Lim Moojin lowered his head. With a long sigh, he swept his hair back. There was no reprimand for Wookyung’s insolent behavior before him.
“…I know. I’m sorry. It’s my fault.”
“If you’re sorry! Does that help, right now…!”
With a bang, the pole holding the IV pack fell over. The sofa next to it was shoved away by a rough kick.
“Aaaaaaah! Aaaah, aaah!”
No one could stop Wookyung rampaging like a madman and destroying the fixtures in the hospital room. With bloodshot eyes, Wookyung grabbed Lim Moojin by the collar. Though Lim Moojin’s build was also impressive for an alpha, caught in the hands of Wookyung raging fiercely like an enraged beast, he was shaken helplessly. Wookyung glared at Lim Moojin with bloodshot eyes and shook his collar mercilessly.
“Bring Yoon Ido. Bring him before me right now!”
“Team Leader! Wookyung hyung, just a moment!”
“Call the guys! At this rate… it’ll be dangerous.”
Gritting his teeth, Lim Moojin gave orders to Kim Minho. Soon about ten men who received the radio call from Minho rushed in. Though no one could recklessly subdue Wookyung rampaging like a madman, Wookyung who had been lying unconscious for nearly ten days couldn’t defeat over ten armed adult men.
Eventually even doctors and nurses were deployed. The strong men all clung on to restrain Wookyung raging and screaming, and the doctor administered a high dose of sedative while sweating coldly. After a few minutes, Wookyung collapsed with unfocused eyes. The men who had restrained him withdrew from the room drenched in sweat with disheveled appearances.
“…He’s having a harder time than… I expected.”
Lim Moojin and Kim Minho exchanged such words with tired expressions. At the end of their calmly lowered gazes, remnants of all kinds of shattered and scattered objects and Wookyung’s blood splatters could be seen. With complicated feelings, Minho sighed. Seeing Wookyung’s face sleeping with a haggard expression made a corner of his heart ache heavily.
“…Right now we’ve put him to sleep temporarily, but when he wakes up again…”
“It’ll be fine if only you keep your mouth shut.”
Lim Moojin muttered coldly.
“You saw it, right? How much he’s suffering now. If he knows he went to Yeodan, he’s definitely someone who’ll storm in there right now.”
“……”
“Then Choi Wookyung will definitely die. I have no intention of dragging my entire organization there because of one omega.”
Watching Lim Moojin coldly calculating his own gains and losses, Kim Minho remained silent. Taking the person he wants, yet having no intention of giving up his own things for him. Though it might seem cowardly at a glance, it was ambition befitting someone who had long coveted his boss’s position.
“I have no intention of using Choi Wookyung just this once and discarding him. I’ve thought from before about making him my person, so I’ll take him to the end.”
“……”
“So, you too.”
Lim Moojin’s palm rested on Kim Minho’s shoulder. The body heat of the touching palm was chillingly cold.
“I hope you know what path truly considers Choi Wookyung… and what serves you and your family.”
3.
After that day, Minho didn’t hear about the whereabouts of the omega dragged to Yeodan. He couldn’t know how President Kim, who had been grinding his teeth with vengeful heart toward Wookyung, had dealt with that omega, whether he was dead or alive. However, President Lim Moojin, who had now become the president of Daneum, processed that omega as perfectly dead. Perhaps thinking Wookyung might search for him, the record of a person named ‘Yoon Ido’ no longer remained in this world.
Moreover, not long after that incident, a factional fight broke out within Yeodan, and in that process, President Kim met his death. And that period precisely overlapped with Wookyung’s rehabilitation period, who had had a significant amount of cerebral hemorrhage. The situation flowed favorably for the false play created by President Lim and Kim Minho.
With the death of President Kim who had been holding Wookyung’s omega disappearing from the world, the two men’s secret became even more solid. Minho, who had been anxiously expecting him to ruin the omega for revenge then display him before Wookyung, had to suffer from guilt toward Wookyung for quite many days seeing himself relieved at President Kim’s death.
On top of the silence the two men had forcibly created, a superficial peace stood in a seemingly problem-free form. At least the organization’s sales drew an upward curve day by day since Lim Moojin became the leader.
However, after that incident, Wookyung deteriorated day by day.
After that day, Wookyung couldn’t sleep. Sleeping only two or three hours a day was normal, and there were many days when he couldn’t sleep even one minute. Day by day, his nerves stood on edge like a sharply honed blade.
