Despite the thought that things would get better, Hyeseong’s condition only worsened as ti went on. At first, it seed like the dicine was taking effect so he thought it would be alright, but that wasn’t the case at all. As if mocking his complacent judgnt, the rising fever and tingling sensations only intensified.
He considered going to a nearby hospital to get suppressants, but Hyeseong crumbled helplessly in the face of the sensations he was experiencing for the first ti. It had been a long ti since he had any strength in his body.
Heated breaths kept leaking out of his mouth and he could feel his face burning up as if it would burst. He thought if he just lay down and suffered a little, it would get sowhat better so he would endure it sohow.
“Haa.”
He could go to the hospital later. Hyeseong squeezed his eyes shut and pulled the blanket over his head. Enduring wasn’t that difficult. Overcoming sickness on his own was sothing Hyeseong was used to.
It was the sa when he was young. Thinking he shouldn’t inconvenience his aunt as much as possible, he would hide it whenever he was sick. Then one ti he got scolded by his aunt for getting so sick with a cold that he was bedridden, asking why he didn’t ask for help.
After seeing his aunt cry for the first ti that day, Hyeseong decided he shouldn’t hide it anymore, but that wasn’t easy. Even after going to college and living independently alone, that habit continued.
Even when sick, he wouldn’t tell anyone. He would just wrap himself tightly in a blanket on the bed in his empty studio and suffer alone.
Just like now. It was sothing he had done countless tis before. Unless it was a fatal illness, if he endured, his body would gradually get better. It wasn’t too late to find a solution after getting through this crisis.
It was while making such a resolution. He felt a long vibration from the cell phone placed by his pillow. It had rung briefly before but he was too out of it to think about checking it. Hyeseong’s hand limply extended out from under the blanket.
Fumbling with the blanket, he found and picked up the phone.
[CEO]
Upon seeing the caller, Hyeseong was so surprised that he threw off the blanket. Just from seeing a na, it felt like his heart plumted.
Hyeseong agonized for a mont. In this state, it would be best not to answer, but then there was the possibility that Ihyeok might stop by this house on his way ho from work. Hyeseong answered the phone, clearing his throat as much as possible.
“Hyeseong-ah.”
It was a voice that was always nice to hear. Hyeseong barely suppressed the tingling sensation below as he replied. After that, as always, Ihyeok asked the usual things. Hyeseong bit his lip, trying not to let his ragged breathing be noticed.
Just from his low voice, Hyeseong felt his body heating up even more. He clearly rembered this happening before – getting hard while on the phone with Ihyeok.
He didn’t rember exactly what was said, but startled by Ihyeok’s words that he would drop by, Hyeseong made excuses. After firmly telling Ihyeok that he would go to bed early so not to co, Hyeseong collapsed back onto the bed. Trying to ignore his slowly stiffening lower body, Hyeseong squeezed his eyes shut.
Now it was difficult to even open his eyes because of the fever. It had reached the point of making him delirious. It seed like he heard so noise from outside but he couldn’t even think about it.
It was in that mont.
“…Seong-ah!”
The cool warmth caressing his cheek, the urgent voice ringing in his ears. Hyeseong struggled to open his eyes but couldn’t see well. Only that a huge shadow was pacing back and forth in front of him.
Rationality had long disappeared. The string he had barely been holding on to was on the verge of snapping. He now understood why hybrids paid such close attention to and managed their heat cycles.
What filled his head now wasn’t things like “Endure, find a solution.” Only desires kept coming to mind like “It’s hard and painful, I want to let it out.”
He didn’t know if he was dreaming, but he wanted to entrust everything to the hands touching him. Perhaps that was why. For the first ti ever, Hyeseong uttered words he had never spoken before.
“…Please help .”
* * *
Ihyeok boldly opened the door and imdiately frowned. The room was filled with an oga’s pheromones. Ihyeok barely kept his mind together. Looking at the bed, he saw a bulging shape wrapped in a blanket. Ihyeok hurriedly approached and lifted the blanket.
“Hyeseong-ah!”
There lay Hyeseong, breathing rapidly. His pale face was blushing red like a ripe apple. Despite the gushing pheromones, Ihyeok gritted his teeth and stroked Hyeseong’s cheek. It was an incredible fever.
‘Is it heat?’
These suffocating pheromones had a different texture. Ihyeok instinctively knew. That this was sothing emitted by an oga in heat.
“Hyeseong-ah, can you hear ? Did you take suppressants?”
Hyeseong’s eyes flickered open for a mont then imdiately closed again. He didn’t seem to be in a state to co to his senses. Moreover, his body was burning up as if he would get burned. Things didn’t look good.
Ihyeok imdiately searched all over Hyeseong’s house. With the feeling that ticulous Hyeseong would regularly go to the hospital, and rembering the dicine pouches he had seen before.
Then, in the very bottom drawer of the living room cabinet, he spotted a pamphlet with the Yehyun University Hospital logo and suppressants scattered around.
