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“Ji Yeonoh.”

That voice was a downright snare. Though it had no hands, it froze Yeonoh’s steps in an instant.

Two months. That’s about how long it had been since he’d thrown in his resignation letter and fled from reality, struggling between a fever from his completely changed secondary gender and the overwhelming truth of his life. Until then, Ji Yeonoh had been an ordinary Beta. And he would have remained a Beta, had he not slept with his boss and long-time crush, the dominant Alpha Seo Heonyoung.

He was on his way back from the hospital, as he hadn’t been feeling well today either. They called it a heat cycle. Even though he took suppressants to quell the libido, his immune system had weakened, leaving him with persistent chills and a low-grade fever.

Despite having taken the suppressants, the pheromones of the dominant Alpha, Seo Heonyoung, were so strong they nearly took his breath away. As a former Beta who had never worried about such things, he had no idea how to deal with a situation like this.

“…You have the wrong person.”

The urge to flee was all-consuming. Yeonoh, who was already wearing a hoodie, pulled the hood down further over his eyes and quickly moved away from Seo Heonyoung.

Unfortunately, he didn’t make it more than a few steps before he was caught.

“Why can I smell pheromones on you?”

To show up out of nowhere and say something like this. It can’t be. The doctor had said that as a recessive Omega, Yeonoh’s pheromones would be faint.

Yeonoh held his breath, though it was unlikely to stop his pheromones from leaking out. Seo Heonyoung then leaned in close, taking in Yeonoh’s scent.

“You’ve been rolling around with another Alpha, haven’t you?”

What Seo Heonyoung detected wasn’t his Omega pheromones, but the pheromones of another Alpha.

“That’s—”

Yeonoh was about to snap back that it wasn’t true, but he shut his mouth before the words came out. He had almost fallen for Seo Heonyoung’s games again. He didn’t want to repeat the same old behavior he had worked so hard to quit.

“Yes. I’ve been screwing around with a bunch of other Alphas.”

Call it childish defiance, but he couldn’t help it. A surge of irritation washed over him. When I spent three years acting like a well-behaved dog, you never gave me a second glance. But now that I’ve broken the leash and am trying to run, you’re suddenly curious how I’m doing?

“I quit my job because I found a rich Alpha to sponsor me.”

At that, Seo Heonyoung scoffed.

“Then why do you look like this? Like some beggar who hasn’t had a decent meal.”

“That’s none of your business, Director. Congratulations on your marriage. Goodbye.”

Yeonoh roughly shook off Seo Heonyoung’s hand gripping his arm. The world spun, making him stagger for a moment, but he managed to walk away, pretending to be unaffected.

“Tell me.”

But why did that damn voice keep freezing his feet to the ground?

“Tell you what.”

“Who is he? That rich Alpha who’s smeared his pheromones all over you.”