#11
“What? A pregnancy contract?”
“We need to finish writing the contract we started last time.”
Is it okay with Baek Cheonhui here? He was confused. In this situation, his lips also felt hot and burning. When he tried to rub his lips to calm down this heat even a little, Eun Sajun’s hand suddenly came out and stopped Yeoul’s action. It wasn’t simply holding hands – he even interlocked their fingers, wrapping around like a snare.
“Uh…”
Yeoul, flustered by the kiss followed by this deep contact, hunched his shoulders. But he couldn’t bring himself to shake off the hand.
“Haha!”
Eun Sajun’s eyes began to curve like crescents and he started giggling. That sound felt eerie and ominous. Yeoul widened his eyes, wondering what was really wrong with him. At the same time, Eun Sajun’s hearty laughter burst out loudly.
“Hahahaha! You’re really cute. I’m going crazy.”
He couldn’t understand what exactly was cute about himself. He felt confusion like being caught in a tsunami. Eun Sajun’s raised corners of his mouth, who had been laughing heartily, gradually came down. His slightly disheveled eyes also organized themselves again.
“Let’s make a contract with me right now.”
Though it was a bewildering situation, he felt relieved at his appearance of requesting the contract first. But one corner of his heart grew heavy.
“You already found an extremely dominant omega. Are you okay with this?”
“I can just pay that omega a penalty fee and break the contract, so don’t worry.”
Even a penalty fee?
“What? No, no. You don’t need to go that far.”
Yeoul felt like he was causing great trouble, so he pulled out his interlocked hand and waved it dismissively. Still, the stubbornness didn’t leave Eun Sajun’s eyes.
“The amount isn’t much, so you don’t need to worry. It’s a problem I’ll handle myself, so don’t think about it anymore.”
“Yes… I understand.”
Yeoul answered with difficulty. Thinking about it again, he realized that his momentary action of disliking causing trouble to others was foolish. Right now, he wasn’t in a position to be considerate of anyone. If something went wrong with Yeojin due to his misplaced sympathy, that would be troublesome.
Pull yourself together, Geum Yeoul! Now that he had successfully entered the tiger’s den, he just needed to find out the code. Since the tattooed area was in an intimate place, correspondingly seductive and burdensome situations would continue. That much more reason to finish quickly. And he thought he needed to control his anger well. This time, it happened because Yeoul was protecting Eun Sajun, so it could be packaged as self-defense, but it would be troublesome if anything more happened.
He thought he should restrain his violence as much as possible even if extreme situations came in the future.
Yeoul’s round eyes filled with strength as if facing a decisive battle.
“Now, get up.”
Eun Sajun, who stood up from his seat first, reached out his hand toward Yeoul.
“Yes…”
Yeoul also carefully grasped his hand tightly. It felt like they had made a contract. When he had fully stood up, Eun Sajun embraced Yeoul and hugged him tightly. His rough breathing gently tickled his ear. Eun Sajun’s chest against him seemed to be beating like performing music. So Yeoul felt even stranger.
How long had they been like that?
With the sound of an engine, a black sedan approached nearby. The car door opened and a bear-like, well-built man got out and ran over.
“CEO! Are you alright?”
At the sudden appearance of the man, Yeoul tried to escape from Eun Sajun’s embrace. But he didn’t easily release the arm that had been holding Yeoul.
“I’m fine. Nothing happened.”
The man also looked bewildered at Eun Sajun’s appearance but continued speaking.
“You suddenly left right after the meeting started, so the guests are looking for you now.”
Meeting? Yeoul recalled people going in one by one in front of Eun Sajun’s house earlier. It seemed Eun Sajun had come here while dealing with guests.
“Especially Baek Cheonhui-ssi was looking for you. It was difficult making excuses.”
It seemed Baek Cheonhui had also been there together. Yet he had come here to save him. Moreover, he had rejected Baek Cheonhui, whom he had already chosen as a pregnancy contract partner. Thinking about it again, a deep sense of debt grew at his excessive choice.
Eun Sajun showed no signs of difficulty even while receiving reports about the situation.
“Secretary Kim can wrap up the meeting well. I don’t think I can deal with more guests today.”
“Yes, understood. But what happened?”
Secretary Kim asked while glancing at Yeoul wrapped in Eun Sajun’s thick body.
“Right now in that building are the guys who participated in the Moscow operation last time.”
“What? You mean Jack and Chris? Why are those people here?”
“There was a somewhat complicated matter. I’ll explain in detail later, so please go and clean things up.”
“Yes. Understood.”
The man whose face showed tension hurriedly entered the building. Listening to their conversation, Yeoul could once again recognize the fact that Eun Sajun had been special forces. Looking at Yeoul lost in thought, Eun Sajun curved his eyes in a smile again and spoke.
“Then we need to write up the contract now, so let’s move locations.”
