When startled Jeong turned his head and struggled, a jingling sound came from his neck. A round sphere presumed to be a bell shook noisily making a vulgar sound. It didn’t take long to realize that what the man had put on his neck was a dog collar.
Looking into shocked Jeong’s eyes, the man smiled with satisfaction.
“It suits you well. I expected it would from when you were drooling earlier.”
“……!”
“You’re pretty, Jeong-ssi. As expected, this kind of thing suits Jeong-ssi. Dog-like and vulgar. It’s just right for Jeong-ssi’s level.”
He couldn’t believe it. His breath was choked at the humiliation that stabbed deep in his chest.
Being treated as a vulgar whore was treatment he’d received countless times while working at Yeodanhwa and the establishment before that. However, it was the first time being blatantly treated not as a human but as a beast like this.
Tears automatically welled up in both eyes. He hadn’t thought there would still be any self-respect left that he thought he’d thrown away. He’d never once thought that the position he stood in was a position that could fall even further down than being someone’s plaything, a sexual outlet.
“Haah… haah…”
Breathing heavily, Jeong glared at him with large eyes. The tears pooled largely fell with a plop and wet his cheeks. Watching that, the man laughed out loud as if it was lovely.
“Why are you so moved? You must really like the gift? I’m glad since I picked it out with care.”
“Aah… ah.”
He’d thought that since there was nothing wrong with his tongue, his mouth would open someday. In fact, when he received the diagnosis in the early days of losing his speech, they said it was a symptom due to extreme anxiety and stress, so he could speak again if conditions changed.
Really, he’d never desperately wished for his mouth to open like now. Jeong trembled while glaring at the man in front of him as if to kill him.
“I like that expression too, Jeong-ssi.”
“……”
“But right now I’m a bit… tired. I had late appointments until yesterday. So I want Jeong-ssi to be obedient and behave well.”
Smiling quite kindly, the man brought something from the dining table. It was the notebook and pen Jeong used. The man carelessly threw them in front of Jeong, then untied Jeong’s hands that had been bound behind him.
A nasty tingling sensation returned. Jeong clenched and unclenched his fist, moving his painful and numb hands. His hands were free, but it was still meaningless to resist the man since he was still lying prone with his feet bound. Glaring at the man intently, Jeong slowly brought his hands forward and placed them on the floor.
“If you have something to say, write it there.”
“……!”
“But it would be good to write well.”
Smiling brightly, the man continued.
“If you write boring curses or something like that… well, I’m not sure what I’d do either.”
Jeong, who had been about to grip the pen with trembling hands and bring it to the paper, hesitated. He felt like pouring out curses refreshingly on the paper. But when he thought about it coldly, there was nothing to gain from doing that.
Right now, Jeong had been dragged while tied to an unknown location, and judging from the scale of the mansion, the fact that the man was a doctor, and his friendship with President Jeong, his position as a nameless omega was absolutely disadvantageous. Even if something happened to him here, the man seemed to have enough ability to handle it. Holding the pen with hands trembling from fear and anger, Jeong tried to think calmly.
Right now, he first needed to find out why this man was doing this, what he really wanted.
[I don’t understand why you’re doing this. Why did you kidnap me?]
So, he wrote that for now. However, the man frowned looking at those words.
“Jeong-ssi. If you keep acting stupid, I think my mood might get bad. I already explained everything earlier, didn’t I? I brought you here to play.”
“……”
“It’s the same as what we do at the establishment. Jeong-ssi just has to do what I tell you to do. Only the location has changed. Do you understand now? I won’t accept the same question again. Now, if you have more to say, write it.”
The man looked down at Jeong’s hand holding the pen as if bored. Jeong looked at him blankly with his mouth open in disbelief. He wanted to pour out extremely common-sense and justified criticism at him, saying I don’t work like this outside the establishment, I have family waiting, taking me arbitrarily like this without even asking my opinion is really troublesome.
But if he did that and lost even this pen and paper, he wouldn’t be able to express any will at all.
When his thoughts reached that point, his heart suddenly became even more anxious. Lee Jeong began writing down questions again with trembling hands. Now was not the time to wonder why he’d been dragged here or pour out criticism of the man.
First, he had to resolve his questions and demand what needed to be demanded. Confirming Dokyung’s safety and contacting Yoonkyung. That alone was Lee Jeong’s immediate priority to resolve in this worst-case situation.
[What about my child? My being here has nothing to do with my child, right?]
“Haha… Lee Jeong-ssi, you really see me as trash.”
The man burst into a hollow laugh, looking at what Lee Jeong had written.
“Did you watch too many movies? What, did you think I kidnapped your baby or something? I’m not that kind of bad guy.”
“……”
“But it would be fun. If I did that. Right?”
There was an ominous light in the eyes of the man smiling innocently like a child.
“How much could a shabby prostitute like Lee Jeong-ssi cherish a child anyway? Isn’t that right?”
“…Ha.”
“What? That aggrieved expression?”
Looking at Lee Jeong’s eyes glaring at him while letting out a hollow laugh, the man burst into pleasant laughter. Lee Jeong clenched his trembling fists tightly.
Don’t get drawn in. Don’t fall for the provocation. He wants to anger me so I’ll slap him again. Like last time, he wants to trample and humiliate me…
Swallowing the hot, angry sigh seeping out, Lee Jeong deliberately lowered his gaze to the paper. The back of his hand writing silently trembled finely.
