Omega Complex Novel (Completed) - Chapter 22

Why? There was no need to answer. Because the moment he uttered those words, Choi Taegyeom placed his hand on my cheek. As if touching something fragile, his thumb carefully rubbed my cheek.

“Close your eyes.”

Choi Taegyeom’s voice held an irresistible power. Even knowing it wasn’t the situation, I closed my eyes as if enchanted.

“……”

My heart felt like it would burst. His pheromones, and his gentle touch. They gave me a different kind of expectation than before. It was like the subtle tension before lips meet.

Surely not?

Tremble, tremble, my eyelids fluttered. My barely exhaled breaths were also losing their composure. Even with my eyes closed, I could tell Choi Taegyeom was drawing closer. Little by little. His breath drew nearer with his pheromones.

Undoubtedly, I thought our lips would touch. I had never kissed anyone, but this was clearly a sign that he was going to kiss me. His careful touch, Choi Taegyeom drawing closer, and the subtle scent of pheromones. Yes, it was absurd, but it was true.

“……”

He stopped moving for a fleeting moment. When I carefully opened my eyes, I saw Choi Taegyeom with his eyes gently closed. Gasp, I inhaled, and he pressed his forehead against mine, patting my shoulder.

“Stop saying weird things and go to sleep.”

“……”

Thud, the string of tension snapped. My tightly tensed shoulders relaxed. I had been so tense that I felt a tingling stiffness along my spine.

“Good boy.”

Choi Taegyeom whispered gently. But even if he said that, how could I possibly sleep? His face was close, his breath touched mine, and the air was filled with the pheromones he had released. Moreover, because I had imagined kissing him a moment ago, a subtle change had occurred downstairs.

“Let’s sleep.”

Unlike me, Choi Taegyeom continued to comfort me without widening the distance. His calm movements were similar to how I used to put him to sleep. I looked at him with a bewildered gaze, but all that came back was his breathing.

“……Asleep?”

I really asked, just in case. Not to get confirmation that he was asleep, but to ask, ‘You’re not asleep, are you?’ I wanted to hear that answer, ‘No, I’m not.’

“……”

Of course, Choi Taegyeom didn’t answer. The hand that had been patting my shoulder had also stopped at some point.

To make someone so excited and then calmly fall asleep himself. His soft breathing, and his unmoving eyelids. All of it was absurd.

To make matters worse, he fell asleep without tidying up the pheromones that had flowed out. They say “surely not” kills the cat. Choi Taegyeom must have been an Alpha who continuously emitted pheromones even in his sleep. The dense pheromones filled the bed.

That night was an eternity. The person I liked was right in front of me, and my heart kept fluttering. Choi Taegyeom, who had approached as if to kiss me, also kept lingering in my mind.

In the end, I spent the night trying to sleep in Choi Taegyeom’s pheromones, but sleep never came.

A night that seemed endless eventually comes to an end. The wildly fluttering feelings, the constantly surging desires, had abruptly stopped without me realizing it.

Perhaps it was because I had forced my eyes shut, but at some point, I must have fallen asleep without knowing it.

In my dream, I encountered a young Choi Taegyeom. He was sound asleep, his fists clenched tight, and I gazed at Choi Taegyeom’s face with a fresh feeling. His long eyelashes and pale cheeks were like a meticulously crafted doll.

There was a reason why others were so captivated by Choi Taegyeom. His delicate features, small stature, and soft hair. Unlike other children, his unique appearance was something even I, who had seen him since birth, never got used to. How could I get used to something new every time I saw it?

So sometimes, when I saw Choi Taegyeom, I would marvel. Because he was so pretty. Small and precious, and also delicate. Even though he was breathing, it was hard to believe he was a living person. It was also surprising that those rosy lips sometimes spoke unkind words.

I carefully reached out and touched Choi Taegyeom’s cheek. A soft, supple sensation was felt through my fingertips. Gently, as I rubbed around his cheek, I wanted to touch his rosy lips this time.

There was no reason to hesitate. This was a dream, and he was deeply asleep. Moreover, at this age, Choi Taegyeom didn’t really care how I touched him. So, he wouldn’t mind if I touched his lips instead of his cheek, or rubbed around his neck instead of his lips.

