Cold City Romance Chapter 6.2

Yeom Taejung seemed to be expecting something from me.

“You should introduce them properly.”

However, the situation was completely different from what Chairman Yeom expected.

Hyun Jaehwi strode over and, right in front of Cha Dokyung, coldly turned away as if he were a stranger.

He ignored them with an insolent gaze and quickly brushed past Cha Dokyung and Yeom Taejung. He even deliberately and violently bumped into Yeom Taejung’s shoulder with enough force to make a ‘thud!’ sound, and passed by rudely without a single word of apology. He then disappeared leisurely through the VIP-only exit that was behind Cha Dokyung.

Chairman Yeom, who was hit on the shoulder as if attacked by Hyun Jaehwi, was huffing and seemed quite pissed off.

“That disrespectful bastard. Isn’t he a complete piece of trash?!”

“……”

“Fuck, he just flat-out ignored us. I guess you’re not as close with that family’s youngest son as you are with Hyun Serin or Hyun Kangwoo?”

“It’s exactly as you just saw. Hyun Jaehwi and I have no personal acquaintance with each other whatsoever. So, I don’t know what kind of scheme you’re trying to cook up, but you’d be wise not to think about pulling any funny business using my connections.”

Yeom Taejung readily agreed, nodding his head.

“Right, seeing you get completely ignored by a kid wet behind the ears, I guess that’s true……. By the way, why did that ill-mannered bastard shoulder-check me when I was just standing here?”

The tall Yeom Taejung was roughly bumped on the shoulder by Hyun Jaehwi, who was even taller than him, with enough force to make a ‘thud!’ sound.

“What grudge does he have against me……”

Does he not see who’s who because he’s young, or is it because he’s the son of a successful chaebol family? Yeom Taejung clicked his tongue, saying his personality was trash.

“Fuck, and I thought……. When I saw you two standing side by side earlier, I thought you were so close you couldn’t live without each other.”

Yeom Taejung said slyly with a sarcastic tone.

“That kid could do a melodrama, you know?”

The corners of Cha Dokyung’s eyes, which were red with fatigue, narrowed in an instant.

“What are you talking about?”

“Every time you, Dokyung, turned your head toward the crowd, that kid was staring only at you like a madman. And fuck, so damn fondly at that……”

His venomous, persistent, and sharp gaze cunningly swept over Cha Dokyung as if observing his reaction.

There was a saying among the celebrities of the agency that you could fool a ghost, but you couldn’t fool Yeom Taejung. Until Cha Dokyung was in his late twenties, Yeom Taejung had obsessively controlled and threatened him not to date, so that the fact he was an omega would not be revealed, and conducted that bizarre examination every time.

He always added that he didn’t care at all about releasing instincts for heat or pheromones as a dominant omega. However, that was followed by strong brainwashing and pressure that it must end at being a one-time thing, as it was only for handling desires. Chairman Yeom was vile enough to document such clauses for every single case and insert them into contracts.

The very person who had pushed me into becoming a ‘Messiah,’ telling me to manage my private life perfectly so that no one would find out, was none other than Yeom Taejung.

Chairman Yeom smiled slyly.

“You know I’m a ghost when it comes to this stuff, right? I almost misunderstood, you know.”

Perhaps I was getting a little tipsy after drinking a few glasses of champagne that Yeom Taejung and other people had offered. Seeing as I was answering this Chairman Yeom, who bites like a viper if you give him an opening, so obediently.

“Haah, no way……”

Cha Dokyung languidly swept his hair up as if dizzy from the alcohol. He desperately craved a cigarette.

“Serin and Hyun Kangwoo grew up beside me as friends since birth, but there’s too much of an age gap with that kid, and we haven’t been in contact for ten years while he was in another country…… We’re practically strangers.”

Yeom Taejung was listening attentively to Cha Dokyung’s words with an attitude of listening closely.

“You saw him ignore me, right? I’ve been in a foul mood the whole time because of him too. Isn’t this what it means to be worse than strangers?”

