Cold City Romance Chapter 19.1

Unlike my own body, which was pale without any color and cold, the body of the man who held me trapped in his embrace was hot.

Blood circulated quickly, and hard muscles sent it downward at every moment. The flesh, where veins easily protruded and throbbed, was healthy and superior, young and full of vitality.

“Haa, Dokyung-ah…”

In the darkness, the man embracing me from behind stroked my flat lower abdomen. He laughed lowly as if it were soft, then gently swept his large hand over the area below my navel. His touch deepened downward to the smooth, hairless skin. I felt my groin trembling faintly.

I felt his touch and a deep kiss on the nape of my neck, but Cha Dokyung, caught in deep sleep, could not open his eyes.

“Ah, eung…”

In my half-asleep state, I tossed and turned, and when a chill came over me, I burrowed deeply once more into the hot man’s embrace. In his arms, I could feel the thick, dense masculine scent of the man.

Until now, it had been hard to define what Hyun Jaehwi’s body scent was. The unique body scent he possessed did not exist in the world, making it difficult to explain it in words.

It was fresh like a cool breeze or a spring rain, yet sometimes solemn and profound enough to inspire awe. It was like a black abyss or a deep blue ocean depths, and at other times, extremely dreamlike like an illusion or a mirage—that was his body scent.

It was not a pheromone perceived through smell or scent. The body scent he possessed was so three-dimensional and synesthetic that it felt not like a fragrance, but like some kind of space. Only now did I finally seem to understand.

His body scent was not a fragrance, but a space.

“It feels good, your scent…”

That was why, every time he knotted with me and fully released his pheromones without restraint, Cha Dokyung did not perceive Hyun Jaehwi’s pheromones through his sense of smell, but felt a mysterious sensation as if he had been placed in another time and space.

It was the same now. It seemed as if Hyun Jaehwi was deliberately leaving a faint pheromone open toward me while I slept, and that pheromone felt like it was forming another time and space just for the two of us, not reality.

Cha Dokyung, who had ticklishly burrowed into the man’s embrace, once again fell into a deep sleep peacefully in that mysterious unknown space where only the two of them existed, welcoming the fresh and cool spring rain and green breeze.

“Don’t… leave me behind.”

I wanted to fall asleep forever in that gentle embrace.

The clear morning sunlight seeping into the pure white bed touched my eyelids. Cha Dokyung, who had been sleeping so deeply that he wouldn’t have noticed even if someone had carried him away, blankly focused on the fresh spring sunlight pouring in from the terrace beside the bed and slowly opened his neat eyes.

The unfamiliar sight of Hyun Jaehwi, seen for the first time, captured his vision.

With his forehead boldly exposed in a masculine and sexy manner, he was neatly dressed in an unfamiliar uniform he had never seen before, intently adjusting his tie in front of the mirror with practiced ease.

The number of shiny thick metal badges pinned to his chest was quite substantial.

The Hyun Jaehwi in the unfamiliar uniform before his eyes appeared, at a glance, to be a high-ranking officer in the military.

An elite officer who was maddeningly sexy, with no way to suppress the sexual allure emanating from his young, vital body despite his ascetic face.

The tall man with long limbs slowly walked toward the bed, wearing an angled officer’s uniform that clung to his overwhelming frame and sensual muscular silhouette. Just from the way he walked, one could feel the sword-like dignity and elegance of the attire.

Cha Dokyung, who had been staring up and down at the man from the bed in a daze, met his cool gaze and, before he could even grasp the situation, averted his eyes first and flushed his face red.

He couldn’t look at him properly.

Even though they had passionately made love the night before and even knotted inside, Cha Dokyung found himself unconsciously pulling the blanket over his completely naked body, not a thread on him.

Avoiding Hyun Jaehwi’s gaze, the elegant line of his shoulders trembled faintly.

“…What time is it, now?”

Hyun Jaehwi checked the heavy metal watch under his sleeve and gave a languid glance with his eyes.

“It’s a little past nine in the morning.”

Cha Dokyung replied in surprise.

“Is it okay for you to be here at this hour? You definitely said you had to return to the airport at dawn to catch the early morning flight…”

Dressed in the disciplined officer’s uniform, he came closer to Cha Dokyung.

“You’re not telling me you missed the flight because of me, are you?”

“Don’t worry. I got permission from my superiors and delayed the departure time a bit.”

“…”

“Thanks to that, as soon as I get back, I’ll have to go straight to meet the commander for a situation report and return to the unit, so I didn’t even have time to change at the barracks—that’s why I had no choice but to put on the dress uniform.”

Cha Dokyung could not tear his gaze away from the man in the officer’s uniform.

That appearance was so thrilling that he blushed at the thought of their eyes meeting, and without realizing it, he felt embarrassed and avoided his eyes. His lower waist ached as it traveled down his naked body, without a stitch of clothing. The lower abdomen that had been knotted throbbed faintly with a sense of pleasure.

From the morning, seeing him and feeling his surging sexual desire was embarrassing and shameful, so Cha Dokyung could not even look straight at Hyun Jaehwi and said.

“I’m sorry… Haa, you should have woken me up.”

Knotting is the only moment when he fully opens his pheromones to others without restraint.

Because of that, every time Hyun Jaehwi knotted, Cha Dokyung trembled with pleasure and always lost consciousness as if fainting. It felt as if his awareness slipped away unconsciously due to the pleasure that exceeded his body’s limits.

Moreover, last night, because of the faint pheromones he deliberately released all through the dawn as if putting me to sleep, he had fallen into an even deeper slumber and could not even open his eyes.

