Pheromone Off Chapter 3

If Kwon Sabin was someone who bewitched people with his uniquely gorgeous appearance, he was someone who possessed a refined and elegant beauty in his every glance and gesture. Hajin had lost his gaze to the aura he exuded countless times, and swallowed dry saliva countless times. Everything that man possessed was not something that could be obtained by practicing and learning.

Seeing the man’s figure for the first time in so long, Hajin unconsciously avoided his gaze. As close as the two families were, they visited each other frequently, but that was a story that did not apply to Hajin. The fathers were close, they often went on family trips abroad together, and they were close enough to go rounding together at least once or twice a month, but Hajin was in a position where he could not join that spot.

It was a given that if the grandparents and parents were close, the children would see each other often. They frequently invited each other to their homes for meals, and they held home parties periodically as well as appearing at official events. However, that also was a story that did not apply to Hajin. Hajin’s parents never allowed Hajin to show his face even once at official events.

“In this way—!”

Kwon Sayoung, who burst in with a somewhat flushed face, stopped talking right as he saw Hajin sitting demurely next to the bed instead of continuing to raise his voice. Seeing the party involved in the matter stuck right next to him, he distorted his brows even more heavily as if feeling a layer more displeased.

“Where do you think you’re kicking open the door and coming in so ill-manneredly.”

Chairman Kwon lowered his voice as if he quite disliked Kwon Sayoung’s rough entrance. Kwon Sayoung, who had been excited, wiped his face and exhaled a long breath.

“What is it? The contents of the will.”

“It is exactly as you heard.”

“Chairman. No, Grandfather. Does that make any sense?”

“What wouldn’t make sense?”

Kwon Sayoung also threw his words with a dumbfounded face as if thoroughly shocked, but Chairman Kwon was triumphant.

“I’m dating Yeonwoo.”

“You aren’t married.”

“…Even so, how can you tell me to marry the younger brother of the person I’m dating?”

“I wonder if those fellows even consider Hajin as a younger brother.”

At the pointed words, Kwon Sayoung knitted his brows and glared at Hajin, who was somewhat shrinking back. It was a gaze asking what on earth he had said by his side to sweet-talk him. A gaze of condemnation similar to Seong Suhyun’s reaction seen in the morning. Hajin felt somewhat wronged, but he didn’t dare to butt into the conversation between the two of them.

“No matter what, it is too absurd a condition.”

“If you don’t like it, then stop it.”

“…Ha.”

At the tone that was along the lines of ‘if not, then whatever,’ Kwon Sayoung let out a hollow breath.

“Like that, as before, we can just make Sahui the chairman and you can acquire the department store and the capital finance company.”

Chairman Kwon was very slick. He was stabbing the opponent’s sensitive part enough to make Hajin, who was watching, admire.

“…I’m truly disappointed. I didn’t know you would swing me around using marriage as a pretext.”

Kwon Sayoung looked at his grandfather as if looking at a traitor, as if this matter was truly shocking. Somehow it was a gaze in which hurt could be felt as well, but Chairman Kwon did not care and calmly took in his grandson’s fierce gaze.

“Then did you think there would be anything easy? What on earth is it that you are better at than Sahui? When Sahui was your age, not only did she expand the US market and win all kinds of orders, she comfortably surpassed achieving 300% of the head office sales. It is also your sister who has been maintaining that steadily. Yes, I know well that the results aren’t bad for every business you touch. Rumors are rife among the executives as well, saying you resemble your sister a lot. What is the use of that, even if they say you resemble her, your sister has already overtaken you and gone up two moves, no, three moves ahead.”

At Chairman Kwon’s cold-headed remarks, Hajin wondered if it was okay for him to be watching this situation here. Hajin flinched and glanced at Chairman Kwon’s somewhat brutal side. He was an infinitely gentle person to him, but looking at him at times like this, he seemed like a completely different person, feeling disparate.

Above all, it was the figure of Kwon Sayoung turning around without being able to say a single word while mindlessly taking in those dagger-like words. Thinking that he might have been too harsh no matter what, he looked at Chairman Kwon, but he acted like he didn’t know, put his reading glasses back on, and examined the documents.

Hajin hesitated, then pushed himself up and followed behind Kwon Sayoung. When he came out of the hospital room, Kwon Sayoung’s secretaries were guarding the front. He was walking ahead with a fast stride with his secretaries in tow. Fearing that the distance between them might become too far if he wasn’t careful, Hajin hurriedly called him.

“Excuse me….”

At the cold back that showed no movement even at the call, Hajin hesitated and opened his mouth again.

