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In my twenty-plus years of life, there had only been three times I’d honestly and seriously felt that way and this was the third time, and it was by far the worst.

There was no doubt in my mind that the hard object poking me in the back was a gun. Not a toy gun, but a real gun with real bullets. I knew that if he squeezed his finger, a bullet would be fired and go straight through my torso.

Oh my god! What am I going to do? My head was spinning, and for the first time in my life, I couldn’t come up with a solution. Not only was there a guy pointing a gun at me from behind but there were several more guys twice my size that surrounded me.

One of them was yelling something at me in a language I couldn’t understand. The accent and inflections suggested it might be Russian, but I couldn’t discern any of it.

“How many times do I have to tell you, I don’t understand?!”

I sighed heavily as I muttered this under my breath, then they exchanged glances with one another, and finally, the clean-cut one stepped forward.

“Don’t make a scene and follow me. That’s the only way I can keep those four in line for another minute.”

This time it was in English, so I understood. Yes, yes. I knew I’d get a beating if I tried to argue, so I kept my mouth shut and smiled really friendly. Bam! Apparently, he didn’t like what he saw, so the guy behind me whacked me in the head with a gun.

Don’t you know you shouldn’t spit on a smiling face?!

In a moment of anger, I stared him down straight in the face, and his expression became even more sinister. Oh, that was a mistake. These guys look like the mafia…….

Before I could finish my train of thought, I heard another dull thud and felt a hard impact on the back of my head. And then my vision faded to black.

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2

Ryu Jin must have been knocked unconscious. He winced at the throbbing pain in his head as he opened his eyes to find himself surrounded by men in sharp suits. At the center of this was a man with a distinctly boss-like presence sitting in a chair with his legs crossed and his jaw set staring straight at Ryu Jin.

“Ryu Jin?”

The man spoke softly, his lips barely moving, his emerald eyes glistening brilliantly.

Despite Ryu Jin being his name, he didn’t nod. As he listened to his name spoken again, he couldn’t deny that he had done something to bring this about, and now here it was. Well, he had imagined that something like this could happen to him for his misdeeds, but he still didn’t think it actually would happen.

Click. The sound came from directly beside his head. When Ryu Jin turned around he saw the man deliberately eject the magazine. He showed him the full clip and put it back in with a loud snap, then there was a loud bang. Ryu Jin flinched away in panic. There was a bullet hole in the floor right in front of him.

“Answer me.”

Gulp. He swallowed dryly. ’Since when is it free to own a gun in this country?’

The man with the gun shook his head. He then raised his gun and pointed it at Ryu Jin’s temple. It was a clear message; if you didn’t answer quickly, this bullet will go through your skull this time.

“If you lie, I will cut out your tongue and feed it to the dogs.”

The warning came first from the man in the chair in a leisurely voice. Whether it was fortunate or his own misfortune, the man spoke English, so even if he didn’t want to understand, he couldn’t help but to. He swallowed hard and opened his mouth. It wasn’t like he’d believe him at this point even if Ryu Jin tried to deny it.

“That’s right, Ryu Jin, that’s right.”

The man’s mouth curled up on one side in a wry smile.

“One billion dollars.”

‘A billion dollars? What was this?!’

“That’s how much I lost because of you.”

His bleak words fell to the floor in his low, gravelly voice. Ryu Jin curled his dry lips into a smile because he had already guessed at this point that he was talking about the money Ryu Jin had blown up.

“It’s not like I’m going to rip your throat out, but…….”

Skreak-skreak. The knife in his hand, which he’d been holding for who knows how long, slid out of its sheath repeating that same uncharacteristically cheerful sound. Even his gesture was graceful which made it all the more eerie.

“There’s no way I’m going to get a billion dollars worth with something that’s only four inches long, is there?”

It was a question, but the man’s intonation didn’t rise at all. He was already speaking as a conclusion.

“So what should I do with you?”

He stood up. He walked over and sat down on one knee directly in front of Ryu Jin, placing the blade of his knife under Ryu Jin’s chin to lift it up.

“I hear you’ve got a pretty good head on your shoulders.”

His emerald eyes fixed straight into Ryu Jin’s.

“Answer me with that brilliant little head of yours.”

Something about the man’s fair skin and shiny bright blond hair made it all seem so unreal. He wondered if he was dreaming, and he hoped it was.

The cold blade tapped against his cheek, and he arched an eyebrow at the stinging sensation, but the man’s face remained expressionless.

“If I cut your corpse into pieces and feed it to the vultures, do you think it will make me feel better?”

After speaking those icy words, the man rose from his perch. The others approached Ryu Jin and grabbed his arms from either side forcing him to his feet and dragging him to the window.

Flump. His eyes widened as the towering window flung open on either side. A large maze-like garden of mature plantings stretched out before him. On top of that, there was a small layer of white snow. It was December, but Ryu Jin hadn’t heard of any snowfall in Korea, and there had been no indication that it was supposed to snow.

“Where am I……?”

Ryu Jin muttered in surprise, and the man who answered in English walked over and stood next to him.

“Moscow. That’s where your body will be buried.”

‘Huh!’ He was so stunned that his eyes went black. No, it was as white, as white as the landscape in front of him.

‘If I could turn back time, I wish I could go back to last month, and I would have never, I promise you, never, have done that.’

3

Maybe it was because of all the Alpha blood that ran in his family. No, that didn’t matter. ‘Whatever!’

Nothing he did ever felt difficult, which is why it wasn’t fun. His athleticism wasn’t bad. He just didn’t like vigorous physical activity, so he never intentionally sought it out.

He scoffed at his friends’ suggestions that he should try dating and wondered if it was even worth it. Some of these friends believed in the idea that people were destined to be together, but he thought it was just a self-justification for people who fall in love easily.

The bottom line was that he was bored. He was bored to death and needed something stimulating to do, and that’s when one of his classmates suggested that they should try cryptocurrency, saying that their club was collecting small amounts of money for fun and that they were not going to make a lot of money, but it might be interesting to try.

The more he learned about cryptocurrency, the more interesting it became. The smallest bit of news could cause spikes and plunges that were more dramatic than the stock market. After all, where else in the world can a stock go up 300% or more in a single day? As he observed this, he had a crazy idea.

