NAME 34

It was only right to get angry. He should have rightly interrogated him, asking why he had come all the way to his house when he clearly knew it was his heat cycle. He should have shouted that his intentions were so transparent it wasn’t even funny, and that whether he lied or not was none of his business since there was nothing between them.

However, Seowon was too tired to even engage in such an argument with Baek Kanghyun.

“Let’s just act like it never happened.”

So he decided to just cover it up. Since things had already occurred and could not be undone anyway. Speaking in as dry a tone as possible, Seowon roughly covered his body with the blanket and stood up straight to face Baek Kanghyun.

“What…?”

“I won’t ask the reason why the Team Leader came to my house. Regardless, I was the one who opened the front door. Besides, I was in the middle of a heat cycle and… .”

“Assistant Manager Jeong, are you sincerely saying that right now?”

“It would be more convenient for the Team Leader as well. Talking about responsibility for something that happened because of pheromones is, honestly, ridiculous.”

After speaking in a low voice, Seowon gave a faint smile. Baek Kanghyun’s darkly sunken eyes did not move even a fraction.

Of course. He thought there was no way Baek Kanghyun would be shaken by something like this. If he was the bastard Seowon knew, he would accept this proposal as a matter of course.

‘Assistant Manager Jeong, let’s act like it never happened.’

Furthermore, Seowon did not want to let Baek Kanghyun be the first one to say those words. The initiative in this matter had to belong to him.

“Ha, you’re very skilled at this.”

Baek Kanghyun curled his lip upward. Seeing him standing askew and laughing as if he found it absurd, Seowon also gave a somewhat crooked smile. Even if acting like it never happened wouldn’t actually make the fact that he had sex with him disappear, this was the only way for Seowon to protect his pride.

“I’m just giving you a realistic proposal. Isn’t it a method that causes no harm to either of us?”

“What if I refuse?”

“Pardon?”

Seowon countered immediately at the unexpected answer. He almost dropped the blanket he was clutching in his hand.

“I’m asking what you’ll do if I don’t want to act like it never happened.”

Seowon stood with his arms crossed, letting out a hollow laugh.

“I told you I wouldn’t ask any reasons. I won’t ask why the Team Leader, who clearly knew I took special leave, came all the way to my house.”

“I didn’t force you, did I? You decided that on your own, Assistant Manager Jeong. I don’t mind if you ask.”

“What?!”

Baek Kanghyun seemed to find it quite amusing to see Seowon flaring up. He had tried to just move past it because he hated bickering with this man, but things had reached this point again.

As Seowon stood there unable to do one thing or another, Baek Kanghyun took a large stride toward him and pressed his body against his. Grabbing the shoulders of Seowon, who was recoiling backward, he put his lips right against his ear and whispered.

“The more I see you, the weirder you are.”

“What do you mean! You’re the one who’s weirder!”

Before he could finish his sentence, Baek Kanghyun’s lips lunged at him. As their front teeth collided with a thud, his mind momentarily went blank. Baek Kanghyun did not miss that gap; he thrust his tongue into Seowon’s mouth and stirred it roughly. At the same time, he licked Seowon’s entire body while emitting his pheromones.

“Hu-up, heu!”

Seowon resisted desperately to push Baek Kanghyun away, but his solid body wouldn’t budge; instead, he bound Seowon even more strongly.

Intoxicated by the fragrant pheromones, Seowon’s eyelids fluttered before he finally closed his eyes and let out a nasal moan.

Damn these pheromones, how can they feel this good? Even Jaehwan’s weren’t this good. Was it because these were the pheromones that turned him into an omega that they were this ecstatic?

The strength drained from Seowon’s hands, which had been pounding on his shoulders, and his entire body went limp and soft. After exploring deep inside Seowon’s mouth, Baek Kanghyun sucked on his lower lip at the very end, then whispered with a low laugh.

“Your body likes it this much, though.”

“It’s not like that… .”

“You, what on earth is the reason you hate me?”

It was this conversation again. Seowon felt like he was going to die of boredom from this conversation that repeated endlessly like a hamster wheel, but Baek Kanghyun didn’t seem to feel that way. To his nickname, ‘The crazy bastard with a massive cock,’ he wanted to add the adjective ‘persistent.’

“… .”

Seowon looked up and stubbornly bit his lip. Why do I hate you? Even if he were to bite his tongue and die this instant, he had no intention of confessing what happened between them in the past. Because that was the last bit of pride Seowon had left.

“That story again? You’re truly persistent, Team Leader.”

“I’m not usually this kind of person. You make me persistent.”

