December

“Did Song Yeonwoo Sunbae do something wrong?”

“None of your business.”

Suddenly a low voice interrupted. Even though it was just a lightly thrown voice, Dohyeong involuntarily shrugged his shoulders and became nervous. The one who spoke was the tall Alpha leaning against the wall. The other dominant Alpha sitting next to him smiled and turned to him.

“Kim Shin, be gentle. He is nervous.”

The handsome Alpha laughed along and pointed to Dohyeong.

“Call me if you find him.”

Dohyeong nodded, got up, closed the door, and went out when he heard the voices of the Alphas.

“Kim Shin, you are fucking savage. You’re going to drive the Raptor right into other cars.”

“I thought you bought the Raptor because you had somewhere to go but now it seems you bought it to drive into others. Haha, that’s nice. Shall I buy one too?”

Everyone snickered, but Kim Shin didn’t say a word or even laugh. He just followed Dohyeong with his eyes until he left. After this, Dohyeong rushed to the library as if his heart was running cold. It felt he would be in big trouble if he ended up finding nothing.

The idea of how much money he could make from this had long been out of my head. He needed to figure out something. Fortunately, there was someone who caught his eye. The Sunbae was famous for his friendliness and how talkative he was. Usually, he was an annoying chatterbox, but now he was more than happy to see him. Plus, he seemed to have important information. After returning to the club room a few hours later, Dohyeong spilled the information he learned.

“The Alpha Sunbae in question was two grades higher than Song Yeonwoo, but he was quite interested in Song Yeonwoo because he was a recessive Omega. That Alpha Sunbae had a foul personality, but he was only good to Song Yeonwoo. However, according to what the Sunbae told me, Song Yeonwoo Sunbae…”

“Name.”

Unlike before, the Alpha named Kim Shin was sitting across from the figure. Because of that, Dohyeong frantically went on and realized that he hadn’t said anything important. Ah, the Alpha’s name…Dohyeong gulped.

“His name is Cho Sungkyun, and he graduated the year before last. That Sunbae’s father is also an Alpha and quite respected military personnel. He was famous enough to appear on TV.”

The Sunbae who gave me the information was really talkative, so he talked about Cho Sungkyun’s father for a long time. However, Dohyung realized that he didn’t have to tell him everything he heard, so he shut his mouth. For some reason, it seemed that Kim Shin would be able to find out how many spoons there were in that house, even if he just gave the name.

“So?”

“Yes?”

“According to what the Sunbae told me, Sungkyun Sunbae is a dominant Alpha…”

“Stop it with the useless stuff.”

At the low warning, Dohyeong startled and shook his shoulders. He looked at him as if he had made a big mistake and opened his mouth.

“Ah, yes. From what I’ve heard, Song Yeonwoo Sunbae was uncomfortable with Cho Sungkyun Sunbae. But he received help a few times, and he pretended to be fine on the outside, but in reality, he was in trouble. At the end of the year three years ago, something happened. If Sungkyun Sunbae had called Yeonwoo Sunbae by himself, he would never have gone out, but someone called him.”

“At the end of the year? When exactly?”

“Yeah, um, I just heard it was the end of December.”

“…31st.”

Hearing a small murmur as if recalling the past, Dohyeong waited for a while. Then, after a while, he raised his eyes and asked.

“If not Cho Sungkyun, who called Song Yeonwoo ?”

It was clearly a calm voice, but Dohyeong didn’t know why he was shaking so deeply from the depths of his body.

“Uh, another Omega Sunbae. At the time, the only recessive Omega in that department was Song Yeonwoo and that Sunbae, so they said they were close. So I guess that Sunbae called him, he was relieved but he ended up being hurt.”

“How?”

“Spit it out.”

“I, I don’t know. Even the Sunbae who talked to me said he hadn’t heard the details from  Song Yeonwoo Sunbae. Anyway, Song Yeonwoo Sunbae suddenly disappeared and Sunbae  Cho Sungkyun went after him like a madman…The bastard whom he trapped for 10 months suddenly went AWOL so he went totally bonkers after that.”

Kim Shin did not respond. He wasn’t angry, he wasn’t frowning, but Dohyeong felt a chilling fear as if a sharp blade had landed down his neck. Even though it was clearly not his fault, he continued talking without seeing Kim Shin’s face properly.