He picked one of the most widely traded cryptocurrencies, one that was commonly used and recognized as stable, created an account with an English username, and wrote a series of posts announcing that there would be a hard fork¹ in that cryptocurrency, an upgrade of the existing cryptocurrency that would separate the physical value from the virtual value and create a new cryptocurrency.

T/N

1 Definitions
- A) Hard Fork
  - A hard fork (or hardfork), as it relates to blockchain technology, is a radical change to a network’s protocol that makes previously invalid blocks and transactions valid, or vice-versa. A hard fork requires all nodes or users to upgrade to the latest version of the protocol software.
- B) Hardfork
  - A hard fork is a permanent divergence in the blockchain, commonly occurring when non-upgraded nodes cannot validate transactions/blocks created by upgraded nodes that follow newer consensus rules. Put simply, a hard fork is a change to the software protocol that makes previously invalid blocks/transactions valid, or vice-versa.

People were simple. No one suspected that the account was created by a college student as long as the account was named after an existing cryptocurrency, had a convincing image, and consistently posted information in English. They assumed it was the official account of the new cryptocurrency development team.

As the release date of the new cryptocurrency approached the price of existing cryptocurrencies skyrocketed. This was due to the expectation that people would be able to get the new cryptocurrency for their existing holdings.

But the new cryptocurrency was never released. And no wonder. The first announcement was that the new cryptocurrency would be delayed due to a glitch in its development. Then, about ten days later, they posted another announcement that they were delaying the release of the new cryptocurrency because they had found a critical bug in the hard fork.

In the meantime, Ryu Jin sold all his cryptocurrency. He hadn’t invested much in the first place, just a little bit for fun, but he still had a profit of 5 million won.

The world was absurd. He felt sorry for the speculators who flocked to the market based solely on what they read on social media, and he felt smug that he could control them with his fingers. Let’s face it. He was arrogant. He was overjoyed that he had made a big splash in the world.

Now he should have just quietly bombed the account and disappeared, but he got carried away by his excitement. In a drunken stupor, he wrote a mocking post in Korean on that new cryptocurrency development notification account.

In fact, there was nothing illegal about what he did. He was just writing freely on the Internet, and the people who bought the cryptocurrency believing that it was an official cryptocurrency development team were idiots for doing so, so he was proud of himself. Who told them to invest in volatile cryptocurrency? Ryu Jin didn’t say anything about buying or selling or anything like that. He just leaked information about a bogus hard fork.

The problem came afterward. When it was revealed that the whole thing was a sham, the price of the cryptocurrency plummeted, and the angry people who had lost money dug up the identity of the account holder who had announced the new cryptocurrency’s development.

Where they went to college, where they lived, what their names were.

It didn’t take long to find out and then he started getting death threats. What can they do about it? What he did was reprehensible, but not illegal. However, it was illegal for them to publish his identity, wasn’t it?

He went to the police and filed a complaint against the people who were digging up his identity and sending him threats, and he asked for protection. The police were incredulous, but they gave him a smartwatch and promised him that he could call them at any time if he felt threatened, and they would send an officer to his house in time for him to get to classes tomorrow.

After all, it wasn’t a big deal. The media made a lot of noise about a young man who didn’t have a care in the world and took his pranks too far, but that was it. In reality, nothing had changed in his life.

He truly didn’t believe it would. Until he walked out of the police car and into his house.

The front door had obviously been locked, but in the living room stood a group of foreigners he had never seen before. Black suits, leather gloves, with suspicious glares and expressions. They were definitely not ordinary people.

“Ryu Jin?”
One of them asked. Ah……. As he pondered, he was already surrounded by men with guns pointed at his head.

4

‘Moscow……What do you mean, Moscow?! Maybe I’m dreaming. I thought, maybe I should just jump out the window. Maybe it’s too high for that. I looked down and realized that it was at least four or five stories high. I’d be lucky if I jumped and died in one go, but it seems more likely that I wouldn’t die and would just break my bones or burst apart something important somewhere.’

Poof. There was a push on his back and his feet were pushed out the veranda window, he let out a muffled scream. Ryu Jin debated whether to jump or not, but his survival instinct kicked in first. His feet hit the air, but his body didn’t fall. Two large men on either side of him held his arms tightly.

“Will the fall kill you?”

The man from before was standing right behind him. He was still speaking softly, in a calm, deep voice. He must have been Russian, but his English pronunciation was fairly accurate.

“Look down.”

Ryu Jin did as he said, his gaze darting to just below the window. Haah! A gasp escaped him. What the hell is he doing sticking something like that right under the window? The jet-black spiked finials stuck upward, threatening to eat him alive.

“If you get caught there, it’ll absorb the impact of your fall, so you won’t die instantly.”

The placid voice was starting to creep him out. Perhaps it would be better to just get shot.

“Or,”

At his last word, the burly men on either side of Ryu Jin pulled him inside. He breathed out a sigh of relief, and when he heard the man’s voice again, he was scared.

“I could just cut you to pieces and throw you to them.”

The man glances ahead. This time, He was genuinely terrified. There were two jet-black animals, each over a meter tall, baring their sharp teeth. They were both barking at him, and at first, he thought they were dogs, but then he realized they were wolves. They bared their teeth and growled so loudly he thought they were going to lunge and rip his throat out at any moment.

“Or, I could give you a choice.”

‘Ahh aha……. Wow, that’s a hell of a selection! Why not just use a gun to shoot me with hundreds of holes?’

“Oh, I forgot, maybe I could use you for target practice, I haven’t shot anyone in a while and my hand is getting rusty, so I can’t promise you a clean heart or headshot.”

‘This guy’s a mind reader.’

“I’m sure there are other options…….”

The corners of Ryu Jin’s mouth twitched as he tried to smile. The man who’d been staring at him lifted the corners of his mouth.

“You’re a big man, do you find this situation so amusing?”

‘Should I cry? Would you spare me if I pretended to cry? The man’s outstretched arm tightened around my neck.’

“Ryu Jin, if you try to bullshit me, I’ll rip out your tongue and gouge out your eyeballs one at a time.”

He never thought he’d meet someone in his life who would actually utter those kinds of threats, and mean them. ‘I’ve only been alive for a little over twenty years now, but life is so fucking unpredictable.’

“If you kill me, you might feel a little satisfaction, but won’t get you, your billion dollars back.”

“……What about it?”

“I’ll get it all back to you in one year.”

The words came out of his mouth without a second’s hesitation, as though he were in a hurry to get them out before the man changed his mind. There was a moment of silence.