“You were sleeping so beautifully and soundly. I just couldn’t bring myself to wake you.”

“I caused you trouble, didn’t I? You’re not in a bind because you were late because of me, are you?”

“Don’t worry. Anyway, I was holding you and dozed off without realizing it and fell asleep myself.”

“…”

“You fell asleep exhausted because of me, and leaving behind someone who couldn’t even open their eyes while groaning in my arms would be heartless.”

“…”

“Last night, I got so excited that I was too intense… I couldn’t hold back, so how’s your body feeling?”

“I’m… fine.”

“If you’re hungry, make sure to eat your meals properly. The fridge was completely empty, so I bought some simple foods and put them in the kitchen and the fridge.”

“Did you go out and come back? The food and those clothes.”

“No, I asked someone to do it. The direct subordinate non-commissioned officer I instructed to take you back to the hotel last time is handling my personal errands in Korea.”

“Ah, I see…”

Cha Dokyung, somehow feeling embarrassed about his naked body, asked him.

“Jaehwi-ya. I’m sorry, but could you hand me the robe hanging next to the mirror over there?”

When he handed over the thin robe, Cha Dokyung pushed his arms into it awkwardly after pulling down the blanket.

In the moment of slipping on the robe, Cha Dokyung’s naked body was revealed. Between the pale and white skin, and the elegant body lines of his chest and neckline, lurid red marks left by Hyun Jaehwi remained obscenely blotchy. His deep eyes stared blankly at Cha Dokyung’s exposed body and stood there.

“It’s embarrassing. Stop looking.”

Cha Dokyung, who had slipped on the robe, raised his body.

A heavy dull pain pierced through his spine. When he put strength into his loosened waist and lower body to stand up, the thick semen that had pooled between his buttocks all night long flowed down his hole in streams.

Cha Dokyung gently stroked his lower abdomen, which was still tingling faintly with subtle pleasure. The sensation in his lower abdomen was different from usual.

It was definitely different from the days when they simply had sex. He, a dominant alpha, had truly knotted, and with the thought that he might have a child, he quietly clutched his tingling lower abdomen and lowered his head. Hyun Jaehwi watched that sight with a piercing cool gaze.

Cha Dokyung lifted his head with a composed face and asked.

“It wasn’t a fake knot like last time, was it, this time?”

Hyun Jaehwi momentarily stiffened and replied with cold eyes.

“Are you worried?”

“…”

“Are you scared that I really knotted and you might be pregnant?”

As if testing me.

“You’re not going to regret it again and spout nonsense, are you? This time, the promise we made… Do you remember begging me to knot and throwing a childish tantrum at me—all of it?”

“…”

“It’s no use regretting it now.”

“…”

“I’ll protect you and our child so not even a speck of filth touches them, so leave everything to me. There’s nothing for you to worry about.”

Cha Dokyung looked up at the man who seemed impatient, fearing that I might not remember or might regret it.

“I remember everything. Without missing a single thing…”

His calm and detached eyes stared straight at him.

“I absolutely won’t regret it. I promised, didn’t I? That I want to have our child.”

“…”

“And I’m not worried. Because I trust you. It’s not because I’m worried. I’m not saying empty words—I really want to have your child. Jaehwi, a child who resembles you…”

His pitch-black gaze quietly looked at Cha Dokyung, holding its breath.

“I still vividly remember how pretty and lovable you were when you were little. Your tiny child self is still so clear in my mind.”

Cha Dokyung, lost in wistful reminiscence, smiled faintly with a subtle smile.

“You kept asking me to hug you and carry you on my back… You followed only me around, not your own older brother or older sister. You were so small and cute back then.”

He looked up at the mature man standing tall in his neatly dressed officer’s uniform. He scanned the badges hanging below his broad and thick chest. It felt strange that that little child had become such a sexy and wonderful man. That was why their relationship felt even more immoral. Because the memories of his childhood were still so vivid and clear.

“Don’t you remember? When you were a little kid, you caught a cicada in the bush and gave it to me as a gift, saying let’s get married when we grow up.”

Cha Dokyung, after saying it, wondered if he had brought up something unnecessary and checked Hyun Jaehwi’s expression.

“Did I really say that?”

Cha Dokyung smiled warmly as he reminisced about the past. The childhood memories were precious. The same went for the memories with Kangwoo and Serin. He was one of those people who lived through past memories. Because after debuting, he had no notable ordinary memories at all.

“Yeah… You were too young, so you probably don’t remember.”

As he traced the red marks revealed through the open robe one by one with his eyes, Hyun Jaehwi, uncharacteristically unable to restrain himself, fidgeted as if he would pounce at any moment.

Last night, what he had ejaculated inside was flowing down his thighs in streams. Hyun Jaehwi stood there, openly staring with his gaze at his own semen flowing down Cha Dokyung’s legs through the gap in the robe and onto the floor.

In the blink of an eye, he pounced.

He grabbed my waist and tightly pulled my body into an embrace. As I leaned into his broad and firm chest, the fresh scent of a new uniform, starched stiffly with its sharp creases, wafted thickly to the tip of my nose.

Hyun Jaehwi tightly embraced Cha Dokyung as if going mad and groped his body. Then, as if imprinting an indelible red seal over the bright red marks he had left, he mercilessly sucked on the same spots to make them even redder. His handsome face exhaled turbid breaths.

“That little me said I would marry you when I grew up?”

“…”

“Haha, that utterly foolish kid’s dream has become reality.”

“…”

“Soon, I will truly marry you.”