As If Transmigrating Wasn’t Enough, I’m Pregnant?! - Chapter 2.4
If this current atmosphere continued to flow as it was, the sandcastle he had built up would inevitably crumble into nothingness. Everything might return to square one. The terror that he had managed to suppress with a small sliver of hope squeezed his heart once again.
No, I can’t end it like this.
Ryu Hae-sol frantically racked his brain. Evidence. He needed solid proof that would force these men to believe his words. At that moment, Do Won-hyung’s pheromones, which had filled the hotel suite with a suffocatingly thick and intense presence, revived in his memory.
Yes, that was it. The overwhelming pheromone scent that had dominated Ryu Hae-sol and caused everyone else to avoid him. That was the solution and the key. Ryu Hae-sol cried out almost as if wailing toward the men.
“M-My body! The man’s pheromones must still be left on my body! You smelled it earlier, didn’t you? This isn’t just a pheromone left behind by any ordinary alpha. It’s a dominant alpha’s pheromones, strong enough that no one would dare even look at it!”
Ryu Hae-sol was desperate. There was no other way than this. Presenting his own body as physical evidence was humiliating, but now was not the time to be picky about such things. At Ryu Hae-sol’s desperate cry, the men fell silent for a moment. And Ryu Hae-sol realized that they were being persuaded by him.
“Come to think of it, yeah. The scent we caught off this bastard earlier wasn’t just any regular alpha pheromone.”
At those words, the other man also buried his nose into the back of Ryu Hae-sol’s neck and sniffed. The faintly lingering scent was unmistakably the powerful pheromone of a dominant alpha.
“Fucking hell, I think this punk’s words are right? It really might be Do Won-hyung.”
At their reacting changing to a positive one, Ryu Hae-sol let out a sigh of relief inwardly. Yes, hope was in sight. A small expectation to somehow evade this current situation. To avoid missing this opportunity as much as possible, Ryu Hae-sol appealed his relationship with Do Won-hyung even more desperately.
“Y-Yes, that’s right! These are genuinely Do Won-hyung’s pheromones! That man, he, he’s completely hooked on me…… L-last night, too, he wouldn’t let me go!”
Ryu Hae-sol buried his head as if he were going to smash his forehead into the floor, begging and pleading with the men until his hands were worn raw. Begging for his life by using the traces of someone else left on his body as capital was unimaginably more miserable than anything else, but right now, this was the only option left to Ryu Hae-sol.
“S-So……! If you just give me a few days’ time, I’ll somehow get the money from him! Please!”
Ryu Hae-sol’s desperate pleading finally ignited the greedy hearts of the men. They exchanged glances with one another and then, as if making up their minds, nodded with cruel smiles. The man who had been holding him by the collar roughly flung Ryu Hae-sol down onto the floor.
Cough, cough. Ryu Hae-sol, who had crashed his face onto the floor, burst into coughs. However, he couldn’t raise his head because the other man was pressing his foot down on the back of his head. This hellish situation wasn’t over yet. The men spoke in voices full of contempt, as if they were doing him a massive favor.
“Fine. Since you’re going to that length, I’ll specially give you one last chance. Until the end of the month. Bring it all combined—the principal plus the interest. Understand?”
The end of the month. There was barely ten days left of time now. Within that short span, pay back a hundred-million-won debt that had snowballed like a mountain? It was impossible.
Setting aside extracting that kind of money from Do Won-hyung, the situation was so uncertain that he didn’t even know if he could meet him again. It was instantaneous for the hope he had barely grasped to turn back into despair. Ryu Hae-sol raised his head without realizing it and retorted.
“W-Wait a minute! Until the end of the month is way, way too tight on time!”
At the pleading voice, the expressions of the men warped hideously. The tattooed man stepped forward threateningly, lightly patting Ryu Hae-sol’s cheek back and forth with his palm as he sneered. That touch was filled with intimidation and mockery.
“What? Is this bastard playing games with us right now? Who was the one running their mouth first saying they could scrape up the money? Whether you suck that dominant alpha guy’s cock—whoever this great Do Won-hyung or whatever is—hard enough to make the cash, or whether you drop dead, that’s your problem.”
The man viciously grabbed Ryu Hae-sol by the chin and forced him to make eye contact. In pupils flashing with murderous intent, Ryu Hae-sol’s heart froze over with terror once more. The man spat out cruel words, chewing on them through his teeth.