“A year?”

The man arched one eyebrow in disbelief. His mouth went dry under the man’s penetrating stare. It was easy to say one billion dollars, one trillion in Korean won. However, what on earth could he do to earn a trillion in less than a year? All sorts of thoughts ran through his head, but he had to go with it. He’d bide his time, and in that year, he would figure out another way according to his circumstances.

“Hah!”

The man laughed as if in disbelief.

“Unbelievable bastard.”

“If it took me a month to wipe out a billion dollars, why couldn’t I do the same thing in reverse?”

He didn’t think he could. He racked his brain for a moment, but couldn’t come up with anything. Nevertheless, he answered the man’s question as calmly and nonchalantly as he could.

A man in a black suit approached the man and whispered something in his ear. Judging by his expressions when they brought Ryu Jin in, he was the only one who had spoken English before, so he must have understood everything they had said.

Ryu Jin was sure he was trying to tell him no, that it didn’t make sense, that he should kill him now. That Ryu Jin was only twenty, and he’s just trying to save his own life…….

“Okay, I’ll give you time.”

Ryu Jin froze, wondering if he’d misheard.

“What. Did you just say that without meaning it?”

The man’s eyes narrowed. Ryu Jin quickly shook his head NO, but he was still flustered.

“I’ll give you $100,000 to test the market. If it’s worth ten million in a month, I’ll extend your life by a year.”

One hundred thousand US dollars is over ₩100 million (won), and the idea of investing that much money to test his abilities was a big deal. But, yeah, it had been ten thousand times as much of his money, to begin with. ‘What the hell do these assholes do to make so much money?’ At least he got a one-month grace period.

As he was contemplating his thoughts, the man nodded to the other man behind him. After exchanging some words in Russian, the man approached and ordered Ryu Jin to get up.

“Follow me.”

Luckily, there were no restraints. He didn’t blindfold him or anything. He might have thought that since he had dragged Ryu Jin, a Korean, all the way to Moscow, he couldn’t run away. He wondered if he could get away from that place even if it were Korea being that it was guarded by black wolves, not dobermans. Even if he didn’t get mauled to death by a wolf, there would be bullets flying everywhere like bees through a honeycomb.

The man who led him to a room at the end of the hall one floor down from that first room, opened the door and told him to go inside.

“Excuse me, what do I call you?”

“…….”

He looked away expressionlessly, not wanting to answer.

“You seem to be the only one here who speaks English, so why don’t you at least tell me what to call you?”

“……..Andrei Vissmötnyi”

“Andrei Vis……Oh, that’s too difficult, can I just call you by your first name?”

Again, no answer. He’s a bit reserved, but he doesn’t tell Ryu Jin not to, so he supposed that it was okay to call him by his first name.

“Write down what you need for tomorrow.”

He handed him a notepad and motioned for Ryu Jin to enter the room. The room was sparse beyond the point of neatness. There was a single bed against one wall barely big enough for one person.

“Where’s the bathroom?”

When Ryu Jin asked him what would happen if he needed to go to the bathroom, Andrei frowned.

“What do I do if I have to deal with my physiological needs?”

“If you’re in dire need, knock on the door. The guy guarding the door will take you.”

“I can’t communicate with him.”

“Body language speaks for itself.”

It was easy to say that it was someone else’s problem. Andei just shrugged, like it was no big deal.

“Oh, one more thing.”

Ryu Jin grabbed Andei as he was about to leave.

“Is that guy your boss?”

“…….”

He didn’t answer, but it was obvious.

“Your Boss is very young. What’s his name?”

“None of your business, since you’re not going to talk to him.”

“I’m not going to try to talk to him, I’m just curious. He’s the one who holds my life in his hands, I deserve to know that much.”

“……Ilya Galayev.”

Ryu Jin nodded, muttering to himself, “Okay,” and just as Andei was about to close the door for real this time,

“Wait, wait, wait!”

His face, which had been as expressionless as a sculpture contorted more and more grotesquely as Ryu Jin continued to call out in exasperation.

“Don’t lose your temper.”

He held up his hands and backed away, and he let out a small sigh.

“I get that you’ve lost money because of me, but what did you do to deserve a billion dollars? Do mafiosos invest in cryptocurrency because they’re short on funds?”

“It was a hostage payment.”

“Oh……?”

He waited hoping for a more detailed explanation, but Andei just stared at him, his mouth fixed in a straight line as though he wasn’t going to say anything more. If he was going to give a response it would be nice if he explained it in a little more detail. He looked at Ryu Jin like he was about to pull out a gun, and then Andei asked him if he was trying to snoop on him, so Ryu Jin told him he wasn’t, and turned his back on him.

Behind his back, he heard Andei close the door, the smile faded from his lips and he groaned.

A hostage’s ransom……. He probably received someone’s ransom in cryptocurrency in order to launder it, but before he could cash it out, the cryptocurrency crashed due to the results of Ryu Jin’s actions, and he lost his money. It was dirty illegal gains, so Ryu Jin wasn’t legally obligated to pay it back. But they are mafia, so laws aren’t as important as guns and knives.

Anyway, a billion dollars is a lot of money! If he had the ability to make that much money, he’d be doing something with it already. With only one year, the only option is investment. They’re willing to invest $100,000 for a one-month trial period, so Ryu Jin was sure they’d continue to fund the project as long as it shows results.

‘Aah, I don’t know!’ He would just have to keep his mouth shut and see what happens.

He lay back on his bed, staring up at the ceiling and blinking lazily. He didn’t know what time it was, but it was still light outside, and he hadn’t slept since being dragged all the way to Moscow, while still unconscious. Even if he was lucky enough to escape, he’d be caught in less than half a day, and even if it wasn’t Andrei, there would be someone guarding the door. Plus, he didn’t speak any Russian, so even if he could get out of there, he would be stuck.

Ryu Jin decided to wait and see what would happen since they weren’t going to kill him right away.

As he relaxed, he remembered those cold emerald eyes staring back at him. Ilya Galayev……. He repeated the name Andei had given him. He was too damn handsome to be a mafioso! And the sweet scent he emitted when he came close. It was definitely…….

He bit his lip hard and closed his eyes. He looked at the calendar and furrowed his brow. Only a handful of weeks until the end. He hadn’t anticipated this and he had not prepared anything at all…….