Two pills were already missing from the dicine pack.
“He took suppressants but why…”
Why was his fever so high? Far from subsiding, the pheromones were becoming more intense. Ihyeok quickly returned to the bedroom. The raging pheromones were agonizing for Ihyeok as well. But now was the ti to hold on to his reason more than ever. What he saw wasn’t a heat-struck oga, but a sick child.
So he couldn’t leave him like this. It seed he needed to take action quickly, whether moving Hyeseong to his car or calling an ambulance.
“…”
But he hesitated. Would doing that really be for this child’s sake? For so reason, Hyeseong was hiding that he had beco an oga. Seeing as he hadn’t breathed a word even to Park Dohyun, let alone to Ihyeok, he must have a reason he wanted to hide it.
But was it really right to take Hyeseong to the hospital now? Although there was a sick person in front of his eyes, strangely, it wasn’t easy to act right away. Heat cycles usually gradually subside after a certain amount of ti passes.
When hybrids go into heat, it was common to spend it stably with a partner or suppress it with dicine. But when unavoidably unable to use either thod, there was no choice but to just endure while embracing all the sharpened senses without doing anything.
Just like Hyeseong now. A heat cycle wasn’t a fatal illness, and if you endured it sohow, you could return to normal. That was probably the thod Hyeseong chose. So he wanted to respect that thod. But he absolutely could not leave the child groaning in pain like this.
Ihyeok briefly left the room. After so deliberation, he called soone. As the call connected, he went to the living room and opened a window. Hyeseong’s pheromones were affecting him as well after all.
“Professor Moon, it’s .”
“Yes. CEO. What is it?”
He was Professor Moon Sungjin, considered the top authority in the hybrid field and also Ihyeok’s attending doctor.
“I have sothing to ask. It’s about oga heat.”
“Oga heat?”
Professor Moon’s surprised voice ca through. It made sense for him to find it strange for an alpha, and one who doesn’t even have a partner, to suddenly ask about heat.
“Heat ca but suppressants aren’t working either. There’s no partner. What’s the best thing to do in this case?”
“The most reasonable thod would be to have a doctor directly examine the body’s condition at a hospital and administer appropriate suppressants, but the fact that you called ans going to the hospital isn’t feasible, right?”
“Right.”
Professor Moon humd for a mont as if pondering.
“As a doctor I don’t recomnd it, but just leaving it be and doing nothing is also one thod. Usually the average heat cycle lasts about 5 days. During about 2-3 days of that, pheromone levels rise excessively, accompanied by fever and arousal, but once that period passes, the body will gradually stabilize.”
Professor Moon added that it’s best if the blanket isn’t too thick and to ventilate the room about once an hour. Above all, he emphasized not to put the person together with other hybrids but in an independent space.
“But the fever is too severe. Is a heat cycle usually like that?”
Ihyeok knew well from experiencing rut. That a fever rises when a heat cycle hits. But Hyeseong’s body was strangely burning up like a fireball.
“The fever is severe? Usually during heat or rut, heat-induced fever does occur, but for it to be severe… CEO, is it perhaps that person’s first heat cycle?”
Ihyeok paused for a mont.
“Usually during the first heat cycle after hybrid manifestation, fever often spikes. Moreover, if the heat cycle hits when the pheromone glands haven’t stabilized yet, it can be even more so.”
First heat cycle. Although he didn’t know since when Hyeseong had manifested as an oga, or why the child who was a beta ended up like that, the severe fever could all be explained if it was his first heat as the professor said.
“In such special circumstances, I recomnd going to the hospital after all. I want to go myself but I’m overseas for a seminar… In any case, if the fever rises, it will greatly impact the body, aside from the heat.”
Ihyeok clenched his fists. He felt powerless, as if there was nothing he could do for the sick Hyeseong.
“I told you. Can’t go to the hospital.”
Ihyeok dry washed his face.
“Hmm, if suppressants don’t work either, there’s nothing left but to relieve the aroused state. But you said there’s no partner, so for now, doing your best to bring the fever down like I ntioned earlier would be optimal.”
Ihyeok hung up and went back to the room.
“Haa.”
A stifled sigh unintentionally burst out. But he didn’t know if it was from powerlessness or because of Hyeseong’s pheromones.
“Hyeseong-ah.”
Ihyeok crouched in front of Hyeseong and stroked his cheek. It looked so hot and painful, but he had no idea what to do. The words about relieving the aroused state ca to mind, but Ihyeok shook his head vigorously.
To lay hands on a child who can’t even co to his senses because of heat. He absolutely couldn’t do that. For now, he planned to at least wet a cold towel and bring it. He would try to bring the fever down sohow, and if that really didn’t work, then it seed best to take him to the hospital then.
As Ihyeok slowly rose from his spot, he felt a hot touch on his wrist. Looking down, Hyeseong was slowly opening his eyes and grasping Ihyeok’s hand.
Reviews
All reviews (0)