Yoo Joohwan just poked his cheek, saying it was only that much.
As if on cue, Moon Dowon pushed the tray aside and set the apple plate on the table.
“Set it up sometime this week.”
“How about we all meet with Taeyun this time? We have to meet sometime.”
Yoo Joohwan was beaming as he picked up an apple slice.
Even though it was a meeting he wanted, Siho felt uncomfortable.
“He’s an Omega, you said. And a superior Omega at that.”
“That’s why he latched onto Seo Siho. He knows how to pick people.”
Yoo Joohwan lightly replied to Moon Dowon’s words and let out a chuckle.
Although the topic of conversation revolved around him, it wasn’t pleasant.
Thinking of Kim Seunghyun, who reacted to pheromones, he guessed they would have the same reaction.
As his emotions churned, he bit his lip out of habit, and Yoo Joohwan took out his phone.
“It’s Kang Taeyun.”
Yoo Joohwan immediately answered the call where he was sitting and spoke to Kang Taeyun.
From the content, it seemed like he was asking to meet.
Sure enough, Yoo Joohwan hung up and spoke to Moon Dowon.
“He wants to see us for a bit. With you, too.”
“At this hour?”
Moon Dowon’s brow furrowed slightly, apparently displeased that Kang Taeyun called them after leaving without a word earlier.
“That works out well. I had something to tell him about Kim Seunghyun anyway.”
Yoo Joohwan showed his positive side and started clearing the table.
He sat Siho down and finished the tidying himself, even when Siho tried to help.
“I was planning to stay with you today. But as you can see, the situation is like this, so I can’t.”
“It’s okay.”
“I’ll definitely be with you tomorrow.”
Yoo Joohwan said resolutely and then left the entrance with Moon Dowon.
It was only after the door closed and silence settled that Siho realized he finally had some breathing room.
However, he remembered Kang Taeyun’s instruction to come to the officetel once the two men left.
“…If Yoo Joohwan made an appointment, does that mean I don’t have to go?”
Thinking he could be alone tonight, he went to the bathroom to wash his tired body and was drying his hair with a towel, intending to go to bed early after an active day, when knock, knock a knocking sound came from the door.
“…Who is it?”
“It’s me. Noh Gontak.”
His fingertips trembled at the unexpected visitor.
He asked him to wait a moment, quickly changed his clothes, put the towel in the basket, and opened the door.
It felt like there were a lot of visitors to the house today.
“…What’s going on?”
“The Young Master instructed me to bring you.”
“I thought he had an appointment with his friends.”
“The Young Master is at the officetel.”
At the word “officetel,” a small, involuntary laugh escaped through his teeth.
The phone call was meant to get Yoo Joohwan and Moon Dowon to leave from the start.
Seeing that he even sent away the familiar Noh Gontak, it seemed like a consideration for him.
“…I understand. I need to get ready, could you wait a moment?”
“I apologize, but I was instructed to properly attend to you right beside you—”
“I’m not going anywhere. I’m just going to change my clothes. I can’t go like this, can I?”
He closed the door, suggesting a neat outfit would be better than his stretched-out clothes.
He knew that someone else was watching him even if he tried to escape Noh Gontak’s eyes, so he had no intention of doing anything reckless.
He didn’t want to add fuel to the fire while Kang Taeyun was still angry.
The only problem was that if an emergency occurred at the officetel, he had no means of escape.
“Why does the comment about having to crawl out bother me so much…”
To make matters worse, his phone was broken, so he had no way to contact anyone else.
He lightly shook his head, clearing his complicated thoughts, and took out his clothes.
Noh Gontak expertly pressed the elevator floor button. It was the top floor.
“You live on a high floor.”
“Because it’s the Young Master’s building.”
A young age and an expensive building.
He knew all three of them were from top-tier chaebol families, but Kang Taeyun seemed to be pursuing secret, separate businesses unlike the others.
When he looked at him, he had the distinct feel of a businessman rather than a college student, and Yoo Joohwan and Moon Dowon also didn’t seem to be diligently pursuing their college lives.
‘I don’t think they wouldn’t know that I’ve taken a leave of absence…’
Or perhaps they knew but weren’t saying anything.
It seemed they wanted him to be in a secure space where he didn’t socialize with others and where the three of them could come and go.
“We have arrived.”
Noh Gontak, who had stepped out of the elevator, motioned toward the hallway, moving to the side.
It seemed he wasn’t planning on accompanying him further.