‘Whatever, it will work out, something will come along.’

He decided to think positively. There was no point in worrying about the future. What’s going to happen is going to happen no matter what he does. Even if that means going through a nightmare that he couldn’t avoid…….

‘Fuuuck! Why did I do it……why did I do that?!’

He clenched his jaw at the memory and raised his arm to cover his eyes. When he was in the dark, he let out a long sigh.

Worrying about it was useless, it was the past. This was today and there was nothing more important than staying alive and unharmed in the face of the Russian mafia.

“Take good care of me. Mr. Ilya.”

He whispered to himself and turned over on his side. He pulled the blankets over himself, feeling a bit ragged. Still, the cold didn’t seem to go away.

‘Fucking mafia assholes. If you’re going to drag people out here in the freezing cold and keep them locked up, you should at least heat the place properly. I’m going to freeze to death before I can pay you back your billion dollars!’

As he tossed and turned, before he knew it, it was pitch black outside the window and then it was dawn, and just like that, his first night in Moscow was over.

5

Three PCs and five monitors. Ryu Jin asked them to set that up, and less than an hour later, a desk was brought into the room and the latest computers and monitors were placed on it.

“Now, explain to me what you’re going to do.”

Said their boss, Ilya, as he sat cross-legged on the bed.

“Cryptocurrency is the most volatile, but it’s also the best way to make a lot of money in a short span of time, and I don’t need to explain to you that the bigger the investment, the greater the returns.”

“So you’re going to invest in crypto to recover the money you lost?”

The corners of Ilya’s mouth twitched upward. Ilya had already lost a lot of money because of cryptocurrency so he was understandably skeptical.

“What kind of scheme are you going to run this time?”

He asked cynically. Ryu Jin was thinking, ‘Yeah, that’s the way I took your money’ but he knew that if he made a mistake, he wouldn’t die a gentle death.

“Forget the scams, I don’t want any more headaches.”

His emerald eyes bore into Ryu Jin’s. Ryu Jin didn’t shy away from the cold gaze that was staring at him like they were trying to read his mind. The few seconds that passed between their shared stare, seemed to drag on forever.

Ilya’s eye color is unusual in Korea, and whenever he stared at Ryu Jin they would glimmer like a glass bead as the light caught them. Even though they were too ferocious to be called beautiful, Ryu Jin felt like he was falling in love with them.

If anyone else heard his thoughts they’d think he’d been hit in the head, or that he was nuts for thinking his Boss’s eyes were beautiful, even though he was being held captive in a Russian mob base. However, he couldn’t help himself.

“Do as you wish. You might as well do as much as you possibly can while you’re still alive.”

It’s more sneaky to use sarcasm than to come right out and say you want to kill someone. Ilya shrugged his shoulders and smirked, then he stood up from his seat and moved closer.

As he closed the distance between them, his sweet scent grew stronger and richer. Ryu Jin furrowed his brow at the intriguing scent which was different from any perfume he had ever smelled. Ilya’s eyebrows twitched as he looked down at him. Ryu Jin tried to laugh it off, but it was too late.

“Do you have any complaints?”

Of course, he had complaints! They’d kidnapped him, transported him across international borders, imprisoned him, threatened him with death, and forced him to work as a slave, how could he not have complaints?!

“Of course not.”

It was a shame he couldn’t say what he really thought. Ryu Jin had grown up without ever having to bow down to anyone…….he lowered his gaze expecting bitterness to burst forth, instead he heard a click of his tongue.

Long, outstretched fingers grabbed his chin and lifted it. He forced himself to make eye contact with Ilya again.

“Do you still have no idea what’s happening, or do you have cold feet now that you’ve lept without looking²?”

T/N

2 Audacity or Bravado. This is often a taunt.

literally: To have one’s liver out of one’s belly or inflated liver ([Liver=Guts] liver meaning: courage, bravado, etc.)- someone with an over-inflated liver; means someone with an overinflated sense of bravery i.e. chest-thumping, etc.

The harsh, cold tone of his voice made Ryu Jin’s blood freeze. The man had a knack for making the air crackle and freeze with just a change of stare and tone of voice.

“Why do you continue to make those faces at me?…….”

“What are you talking about, making faces at you…….”

“Perhaps you should rip out my tongue so you won’t have to listen to me. I don’t suppose it would stop me from doing your job, so I suppose it wouldn’t matter.”

Ryu Jin quickly raised his hand and slapped it over his mouth in reaction to the words that Ilya definitely wouldn’t take as a joke. Ryu Jin could see the corners of his mouth twitch upward.

“You had better be careful.”

He lowered his head and leaned in closer, his sweet scent becoming dizzyingly intense in the air. Damn…….Ryu Jin forced himself not to make a face this time, but instead, he found himself unable to breathe properly.

Ilya leaned in closer, barely an inch from him, and then suddenly stopped. He arched one eyebrow, shook his head, and stepped back.

“You…….”

He looked like he was about to say something, but then his expression stiffened and he turned away. The guy guarding the doorway quickly opened it and stepped aside to let him out.

“Oh, wait.”

He stopped in his tracks as Ryu Jin called after him, but he didn’t turn around.

“I’m sorry, but can’t you at least keep them out of my room? They’re bothering me and I can’t concentrate.”

He let out a hearty laugh, as though he was flabbergasted by his bold demands. But he didn’t say anything, he just motioned for them to leave. He seemed to have realized that Ryu Jin sneaking out of the room would be impossible anyway.

Bang.

After the door closed, Ryu Jin let out a long sigh. He sighed again as he turned on his computer and checked the date.

“Holy shit, this is so dangerous…….”

He mumbled to himself with a grim look on his face, but he just shook his head to dismiss the thought, figuring he’d figure it out soon enough. ‘Yeah’, he thought, ‘it’s a minor problem. If it goes sideways, I’ll just grab a random guy and solve the problem, so it’s really not a big deal. I mean, they’re not actually going to grab somebody and just murder them for doing that. No, they wouldn’t kill me. Pfft, no way!’

Whether it was the frigid Moscow weather or his own anxiety, he felt chilled to the bone. He dragged the covers off the bed and curled up in the chair in front of his computer, legs crossed.

After a while, the only sounds in the room were the clicking of his mouse and the tapping of his fingers on the keyboard.

6

“Do you really honestly think you can trust him?”

Viktor asked, following a step behind Ilya. Ilya didn’t answer, instead, he kept walking straight ahead.

