PUCKD Ch 47

“…The hospital?”

“I didn’t go because I was sick. I went to get pheromones. Alpha pheromones.”

At the word pheromones, Hojae inadvertently narrowed his brow, and Kwon Junghyun chuckled, correcting himself more clearly by saying, “Alpha pheromones.”

“I guess it’s because it’s a substance not originally in my body, but I’m always like this for a day or so.”

A beat later, he remembered the time Kwon Junghyun had requested pheromones to become an alpha. And the unsettling feeling he’d had then.

Had he been getting them consistently since then? …Even if it made him sick every time?

For Shin Hojae, who prioritized his physical condition above all else, it was something he could hardly understand.

“Is it okay for your body…?”

“Are you worried about me? I’m honored.”

Kwon Junghyun said it lightly and drank the water from the table. The way he spoke, on the premise that Shin Hojae would never really worry about him, made him feel strange.

Junghyun glanced once at Shin Hojae’s face, then rolled up his shirt sleeve. There was a small bandage on the inside of his left arm. It seemed to have been put on after the pheromone injection.

“Pheromones, what are they actually like?”

He asked as he peeled off the bandage, but then seemed to remember something and said, “Ah,” before speaking again.

“Was it rude to ask something like this? You don’t have to tell me if you don’t want to.”

Shin Hojae lowered his eyes slightly before raising them and opening his mouth. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to.

“It’s hard to explain, but it’s a scent, but it’s felt with all five senses.”

“Hmm. The way the media portrays it isn’t completely wrong, then. So what does Mr. Hojae’s pheromone smell like?”

“…Mine?”

“I know you didn’t tell me before. But I can’t help but be curious.”

Shin Hojae kept his mouth shut for a moment.

Asking a variant about the scent of their pheromones was no different from asking about the size or shape of their genitals. That was why he had felt offended and refused when he first asked, but now that they had actually rubbed their genitals together, he wondered what the point was.

“They said it smells like the sea.”

“The sea?”

Junghyun asked again, showing interest.

“To be precise, like a sea that feels cold and cool, like metal….”

Variants perceive others’ pheromones much more strongly than their own. This is because pheromones are substances originally created to encourage mating between variants.

Therefore, what he was saying now was something his parents had told him when he was still inept at controlling his pheromones.

“A cold and cool sea….”

Junghyun muttered it slowly as if trying to imagine it, then looked at Hojae.

“Will the day ever come when I can feel it too?”

“……”

Shin Hojae stared at Junghyun without a word. He probably wasn’t asking for an answer. The way his face immediately broke into an empty smile, as if it were a joke, made that clear.

“…Why do you keep getting them.”

It was then that a question he hadn’t intended to ask slipped out of his mouth.

“From the way you talk, it doesn’t seem like you expect it to have any effect.”

Before, he had just thought the man who was born with everything and now wanted even a variant trait was simply creepy.

But today, it suddenly occurred to him that there might be another reason. Perhaps it was because he heard a deep sense of resignation underlying his words somewhere.

“There’s someone whose expectations I want to meet.”

Junghyun said, meeting his eyes.

“Even if it has no effect, if it’s something I can do, I want to do my best. It puts my mind at ease, too.”

“…Even with the side effects?”

“Side effects? Ah, you mean this? It gets better if I just take some medicine and get some sleep. If we’re talking about side effects, aren’t the suppressants the athletes take much stronger?”

Shin Hojae furrowed his brow slightly. The suppressants he was talking about must, in context, be the rut suppressants that variants took.

The medicine that athletes took was a strong drug that suppressed not only their own rut but also their sensitivity to others’ heats. It certainly had more severe side effects than the suppressants that ordinary variants took, in line with its effectiveness, but Shin Hojae had never experienced them.

“As long as you follow the dosage, there aren’t really any side effects to speak of.”

“Really? I guess a dominant is dominant even in things like this. The people around me had a pretty hard time.”

