Chapter 39

It was nearly three in the morning when Yu-gyeom finally decided to head home. Tragically enough, his sweet baby Kwon Rian had masturbated to exhaustion and fallen asleep, sobbing his eyes out about missing his brother.

Yu-gyeom had monitored the boy’s every move on the screen without missing a beat. He knew all too well what Rian feared most.

What Kwon Rian found most unbearable was the thought of Yu-gyeom suddenly vanishing. Having lost his parents at a young age and been left alone in the world, Kwon Rian was terrified above all else that Yu-gyeom might abandon him and disappear too. And though he felt somewhat sorry for Rian, Yu-gyeom often utilized that exact tactic whenever disciplining him.

Should I just not go home at all today? Yu-gyeom had contemplated it, but watching the pathetically sleeping Rian on screen made it simply impossible… completely impossible to stay away.

“When he makes me this fucking hard, how could I…?” Yu-gyeom muttered to himself.

Looking at that completely naked, porcelain body flushed rosy pink like a simmered chicken… how on earth could he be satisfied enjoying this only through a screen?

In the end, Yu-gyeom raced home like a bullet. And now, he stood looking down at Rian, who had fallen asleep from exhaustion without a stitch of clothing on.

The faint dawn twilight was creeping into the living room. Somber, bluish air settled over Rian’s bare frame.

Scattered around the pitifully sleeping boy were the clothes he had stripped off in his frantic hurry.

Yu-gyeom looked down at the mess, murmuring under his breath, “So careless…”

Though his words were critical, Yu-gyeom’s expression was nothing but gentle. In truth, he wanted to thoroughly discipline him for breaking curfew, meeting friends without permission, and drinking alcohol, but they could resolve all of that through a proper conversation once Rian woke up.

Yu-gyeom knelt before Rian and admired his body for a moment.

He had grown up so well. Even as a child he had been fair-skinned and adorable, but since manifesting as an Omega, his appearance and aura had taken on a bewildering, deeply erotic beauty. If Kwon Rian had been thrown out into the harsh world alone without parents, could he ever have grown up so delicately?

Yu-gyeom took pride in the fact that the boy had flourished into such a lovely creature precisely because Yu-gyeom had sheltered and pampered him like a flower in a greenhouse.

Hairless skin and that most secret, thrilling female sex organ—flawlessly soft and indecent as white jade—held a charm in striking contrast to his boyish face.

Yu-gyeom leaned forward and buried his nose directly into the sleeping boy’s hairless pussy.

“Huum…” Yu-gyeom hummed softly.

Then he drew in a deep breath. The lingering scent of Rian’s pheromones seeped deep into his lungs. It was electrifying, sending a jolt so intense it felt as though all the blood in his body were rushing backward.

Yet something was wrong. Why…

“Does he smell like another bastard?” Yu-gyeom growled under his breath.

He had intended to forgive the boy reasonably, but Yu-gyeom’s expression froze in an instant. This wasn’t the smell of alcohol… nor was it Rian’s own pheromones. An impurity was mixed in.

Yu-gyeom knew Rian’s scent intimately. Rian had claimed he only went drinking, but had he done something else? A creeping suspicion flared from the deepest corners of Yu-gyeom’s heart.

Cold, chilled eyes glared fixedly down at Kwon Rian’s reddened pussy. That terrifyingly frigid expression bore no resemblance to Yu-gyeom’s usual self. Completely unaware that Yu-gyeom was glaring at him, Rian remained sunken deep in sleep.

From Rian’s body drifted a tangled blend of thick, sweet pheromones, the scent of alcohol, and an impure odor. Yu-gyeom sniffed at that displeasing fragrance.

A frigid smile crossed Yu-gyeom’s lips. “Ah, this.”

He recognized it. Endowed with an acute sense of smell as a Dominant Alpha, even if he couldn’t pinpoint the exact owner, he knew beyond doubt that it was an Alpha’s pheromones.

This was Kim Taeju—the mark of that bastard who wouldn’t be enough even if chewed to pieces.

“Kwon Rian,” Yu-gyeom called out.

Yu-gyeom’s heart sank chilled to the core. Never once had he smelled another Alpha’s scent on Rian’s body, making this discovery a considerable shock. He called Rian’s name in a low rumble, but the boy remained fast asleep. The gentle, sigh-like breaths slipping from Rian stirred Yu-gyeom’s groin. Nevertheless, Yu-gyeom could not suppress the foul rage roiling inside him.

