TRIPLE 14

Since the purpose of a surrogate was simply to bear a child, there was nothing incorrect about Chae Yoonoh’s statement. An Omega with a high matching rate, found with such difficulty. There was no meaning beyond that.

However, for some reason, the words did not come easily to his lips to agree. Was it because he had met Hong Siyeon earlier that day? Beom Yisu naturally recalled that face.

“Give me ten times the amount! Then I’ll think about it.”

A calculating Omega who played hard to get only to demand more money. Honestly, I thought it was a transparent trick. Since I am not the type to scatter money in useless places just because I have a lot, I also loathe the type of people who swarm just looking at wealth.

But at a time as critical as this, it was uncertain whether I could find another dominant-gene carrier with such a high matching rate again.

In that sense, that Omega was not suitable for short-term use and disposal. It would be safer to have him give birth to two or three children in preparation for a custody battle later, should I break the strategic marriage with Chae Yoonoh.

And it would be advantageous to have him carry my seed. Since he is a special case, there might be room to improve the pheromone disorder as well. I had tried close contact just in case, and at least that Omega didn’t disgust me.

It was the first time Beom Yisu hadn’t had a rejection reaction to an Omega’s pheromones. He needed to verify whether it was just a simple physiological reaction due to the matching rate or something else entirely.

Therefore, there was sufficient reason not to keep that Omega by my side just for short-term consumption.

“If the negotiations go well, I can consider extending the contract period.”

Chae Yoonoh, unaware of Beom Yisu’s inner thoughts, asked another question.

“Contract period? How far have the talks progressed so far?”

“Nothing yet. I’ve only made the necessary proposals.”

“Then there’s a chance you could be refused?”

“In your view, do you think such a probability exists?”

Beom Yisu furrowed his brows as if the question were absurd. Chae Yoonoh also shrugged his shoulders, as if he himself realized what he had said was ridiculous.

True, that cold-blooded man wouldn’t be unable to do as he pleased with an Omega who had no connections. He wouldn’t even give him the chance to utter the word “refusal.”

Chae Yoonoh was the one who first proposed the strategic marriage to Beom Yisu, but sometimes he regretted it when things like this happened. That man seemed like the type who would bury even himself, his legal spouse, without a sound if he thought he was of no use.

Therefore, keeping an appropriate distance and only reaping the benefits of each other, as they were doing now, would be best for one’s own well-being.

“When that Omega comes in as a surrogate, whose seed are you going to let him carry?”

Chae Yoonoh brought up the issue he was most curious about, on the assumption that the contract would be signed. It was a sensitive matter, but Beom Yisu kept his gaze on the documents. A moment later, his indifferent voice flowed out.

“As long as the procedure is sound, it doesn’t matter whose seed he carries.”

“If it doesn’t matter, can’t I keep him and live with him separately? I just need to get him pregnant, right?”

Chae Yoonoh threw out the selfish proposal as if he had been waiting. Beom Yisu opened his mouth with a look colder than before.

“If you are willing to give up custody even if we divorce. Of course, in that case, we would proceed with a contract involving lawyers.”

“What? Where does that kind of thing exist! If it’s my child, I should be the one to raise it.”

Of course, he never had any intention of fulfilling Chae Yoonoh’s wishes from the beginning. But aren’t Alphas a species with a very strong obsession with their own things?

Since both Beom Yisu and Chae Yoonoh were dominants born with particularly strong temperaments, the child issue was a part that needed to be addressed even more definitively.

“Do you think I went out and found that Omega for fun?”

The first child born through a surrogate would become the successor to lead Beom-yeong. Chae Yoonoh was aware of this, too.

It wasn’t as if Beom Yisu desired a child because he wanted a happy, family-like life. In fact, if it weren’t for that Omega, it would have been a matter he wouldn’t care about, regardless of where Beom Yisu produced a child. But it just so happened that he had brought the Omega he had taken a liking to in as a surrogate, causing this whole mess.

“Then what are you planning to do? Shall we have a threesome every time he’s in heat? Does that make sense by any common standard?”

“If you have no intention of backing down, that is the only way. And why are you pretending to be so innocent? Do you think I don’t know that you go around playing promiscuously?”

