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A thirst rose, making his lips constantly dry and his mouth rough.
Around the time the feeling of his mucous membranes drying up became unpleasant, Shin Joowon deliberately pressed his lips lightly against Yooha’s neck and pulled them away.
“Ah, sorry.”
Pretending it was an accident, he withdrew his body and scanned Yooha’s expression.
The bright red face was frozen stiff with embarrassment.
Just as he was about to regret thinking his action had been too hasty, Shin Joowon drew a satisfied smile on his lips.
Yooha’s pheromones, which had grown thick before he knew it, began to gradually fill the interior of the car.
Shin Joowon, who unknowingly smacked his lips, carefully but with a strong grip grabbed Yooha’s wrist.
The sight of Yooha, at a loss for what to do and repeatedly biting his lower lip, entered his vision entirely.
Because of that, the lips, which had turned red, became a tremendous visual stimulus.
He felt that if he were to take those lips into his mouth and kiss him deeply, it would taste sweet enough to make his vision turn white.
It felt as though the scent of sweet, ripe fruit to the point of bruising, which was hidden beneath the common flower fragrance, would become even clearer.
“Yooha.”
“…….”
“If you don’t like it, you can push me away.”
He couldn’t hold back.
No, he had already held back for far too long.
Perhaps ever since the day he first noticed Yooha’s pheromones and realized that an Omega’s pheromones might not feel so bad, he had been suffering from this impulse all along.
Shin Joowon, whose patience had run out, approached closer to Yooha, who was bound by his seatbelt and unable to move.
As soon as he tilted his head slightly, he overlapped their lips.
The moment their lips firmly met, Yooha’s body shivered.
Shin Joowon, who kissed him lightly several times as if seeking permission, quietly looked at Yooha, who showed no rejection whatsoever.
Yooha was merely blinking his eyes several times in embarrassment.
When Joowon gently stroked the fluttering eyelashes with his thumb, Yooha closed his eyes.
At that submissive appearance, an inexplicable heat began to boil within him.
His sliding hand cupped Yooha’s cheek.
He overlapped their lips again, but this time too, Yooha did not push him away.
Swallowing a vulgar curse that threatened to leak out without tact, Shin Joowon pulled and bit Yooha’s lower lip several times to create an opening to slip inside.
“Hng… haaa…….”
As his tongue slipped inside and gently touched every corner of his mouth, a groan echoed from Yooha’s throat.
However, Shin Joowon did not back down and dug even deeper.
In his heart, he wanted to suck hard wherever his lips touched, thoroughly sweep through with the tip of his tongue, and chew gently with his teeth.
He felt as though his mind had completely turned at the sweet saliva that resembled the pheromones.
He couldn’t tell if it truly tasted sweet or if his sense of smell had been hijacked by the pheromones, but he felt insanely good.
“Huu… f*ck…….”
He pulled back for a moment, thinking Yooha couldn’t breathe properly.
Shin Joowon, completely forgetting that he had to suppress his nature at the pleasure that had grown thick enough to turn his vision white, gritted his teeth and let out a short curse.
Fortunately, seeing Yooha panting for breath without even being able to open his eyes properly, it seemed he hadn’t heard the sound.
Although he gave him a moment to breathe, he didn’t have the leisure to wait for him forever.
Shin Joowon devoured Yooha’s lips even more boldly.
He crushed and chewed those lips, which had become hotter and softer than moments ago, tasting them continuously as he pleased.
Even though they were pressing their lips together and mixing their tongues, his thirst wouldn’t easily slake, making it impossible to let Yooha go.
One saving grace was that Yooha’s body, which had been rigid the entire time, had relaxed slightly.
Shin Joowon toyed with Yooha’s neck, touching every corner of his inner mouth.
The wet and soft texture came to him as quite pleasant, gradually heating his body temperature.
Within the air of the enclosed car, Yooha’s pheromones had dissolved before they knew it.
Although the intensity was weak to the point of being unable to match a Dominant Omega, that rather teased him.
Unlike the unique scents that made his brow furrow, and unlike the nauseating fishy scents, Yooha’s pheromones, far from bringing aversion, were addictive enough to make him want to keep feeling and tasting them.
‘f*ck, to think I’m the only one who noticed this pheromone.’
‘Probably no one but me will ever notice it for the rest of his life.’
At the fullness that filled his chest, the corners of his lips kept twitching.
“Haa… hng…….”
Shin Joowon pulled his lips away around the time his mucous membranes, which had been rubbed intensely, felt numb as if paralyzed.
Yooha was breathing rapidly, taking in deep breaths as if he finally had a breathing space.
Although he wanted to slip between those parted lips once more, he decided to stop because if he did any more, Yooha looked as if he would pass out.
Shin Joowon, who brushed his own lips roughly with his thumb out of regret, quietly stared at Yooha’s flushing cheeks.
He harbored the absurd thought that those cheeks would taste sweet even if he bit them.
