Nothing was going right.
In a situation where he was desperate to make a good impression on Hyedam and make up for points already lost, it was adding insult to injury. When things got tangled up in a mess contrary to his resolve, a flustered Leo stood in front of the first-floor main entrance and blankly stared at the second-floor stairs.
He had talked with Luna on the plane and dressed according to her recommendation, and carefully brought the ring too. He had even brought the four-leaf clover carefully tucked between papers so it wouldn’t get crumpled…
Due to severe winds, he ultimately couldn’t take the helicopter, and he gave the navigator, who said they absolutely couldn’t set sail, an amount equivalent to his annual salary. It was the first time in his life being on a boat that rocked this much, and for the first time in his life he experienced seasickness.
Anyway, he had safely arrived at the island where Hyedam was, and what remained for him was to sincerely apologize to him, clear up the tangled misunderstandings, and then propose.
But the moment he saw Hyedam outside at the outdoor rest area in this stormy weather, he couldn’t think of anything. Why was he wandering outside at night instead of eating something delicious inside the safe house? All kinds of thoughts ran wild in his head, starting with wondering if he had briefly come out but gotten hurt and couldn’t go back in.
As the distance between them closed and their eyes met, Leo knelt down. It wasn’t following Luna’s words to kneel and bow his head first when he met Hyedam. That was instinct.
Saying he was sorry wouldn’t overturn his situation.
He needed to explain everything one by one and confirm his feelings first. But the moment he smelled his warm and sweet pheromones, no thoughts came to him. The impulse arose violently that he couldn’t let him go anymore, that he had to make sure he couldn’t leave his side no matter what it took.
Looking at those large eyes surprised to see him and the deepened dimples from his firmly closed mouth, Leo carefully took his hand.
He had already proposed to him once. What his five-year-old self had given him was a four-leaf clover. But now he could give him a ring as promised back then.
He just needed to take out the prepared ring and put it on his finger… The sight of Hyedam coldly pushing him away and heading to the villa came into his eyes first, rather than the ring flying through the air. Hyedam, who firmly told him not to come in, went into the house without looking back.
…Was that how he felt back then? If he had looked back even once, he would have brazenly pushed forward with a thick face, but he couldn’t even do that. The ring he had specially ordered for him had also disappeared.
Never in his life had he felt this incompetent and pathetic. Whether it knew his heart or not, the unceasing rain and whipping wind seemed to firmly remind him of his situation. Hyedam’s heart might be more confused and difficult than this weather right now.
He could only go in if Hyedam forgave him. Thinking of the ring that could at least create a small excuse before that, Leo knelt down again. Recalling the direction Hyedam had been standing and his hand movements, Leo challenged a task no different from finding a needle on a sandy beach.
Whether heaven hadn’t abandoned him, Leo, who had been hearing what seemed like Hyedam’s voice calling him from afar, doubted both his ears and eyes at the same time. Hyedam is calling me? More than that, on a dark night. On the sandy beach he was viewing relying on his mobile phone light, something black was giving off light.
Although it was the word “Hey!” rather than “Team Leader-nim” which he would call when trying to keep distance from him, or “Leo” which he could only hear when he nagged or when he was in a good mood, he was excited that he had called him. Yet Leo couldn’t rashly take his eyes off the sandy beach.
Even while he was counting numbers, instead of rushing over, he reached his hand toward the thing giving off black light. Whether heaven was giving him one more chance, Leo, who tightly gripped the picked-up ring in his fist, could finally go to Hyedam then.
He couldn’t run over making a fuss, but he couldn’t dawdle either. As he got close to him again, his heart pounded once more.
At an age when he knew nothing, he had instinctively blinded him. He had already been Hyedam’s from that time. When they coincidentally met again, the blind was released, but perhaps because the time they spent together was short, it didn’t seem the blind had been completely released.
And now, having met in the relationship of employer and employee. As the time they spent together grew longer, the blind seemed to gradually release. But as for the child, even he himself hadn’t expected it at all. Except for that one time… that day when he couldn’t resist the impulse, he had never done knotting.
