Don't You Need an Omega Lucky Charm - Chapter 10.1
If such a thing as fortune really existed, wouldn’t it be about time for it to give back after being hit this much?
Such unfairness threw its last struggle in the darkness.
It was right then.
“……Jeongwon……!”
Beyond the crack of the broken door, it felt like someone was calling out to him.
Did he have…… a memory like this back then as well? He could not remember clearly.
As he kept chewing over his memories, he went back to the past, and to the past once more.
The voice remained distant, muffled, and echoed as if pressed under several layers.
He tried to reach out a hand, but his elbow was stuck somewhere and would not budge an inch.
“Cha Jeongwon!”
This time, it became clearer, ringing right beside his ear.
The darkness suddenly receded backward as if the tide were rushing out.
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“Cha Jeongwon!”
The same call echoed, this time not as a hallucination, but in reality.
It was Yoon Haon’s voice, holding onto him cautiously yet firmly.
Instead of an answer, his severed breath continued once again. Cha Jeongwon’s shoulders dropped noticeably.
“Are you okay? You’re not feeling very dizzy, are you?”
Haon asked while focusing all his attention on Cha Jeongwon.
Imagination took the lead first, worrying about what he would do if Cha Jeongwon collapsed.
Haon took his back off the wall and moved forward carefully.
When he reached out his hand, the first thing he touched was the elevator wall. The cold, smooth wall brushed past his palm.
As he felt around next to it, a solid texture caught his fingertips. Beyond the skin, he could feel the sleeve, the arm, and the finely tense muscles.
“I’m sorry. Were you here?”
Could it be the injured wrist side? Worried, he tried to pull his hand away, but then raised it again.
Just as he tried to move his hand toward the shoulder next, a low breath approached in the dark.
“Get lost.”
Although his tone was still harsh, his voice was trembling.
Cha Jeongwon’s pheromones also grew thicker. The heavy scent spread along the air. No matter how shallowly he breathed, it was a scent that could not be ignored.
‘Why do his pheromones always get stronger at times like this?’
Haon felt a surge of frustration, but he could not pull his hand completely away.
“Senior, if you feel dizzy or nauseous…….”
While speaking, Haon moved his hand from Cha Jeongwon’s arm to his shoulder, and further up. The creases of the shirt caught on his fingertips. It was a distance close enough to touch near his neck if he raised it just a little more.
At that moment, a low voice was heard right in front of him.
“Stay still.”
Cha Jeongwon spat out through gritted teeth.
Even though they were words pushing him away, Haon’s nerves grew even more high-strung. He could not just let him go like this.
“Don’t approach me pointlessly, either.”
“I’d like to do that too. If I could at least see your face, I’d be able to check how you’re doing, Senior.”
They were words that popped out like a habit. He had gotten used to the darkness, but it was not as if he could see Cha Jeongwon’s face in detail.
‘There’s no way I can see his face.’
Beneath their feet, the elevator jolted once more.
“Whoa!”
His body lurched heavily to one side. His hands clawed through the air.
As he reflexively reached out his hands, what he caught this time was not the wall, but the collar of the shirt. Grabbing it even tighter out of instinct to keep from falling was the root of the trouble.
At this rate, it might rip. Haon, feeling the shirt being pulled taut, fumbled before his body pitched forward just like that.
‘Uh, wait?’
Before he even had time to be surprised, his lips bumped against something.
The touch he had assumed would be hard was surprisingly soft and warm. Between their lips pressed slightly against each other, their subtle breaths mingled.
He did not even know whether his eyes were closed or not, but his field of vision felt completely empty.
Because it was in the dark, it was even more vivid.
The breath drawn right in front of each other brushed past the tips of their noses, and hot body heat spread along the touched area.
The pheromone scent surged in as if pulling him in, then swept through Haon from head to toe all at once.
Instinctively, his body tried to move one breath closer.
It felt like their lips would lock if they touched just a little more. A very light pressure was added once more and then brushed past.
It was such a short contact that no one knew who had moved first. It was ambiguous to even call it a kiss. Those few seconds felt as though they would go on endlessly.
As soon as they grasped the situation, the two pulled away from each other.
An awkward silence flowed between the two.
Along with it, he felt a warm sensation spreading from somewhere deep inside his chest. The Omega pheromones he had forcibly suppressed leaked out slightly.
