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Just touching the pheromones with his skin was not enough. To lower a body temperature that might have been approaching 40 degrees, and to neutralize the pheromones leaking steadily like from a broken jar, he needed more—and in a higher concentration.

Seowon begged for pheromones by tickling and sucking the damp flesh. Soon, he gulped down the saliva flowing down his throat and sucked and licked the sweet lips. Driven by an impulse to stick even closer to him, he reached out his arms to wrap them around his neck and pushed his chest forward.

“Heuuung…”

It was only natural for a high-pitched nasal sound to leak out. His body, reacting to the pheromones, was heating up in a different sense. The inside of his thighs felt stiff and his lower abdomen felt heavy. The Alpha pheromones, overwhelming the Omega pheromones, pressed down on Seowon’s entire body pleasingly.

“Just a little, more.”

Seowon pleaded unconsciously. His body temperature, which had soared near its limit, was not dropping easily. His body usually listened remarkably well to Alpha pheromones, so seeing it fail to obey like this meant his condition was likely quite dire.

As if responding to Seowon’s rude request, Alpha pheromones poured down in a heap. His waist twisted at the strange touch sweeping down his flank. A sudden impulse to be touched just a little more jumped up. An instinct to be rummaged through even deeper surged.

“Ah-uuu…”

As if representing Seowon’s desire, his legs spread apart, and the heavy thing between them made its presence clearly known. Seowon’s own and the other person’s pressed intimately against each other with only cloth between them. So this was Baek Kanghyun’s…

“Heck!”

In an instant, his mind flashed awake and a scream leaked out. As if the effect of being doused in a large amount of Alpha pheromones was kicking in, his head, which had been foggy as if filled with mist, gradually cleared. The headache that had been pounding as if to break his skull subsided, and his spinning vision slowly found its place. The biggest change was the pheromones. The sweet scent that had been stretching out in all directions decreased sharply. As the pheromones subsided, Seowon’s mind also returned to normal.

“…”

Even his vision, which had been full of moisture, was almost recovered. Seowon closed his eyes tight and then slowly opened them. His own reflection was caught in the eyes glittering right in front of him.

He was nose-to-nose with Baek Kanghyun. Seowon’s own arms were wrapped around his neck, and even their chests were completely pressed together. It was dizzying, as even their lower bodies were precariously overlapped.

How did this happen?

While he was busily rolling his eyes up, down, left, and right to grasp the situation, Baek Kanghyun turned his face as if to clash lips again. Seowon reflexively called out to him and grabbed his shoulders firmly.

“Team Leader… nim?”

However, he did not stop and overlapped their lips again. A sticky tongue dug into his mouth and stirred the inside. Saliva passed over steadily along his crushed tongue. The thick tongue scraped the tender mucous membrane, and his hands boldly felt up Seowon’s body. The hand that had entered between his pants, into an intimate place, groped his private parts without hesitation. Hueock, the breath and pheromones exhaled by a predator consumed by instinct weighed down on Seowon.

“St-stop!”

“Fuck.”

Both of his wrists were grabbed simultaneously, and even his neck was bitten. Buried his nose where the pheromones were leaking, he rubbed his lower body. Every time Seowon even tried to say something, he overlapped their lips and ransacked the inside of his mouth with his tongue. At the tongue that suddenly entered deep into his throat, Seowon widened his eyes and even shed tears. The violent tongue movements continued as if rebuking the resisting Seowon.

“Team Leader Baek Kanghyun!”

When a very brief gap to speak appeared, Seowon called him desperately. Only then did he stop moving. Like a wild beast hit by a hunter’s bullet, the strength drained from Baek Kanghyun’s body.

Whooo, he let out a long sigh. His breath brushed against Seowon’s swollen lips. It was hard to believe that he had been overlapping his lips with those lips until just a moment ago. As his mind snapped to attention, everything—what he had done to him and even what he had said—came back to him.

‘Crazy…’

Unless he was truly crazy, how could he do this to Baek Kanghyun… No matter how starved for pheromones he was, to think he would beg Baek Kanghyun of all people to release pheromones. But even though he had to tell the man who was still pressing his body against him to get off quickly, his mouth simply would not move.

“…”

Baek Kanghyun’s gaze, which he couldn’t tell if was a glare or just a look, remained fixed. Seowon unwound the hands he had wrapped around his neck and adjusted the angle of his head slightly. The sensation of their lips rubbing was still vivid. Even the movement of the tongue that had greedily swum inside his mouth and the alluring pheromones.