“……”

“No, if we were complete strangers. That might have been better.”

His flushed cheeks from being drunk were full of openings and were dangerous.

Although he was disguised with a mature, calm, and elegant smile, from Cha Dokyung’s precariously trembling eyes, Yeom Taejung read some rather subtle clues that he had not been able to find in this languid and indifferent person until now.

Those moist, transparent eyes are more beautiful than any jewel in the world. And the best jewels with a high degree of purity in their natural state are transparent, making it easy to see what’s inside.

The sharp-witted viper spoke like a ghost, just as his instincts told him to.

“Hey, Cha Dokyung……”

“……”

“Don’t tell me, are you dating that kid?”

The wind blew, and the strands of hair that flowed down with the wind also fluttered. Cha Dokyung exhaled a deep puff of cigarette smoke. His cheeks were still hot from the few glasses of champagne he had drunk. When he happened to look up, a bright full moon was in the night sky.

Cha Dokyung had temporarily taken refuge here to escape the countless people approaching him, the loud noise, and the persistent gaze of Yeom Taejung.

Few people knew that on the rooftop of this luxurious hall house, famous for parties, various events, and performances, there was such a special place with a panoramic view of the city lights.

Cha Dokyung had once filmed a drama here for several months in the past. So he knew the structure of this building quite thoroughly. He had to show his face at the final finale of the event anyway, but there was a little time.

The night was quiet, but the full moon tonight was exceptionally large and bright. The moonlight was so big and bright that his vision was clear even in the darkness. Under the quiet moonlight, his lyrical face, softly illuminated by the light, exhaled hazy cigarette smoke.

Breathing in as if savoring the night air, Cha Dokyung slowly closed his eyes. The tips of his tired eyes were moist. Exhaling a thick cloud of cigarette smoke, Cha Dokyung loosened the stiff tie that was uncomfortably constricting his neck with one hand.

The image of the cold-blooded eyes that had coldly ignored me in the deep darkness came to mind.

If he was usually such an insolent and cold bastard to others, then why did he smile at me so sweetly, as if he would melt, from the moment we first met? That kid even held onto my promiscuous self, threw away his pride, and begged desperately. That plea had sounded like a blush-inducing love confession.

Certainly, when I first encountered him today too, Hyun Jaehwi was the same as that day when he couldn’t take his eyes off me. And then, we had merely held hands and shared a handshake.

I felt an unfamiliar and strange sensation in my palm, and Hyun Jaehwi could not hide his extremely dirty and unpleasant expression. From that point on, he turned grimly serious and his attitude changed.

Yes, it was from then.

But why on earth was it from then? I couldn’t figure out the reason at all.

It was when I was lost in deep thought. Suddenly, that familiar and ominous sign was heard. In the deep silence, another being suddenly spoke to me. As if it would give me the answer to the question I was pondering.

『It’s because the real thing smelled the fake.』

Along with the incomprehensible auditory hallucination, Cha Dokyung knew that once again tonight, a disturbance had come to me.

I couldn’t believe this sudden situation. I had administered a pheromone relaxant in advance, and my heat cycle from a week ago had also passed, so I hadn’t been particularly concerned about a disturbance. This was because I had been assuming until now that the disturbances were mainly related to the heat cycle period. However, now was not the time to be having such leisurely thoughts.

Before my body and consciousness go out of control, in the worst-case scenario, before a pheromone rampage occurs. I had to get out of this place with so many eyes watching right now, by any means necessary.

Cha Dokyung called his manager first.

“Sungtae, I have to go back right now, so please have the car ready!”

[Hyung, you can’t go yet. The event finale is left and the schedule isn’t over. Does Chairman Yeom know?]

“No, it’s because I’m in a real hurry right now. Chief Goo, no, Sungtae! Just come to the parking lot! I’ll go, let’s talk when I get there.”

*

Not long after making an emergency request to his manager to go home, his phone blew up.

