Pheromone Off Chapter 46

“No, it’s not— it wasn’t me….”

“Then who would commit such an act?”

“I just…”

With a bewildered face, Hajin urgently retraced his memories. Fumbling through his chaotic memories, he recalled a few days ago. He had gone to the company and then returned to the annex, and upon returning, Butler Ahn… right, Butler Ahn was there.

“That medicine, Butler Ahn…”

As Hajin difficultly continued his words with a confused face, a hah, a deflated laugh, drifted over.

“Butler Ahn committed it?”

“…It’s not that.”

“What reason would Butler Ahn have to make you and me screw each other.”

“…”

“What kind of profit is there.”

“…”

“Just act honestly instead.”

He looked down at him with a gaze mixed with ridicule and blame.

“That you wanted to screw me at least once like that.”

He didn’t get furiously angry, but condensed contempt could be glimpsed in his sunken pupils. At the explicit disdain, Hajin’s speech was blocked once more. Dealing with just this situation right now was overwhelming enough, but he hadn’t expected to be blamed in this manner.

“Is it because you’re young.”

“…”

“You’re audacious. Sassy.”

Letting out a fishy laugh, he looked down at his collapsed self and evaluated him.

It was a low-quality evaluation.

He disparaged and demeaned him, treating him as a lowlife who used a dirty trick just because he wanted to sleep with him once.

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The atmosphere in the house was chaotic.

Thanks to the employees who felt around the annex that Kwon Sayoung had entered a rut, the annex restricted everyone’s entry and exit for a few days. That was why that time had not been interrupted even after a few days passed. During a rut or heat cycle, they always seemed to control the building in this manner.

Upon Kwon Sayoung’s appearance at the main house, Madam Shim, who realized that the rut had ended, sent a separate signal to the employees. At that signal, the employees entered the annex and began cleaning as if it were familiar.

At the smell inside the room which was still full of pheromones, a few employees dry-heaved. It meant it was that terrible, but funny enough, Hajin felt nothing. He merely felt his body odor. Perhaps because of that, a few employees, wearing masks, glanced at him curiously. It was a gaze as if asking how he had survived.

That gaze was embarrassing, but Hajin was not in his right mind enough to care about such things one by one. Washing was barely washing, and he was in a state of barely standing. Furthermore, checking his phone late, he could tell that 3 days had already passed from that day. Contacts related to work were piled up, but at the end, a message had come saying that the manager had received some contact and the company took care of settling it on their own.

Hajin, who was checking the contacts one by one, let out a cold sigh. At any rate, he ended up going off the grid, and though it seemed the company had settled it, the fact that he caused a nuisance did not disappear. The prick of conscience about having done such an irresponsible deed, and though the one swept up was clearly himself, the situation where he somehow became the instigator of this matter was a bit difficult.

Furthermore, his entire body was a wreck. The moment he stood in front of the mirror to wash up, he could not help but be horrified. Handprints and bruise marks present all over his entire body here and there on his arms, legs, and thighs. At the marks present up to his torn corners of the mouth and the vicinity of his neck, he pressed his two eyes tightly shut. The sense of shame and embarrassment of the past nights flared up intensely in an instant.

“Are you okay?”

It was then. Hajin, who hadn’t felt a presence due to the bustling atmosphere from the cleaning, raised his head with a startled face.

“M— Mother….”

Madam Shim, wearing a one-piece dress that came down to her ankles, scanned him lengthily with her arms crossed. Feeling that gaze, Hajin shrank his body without realizing it. Above all, he urgently covered the distinct marks present on his neck with his hand.

“To turn a child into…”

At Hajin’s appearance which was full of marks of being terribly pushed around that anyone could see—a gaunt face, torn corners of the mouth, mottled Adam’s apple, and so on over the few days—Madam Shim let out a small sigh.

“Your appearance is not a proper sight.”

“…Ah…. I’m sorry.”

Hajin stared blankly at the opponent and then hurriedly bowed his head. Somehow, this situation felt entirely like his fault. Even though it wasn’t a deed he committed, he even had an illusion that this situation occurred because he used a trick.

“…I’ll have some food brought out, so eat and rest.”

“Yes…? Ah… yes.”

“He made you into an absolute wreck.”

“…Yes?”

“Sayoung isn’t a fellow who acts violently to this extent, though.”

“…”

“For a few days straight, Sayoung’s pheromones could be felt all the way to the main house. He’s not a child who receives that much influence from pheromones so normally it ends in a day, but since you’re a Beta, it seems gathering his pheromones wasn’t easy.”

“…Yes.”

“…You went through trouble. Rest a bit. And see Grandfather after resting.”

Madam Shim spoke that way and gave a short nod toward the employee who followed. Then, the employees who had been preparing in advance set down a warm tea in front of Hajin, and lit candles full of aroma scent here and there.