“……”

“What is it?”

“…No. It’s just that you said ‘people around me.’ Usually, people don’t talk about that kind of thing with betas.”

“Well, even if they don’t say it, there are things you can see. What about you, Mr. Hojae? During your rut.”

Hojae raised his eyes and met his gaze. His mouth felt strangely dry.

“I just get through it with medicine. Like everyone else does.”

“I doubt it’s ‘everyone else.’ There are alphas who think suppressing a rut with medicine goes against the laws of nature.”

“……”

“Well, to a beta, it just looks like they want to have rut sex.”

Hojae suddenly felt his mood sink. For some reason, there was no need to search for a cause.

“Why did you suddenly go quiet?”

“……”

Every single thing that came out of Kwon Junghyun’s mouth was unpleasant.

The way he casually mentioned rut, his attitude that seemed so familiar as to refer to them as ‘people around me.’ It meant he had dealt with many alphas in rut.

A frivolous and vulgar man.

The reasons to dislike him were overflowing.

Every part of his rational mind was screaming NO.

“Wanna do it?”

A voice suddenly sounded. When he looked up, Junghyun was reaching out from his seat, slowly stroking up from Shin Hojae’s knee to his inner thigh.

His gaze was captured by his hand. The back of his hand, a little redder than last time, his long fingers. In an instant, his lower abdomen tightened and a throbbing strength gathered further below.

“We came here for that anyway. The useless chatter went on too long.”

Shin Hojae slowly let out a low breath.

Just that one phrase was making his reason grow hazy. Hojae squeezed his eyes shut and then opened them. What remained before him now was a very vivid desire.

“Hah, hoo. There, a little more at the tip.”

“……”

“Ah…!”

Kwon Junghyun’s face slowly flushed red. He brought the back of his hand to his mouth, as if to suppress a moan. It seemed to be a habit of his to hold back sounds.

Because of that, no more sound could be heard, but it couldn’t hide the signs of excitement blooming around his eyes. Shin Hojae inadvertently lifted the corners of his mouth.

The fact that the mouth that always spewed irritating words was changing color because of him spurred a light sense of conquest. Shin Hojae watched his face intently and quickened the pace of his right hand.

Whenever they met at Kwon Junghyun’s house, he would end up satisfying his desires. As if there was no other reason for them to meet.

“Wait, too fast… Heu, euk.”

“……”

“Ah…. Heut, euk…!”

His penis, wrapped in his right hand, trembled, and a murky fluid spurted from its tip. A pained sound flowed from Kwon Junghyun’s lips.

The lukewarm fluids on his hand quickly cooled in the air. Unlike that, the heat inside Hojae did not cool easily. Hojae let out a ragged breath along with Kwon Junghyun, as if trying to expel it.

Shin Hojae moved back from him on his knees. His naked body, sprawled on the dark bed, captured his gaze. Every time Junghyun gasped for breath, the semen pooled on his stomach shifted toward his sunken navel.

Now quite used to it, Hojae pulled a tissue from the nightstand and wiped his semen from his hand. With a new one, he carefully wiped Kwon Junghyun’s stomach.

Lying down, Junghyun watched Hojae with a languid expression without a word. After wiping the milky fluid pooled in his navel and removing his hand, he noticed some had also gotten on the man’s inner thigh. It must have dripped from his own hand.

Shin Hojae instinctively brought his hand to wipe that spot. The skin, slightly damp with sweat, felt cool and soft against his hand.

Hojae, without realizing it, let his gaze drift to the area inside. The round scrotum, the reddish perineum, and the deeper place hidden by his buttocks….

As if possessed, Hojae slid his thumb slightly in that direction. Strangely, there was no sense of repulsion. Was it because he had already touched it once?

Hojae remembered his hidden parts that he had fumbled with in the small hotel room. The tiny hole that had been tightly shut and twitching. Far from being promiscuous, it seemed as if it had never embraced anyone’s.