“Boss, you never know when that little bastard is going to stab you in the back,”

“If he does, I’ll just tear him limb from limb and feed him to my pack.”

“If that’s the case, don’t put it off, do it now…….”

Viktor, who had been grumbling under his breath, swallowed hard as he looked back at Ilya. Ilya’s beautifully sculpted face, with his lips set in a straight line, was chilling.

“I,I’m sorry.”

Viktor quickly bowed his head and took a step back. It was more terrifying when he just stared at him like that than when he shouted and berated him. Their leader preferred his anger to be silent and cold.

He was worried that he was being played by the Asian brat, but he was wrong. Judging by his demeanor and his reactions, he wasn’t being played. If anything, he was simply swallowing down his anger in silence.

“What a bunch of bullshit!”

It was only after Ilya had gone back to his room and they were left alone in the corridor that Andei spoke up.

“This would have all been over yesterday if you hadn’t convinced the Boss to take the brat’s side and keep an eye on him for the time being.”

Victor was taking his frustration with the Boss out on Andrei.

“Killing him would be easy, but then how would we recover the money the bastard lost? Are you going to take a job as a mercenary? I doubt your body is worth it.”

“You bastard! Are you picking a fight?”

“I’m just being realistic.”

“What about that pale rookie brat? Do you really think he’s going to recover all that money?”

“I don’t know.”

“Well, that’s nice!”

“He just casually scammed a bunch of random people all over the world with the intention of getting less than $5,000 out of it.”

“That just shows his naiveté.”

Andei looked pityingly at Viktor who was mumbling under his breath about whatever the hell he was supposed to be talking about.

“5,000 dollars is not a lot of money, even at Korean exchange rates, and he wasn’t scamming anyone with it. He was just playing a prank to pass the time, and the aftermath was just far beyond his expectations.”

“A prank?!”

Viktor’s eyes widened in astonishment. Andei sighed. This guy’s head must just be a prop for his hair! Obviously, information about Ryu Jin must have been passed on to him before they went to capture him, but he either forgot to read it or tossed it aside as unnecessary.

“Yes, a game! I mean, this is a guy who cost the world more than a few billion dollars, maybe even tens of billions, over a casual, little prank, so aren’t you curious what would happen if he got serious and put his mind to it?”

Viktor nodded and groaned, as though things were starting to become more clear. Maybe, just maybe, this insignificant-looking Asian kid would live up to his Boss’s expectations.

“And if he fails?

“Better than not trying at all, and even if he fails, it will just be the end of the line for the kid.”

“What do you think, do you believe he will be successful?”

“The only person I have faith in is the Boss.”

The answer came back like it was automated. In other words, he was just following his Boss’s call.

“On the topic of my recommendation to give him a chance.”

Andrei merely glanced over and said nothing more, though he did add a final grunt of disapproval.

However, Andrei thought it might be worth a try if there was any hope of recovering some of the money that had been lost. When they realized that it was a young man, barely beyond his teens, who had excited cryptocurrency investors not only in South Korea but around the world, they were stunned. He might be smart, but he’s also bold, and he doesn’t value his life or so he thought until he met him.

But when he saw him in person, there was something about him that was different……. he felt an inexplicable sense of déjà vu. It was similar to the first time he met the Boss as a child. Of course, there’s no way an Asian brat and his Boss are the same. They are incomparable.

Still, something kept bugging him. Even when he’s smiling and seemingly innocent, there’s something else going on in those dark eyes. Maybe he’s just a con artist. Perhaps he was just feeling sensitive…….

It was true that he wanted to watch him a little longer rather than kill him outright, and he wondered if the Boss thought the same way, so he chose to save him, even if it was only to inform him of Ryu Jin’s history.

“None of us are capable of recovering that money even if we work until our dying day.”

Viktor muttered, as though he needed a reason to convince himself somehow. Andrei couldn’t disagree that that was the primary reason.

Just for a moment, though, he thought he saw the Boss’s expression stiffen a bit before he left Ryu Jin’s room…….It was probably nothing. He was most likely just annoyed that he was dealing with a brat.

💸💵💸💵💸

As Ryu Jin reached for the glass of water on the table, his fingers slipped and the glass fell, shattering with a loud crack. Ryu Jin couldn’t even think to pick up the shards of glass before he slumped back in his seat.

This was faster than he thought. He thought he still had a few days to spare…….

The moment he remembered those jewel-like emerald eyes of his, the heat that was simmering from the inside of his body quickly boiled upward spreading to his brain and overwhelming his sanity.

Damn it! This was all his fault. His sweet scent was the problem.

His entire body felt feverish until his head began to hurt. Hah…….He could feel the heat from his breath as it escaped his parted lips.

He couldn’t bear the throbbing down deep in his bottom.

Someone, anyone, please…….

He crawled across the floor to the door, barely managing to grab hold of the handle, but of course, it was locked from the outside and wouldn’t open. Alas……. He felt like he was going to go crazy from the tormenting agony. He pounded on the door with his fist and he could hear the sound of a voice calling out to see if there was anyone outside the door. He reached into his pants and touched his rear and felt the already damp place.

“Please……open the door…….Please……is anybody there, please…….”

His vision blurred from the heat of his estrus then faded in and out again.

7

When one thing goes awry, a whole slew of other things seem to follow.

Ilya’s organization provides mercenaries and weapons to a conflict-ridden region of the Middle East where religion and politics are intertwined. Two months ago, a major client of theirs offered to pay them double their usual price if they could rescue someone kidnapped by the opposing side. The huge offer meant the person was important to them. Ilya didn’t agree at first and waited, but ultimately he agreed to accept the payment which was three times the usual price.

The deal was done, and the payment was to be delivered in an untraceable cryptocurrency, but in the short window between confirming the deposit and withdrawing it, some asshole wiped out the billion dollars.

The other party defended themselves by saying that at the time they deposited the money, it was worth what they had initially promised, so they weren’t responsible. In reality, the cryptocurrency had indeed plummeted in value after it was deposited into Ilya’s account, so he couldn’t pursue it. He felt ashamed of himself for not understanding beforehand, so in the future, he would reconsider trading in cryptocurrency.

Since it was so quick to move money, does that mean it is also easy to gain it?

