Heavy Rain Chapter 62

Currently, Lyle was in a state where he had been administered enough sleeping pills to sleep for a good three days. This was because medicine that forcibly resolves pheromones induces pain. The resolution medicine used for a rut was on a completely different level of depth in terms of pain compared to the oral medicine usually prescribed to him as a temporary measure.

Nevertheless, Lyle had walked without rest from the hospital to this distant place. As if proving the monstrous physical strength of a dominant Alpha, he brushed aside all the security personnel who tried to stop him and finally stepped out of the hospital. How could he have moved like that while saturated with sleeping pills?

At the end of Lyle’s reckless footsteps was that young Omega man.

“For now, you must sleep. You are not in a state to be awake.”

The primary physician, who had slowly organized his thoughts, reminded him of his condition with a stiffened face. Lyle, who contorted his face in distress, unwittingly looked toward Haejin once before turning his gaze away unnaturally.

Diagnosis was secondary for now. The pheromones of a dominant Alpha who had entered a rut were increasingly stretching out in all directions irregularly. Furthermore, if his body moved as it pleased to the point where it was uncontrollable, accidents would be prone to happen one way or another.

The primary physician, pondering for a moment, suggested to Lyle while trying his best not to look toward Haejin.

“If the pheromones cannot be resolved, you must at least keep the pheromones of a highly compatible Omega nearby.”

“That won’t do.”

The answer burst out without even a moment’s gap. An edge of anger in his voice, Lyle looked at the primary physician with an enraged gaze.

Though he did not know the exact circumstances, the primary physician prioritized his safety. Above all, he was not making such an unreasonable demand right now. After all, it was merely a temporary prescription.

“I mean nothing else. First, borrow at least an object permeated with pheromones and keep it by your side while you sleep. However, …you seem to be a recessive type, is that correct? I am asking because if so, a mere object might be insufficient.”

Prepared to receive Lyle’s stinging glare again, the primary physician asked Haejin. Haejin, who had been quietly looking for a gap to slip away, opened his eyes wide at the sudden question.

A highly compatible Omega—could it possibly be himself?

Only now did he notice that the ‘abnormality’ of Lyle, which he had been vaguely feeling, was related to this. Something had truly gone wrong with his body.

“Haejin, go into the bedroom. You don’t need to hear this. No, no. We will leave. Everyone, get out.”

With gestures that bordered on anxious, Lyle stood up abruptly. The primary physician stood up as well as if to dissuade him. Haejin watched that strange sight dazed. Clearly, the primary physician who had just entered earlier was naturally emitting Alpha pheromones. Yet now, despite making such vigorous movements, strangely, no pheromones could be felt.

The only thing that could be felt was Lyle’s pheromones surrounding him like a curtain.

“Calm down. If it is alright, why not borrow the bedroom that person uses?”

“…What are you talking about?”

The primary physician frowned in discomfort at Lyle’s pheromones that were gradually surrounding him as if tightening a noose. He could clearly feel that Lyle was intentionally placing a barrier of pheromones between the Omega over there and himself.

A desire to prescribe quickly and disappear welled up.

“I have brought all the equipment prepared at the hospital. We will try to induce sleep again in a place where that person’s pheromones remain thickly.”

“…”

At the unexpected prescription, Lyle covered his mouth with a troubled look. It was a mistake not to have received the diagnosis in a place where Haejin was absent from the start. Since the primary physician had been waiting for him here as soon as he left the bathroom, he had failed to judge properly. It was even more so because his dulled mind was preoccupied with taking in Haejin, who had entered his vision again.

At that moment, in a situation where everyone was silent, Mark stepped forward. As a Beta, he did not know how the pheromones occurring here were flowing. One thing for certain was that Lyle’s pheromones were filling the space so crazily that even he could feel it.

“If Mr. Bright allows it, we will arrange for him to be hosted in another guest room for a few days.”

Haejin nodded readily. Since they said the situation could be resolved with just that much, there was no reason to refuse, was there? It wasn’t as if this was entirely his room anyway, despite how they were reacting.

However, he began to observe Lyle’s gaze reaching him with a lingering sense of unfamiliarity.

Lyle’s pheromones, laid thickly in the drawing room, took a form he had never seen before. These dense pheromones, curiously, could not approach Haejin closely.

It was a pheromone that gave a peculiar feeling, as if he himself were a large, hot fire.

“If you feel sleepy, it is better not to take more medicine.”

“…No. Administer more, plenty of it.”

Lyle had no confidence at all. No confidence that he wouldn’t wake up dazed and crawl back to where Haejin was. It was more comfortable for his mind to simply be unable to move his body at all due to the medicine.

Without time to contemplate the fact that he had imprinted, Lyle wanted to hurry and fall asleep. As the rut intensified, he could not control the urge to keep heading toward Haejin.

But if he saw the fellow’s sorrowful face just once more here, he felt as if his heart would stop from guilt.

“When you wake up, come to receive a medical examination.”

The primary physician spoke to him with a somewhat dark expression. Since he seemed to have noticed something, Lyle simply nodded.

The primary physician, after adjusting the IV in his hand, darkened the room and quietly went outside. In the space soon enveloped by silence, Lyle slowly closed his eyes. Haejin’s pheromones, which permeated the bedroom, soothed him as if they were a lullaby.

Amidst an extreme sense of stability encountered for the first time in his life, Lyle was able to lose consciousness.

“Was it not there?”

He asked anxiously, but Mark shook his head with a troubled expression.

“Yes. I checked the place you mentioned, but it wasn’t there. Might you have placed it somewhere else?”

“Ah…”

The other room the servants had prepared was similarly neat in atmosphere. However, unlike the place where Haejin had been staying, it was not structured with a separate drawing room and walk-in closet. It was in an external building like Haejin’s previous room, but it was quite large in size. It seemed they had taken care to place him as far away from Lyle as possible.

Haejin, who had suddenly had to give up his bedroom, had to come here in a daze. Because of that, he had forgotten to pack his important wallet containing the family photo.

Since he did not dare to visit the place where Lyle would be lying, he asked Mark instead. However, he, who had gone to that room several times, said he had not seen the wallet, making Haejin anxious.

At his attitude, all the servants nearby fidgeted and approached carefully. Even without this, they had been cherishing the wounded Haejin with the feeling of looking at a fragile glass craft. But because it had suddenly turned into a situation where Lyle snatched away even his bedroom, they were all walking on eggshells.

“When the young master wakes up, we will all look for it again together. I am sorry.”

“We’ll find it for you even if we have to tear up the floorboards.”

“That’s right. It might just not have been visible because it’s dark there right now.”

Haejin, who had been hanging his head gloomily wondering if he had lost the photo, looked back at them with an awkward expression.

He really didn’t know he would feel this kind of emotion in this mansion.

“…Thank you.”

As he answered, his throat felt strangely tight.

The white sheets gave off a good smell. It wasn’t something like pheromones, but the fragrant scent of fabric softener. Haejin, who was lying with his face buried there, suddenly recalled Lyle’s pheromones.

Lyle’s pheromones felt in the drawing room were certainly strange. It was because the thought occurred to him belatedly that despite it being a rut, they moved like a gentle breeze.

It was quite different from when he had intimidated him for saying he would leave the mansion. Back then, even if those pheromones didn’t contain an energy that seemed to harm him, they did penetrate his body with a clear purpose. Perhaps because it was something experienced in the same place, the difference stood out even more clearly.

They definitely said they were highly compatible pheromones.

He also recalled what the doctor had said while looking at Haejin. Because of the anxiety that arose habitually, Haejin’s face stiffened slightly.