemed not to understand Noah’s words and continued to crave Haon, and in the end, when Noel pressed his body against Haon in front of Noah and the servants, Haon would carry him into the room, which had become routine.

However, that routine applied only to people ‘outside the institute’; in front of Joy, who was from the same institute, Haon did not particularly stop Noel or carry him away and disappear. As a result, situations arose where Joy had to tactfully make himself scarce.

If he had been another omega from the institute, he would not have felt any embarrassment because alphas and omegas mingling their bodies was such a natural thing, but Joy, who had been thoroughly managed and educated by Jace, knew what ‘shame’ was.

Haon, too, had learned to read and write and read books since coming to the Seifried household, so he knew what ‘society’ was, unlike Noel, who unconditionally surrendered his body to instinct.

But more than their affectionate antics, what bothered him even more was Haon’s gaze that he could feel even with his back turned. Joy could not understand why the gaze that should be directed toward Noel kept turning toward him, but he instinctively knew that he must never meet his eyes.

He thought that mingling bodies with Haon had happened only once at the institute, during his rut cycle. Even that, Haon did not remember for some reason, but lately, when he felt Haon’s gaze and turned around, it felt as if he were standing naked in front of him.

Under his gaze that seemed to scan every nook and cranny of his body beneath his clothes, Joy was becoming increasingly uncomfortable being with them.

“That’s ridiculous.”

Joy shook his head and slapped his cheeks lightly.

“Ah.”

“Will you come to your senses by hitting yourself like that?”

At the voice mixed with laughter, Joy lifted his head. Jace was leaning against the door with his arms crossed, smiling toward Joy.

“Ah… Dad…?”

Joy’s eyes filled with delight, and soon tears welled up.

“Dad!”

Joy ran to Jace and threw himself into his arms. Jace chuckled lowly and stroked Joy’s hair.

“Dad. I missed you… I missed you so much.”

“Joy, did you wait?”

“Yes… I waited. I waited.”

In Joy’s mind, the Jace who had strangled his neck was already gone. There were more joyful times spent with Jace to dwell on that moment. Jace was Joy’s only world. The Jace he met after a long time had lost a bit of weight, but he still looked at Joy with gentle eyes. Joy rubbed his face against Jace’s chest while nestled in his arms.

“……!”

For a moment, a faint lavender scent spread from Jace’s embrace. That scent, similar to Noah’s but slightly more intense, stimulated Joy in an instant.

“Mmm… ngh….”

A moan escaped Joy’s lips before he could stop it. Jace hugged such a Joy even tighter and whispered in his ear.

“Oh dear… shaking so much from just a handful of pheromones….”

“Dad….”

Joy lifted his head and looked at Jace with dazed eyes, then wrapped his arms around his neck and roughly covered his lips. Jace’s lips curved upward cheerfully at Joy’s action of sucking on his lips with all his strength.

When Jace slipped his hand through the gap in Joy’s shirt, who was clinging to him, and lightly twisted the nipple that had already hardened, his fluids gushed out from below.

“Ngh….”

Holding Joy’s trembling body in his arms, Jace kissed his nape and whispered.

“Let’s go home, Joy.”

There was only one method for the performance inspection of alphas and omegas.

How capable they were of having sex with a high probability of conception when heat and rut came.

It was also the reason alphas and omegas had sex in front of customers before release. Showing the act of satisfying sex right in front of the customer’s eyes was precisely the performance inspection.

“Joy, Joy? Come to your senses a bit.”

When Joy opened his eyes, he realized he had arrived at the institute and looked at Jace with a faint smile. Thanks to Jace continuously dousing him with pheromones, Joy had been unable to keep his wits about him the entire way and had been moaning nonstop.

“Dad….”

When Joy called him, Jace chuckled and said.

“It’s not Dad, Joy.”

“Honey… Jay….”

Jace caressed Joy’s cheek and then lowered his lips. Through the softly entwining tongues, their pheromones mingled and flowed stickily.

“Joy’s scent is golden shower, isn’t it?”

“Golden shower….”

“It suits you well.”

At Jace’s words, Joy stared blankly for a long time before regaining his composure and asking.

“Why does Jay… why do you know my scent?”

“Joy… I am Joy’s alpha.”

“But that is… “