As soon as the conclusion was made, I moved my hand to his lower lip. Then, a slightly more delicate sensation was felt. The warmth transmitted to my fingertips was also a little different from before.

Choi Taegyeom.

The soft call didn’t come out as a sound. However, it seemed to have reached him in some way. Because as soon as I called his name, he slowly opened his eyes.

In the fleeting moment our eyes met, Choi Taegyeom became an adult. His bone structure grew, and his round jaw became sharp. Once, twice, with each blink of his eyes, the growing Choi Taegyeom transformed into the face I knew well on the third blink.

“……Lee Yoonwoo.”

My heart pounded faster. It wasn’t a face I saw once or twice, but when our eyes met, I felt breathless. His deepened eyes and prominent nose gave me a flutter I hadn’t felt as a child. That was, of course, an emotion you couldn’t have for a friend.

“Lee Yoonwoo.”

My name was called once more. The moderately low, soft voice was none other than Choi Taegyeom’s. When I didn’t answer, his voice came again.

“…Asleep?”

I felt déjà vu. The question I always asked him when he was asleep. Yes, I’m sleeping, I answered internally, and Choi Taegyeom whispered in a voice barely audible.

“You……”

What? I couldn’t ask that back. Because pheromones poured out the moment before I could say anything.

“……How I feel.”

Fragmented, his words were heard. They were so faint they wouldn’t be heard if I didn’t concentrate, but the content was clearly conveyed. I’m afraid you’ll run away. I’m worried you’ll like someone else, meet someone else, and eventually leave my side. You probably,

“……Will never know.”

The gentle confession was so sweet it brought tears to my eyes. These were the stories I had wanted to hear all along. And emotions that felt sinful even to imagine. They were the same feelings I had for Choi Taegyeom, and absolutely not thoughts Choi Taegyeom would ever entertain.

If this was a dream, I hoped I would never wake up. No, since it was a dream, I hoped it would last as long as possible.

I like you.

The moment our lips touched was excessively vivid. Lips a little drier than I’d imagined. And a body temperature hotter than expected. To even dream of such a thing, I must have truly gone too far. As I thought that, something wet and warm tickled the gap between my lips.

“Mmm…”

I unconsciously let out a moan and parted my lips. I felt a twitching sensation from our joined lips. The other person pulled their head back after a very brief moment, and I smacked my lips, regretfully. Then, this time, our lips met more deeply.

Pheromones surged. My omega pheromones tried to emerge, welcoming the action, but I instinctively reined them in. Even in a dream, the compulsion that I couldn’t be found out by him suppressed my instincts.

I have to hold back.

The feeling of something rubbing around my lips was ticklish. It was soft, warm, and gentle, as if I were being loved. The guy in my dream held my lower lip, sucked on it slightly, and then very slowly, retreated.

“…Sleep well.”

The hand patting my chest was gentle. I wanted to kiss him more, but the other person didn’t move as I wished. The lingering warmth on my lips lingered around my chest.

A warm sensation enveloped me. Along with it, a hand gently stroked my hair. A shiver, a cold draft, brushed against my neck, and I squirmed, burrowing into the warm side. At that, the hand stroking my head flinched and stopped.

“…Yoonwoo.”

I must still be half-asleep. This was clearly my house, yet I heard Choi Taegyeom’s voice. Not just his voice, but I could even feel his languid pheromones.

If that’s the case, I should have just continued yesterday’s dream. That was what I thought as I curled up again.

“Lee Yoonwoo, wake up.”

His voice was clearer than before. It was impossible to believe it was still a dream, and as I realized that, a sense of incongruity spread through everything.

First, there was no one in my house who would stroke my head while I slept. There was nothing that would feel this warm, and no reason to feel alpha pheromones. Most importantly, Choi Taegyeom, who would wake me up, shouldn’t have been here.

“How long are you going to sleep?”

But the voice I heard now was clearly Choi Taegyeom’s. It was a little husky, being morning, but it was him nonetheless. What on earth was going on?

