Chapter 38
If you’re human, you can’t help but be drawn to something dirty. Other people are looking at you, dressed up like a peacock, not me; they’re attracted to this car.
The flesh eaten by bugs will show its decay from the skin.
“You’re barely acting human because you want to live as my husband.”
“…I’ll be home soon.”
Saying such empty words, his heavy breaths grew closer.
“Hee-jae, I…”
I swallowed hard.
“It’s because I love you so much.”
Kang Yeol-jin, how can you so easily utter the words “I love you”? Why do I feel so bizarre when I hear that false confession?
In the memories hidden beyond this consciousness, what exactly is there that makes me feel so queasy?
“Am I suffocating like this?”
I am always suffocating. You are the one who has choked my neck. If my father had grabbed my nape and forced a rope around my neck, you would be that very noose.
“Can you tell me you love me?”
Kang Yeol-jin looks at me. A suffocating gaze. You are still the rope hanging around my neck.
So, every time I see you like this, my heart tightens. There’s absolutely no ulterior motive, none at all…
I pulled Kang Yeol-jin’s arm away.
“The lecture will start soon.”
A snicker escapes, a laugh that seems to say I wasn’t even expecting it. A big man over 190 centimeters tall, begging for love and failing.
I walked away, leaving that man behind.
With each step I took, everyone’s gaze was fixed on me. Before, I desperately wanted to escape those eyes. Now, I passed by them as if I were indifferent, almost detached.
I had layered on a cardigan, but it couldn’t hide my protruding belly.
A pregnant man, an Omega.
It must be an amusing spectacle. I knew whispers would follow. In the past, I would have stayed cooped up at home, unwilling to step outside in such a state.
Now, things like that don’t bother me at all. Avoiding it won’t accomplish anything. Just because it’s a memory I don’t want to dredge up doesn’t mean I should forget it.
I had things to do.
Five steps. No, six steps? I slowly turned my back. I knew the persistent gaze following me was still there.
“Come get me.”
Just as I thought.
Kang Yeol-jin stood there as if he had nailed himself to the spot. A snicker dispersed in the air.
“Me? Should I come get you?”
What can I say about that relentless gaze following me? It had a look of someone who felt they had landed a hit. It was the face of someone witnessing a problem that couldn’t be solved.
Am I the one who’s at a loss?
That’s just splendid. It means you’re the one being shaken.
I wanted to grasp your collar and shake you a little, eventually choking you, wanting to ruin you completely in the end.
“Bring another car. Something quiet and inconspicuous.”
After leaving that final remark, I entered the building. Even after two years, the school hadn’t changed much.
Maybe just that the ivy had grown a little more. As I stepped into the classroom, voices poured out through the slightly opened door.
“Wow, no way! Do you know who I saw at the front gate earlier?”
The exclamation “Wow” at the beginning was meant to grab people’s attention. That unique, bouncy voice.
He loves to gossip and enjoys drawing people’s eyes. The reason I endured Kang Yeol-jin clinging to me in front of everyone was simple.
It was because Kim Jae-soo was staring at me with wide eyes.
‘Is that guy always following you around gloomily?’
Kim Jae-soo was a type who couldn’t stand not attracting the attention of others. Being the son of a prominent congressman and the only Omega in the department, I was a point of interest.
And Kim Jae-soo found Kang Yeol-jin’s unusually persistent pursuit of me particularly fascinating. He often used it as a topic of conversation during drinking sessions.
And above all,
“Hey, hey, Kim Sun-woo lost vision in one eye. But do you know who I saw near Kim Sun-woo’s house yesterday?”
“What? Who did you see?”
After confirming that the ears of our classmates were perked up, Kim Jae-soo twisted his lips into a broad grin and rambled on.
“It was Kang Yeol-jin…!”
You know, that guy who keeps chasing Jeong Hee-jae. He was the one making all that noise.
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