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I quickly rushed over and grabbed his shoulder.
His condition seemed more serious than I expected, and as I lifted his body slightly, I saw his face was flushed.
Fearing he might have a fever, I placed my hand on his forehead to check his temperature.
“You don’t have a fever…? Just in case, let’s go to the hospital—”
“…Hnng.”
At the groan I heard while speaking, Siho froze.
Looking closer, it seemed less like pain and more like excitement.
Startled, I let go of his shoulder and took a step back.
“…Kim Seunghyun?”
This was the first time this had happened since I met him, so I was completely flustered.
Just as I wondered what to do, Kim Seunghyun, like someone having a fit, pushed me onto the small sofa.
Since the action happened while I was off guard, I helplessly fell onto it, completely vulnerable.
“Hey. What are you doing right now?”
“…Shit, I don’t know.”
“What? Sh-Shit?”
“What do you expect when you smell so good!”
Not only did he curse, but he also raised his voice.
I was bewildered, as in the novel, he was always portrayed as pathetic and mournful.
In real life, he had also only shown a delicate side, so Siho just blinked with a blank expression.
“Let’s just do it. Let’s fuck, today.”
As if he had lost all reason, he forcefully pulled up my shirt and ripped it off.
I quickly covered my bare skin, which had been unintentionally exposed, but he pressed his lips to my forearm and began to suck and kiss it.
“Hey! Kim Seunghyun! I’m Seo Siho! Snap out of it!”
I wanted to scream that I wasn’t the person he should be in heat for.
But he continued to suck on my skin and let out strange moans.
Listening to him made the hair on my back stand up.
“Are you having a heat? Is that why?”
“…Haah, Seo Siho. Just, please, shut your mouth.”
He must have given up on image management, as he tightly gripped my arm and scowled.
His ragged breathing and unfocused eyes were abnormal.
With the rising heat, he even ripped off the shirt he was wearing and threw it onto the floor.
“Both of us are undressed.”
“…Hey. What is seriously wrong with you? It’s scary.”
He wasn’t just anyone, he was someone I had met as a friend.
I had absolutely no sexual feelings for him, which made his actions feel even more chilling.
With his changed tone and the completely unmanageable situation, Siho struggled to get away.
“That’s not allowed.”
He climbed on top of me, giving me no gap to escape.
As my face turned deathly pale and I tried to push my body back, he grabbed my wrist and leaned his upper body toward me.
It was a clear invitation for me to touch him.
“Let’s do it. I’ll give you a fantastic time.”
“You’re seriously crazy, aren’t you? Let go of me!”
“Yeah. I’m crazy. Because of the smell you brought with you. That’s why I’m so aroused.”
“…The smell?”
Only then did Siho realize that the smell Kim Seunghyun was talking about was pheromones.
Since I had been with them until the morning, their scent must have rubbed off, and since I couldn’t smell it, I naturally wouldn’t have noticed.
That’s why non-Betas had been looking at me strangely or avoiding me on the way here.
“Snap out of it. That’s not my pheromone.”
“So what.”
“What?”
“It doesn’t matter whose pheromone it is when your body is covered in such a sexy smell. Why does that matter?”
Saying that only the present moment mattered, he rubbed his cheek against the back of my hand with a loosened expression.
Like a cat, he seemed to be marking me with pheromones.
Siho subtly pulled one leg out, looking for an opportunity.
Pretending to talk, I used the momentary lapse in his attention to get up from the sofa, but he grabbed my ankle.
Thud.
I fell, but I didn’t stop, scrambling toward the door.
“Just come closer.”
“If I do?”
“I’ll break off our friendship.”
“Go ahead. After I’ve fucked you.”
He pulled his red lips into a long, slow smile and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand.
Seeing his completely unfocused pupils and disheveled appearance, Siho wondered if he should just open the door and run out.
But my bare upper body was covered with marks left by Kang Taeyun and red marks left by Kim Seunghyun around my arms.
I didn’t want others to see them, but I also didn’t want the news to reach Kang Taeyun.
I began to dodge and run around, avoiding the charging Kim Seunghyun as much as possible.
“Ha. Why are you running away?”
“Are you asking because you don’t know?”
