- Reunion
āIām back.ā
Hyeonjun greeted the empty house out of habit as he pushed open the front door. Just as he was about to let out a hollow laugh at his own reflexāwhat had he even expected?āhe noticed something unfamiliar. A pair of large menās dress shoes sat neatly by the entrance, polished to a mirror shine. He stared at them for a moment before shutting the door behind him and stepping inside.
The house was dark. The moment the door clicked shut, the faint light seeping in from outside vanished like a song cut mid-note. Someone was sitting on the living room sofa.
āSo youāre Hyeonjun.ā
āWho are you?ā
Hyeonjun didnāt move from the entryway, his voice flat. A man heād never seen beforeādressed in a sharp suit, legs crossedāsat there, watching him. Even seated, he gave off the impression of being tall. The faint, sickly-sweet scent of cigarette smoke clung to him, mixed with cologne. Hyeonjun wrinkled his nose. He hated that smellācologne tainted with tobacco.
āIām going to be your new dad.ā
Ah. So thatās who this is.
Hyeonjun didnāt bother asking why the man was sitting in the dark, TV off, no lights on. He kicked off his shoes and headed straight for his room.
āNice to meet you.ā
That was the last thing he said before slamming his door shut. He tossed his bag into a corner and flopped onto the bed. The manās faceāslick, smug, annoyingālingered in his mind. Not that it mattered. Heād be out of this house as soon as he got a job. A home was just a place to sleep, nothing more.
He lay back, scrolling mindlessly through SNS on his phone, thumb flicking downward. He didnāt want to think about the man outside his door. Unfortunately, there was nothing new to refresh. After a few failed attempts, he sighed and turned off the screen.
āFucking hell.ā
His mother was a woman of insatiable ambition. Always charging forward, never allowing herself to fall behind. Her life was a blur of overseas business trips and all-nighters. She was the kind of alpha leader who thrived in this eraābut sheād never been a good mother. Always absent, always gone. And his father hadnāt been able to handle it. He, too, had been chronically late, buried in overtime, a ghost in his own home. Not much of a father either.
Hyeonjun was used to coming home to an empty house. Shouting āIām back!ā into the void had become second nature. Heād spent his elementary, middle, and high school years alone. Then heād gone to collegeāsome unremarkable university that had clearly disappointed his mother. As if sheād ever cared enough to help him in the first place. Heād chosen a major with shaky job prospects, but he didnāt care. He just needed to get out of this house, as fast as possible.
He could still picture his fatherās face at the end of his senior year of high school: āWeāve raised you. Our jobās done. Letās get a divorce.ā And just like that, before the new year, his parents had stamped the papers.
Hyeonjun hadnāt mourned his fatherās absence. Heād stayed with his mother purely because she made more moneyāand because she was too busy to interfere. That was all.
Then, not long after, sheād announced she was remarrying. āGo ahead,ā heād said, though he didnāt understand why. What was the point of building a family? Sheād never cared for the comforts of one before. Maybe it was for tax benefits? Or maybe the new guy was filthy rich. Or perhaps sheād just met someone at work, someone whoād made the divorce papers easy to sign. Either way, she hadnāt bothered to tell him who the man was. Hyeonjun had only vaguely imagined someone tall, wealthy, impeccably groomedāa man who could satisfy his motherās appetites without a single flaw.
But now that man was here, materialized outside his door, and it made his skin crawl. The mere presence of another person in this space heād always had to himself was suffocating. He hadnāt even exchanged more than a few words with him, and already he disliked him. And that smellāthe cloying mix of cigarette smoke and cologneālingered, even with the door shut. It made his head throb.
Hyeonjun stopped thinking and closed his eyes.
***
āMmm⦠nnh, mphāā
āDeeper. You need to take it deeper in your throat.ā
Hyeontae pressed down on the back of his head, shoving his cock all the way into the warm, untrained mouth. The boy clearly had no experience with this. His skin was pale, like his fatherās, his hair a soft dark brown. At his age, he shouldāve been out having fun, not coming home this early. Hyeontae hadnāt expected him back so soonābut fortunately, heād already set everything up. Now, the boy who would soon be his stepson was kneeling between his legs, eagerly sucking him off.
