Can Love Be Transferred Too? 69

#69

“Hyung.”

“……”

“Sanho hyung.”

When I opened my heavy eyelids, the shaking of the aircraft had completely stopped. Gentle singing, people’s voices, and the sound of luggage being retrieved reached my ears one by one.

“We’ve arrived now.”

Jin Woohyeon’s hand rubbed my stiff eyes. I tilted my head following his hand. It was an unconscious action.

“We should get ready to get off soon too.”

He coaxed me gently with a voice filled with laughter.

“Are you feeling a bit better?”

“Yeah……”

“Your face still looks a bit pale though.”

When I made a groaning sound, he tapped the tip of my nose and laughed.

“Our hyung who never has a peaceful day, what should we do about you always getting sick? It hasn’t been that long since you recovered from body aches.”

“Sorry. It’s troublesome.”

“It’s not troublesome, but I am worried.”

I gazed blankly at the handsome face that had come close. The distinct jawline, smooth skin and nicely plump lips, the straight nose bridge and neat eyelashes casting shadows, and beyond that, sparkling black eyes.

It was a face that naturally drew attention more than anything else. No, beyond that, it kept stirring up some emotion I didn’t even know I had.

His eyes curved gently as he noticed I was staring at him as if entranced. As if he was purely delighted by that gaze, by the attraction contained within it.

“I like taking care of you. Though it might be a bit sorry to say to hyung, but even that feels like an excuse for me to be by your side.”

“……”

“It would be even better if I could be there without such excuses.”

Jin Woohyeon’s words were exactly like feathers. Made by weaving together soft strands, making me feel ticklish everywhere they touched.

What broke the silence that had continued for a while was a very familiar voice.

“Yoo Sanho. We should get off soon now… Why does your face look like that?”

“Chan.”

Lee Chan, who had been sitting across from us, came over and frowned. He reached out his arm as if to help me up, but Jin Woohyeon was faster, wrapping his arm around my waist and letting me lean against him.

“You get motion sickness. Can’t you tell just by looking?”

Lee Chan frowned and snorted.

“So you poured out pheromones like that to comfort someone with motion sickness?”

In the blink of an eye, my wrist was grabbed. Lee Chan, who had pulled up my arm, pressed the inside of my wrist firmly and spoke sarcastically.

“No wonder I could smell it from across the way. Such bad manners in a public place.”

“It’s not like I was in heat and obviously drooling everywhere, so is it really a matter of manners? Even if it’s somewhat rude, you should be a bit understanding. I did it for Sanho hyung’s sake.”

“You did this for his sake? This?”

Sharp competitiveness flashed across the face that had been kind and warm throughout.

“Hyung sleeps so well when he smells my pheromones even when he’s nervous. I was being careful but was a bit worried this much wouldn’t matter.”

Then Lee Chan’s expression twisted.

“It doesn’t matter.”

“……”

“Yoo Sanho. Does it really not matter to you?”

Throbbing pain came through the wrist I hadn’t been able to shake free. It was because he had put strength into his grip.

“An Alpha bastard is doing this next to you, and you’re really okay with it?”

How could that be okay? He seemed to be asking that. It also sounded a bit resentful.

He had good reason to ask that. I had often asked Lee Chan to control his pheromones because I couldn’t handle them. Even knowing he wasn’t someone who would threaten me, the warning signals in my head would go off incorrectly.

I had heard during counseling that this was also part of trauma. The kind-looking doctor had told me it wasn’t my fault, but strictly speaking, it wasn’t Lee Chan’s fault either.

After being so afraid of Alpha pheromones that I acted that way even toward someone I’d liked my whole life, here I was feeling at ease buried in the pheromones of an Alpha I’d barely known for a month.

‘He must have felt betrayed.’

But it couldn’t be helped. Hearts don’t work according to plans, and they certainly don’t roll along according to logic.

Anyway, I couldn’t keep blocking the path here. The group would be waiting too, and An Lei behind Lee Chan also looked troubled by the subtle tension between the two.

“Let’s get off.”

When I carefully pulled Jin Woohyeon’s hand, he followed me as if he hadn’t been standing his ground at all.

While we were lining up to get off the plane, after thinking briefly, I glanced back and called his name.

“Woohyeon.”

“Yeah. What?”

Since I was grateful for all his care. For that reason, I spoke softly.

“Should I tell you a secret?”

He, who had been standing right behind me, bent down toward me. His fine hair tickled my cheek and ear.

After hesitating for a moment, I whispered quietly.

“……Even if I’m not sick or struggling, my feelings will still remain the same.”

‘I like taking care of you. Though it might be a bit sorry to say to hyung, but even that feels like an excuse for me to be by your side.’

‘It would be even better if I could be there without such excuses.’

It was my own answer to the words I’d heard earlier. I wanted to let him know that his small wish had already come true, that it had happened even though I’d never particularly tried to grant it.

Jin Woohyeon wasn’t needed only in difficult, painful, or troublesome moments. I certainly didn’t want to use his kindness selectively only when I needed it.

I wanted you to be by my side even on bright and clear days. I looked forward to that day. I wondered how warm and cozy the sunlight of life would be when welcomed together with you.

I wanted you, not someone else, to keep watching over me like now. So I could become more certain. So I could walk forward and make choices that were completely for myself.

Silence continued.

‘Did I speak too indirectly?’

Didn’t he understand? Or did he understand but have nothing to say? Was it just something I said casually, or was he wondering why I was stating something obvious?

Fortunately, before my worry could grow any more, the line moved forward. I walked with my back turned to him.

It was just as I took one step forward.

“……Ah.”

My hand was caught. A large, firm hand completely wrapped around mine and squeezed with strength. The hot body heat transmitted through the palm was so vivid it seemed like it would burn me.

It was amazing. Just by holding hands, Jin Woohyeon’s feelings were conveyed to me. Surprise, anticipation, and overwhelming joy seemed to burst from his palm lines and seep hotly into my skin.

Feeling an almost blazing intense gaze, I moved my hand. When I twitched my fingertips with the intention of moving, he loosened his grip slightly, so I carefully moved my fingers and interlocked them between his fingers.

The moment our palms pressed together without gaps and our fingers intertwined tightly like well-woven fabric.

“Hyung.”

“……”

“Sanho hyung. Your heartbeat is really loud.”

I answered while pretending to look away nonchalantly.

“……How can you hear that from there? It’s just your imagination.”

His words were true. My heart was racing so wildly right now that I wondered if this was okay. It was rare to feel my heartbeat this fast when I wasn’t anxious or scared.

I had just played dumb because it was too embarrassing to be caught by the person who had caused this fact that was shameful enough to know alone.

“It’s not my imagination.”

This annoying guy seemed to have no intention of letting me fool him right now.

“Look.”

My body turned slightly as our joined hands were pulled. When I looked back, he brought the back of my hand to his chest and pressed it firmly.

“Can’t you hear it? It’s beating so loudly.”

“……”

“I was talking about myself. Are you the same, hyung?”

His voice asking if I was the same as him was trembling finely with excitement.

“There’s a saying, you know. That it’s a miracle when someone I like likes me back.”

Jin Woohyeon, who had heard the sincerity I hadn’t spoken aloud, smiled brightly.

“I’ve caught a miracle then, right now.”