As Siho kept running, he noticed a spray bottle labeled “Deodorizer” among the scattered objects.
Since Kim Seunghyun said it was because of the pheromones, maybe if I sprayed this on myself, he would calm down.
I quickly grabbed the object, opened the lid, and began spraying it on my body.
I desperately sprayed the air and my body, thinking that if he still attacked, I’d have to knock him out.
Slowly, the life returned to his unfocused eyes, and his excited face visibly calmed down.
“…Kim Seunghyun?”
“…I’m sorry.”
“…”
“I’m truly sorry…”
Kim Seunghyun, whose mind had finally returned, rubbed his face roughly, seemingly realizing the reality of the situation.
Attacking a Beta was one thing, but the fact that he had almost raped his friend seemed to fill him with shame.
It was the moment I truly realized how terrifying pheromones could be.
“What on earth did I try to do to you… I’m sorry, Siho.”
“It’s fine. First, let’s get some distance and put our clothes on.”
Siho maintained a wary gaze and slowly approached where the clothes were.
Only after picking up my shirt and putting it on, did I pick up Kim Seunghyun’s shirt and throw it toward him.
“Put it on.”
“Don’t draw such a hard line. My mind is back…”
“I want to, but it doesn’t hurt to be careful.”
The incident had occurred just a few minutes ago, and my own shocked heart hadn’t calmed down yet.
I had almost lost my first time here, not to the three Dukes, but to Kim Seunghyun.
The fact that something like this happened with the complacent Kim Seunghyun was a tremendous shock to Siho.
Siho silently watched him dress and then scanned the messy studio with his eyes.
“I’ll clean up. You’re a victim too.”
All of this was the fault of the three men who had drenched me in their pheromones.
Suppressing the feeling of resentment, I bent down, but Kim Seunghyun sighed with an exhausted face.
“No. I’ll do it. Just sit down.”
“…”
“I won’t touch you… You know my reason for losing my mind was the pheromones. You don’t have any smell on you now.”
Saying the deodorizer worked well, he went to the mini-fridge and pulled out a strawberry milk.
I flinched and trembled at his approach, but he threw the milk to me with an apologetic face.
He told me to get a straw from the side and drink it myself, then leaned against the shelf.
“Who on earth are you meeting?”
“…Why?”
“The pheromone coming from you was explicit. There was a defensive pheromone, but also a sexual one… it drove me crazy. It was so sweet, I felt like it could melt everything.”
Like someone who had seen dreams and fantasies, he began to explain the pheromones with sparkling eyes.
His face softened into a delighted smile just thinking about it.
Then, sensing something strange, he spoke to me with a firm expression.
“It was an Alpha Prime pheromone. There aren’t many people with that type… and the scent is familiar… Don’t tell me.”
“…”
“The campus heartthrob you were stalking?”
Siho didn’t deny it and just tore open the milk carton and inserted the straw.
With a troubled expression that suggested he couldn’t answer, he sipped the milk.
“What happened? What is this tremendous pheromone? You should consider yourself lucky that people didn’t attack you on the way here! It’s a scent no one could resist otherwise.”
That must be why Kang Taeyun assigned me a bodyguard, I thought.
The problem was, who was the owner of that explicit pheromone?
“If you smell a pheromone, do you know who it belongs to?”
“Of course. The strong rose scent felt sexual. It must be Yoo Joohwan.”
“…Yoo Joohwan?”
“I don’t know for sure, but according to rumors, Yoo Joohwan’s scent is roses. Since he’s an Alpha Prime, he always keeps his pheromones contained, so very few people have smelled them.”
“I see.”
Siho nodded, thinking that the rose scent suited him well.
He recalled the flamboyant image of Yoo Joohwan and became curious about the other two.
“What about Moon Dowon and Kang Taeyun?”
“I don’t know much about them. They don’t get angry. They don’t really show emotion much, do they? They control it well.”
And I had been drenched in such pheromones.
Kim Seunghyun had somehow approached me and was looking at me with curious, sparkling eyes.
His face was full of curiosity, making Siho feel inexplicably guilty.
‘These three Alphas were originally supposed to be yours,’ I whispered to myself inwardly.
I sighed at my confused feelings and changed the subject.
“You were really scary. Is that your original personality?”
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