The more he thought about Ryu Jin’s words, the more he laughed in disbelief. He hasn’t tasted the bitterness of life. It was only natural since he was still so young, however, for Ilya, who had been through a lot even at that age, he was the type of brat that he could not, and did not want to understand.

Nevertheless, he spared his life because a billion dollars is a lot of money, and he also took a hit on his organization. If they weren’t able to recoup even a portion of it, they would be unable to pay for the next deal and the whole thing would be ruined.

A $100,000 test run was like the price of chewing gum compared to the deals that would be lost.

He was confident enough to make a bold move, and he would just see what would happen. Even though he’s a confirmed scammer, he has an impressive track record, so he was a little excited to see what this kid could do.

Ilya wasn’t one of those casual, ‘shoot first if you don’t like it’ type of Mafiosi, even if they were his adversaries, he’d give them a wide berth if there was a chance they could be useful to him someday, and if they couldn’t, he would be merciless. There was no room for concern over women, children, or the elderly.

There was still a chance for Ryu Jin. Perhaps he could be useful.

Knock-knock. A pounding on the door made him look up, and without a pause, the door opened and a subordinate rushed in, his expression distorted. He looked like he was about to say something, but kept closing his mouth.

“What’s going on?”

Asked Ilya at last. The subordinate’s face crumpled and his gaze dropped to the floor.

“Speak!”

When he was commanded one more time with more force in his voice, he managed to barely open his mouth.

“It’s that bastard. The one dragged from Korea…….”

The most improbable candidate was brought up. Ryu Jin understood that he’d been brought all the way to Moscow, but he didn’t scream to be returned, and he didn’t seem all that frightened. He acted as though he was going to cooperate, and now he’s already causing trouble?

Ilya’s eyebrows knitted together visibly. Maybe he should have just killed him…….

“I think he’s in heat.”

“Estrus?

“It’s a heat cycle, I think he’s an Omega.”

Huh. He huffed. Nowhere in his research on Ryu Jin did it say that he was an Omega. Normally he wouldn’t have known about it from the start. Omegas and Alphas were registered with the government, and there were records of that too…….

Hah, Fuck! Ilya swore under his breath. He wasn’t registered with the government either. Just like him, it was easy enough to cheat and get out of the government records.

“So? An Omega’s gone into heat, and what’s the problem with that?”

He was a prisoner anyway. A heat cycle would have been distressing, but it wasn’t a reason for a member of the organization to panic and come running.

“It’s…… so…….”

The subordinate’s face was even redder than before. Ilya’s facial expression hardened at the sight of his supposedly philandering subordinate acting like an innocent virgin, he reached for the control unit on the wall and pressed a button. The wall split in two revealing a large monitor inside.

“Bring up that Asian bastard’s room.”

He had pressed an intercom and given a command, and soon a large monitor displayed the room where Ryu Jin was being held. Ilya’s face contorted as the screen lit up. On the screen, several of his men were surrounding a naked Ryu Jin, who was undulating his hips with a cock in his mouth and a dick in his ass. He wasn’t the only one in heat; for some reason, his own subordinates looked equally dazed.

“And for some inexplicable reason, even the Beta’s eyes are glazed over…….”

In general, the pheromones of Omegas do not have a significant effect on Betas. There is one exception, and that is in the case of an extremely Dominant Omega whose pheromones attract a mate regardless of the gender, or whether they’re a Beta or Alpha. However, he had never encountered an extremely Dominant Omega. Most people believed it was just a myth created by someone’s fantasy.

But now this guy is an extremely Dominant Omega? He couldn’t believe it.

“Everyone who gets near him becomes affected.”

“Everyone has already retreated to a certain distance, except for those guys.”

What state were they in? Looking at his subordinates, Ilya clicked his tongue at the strangeness of the situation. Even the man who was reporting this to him was bulging at the seams. He barely managed to keep his wits about him and make it this far, but it looked like he was already in that state before he arrived.

When he stood up, his subordinate became alarmed and asked where he was going. When he glanced at the monitor instead of answering, his subordinate panicked even more.

“No way! That bastard’s pheromones, they’re beyond belief. I’m not kidding! If that guy’s pheromones could even affect the Boss…….”

“It could affect me?”

Ilya retorted with a sneer. How dare that guy suggest that he would succumb to that brat’s pheromones? With a mere glare, the subordinate swallowed hard and backed away.

As he descended the stairs and reached the floor where Ryu Jin was being kept, he was confronted with a floral scent so intense that he couldn’t breathe.

Yes, this was the smell. It was the scent that had caught his attention when he was close to him. He had dismissed it as an aberration, but it was an indicator.

The closer he got to the room, the stronger the scent became. His breath caught in his throat as the scent invaded his mind and eroded his reason. This was his pheromone…….A deep furrow creased Ilya’s brow.

The door was already open. He could hear the men panting. He pulled his gun from inside his suit jacket and without a second’s hesitation, he pulled the trigger.

The loud bang stopped everyone in their tracks, but even after looking back at Ilya, the men’s eyes never regained their focus.

Bang, bang! Two more shots were fired in quick succession. Thump, Thud. Red droplets of blood splattered on the white sheets and only then did one of his men scream and pull away from Ryu Jin. He wrapped his other hand around his forearm where the bullet had grazed him. It was a second or two later, but the other one fell backward with one leg still wrapped around him. The one who was lucky enough not to get shot was now clear-headed enough to look at Ilya in disbelief, without so much as a whimper.

“Tell me what you need from me,”

He said at gunpoint, then he stepped away as though he’d already come to his senses.

“Take them away and have them treated.”

The subordinate bowed, then hurried out of the room with the others. Only when he was sure the door was closed did Ilya look down at Ryu Jin who was sprawled out on the bed.

His moist, watery, dark chestnut eyes looked up at Illya. His lips were redder than they had been earlier, perhaps from the heat. They were still drenched in saliva from sucking his subordinate’s dick.

“Give it to me…….”

He begged, his lips still glistening with saliva. Even in his delirious state, he was still speaking in English instead of Korean, as though he wanted Ilya to understand him.

Ryu Jin crawled over and grabbed Ilya by the bottom edge of his suit. He showed no fear of the man who had just fired his gun. There was nothing in him but lust.

“Give it to me, please. Your cock, put it in here and fuck me.”

He spread his cheeks apart with his hands and slid his finger inside his hole. A viscous fluid trickled out of his hole, which he didn’t know to whom it belonged.

