Chapter 5
“…Ah.”
Eunsol was so surprised that he hastily stood up from his seat, only to clutch his thigh and awkwardly bend at the waist. After sitting in one position for a long time, the blood wasn’t circulating properly. As he suddenly moved, a tingling sensation spread from his toes upwards.
Unlike Eunsol, who blinked in confusion, Hyun-oh looked around the empty room with an indifferent expression.
“Didn’t Manager Kim tell you? I asked you to let me know immediately if you needed anything.”
“Well…”
He wasn’t used to asking someone for something, so he had just sat there without thinking much about it. In fact, he was so preoccupied with sorting out his thoughts that he hadn’t even noticed the state of the room. Eunsol bowed his head deeply, feeling a great sense of wrongdoing, unable to even think about straightening his numb legs.
No matter how much he bit his lip, he couldn’t turn back the time that had already passed. He felt miserable for not being able to properly express even one requirement.
“I’m not scolding you.”
At the sound of the voice, Eunsol cautiously lifted his head. The man looked at Eunsol for a while with an unreadable expression and then fully opened the half-open door.
“Come here. This place will be used again once the necessary furniture is filled in.”
Eunsol walked towards Hyun-oh as if mesmerized. Although his legs were still tingling from the restored blood flow, he didn’t stop. The gloomy atmosphere that had been lingering around him slowly faded away.
It was the first time they stood side by side. Even at a glance, he had thought he was very tall. As he got closer, the top of Eunsol’s head almost touched his shoulder, showing a significant height difference.
“Even if we’re married, shouldn’t we share a room? You can sleep separately if it’s uncomfortable.”
“Ah, no…”
Sharing a space with someone was not something he was used to. However, there was no way Eunsol would refuse Hyun-oh’s suggestion.
He had spent the whole day in the living room doing nothing, waiting to welcome him. But the end of the wait was a cold gaze. Because of that, Eunsol sat in the room given to him, suppressing his confused emotions.
His small heart, which had been hardened, began to beat faster because Hyun-oh had come to find him without forgetting him.
“Follow me.”
“…Yes.”
Eunsol turned his back first and followed Hyun-oh, who was heading towards the bedroom. The heartbeat in his ears was as loud as the broad back that clearly showed he was an alpha.
Finally, the bedroom door opened, and Eunsol cautiously stepped into the room following Hyun-oh. The refreshing scent of Hyun-oh’s pheromones, which he hadn’t felt much in other spaces, lingered faintly in the room. It felt like he had entered a forest, not a room, and the freshness spread throughout his body.
His toes reflexively curled up, but the tingling sensation hadn’t completely disappeared, so he clenched his fists until his nails left marks.
“Starting tomorrow, I’ll assign someone to you, so buy everything you need. First, clothes.”
An indifferent gaze swept down the clothes Eunsol was wearing. They weren’t the clothes Eunsol usually wore. The clothes he wore at home were mostly monochrome and label-less.
The clothes Manager Do gave him were similar to the ones Eunsol had worn in the hotel room when he first met Hyun-oh.
They weren’t as revealing as the clothes he had worn then, but they gave off a somewhat disjointed feeling from Eunsol’s youthful appearance.
Eunsol wanted to cover his eyes. His nape burned as if he wanted to return to his childhood when he believed that if his vision was blocked, others wouldn’t see him either.
“Since I’m going to wash up and come out, Mr. Lee Eunsol, you should do the same. Choose and wear whatever you want from the dress room inside the room.”
Hyun-oh headed to the bathroom attached to the room as if he had fulfilled his duty just by bringing Eunsol to the bedroom.
Every time he faced Hyun-oh, Eunsol felt like his mind was slipping away somewhere else. When he came to his senses, he was staring blankly in the direction where Hyun-oh had disappeared. Like now.
“First, find some clothes…”
Eunsol, who had been standing like a broken doll, struggled to recall Hyun-oh’s words and headed to the dress room.
“…What should I do?”
But the clothes inside the dress room all looked too expensive for Eunsol to touch.
If only Manager Do had given him something, he would have obediently worn it, but the situation where he had to choose for himself was confusing. His fingertips hesitated, touching the clothes hanging on the hanger, only to quickly retreat.
He also felt the pressure to wash up and wait before Hyun-oh came out. Eunsol eventually left the dress room empty-handed.
In the bathroom inside the room, water sounds were already coming out. Eunsol went into another nearby bathroom and washed his body.
“Haa…”
An unfamiliar sensation made his legs between his legs shrink. Just recognizing Hyun-oh’s pheromones made his body react on its own, making his vision dizzy. It was as if he was using someone else’s body, and he couldn’t control it.
After hurriedly showering, he took out the bath towel in the bathroom and wrapped it around his body. His straight neck and bony shoulders were fully exposed.