“They are things with a good effect on stabilizing the mind and body.”

At Madam Shim’s consideration, Hajin realized only then that she was caring about him. At the warmth held in his hand, the inside of Hajin’s chest surged.

“In the end, affection does sprout between the two of you.”

Various emotions were buried in Madam Shim’s voice. Displeasure wasn’t felt, but a subtle sigh and resignation were felt. It was a tone of voice as if she could not help but accept the relationship of the two, which she hadn’t thought of. Of course, it was an accident that happened somehow, but the opponent looked to be entirely unaware of that fact. Come to think of it, since they were living together as fiances, it was a natural story. The purpose of himself and Kwon Sayoung was also to deceive them.

“Butler Ahn, talk to Chief Ju and have them prepare things good for the body.”

“Yes, I understand.”

At the call that came out of Madam Shim’s mouth then, Hajin raised his eyes, looking somewhat startled. At the real instigator of this matter, Hajin’s pupils shook somewhat.

As Madam Shim left the spot first, Hajin urgently caught Butler Ahn, who tried to follow her rear.

“Excuse, me.”

“…Is there something you need?”

At his appearance without a single shred of facial expression change, Hajin lost his speech for a moment. How he could be that nonchalant, he was rather flustered to that degree.

“That medicine….”

“Yes?”

“…The medicine you told me to take care of for Hyung.”

“Are you speaking of the suppressant?”

Pretending not to know to the end. Hajin let out an absurd sigh.

“That medicine was…!”

But his position that he could not easily interrogate flashed through his mind at that moment. Madam Shim referred to the relationship between Kwon Sayoung and himself as affection. She thought it was a matter that occurred because a good current arose between the two, so if he were to interrogate him asking if he gave an estrus inducer, they would come to regard this matter as an accident. And it would become a matter of babbling that out with his own mouth.

That Madam Shim didn’t know meant Kwon Sayoung was keeping his mouth shut as well. Hajin bit his lower lip as if resentful.

“What is it you have to say….”

“It’s nothing.”

“…”

“…It’s nothing. …You may go.”

Hajin smoothed his roughening breath, swallowing it down tightly. Butler Ahn stared intently at himself who was trying hard to act calmly, and soon tilted his head and turned around. Just what kind of ulterior motive… or rather, had he wished for this kind of situation? This kind of situation that made Kwon Sayoung misunderstand him… because he had displeased him from the very beginning.

Hajin, who stopped further thoughts, plopped down on the sofa as if collapsing. Fatigue rushed in in an instant, and it felt like he would collapse any second. It was a tremendous overload. His body, his mind, and all of the dozens of emotions too.

Hajin closed his eyes smoothly with a exhausted appearance. Whether the aroma scent was showing an effect, his consciousness began to dim gradually. And on the other hand, he wanted to run away. From this moment right now that he couldn’t handle.

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“You look to be in good condition.”

At the appearance of his boss who came to work after a long time, Secretary Jang delivered the business schedule and tossed a word. Not only did a tired look disappear without a trace after being confined for 3 days, but a glow flowed on his skin. Whether the compatibility matched with the rut he spent with his fiance, even his momentum was fierce. It was a momentum to the extent where he would be fine even if he stayed up for 3 days and nights right now. The pheromones flowing out placidly were stable, and on top of that, the aura he radiated was more elegant and brilliant than usual.

“Is that so.”

He replied casually, flipping through the contract cases he hadn’t been able to review for a few days.

“Your complexion has improved a lot.”

3 days ago, his boss had a deep tired look unlike his usual self. To the extent where dark circles formed on his handsome face. There was no such thing when a famous dominant Omega was present as his lover. Since he always did pheromone discharge periodically, that is.

“The compatibility with your fiance….”

“He’s a Beta.”

“Yes?”

“My fiance, I’m saying he’s a Beta.”

Setting down the documents, he indifferently looked up at the secretary standing opposite him.

“Ah, come to think of it…”

He had heard of it. That the newly brought fiance was a Beta. Seeing his complexion improve after spending a rut with him, he naturally mistook him for an Omega.

“…So compatibility can be good even with a Beta.”

Secretary Jang slightly shined his eyes inside his glasses as if having realized an unexpected fact.

“Does the compatibility look good?”

Kwon Sayoung asked back, slightly wrinkling his brow. Secretary Jang was startled for a moment as if asking why he was asking something obvious, and soon replied politely.

“Yes. It’s the first time you look in such good condition after a rut.”

“Right. It’s been a long time since I felt this refreshed.”

Replying like a monologue with a face as if he himself couldn’t understand either, he swept the corners of his mouth once, slide, with the index finger that had been holding the fountain pen.

“To the point where it’s displeasing because it’s too refreshed.”