Chairman Yeom kept calling, but Cha Dokyung did not answer his calls. Forget answering the phone, his condition had worsened in an instant, and he didn’t even have a moment to pull himself together.

Fortunately, the third-floor lobby overlooking the hall was deserted. Cha Dokyung intended to go down to the parking lot immediately through the emergency staircase.

『It’s because the real thing smelled the fake.』

I couldn’t even begin to guess what that damn, repeating auditory hallucination meant.

My consciousness was intact, but the repeating hallucination echoed in my ears, bringing on a creepy, chilling headache. The situation is more serious than I thought. Cha Dokyung was not in his right mind. He stumbled around dizzily and turned his body toward the emergency stairs.

At that moment, someone forcefully snatched his arm.

“What are you doing here right now?”

It was Chairman Yeom. The moment he pulled me, the heavy fire escape door also closed.

Chairman Yeom pushed me inside the fire escape to avoid the eyes of the people. He raised his voice as if angry.

“Why aren’t you answering your phone?!”

“……”

“The event finale is about to start! You just have to do the last shoot for a moment and then you can go, but does it make sense for you, the main advertising model for this brand, to go home first?”

Cha Dokyung, whose body was held by Chairman Yeom, panted for breath and spat out a curse.

“You fucking bastard, let go before I kill you!”

It was always Cha Dokyung who poured out even venomous remarks elegantly and calmly, but this was a vulgar and violent voice that could not be seen as the usual Cha Dokyung.

Chairman Yeom stared intently at the glowing eyes in the darkness of the emergency staircase and said.

“Cha Dokyung…… are you drunk? Dude, you should have drunk in moderation.”

“Let go of me! I have to go home right now……. Haah……”

Chairman Yeom held onto Cha Dokyung’s body, which was panting and gasping for breath, with a confused expression.

“Besides, what the hell is this state you’re in?”

Chairman Yeom’s face, which had come closer, instantly flushed and turned beet red.

This was because the sensual pheromones Cha Dokyung was emitting from between his languidly breathing, ascetic face were maddeningly erotic.

A strange bewilderment tinged Yeom Taejung’s voice.

“Cha Dokyung, are you really crazy?! What the hell are these pheromones?”

“Haah, fuck, my head hurts. It’s noisy, so, heuk……! Please, just shut up!”

“You bastard, are you in your right mind right now? Are you dying to have your omega status revealed to the people here?”

“……”

“Cha Dokyung, are you a dominant for nothing? You control your pheromones perfectly, like it’s nothing.”

“……”

“Wasn’t it that no matter what crazy shit I tried, it wouldn’t work on you at all? Where the hell did that amazing self-control of yours, that son of a bitch who hid his pheromones so perfectly in front of me in any situation so as not to show any weakness, go?”

Cha Dokyung’s anxious panting became faster and more ragged.

“I have to go, so, haah……. Please just let go of this!”

Yeom Taejung held his body firmly and did not let go.

“Tell me! You’re a dominant. Even though you’re a dominant, fuck, can’t you control your own pheromones?!”

Yeom Taejung pinned the violently struggling Cha Dokyung against the cement wall.

Although he was yelling at Cha Dokyung as if scolding him, unlike his words, he was in a state of high excitement. Contrary to the scolding he was shouting, Yeom Taejung was slowly releasing his own dominant alpha pheromones toward me.

“Yeom…! Fuck, heuk…! Has this crazy bastard lost his mind? Before I kill you, fuck…, get away from me!”

“Hoo…, why, you’re in your heat cycle right now, aren’t you?”

No. The heat cycle had already passed just a few days ago.

Besides, when my pheromones suddenly became uncontrollable on the rooftop earlier, I had popped all the few suppressant pills I had in my pocket for emergencies, but even after time passed, the suppressants were of no use at all.

Even with this powerful suppressant, which omegas have no choice but to absolutely rely on whenever their heat cycle, their estrus period, arrives, the pheromones were not being controlled at all.

