Chapter 0

‘Oh. Shit. I’m scared. So, so scared.’

Ari’s small body trembled as she saw the sharp eyes glaring at her, bright red.

The man before her—whose red eyes, characteristic of an extremely dominant alpha, turned a brilliant scarlet when excited—was breathtakingly beautiful. He was Moon Dohwi, someone she had adored for a very long time, but who was now her former bias.

With his towering 190cm frame, shoulders as broad as a hockey player’s, and features as beautiful as a painting, Dohwi boasted a flawless appearance that commanded admiration even in this fierce moment.

Perhaps it was his expression, which seemed cracked with rage, but his eyes—darker than usual—radiated a menacing aura, as if he might tear her apart at any second.

As she looked up at Dohwi, whose cold eyes seemed ready to devour her, she sincerely regretted for the first time being so terribly entangled with him.

Even worse, the potent pheromones of the extremely dominant alpha assaulting her nose made the insides of her thighs tingle and throb, driving her crazy—completely separate from the terror she felt toward the man before her.

‘Come to think of it, my heat should be starting soon…’

Ari bit her lip anxiously as the extremely dominant alpha’s pheromones continued flooding the cramped room. She regretted not checking her heat cycle app a few hours ago, especially since she had no classes tomorrow and had let her guard down.

Just a few hours ago, it had been a peaceful, pleasant dawn.

Though her bank account had returned to empty after sending her siblings their allowances and contributing to her parents’ living expenses, Ari had been quite happy about the simple fact that she could stuff herself full with jjapaguri* mixed with rice. Add a cold, lemon-flavored beer to that, and it was a feast fit for a king.

[*T/N: noodle dish that combines two instant noodles—the black bean-flavored Chapagetti and the spicy, seafood-flavored Neoguri]

After finishing her hearty meal, she mulled over the YouTube editor meeting, briefly debating whether to accept or decline the job offer.

‘Tomorrow I have no classes—what should I eat when I wake up? Should I just stay home all day and catch up on dramas? Until my mind grew hazy with such happy thoughts, it was a perfectly peaceful night—no, dawn.’

It definitely was…

“M-Moon Dohwi, how did you know my door code…?”

How did he even know it? As if cracking her door code and coming in wasn’t enough, now this crazy guy was on top of her while she slept, growling at her. Ari glared at Dohwi with all the strength she could muster.

“Choi Ari, you had an editor meeting with Kim Seonho?”

“What? How do you…?”

“You know damn well Seonho and I didn’t get along in high school. How could you even think about switching to that bastard of all people? Choi Ari, fuck, are you a thug?”

Provoking an aroused, extremely dominant alpha in earnest was like scoring her own personal goal. Ari quickly regretted needling Dohwi, even for that brief moment.

“Hey… the thug isn’t me, it’s you… Ngh…!”

As her eyebrows drew together in an aggrieved expression, even more violent pheromones than before cascaded from the enraged Dohwi like a waterfall.

“Gasp…!”

Was it because of his sensual pheromones suffocatingly filling her cramped studio? Contrary to her rational mind screaming no, a hazy sensation kept spreading sensuously around her groin.

Wrapped in the threatening pheromones of the extremely dominant alpha, Ari twisted her thighs together and let out a labored moan.

If things continued like this, she’d end up sleeping with him again, and their ambiguous relationship would clearly drag on.

Ari pushed against the large frame bearing down on her with her small hands, struggling to shove him away as she let out strained groans.

“Dohwi, ngh, I want to stop now. This kind of relationship with you…”

“The first time we slept together. I should’ve just imprinted you then. I was foolish.”

“Wh-what?!”

Dohwi looked down at the small woman reacting to his pheromones and curled his lips into a smirk. Then he grabbed her vulva hard with his large hand.

“Haah…!”

“Choi Ari, you’re about to go into heat, aren’t you? Today, right?”

“Haa, h-how did you…?”

As his large hand kneaded her plump, mochi-like vulva, Ari twisted her hips and shook her head, as if struggling.

“We were partners, for crying out loud. Of course I’d know something like that.”

“Wait, don’t… hngh…!”

“Don’t what? You’re already dripping wet.”

