MW 62

—You bastard…

“Stop with the useless talk. Anyway, I need to ask you for this favor for this week.”

—Hey, hey, you still have to repay me big time, okay? You have to introduce me to Mr. Seo Yijae later, too! Got it?

Seeing how noisy he was even over the phone, Jaeha hung up without any lingering attachment. He had been dissatisfied with the fact that Yijae, who had already been overworking himself, had to work, so it was a relief that it was resolved well.

Jaeha reminded himself that he had bought two more days thanks to Chaekyung and gently stroked the sleeping Yijae’s cheek.

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“Eugh…”

Yijae, woken up by the unfamiliar foreign object he felt below, discovered Jaeha sleeping while holding him. As he looked at his sleeping face, the corners of his mouth loosely turned up, but Yijae frowned as something poked his butt again.

“What is this…”

Reaching his hand back and under his buttocks, he couldn’t hide his bewilderment at the object he grasped in his hand. Without even realizing he should let go, he was so surprised that the object was Jaeha’s penis that he just blinked his large eyes repeatedly.

“Hieuk.”

It was when Yijae, belatedly pulling his hand away, was fanning his flushing face and trying to get out of bed.

“Where’s the rule that says you can wake a sleeping person and then run away?”

Jaeha wrapped an arm around Yijae’s waist, pulled him closer, and buried his face in the nape of his neck. Rubbing his nose against the warm skin and inhaling, Jaeha smiled pleasantly at the faint scent of apples that remained along with the heat of the previous night.

“Did you sleep well?”

Peck, peck. Jaeha, who was kissing him loudly enough to make a sound, couldn’t hide his laughter as he watched his nape flush redder and redder.

Yesterday, he had ended up collapsing as if he had fainted and couldn’t come to his senses, but in his memory, which was difficult to distinguish between dream and reality, the image of him washing him remained like an afterimage in his mind.

“Did I overdo it too much… You were groaning even while I was washing you yesterday.”

“St, stop talking about it…!”

Hearing Jaeha’s words, it seemed highly likely that it was not a dream. That meant Jaeha had washed him, and the more Yijae thought about it, the more he had the illusion that his head was getting so hot that his brain would melt.

“Aren’t you hungry? You should eat something.”

Heh, heh. Jaeha, laughing in a low voice, asked as he gently kneaded Yijae’s cheek. Come to think of it, he didn’t even know what time it was. With a puffy face, Yijae looked at the clock hanging on the wall.

“It’s 4 o’clock…?”

Blink, blink. He blinked his eyes and stared at it again, but the clock hands still pointed to 4. Even if he had fallen asleep around sunrise, he had never dreamed he would have slept this much.

“What should I do…”

Because he had overslept, all the scheduled plans were canceled. He had wanted to see the ocean a little more…

With a face that couldn’t hide his disappointment, Yijae let out a sigh and asked.

“What time are we leaving? If I need to get ready…”

“I was about to ask you, actually. Would it be okay to change the time to Sunday evening?”

“What? My part-time job is…”

“I asked Yoo Chaekyung.”

“What?”

He asked Chaekyung…? Yijae blinked his big eyes and looked up at Jaeha.

“I’m worried about you working in this state. And my pheromones are still on you, so…”

Jaeha parted his lips as he felt his own pheromones remaining on Yijae’s body. In this state, if another alpha or omega met Yijae, it could be perceived as a threat. Wincing one eye in a way that seemed both troubled and sorry, he kissed Yijae’s forehead and continued.

“Yoo Chaekyung is going to work for you this weekend, so let’s rest a little longer before we go.”

“No, still…”

“It’s still uncomfortable for you to move, isn’t it?”

“No. I’m perfectly fine.”

As if to show that he was fine right away, Yijae put strength in his legs and sat up, only to fall forward not long after.

Flump. He fell onto the soft, fragrant sheets, creating a small breeze, and was so flustered that he couldn’t get up for a while.

In the end, Jaeha, who slipped his hand under his stomach and helped Yijae up, said in a voice mixed with laughter.