“You can go alone from here.”
“…Why?”
“Because it’s a place we should not set foot in. Well then, I will be leaving.”
Noh Gontak briefly bowed and got into the elevator he was holding open.
Silence fell in the hallway due to Noh Gontak’s swift departure.
He understood why Kang Taeyun had given him the key card.
“It meant I should open the door and walk in myself…”
Shaking off his confusion, he walked down the hallway made of smooth marble.
The sound of his footsteps echoed in his ears.
He felt a chill, like a small animal entering a tiger’s den.
Perhaps he just couldn’t smell the pheromones, but it felt like this hallway was filled with Kang Taeyun’s pheromones.
Alphas and Omegas often didn’t bother to contain their pheromones when they were at home.
“…Haa. Why am I so scared.”
He slumped his shoulders and let out a long sigh.
When he reached the door, he took out the key card and brought it close, and a beep sounded.
He grabbed the long doorknob and opened the door, and the inside of Kang Taeyun’s home came into view.
‘It’s dark…’
Contrary to his expectation that it would be brightly lit given the late hour, the inside of the house was dark.
He took off his shoes and followed the faint light, and he saw Kang Taeyun.
“You’re here?”
Kang Taeyun, who greeted him kindly, was sitting on the sofa with his legs crossed.
He wore an ivory-colored shirt and comfortable pants.
He held a wine glass in one hand.
It seemed he had been drinking.
Even just sitting on the sofa with the splendid night view behind him, Kang Taeyun exuded an intellectual aura.
Perhaps because his face was the closest to his ideal type among the three, even the sight of him drinking looked like a model.
“…Yes. Joohwan said he had an appointment with you. Is it okay to be doing this?”
“It seemed like it would take a long time, so I told a white lie.”
“…”
“It’s too late, Siho. I was considering having to come and bring you myself, as I was bored.”
In contrast to the sight of him leisurely swirling the wine glass, Kang Taeyun’s eyes shone like a beast.
His gaze slowly scanned him from head to toe, as if to devour him, and Siho instinctively flinched.
“Is it, isn’t it dark?”
“Do you prefer it bright?”
“…Perhaps?”
“I didn’t know. I did this as a courtesy for your first time here.”
Kang Taeyun put down the glass he was holding and picked up a small remote control nearby.
Capable of adjusting the lighting, Kang Taeyun made the current lighting brighter.
“So, did you have a good conversation?”
Kang Taeyun naturally picked up the wine glass and took a small sip.
Since he kept being made to stand, and Kang Taeyun didn’t offer him a seat, Siho awkwardly turned his gaze toward the table.
“It was just… the same, I guess.”
“Really? Then why are you avoiding my gaze? Were you doing something illicit behind my back?”
“Illicit, you say. I just ate an apple.”
He looked directly at Kang Taeyun and offered the excuse out of a sense of being wronged.
As if he had been waiting for it, Kang Taeyun smoothly curved his lips and smiled gently.
“I wish I could believe you. You told me to give you a month, but you were doing everything behind my back.”
“…What are you talking about?”
“Joohwan had his cock sucked by you, and you had your hole penetrated by Dowon, didn’t you?”
“…”
“They say you swallow well. Both up and down.”
This was it. The real reason Kang Taeyun was angry.
Since he was pushing him away while secretly doing sneaky things behind his back, it was understandable that Kang Taeyun was exasperated.
However, the situations were brought about that way, and those were acts performed instinctively as he followed the atmosphere.
As he bit down on his lip, Kang Taeyun set his glass down.
“That works out well. I wasn’t planning on letting you go easily either.”
When he nervously glanced at the entrance he had come through, Kang Taeyun only narrowed the corners of his eyes with a cold gaze.
“It’s no use leaving. The elevator on this floor doesn’t move without my permission.”
Kang Taeyun kindly explained that it had been designed that way from the start.
Just as he was having the reasonable suspicion, ‘Did he break my phone knowing this?’, Kang Taeyun tossed a photo onto the table.
“A photo I couldn’t even take. You took it affectionately with Kim Seunghyun, didn’t you?”
It was the photo Eun Dong-hoo had taken at the end.
The photo, taken with Kim Seunghyun close to him, looked like they were intimate friends to anyone who saw it.
“You have a lover, is it okay to be this close?”
“This, I didn’t know it was being taken…”
“Do you know that statement makes me even angrier? You call Kim Seunghyun just a friend. Were you always this close whenever you met?”
