PAO 48

“My pheromones enveloped his sharp, piercing pheromones. Since Yoo Junghoo likes me, I figured his pheromones wouldn’t keep resisting either.”

“That’s a good mindset.”

Because Yoo Junghoo likes him, his pheromones will like him too. From a doctor’s perspective, he should say that as an alpha, he would naturally like an omega, but as a cousin, he had something else to say.

“Junghoo didn’t just like you a little, so of course his pheromones would be the same.”

Yoo Taeha gave Junghoo one last glance and then waved his hand.

“I think I should get going. I’ll be back early tomorrow morning.”

“Where are you going?”

“I’m going to the house where the caretaker stays. Wouldn’t that be better for you, too? Let them out without holding back.”

Yoo Taeha, telling him not to worry about it anymore, closed the door himself. As his footsteps faded into the distance, Seowon released his pheromones even more thickly.

‘When was the last time I released my pheromones this boldly.’

After presenting as a dominant omega, this was probably the first time, aside from when he was practicing in a completely sealed space.

In any case, he had released them with intent, so he had to draw out the maximum effect before Junghoo woke up. In response to the pheromones Seowon was emitting, Junghoo’s pheromones burst forth.

“Ugh.”

The heat of his body, consumed by pheromones, flared up. Even though he had taken suppressants, his body was reacting to the constant exposure to the alpha’s pheromones.

“Haaah.”

As he let out the heat with a long exhale, his body felt a bit more at ease. There was still more to do to calm Junghoo’s body, but at least he hadn’t crossed the line into a cycle.

He was releasing pheromones to calm Junghoo down; it would be troublesome if his heat cycle started.

Wondering how much time had passed, Seowon raised his head and looked at the clock. In the night with all the lights turned off, the numbers on the only glowing clock revealed that it was early morning. About six hours had passed.

“At this rate…”

He was overcome with exhaustion from controlling his pheromones all night without a wink of sleep. Wanting to just lie down and sleep, he collapsed onto the bed.

He had been worried about what he would do if he bumped into Junghoo, but thankfully, nothing happened. It wasn’t because Seowon had changed direction mid-fall. As he was simply collapsing, Junghoo reached out, supported his head, and then disappeared.

“Since when… have you been awake?”

“I don’t know.”

There wasn’t a trace of sleepiness in Junghoo’s voice. It seemed he hadn’t just woken up…

“If you were awake, you should have said so.”

Seowon muttered his complaint in a thoroughly exhausted voice.

“Because I thought you wouldn’t release your pheromones then.”

Junghoo sounded apologetic, but at the same time, he spoke as if he didn’t regret it. He gently laid Seowon down on the bed and checked the heat on his cheek with the back of his hand.

“Seowon, don’t do this next time.”

Junghoo’s gaze towards Seowon, who was yawning sleepily, was full of affection. To think he could refuse pheromone treatment so well with the look of someone gazing at a lovely partner.

“I didn’t follow you here to get help from you.”

He had an idea of what was going on when Seowon asked him to go to the vacation house together. He knew it wasn’t simply a trip for fun, but to get his point across, he had to seize a situation where Seowon was intentionally soothing his pheromones. Only then would Seowon not be able to pretend he didn’t know.

“Junghoo…”

“Don’t try to persuade me. I can never accept your help.”

“That’s why…”

“I can’t keep leaning on you just to feel better for a little while.”

“Hey… Yoo Junghoo.”

Seowon heaved a sigh at Junghoo’s one-sided refusal, who kept cutting him off.

“I can’t stand just receiving help from you like that.”

“I can’t stand it either.”

“So don’t sacrifice yourself for me.”

At Junghoo’s sorrowful refusal, Seowon tapped his shoulder. Then, after seeing that he was listening to him, he wiggled his finger.

“Hm?”

“…look.”

Seowon’s weak mumble was so quiet that Junghoo couldn’t hear it properly.

“Look… down.”

Only after Seowon forced the words out did Junghoo understand. He lowered his gaze and was startled to see the bulge in his pants.

Well, this is…

“Can you see my crotch?”

“Seowon Junior is standing at attention.”

“Right…”

Seowon hadn’t expected to be the one to bring up the fact that he couldn’t get his own arousal under control. In any case, since he saw it, I have to use it.

“I got turned on by your pheromones.”

“…”

“I didn’t do it for your pleasure, I did it for mine.”