“See, it’s impossible for you to work in this state.”

No matter how big the difference in their physiques was, Yijae, who couldn’t hide his embarrassed face at Jaeha lifting him up so easily, buried his face in his chest and let out a secret sigh.

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Dohae, who had woken up from a deep sleep for the first time in a while, changed into clean clothes and left his room. Walking down to the first floor at a leisurely pace, he saw Chairman Gu and Mrs. Lee sitting in the living room and approached them.

“Did you sleep well?”

“You shameless…”

Dohae’s expression showed no flicker of emotion as he looked at Mrs. Lee, who was biting her red-lipsticked lips. He moved his eyes to look at Chairman Gu and began to speak.

“I’ll have the surgery. And after that, I’ll dispose of the materials I have for you.”

“…Can you not imagine that I might kill you in the operating room?”

Smiling with a smirk, he looked down at Chairman Gu’s hand, which was trembling with rage, and said.

“How could I not know? I knew that would happen, so I took measures in advance. A week from now, I’ve scheduled an email to be sent to each newspaper company. If I die, there will be no one to stop it.”

Chairman Gu fell silent as he looked at Dohae, who was smiling arrogantly as if to say, ‘What are you going to do?’

“What will you do?”

Chairman Gu, who had been scowling at him for trying to seize and shake his weakness again, parted his lips.

“…There is one condition.”

“What is it?”

“When the surgery is over, hand over that child, Seo Yijae, to me.”

Hand over Seo Yijae. It wasn’t that he had no idea what he would do with him, but he was curious about his plan.

“What are you planning to do?”

When Dohae asked, raising one eyebrow, Mrs. Lee, who was sitting next to Chairman Gu, trembled her shoulders and shouted.

“Isn’t it none of your business?”

Although he hadn’t received a definite answer, he could guess where Chairman Gu, with Seo Yijae in his hands, would send him. He would probably send him to Director Zhang in China. According to their original plan.

He had heard that they were scheduled to receive a large investment from the Chinese side, and since Seo Yijae had done that to Gu Dohyeon, whom the two of them cherished so dearly, they would want revenge.

Dohae, who was quite pleased with what Chairman Gu wanted, readily agreed and stood up with a satisfied look on his face.

“I’ll contact you as soon as I bring Seo Yijae. Please have the things I mentioned last time ready in advance.”

With that, Dohae turned around and walked out the front door, coming face to face with Secretary Oh, who was just about to enter, and twisted his lips into a smile.

“It’s been a while, Secretary Oh.”

“…”

“Thanks to you, I got something very good.”

“You…”

He must have realized by now that I had intercepted the slush fund data he had collected. Dohae, who burst into a triumphant laugh, patted his shoulder and continued.

“Well, I didn’t tell my father. But he might have found out by now. Why Secretary Oh was secretly holding onto the slush fund data.”

“…”

“You’re very capable, Secretary Oh. Try to get out of this one on your own this time, too.”

Dohae passed by Secretary Oh, whose tightly clenched jaw was trembling, and crossed the yard. As he walked, he searched through his contacts and called someone. After about three rings, a click was heard, followed by the other person’s voice. At the question of what he wanted, Dohae twisted his lips into a smirk and said.

“This is Gu Dohae. You said you needed money, right?”

When he had met Oh Seokmin last time, he had heard that Kim Yoonchae’s family had recently fallen on hard times and that he was doing all sorts of odd jobs because he needed a lot of money. In his current state, he wouldn’t be able to refuse his offer. He was a very good piece to use and throw away. Dohae pulled the corners of his mouth up into a wide smile and parted his lips.

“I’ll give you that money. In exchange, there’s something I want you to do for me.”

As expected, hearing Yoonchan’s reply that he would do whatever he was told, Dohae sent an address to his number.

“Come to the place I sent you right now.”

Dohae, who had found a dog to bite Yijae’s nape in his place, hung up the phone with a look of anticipation on his face.