“Ha, you crazy……!”

Fucking bastards! He should have killed them all but instead, he was held by the floral scent of Ryu Jin’s pheromones that caused his blood to boil.

“Please, please……uuh?”

He reached out and grabbed Ilya’s leg and tried to unzip his fly. He reflexively pushed Ryu Jin away. Even though he was weak from the strength of his pheromones, Ilya stared at his center and bit his lip.

Fuck! Gradually Ilya’s lower body throbbed in response to his pheromones. He’d never experienced such strong pheromones in his life, and it was overwhelming. He wanted to take him right then and there. His head was throbbing from the exertion of enduring it.

He clenched his fist and pummeled it against the wall. The impact was so strong that the cement crumbled to dust and left his knuckles bleeding. He bit down hard on the flesh inside his mouth, tasting the foul flavor of blood in his mouth for a moment, and then his body took control.

How did he manage to get tangled up with such a dangerous bastard?

Pulling the blanket from the bed, he encircled Ryu Jin and hoisted him over his shoulder. He ignored the shuddering feeling that came over him at the mere touch of his fingertips on the blanket and continued on his way back to his room. Along the route, the men he’d encountered in the corridor attempted to swarm him due to Rye Jin’s overpowering pheromones, and he had to raise his gun a few times to shoot at their feet.

“Give it to me. This is so excruciating…….”

Even wrapped in the blankets, Ryu Jin didn’t try to hide his appetite. Each time he struggled, the scent of the flowers grew even stronger causing Ilya to have to wet his parched lips with his tongue several times.

“There is no such thing as an innocent creature.”

Ilya tossed Ryu Jin into the bathroom that was attached to his room. He turned on the shower and sprayed the blanket with water. The frigid water poured down, but Ryu Jin seemed oblivious to the icy temperature, instead only repeating that his body was burning hot and attempting to latch onto Ilya somehow.

“You really have too much audacity, trying to cling to me after those other bastards’ hands have been scorched by your heat.”

Normally, he would have already pulled the trigger and shot him in the head. However, he couldn’t. It was the damn pheromones! His head was about to explode from suppressing his desire to sink his teeth into Ryu Jin’s bare skin and devour him to his heart’s content.

Even as Ryu Jin burned inside, the ice-cold water poured down over him, causing him to shiver and shake as his body temperature dropped. All the while, his hands roamed all over his body trying to satisfy his need somehow.

Ilya knelt down and grabbed both of Ryu Jin’s hands, clasping them together with one hand. With his other hand, he grasped his chin and lifted it to meet his eyes. His red-rimmed watery eyes provoked the severe side of his nature.

“Are you……going to give it to me?”

“……The only thing you can think of is sex.”

He mumbled something in astonishment, however, he was in no condition to talk. Ilya’s cock had long since swelled to the point where it threatened to burst through his pants.

He grabbed his jaw and pulled their lips to one another. The moment their saliva mixed, an intense sensation of pleasure washed over him, so intense that it made him dizzy, something that no amount of logic could explain. As Ilya thrust his tongue into Ryu Jin’s mouth and swept it around, a hair-raising pleasure coursed through his veins and shot through his entire body.

“Ah-ah, huh, touch…. touch me down here too….”

He kissed him fiercely, barely able to let go of himself, and when he did release his hand, he immediately threw his arms around Ilya’s neck. Ilya slid his fingers between his cheeks as he spread his legs wide of his own accord, the already slick inner walls curling against his fingers. He clenched around them, as though the slightest touch was too much.

Ilya swallowed hard and added two more fingers, thrusting them inside. It was already so wet that it made a loud squelching noise with every stroke.

“Aaah……!”

Ryu Jin groaned, throwing his head back. Ilya licked his exposed throat, and Ryu Jin shuddered.

“More…….”

Ilya clutched his face in his hands tightly. The way Ryu Jin was so eager to have him, even as he felt like he was going to go crazy from the heat rising up inside him, was raking across his nerves. He groaned in frustration as he bit down on the area where his shoulder and neck met, but even as he did so, Ryu Jin whimpered not in agony, but in pleasure.

He ran his hand over his wet, soft skin. It had been cooled by the cold water only moments before, but now it was scorching hot again.

“Hurry up…… Come on…….”

Ryu Jin spread his legs wide and urged him on, his hips rocking impatiently as though his fingers probing inside him already weren’t enough.

“Does it even matter to you who it is, as long as you get filled up inside?”

Ilya asked, incredulous that he’d spread his legs for a man to enter him, but he simply nodded, his face crumpled, seemingly heedless. At that moment, something clicked in his head. It was then that Ilya realized there was no reason within an Omega during their heat cycle. They were no different from any animal possessed by their own needs. It didn’t matter who it was, even if that person was a Russian mafioso holding a gun to his head, at that moment he was just an insatiable creature.

It was not the first time he’d been through something along these same lines, but he could not bear to let the heat consume him. Ilya pulled his fingers out of Ryu Jin and grabbed his face, forcing Ryu Jin to look at him.

“It’s Ilya!”

“……?”

He blinked, looking at him like he didn’t understand why he would just suddenly speak his name. If he gave him more than a moment, his gaze would enviably drift back to his midsection, but he forced it back and locked onto his face.

“Say it properly. Say my name.”

“Ah.”

A gentle smile tugged at the corners of Ryu Jin’s mouth, as though he finally understood. A smile so beautiful it didn’t belong on such a messy disheveled face. No, it was the opposite. It suited him so well, that the brilliant smile made him lightheaded.

“Ilya.”

Ryu Jin called out his name and reached out to gently stroke his cheek. It wasn’t the first time someone had called him by name, but the sound of it made the hairs on his body stand on end.

“Ilya……Ilya…….”

Ryu Jin called his name over and over again, as though he were under a spell. That was the limit. The intoxicating scent of flowers, even after being soaked in water, had made him inebriated.

Ilya unzipped his pants and pulled out his already bulging cock. Just as if he’d been waiting, Ryu Jin leaned down and kissed the tip of Ilya’s dick. He licked the shaft with his tongue and opened his mouth wide to take it in. Whether it was the smallness of his mouth or the enormity of Ilya’s member, it barely fit halfway in, but the hot soft flesh of the inside of his mouth wrapped around it sent a savage surge of lust coursing through him. He grabbed Ryu Jin’s head and pulled it down, forcing his cock deeper into his mouth.

