It had to be not. Kwon Taejung left the alley with an impassive expression as he recalled his last rut. As always, he used to visit the hospital because he didn’t want to get swayed by his uncontrollable hormones, so he used to get hormonal injections, he remembered.
That was about a month ago and it was not the time to worry about rut. But what was this? If that continued, he was going to end up being seduced by that kid. Ah, he really didn’t want to be involved with an Omega.
As Taejung was grounded, he ended up being banished to that place. If father saw him having excitement riding on interest towards a kid who was 12 years younger than him and how much of a mess he was up to, he would surely kick him out. Kwon Taejung didn’t know about anything else, but he was sure that his father was someone who despised people who couldn’t control their urges for simple pleasures.
When he recalled his father’s pissed off face, Kwon Taejung quickly shook his head. Without hesitation, he walked towards the parked car in front of the container.
No matter how he ran the gears in his mind, a kid who was 12 years younger than him wasn’t really his type, but his face was. So he simply lost his composure for a minute there and that was it. Kwon Taejung tried to console himself.
***
Kwon Taejung was lost in the thoughts of Yigyeom’s face most of the time. It wasn’t that he thought of his face just for the sake of remembering it. Whenever a chance popped up, he traced back to that face that was embedded in his mind. The problem was that he had so much time on his hands that he had no choice but to think about it.
Kwon Taejung had to stop the broadcast and on that note, impulsively, he went to find and meet Yigyeom. But nothing was going to change, if he regretted meeting Yigyeom.
It was because when he went to meet Yigyeom, under that streetlight, he saw Yigyeom being affected and panting because of his pheromones. He wanted to say that it was pretty seeing a face that was usually masked in cautiousness, overflowing with weak excitement. That face, it was all because of that face.
“Did you meet Yigyeom yesterday?”
“Huh?Oh….well.”
“Your face doesn’t look good. Did something happen?”
Something did happen. That face under that streetlamp was so fucking pretty, Kwon Taekjung like how he trembled as he was phased by his pheromones, even though he feigned to a beta. Ah, if that continued, he would cause trouble for the family and he felt sad towards his dad. Kwon Taejung smiled at Secretary Baek, who looked on edge.
“As I waited there, I wondered about what I was really doing there. Yesterday, after escorting you home, it was almost 9 but it was already a little past 11, by the time Yigyeom arrived. ”
“You waited for 2 hours?”
“Yeah. I just suddenly became aware of the reality…I thought about my office, the meeting room, and suddenly fuck, I really wanted to work.”
Of course, when Yigyeom appeared in the alley along with the sound of his footsteps, all of those thoughts disappeared. Secretary Baek glanced at Kwon Taejung whom he thought was being sincere, and nodded. Kwon Taejung thought it was enough explaining him that much.
“It’s a good thing.”
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“Did you talk about the broadcast?”
“No. If I say the moment I saw him, I would be turned down straight away. I just didn’t bring it up. I wanted to get close to him, get familiar with him. Only then, I can request or kidnap him or whatever.”
“Isn’t kidnapping and requesting totally different things?”
“Is it so? Ah, I don’t know. So less about that…Ah, what are we doing today? Can’t we start from tearing up the empty houses? If we keep staying here, time won’t pass. Yesterday, two hours seemed like two days. Before, one hour seemed like a day. That’s why we must live a busy life…”
Kwon Taejung, who had his head resting against the sofa, closed his eyes and once he thought he couldn’t take it anymore, sprung up from the sofa. Whenever he was inside the container, time especially didn’t seem to pass and it only became slower. No matter how he saw it, the bright red container was probably possessed with something.
“Ah, I’m sick of it. Jinwoo, let’s take a round outside and then go grab lunch.”
“Okay.”
When he stepped outside the container, a warmer air than yesterday brushed his face. He felt like the days were becoming warmer. Like that, taking a round of the neighborhood, 3 months would go by in a second. Even though time was comparatively quick in the world outside, the inside of that neighborhood was quiet and it was as if he was hit pause along with the lonely neighborhood.
As he came across the union members, he greeted them but Kwon Taejung eventually changed his track so that he wouldn’t have to meet them anymore. He walked along the alley he was familiar with the most. The green colored front door was still shut tightly today. In front of that, were the remnants of the cigarettes he smoked yesterday as the cigarette butts laid on the ground.
