#57
For a moment, Hyun-oh couldn’t continue speaking at the sight before him. During a meeting, he received a call from Eunsol. Because it was an important meeting, he sent Kim Myungjun out of the conference room with instructions to find out why Eunsol had called.
Since Eunsol had never called before, Hyun-oh wondered if it was a wrong number, but he was also concerned that Eunsol might have an urgent matter requiring his contact.
‘Mr. Eunsol isn’t answering the phone.’
When Kim Myungjun returned and relayed this message, Hyun-oh eventually left the conference room. After instructing Kim Myungjun to represent him and report developments in real-time, he drove home himself.
It was uncharacteristic behavior. When it came to Eunsol, Hyun-oh would momentarily act on instinct rather than making rational judgments.
While frustrated with himself, he had a strange premonition and felt he needed to see Eunsol in person.
‘Lee Eunsol.’
But from the moment he entered the house, the vague anxiety tickling his mind became reality.
The person who would normally come to greet him at the sound of the front door opening was nowhere to be seen. Moreover, an ominous pheromone scent was detectable from the entrance hallway.
Since the day his heat cycle was forcibly triggered, Eunsol’s pheromone levels had dropped further, making it difficult even for Hyun-oh to detect his pheromone scent except when they were intimate.
But now, Eunsol’s pheromones were strongly perceivable from the hallway. It was the moment Hyun-oh hurried his steps and entered the living room.
His pupils dilated at the sight of shattered glass pieces and blood stains messily imprinted around them.
Hyun-oh moved in the direction where the bloodstains continued. His heart was beating so fast it was unsettling. Only the thought of seeing Eunsol right now remained in his mind, controlling his body.
‘Lee Eunsol!’
Following the traces to the bedroom, Eunsol wasn’t there either. Hyun-oh’s fists clenched tightly at the bloodstains left on the sheets.
His trembling gaze discovered traces leading from the bedroom to another place. It was the room Eunsol used personally. Omega pheromones were flowing so strongly that Hyun-oh wondered why he hadn’t noticed it sooner.
If he had followed Eunsol’s pheromones from the start, he could have found him faster.
Whether shocked by the bloodstains or not, everything—the accident, his reactions—seemed to be happening slowly.
“Try to wake up.”
Hyun-oh hurriedly sat down in front of Eunsol and took the unconscious Eunsol into his arms. His black hair, soaked with cold sweat, hung over his pale forehead.
Brushing the hair back from his forehead as if stroking it, Hyun-oh placed the back of his hand against it to check his body temperature.
Like someone with a high fever, his body temperature was high, but Eunsol’s complexion was just pale. The movement of his chest was also significantly reduced, so Hyun-oh brought his fingertips to beneath Eunsol’s nose.
Without even realizing it, his fingertips trembled slightly. Only after feeling the breath tickling his fingertips did Hyun-oh roughly heave his chest.
“Why did the heat cycle suddenly…”
Hyun-oh had experienced Eunsol’s heat cycle before. That’s why he understood that Eunsol’s current physical condition was poor due to the effects of a suddenly triggered heat cycle.
His heavily lowered gaze fell on the wound on his foot, which was still bleeding. Hyun-oh lifted Eunsol in his arms and stood up.
“Ugh…”
Eunsol, sensing Hyun-oh’s pheromones, groaned and opened his eyes. Like a child searching for its mother’s milk, Eunsol burrowed into Hyun-oh’s arms.
Breathing heavily enough to make his thin back heave, he took in Hyun-oh’s pheromones deep into his lungs. Hyun-oh poured out his pheromones to Eunsol as if releasing what he had been suppressing.
“Hnn, ugh…”
The slender body moved within Hyun-oh’s arms. His underwear was already so soaked that it no longer served its function.
Instead of heading to the bedroom, Hyun-oh headed to the guest room. This was because he recalled that the bed was a mess with blood that Eunsol had shed.
“Bear with it a little longer.”
It was when Hyun-oh was about to get up after placing Eunsol on the bed momentarily to perform first aid. The wound was quite deep. It seemed like he should disinfect and apply pressure with bandages to stop the bleeding before calling the doctor.