[Then please give me my phone. Let me make at least one call. I need to contact the person watching my child.]
“Ah… is that all our Lee Jeong-ssi wants?”
[And please let me go tomorrow morning. I need to go pick up my baby.]
“Tomorrow morning?”
The man laughed in disbelief, chuckling.
“Lee Jeong-ssi, what did you hear me say? Are you really going to act this annoyingly?”
“……”
“I told you earlier.”
The man reached out and grabbed Lee Jeong’s hair tightly. At the rough hand grabbing and shaking his hair, Lee Jeong let out a groan of “ahh.” It was a grip so strong it felt like all his hair would be pulled out.
The man glared with wide eyes and shouted in a chilling voice.
“For a few days, with me, let’s have fun.”
“……”
“Are your ears blocked too? Why can’t you understand? I said I’m off today, tomorrow, and the day after. If you make me repeat myself one more time, I really…”
Eyes fierce with anger boldly scanned Lee Jeong’s face. At the cruel and merciless touch, tears formed on their own. When he blinked his moist eyes and looked up at the man, the man suddenly grinned wickedly.
“Right. That would work.”
“……?”
“You saw I have enough power to drag Lee Jeong-ssi here, right? Dragging one remaining baby here would be nothing. If you’re that worried about the baby, you can just be here together, right?”
His heart seemed to shatter with a bang. Looking directly into Lee Jeong’s frozen pupils, the man slowly continued his mockery.
“Dokyung gets to see his father being deeply loved, Lee Jeong-ssi has the baby he was so worried about right in front of him, so that’s good. I like our Lee Jeong-ssi, so that’s good for me. All three of us would be happy. Right?”
The man finally said the words Lee Jeong feared most inside.
Hearing the vicious threat, Lee Jeong lost his reason and shook his head. He no longer even felt the pain of his hair being pulled out, firmly caught in his grip. His heart, which had burst and shattered into pieces, fluttered powerlessly on the floor in fragments.
Lee Jeong reached out and fumbled on the floor. To Lee Jeong desperately searching for paper and pen with his hands, the man kindly let go of his hair and placed the pen in his hand.
He tried to write, but his hands trembled so much he could barely even hold the pen properly. He knew well that the man’s threat wasn’t just a joke. President Jeong who had appeared at the establishment. The Beta man talking on the phone with President Jeong. His situation having finally been dragged all the way here. Then… as the man said, one baby really could be…
[I’m sorry. I’ll behave well. Please don’t touch my child. I’m begging you like this.]
After writing it all, Lee Jeong threw the pen away and prostrated himself on the floor. His rounded back trembled fragilely. He bowed his head all the way to the floor as a subject would to a king and fumblingly grabbed the man’s feet. Holding his sock-clad ankles, he pressed his forehead close to the ground.
At the attitude of complete submission Lee Jeong showed, the man smiled with satisfaction.
“That’s right. You should have done this from the start. I’m not such a bad guy that I’d fuck Lee Jeong-ssi in front of Lee Jeong-ssi’s baby. I just want to play, so why are you being so difficult? So annoying.”
“……”
“Depending on how Lee Jeong-ssi does, I’ll let you contact the sitter this evening too.”
At the man’s generous tone, Lee Jeong raised his trembling head. Large tears fell from his blurred and clouded vision. Wiping the tears on Lee Jeong’s cheeks with an affectionate touch, the man said.
“That you can’t come for a few days, so you’re sorry but please take care of the child. You’ll have to contact them like that, won’t you?”
Lee Jeong nodded his head desperately. Judging by what this man was doing anyway, he would absolutely not be able to leave this mansion for several days. Since it had come to this, he at least had to ask Yoonkyung about Dokyung. The request to watch the child for several days felt far too shameless, but there was no choice.
He’d have to obediently submit to the man as he said and somehow manage to contact Yoonkyung. If he could just endure this unbelievable time for a few days, then yes, this terrible nightmare would also end.
“Good. Then, from now on, let’s have fun playing with me?”
The man smiled brightly. His good-natured face visible behind his glasses looked even more delicate and refined when he smiled. However, to Lee Jeong, who knew the ugly aspects hidden behind that neat face, that smiling face looked like a demon.
Humming, the man brought a long cord. When he connected the cord to the collar, a click sound struck Lee Jeong’s ears. The man looked at Lee Jeong’s wavering pupils and smiled with childlike excitement.
“Now. From now on, Lee Jeong-ssi is my doggy, okay?”
“……”
“Dogs have to bark. Come on, answer quickly.”
“……”
His mouth wouldn’t open. It had been just a moment ago that he’d thought he should do whatever the man wanted, so he could at least get a chance to contact Yoonkyung in the evening. Yet perhaps because of the last remnant of self-respect as a human being still clinging like sediment at the bottom of his insides, the sound of a dog barking wouldn’t come from his mouth.
“Are you going to act like this?”
The smile completely disappeared from the man’s face, leaving only an expressionless look. It was a dramatic change as if he were acting. The man wrapped the string connected to Lee Jeong’s neck around his hand and yanked it hard. Momentarily unable to breathe, Lee Jeong made a choking sound and toppled over from the recoil.
“What should I name our doggy. Hm?”
“……”
“Before I name it after your kid, answer quickly.”
Lee Jeong flinched in surprise and raised his head. Flashing a smile filled with ecstasy, the man tapped Lee Jeong’s cheek.
