I know there are many omegas who aren’t well during pregnancy. Even healthy people like me apparently suffer from hormonal and pheromone changes, pain from weight gain, gestational diabetes, and blood pressure problems. Having lived a very healthy life until now thanks to the advantage of being a dominant omega, I found myself very unfamiliar these days.
First of all, I who never slept much now sleep a lot, and I eat well then can’t eat in cycles. The nausea was accompanied by chest pain and dizziness, making me feel terrible. On days when even my neck stiffened up, I’d really be drenched in cold sweat. At times like these, lying down to rest or getting some cool air would alleviate the symptoms.
“…But strangely, I seemed to feel better when I was with Executive Director.”
When I definitely felt better was when I was with Cha Juheon. I guess this is also because he’s the biological father of the fetus.
When Cha Juheon is next to me, my stomach doesn’t feel uncomfortable and I don’t get dizzy. Rather, should I say my head feels refreshed and I feel good? That’s why after meeting with him once, my condition would be good for several days. Something seems to work due to pheromones.
“But I can’t keep holding onto a busy person either.”
The existence of the biological father alpha seems truly amazing. Even though it’s a pregnancy done through a procedure, to have such a big influence on me… In any case, my body kept feeling languid and my stomach kept churning so I couldn’t move. I think I have a bit of a fever too.
I felt like I’d feel better if I just slept a little and woke up, so I lay down on the bed. Collapsed on the bed, I instantly fell deeply asleep.
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Bzzzz.
How long had I been sleeping? I couldn’t distinguish whether it was night or day now, and I was so out of it that I didn’t even know if I’d fallen asleep. If it hadn’t been for the vibration sound of my phone placed on the bedside table, I wouldn’t have woken up. I was that deeply asleep. But even in my woken state, I couldn’t get up from where I was.
My head was ringing and dizzy, making nausea wash over me. And why is my fever so high again? My body condition was at its worst to the point where I couldn’t control my own body. Meanwhile, the phone kept ringing, and thinking it might be a call about Mom, I barely lifted my heavy body and grabbed the phone.
I had no strength in my fingers and could hardly answer the call. When I barely pressed the call button and put the phone to my ear, Cha Juheon’s voice, raised a tone higher, was heard loudly.
-Baek Eunwoo-ssi? What have you been doing all this time with no contact? Are you at your mother’s hospital?
Cha Juheon’s voice was slightly elevated in agitation, but there was no irritation in his pressing. It was just a tone as if slightly surprised. Even in this moment of feeling unwell, a small curiosity arose in me.
Why was Cha Juheon surprised, and for what reason? It must be because of the baby, right? Strangely, just for this moment, I wished he was asking out of worry for me who hadn’t contacted him, not because of the baby. It seemed I was having more emotional thoughts than usual, probably because I was sick.
-Baek Eunwoo-ssi, did you just wake up from sleeping?
“It’s not that…”
When I barely opened my mouth, a dry, low, cracked voice came out. It was a withered voice that surprised even me. While I was trying to clear my voice, Cha Juheon spoke urgently.
-Baek Eunwoo-ssi, you sound sick. Did something happen?
“No. Nothing happened, just suddenly I have a bit of a fever and my body feels heavy… It doesn’t hurt much. Just maybe a little body ache…”
Cha Juheon’s voice asking more worriedly than I expected was bewildering. Because he really seemed to be concerned about me. I made excuses that it didn’t hurt much, feeling like I was making a fuss over nothing.
-It’s not just a little, your voice sounds really bad. I’ll send Driver Choi to you right now. You should go to the hospital. Can you get ready? I’ll also go to the hospital after finishing my evening schedule. Get an injection and… Baek Eunwoo-ssi, can you hear me? Eunwoo-ssi?
I felt like I should go to the hospital, so I was grateful that he’d send Driver Choi. I should say thank you, but my body kept getting more limp and heavy. It felt like someone was strongly pulling me down from below. I could hear Cha Juheon’s voice calling my name so clearly, but I couldn’t answer.
I kept losing strength in the hand holding the phone. Why is this so heavy? Thanks to the advantage of being a dominant omega, I’d never been sick until now, but this was a moment where I felt acutely how hard the body becomes when you have a high fever. But I really can’t get sick because of the baby…
Knowing how much Cha Juheon cares about the baby, I felt mentally anxious. I feel like I’ll get scolded for not taking good care of my body and what was I doing. It’s not like I wanted to be sick, but I have nothing to say even if I get scolded.