āGood. Swallow every last drop I give you. Understood?ā
He thrust deep, sealing the boyās lips around his cock before unloading down his throat. Hyeonjun gagged, his body tremblingāHyeontae could feel it through his fingertips, the tip of his cock. The boy was completely naked, his pale nipples and neatly trimmed pubic hair on full display as he struggled to swallow. His eyes watered, his throat working, coughing up the excess cum and licking it from his hand. Easy to handle. Hyeontae smirked. This was going smoothly.
Twenty years ago, VR had been all the rageāvirtual reality touted as the future of adult entertainment, praised for its ārealism.ā Hyeontae had never bought into it. No matter how lifelike, virtual was still virtual. So heād spent his reckless college years obsessing over how to make sexual fantasies real. And now, after founding his own companyāofficially a cutting-edge materials firm, unofficially a frontāheād finally done it. The adult toy subsidiary was just the beginning. Heād combined proprietary materials and engineering to bring to life things people had only ever imagined.
And now, he was testing one of those products on his soon-to-be stepson. A special āhypnotic fragranceāāessentially a pheromone-based aphrodisiacāhad been dispersed throughout the house. Of course, it wasnāt some magic potion that would instantly turn someone into a sex-crazed zombie like in cheap novels. But if you understood human psychology, you could guide them there, step by step. And Hyeontae had done just that, starting with a strangerāthe boy whoād seemed wary of him at first. The results were astonishingly successful.
The deed was already done. No taking it back now. Might as well break him in thoroughly.
He pulled his cock out of Hyeonjunās mouth, slick with saliva. The dark, thick shaft bore the marks of a well-used toy. Hyeonjun, dazed, kept licking him like an obedient pet. His legs mustāve been numb from kneeling so long, but he didnāt seem to care. Right now, the only thing occupying his mind was licking this manās cock as well as he could.
āGood boy⦠youāre doing so well.ā
Hyeontae stroked his hair, pondering what suggestion to plant next. The cigarette-tinged fragrance filling the room was the hypnotic scent. Hyeonjun had fallen asleep breathing it in, which was why he was so disoriented nowāfar more so than before heād gone to bed. When heād woken up thirsty and stumbled out for water, Hyeontae had been waiting. A few well-placed wordsāsympathizing with his neglected upbringing, subtly breaking him downāand just like that, heād ended up on his knees, sucking cock.
āSo, Hyeonjun. Is there anything you want? Daddy can buy it for you.ā
Hyeontae could afford to spoil him a little. Naked, cock still in his mouth, Hyeonjun paused at the sudden question, thinking.
āUh⦠a⦠pet?ā
Heād always wanted one. But his mother had refusedāallergies, asthma, no timeāand heād never had the means to care for one himself. Heād promised himself that once he moved out, heād get a cat. Right now, his mind was simple, one-track. The words spilled out without hesitation.
Hyeontae had been expecting requests like a watch, a gaming console, a phoneāmaybe even a car. But this? He laughed, delighted. It was unexpected, and easy to grant.
āA pet, huh? Funny you should say that. I actually have a gift prepared for you. Why donāt you open that box over there?ā
He pointed to a small box beside the sofa. Hyeonjun obeyed, bringing it over and lifting the lid. Inside was a plastic container filled with something pink.
āA very modern, cutting-edge pet. No fur, so no allergies. Low maintenance too.ā
Hyeonjun stared at the rectangular container, baffled. What kind of pet was this?
āGo on. Open it.ā
When he did, the pink liquid inside sloshed out, dripping onto his skin. It wasnāt quite a liquidāmore like a thick, viscous substance. The moment it hit his body, it began to move, slithering and forming shapes as it crawled over him. It was the companyās latest product: artificial slime, designed for sexual play.