TSG 52

Ha Jin-seong spotted Se-hyun entering the party hall. He laughed when he saw him moving leisurely and joining the crowd as if he was in no hurry. Did he think he could hide like that?

Se-hyun is tall with great proportions. He had seen his standing posture frequently, and his back had never slouched nor had his shoulders drooped. Moreover, his neat appearance, combined with his characteristic indifferent expression, accentuated his charm even more. Acting as if he couldn’t care less about anything in the world, his eyes occasionally sparkled, making it impossible to look away.

“What can I get from Ahn Se-hyun?”

Shin Tae-oh also seemed curious as to why he was doing this. Well, in the eyes of others, he wasn’t normal right now. Because he joined hands with Ha Min-hyuk, whom he hated so much, and kept hitting on Se-hyun, who hated him.

So he answered.

For this half-Alpha, who had his own secret that no one knew about and was different from others, it was not strange for him to want to have Se-hyun, who stretched out his hand and embraced him with the same expression as usual. Rather, he wanted to swallow him whole as his omega.

For Ha Jin-seong, it meant that he was approaching an important time that might change his life. Ha Jin-seong walked towards Se-hyun. If he came as his secretary, he would ask Se-hyun if he wanted to be his lover too. That was the most ideal direction…

Ha Jin-seong stopped walking without realizing it when he saw the urgency on Se-hyun’s face. There was no need to wonder where he was looking. Se-hyun ran towards Shin Tae-oh and immediately raised his hands as if to hug his body. Ha Jin-seong frowned when he saw Se-hyun bending his knees and looking up at Shin Tae-oh.

“What… what kind of look is that when you’re looking at your boss?”

Ha Jin-seong thought only Shin Tae-oh was holding on to Se-hyun until now.

Those eyes that looked at Shin Tae-oh with concern, pity, and affection were none just those of a secretary.

He was filled with anger to the point where his whole body trembled. He was being played. He had fantasized about being with Se-hyun and felt excited. He felt disappointed and frustrated with his foolishness.

“How dare you play with me?”

Me, Ha Jin-seong?

Ha Jin-seong looked at Se-hyun while clenching his teeth and fists to suppress the trembling in his body.

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When Se-hyun looked at the interior design photos from Seongha, he didn’t realize it would be this helpful. Se-hyun was currently with Shin Tae-oh in a place where there were no people.

There were multiple spaces inside and a path to go back and forth, and Se-hyun was in the process of moving through one of those passages. If he hadn’t scoped out the area beforehand, he wouldn’t have noticed that there was such a passage.

“Phew.”

Someone could have smelled the pheromones wafting from Shin Tae-oh’s exhale.

“I felt some kind of thirst again. Strangely, my tongue was wet but I felt odd.”

Se-hyun muttered his dissatisfaction as he placed Shin Tae-oh’s arm on his shoulder and supported him. The pheromones were going wild with each inhale and exhale.

“Ugh, the smell of pheromones.”

Se-hyun was about to embrace his swaying waist as he was completely drunk, but let out a groan at the smell of pheromones.

Se-hyun held his nose and glared at Shin Tae-oh.

“What have you been doing until it became like this?”

He should have noticed his own condition right away. Because he couldn’t realize it immediately, he was being dragged around by others like this. Is this a person drunk, no, intoxicated by pheromones?

“Haha. Isn’t this a bit too much?”

Shin Tae-oh’s weak laughter captivated Se-hyun’s ears.

“I’m listening to everything… I didn’t faint, you know.”

Shin Tae-oh’s complaint that he knew what he was talking about was met with a snort of laughter. Of course, it would have been better if he had pretended not to know that Se-hyun was being pretentious. Then he would have called him Taenyang or pervert Taenyang-i without Shin Tae-oh hearing.

“Instead of just listening, walk properly.”

“I can’t walk.”

Instead of putting strength into his legs, Shin Tae-oh leaned more onto Se-hyun.

“Ugh.”

He was already heavy enough, but leaning on him more made Se-hyun stagger before barely regaining his balance. This guy!

“Come to your senses.”

If you’ve gone into rut, you should walk properly.

“What have you been doing until it became like this? You weren’t thinking something like ‘I can overcome ruts’ or anything, were you?”

“Hahaha.”

Shin Tae-oh buried his face in Se-hyun’s shoulder and laughed. Is he really laughing?

“I didn’t know either. I just thought my body felt heavier than usual, I didn’t think it was a rut?”

And to laugh at a moment when you should be very nervous.