“……”

Shin Hojae swallowed dryly without a word.

This was the third time the two had met at Junghyun’s house since that day. However, Kwon Junghyun, who had unhesitatingly told him to fuck him, never demanded anything more than this from Shin Hojae.

It was surprising, considering how he always initiated kisses actively and pulled Shin Hojae’s hand to his own groin.

But it would also be strange for him to take the initiative and try to do more than this. Wouldn’t that make it seem like he was the one who wanted to have sex with Kwon Junghyun?

Shin Hojae abruptly sat up. It was to throw the crumpled tissue in his hand into the trash can.

Kwon Junghyun’s bedroom was similar to other places; the floor and the bed were clean, but the drawers and the nightstand were cluttered with things piled up haphazardly.

Shin Hojae found a small trash can under the nightstand and threw the tissues away. It was just as he turned around.

“Should I suck you off?”

Junghyun, still lying on the bed, asked.

His tone was so casual that Hojae couldn’t understand for a moment and frowned. Then Kwon Junghyun gestured with his chin toward Shin Hojae’s lower body and said again.

“It looks like it hurts, down there.”

“……”

A slight blush appeared on Shin Hojae’s lower cheeks.

As per Kwon Junghyun’s request, he had taken off his shirt, but he was still wearing the same training pants he had on when he entered the house. He wasn’t wearing his usual black ones, but gray ones today, so his heavy erection must have been noticeable.

If he had known this would happen, he wouldn’t have put all his black pants in the washing machine. Regretting it now was too late. Shin Hojae was about to say he didn’t need it.

He was sure of it, but before he could, Kwon Junghyun sat up and made Shin Hojae sit on the edge of the bed.

The man knelt between Shin Hojae’s legs without hesitation. Shin Hojae barely managed to grab his wrist.

“…It’s, fine.”

“I’m only human, so my conscience pricks me to have fun all by myself.”

As he said that, Kwon Junghyun easily pulled down Shin Hojae’s pants and underwear. Shin Hojae couldn’t resist. No, he didn’t.

Junghyun brought the thickly swollen penis out and immediately put his lips to it. Chok. As he watched the red lips touch and pull away with a sound, Shin Hojae’s grip on him loosened on its own.

As the grip on his wrist weakened, Junghyun took that hand and used it to grip the base of Shin Hojae’s shaft.

The sky-piercing erection and Kwon Junghyun’s face. The visual shock of this combination, which he had never considered together, was immense. Shin Hojae, without realizing it, placed a hand on his shoulder.

But he only touched it lightly; his other hand roamed restlessly between his own knee and his chest, not knowing what to do. Seeing this, Kwon Junghyun took Shin Hojae’s hand and made him hold the back of his head.

“You can hold my hair.”

The black hair, coated with wax, wrapped around his fingers. He hadn’t done anything, yet his palms were drenched in sweat.

Kwon Junghyun stuck out his tongue and sucked hard on Hojae’s scrotum. The feeling of his prominent nose brushing against the deep part of his groin, the sensation of a part that had never been touched by anyone being sucked into a wet place, was goosebump-inducingly unfamiliar.

“It’s a bit much for me to say this after I asked you to fuck me first, but….”

Kwon Junghyun spat out the scrotum he had been rolling around with his tongue and opened his mouth, licking at the base. The feeling of his hot breath with every word was electrifying.

“I’ve never taken something this big before, so to be honest, I’m a little scared.”

As he spoke, Junghyun’s tongue swept up the shaft from the base. Then, he suddenly took the tip, where a clear fluid had beaded, into his mouth.

His jaw muscles clenched hard. It felt like if he opened his mouth, an unbelievable moan would burst out.

Kwon Junghyun’s head moved up and down slowly. It felt as if he were thrusting his penis into a hot, damp, narrow cave. Fuck. Shin Hojae tilted his chin up and chewed on the curse internally.