Lee Seohee, who had been frozen in place for a long while, slowly turned around.
His face as he looked at Hyowoo was full of confusion.
His expression seemed to doubt his own ears, as if asking, “What did I just hear?”
When their eyes met, Hyowoo hung his head low. He couldn’t bear to face him.
‘What I’m about to say will be even more shocking…’
The thought crossed his mind that perhaps he should stop even now. But having opened his mouth, he had to tell everything until the end.
Gripping the blanket tightly with both hands, Hyowoo continued in a trembling voice.
“Back then… my boyfriend… secretly… dr-drugged me…”
That day, Hyowoo had been invited to his boyfriend’s ‘house.’
It was a luxury townhouse located on the outskirts of Seoul. It was a newly developed complex, and since the road construction had just finished, there were hardly any cars passing by. He found it strange that there were no signs of people around, but Hyowoo brushed it off, thinking it was just because it was a newly built neighborhood.
Even inside the house, there were no traces of anyone living there. The inexplicable sense of discord turned into a chilling feeling that set Hyowoo’s nerves on edge.
When he honestly expressed his uneasiness, his boyfriend gave a fairly plausible explanation—that he had just moved in recently and his parents were traveling, so the house was empty, which was why it felt that way.
Hyowoo didn’t doubt those words in the slightest.
He drank the juice his boyfriend offered without any hesitation. Never imagining that drugs had been mixed into it.
“Because of that drug… my heat suddenly started. Unable to move my body, with my mind clouded… he forcibly… had sex with me…”
Along with the confession, the terrible memories buried deep inside came back to life one by one.
What he had secretly fed Hyowoo was an illegal aphrodisiac that stimulated sexual desire. Among them, it was the most vicious drug that artificially induced an omega’s heat—commonly called an ‘omega rape drug.’
Less than 15 minutes after drinking the juice, his heat came.
Perhaps because it was forcibly induced by drugs, the symptoms were markedly different from normal.
During his first heat, he had immediately lost consciousness, but this time, even amid the pain, his consciousness didn’t completely cut off.
His heart pounded as if it would burst, and the high fever suffocated him. As the drug’s effects overlapped, his mind became hazy and his body gradually went numb.
His boyfriend roughly threw the staggering Hyowoo to the floor. And then immediately climbed on top of him and began removing his clothes.
Even in a situation where he couldn’t properly control his body due to the heat, Hyowoo desperately resisted, screaming that he didn’t want this. But it wasn’t enough to stop an alpha who was bigger and stronger than himself.
“I-I’m sorry. I was wrong…”
In the end, even though he had done nothing wrong, he begged, saying it was his fault.
“I… I did everything wrong… Please stop… *huk*…”
But he brutally assaulted Hyowoo, who was pleading through tears, even more mercilessly.
He struck Hyowoo’s face and upper body with his fists repeatedly. He also hit his cheeks several times, rupturing his eardrum, and his lips and the inside of his mouth were torn, bleeding.
After inflicting such brutal violence, he grabbed Hyowoo by the hair and threatened him, saying he would kill him if he didn’t stay still.
Realizing that no amount of begging or pleading would help, Hyowoo stopped resisting. Because if he didn’t, it felt like he would really be killed by him.
After removing the last piece of clothing from Hyowoo, who had given up everything and become compliant, he forcibly shoved his genitals into the tender body that wasn’t prepared at all.
Hyowoo screamed at the pain he had never experienced before.
When he let out a groan at the agony of his flesh tearing, physical violence poured down on him again. As if enjoying torturing him, he cruelly raped Hyowoo, who was writhing in agony, while mocking him.
After pouring his filthy desire into Hyowoo’s body several times, he threw Hyowoo, who had been beaten to a pulp, onto the cold floor and left.
But the nightmare didn’t end there.
Less than an hour after his boyfriend disappeared, other men barged in.
“They were strangers… I don’t remember the details, but they looked like they were in their twenties or thirties… They were all alphas…”
At that time, Hyowoo was half-unconscious from the combination of high fever, the drug’s effects, and the assault.