“E—Excuse me—!”

Only then did the black back come to a sudden halt. A dependable back. Whenever he saw him, Hajin somehow felt a corner of his heart turn dull. Though he knew that he was his half-brother’s lover and knew well how great a person he was, and knew he shouldn’t cast his eyes on him, he couldn’t help where his heart went.

It wasn’t simply because he was terribly handsome. Though cold and cold-headed, he was a person who always kept his boundaries with him. The only person who restrained Seong Suhyun when he bullied him. Chairman Kwon’s words were not wrong. He had possessed a strange feeling toward him since he was young.

“…What is it?”

He turned around with a tired face, and realizing that the one who stopped him was Hajin, he wrinkled his brows. Kwon Sayoung had never looked displeased upon seeing him. Even if he was indifferent, he had never shown contempt like his half-brothers. He was grateful for such mindlessness. However, whether because of his grandfather’s will, the gaze looking at him was packed to the brim with suspicion and displeasure.

“Ah…. That.”

Hajin was awkward about being alone with him and stuttered for a moment.

“It’s nothing else… I’m telling you… not to worry.”

At the sudden words Hajin brought out with difficulty, his brows furrowed a layer further.

“…I’ll persuade Grandfather well.”

“…”

“So… please don’t worry.”

“…”

“By any chance… there won’t be… any occasion for you and me to marry.”

Fearing that he might suspect, like Seong Suhyun, that he had pulled some trick to cause this trouble, Hajin made an excuse. He hated being suspected by other people, but he didn’t want to be suspected even by the party himself. Not wanting to be disliked even by him of all people, he hurriedly held him back and continued.

“…I really didn’t do anything.”

“Must be nice.”

“…Pardon?”

“Since Grandfather falls right over at a single word from you, that is.”

“…”

“Right. I don’t know how you cajoled him before that, but try cajoling him well this time too. Because I don’t have the slightest intention to marry the younger brother of the person I was dating.”

He tossed sharp words with a calm face. He seemed to be considerably heated up. Having turned around as if his business was over, he soon came to a sudden halt again. As Hajin, who was watching from behind, stared blankly at that figure in wonder, he turned his body. And wrinkling his brows with a face carefully pondering, he brought up words in a wondering voice.

“Omega?”

“…Pardon?”

“Are you an Omega.”

…How uninterested is he.

Hajin swallowed the urge to laugh from absurdity and shook his head.

“No. A Beta.”

At that, as if even more dumbfounded, he wore a fishy smile. As Hajin, who did not understand the meaning of that smile, was just staring wonderingly, his speech soon drifted over and he could understand right away.

“He’s trying to marry me off even to a kid who can’t even get pregnant.”

He let out a sneer as if talking to himself and wiped his mouth.

“It seems that old man wants to cut off my lineage as well.”

He glared toward the hospital room where Chairman Kwon was with quite brutal eyes. Whether the party involved heard those words or not, he bitterly muttered and turned around again as if his business was over. Revealing his disappointment toward his grandfather without filtering, he fiercely crossed the hospital hallway and disappeared.

Watching until his back disappeared, Hajin blankly moved his lips. It didn’t feel good to hear openly that he was useless. But, what could he do. He was used to that kind of condemnation. But even so, he was a little disappointed. The cause of the condemnation pouring down on him was all just in his existence itself. Despite his will not being in any of it, hearing the condemnation he had to hear even from the man before his eyes, his mood was not pleasant.

Is marrying me really that detestable.

At his figure that even showed contempt, Hajin inwardly felt a disappointed mind creeping up. But it was natural. Leaving behind that incredible and noble Dominant Omega, who would want to marry something like him. He had expected such a reaction, and it was natural, but the bitterness lingering in his mouth could not be helped.

Hajin turned around with a face tinged with distress and headed to the hospital room again. To the side of the only person who did not consider him a useless person.

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Hajin actually thought he would be able to turn Grandfather’s mind back. Because he granted his requests for the most part, and was a person who was gentle only to him, he thought he would naturally be able to revert this kind of absurd condition. He had considered that the weakened Chairman Kwon really made an undiscerning decision in the moment because he was worried about him, but he wasn’t.

He was firm and his intention was clear. On top of that, he even heard the words that it was something he had thought about since a long time ago, and that he had waited for him to turn twenty. That was right. Chairman Kwon was intending to marry him off right away once he turned twenty. He had clearly assured Kwon Sayoung that he would turn Chairman Kwon’s mind back, but if things went on like this, he was really going to become like a person who used tricks.