“…”

Slowly, I lifted my eyelids. After blinking a few times with morning-stiff eyes, my vision gradually cleared. Beyond my now clear vision, I saw Choi Taegyeom, looking down. He quietly gazed into my eyes and asked gently.

“Are you awake?”

It felt unreal. Choi Taegyeom’s neat face overlapped with the Choi Taegyeom I saw in my dream. His messy hair and sleepy eyes were different, but his overall tidy impression was the same. He looked less like someone who had just woken up and more like someone who had stayed up all night.

“Early…”

My voice was hoarse. My extremely dry voice embarrassed me, so I cleared my throat, hmm-hmm. The end of my voice still cracked slightly.

“You woke up early.”

Now that I think about it, I have brought Choi Taegyeom back. I had repeatedly hoped alone and been disappointed, and finally, I had fallen asleep amidst Choi Taegyeom’s pheromones. Choi Taegyeom appeared in my dream, a young Choi Taegyeom slowly growing up, and then, and then…

One thought led to another, finally recalling a shameful sensation. Soft lips and a ticklish touch. And the vivid pheromones. The desire for it to continue, the wish filled with longing, also came to mind, so I awkwardly lowered my gaze, avoiding Choi Taegyeom’s eyes.

“Early, my foot.”

Choi Taegyeom chuckled and touched my head. His hand, smoothing my hair, was incredibly delicate. And he tilted his head, continuing his sentence.

“If you’re awake, come out.”

Come out? Blink, our eyes met. A mischievous smile spread across his lips.

“I know my arm is good for a pillow, but…”

“…”

My mind snapped back the moment he finished speaking. Only then did I realize I was using his arm as a pillow. Choi Taegyeom had offered his left arm and was tidying my hair, and I had burrowed into Choi Taegyeom’s embrace. No wonder my body felt warm even without the electric blanket.

“I need to go to the bathroom.”

“…Hey, why didn’t you just pull it out?”

I awkwardly got up and moved out of Choi Taegyeom’s embrace. He rotated his shoulder a few times, as if his arm was stiff, and then got up with a frown.

“How could I do that when you were sleeping? You wouldn’t wake up even when I tried.”

My head was complicated this morning. The fact that I had been held in his arms made me inexplicably restless. Choi Taegyeom hugged me when he was drunk, and I hugged him in my sleep. It was fine for me since I liked him, but was Choi Taegyeom really unaffected?

“Anyway, once you fall asleep, you wouldn’t know if someone carried you away.”

No, judging by his nonchalant tone, he seemed unaffected.

“Is that something you should be saying?”

Choi Taegyeom got up from his spot and headed to the bathroom without waiting for my reply. Was it my imagination that his back, as he walked to the bathroom, seemed a little wobbly? Right, he must have really needed to go and held it in for a long time because of me.

“…Haa.”

A faint sigh escaped me. He said he wouldn’t be able to sleep. Yet, I had slept deeply, unaware that I was using his arm as a pillow. If I had known, I would have woken up earlier and pretended to be asleep for a little longer. Now that I was fully awake, a sense of regret bloomed. When would I ever get to sleep in Choi Taegyeom’s arms again?

“Crazy bastard…”

As I sat there blankly, the events of last night came back to me in order. Drunk Choi Taegyeom, Choi Taegyeom asking to be put to sleep, Choi Taegyeom who I thought was asleep but wasn’t, Choi Taegyeom who brought his face close as if to kiss me. My blood was already rushing this morning, so why was every memory that surfaced a minefield?

Buzz—

What interrupted my lewd thoughts was a vibrating sound coming from somewhere. I shook my head blankly and picked up my phone from beside my head. The screen showed a number I had never seen before.

Who was it? There was no need to hesitate whether to answer or not. The moment the vibration stopped, the same number called again. If they kept calling even when I didn’t answer, it must be an urgent matter.

“Yes, hello.”

Choi Taegyeom opened the bathroom door and came out the moment I answered the phone. His bangs were a little wet, as if he had washed his face. Who is it? Choi Taegyeom mouthed, wiping his face with a towel. It’s an unknown number, I shook my head to convey that, and then a familiar voice came from the other end of the phone.

—Yoonwoo sunbae?

It was Kim Dohyun.