Under the towel that barely covered his body, the water that hadn’t been wiped off flowed down his thighs. Eunsol was so focused on the thought that he had to quickly return to the bedroom that he couldn’t bear to think about what he looked like.
With the clothes he had originally worn neatly folded and held in his arms, Eunsol hurriedly quickened his steps.
It was fortunate that the blood circulation returned to his body as he took a hot shower. Moving with his usual steps, Eunsol soon arrived at Hyun-oh’s bedroom.
“…Are you doing that on purpose?”
Hyun-oh, who had been patting his hair with a towel, stopped his actions and scanned Eunsol’s attire with his gaze. Hyun-oh was dressed in his sleepwear.
Hyun-oh, dressed in home wear rather than a suit, seemed to have a much softer sharp atmosphere. It was a contrast to Eunsol, who was still in his raw state.
“I told you to choose and wear anything from the clothes in the dress room.”
“Ah, that…”
What should he say? He was so dazed that even a simple answer was difficult.
Hyun-oh’s expression didn’t change, but Eunsol felt that his mood wasn’t very good.
If he had just said that the clothes looked too expensive to touch carelessly, it would have been fine. Those simple words were swirling around in his head without being organized.
When his large eyes were wandering around without finding a clue, Eunsol noticed that the alpha’s pheromones, which he had felt faintly, were getting closer and closer.
Eunsol was still standing at the doorway, so the distance between the two was quite far. However, because his legs were so long, the tall alpha quickly reached Eunsol’s side.
“If you’re doing this unintentionally, that’s even more dangerous.”
“Hueet…”
His wet fingertips tickled under Eunsol’s chin and traced his jawline up to his earlobe. Hyun-oh cupped Eunsol’s face.
A blush spread like a blooming flower over the small face held in his palm.
“You seem sensitive to pheromones too.”
Eunsol bit his lip until it turned white, trying to suppress the strange sound that was about to come out. His lips, which he had bitten several times, were already marked with teeth marks in places.
Hyun-oh’s gaze naturally flowed to his lips. Instead of the hand that had cupped his face, the other hand gently rubbed Eunsol’s lips, which were hot from the wounds.
“Um, over there…”
Eunsol whined like a puppy that needed to poop. He couldn’t remember the last time someone had touched his face like this, and he was so immune to others’ touch.
Hyun-oh was scary, but his warmth was welcome, and he had the conflicting thought that he wanted to stay like this. The pheromones he had felt since the first time he smelled them had made his rational thinking completely go on strike as he felt them up close.
Unable to bite his lips because of Hyun-oh’s hand, Eunsol clenched his hands. The clothes he had been holding in his arms were crumpled.
Regret that he should have just worn the clothes he had originally worn filled his heart.
“We need to change the way we address each other first. You can’t call me ‘over there’ in front of other people either.”
The hand that had been caressing Eunsol’s face for a long time suddenly fell away. At that moment, Eunsol thought of the name he had saved Hyun-oh’s number under, but he couldn’t bring that word out of his mouth.
“Call me Mr. Hyun-oh. I’ll call you Mr. Lee Eunsol outside as well.”
“…Yes.”
Eunsol called the word ‘Mr. Hyun-oh’ inside his mouth. It was awkward, but just by calling him without his surname, he felt a little closer to him.
His own emotions were changing in an unpredictable direction. Before the fluttering feeling completely disappeared, Hyun-oh suddenly became difficult, and then a throbbing resonance arose from inside his chest.
“Since we have to sleep anyway… it’s okay not to wear clothes.”
The gaze touching his body was vivid. Goosebumps rose all over his body, following the direction of his gaze.
A large hand grabbed his slender wrist and led him towards the bed. Eunsol hesitantly followed Hyun-oh’s steps.
The clothes he had been holding tightly in his arms fell to the floor like footsteps, following his steps.
“…Ah.”
He didn’t even blink a few times. But at some point, Eunsol was lying on the wide bed. As he lay down, the towel that had been barely covering his body moved upwards.
A hand whiter than the towel grabbed the end of the towel and pulled it down. But the towel had no elasticity.
As Eunsol wished, the towel covered his lower body, which had been about to be exposed, but instead, it revealed part of his lightly pigmented chest to Hyun-oh.
‘What should I do…’
Flustered, Eunsol pulled the towel to somehow cover his lower and upper body. If it wasn’t a delusion, Hyun-oh’s gaze looking at him seemed to deepen even more.
Hyun-oh, who had been standing still with Eunsol lying on the bed, moved in an instant.
The feeling of the mattress swaying below him, and a light shadow fell over Eunsol’s face.
Hyun-oh was looking down at Eunsol with his hand on the bed next to Eunsol’s head. Unable to bear the gaze he met up close, Eunsol tightly closed his eyes.
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
