No. Can I feel this?
At the sensation of his insides being forcibly spread open, Chaehun grabbed Seunggeon’s hand pressing on his belly.
“Hng. What, what is this.”
“It’s a knot. I knotted.”
Seunggeon’s deeply sunken voice resonated not in his ears but throughout his whole body. Chaehun couldn’t say anything in his dismay.
A knot, he says.
It wasn’t a commonly heard word. Knotting was the most aggressive and directly overwhelming act an alpha could do to an omega. Just as an omega in heat seduces an alpha, an alpha in rut stimulates an omega with knotting to increase the probability of conception. The alpha would coat the omega with their pheromones while simultaneously making them carry their child.
Since Chaehun was a beta, he couldn’t feel an alpha’s pheromones at all. He could only smell the hot heat along with the thick body scent after sex.
However, he could definitely tell that the penis lodged below had swollen tremendously from knotting. An alpha’s knot, like that of a beast, swelled up to plug the hole and prevented semen from flowing out.
All sorts of information about knotting flashed through Chaehun’s mind, but there was nothing he could do. A groaning sound flowed out like a whimper.
“I’m, I’m a beta. Hnngh. Ngh. Not an omega.”
“Even if you’re not an omega, I can still knot.”
“That’s, ngh. Ah. Haa. Ah.”
“I’m going to move just a little.”
“You’re crazy…… Nnngh. Ah. Ngh. Ngh.”
When Seunggeon chewed on his nape as if crushing it and growled fiercely, Chaehun became thoroughly frightened. In this state, tearing was inevitable. But fortunately, Seunggeon didn’t try to thrust upward. Because they were locked together so tightly that he couldn’t move at all, stirring was also impossible.
Just moving his hips dully was enough to make Chaehun cry out. The hand pressing on his belly was merciless. At the touch grabbing and shaking his penis, he was seized by pleasure again.
In the heat and dizziness, Chaehun felt distant and closed his eyes. Losing consciousness was instantaneous.
*
*
When Chaehun regained consciousness again, he couldn’t open his eyes. He only heard Seunggeon’s voice talking with someone. The distance was too far to understand the exact conversation, but the other person seemed to be Shim Jeongmin. In a haze not knowing whether it was day or night, Chaehun fell back asleep.
Next, he woke up because his throat was dry. This time he opened his eyes, but his vision was a mess. His eyes were swollen and his head felt swollen and dazed too. He knew his body’s condition was a mess.
“Are you conscious? Drink some water.”
Before he could even look for water, Seunggeon, who had somehow approached, held out a glass of water. Chaehun received and drank the water half-asleep. The water was cool, but his mind didn’t clear.
His puffy swollen eyes were hard to even blink, but he still noticed that day had broken. And in his blurry vision, Seunggeon’s figure formed like fog.
Memories of last night rose like a heat haze. Even after losing consciousness like that, the guy had continued to explore his body. He didn’t know an alpha’s rut was so terrifying.
“You had a high fever. Inside was just swollen. It didn’t tear.”
“You crazy……”
He tried to curse calling him a crazy bastard, but his throat mixed in wind sounds. Even that was annoying, so as he frowned, Seunggeon’s hand covered his face. His hand was lukewarm rather than cool.
“Get angry later, sleep more.”
The bright vision was forcibly covered and darkened. Chaehun, who didn’t have the strength to move even a finger, relaxed his body instead of removing Seunggeon’s hand. Losing consciousness to the depths was instantaneous.
The third time, he had to be forcibly woken. Seunggeon woke him up telling him to get up, bringing back his consciousness. His mind was a bit clearer than before and his eyes had gone down a lot.
Chaehun couldn’t eat more than a few spoonfuls of the porridge Seunggeon offered. In the end, after embarrassingly borrowing Seunggeon’s hand to be fed porridge, he took medicine and fell asleep again.
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*
The last time, his eyes opened on their own. His mind was clear and his vision was fine too. Chaehun blinked and focused. After looking at the unfamiliar cream-colored ceiling, he turned to the side.
