NAME 49

‘Damn it.’

Come to think of it, both his first and his last had been Baek Kanghyun. It was appalling that at twenty-eight years old, he had only ever had one sexual partner. Baek Kanghyun, living up to his reputation, probably had at least a hundred people he had slept with; it felt incredibly unfair. Maybe from now on, I should also…

‘What kind of useless thoughts am I having?’

He dried his foolish ruminations and the moisture on his skin with a fluffy towel. A noncommittal face that didn’t look particularly like an Omega’s, yet didn’t quite look like a Beta’s either, was reflected in the mirror. It hadn’t looked quite this bad when he saw it at home…

Seowon loosely wrapped the towel around his waist and opened the bathroom door.

Click.

The man was standing right in front of the bathroom door. Wearing a black nightgown, he gave off pheromones mixed with the scent of water. His face, which looked magnificent even with a blank expression compared to Seowon’s own face which only looked decent when smiling, was turned toward him.

“Ah…”

A short exclamation escaped his lips. Even though he had just doused his body in hot water, his fingertips were turning cold.

It wasn’t just his hands that were turning cold. Even his heart felt frozen solid. He had to go out, but it felt as if the soles of his feet were glued to the floor. He couldn’t move a single step.

“…”

As Seowon stood there dazed with his hands clasped together, the man pulled him forcefully. Before he could let out an “Ack,” his wrist was caught, and he was pulled into a posture that felt like being embraced.

Thump-thump, thump-thump, thump-thump.

He heard the sound of a heart through his ear, which had accidentally come into contact with the man’s chest. It was fast and rhythmic.

“I—I was going to come out.”

How does a normal sexual encounter even begin? Even when he interviewed to join Samil, he didn’t think he had been this nervous or felt the future was this vague.

Back then, he had prepared hard by joining interview study groups and even doing mock interviews, so he had been quite confident. But now was completely different. Without preparation or practice, he was facing sex with Baek Kanghyun while perfectly sober.

“I—I know where the bedroom is. So there’s no need for you to come all the way here…”

Not knowing what to do, he babbled whatever came out of his mouth. He wished Baek Kanghyun would at least say something, but he remained consistently silent.

Seowon straightened up, pushing away the man who was still holding him in that embrace. He lifted his head and met his eyes for a brief moment before averting his gaze. However, Baek Kanghyun caught Seowon’s chin and tilted it toward himself. Then, highly concentrated pheromones were scattered over his face.

“Ahhh…”

An exclamation similar to a groan leaked out, and his eyes grew moist. Pitch-black pupils that resembled the darkness traveled up and down Seowon’s face. Exhaling a long sigh of unknown meaning, the man bit his lower lip firmly. Seowon stared at him, forgetting the fact that he even had to breathe.

“You…”

He was afraid of what kind of mean words might jump out of that mouth that finally opened. Seowon lowered his eyes under the persistent gaze that seemed to be picking apart his features one by one. He suppressed the urge to ask why he was doing this and waited for his strange behavior to end.

“Damn it.”

Muttering in a tone full of irritation, he grabbed Seowon’s arm and pulled. His footsteps toward the bedroom were urgent.

Arriving at the bedroom in an instant with his heels hitting the floor like hammers, he threw Seowon onto the bed and lunged in himself. The fluffy duvet wrapped softly around his entire back. Seowon clutched the towel that was precariously covering his lower body and stared at him.

“Jeong Seowon.”

“…!”

It was the first time. The first time Baek Kanghyun had called him by his name. Just having his name called caused a stinging sensation to flare up around his eyes. When other people called his name, it was nothing, but when Baek Kanghyun called it, his mind and body surged violently.

<Sunbae, do you happen to know my name?>

Had he finally become someone whose name was worth being called by Baek Kanghyun? To think he would attach this much meaning to something as trivial as a name…

Seowon turned his head away to avoid his burning gaze.

“Please don’t call my name.”

It was something he had longed for so desperately in the past, but now that it was happening, it felt uncomfortable. This man probably called his name without any meaning behind it. It meant that to him, “Assistant Manager Jeong” or “Jeong Seowon” were just titles that were more or less the same. But the impact Seowon received from the latter was overwhelmingly greater.

“…The reason?”

“Because it’s uncomfortable. There’s no reason for it either. Even Jaehwan rarely called my name…!”

Lowering his body like lightning, he blocked Seowon’s lips. A thick tongue pushed in near his Adam’s apple, making him feel breathless and even nauseous. The tongue traveled violently and quickly between his throat and his mouth. It was a movement reminiscent of the sexual act itself.