* * *
That’s how Yeoul boarded the back seat of the sedan that the man called Secretary Kim had been riding. Next to him sat Eun Sajun, while the driver’s and passenger seats were empty. Eun Sajun stared intently at Yeoul’s face. Feeling burdened, Yeoul slightly averted his eyes.
“I’ll need to shower first when I get home.”
“What? Ah…”
Since he had been rolling here and there while escaping, his current state must be a mess. Realizing this belatedly made him feel embarrassed.
Buzz.
At that moment, a vibration was heard. Yeoul was about to check if it was his phone when Eun Sajun took out his phone first.
“Ah. Just a moment. Let me take this call.”
“Yes. Understood.”
Eun Sajun immediately got out of the car. Left alone, Yeoul momentarily relaxed and exhaled. He felt both relief and burden at the fact that he had once again entered Eun Sajun’s boundary.
“Can I do this well?”
He was asking himself this question and lowering his head when his phone started ringing this time. The person who would contact him in this situation was obvious. Yeoul felt suffocating pressure as he took out his phone from his pants pocket to check.
<Did you meet Eun Sajun?>
As expected, a text came from Shin Taeon. Yeoul swallowed with difficulty and was about to reply when the phone even started ringing. At the same time, his heart sank. He couldn’t have a phone conversation here right now, so he hurriedly went outside. Snow was falling even more heavily. And Eun Sajun was nowhere to be seen, having gone somewhere. It wasn’t a bad situation to answer the phone right away. So he answered the phone in a corner behind a nearby tree.
“H… Hello.”
[How did it go?]
Shin Taeon’s low voice seemed to pierce his ears like metal.
“I met him.”
[And?]
“I was hired as a housekeeper. I’m supposed to move in starting today.”
He decided to hide the pregnancy contract from Shin Taeon. Right now, he held strong malice toward Eun Sajun. He might make other requests using the pregnancy contract as an excuse. For example, he might ask to find out why Eun Sajun was making a pregnancy contract, or use this reason to create new weaknesses and try blackmail – he might face such troublesome matters.
[You succeeded more easily than I thought?]
“……”
[Well, that’s fortunate. Do well. Finish it quickly within a month.]
“Understood. But… how is Yeojin doing now?”
This was currently the most important issue for Yeoul.
[I admitted him to a new hospital.]
“Wh-which hospital?”
[For now, just focus on finding Eun Sajun’s code.]
In other words, he wouldn’t tell Yeoul about Yeojin’s hospital room until Yeoul found the code. This made Yeoul’s heart even more anxious.
“Yeo-Yeojin is really safe, right?”
[Why don’t you trust me? Or should I really kill Geum Yeojin?]
“N-no. I’ll find out the code within a month, so please don’t do that.”
Yeoul’s eyes became moist in an instant and tears seemed about to burst, but he forced them down.
[That’s right, our Yeoul is good. Haha!]
Shin Taeon coaxed Yeoul as if teasing him. That seemed to tighten around Yeoul’s heart even more.
[Well, I have work to do, so I’ll hang up now. Ah. And you can’t let Eun Sajun catch you contacting me. Got it? And know that Geum Yeojin will be finished at the same time if that happens.]
At his threat, Yeoul’s chest felt stifled as if it had fallen into a gutter. He felt a strong obsession that he must accomplish this within a month. Yeoul returned to Eun Sajun’s sedan with a gloomy heart.
“Hah…”
A sigh naturally escaped due to his complicated feelings. But after barely pulling himself together, he opened the back door of the sedan.
“Where did you go?”
Eun Sajun was there, having finished his call before him. Yeoul was so surprised that he almost hiccupped but barely swallowed it.
“Oh, just… I had some business.”
Yeoul sat down awkwardly. Eun Sajun tilted his head and opened his mouth.
“Do you happen to have another man besides me?”
“What?”
He wondered why he was saying such things when they weren’t even lovers. Eun Sajun’s face came a little closer.
“Why are you so surprised? Do you really have someone you’re dating?”
“No! I don’t!”
Yeoul, who had never even had a one-sided crush, was what you’d call forever single. He also didn’t want to create unnecessary misunderstandings and complicate matters.
“If there was such a person, you couldn’t do the pregnancy contract.”
“There are quite a few omegas who do pregnancy contracts even when they have lovers.”
“Really? Is that true?”
“Because it’s not a relationship bound by love.”
“Ah…”
It seemed that way since it was ultimately a contract. That meant Eun Sajun also saw him that way. But then why did he kiss him? It was confusing. Moreover, treating acts based on affection as such work didn’t make sense to Yeoul’s sensibilities. If he were really an extremely dominant omega, he felt like he wouldn’t want to do such a contract.
Eun Sajun moved a little closer to Yeoul’s side. It was so blatant that it was suffocating.
“CEO? Do you have something to say to me?”
“Don’t call me CEO from now on.”
“What? Then?”
“Call me jagi.”
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