Seowon wanted to scratch the heart of this arrogant man with all his might. He wanted him to be hurt even a tenth—no, a hundredth—as much as he had been hurt. However, it seemed that words like ‘you’re not my type’ weren’t enough to wound him.

“Does a person need a reason to dislike someone? And I never specifically said I dislike the Team Leader. I only said you make me uncomfortable.”

“You’re uncomfortable because you dislike me. There clearly seems to be some reason… why won’t you say it?”

“Because there is nothing to say.”

“Could it be that you actually like me?”

“Are you crazy?”

Seowon became extremely serious. Baek Kanghyun laughed as if it were very interesting and continued his forced logic.

“I just said it because I thought if you liked me, you might actually feel uncomfortable. Anyway, if it’s not that you like me, then you definitely dislike me. Yet the pheromones are good. Even for an omega, isn’t your body and mind acting too separately?”

It was such bullshit that he didn’t even feel it was worth responding to. A sigh escaped him naturally and his strength failed, so Seowon barely stood by leaning against the wall.

“I’ll be going now.”

In truth, he desperately wanted to just collapse on the bed right here, but he had to go home. He felt that if he argued with Baek Kanghyun any longer, all the stamina he had replenished with the IV fluids would be completely exhausted.

“That won’t do.”

However, Baek Kanghyun refused without a moment’s hesitation. To be honest, Seowon hadn’t expected him to be compliant, so he didn’t even respond.

“The doctor said it’s better to observe the progress for about a day. Since the doctor is coming again tomorrow, just stay here today.”

“I don’t particularly have any place that hurts. It’s more comfortable for me to go home and rest. If there’s a need to go to the hospital, I’ll go on my own.”

“How are you going to go home when you don’t have clothes, shoes, or a mobile phone?”

“That…!”

Momentarily, Seowon looked down at his body. There was no way he could go outside naked with only a blanket wrapped around him. Furthermore, he only knew that this was Baek Kanghyun’s house; he had no idea of its actual location.

The expression of Seowon, who belatedly recognized the reality, stiffened hard. Moreover, since he didn’t even have his phone, it was a total stalemate.

He was speechless. Honestly, it wasn’t wrong, so there was no room for rebuttal.

In the end, Seowon suppressed his boiling anger. He didn’t want to listen to Baek Kanghyun’s words submissively, but right now was the time to retreat two steps in order to advance one step.

“… Fine. Since it can’t be helped, I’ll stay for a bit.”

“I personally brought the fainted Assistant Manager Jeong to my house, washed him myself, and even called a doctor. Don’t you have anything to say about that?”

At the part about washing him personally, his mind went completely blank. Baek Kanghyun actually did that? To think that his body being clean right now was all thanks to Baek Kanghyun, Seowon grit his teeth and pressed his hands against his burning cheeks.

“Are you hoping for me to give you a thank you? If you think about it, the fact that I ended up like this is all because of the Team Leader.”

Suddenly, his vision spun. It seemed the stamina he had struggled to gather had hit rock bottom, as Seowon staggered for a moment.

“Assistant Manager Jeong, you right now…?”

Then, Baek Kanghyun reached out his hand as if to support Seowon. Just before his hand touched his shoulder, Seowon lightly brushed his hand away.

“I’m fine. It’s nothing.”

He bit his lip while averting his gaze. He didn’t want to show any more weakness, but his body was causing trouble.

“Anyway, thank you for the help.”

That was the most that could come out of his lips, opened with great difficulty.

Seowon was on edge, worried he might say something spiteful again. However, Baek Kanghyun didn’t say anything. He just stood right in front of Seowon with his arms crossed.

“Could you leave now? I’m tired.”

If a body were made of tissue paper, wouldn’t it be sturdier than his own? Just talking for a bit made his limbs feel like they would shake at any moment. His vision spun again and became distant. Seowon couldn’t hold on any longer and plopped down on the bed. The trembling in his body wouldn’t subside. He hugged his upper body with both hands and pulled the blanket tight. He wanted to just collapse and sleep like this.

“That’s why I told you to take it easy.”

“What did you just say…?!”

Before Seowon could shout, Baek Kanghyun stepped back.

“I’m leaving, so rest.”

Just as he thought he could finally rest and collapsed onto the bed, the door suddenly swung wide open and Baek Kanghyun reappeared. Seowon jerked up like a spring and shouted.

“What now!”

“I was going to turn off the light if you’re going to sleep.”

Since he couldn’t bring himself to say it was fine, he stayed quiet. Baek Kanghyun gave Seowon a full smirk, turned off the light, and closed the door again. Only then did Seowon lie down on the bed and turn his body toward the window.