With sunlight at his back, Seunggeon sat in a chair looking at a tablet with a serious face. He wondered if it was work even coming all the way here. Then he doubted whether the guy who had pounced like a beast last night and him with his calm atmosphere were the same person. He was also a foolish idiot for pouncing without even knowing what an alpha in rut could do.
A knot, of all things.
Just recalling that dismay made him get goosebumps. The sensation of his belly being so full it seemed about to swell and burst was still scary now.
As Chaehun reflexively stroked his belly, he realized he was only wearing a bathrobe. He wasn’t even wearing underwear.
“You’re awake?”
As he slowly raised his body to sit up, Seunggeon gave him a glance.
“Uh…… Yeah.”
He tried to answer, but his voice was still hoarse, so Chaehun nodded. In the meantime, Seunggeon put down the tablet, approached, and sat on the edge of the bed.
“Your fever’s gone down. How’s your condition?”
Chaehun quietly watched Seunggeon’s hand touch his cheek and fall away.
“So-so.”
His answering voice leaked like wind. It was because he’d let out screaming moans for a long time last night. His waist and butt throbbed. Still, it wasn’t too bad.
“Want to sleep more?”
“No. But are you okay?”
“I’m fine. I took medicine.”
“Uh…… Why medicine?”
“Because the fever wouldn’t go down.”
Chaehun, who understood Seunggeon’s answer a bit late, was dismayed. Last night’s sex had been hard and he’d even knotted. After ejaculating several times, in the end no matter how much he squeezed, only pale water came out. He’d really thought they might die having sex, but that wasn’t enough apparently.
Though he didn’t say it aloud, Chaehun conveyed his absurdity through his eyes alone. As if noticing that, Seunggeon coughed awkwardly as if embarrassed.
“I have a schedule in the afternoon, so I took it in advance.”
“You’re in rut, won’t you cancel?”
Chaehun asked just in case. If the rut wasn’t completely over, even if he took medicine, resting would be right. Though alphas and omegas experience rut and heat differently, the symptoms aren’t very different. In Kang Yeonghwan’s case too, just taking sedatives wasn’t enough to immediately return to daily life.
“What about you? Can you move?”
Instead of answering, Seunggeon rather asked back, making Chaehun puzzled.
“Yeah, my condition’s not bad. But why?”
“There’s a place we need to go together.”
“Where to?”
“To expose your existence. Since it’s become known that you’re by my side, people will approach. It’s advantageous in many ways to reveal your face as an official relationship. For me of course, and for you too.”
Chaehun only understood about half of Seunggeon’s explanation. He seemed to understand what revealing his face officially meant, but he couldn’t understand the reason.
“Um, wouldn’t it be better to just stay quiet? If we say it’s an official relationship…… it seems like you’ll be in trouble.”
“If I don’t acknowledge you, useless problems will arise.”
“Problems will arise?”
“To give an extreme example, someone could use your family as bait to extract important contract information. Yeah. It happens sometimes. But if it becomes an official relationship, they can’t attempt that.”
Only then did Chaehun roughly understand what Seunggeon was saying.
“So I’m also participating in this power game or whatever.”
“Right. You understand well.”
“What if I don’t want to?”
Chaehun once again asked if he had a choice. Even if there was a reason, he didn’t like becoming an official relationship in front of people. Especially because it was fake.
“It doesn’t matter what you want. The rumor’s probably already spread. Because there were several witnesses.”
Chaehun recalled the people who had come to Seunggeon’s apartment last night. Among them, the hostility of the man who had ordered Chaehun to be removed was certain.
He didn’t know meeting with Seunggeon would become this serious. He was confused whether he was a fox borrowing a tiger’s authority, or a shrimp whose back bursts in a whale fight.
Still, he had no choice but to acknowledge that he had to follow Seunggeon’s words.
“If it’s an official relationship…… what kind?”
“It’d be better to say lovers. I can refuse blind dates, and it becomes justification to get revenge on my great-aunt.”
Chaehun, who was briefly excited at the word lovers, swallowed a bitter smile at the words that it would be justification. Though it wasn’t good to be pleased and displeased over small things, his mood felt strange.
“Alright. I’ll do as you say.”