Ultimately, to wake the deeply slumbering Rian, Yu-gyeom’s hand cleaved through the air.

Smack!

“Heu…!” Rian cried out.

Yu-gyeom’s palm struck Kwon Rian’s plump, fair pussy with vicious force.

Ever since taking him in and raising him, Yu-gyeom had never once laid a hand on Rian. But daring to come home smeared in another bastard’s scent—that was something he could never forgive.

Gasping for breath under the crushing grip, Rian stammered, “Ugh… Hy… Hyung!”

When the sleeping Rian jolted awake and opened his eyes, Yu-gyeom stood before him, glaring down with fierce, blazing pupils.

Yu-gyeom struck Rian’s pussy with another sharp slap.

“Ah-eut! Hyung,” Rian cried out.

With tear-filled eyes, Kwon Rian looked up at Yu-gyeom. He couldn’t comprehend why this was happening. His brother had never once raised a hand against him. Shaken by the unbelievable situation, Rian trembled all over.

Sensing the ominous shift in the air, Rian scrambled upright and curled into a crouch before Yu-gyeom.

Yu-gyeom stared down at him with cold detachment. “Do you know what you did wrong?” His voice bordered on chilling. Seeing his brother devoid of even a single shred of warmth, Rian cowered in terror.

Was the problem really that he hadn’t kept in touch and had gotten drunk?

“I’m sorry… I didn’t contact hyung… and I drank too much, too…” Rian whimpered, slurring his words.

Because the alcohol had not entirely worn off, Kwon Rian’s tongue failed to enunciate properly. Hearing that clumsy, slurred speech, Yu-gyeom let out an incredulous sneer.

“Rian… My beloved Rian,” Yu-gyeom said softly.

Yu-gyeom gripped the trembling boy’s chin. He reached out, tracing his trembling jaw with deceptive gentleness. “Why are you shaking so much, hmm? I never once raised a switch against you while raising you. Why would I do this now? Do you even have any idea what you did wrong?”

“…B-Because of the alcohol? Because I couldn’t call… is that why?” Rian stammered.

Rian stuttered with a face frozen in terror. Something was off. It definitely had to be that, and yet…

Just as Rian felt the grip on his chin tighten further, Yu-gyeom tilted his neck from side to side and exhaled a heavy sigh.

Yu-gyeom snarled in fury, “Right, so… why did you come home smeared in another bastard’s scent? Like a filthy bitch in heat.”

“A-Another scent? N-No, hyung… I don’t know what you’re talking about…” Rian pleaded, flustered.

Rian’s eyes brimmed with tears as if he were about to burst into sobs at any second. Looking at Rian sitting there in his soft, naked vulnerability, pity stirred from the depths of Yu-gyeom’s heart, yet what gripped him now was a far darker emotion.

“You reek of an impure scent, Rian. Did I teach you and raise you to act like this? When I constantly told you to carry yourself with care?” Yu-gyeom reprimanded.

In the blue dawn air, Yu-gyeom’s resolute, chilly expression was nothing short of terrifying. That frigidity was palpable in the pheromones he released as well, prompting Rian to hesitate before sinking to his knees on his own—even though Yu-gyeom had never ordered him to do so.

Whenever Rian acted like this, Yu-gyeom was seized by complex emotions. Ever since he began raising Rian, Yu-gyeom had never hit him or forced him to stand in punishment, yet Rian had always punished himself like this.

In fact, today was the very first time he had ever struck Kwon Rian, so seeing the boy drop to his knees and cower like a lost puppy caused Yu-gyeom’s brow to furrow involuntarily.

Yu-gyeom despised seeing Rian act so servile. How tenderly had he raised him before letting him out into the world, so why?

“Rian, what do you think you’re doing right now?” Yu-gyeom demanded.

He was furious. Where on earth had the boy picked up such foul behavior? Rather than groveling so servilely, it would have been far better if he had displayed that precious pussy and begged pitifully to be fucked.

Sniffling as tears streamed down his cheeks, Rian pleaded, “I-I’m begging for forgiveness… I hate it when hyung is mad at me. So please don’t be mad, hyung…”

“Did I tell you to get on your knees and beg?” Yu-gyeom snapped.

Trembling with inconsolable sorrow, Rian cried out, “Why? Why are you getting even angrier? Why are you being so cold to me?”

As tears finally rolled down Kwon Rian’s cheeks, Yu-gyeom let out an incredulous bark of laughter.