He used to be serious when talking to Ha Jin-seong. Just thinking about Se-hyun made Shin Tae-oh’s heart tighten and he couldn’t help but laugh, but now even if I tried to stay still, it was not working. It’s all because of Se-hyun. He couldn’t stop laughing when he was with him.

“Yeah. Laugh when you can.”

Se-hyun stood in front of the room, half-giving up. It was lucky that the party was being held at the hotel… If it wasn’t… Pressing down on the dizzying imagination, he unlocked the door with the key card and opened it. And when he swiped it to see the room light up, he saw Shin Tae-oh leaning against him.

They managed to make it to the room without being noticed by anyone.

Se-hyun wiped Shin Tae-oh’s damp forehead after he dragged him to the bed like a broom and laid him down, exhaling heavily.

It was really hard. In the meantime, when his rut came, Chief Secretary Lee Jin-ho was in charge or Shin Tae-oh managed it himself, so there was never a situation like this.

The person who was so good at managing things didn’t even know that his rut would come today. Anyway, feeling relieved that he managed to quickly handle the situation as a secretary, Se-hyun finished with a sigh and picked up his phone.

“Chief, it’s me.”

Even while explaining the situation to Lee Jin-ho, Se-hyun didn’t take his eyes off Shin Tae-oh. He was checking if he was in any danger, but…

“Haah.”

His shiny forehead revealed after brushing away his wet hair,

“Phew.”

The eyebrows, which had been drawn in a straight line, were bent and looked rebellious,

“Ah.”

The dry lips parted, revealing…

“I urgently need a suppressant.”

Se-hyun turned away from Shin Tae-oh.

– It’ll take about an hour to get there. Can you wait?

Se-hyun wiped the sweat trickling down his palm again after hearing Lee Jin-ho’s response after explaining the situation.

An hour?

It hadn’t even been a few minutes since he laid Shin Tae-oh down, but the room was already thick with pheromones.

Well, the amount of pheromones was not the problem. In his case, he could leave and…

But the problem was Shin Tae-oh breathing heavily behind him.

“Can’t it be done any faster? Or should I go around to a nearby pharmacy to get an emergency suppressant?”

– You know those won’t work for the CEO

“Ah.”

He was being foolish after personally buying his own suppressants all this time. Shin Tae-oh had quite strong hormones among Alphas, so ordinary suppressants did not work well. He had to take suppressants prescribed by a doctor, which meant there was no other way besides waiting for Lee Jin-ho.

– Try to endure it

“All right. Please come quickly.”

Se-hyun answered while covering his nose and mouth with his sleeve, as it was getting hard to breathe. He hoped Lee Jin-ho could hear his muffled voice.

After ending the call, Se-hyun turned back to Shin Tae-oh.

“He says it will take an hour. Can you wait?”

“It’s okay, you can go out.”

Shin Tae-oh waved his hand toward Se-hyun while leaning against the pillow. Normally, his hand gesture carried strength, but now it was as limp as a soaked cotton ball.

What should he do with that cotton ball?

If he just leaves, Shin Tae-oh would have to endure it alone.

After thinking for a moment, Se-hyun looked at Shin Tae-oh’s clothes. It was obvious that if he took off that suit now, his shirt would be soaked with sweat.

“May I help you?”

Shin Tae-oh’s half-closed eyes opened. He seemed to be figuring out if what he heard was true. Se-hyun kindly repeated what he had just said.

“I recommend doing it the way I did.”

Recommend?

Shin Tae-oh looked up at Se-hyun, trying his best to clear his increasingly dazed mind. Looking into Se-hyun’s calm eyes strangely put him at ease. Right, the realization that he wasn’t alone hit him hard.

“Do it.”

Any method doesn’t matter now.

“All right.”

With those words, Se-hyun disappeared. Shin Tae-oh paused for a moment, then sighed as if feeling disappointed. He said he’d help but just left. His heat-addled mind couldn’t think about why Se-hyun left. He wondered if this was right or if he had expected too much.

“How pathetic.”

Se-hyun doesn’t have feelings for him. But what did he expect?

His increasingly heated body was now feeling suffocated even by the tie around his neck. Even if he could resolve the pressure on his body, it might improve a bit.

Shin Tae-oh laboriously raised his hand to loosen the tie and unbutton his coat. And as his hand reached for the belt…

Splash.

Water poured from above, instantly soaking both his body and the bed.

Shin Tae-oh raised his dazed face. Se-hyun, who had disappeared after offering to help, appeared with a basin of cold water. Se-hyun spoke while holding a basin in one hand, which Shin Tae-oh didn’t know where he got it from.

“A cold water is the best in times like this.”

Se-hyun must have run to the bathroom when he suddenly got in heat.