Dohwi kneaded her vulva with the hand gripping it, deliberately making a show of it.

Feeling the slick wetness on his fingertips, Dohwi let out a scoffing laugh as if in disbelief.

How could her eyes already be so red and wet, even though they hadn’t done much yet? Anyway, contrary to her innocent appearance, Choi Ari’s body was lewd from head to toe.

And then there were her pheromones.

Choi Ari had said her pheromones were ordinary and unremarkable, but to Dohwi, her pheromones were more addictive than any other omega’s.

He deeply savored her pheromones, which had a pleasant scent like wildflowers holding morning dew.

The moment he inhaled her pheromones, full of the fresh scent of grass, he felt all the heat in his body rush to his lower half.

Dohwi looked down at Ari’s tiny features with hazy eyes.

All he could think about was how he wanted to shove his cock into that plump mouth of hers, into the small hole between her chubby pussy lips, and thrust mindlessly.

“Fuck, when I woke up and you were gone, you have no idea how pissed I was. Hm?”

“Dohwi, wait, mmph…”

“Stop saying ‘wait.’ You blocked my number again and disappeared on your own. And then you get photographed with Kim Seonho… Are you seriously trying to make me lose my fucking mind?”

Dohwi easily overpowered her as she squirmed like a kitten, then shoved his large hand inside her loose t-shirt without hesitation.

Her bare skin, as white as the rolled-up t-shirt, was covered with blotchy marks from where Dohwi had sucked and bitten her just days ago.

“My Ari isn’t wearing a bra?”

“Ngh, I-I’m at home, so…”

Dohwi swallowed dryly as he roughly grabbed her soft, perky breasts. Those breasts with their pale nipples were one of his favorite parts of Ari’s body—he could suck and lick them all day without getting tired.

“Don’t tell me you’re not wearing panties either?”

“No, hah, no…!”

“Hmm, I should check. Who knows? Maybe you were holed up in your room touching yourself to my videos.”

“I-I don’t do that kind of thing! I’m not like you— hngh…!”

He peppered kisses along Ari’s nape—smack, smack—while stripping off her loose sweatpants and panties in one go. Then he stroked her smooth, slightly damp pussy with his large hand.

As he rubbed hard between the folds of her sunken slit with his thick-knuckled fingers, slick juices immediately trickled from her tight hole.

“How’d you know? I jerk off to your profile pic all the time.”

“What?!”

“What can I do? I can’t get hard for anyone but you.”

Dohwi kneaded her pussy however he pleased with his large hands, like he was playing with clay. The lewd scent spreading between his fingers made him feel like he could cum right then and there.

“Heh, Choi Ari’s pussy is so plump. It’s cute.”

Ari’s scent spreading to the tip of his nose calmed Dohwi’s sharp pheromones considerably.

Vowing to torment Choi Ari all night long for daring to unilaterally try to cut him off again, Dohwi pulled her firmly against him from behind and roughly ground his swollen bulge against the cleft of her ass.

“Dohwi, hah, tone down your pheromones… mmh…”

“Ari. You’re fucking dripping.”

As Dohwi’s firm, long fingers rhythmically rubbed her parted slit, wet squelching sounds echoed lewdly through the small room.

“Please, stop… I don’t want… hah…”

“Yeah, right. Can’t you hear the dirty sounds your pussy’s making?”

When he’d learned that not only was she coldly trying to cut him off, but she’d also met with Kim Seonho, rage had flooded him to the point where he couldn’t see straight. But now, touching her as she lay trapped in his arms, her pheromones growing thicker by the second, that dark emotion that had surged up seemed to melt away like snow in the sun.

“What did you eat to get such a little food baby? Been filming another mukbang by yourself? How cute.”

“Get off me, hah…!”

“Heh, I thought you were pregnant with my kid for a second there.”

Dohwi kneaded her flipped body like rice cake dough, then slowly caressed her soft, pale belly as he chuckled.

Imagining her waddling around like a penguin with her belly swollen as big as Namsan Mountain* from pregnancy made him burst into silly laughter without realizing it.

[**T/N: mountain in Seoul]

‘Should it be a girl or a boy? Twins would be adorable too. Or wait, wouldn’t it be really hard on that tiny body to carry two babies at once?’

