#31
Heavy silence circulated in the spacious office with jet-black walls contrasting with pure white marble. Eun Sajun was leaning back in his office chair with his eyes closed. His fine eyebrows, raised high, revealed sharp sensitivity.
-Knock knock
The door opened along with a knocking sound that cut through the silence. A woman with her hair neatly pulled up poked her head out.
“CEO-nim, you have a visitor.”
“Who is it?”
“Kang Hyeok-nim has come.”
“Ah… Tell him to come in.”
As soon as Eun Sajun’s order ended, the door opened. A man with his bangs swept up entered. He wore transparent glasses frames and was dressed in a gray coat.
“It’s really been a long time. Eun Sajun.”
“What do you mean really a long time, we saw each other two weeks ago.”
At Eun Sajun’s response, Kang Hyeok awkwardly pushed up his glasses frames and his eyes became round.
“Ah, right, that’s right. I went to treat that Omega who was bedridden with body aches. I’ve been so busy lately that I’ve been out of my mind. I even got body aches two days ago.”
“Why is a Dominant Alpha’s body so weak?”
“Maybe it’s because I’m thirty now. My body is different from before.”
Kang Hyeok was Eun Sajun’s childhood friend and currently worked as his personal physician. He had been called by Eun Sajun recently. He visited the mansion because Eun Sajun asked him to diagnose an Omega who was sick.
“Back then I also had other schedules and was too busy to notice, but what’s your relationship with that Omega?”
“I contracted with him.”
“What kind of contract?”
“Pregnancy contract.”
“Ah… You mean that thing where your father said if you won’t get married, at least bring home a grandchild?”
Kang Hyeok sat on the sofa while observing Eun Sajun’s expression.
“Until now, various extremely dominant Omegas have proposed wanting to make pregnancy contracts with you, but you rejected them all, so this time you must really like him? Well, I’ve dealt with many Omegas so far, but I’ve never seen an Omega with such fair and clear features. He really looked innocent.”
He had an excited expression as if watching an interesting spectacle. In contrast, Eun Sajun’s complexion hardened as he slightly lowered his cold eyes.
“I don’t know either.”
“You don’t know?”
Kang Hyeok stared at Eun Sajun as if looking at a monster. More precisely, his expression was asking what kind of nonsense this crazy bastard was spouting now.
“I need to observe a little more before reaching a conclusion.”
“Observe? What kind of bullshit is that?”
Kang Hyeok, who had been scolding him, soon had his pupils shake.
“Are you planning to do something trashy to that Omega right now?”
“Maybe.”
Eun Sajun gave a bomb-like answer, but he himself seemed to be wandering in a maze-like cave.
“By the way, is Song Hobin doing well at work?”
“Who is Song Hobin?”
“He’s my friend’s younger brother. He changed his career path while in medical school and prepared to be a bodyguard. I heard he got a job at your company this time.”
Eun Sajun furrowed his brow for a moment, lost in thought, then tilted his head.
“I don’t remember individual employees, so I don’t know.”
“Well, your company is pretty big. I’m not that close to him either, but originally he was majoring in Omega medicine like me. But I was surprised when he suddenly became a bodyguard.”
-Bzzing
At that moment, Eun Sajun’s phone on the desk started ringing. The name saved as Manager Park flashed on the screen. Manager Park was a middle-aged man currently guarding in front of the bedroom.
“What? Did something happen to the baby?”
Eun Sajun answered the phone in confusion.
[CEO-nim! There’s big trouble right now!]
“What’s wrong?”
[Larco’s subordinates have infiltrated the mansion right now.]
At his report, Eun Sajun’s complexion instantly hardened.
[How many have crawled in?]
[We estimate about four or five. We’ve sent the housekeepers and staff to the emergency exit.]
“What happened to the baby?”
[The baby is currently being guarded by a newbie.]
“What? A newbie?”
Eun Sajun roughly swept up his bangs as his eyes became sharp.
“You should be guarding, why did you assign that to some greenhorn?”
[It just… happened that way.]
“Fuck. I’m coming right now, so protect the baby properly!”
[Ah… understood.]
After ending the call, Eun Sajun urgently got up from his seat. Kang Hyeok’s eyes also widened as he witnessed this scene.
“Why? What’s going on?”
“You don’t need to know, I have to go out now so you go back to the hospital too.”
Eun Sajun was urgently grabbing his jacket to leave.
“He might get hurt…”
Muttering to himself, he seemed to think of something and turned his gaze back to Kang Hyeok.
“You come too.”
“What? Me too?”
“Yeah.”
“Why? What’s going on?”
Kang Hyeok’s eyes sparkled brightly as if he had discovered some interesting spectacle. Eun Sajun roughly explained the situation currently unfolding at the mansion.
“I might need you since we don’t know what could happen.”