“From what the Sunbae said, isn’t it obvious? What the Alpha did to that Omega…”

Still, he didn’t hear anything. But he couldn’t look up and face the person in front of him. He was just afraid. He thought he shouldn’t look at Kim Shin right now. As if time had stopped only in this space, no one could hear anyone breathing. He heard his voice as he barely swallowed his saliva as if he was walking on thin ice, pressed by an invisible force.

“Get out.”

Dohyeong quickly stood up as if he had been waiting. It was difficult to stay because he felt stifled inside there. Another Alpha followed him out and gave him cash, not noticing that he was warning him that their meeting was a “secret,” and only nodded his head. When the door closed behind him, he let out the breath he had been holding. Wow…What the hell was that?

There was nothing scary about what he experienced inside, but the chills didn’t go away easily. Belatedly, he realized one thing. Come to think of it, except for Kim Shin, the other Alphas didn’t say a word. It was as if he was holding their breath just like statues.

But aren’t they Alphas too? On top of it, they were dominant Alphas. Who the hell could hold down a dominant Alpha with such force? It must be his illusion of being frightened. Dohyeong shook his head and quickly moved his steps to get away from the building. Perhaps because he was in a hurry, he bumped into someone.

“Sorry.”

There was a person who followed me as he moved my foot, mumbling and running my mouth. When he was completely out of the building, someone grabbed Dohyung’s arm. Dohyung was surprised and turned around. Kangho held his arms tightly to prevent him from running away, showing his teeth and laughing

“What were you talking about inside?”

***

For an Omega, Alpha was the best partner to relieve their instincts, however, they were also the cruellest opponent because of the shackles of imprinting. Fortunately, Alphas could only i8mprint one Omega. The only way to unlock the imprint was for the opponent to die, so even Alpha hesitated to imprint unless they liked them back.

There are cases in which an imprinted Omega was deliberately killed to find a new imprinted partner, but the punishment for that was quite severe. Of course, the law was not for Omega. It was a sanction for the Alphas who wanted to prevent their opponents from diminishing, but thanks to that, they were able to prevent the imprinted Omegas from being killed endlessly.

Even with this strong law, imprinting was still regarded as a leash that could not be untied for life, but on the other hand, some Omegas wanted to be imprinted. The same was true of the people who came to a district library that day. They wanted to meet a good Alpha who would want to imprint them quickly and live a stable life.

So, he paid attention to his appearance from the morning when his friend informed him that an amazing Alpha had appeared in the library. Indeed, what the friend said was correct. To be honest, he was afraid to talk to him because he exceeded his expectations. But if he got rejected, he wouldn’t regret it.

So, the person approached him standing near the cafe on the first floor with a coffee in his hand. His heart was already thumping. But he couldn’t speak right away. He was checking his phone and talking to someone. However, the low voice speaking on the phone was somehow frightening even if that’s not the case at all.

“…Yes, I heard. They are both living their best life, it seems.”

He pushed his phone up with his fingertips and checked the data sent by the caller to his phone. He murmured.

“That bastard still hasn’t given up.”

Even though it wasn’t an angry voice at all, the man flinched and stepped back. For some reason, he didn’t feel like he was in the mood to confess right now. So while he was hesitating, the other put down his phone as if he had finished the call. The man tried to turn around but just rushed into popping a conversation because he thought he might not see him again.

To hide his trembling voice, he pressed his neck and spoke. The rehearsed sentences that he usually used to say to Alphas were unfamiliar this time as if it were his first time. Perhaps that was why, he had a few experiences of being rejected, but he had never been so shabby and shy as he was now.

Previously, he thought words were the most painful, but it wasn’t. There was nothing that hurt my self-esteem more than a single indifferent gaze. He turned around quickly as his face turned red at the glance which did not even give him room to talk to him. So embarrassing. His heart was still pounding, but unlike a while ago, it was beating loudly as if it was about to burst because he didn’t know what to do with the unpleasantness.

Wow, fuck, no matter how good you were…How could you date someone with that personality? Omegas were definitely seen as trash and a tool to relieve rutting. He walked huffing and puffing alone, but he turned around again in anger. His face hardened in surprise. He was walking, looking at someone near the entrance. However, the smile he directed at him was so unbelievably warm and bright.