Dohwi’s mind was already racing through fantasies of having kids and even seeing grandchildren. The dimples that appeared whenever he smiled broadly were now prominently visible.

“Hah, p-pregnant? Moon Dohwi, are you seriously insane?!”

Seeing Dohwi grinning to himself at whatever he was imagining, Ari raised her voice, dousing him with cold water.

The moment he saw Ari recoiling in horror at the mention of pregnancy and jumping up in alarm, the smile that had lingered on Dohwi’s face vanished, replaced by a cold, expressionless look in an instant.

All the adorable images that had been floating through his mind—tiny baby socks no bigger than beans, squeaky shoes, soft pastel-toned comfort toys—came crashing down in one fell swoop.

‘…Why are you looking so serious? Do you really… hate me now?’

Those jet-black eyes that used to look at him with an expression that showed they were so flustered they didn’t know what to do—now they were truly turning away from him.

She used to get so nervous just having him nearby that she didn’t know what to do with herself, but now she was pushing him away as if even being in the same space was a bother.

Faced with Ari’s unfamiliar attitude of genuinely trying to avoid him, Dohwi felt as if cold water had been dumped over his head, chilling him to the core.

He had no idea how to handle this shitty feeling he was experiencing for the first time in his life.

“Fuck, I feel like I’ve been used and tossed aside. This really fucking sucks.”

“Dohwi, hah, please… tone down your pheromones. I’m, hng, about to go into heat… I feel like I’m gonna burst. Please?”

Dohwi gripped the pale thighs of the small woman, who was panting and growing wet from his pheromones, and roughly spread them apart.

What was there to think deeply about? In the end, it was just the relationship between an alpha and an omega. Just as he had been drawn to her pheromones like a magnet, they were ultimately bound to be aroused by each other’s pheromones—that was the nature of their relationship.

In fact, there wasn’t a single omega in this world who wouldn’t react to the pheromones of an alpha they’d slept with multiple times.

Like any alpha and omega, if they kept sleeping together like this countless times, feelings would inevitably develop even where none existed before.

Dohwi furrowed his brow as he yanked down his zipper and briefs in one motion. His cock, thickly veined and dark red, sprang up immediately.

He slowly rubbed his cock, which looked like a weapon at a glance, against her wet pussy.

“Hah, Ari. So pretty.”

The small hole that had taken him countless times was gently opening and closing at the entrance, as if faithfully responding to his pheromones.

Just their skin touching filled him with uncontrollable excitement.

He’d never been with another woman, so he had no way of knowing for certain, but Dohwi was convinced that Choi Ari was the only omega who could give him this level of satisfaction.

The moment he rubbed himself against her tight entrance, Ari’s pheromones began releasing a noticeably richer scent.

A slow smile spread across Dohwi’s lips.

Choi Ari’s heat cycle had begun.

“Hngh, Dohwi, Dohwi… I, hah, I can’t…”

“Yeah. Ari, looks like your heat’s started. It’s okay, I’ll make you feel better soon.”

Dohwi showered her with tender kisses as she let out moans distinctly different from before, her hips twitching.

No matter how recessive an omega might be, none could avoid getting aroused after being drenched in a extremely dominant alpha’s pheromones in such a confined space. Especially when that alpha was someone they’d already slept with multiple times.

“Dohwi, I feel, hah, I feel strange…”

“Come here. It’s okay.”

When Ari, half out of her mind, couldn’t contain her arousal and reached out with her small hand to wrap around Dohwi’s neck, that pitiful strength clinging to him only made him even harder.

“Fuck, you’re so damn cute…”

For some reason, Dohwi’s chest ached more than usual today at her adorable, small-animal-like movements.

After all these years of loitering around as she pleased, now she wanted to say she’d seen enough and leave? Absolutely not.

More than anything, he couldn’t let go of an omega with pheromones that made his heart flutter like this—not so meaninglessly.

Dohwi smiled slyly as he roughly thrust his aroused cock into her narrow, wet entrance. Then, with a meaningful smile, he slowly caressed her white nape where no mark had yet been carved.

And savoring her pheromones that excited him so deeply, he pulled the small woman tightly into his embrace.

“My Ari, if you can, just try to run away.”