“Look at this. As I waited here yesterday, I was so bored that I started chain smoking…”
When he started to rub on the cigarettes with the tip of his shoes, the front door opened slightly. Kwon Taejung who was caught off guard, saw a random old lady coming out from inside the house.
“Oh my gosh! Good heavens!”
The old lady who discovered Kwon Taejung a beat late, was totally startled, clutching her chest. Kwon Taejung, who was surprised by her reaction, took a step back from the door.
“Who are you? What are you doing in front of someone else’s house?”
“Who are you Maám? Do you live here?”
“I came to prepare food for the old man, but who are you two?”
The old lady who looked cautious took a look at Kwon Taejung and Secretary Baek from head to toe. The old lady lifted the tray covered in roses before shielding her body with it.
“I am the new person-in-charge.”
“Person-in-charge? Ah, the people who moved in a few weeks ago?”
“Yes.”
Somehow the old lady looked very angry. Kwon Taejung gazed sharply at the woman, whose face looked like she had a lot of complaints up her sleeve. He didn’t understand why she was looking at him with such an attitude.
“No, but what are you doing in front of this house? Can’t you please leave them alone? You bothering them by surveillancing them…you came like this ….”
“Maám, do you know me?”
“Of course, I do. Why won’t I? You must be the same as those bastard from before.”
“I don’t know on what basis you are thinking of me like those guys from before.”
“No, can’t you know just by looking?”
“How would you know if you didn’t even meet me?”
Kwon Taejung couldn’t control his temper at those unreasonable complaints that were being said. Secretary Baek who was at a loss, seeing how things might escalate if there was a need, quickly went by Kwon Taejung’s side and politely greeted her with a bow.
“Hello, we are from Taesung Group and we came to manage the work that was left incomplete before. We are not going to treat the residents in a violent or inhuman way like it was done before, so please do not misunderstand.”
Kwon Taejung’s coercive and perverse personality contrasted with Secretary Baek’s soft way of speaking, for which the old lady looked at them with a softened gaze alternatively.
“Is that true? You are not the same as the previous management?”
“Of course not. We are the people who are here to assure that the things that happened do not happen again. If you have any kind of problem, you are welcome to the container and inform us about it.”
“…Well…it would be great if I don’t.”
There was still a sense of caution in the old lady’s eyes towards Kwon Taejung, who plunged his hands inside his pockets. Secretary Baek, in order to avoid that old lady’s sight, secretly tapped Kwon Taejung’s back.
Kwon Taejung took his hands out of his pocket and stood upright. To appease the uncomfortable atmosphere, Secretary Baek laughed and changed the topic.
“Do you prepare food for the old man everyday?”
“I feel sorry for the state this house is in. The old man unfortunately didn’t realize the way this world works, and was swindled of his relocation expenses and collapsed because of the shock. That’s why he was unable to leave the house for more than a year. His family is his grandchild, who just turned 20.”
At Secretary Baek’s question, as if she had been holding the urge to tell that story from before, without a breath she started to share the story.
“Since his grandfather is like that, since they have to pay off their dents, the kid goes to work in the morning and comes in at night. I should at least take his meals. Before…well, since he couldn’t ask anyone for help, he used to come in between his jobs and prepare his grandfather’s meals before taking off again. It was sad seeing that so…”
Kwon Taejung stared at the lady who seemed to be on the verge of crying and sighed sharply. If he would have come even 5 minutes late, he wouldn’t have met that lady. He thought that it was a pity that the timing was bad.
“It must not be easy. You’re amazing.”
“No, no, of course not. It’s the least I can do for a kid that works so hard to strive. Gosh, but I am still worried. “
Kwon Taejung, who wondered what there was to worry about again, heaved a sigh again and jabbed Secretary Baek in the back. Secretary Baek flinched as if there was nothing he could do, grabbed Kwon Taejung’s arms.
“The laundry house over there is where I stay but I will be moving by next month. But since there is no one to look after the old man, I was wondering what I could do. Thinking of Yigyeom, I could stay here until the end…but I can’t just decide that. My husband and my kid can’t leave on their own…”
Kwon Taejung, who thought that the old lady was rambling useless things again, stared at the front door, before darting his gaze at the old lady. He was interested now.
“Ah…you are leaving next month?”
“Yes. It’s a relief that I am finally leaving but I can’t sleep because I am so worried about Yigyeom.”
The old lady sigh was heavy that it could break the ground, Kwon Taejung who was looking at her raised his head and softened his voice contrasting the one before.
“Then, you must need someone to take care of that old man, right?’
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