As a dominant, Chae Yoonoh was a type who experienced his rut very strongly. It wasn’t as if he hadn’t slept with two or three Omegas before. But that was a story for when they were simple sex partners. He didn’t want to treat the Omega who would bear his child in such a way. Besides….

“Hyung, you’ve been a virgin until now so I guess you wouldn’t know, but usually, an Omega can’t handle two dominant Alphas.”

It’s hard enough for multiple Omegas to take one dominant Alpha, so how is he supposed to handle two Alphas with that frail body? You learn all of this during mandatory education, don’t you have even that much common sense?

“…What?”

“To be that age and still not know a thing. That’s why you’ll have such a hard time conceiving a child.”

When Chae Yoonoh scoffed, Beom Yisu rarely raised his voice and threw the documents in his hand aside.

“You’re struggling because you want to die. Do you want me to cut off everything you’re doing and have you crying like a baby?”

It was an aggressive pheromone that would have pressed most Alphas under his momentum. Even while receiving the pheromones filled with hostility, Chae Yoonoh stood his ground without backing down.

“Wow, look at this petty Alpha who cuts off his spouse’s career just because we had one marital spat. What a great marriage this is. Yes, I really have an eye for people.”

It could be said that giving up and leaving work early was a very good thing for Secretary Han. It might have been of no use to him as a Beta, but the two Alphas who were bickering with pheromones had finally started a childish collar-grabbing fight.

By the time the high-end shirt, embroidered stitch by stitch by a master craftsman, was torn to shreds and the neatly set hair became disheveled, the two Alphas, having finished their somewhat violent fight, declared a truce while sprawled out on the sofa.

Because they were about to throw up everything in their stomachs from the nausea rising due to the Alpha pheromones filling the house.

“So, what do you plan to do in the future? Once you bring in a surrogate, the reporters, the company… there will be a lot of interest.”

“I have no intention of exposing that Omega to the press.”

“Are you going to lock him in the house until he gives birth?”

A businessman and an actor. Even if both are Alphas, their positions are different. The news that a couple married for less than a year is having a child through a surrogate is a strategy for some and a risk for others. Especially for Chae Yoonoh, who is in the middle of his career, it wouldn’t act as very good news.

Chae Yoonoh, who had opened the window to start ventilating, looked at Beom Yisu, who was fixing his ruined hair, and continued.

“I’m against keeping him locked up. I don’t like that Omega appearing as a victim because of the two of us.”

“Is that the only reason?”

“Well, do you need another reason?”

Beom Yisu lifted his head with a somewhat tired face. Their gazes met head-on.

“What on earth is the reason you’re so hung up on that Omega?”

At this point, Beom Yisu was also genuinely curious. While he had his physical reasons, Chae Yoonoh’s situation was different, wasn’t it? It was a question why a guy who changed the Omegas he carried around every other day was showing such immense interest in an Omega with whom he had no particular connection.

“Well. I don’t think I have an obligation to answer that. You’re the one to talk. Moving so much just because of a single pheromone.”

“Matching rate is an important issue. That Omega is a special case in that respect. You shouldn’t be unaware of that, should you?”

However, Chae Yoonoh did not answer satisfactorily. He was a free-spirited guy. Thinking that perhaps he was just throwing a tantrum for no particular reason, Beom Yisu decided to stop asking. Then, Chae Yoonoh spoke first.

“Anyway, Hyung, you’re saying the child is the goal? Not that Omega?”

“I don’t know what you’re trying to say. How are the two different?”

“I’m asking if you didn’t bring him into the house because you have personal feelings for him. I’d appreciate it if you could just state that clearly.”

At Chae Yoonoh’s words, Beom Yisu wrinkled his expression as if he had heard an unpleasant assumption.

“You ask the obvious. Your delusions always go too far.”

“Then it’s a relief. Why are you getting so angry?”

Chae Yoonoh shrugged and smiled.

“Alright, then I’ll move in here and live here too. And when the contract period is over, I’m taking him with me.”

Beom Yisu, who had been silent for a long time, finally spat out shortly.

“Do as you please.”

It was a reluctant permission, but Chae Yoonoh’s pupils were already twinkling like someone who had grabbed the victory. Even if Hong Siyeon is just the object of the contract for now, who knows.

“I wonder whose child he will carry first between the two of us.”