Although he instinctively recognized Hyedam as an omega, even if they did knotting with their heat and rut cycles overlapping, having a child was close to a miracle. No matter what excuses or justifications he made, leaving his pair who even had his child alone was an unforgivable thing.
But “Wash up and come in”… His voice was cold, and Hyedam, who went up to the second floor without even looking at him, had definitely said that.
Unaware that water was pooling abundantly on the floor where he was standing, Leo, who had been only looking at the second floor, slowly opened his clenched fist. Then there was a ring made of black meteorite covered in sand.
Giving him one more chance?
Leo’s lips, which had been gloomy, twitched and eventually curved upward in an arc, and life returned to the green eyes that had been dying. Tightly gripping the ring again, Leo immediately headed to the bedroom on the first floor. First, to wash off this grimy appearance and also get the four-leaf clover he hadn’t even taken out yet…
“…….”
He knocked but got no answer, so Leo carefully entered Hyedam’s room and couldn’t make any sound. What filled the room, where only a small stand lamp beside the bed was on, was Hyedam’s pheromones full of warmth and his peaceful breathing.
He fell asleep already.
Leo, who carefully approached the bed, lowered his body to sit not on the chair or bed beside it, but on the carpeted floor. An faint smile hung on Leo’s face as he looked at Hyedam’s face sleeping on his side.
Hyedam, who gave me the name fool Ondal. A full moon, so a completely round moon, that’s why Ondal? That’s not it. But he really was a fool. He hadn’t properly recognized his pair, the one with whom he had unknowingly formed an imprint. This stupid self had fallen for one person three times. He couldn’t let go again of someone he had already lost twice.
But you didn’t know either, my pitiful one.
I came several times and slept by your side.
Just like the caretakers who visited while Hyedam was asleep to tidy up the house and leave, he had done the same.
When their eyes met as Hyedam briefly opened his eyes while tossing and turning, Leo smiled brightly. Then a faint smile appeared on Hyedam’s face too.
“…Ondal came.”
It was words that could be missed if one didn’t concentrate, with the low, small voice full of wind sounds, but Leo answered “Yeah.”
“Come here.”
Not missing Hyedam’s words as he slightly lifted the blanket, Leo slowly got up and lay beside him, and Hyedam naturally burrowed into his arms.
Yawn.
Using his arm as a pillow and naturally placing one arm and one leg on him, Hyedam, with his eyes closed, let out a small yawn and soon fell into a deep sleep.
Right. It was always like this. When their eyes met while tossing and turning, he would call him Ondal, and Hyedam would stick close to him and enjoy comfortable sleep. Leo, who closed his eyes for a short time beside him, left his bedroom before he woke up.
Then he left the small island while receiving a briefing about the messed-up schedule. Having committed such acts several times, the backlogged work had exploded, and for the past week he couldn’t come even though he wanted to. In the end, though, he had come back here and was holding Hyedam in his arms.
Kissing Hyedam’s head and hugging him tightly, a small complaining sound immediately flowed from his mouth. I get it. I’m disturbing your sleep, right? Leo, who released the strength from the arm that had been holding him, looked at the small box he had placed on the nightstand beside the bed.
Getting scolded is tomorrow me’s job, whatever.
Taking out the ring he had brought in the box again, Leo put the ring on his left ring finger. And he put a ring on his own left ring finger too. If he says something, couldn’t he insist he gave permission at night?
“Motnan-ah.”
Since insisting on something that didn’t happen won’t work. Leo called Hyedam in a small voice.
“Mm.”
When a small sound came back, Leo spoke in an even smaller voice.
“Marry me. I’ll repay everything I did wrong while living together for a lifetime.”
“…….”
As if bothered by being spoken to, Hyedam turned his body around instead of answering, so Leo quickly hugged him from behind and whispered.
“Pretty motnan-ah. Answer me.”
“…Mm.”
Having heard the answer he wanted in a muddle, Leo, with his face buried in Hyedam’s nape, breathed in deeply and moved the arm that was wrapped around his waist a little. There’s a baby? His and Hyedam’s baby. Leo’s hand, which had been slowly stroking Hyedam’s belly, covered Hyedam’s entire lower abdomen.