***

Cho Sungkyun. The name was the only thing Kangho heard from the freshman who came out of the club room. The guy would never say what for, so he had quite a hard time reeling in even that name. Contrary to expectations, however, Sungkyun was not an Alpha. Instead, he was a dominant Alpha. Since this world was so small, Kangho was able to meet him and hear it first-hand. It was only two days after Kim Shin came to school. He wanted to meet him first and hear why. Why was Kim Shin looking for dominant Alpha? But it didn’t pay off at all.

“Kim Shin? Who is that?”

Sungkyun squeezed Omega’s head between his legs and squinted his eyes. Kangho explained in detail with a face that showed he was completely in the dark.

“A dominant Alpha, who is in the same class as me. His father is nothing special, but his maternal grandfather is a very rich man who owns most of the new towns that have recently been built. Kim Shin is also rich and since his mother passed away early, he inherited all the shares in his mother’s company.”

Kangho tried hard to explain, but Sungkyun was busy ejaculating into Omega’s mouth and making him moan. This club, where only dominant Alphas could enter, was where served all recessive Omegas to serve those who were going through their cycles. Kangho was familiar with this place, but he knew that it was not suitable for conversation.

The open interior was lined with sofas and tables as wide as beds, and most of them were full of people having sex like Sungkyun. So the pheromone mixed with the heat inside made his mind dizzy. However, Kangho was more interested in the words that came out of Sungkyung’s mouth than the Omega who was beside him, releasing pheromone and rubbing his body against him. Still, he asked him while fiddling with the clinging Omega’s body with his hands.

“You really don’t know Kim Shin? Then what about xx development?”

“Why the hell are you asking that?”

Sungkyun grabbed Omega’s hair and pulled him up, then sat him on his lap. Omega spread his legs wide and pressed on Sungkyun’s penis, screaming at the top of his lungs.

“Hng!So good!”

Sungkyun grabbed Omega by the waist and swayed him up and down, casting an annoyed look at Kangho.

“Why do you keep asking about Kim Shin?”

He’s looking for you. Kangho was about to explain in detail, but paused. If Sungkyun confronted Kim Shin and told his name, he would be screwed. When Kangho couldn’t answer, Sungkyun ignored him and focused on sex in earnest by moving his waist and bouncing him up.

Kangho took Omega to an empty sofa nearby because he couldn’t get an answer from him. Only then did the Omega hurriedly climb on top of him, thinking that he could relieve his heat. Kangho immediately frowned and pushed him roughly onto the sofa.

“Fuck, where are you going?”

“You want me to put it in quickly, huh?”

Kangho made him lie down, unbuckled his pants, and pushed in right away. He didn’t prepare anything, but thanks to the bodily fluids already flowing, his genitals went in without any resistance. Kangho moved his waist while checking the nearby Sungkyun with his eyes.

I’ll have to ask again after I’m done. Maybe, he knew the Omega Kim Shin was looking for all this time…

However, the plan was never carried out. The moans and screams that filled the room suddenly died down. Kangho was the first to notice this situation thanks to his rationality because he was not having his rut.

Maybe it was because he had experienced it once before. At the end of last year, the dominant Alphas in the school gathered and received Omega services at a club like this. Of course, it was a membership club that was much more luxurious than this place and no one could enter, but everything was the same as here.

At that time, the serviced Omegas were all great, so most of them were on their heat and just had sex like crazy. If someone booked a service as a group, they could do it with multiple Omega, but there was a downside. Omegas were attracted to those with stronger pheromones and only wanted to be with them.

No one knew this before. All of them were dominant, and they had never been influenced by anyone with pheromones. But Kim Shin appeared.

He just walked inside, and the Omegas all turned to him. All the dominant Alphas present at the time felt defeated. It was all the more so because Kim Shin was not even in his rut.

The silence now was similar to then. So Kangho instinctively felt a chill run down his spine and hurriedly lowered his upper body onto the back of the sofa. He stuck out his eyes like a crab hiding in a rock crevice, then hitched his breathing. It was really Kim Shin. He entered the interior at a pace neither fast nor slow but went straight to his goal without looking around.

The reason why Kangho lowered himself, even more, was because the place where Kim Shin stopped was Sungkyun’s seat. Sungkyun was still engrossed in sex holding the Omega sitting on top of him, only to realize the situation when the Omega suddenly disappeared. Kim Shin grabbed Omega’s arm and pushed him back lightly like a paper doll, looking down at him.

“You’re Cho Sungkyun, right?”