His gentle impression changed to sensitive day by day. There were days when he stared blankly at the ring remaining in his hand all day long. Then some days he smashed all the fixtures in the house, and exercised until he collapsed from exhaustion. And some days he drank until he couldn’t control his body.
No matter how much he tried to stop him saying he shouldn’t do this with a body not yet fully recovered, it was useless. Wookyung’s pain didn’t seem to lessen at all no matter how much time passed. By his side writhing in agony, Minho had nothing else he could do for him. Cursing his own situation where he couldn’t tell him anything to protect his own family and his own safety, he could only stay by Wookyung’s side.
On top of that, he suffered terribly from pain of unknown cause.
“Argh… heu…”
When he coincidentally visited his house having something to give to Wookyung, what entered Minho’s eyes was his appearance collapsed in the living room writhing in pain and groaning.
“Hyung! Wookyung hyung! Get a hold of yourself, what’s wrong!”
An ominous energy was settled throughout the house. His extremely unstable pheromones were running wild like crazy. Sensing something was seriously wrong, Minho immediately contacted President Lim, and the personal physician who rushed over spoke in a heavy voice.
“It’s imprint pain.”
“What does that…”
“It seems it hasn’t been long since you imprinted with an omega… If you don’t regularly contact the imprinted omega, you’ll continue to suffer in pain. Eventually, your pheromones may deteriorate.”
As the doctor predicted, Wookyung’s pheromone scent gradually changed. Though recessive, because he was the same alpha, he could read the changes in his pheromones clearly. His pheromones that had been rough but warm became heavy and gloomy. Each time he smelled his scent, it felt like his pheromones were pressing down reproaching him, making Minho feel strangled.
And another problem was also quite a big headache for him as a trait holder.
“…Shit.”
Minho, who had been blankly recalling past events while driving, straightened up startled at Wookyung’s curse. Just from him who didn’t usually curse spitting out rough words, one could tell. His usually neat appearance was strangely disheveled.
The slightly crooked tie and hair slightly disheveled from being roughly swept back several times, and his pheromones running wild ferociously, filling the car suffocatingly.
A homework only he could solve that no one could resolve for him. It was his rut cycle.
“…By any chance, suppressants…”
“I took them.”
His thick voice was even more sensitive than usual. Glancing at him through the rearview mirror, Minho drove silently. Though his physical condition must be terrible, the posture of his straight back showed no sign of disorder.
“Even though I took them to the limit, I’m in this state.”
His breath that could hardly be controlled was rough. His broad chest kept rising and falling. His eyes looking out the car window with a fierce expression were savage. Secretly swallowing, Minho tried to focus ahead.
“…Would it be better to cancel today’s appointment?”
“No. Proceed as planned. The other side seems to be putting quite a lot of effort into this contract too, so I can’t cancel because of personal condition.”
At his words added irritably, Minho gave a short answer that he understood. The words he had brought up with the selfish thought that he’d rather have him cancel today’s appointment and rest well were flatly rejected. The dull guilt from seeing him suffering hadn’t become familiar at all since several years ago. At times like this, his appearance working stubbornly to the point of seeming inflexible was somewhat resentful.
“Where was the appointment location?”
“Ah, that.”
Today’s appointment partner whom Wookyung was to be entertained by was the representative of a brokerage company with whom they were about to sign a new subcontract. As it was a very important appointment for the other party, they seemed to have selected the location after some deliberation. However, hearing the appointment location, Wookyung frowned sharply.
“Tell them to stop doing that kind of thing. Don’t they know I hate places like that?”
“Ah… they probably wanted to properly treat you. That place isn’t only… for that purpose. Politicians and celebrities frequent it too. And…”
Hesitating, Minho barely spat out the next words.
“…This time too, I told them to prepare a beta hostess as always… so it shouldn’t be too uncomfortable for you.”
“Then that’s fortunate.”
Spitting out indifferently, Wookyung stared outside vacantly. Minho, who had smoothly stepped on the brake to stop the car, got out first and handed the keys to the staff. Wookyung, who came out through the door he opened, frowned slightly once more.
It was a place he had visited several times to entertain or be entertained. It was ‘Yeodanhwa,’ a high-class bar and brothel operated by the organization ‘Yeodan’ that had once flourished most in the industry through prostitution.
“Executive Director Choi, you’ve arrived! Here, please come this way.”
Before even entering the room, Representative Ha, today’s appointment partner, chased out to the corridor and bowed. Wookyung, who had been walking down the dark club’s corridor receiving the guidance of Yeodanhwa’s manager, greeted him with a light bow.
“Why go to a place like this.”