“Are you worried about that Omega?”
“Yeah.”
“Well, he’s small and delicate, so he’d be perfect prey for terrorists.”
“It could be the opposite.”
At Eun Sajun’s statement, Kang Hyeok tilted his head.
“The opposite?”
* * *
Yeoul crouched on the floor, rolling his eyes around. He was currently taking refuge in the innermost part of the dressing room. And in front of the door was the young bodyguard who had dragged him to the bedroom earlier.
“Huff… huff…”
His face was full of nervous tension. The severity was such that even the pistol he was holding was trembling. Although he had a considerable build, to Yeoul’s eyes he looked like a frightened child.
“Um… you should just come here too.”
He seemed to be trying to protect him, but it looked like he would be attacked by the intruders instead.
“N… no!”
He tried to speak firmly, but his eyes were terrified with fear. Yeoul was dumbfounded. Perhaps reading the bewilderment in Yeoul’s expression, the bodyguard made a goat-like voice.
“Please trust meeee…”
“……”
Yeoul felt a headache coming on from his completely unreliable appearance.
It seemed like relying on that bodyguard wasn’t the answer. He looked around to see if there was anything that could be used as a weapon in case of emergency. But since it was a dressing room, most things were clothes, and there were only shoes or bags. There was a tie pin, but it didn’t seem suitable for subduing someone.
“Why are you doing that? Are you looking for something?”
The bodyguard approached curiously as Yeoul moved around busily. He couldn’t bring himself to say that he was looking for weapons because he couldn’t trust the bodyguard.
“No, it’s nothing much.”
“If there’s anything uncomfortable, please let me know.”
“There isn’t…”
“Yes. I understand… ah.”
The bodyguard suddenly sat down in place while answering.
“Why, why are you doing that?”
Yeoul’s eyes widened even more at his sudden behavior. The bodyguard seemed to know he shouldn’t be doing this and got up again.
“I’m sorry… It’s my first day on duty today, so I’m out of my mind.”
“Yes…”
“Unlike during training, I don’t know why actual work is so scary. But I will definitely protect you, baby-nim!”
“Ah. Yes… um. You don’t have to call me baby-nim.”
It was too embarrassing to make such a request with his own mouth.
“That won’t do. It’s CEO-nim’s order.”
He wondered what kind of order this was. It was at that moment when he sighed in absurdity.
Bang!
A destructive sound swept past his ears. Startled, Yeoul looked in that direction. The door panel shook and at the same time split along the wood grain.
“Huk.”
It seemed the intruders had finally found their way here. The bodyguard’s face instantly turned white as if bleached.
“Pl… please come behind me! Baby-nim.”
The bodyguard stood in front of Yeoul. He was definitely taller than Yeoul. He seemed to be well over 180cm and had a build, but tension could be felt from his hunched shoulders. Yeoul fell into a dilemma wondering if he should be protecting this newbie bodyguard instead.
Meanwhile, the door was destroyed like a rag and soon opened as if it would break. And three men in black military uniforms were holding machine guns. They wore goggles and masks so their faces couldn’t be seen, but tremendous intimidation could be felt.
The bodyguard was trembling even more, and Yeoul was also seized by extreme fear. But with the single determination that he couldn’t die here, he gathered his mental strength.
“So you were hiding here.”
The man who appeared to be the leader in the middle spoke. But his pronunciation was very slurred, so he didn’t feel like a Korean.
“Is the Omega who made the pregnancy contract here?”
They knew of Yeoul’s existence. Like Chris and Jack last time, it seemed the fact that Eun Sajun had an extremely dominant Omega by his side had spread among the terrorists.
“H… he’s not here.”
The young bodyguard answered while trembling. But they had already seen Yeoul behind the bodyguard and signaled to each other with their eyes. Then the man on the right suddenly aimed his gun barrel at the sky and shot.
Bang!
It was a truly threatening sound. Both the bodyguard and Yeoul sat down in place. And the men in military uniforms entered more boldly.
“Hey, kid. If you hand over the Omega with you to us, we’ll spare your life.”
“N… no.”
The young bodyguard came in front of Yeoul. He raised the gun barrel he was holding and pulled the trigger. But that bullet resulted in shattering a glass display case. At the same time, he suddenly collapsed, perhaps startled by the gunshot he fired. He had fainted.
“Huk!”
Yeoul’s heart beat rapidly. He couldn’t be dragged away like this. Wasn’t there anything that could be a weapon? He moved his eyes quickly, looking around. On the floor were pieces scattered from the shattered glass display case. Among them, Yeoul’s eyes caught the largest piece.
Soon the man in military uniform approached threateningly. And he grabbed Yeoul’s arm and twisted his body. At the same time, Yeoul stabbed the man’s neck with the glass shard.
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