“D-don’t go… Please…”
However, because Eunsol wrapped his arms around his neck and clung to him, Hyun-oh had to put his half-raised body back on the bed.
“You’re still bleeding. I’ll just get something to stop the bleeding.”
Hyun-oh soothed Eunsol and stroked his back with his large hand, but Eunsol shook his head vigorously from side to side. Even if he couldn’t distinguish well between dream and reality, Eunsol couldn’t let go of Hyun-oh before him.
It felt like if he sent him away now, he would be left alone again. He didn’t want to be alone. Especially in moments like now when he desperately needed his pheromones.
“Alright.”
Instead of detaching Eunsol and moving, Hyun-oh lifted him into his arms again. To see how deep the wound was, he needed to wash the bloodied foot with clean water.
Entering the bathroom connected to the guest room, he turned on the faucet of the sink. Eunsol still desperately hugged Hyun-oh’s neck, keeping his head buried in Hyun-oh’s nape.
Turning only Eunsol’s lower body to the side, Hyun-oh exhaled deeply at the wound revealed under the bright light.
Carefully pouring water to clean around the wound, he urgently took out a towel and firmly pressed it against the wound. Fortunately, the wound wasn’t torn badly enough to require stitches. There were also no glass fragments embedded in the wound.
It seemed that because Eunsol had continued to move, the wound hadn’t healed and kept opening.
After addressing the most urgent wound, the bruises left all over Eunsol’s body caught his eye. Without even looking, he could tell what kind of time Eunsol had spent while he was away.
“Hyun-oh… my body feels so strange…”
While Hyun-oh was taking deep breaths to calm his surging emotions, Eunsol rubbed his forehead against Hyun-oh’s shoulder.
His soaked lower body and torso also rubbed against Hyun-oh’s solid frame as if pleading. Eunsol raised his head and met Hyun-oh’s gaze. With unfocused eyes, he captured Hyun-oh’s face and moved his lips.
“Please do something about me…”
It felt like if only the heat tormenting him could be calmed, he could accept anything Hyun-oh might do to him.
Despite the desperate plea, when Hyun-oh didn’t take any action, Eunsol moved first. Closing his eyes, he sucked on Hyun-oh’s lips.
The most certain way to feel his pheromones was to join bodies, but for now, he wanted to extinguish the urgent fire even through kisses.
As Eunsol, who usually only passively received, moved actively, Hyun-oh too began to move instinctively, putting aside complicated thoughts.
Hyun-oh granted Eunsol’s wish. What started in the bathroom continued onto the bed.
While Hyun-oh was moving under the influence of instinct, he moved carefully to avoid straining Eunsol’s foot, and fortunately, the bleeding from the wound stopped. Even so, it would be better to call the doctor and have the wound properly examined to avoid leaving a scar.
“Don’t leave me alone…”
The problem was that Eunsol didn’t want to separate from Hyun-oh at all.
Whenever Hyun-oh tried to move back, Eunsol would cling to him with desperate gestures. Eunsol was in a state where he was emitting more concentrated pheromones than usual, enough to dangerously shake even Hyun-oh’s pheromones.
Even though it wasn’t time for his rut cycle yet, Hyun-oh’s pheromones began to fluctuate irregularly, influenced by Eunsol.
“Please don’t abandon me…”
Eunsol didn’t know what he was saying. At first, he thought it would be fine if he just received Hyun-oh’s pheromones. But an unbearable thirst rose up. Like someone endlessly gulping seawater because of a parched throat.
He wanted to accept everything of Hyun-oh. Even while already being with him, he was acting like a whining child.
“…I want to be connected deeper.”
It didn’t take long for Hyun-oh’s thinly stretched patience to finally break.
Eunsol’s neck fell back like a newborn baby’s.
Large hands firmly supported Eunsol’s lower back and the nape of his neck. Even with blurry vision, Eunsol witnessed Hyun-oh granting his wish.
Author: Hyacinthus B
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