“I am, sorry.”

The words he managed to come up with were only that. Since he had shown such unseemly behavior to his superior, it was natural to beg for forgiveness, but he couldn’t help the uncomfortable feeling in his heart.

Should he also say thank you? He thought about it but withdrew it immediately. He would apologize, but he didn’t want to convey gratitude. Because the reason his physical condition suddenly worsened today was because of Baek Kanghyun. It wasn’t like he was giving the disease and then the medicine…

‘Loose…’

However, the words he had said to him while he was heated by pheromones suddenly came to mind. Calling me loose, who’s the really loose one here…

“Team Leader, I’d like you to move aside.”

Only then did Baek Kanghyun slowly pull his body away. Because the influence of the pheromones still remained, goosebumps rose every time he moved. The fever had broken, but the damn heat remained. Seowon gathered his legs to hide his bulging crotch and sat up. He thought they might be inside a car, but to think they really were…

“I am truly sorry. I showed unseemly behavior.”

Being in a cramped car when it was already hard enough being in the office with Baek Kanghyun, Seowon pulled the handle, wanting to get out of the car at any moment. However, the door did not open. It was the same no matter how many times he pulled.

“Team Leader, the door won’t open…”

“Is it always like this?”

“What are you talking about?”

Seowon, who countered sharply, turned his body toward Baek Kanghyun. A predatory gaze that looked as if it would bite his nape at any moment reached him fully.

“Doesn’t Assistant Manager Jeong know that better?”

“…”

His gaze, as if looking at something very dirty, was extremely unpleasant. He had even forced himself on Seowon, who told him to stop. Even if he might have started it first, it was hard to see the responsibility as lying entirely with him. Nevertheless, Baek Kanghyun blamed only Seowon. As if he had no fault at all.

Damn pheromones, Baek Kanghyun, you son of a bitch…

He refused to be treated as a loose Omega. Because Seowon had never even mixed bodies with anyone other than Baek Kanghyun. As if he had finished all the sex he was supposed to do in his lifetime while meeting him seven years ago, Seowon had not mixed bodies with anyone else even after becoming an Omega. Even with his partner Jaehwan, they had only gone as far as kissing; they had never gone all the way.

Should he just explain his situation? That his body doesn’t respond to suppressants, so it becomes like this sometimes. That’s why he needs Alpha pheromones. But he hesitated because it was information that could become his weakness. It was even more so because the counterpart was Baek Kanghyun.

“I have some personal circumstances.”

Seowon decided not to confess his situation. He didn’t want to tell the person responsible for making his body like this.

“…”

“I finished the report and sent it. I think you can check it.”

“…”

“It’s very late. If there are other problems with the report, I will take action tomorrow.”

He pulled the car door handle once more. Perhaps Baek Kanghyun had unlocked it in the meantime, because this time the door opened. Seowon left the parking lot just like that and took the elevator.

Thump-thump, thump-thump.

His heart beat like crazy. He resented his body for taking joy in Baek Kanghyun’s pheromones.

The morning finally came after the previous night that felt like a lie. Today, Seowon was truly afraid to go to work. He wanted to use an excuse like being sick and take medical leave, but Seowon’s body, having been doused in the pheromones of a dominant Alpha, was in too good of a condition. To the point where if he had wings, he could fly.

When he entered the office with a light body and a heavy heart, he locked eyes with Baek Kanghyun for a very brief moment. After looking at Seowon for a while with cold eyes, he soon turned his gaze away.

‘Am I safe for now? I must be, right?’

“Assistant Manager Jeong, what time did you leave yesterday? Did you even go home?”

Manager Seo Jiyeon asked in a worried tone. Seowon smiled brightly and only gave a small nod. For today at least, he intended to stay as quiet as a dead mouse without making a sound. That way, Baek Kanghyun would perceive his presence a little less.

‘I wish I could go on a field assignment.’

He wanted to do field work, which he usually hated. Anything was fine, really, as long as he could escape Baek Kanghyun’s range. Or if Baek Kanghyun would get a business trip.

“Assistant Manager Jeong, come here for a moment.”

However, defying Seowon’s desperate wish, Baek Kanghyun called for Seowon immediately. He had just arrived at work and put his butt on the chair, and hadn’t even finished booting up the computer, yet he was being summoned. His facial muscles naturally crumpled and then stopped. It was because Baek Kanghyun’s eyes, visible over the partition, were flashing.