Cha Juheon’s voice echoes and grows distant. I want to listen carefully to what he’s saying, but everything rang dully as if I was underwater and I couldn’t hear. While trying to listen to Cha Juheon’s voice, I lost consciousness without realizing it.
***
“Baek Eunwoo-ssi?”
It didn’t seem like the call had been disconnected, but Eunwoo’s voice was no longer heard. When an ominous breathing sound was heard without words during the call, Juheon kicked his chair and stood up with a bad feeling. Even though he knew it was meaningless to call an unresponsive Baek Eunwoo, he couldn’t stop calling Eunwoo’s name as if pressing him.
If there was no answer even after calling this much, Eunwoo had definitely lost consciousness now. He hadn’t thought he’d be sick, but at Eunwoo’s unexpected condition, Juheon couldn’t help but be surprised. Without thinking about the evening schedule or the next schedule, Juheon just grabbed his coat and left the office.
“There was no contact all day, so I wondered what was going on…”
Literally, he couldn’t reach him, so he was puzzled. Usually Eunwoo replied to Juheon’s messages right away. Since Juheon contacted him at regular times, he roughly knew when Eunwoo would send replies too. But today, not only was there no reply, he hadn’t even checked the messages at all. He called once around lunchtime, but he didn’t answer that either.
He said he was going to the hospital because his mother had surgery, so he was also worried if something had happened there. He checked to see if he was staying at the hospital because his mother’s surgery results weren’t good.
However, contrary to his concern, the surgery finished safely and he received word that recovery was progressing smoothly in the intensive care recovery room. He was told that Eunwoo had also heard about his mother’s condition from the doctor and returned home.
Then what was it? In his head, he kept thinking about Eunwoo’s day as if running a simulation. He’d be playing piano or have other business. He just thought vaguely. Still, he wasn’t someone who wouldn’t contact him… Strangely, when there was no contact from Eunwoo, even while working, he was so bothered by it that he couldn’t concentrate on work at all. It was behavior unlike Cha Juheon that he didn’t have before.
Then it was only when evening came that he got in touch with Eunwoo. Juheon, who had been curious why there was no contact, could guess his condition as soon as he heard Eunwoo’s voice. The breathing heard from the other side of the phone was ominous. He showed an anxious appearance throughout due to his mother’s surgery, so he must have been sick alone after the tension was released.
When he couldn’t reach him at first, he should have sent someone to the house to check what was going on. Even though it wasn’t his fault that Eunwoo was sick, Juheon felt needless self-blame. And before grabbing the steering wheel, he left a message somewhere and made a call.
“This is Cha Juheon. Please come to the address I just sent right away. Baek Eunwoo-ssi is sick and seems to have lost consciousness. He said he has a high fever and his body feels heavy. Please come as quickly as possible.”
After saying what he had to say and hanging up the phone, Juheon started the engine and increased the car’s speed.
***
Since he didn’t know the password to the apartment where Eunwoo lives, he asked the housekeeper in advance, so it wasn’t difficult to enter. No matter how much they had a contract, it wasn’t easy to enter the home of an omega living alone. But right now wasn’t the time to consider such things. Fortunately, the doctor he contacted arrived right away with a nurse.
As expected, Eunwoo was sprawled on the bed in an unconscious state, and his phone was sprawled on the floor below his fingertips. His face and neck were red, so his fever seemed high. The doctor who approached Eunwoo hurriedly checked his condition and appropriately administered IV fluids.
“Is it okay for a pregnant person to receive such fluids?”
“Yes, fluids of this type are fine. It can be taken as medicine too, but right now he’s unconscious so this is faster. For now I’ve only put out the urgent fire, so it would be better to go to the hospital right away.”
Hospital… Right now at Chasung Hospital, Eunwoo’s mother is hospitalized. She’s in the recovery room and the wards are completely different so there’s no chance of meeting, but still he was cautious. He was worried because someone might see them coming and going. But if the doctor was saying this, there was no time to delay. Then they had to move as carefully as possible.
“Let’s go to the VVIP room that only our family uses. Please make it so he can be treated without leaving the hospital room. The word must not get out. You know what I mean, right?”
“Of course. I know well. Don’t worry.”
This was something for Juheon’s sake contractually, but now, above all, it was for Eunwoo’s sake.