Since even the suppressants were useless, perhaps this was the pheromone rampage that Professor Yoo had spoken of.

It was like facing a heat cycle without any preparation and without suppressants. A heat cycle where suppressants don’t work, without even a warning, was the worst of the worst.

I myself could not understand why I was in this state. Whatever it was, what was driving Cha Dokyung the most crazy was the fact that his own body was desperately craving a dominant alpha’s pheromones.

“I have to get out of here! Ugh, fuck…… haah, get your dirty hands off me……! Tell Sungtae to have the car ready!”

Yeom Taejung held Cha Dokyung’s face, which was shaking and unable to support his body.

The tyrant in heat inside me was screaming so loudly that my head felt like it would burst, demanding an alpha’s pheromones right now.

If things continued like this, I might end up uttering the words ‘hold me’ with my own mouth to Chairman Yeom, whom I hated so much. I might even be the one to lunge at that man, asking for a pheromone knotting.

Yeom Taejung seemed to be half out of his mind.

“Hoo……, Dokyung-ah. What should we do.”

Yeom Taejung’s fully erect lower body pressed against me. Cha Dokyung shuddered and slapped Yeom Taejung’s cheek with a resounding ‘smack!’.

“Disgusting, fuck……! You son of a bitch, are you crazy?! Get this filthy thing away from me right now!”

He slowly rubbed his slapped cheek and said.

“Did I do something wrong? You’re in a heat cycle right now, in heat. I’m a dominant alpha……. So, damn it, doesn’t that mean you can use me if you’re in a hurry?”

Cha Dokyung was genuinely relieved by the fact that he could still control himself. Cha Dokyung pushed against Yeom Taejung’s chest, which was holding him, with all his might. He screamed as if struggling with all his might.

“You crazy bastard, you’re all old and, fuck……, have you gone senile! Don’t try any funny business……! Before I terminate the contract and sue you.”

At those words, Yeom Taejung hid his venomous fangs and obediently stepped back.

“Calm down, right, I get it, I get it……. I was just saying. If you’re like that, what alpha can handle this situation with a sane mind? Fuck, it’s because I’m a dominant alpha that I’m desperately holding back this much.”

“……Haah, hurry up and tell them to have the car ready.”

“And why are the pheromones so, fuck……”

Yeom Taejung seemed to be restraining himself, but then he succumbed to his instincts again and turned into a beast.

“The pheromones, heuk……, what the fuck……, what the hell is wrong with you? How can you be so damn fucking tantalizing, so erotic that it drives a person crazy.”

The cold eyes, panting for breath, spat out a final warning with the force of a self-destructing bomb.

“You son of a bitch, if you touch my body, you’re finished……. At that time, it’s you die and I die.”

“Dokyung-ah, fuck…… I’m going to lose my mind. I can’t stand this, can I? What kind of pheromones, like this, hoo……, I don’t want to be like this either. I’m in heat, goddamn it, I can’t stand it.”

Yeom Taejung struggled between instinct and reason like a madman. While he was struggling, Cha Dokyung kicked his crotch, which was full of openings, with all his might.

I never thought that the stunt action I learned for a few months while filming an action scene for a spy movie in Prague would come in handy like this.

Yeom Taejung stood by the railing, holding his crotch and rolling around, complaining of the pain of being kicked in the balls. However, Cha Dokyung had already swiftly descended the emergency staircase.

“Keuk……! Cha Dokyung! Come here. It’s a joke! I won’t try any funny business. My contract with my agency’s celebrity is more important to me……! This is just something any alpha…… Fuck, the one who can stand this is a crazy impotent bastard! Damn it…, how can I stand it, bring me someone who can!”

Cha Dokyung ran for it. From the upper floor of the emergency staircase, Yeom Taejung’s voice echoed like a wail.

“I won’t do it. I won’t, fuck…… That’s not the problem right now! It’ll be a headache if you get discovered by people.”

