Heavy Rain Chapter 6

So he returned to the mansion in haste, but Haejin was not in his spot. The fellow who had contracted to always be in his spot whenever he was needed.

Naturally, as he recalled Haejin’s black hair, a headache assailed him. Over the past five years, there had not been a single time Haejin wasn’t there when Lyle needed him. The fellow surely must have known his rut was approaching, so isn’t it absurd for him to imprudently leave his post without a word at a time like this?

Just then, the car he had sent entered the garden. He saw Haejin, his arms gripped by bodyguards, being dragged out from inside. It was a look as if he were being forcibly dragged to a place he didn’t want to go.

Lyle approached that way without realizing it. It was a sight he disliked in many ways.

“…”

In the meantime, Lyle, looking down at Haejin who had come right before his nose, inadvertently brushed off the bodyguard’s arm roughly. The bodyguard quickly bowed his head and stepped back, but Haejin’s head remained hung low and would not come up.

That made him strangely angry.

“Our contract should be that you are in that spot whenever I need you.”

“The contract is…!”

It was that face again. That sorrowful face he had shown that night.

His head throbbed crazily again. For a moment, his surroundings slowed down and Haejin’s face was etched into his retina like a sculpture. It seemed the rut was finally about to begin. They say pheromones are half a beat faster; was the reason his physical condition had been so sensitive for the past few days because the rut was coming sooner than its cycle?

“There are many eyes watching. Let us go inside for now, Master.”

The butler, who had quickly stepped in, said to Lyle. Thanks to that, Haejin’s mouth, which was about to say something more, was blocked. Instead, his resentful gaze turned toward the butler this time.

Is he acting like that because he thinks his words were ignored just now? Lyle found it so absurd that he grabbed Haejin by the scruff of the neck and pulled him into the mansion. He simply could not suppress the impulse. An irrational obsession that he had to put Haejin back in his proper spot was controlling him.

The fellow struggled a bit and was dragged along. The sight of him intentionally dragging one leg more than the other rubbed Lyle the wrong way.

At the sudden commotion, the servants who were in their path all vanished. The butler, who was coming along saying he would get Haejin ready, also read the room and withdrew. Haejin thought it was rather a relief, as the butler’s gaze—which unpleasantly scanned him every time he tied his naked body—was creepy.

However, seeing Lyle holding him by the scruff with a menacing aura, his body trembled involuntarily. Overpowering pheromones poured down over his entire body.

“I, I have to go to the hospital. The payment…”

Even so, when he barely managed to speak, Lyle, who was walking ahead, stopped dead in his tracks. Only then did he seem to realize he was leading Haejin with brute force, and he abruptly let go. Now that only the two of them remained in the hallway where everyone had disappeared, his senses returned.

His behavior, which was rougher than usual, gave an extreme indication that his body was not normal. This is why an Alpha’s body is inconvenient. Because one cannot act rationally just because pheromones have stagnated.

“You know that kind of thing is just a formality. Go after we’re finished.”

“But…!”

Lyle’s temper, which he had barely tried to calm, grew even more fierce. This side of Haejin, who was usually compliant without adding a single word every time, stimulated him like something popping up. As if the fellow’s presence, which he hadn’t cared about for the past five years, was revealing itself all at once after having been curled up.

Lyle pressed down on his brow where he felt the headache and managed a rational response.

“Is today the day specified in the contract?”

“It’s not that, but…”

“Then what’s the problem.”

His short patience vanished like smoke. Vainly, like that day when he had recalled Haejin’s face for no reason.

Thus, the rut began in earnest.

Lyle was the type to manage his pheromones with surgical precision. He loathed Omegas, but he also looked down on Alphas who put on airs just by trusting in their secondary gender. Therefore, he boasted a clean containment of pheromones to the point that it wasn’t even obvious he was a dominant Alpha.

Around such a man, menacing pheromones were now running wild. Because of his dominant trait, Lyle had to spend a very rough rut period regardless of his will. The face of Haejin, who watched this from the closest distance, quickly turned pale.

The rut came a little earlier than the cycle.

“…Please let me go to the hospital when it’s over.”

Haejin knew clearly what his role was. So he barely swallowed his sorrow. Because this was a familiar thing.

I should make sure he can go once it’s over. It will be delayed by a few days, but this time I must tell Lyle directly to make sure the hospital schedule in the contract is well-kept.

Even though it was called an equal contract, in reality, Haejin was just the weak one. To the point where he was used to pushing down sorrow or dissatisfaction for now.

“Do as you please with that.”

Without knowing what kind of consideration Haejin was making within himself, Lyle swept his hair back irritably. From his perspective, he couldn’t understand why Haejin, who should be faithfully visiting the hospital once every two weeks according to the contract, was acting like this. So this time, he snatched Haejin’s wrist and walked forward without hesitation.

The spacious mansion felt only annoying today. While his body, swayed by pheromones, was quite uncomfortable, he also habitually recalled Haejin’s body scent.

As they entered the room where they coupled every time, the neatly organized interior came into view. Only after reaching that place did Haejin feel his vision turning dark.

Now Lyle’s pheromones poured out to the point of heavily weighing down the room. Unlike a normal discharge of pheromones, a rut continues for several days. Just thinking about receiving those fierce movements directly, he was already exhausted.

Haejin suppressed his shivering body and slowly took off his clothes. Taking them off while receiving the butler’s dirty gaze is a very shameful thing. Yet, in front of Lyle’s vivid blue eyes, he felt even more diminished. For some reason, Lyle, who had become rapidly silent, was just staring at Haejin’s body.

Haejin, closing his eyes tightly, quickly put on the blindfold lying next to him. As usual, it would be better if he couldn’t see anything at all. As he sat on the plush bed, he felt his body sink in.

Then, hesitating, he picked up the rope next to him and handed it toward where Lyle would be. Since he couldn’t tie his hands alone, there was no other choice. Because such a thing had never happened before, Haejin was in a state of great fluster.

A large hand took the rope, and their fingertips brushed. As his vision went pitch black, these sensations became more sensitive, so Haejin’s intention to escape failed. He even got the vivid feeling that Lyle’s gaze was piercing down into his naked body. Of course, that couldn’t be the case. Lyle surely would have taken the rope as if it were a nuisance.

Haejin, who reflexively lay face down and turned his arms behind him, was startled and turned back to the front. He shouldn’t cross Lyle right now, but he honestly didn’t have the confidence to endure being tied behind his back for several days. Because he had walked in the rain for a long time earlier, his body was so chilly. He had almost no sensation in his injured ankle.

“In, in front.”

Lyle had never hit Haejin, but this time he might really get slapped. He thought it was a relief again that his eyes were covered.

Lyle, watching Haejin’s movements blankly, shifted his gaze to the rope in his hand. Haejin’s two hands, held out in front, were trembling. And on those wrists, bruises that had failed to fade and had piled up were sitting thickly.

As if telling the flow of time, the many bruises strangely kept drawing Lyle’s gaze. It wasn’t that he was now feeling something like guilt for having treated Haejin this way. Because Lyle thought he was providing sufficient compensation for it.

Just then, due to the pheromone congestion, a pain as if his head were splitting open began. It was the moment Lyle, rubbing his brow, was about to coldly spit out that he wouldn’t bother tying him this time. Someone urgently knocked on the door of the room.

“Ma, Master…!”

The butler, who had read the room and slipped away earlier, knocked and flung the door open before even hearing an answer. In that moment, Lyle moved his body in a direction even he could not understand.

Haejin wouldn’t have seen it since his eyes were covered, but Lyle reflexively stepped in front to block the view, shielding his naked body.