He only sporadically remembered the mortally horrific moments; he couldn’t recall the men’s features or clothing, let alone their exact secondary gender or even the precise number of them.
He learned all the facts only after hearing the forensic results from the police that DNA from a total of six alphas had been detected at the crime scene and inside Hyowoo’s body.
Ironically, his clouded consciousness was a blessing in disguise. Because what followed was far more brutal than what his boyfriend had done to him.
Intoxicated by pheromones much stronger than those of ordinary omegas, the men lost their reason and pounced on Hyowoo. Whether it was his body or inside his mouth, they took turns relentlessly shoving their genitals into Hyowoo’s body and ejaculating.
If Hyowoo twisted his body even slightly or showed even the slightest sign of resistance, the men would assault him without hesitation. Sadistic sexual acts too horrific to even put into words were also performed.
That’s how Hyowoo was gang-raped for over ten hours by men whose faces he had never even seen.
Hyowoo was devastatingly destroyed by the brutal intercourse and violence.
When he was barely discovered, he was in a nearly dead state. His appearance was so horrific that even his parents, who rushed to the hospital, couldn’t recognize their son for a while.
Not only the 119 rescue team members who first arrived at the scene, but also the medical staff and police were furious, asking how anyone could commit such cruel and inhumane acts against a young student.
“Because of what happened then… there was a problem with my uterus… So I… I received a diagnosis that it would be… difficult to have… children…”
Hyowoo’s slender shoulders, as he barely managed to continue speaking intermittently, trembled noticeably. He tried to stop it by wrapping both arms tightly around himself, but the trembling only intensified.
“They said it will be difficult to get pregnant in the future… Even if by some miracle I do get pregnant… the doctor said I’ll miscarry right away…”
Since childhood, Hyowoo had loved children enough to carry and care for his younger cousin.
Though he had a realistic and calm personality and had never dreamed of an ideal marriage, he had a vague wish to someday meet a good person, get married, have children, and build an ordinary family.
However, all those small dreams were completely stolen away in just one day.
The throbbing pain in his lower abdomen grew worse.
The sensation of his insides tearing that he had felt ‘that day’ vividly came back to him. Unable to bear the extreme pain, Hyowoo clutched his stomach and curled up.
‘I really liked him… That’s why I trusted him…’
He was Hyowoo’s first love and first boyfriend.
Because he truly liked and trusted him, he naively went to the place he called him to, and drank the beverage he offered without any suspicion.
Though there was no evidence, those men must have certainly been called by him too. Otherwise, there was no way alphas would gather at exactly the right time and place to play with an ‘omega in heat.’
Shocked by the betrayal from the person he first fell in love with, and in pain from being cruelly violated, Hyowoo collapsed uncontrollably.
“Living was so painful that I… I tried to commit suicide. So I was hospitalized for a long time in the psychiatric hospital’s closed ward… I’m still receiving PTSD treatment and continuing to take medication…”
He struggled desperately to forget, but the devastating memories embedded deep in his bones wouldn’t be erased.
The nightmare of that day never let Hyowoo go. Whether his eyes were open or closed, the memories of being raped by his ex-boyfriend and the men replayed in his head over and over again.
Believing there was no way to escape that nightmare except through death, Hyowoo tried to take his own life several times, but failed each time due to his family’s intervention. The dangerous days of repeating suicide attempts and self-harm continued for over a year and a half.
“That’s why I became afraid of alphas… Even just brushing past one slightly makes my skin crawl… Sex became so horrific that I didn’t even want to imagine it…”
As Hyowoo continued his confession, Lee Seohee’s expression grew darker and darker.
He himself, a Dominant Alpha, had held the hand of Hyowoo, who had experienced such a horrific ordeal. He had pulled him into his embrace, kissed his lips and various parts of his body, and touched him.
Even though there had been no coercion, a sense of guilt washed over him as he thought about how terrifying his actions must have been for Hyowoo. He was at a loss for words on how to apologize and ask for forgiveness.
That’s when it happened.
“But… but… Seohee-ssi was different…”