Cha Dokyung continued to run without stopping.

“Hey! If you run into an alpha like that. Dude, hurry up and come here, hey, you bastard!”

There is no other opportunity than this moment, when I am still conscious and able to control myself. If I get caught by the dominant alpha Yeom Taejung like this and lose my consciousness, I didn’t know what kind of things this violent and lewd, damn tyrant would do next.

More than being discovered by people, Cha Dokyung could not stand the thought of himself going crazy with instinct and engaging in a filthy pheromone knotting with Yeom Taejung. I hated it more than biting my tongue and dying.

I never knew that the escape stunt I learned from the escape scene in the spy movie filmed in Prague would come in handy at a moment like this. Cha Dokyung jumped to the end of the stairs with all his might and ran through the emergency exit at a crazy speed. Yeom Taejung’s voice, which had been ringing out loudly like a wail, was finally no longer heard.

Cha Dokyung had filmed a drama at the hall house for several months just a short while ago and knew his way around the place quite well.

If you go out this emergency exit and go to the staff passageway, there is a hidden lounge. Cha Dokyung, having escaped from the emergency staircase, hid his body in a secluded and deserted lounge in the old building section connected to the underground parking lot in order to avoid being discovered by people. This was because he knew very well that the corner lounge located at the end of the old building was rarely frequented by outsiders.

In the past, during long-term filming here, the cast members used the secluded corner lounge of this old building, which was not frequented by outsiders or workers at all.

The actors would smoke there or take a nap during overnight filming, and they deliberately used the restroom attached to this deserted lounge in this hall house, which was inconvenient due to frequent comings and goings of people. It suddenly occurred to me that that place might be quite safe.

I ran out of the emergency exit and looked around. Fortunately, I didn’t run into anyone. Cha Dokyung, who succeeded in entering the old building, ran down the deserted staff passageway late at night.

And then he quickly locked the door to the entrance of the small lounge at the end. He was determined not to open it no matter who knocked on the door. The vibration of his mobile phone was going off like crazy.

“Haah…! Haah…! Haah…! Haah…!”

I stood with my back pressed against the lounge entrance door to catch my breath, which was coming in ragged gasps that felt like they would tear my lungs apart from running at full speed. However, even in this breathless situation, that damn, dog-like disturbance continued to whisper to me with crazy auditory hallucinations.

『So, hurry up and bring the real one…….』

Cha Dokyung shouted in anger in the middle of the lounge.

“Fuck…! What the hell is this real thing?”

“Right, go ahead and spout your nonsense! What’s real and what’s fake? Answer me properly!”

But the bastard gave no answer.

Exhausted, Cha Dokyung checked his mobile phone while leaning against the door. To make matters worse, he belatedly realized that the power was off because the battery had died.

I had always been perfect at blinding, which is hiding pheromones. But now, even as a dominant omega, I cannot even control and regulate my own pheromones.

A crazy heat cycle with no warning and where pheromone suppressants don’t work. If I lose consciousness here and that bastard takes over and runs wild, perhaps that is what a pheromone rampage is.

“Living, just once, haah…… fuck, it sucks.”

I wanted to give up on everything. I was so exhausted it felt like I would collapse on the floor at any moment. Only the sound of my panting breath was loud in the cramped lounge.

My mobile phone battery is dead too, so it might be better to just kill time here until dawn. The staff here won’t be coming in at this hour, past midnight, anyway.

With my pheromones out of control and shamelessly leaking out completely unconcealed, I couldn’t just go outside as I pleased.

Every modern person receives strict education on pheromone regulation and control from before their presentation. The act of revealing one’s pheromones and going out in front of people is no different from the act of stripping naked and begging to be violated. The problem is that even in this situation, absurdly.

“Fuck, haah……, I’m dying to have sex.”

I need high-concentration dominant alpha pheromones right now. In the end, I knew all too well that the only thing that could quell this disturbance was a pheromone knotting.