Yooha, who felt the intense gaze looking at him, began to scramble as soon as his breathing calmed down to some extent.
It seemed his reason had finally returned.
“Ah… I, I… should go… th-thank you for, d-driving me….”
Shin Joowon, staring intently at Yooha, who hurriedly unbuckled his seatbelt and moved so busily it would make anyone dizzy, burst into a small laugh.
When Yooha, flustered because the door wouldn’t open, turned back to look at him while letting his eyes dart around, a laugh loud enough to shake his shoulders burst out.
Because Jin Yooha was so amusing, and because watching Jin Yooha was so enjoyable, he kept laughing like a crazy person.
Only after a long while did Shin Joowon press the button near the armrest to unlock the doors.
Yooha, who was flustered enough to make even the whites of his eyes turn red, hurriedly opened the door and stepped outside.
Yooha, who tightly clasped his bag against his chest as if it were a treasure, bowed deeply toward Shin Joowon before closing the door.
Because that appearance seemed like a facet of the needlessly polite and sincere Jin Yooha, a laugh close to a sigh leaked out once more.
Shin Joowon lightly waved his hand at Yooha.
Yooha opened the gate, which had all its paint peeled off, and entered the old multi-family house.
Shin Joowon couldn’t take his eyes off Yooha’s retreating back, which carried a sense of bewilderment, and only after a long while did he look away, thumping the back of his head slowly against the headrest.
“f*ck…….”
Heat gathered below his navel, and the muscles of his entire body contracted as if someone had tightly squeezed them.
He wasn’t unaware of the cause of this dizzying feeling that made even his fingertips feel tingly.
Even when he hit the headrest with his head with force, the heat wouldn’t easily calm down, causing a hollow laugh to escape.
Shin Joowon let out a long sigh, stepped on the accelerator aggressively, and left the dilapidated neighborhood.
The subtly lingering pheromones, the hot lips, the texture of the tongue he wanted to keep tasting, the fluttering eyelashes, the embarrassed face, the trembling voice, and… even the smile he had drawn on his face while telling him not to feel sorry.
At everything about Jin Yooha, his cock became violently erect as never before.
It was proof that even his instincts were reacting.
Yooha, who had barely finished organizing the books, caught his breath for a moment and pressed his tingly hands.
At a time when the weather had warmed and cherry blossom buds were unfolding their petals one by one within the campus, Yooha’s hands were as cold as if they were in the dead of winter.
They were so cold they even felt sore and painful.
Now, even his stomach began to churn.
Yooha, who had taken a seat in a corner of the first-floor reading room, took deep breaths and patted his chest.
However, his tight stomach wouldn’t easily calm down.
Rather, as time passed, it only became more uncomfortable.
‘This is strange… it’s not time for my heat cycle to come yet…….’
Yooha took out his phone, executing his calendar app while biting his lower lip.
Today was the 8th.
Considering his heat cycle began once every two months, usually around the 22nd, it was far too early.
His hands and feet turning cold, and his stomach churning as if he had indigestion.
These two were Yooha’s typical pre-heat symptoms.
Usually, the heat cycle began a day or two after the pre-heat symptoms appeared, so for his condition to show such a decline already made no sense.
The dates had never once been off until now.
Although he thought it might rather be better to get it over with early since the scheduled heat cycle date overlapped with his exam period, on the other hand, he grew worried that his health had taken a turn for the worse.
Even though his doctor in charge had told him to exercise, eat well, and manage his health, Yooha hadn’t been able to practice a single thing.
He still lacked the time and physical strength to exercise, and because he was saving money, it had been quite a while since he had gotten by on cup noodles or triangular kimbap for lunch.
“…….”
Yooha worried for a moment, then searched for his doctor’s phone number in his contacts list.
It was a number the doctor had personally saved in Yooha’s phone, telling him to contact him if his health suddenly deteriorated or if a pheromone problem arose.
However, because he had never experienced a pheromone problem, nor had his cycle warning signs ever appeared this early, he had never contacted him before.
‘Should I ask…?’
Yooha worried, rolling his phone in his hands.
The faces of the people who would worry more than anyone if his health failed surfaced in his mind one by one, making his heart heavy.
His aunt, uncle, and even Woo Tae.
To avoid causing them worry, Yooha had to remain healthy.
At the very least, he had to pretend to be fine.
“Yooha-ssi, is your work all finished?”
“Ah, yes… it’s finished.”
The moment he resolved to call later, the librarian approached and asked.
When Yooha quickly put his phone into his pocket and stood up, the librarian waved her hands.
Soothing Yooha, who looked ready to search for work immediately, the librarian added words of concern.
“I didn’t ask because I have work for you to do, but because your complexion looks too pale today. Are you sick somewhere?”
“Ah… no. I’m fine.”
Yooha unknowingly felt his own face, then showed an awkward smile.
It seemed his hands and feet weren’t the only things cold; even his complexion had turned ghostly pale.
To the point where it was visible even to other people’s eyes, it seemed there was indeed a problem with his body.
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