As he explained the situation more accurately, Junghoo could only frown, unable to say anything.

“That’s why you should have told me you were awake. If I had known you were up, I would have at least asked for a kiss.”

Junghoo, accurately understanding what Seowon’s complaint was about, let out a small laugh. He hadn’t expected this at all, so an incredulous laugh escaped him. Since he was saying it wasn’t about suppressing my pheromones, Junghoo also felt a playful urge.

“Can I really eat you?”

“I asked for a kiss, what’s there to eat.”

Seowon, even with his eyes closed, showed his exasperation by wrinkling his brow. Is it because the kid is sick? It’s impossible to have a conversation where the meaning gets across normally.

“If you don’t do it now…”

Seowon muttered, his consciousness fading as he drifted off to sleep.

“There won’t be a next time…”

He fell asleep right away, so it was impossible to know if they had kissed.

Seowon sat perched on a rock near the vacation house, eating watermelon with only his feet dipped in the valley stream.

“This is nice.”

The sun was up, and a hot breeze was blowing, but his feet were cool. The greater the gap, the wider Seowon’s smile became. Then, he looked back at Junghoo, who was positioned next to him like a stone statue.

“What are you doing?”

“Just sitting here?”

At Seowon’s question, Junghoo gave a silly, dazed smile.

“Why are you smiling like that.”

“Because I like it when Seowon pays attention to me.”

“Really? How much attention should I give you?”

Seowon’s eyes curved playfully as he scanned Junghoo from his face all the way down.

“I saw this morning, that thing of yours is pretty big.”

“Seowon, you’re not looking between my legs, are you?”

“Huh? You have something else that gets big besides that?”

“If you look, there might be one more.”

“Does Yoo Junghoo have two dicks?”

“…”

Ever since Seowon had started retorting, the conversation between the two had become a matter of who could be more shameless. Regardless of how many genitals Junghoo had, or their size, the one who got flustered would lose.

“Was that what you wanted to say? Is that why you were looking?”

“Well, you’re not doing anything.”

“Me?”

Seowon frowned and leaned his upper body away from Junghoo. When I suggested going to the valley earlier, he followed obediently, but now he seems like someone who’s left their mind somewhere else.

“Why don’t you go for a swim like Taeha hyung over there, or do you want some watermelon? Don’t like fruit on an empty stomach?”

Where Seowon was pointing, Yoo Taeha was floating in the waist-deep valley water. It seemed to be his first break since arriving at the vacation house, as his face was completely relaxed.

Yoo Taeha was swimming and Seowon was eating watermelon; each was enjoying themselves at the valley, but only Junghoo was doing nothing, so I asked.

“I…”

As if he finally understood Seowon’s words, Junghoo thought about what to do, then picked up a slice of watermelon.

The moment the red watermelon entered Junghoo’s red lips,

“Why didn’t you kiss me?”

“Cough.”

It came right back out with a cough. Seowon hurriedly dodged while pushing the entire pack of wet wipes he had beside him toward Junghoo.

“I’ve had that happen a lot because of you, so I understand. You should never say strange things when a person is eating something. Got it?”

Seowon advised him as if he knew Junghoo’s condition very well, and Junghoo covered his mouth with the back of his hand. His upper body shook several times with the lingering cough.

“Why would you say something like that when you knew I’d be flustered.”

“It’s true, though. I got into that state because I was releasing a ton of pheromones for you, and you couldn’t even give me one kiss?”

It wasn’t a question about why he wasn’t doing anything at the valley, so Junghoo, while still coughing, couldn’t take his eyes off Seowon.

“Your already red lips have gotten even redder.”

Seowon took the watermelon from his hand and gave him a new one.

“I got turned on because of your pheromones, what’s the big deal about giving me one kiss.”

Seowon took a bite of the watermelon Junghoo had been eating and turned his upper body away. He dipped his feet back into the valley stream and watched Yoo Taeha, who was drying his hair with a towel.

“Being like this is really nice.”

Seowon tilted his head and closed his eyes, as if he was enjoying everything about this moment: eating cool watermelon while dipping his feet in the even cooler valley stream.

“It would have been even better if you had just kissed me at dawn.”

“Please, Seowon.”

At the playfully mentioned words, Junghoo hung his head low.

“Why?”

“You know full well why I’m like this.”

He acted as if he couldn’t understand him for getting even closer, even though he knew he was doing it all out of concern for Seowon.

“But you know why I’m like this, too.”