His tongue pushed persistently into the excessively deep parts of his throat, harrassing the inner flesh. It pressed, scratched, and tickled the tender mucous membrane. The nausea quickly turned into pleasure.

“Huuph!”

The two sets of lips overlapped perfectly without a single gap. Whenever a minute gap appeared, transparent saliva flowed out through it.

Like a predator that had succeeded in its hunt, Baek Kanghyun used his hands to pin Seowon’s arms down and used his upper body to press Seowon down. Thanks to that, their lower bodies came into contact with only the precariously hanging towel between them. In the middle of the kissing, Baek Kanghyun pushed his thigh in to open Seowon’s legs. Seowon felt the towel come undone and tried to flounder slightly, but it was useless.

“Jeong Seowon.”

During the brief moment their lips parted, Baek Kanghyun called Seowon’s name again. Before he could even shout for him not to do that, his tongue pushed in crudely once more. Seowon’s tongue, pinned flat by Baek Kanghyun, could only tremble uncontrollably without being able to move. An unexplainable emotion gripped his heart. Tears flowed down along the corners of his eyes.

The sharply pointed tip of the Alpha’s tongue scratched the rough roof of his mouth and rubbed thoroughly as if cleaning the mucous membrane. His waist kept twisting at the strange itching sensation arising from the membrane. However, because Baek Kanghyun was pressing down with his whole body weight, Seowon couldn’t move. He could only gulp down the man’s saliva that flowed in in heaps, his chest heaving.

In addition, thick Alpha pheromones poured out in a rush. To Seowon, for whom the kiss alone was overwhelming, his breath was quickly depleted as the pheromones were poured upon him.

“St—op, no!”

Feeling like he would suffocate and die at this rate, he shouted with all his might whenever a gap to speak opened up. However, Baek Kanghyun acted as he pleased, not even pretending to listen. After poking inside his mouth with his tongue, he sucked on Seowon’s tongue as if to pull it out and nibbled on his plumply swollen lower lip. Devouring Seowon like a man obsessed with kissing, he rubbed Seowon’s crotch suggestively with his knee.

“Hnggg…”

His body, drenched in pheromones, went limp. His limbs felt floppy as if his bones had disappeared. Baek Kanghyun pressed his lips against the ear of Seowon, who was making a sound that was somewhere between a sob and a groan. Then he whispered in a raspy voice.

“Jeong Seowon.”

Because he hated hearing the man call his name, Seowon shook his head violently. But Baek Kanghyun kept calling him. Jeong Seowon, Jeong Seowon.

“St—stop…”

“You know it’s human nature to want to do it more when someone says they hate it.”

Seowon widened his eyes and glared at him. However, the man didn’t care at all and smirked as he lowered his head. Pressing his lips against the straight nape of Seowon’s neck, he set his teeth near the pheromone gland and bit down. As stimulation was added to an already sensitive area, Seowon struggled, letting out a sound that was almost a cry.

“No, huaaa!”

Since both his wrists were pinned, the only thing he could do was twist his upper body back and forth. His body, gone soft from being soaked in pheromones, did not listen well. It even reacted to Baek Kanghyun’s alluring pheromones and instead gave off a sweet scent.

Seowon flinched and trembled, finding his own thick pheromones—which he hadn’t felt in a long time—unfamiliar. The way it gave off a sweet scent as if it had been waiting was exactly like a beast in heat.

“Stay still, will you.”

Growling fiercely, he rubbed Seowon’s body without hesitation with his large hands. Goosebumps erupted over the skin where his hands passed, and his nipples swelled up hard. As if finding the nipples that caught between his fingers amusing, the firm hands that had been persistently traveling over his chest finally grabbed a nipple. Then, the pea-sized protrusion held tightly between his thumb and index finger became increasingly hard.

“Ugh…”

The strange sensation that started from his fingertips spread from the top of his head to the tips of his toes. He didn’t want to make a sound, but a thin noise leaked through his tightly clamped lips. The man even checked Seowon’s reaction while rolling the nipple back and forth.

He didn’t want to show the man the side he desired, but Seowon could not hide his excitement at all. He swallowed his breath by biting his lip, but he couldn’t swallow his pheromones. As if noticing that the sweet scent had grown stronger, Baek Kanghyun smirked and lunged toward his chest with his mouth open.

“What… Ah!”

The nipple that had been toyed with plenty by his fingers was swallowed whole. He took even the light pink areola into his mouth and sucked greedily. The tongue that had been toyed with the inside of Seowon’s mouth was now tormenting his nipple. It poked, wrapped, and flicked. He nibbled it with his front teeth and moved his mouth while making vulgar slurping sounds.