Kuck. Ryu Jin gagged as Ilya’s member pressed against his uvula, however, Ryu Jin didn’t try to pull it out of his mouth. Instead, he pushed it deeper down his throat trying to swallow all of Ilya, while simultaneously reaching behind his back with one hand to play with his hole. It was a dizzyingly provocative position, looking down on him from above.

“Turn around.”

Ilay withdrew his penis from his mouth to Ryu Jin’s regret, and turned Ryu Jin’s body to face the wall, forcing him to bend his upper body forward to press his upper body against the wall, and then shoved his dark red pillar between his ass cheeks.

“Aaah…….”

Ryu Jin groaned, shuddering in pleasure even though only the tip of his glans had been pushed in. As he forced his penis into his hole, the flowery scent wafted out even more intensely, stimulating his olfactory perception. It was a drug! It was an Aphrodisiac, more potent than any narcotic. It was a dark crimson rose that he had reached out and plucked even as he knew he would be gouged by thorns.

“Hmph!“

There was a brief, high-pitched yelp as he plunged it into the base.

“You’re the one who begged me to put it in, so just deal with it.”

Ilya growled as he nipped Ryu Jin’s earlobe with his teeth. He jerked his hips back and then forward, thrusting in deeper and deeper, and with each thrust, Ryu Jin squirmed in his arms unable to contain the pleasure that grew increasingly more intense.

He’d experienced sex with many people but never anything like this. He was dizzy from the tightness of his inner walls that felt like they were going to snip off his member. He had to grit his teeth to keep from cumming sooner than he’d ever thought possible.

Ryu Jin rocked his hips himself, finding the places he wanted to be stimulated, and he continued to rub it. With the constant writhing and squeezing of his cock inside him, and the soft skin against his hands, he couldn’t think of anything else, only his greed as he furiously impaled Ryu Jin on his manhood.

“Heeeh, I can’t take it……, argh!“

At one point, Ryu Jin struggled and tried to break free, but the more he struggled, the more relentless Ilya became. He pushed Ryu Jin to the floor, spread his legs apart, and shoved his larger-than-expected blood-reddened penis into his narrow hole. He grabbed him by the waist so he couldn’t squirm away and plunged his cock in hard enough to hear the sound of flesh colliding with flesh.

“Aaahh!”

Liu Jin’s body shook and he could hardly breathe properly. His eyes lost focus as the pleasure pushed him beyond his limits. Ilya caught his flailing arm and latched onto his wrist licking and biting down hard enough to leave gash marks. It wasn’t just his wrist. It didn’t stop there, he was biting and licking everywhere his mouth could reach; the nape of his neck, his chest, his shoulders. Ilya wasn’t doing it consciously, either.

It was desire. Desire to possess, desire to fuck, desire rising from the bottom of his instincts, ruling his every action.

“Ah, ugh, haa…….”

Ryu Jin’s fingers raked across the bathroom floor where there was nothing to grasp. Ilya drove into him until he was breathless, then pulled his cock out of him and ran his hand over his shaft a few more times. White cum splashed across Ryu Jin’s chest and up to his face. His belly was already a mess from the cum he’d shot out of his own body.

His heat hadn’t cooled yet, even though they had just had sex so vigorously that his body was a wreck on the floor. He still felt feverish inside, and he feared what might happen to his mind.

“Wake up.”

He grabbed Ryu Jin’s arms and tried to pull him to his feet, but his already limp body refused to budge.

Tsk. He clicked his tongue, slipped his arms under his knees, and clasped his shoulders, hugging him tightly. His body, which was drenched and covered in each other’s cum, pressed against Ilya, who was still dressed in his suit, but it didn’t matter.

He laid Ryu Jin down on the bed and began to peel off his wet clothes. He felt Ryu Jin’s eyes on him as he finished unbuttoning his dress shirt. When he looked down, he saw that Ryu Jin had turned his head and was looking at him.

“You have such a great body.”

Ilya didn’t think he had enough energy to lift a finger, yet he was admiring his body. He chuckled when he saw the lust in his eyes yet again.

“You’re insane.”

Ilya stripped down to his trousers and underwear and climbed on top of Ryu Jin, he grabbed one of his feet and lifted it up to nip at his ankle.

“Ah……!”

Ryu Jin’s stomach tightened in response as though he didn’t like it.

“It wasn’t my plan to make you come back.”

He muttered, leaning down and pressing his lips together. As though he understood, Ryu Jin let out a small snicker. This guy was a real pain in the ass. He’s spoiled and brash to be able to laugh in his face.

Perhaps, just as his subordinate had feared, he was possessed by his pheromones. The moment his tongue found Ilya’s and entwined with it, everything else became inconsequential. The dense floral odor drowned out his mind. Ryu Jin once again devoured Ilya’s already throbbing cock in one swift motion. Ryu Jin wrapped his legs around Ilya’s waist and then pulled him against himself, deepening their bond.

“If you die fucking me, don’t blame me for not paying back your money.”

Ilya froze, uncomfortable with the smile on his face. Before he could stop to think about it, Ryu Jin threw his arms around Ilya’s neck and captured his lips. He couldn’t think of anything else when their tongues intertwined and his hot inner walls squeezed his dick.

“Huh, uh, mmm!”

He thrust his hips forward, rubbing against his insides and plowing furiously. Ryu Jin was moaning relentlessly. Ilya grabbed his ankle and yanked it up, lifting one leg so he was lying on his side and plunged his cock into him.

“Huuh, hmph.……”

Ryu Jin groaned, clenching the comforter so tightly that his knuckles turned white. A gasp escaped from between his parted lips. When he bent down to lick his jaw, he turned his head to find Ilya’s lips in return. Their tongues intertwined between their parted lips, their saliva forming long threads.

“Mmmm…… eh, my head feels like it’s getting fuzzy…….”

Ryu Jin flailed, and his hips swayed as he held him close, which drove him even wilder.

Ilya folded Ryu Jin’s body up in a half-fold and thrust hard from upward to downward. He cried out. Ryu Jin screamed and squirmed. Slap-slap. As he continued to thrust deeper and deeper, a stream of opaque white fluids gushed out of Ryu Jin’s penis.

What began in broad daylight became an endless cycle of cumming. He couldn’t remember how many times he ejaculated. Later, when there was nothing more to release, clear fluid dribbled out, but until the end, he never pleaded for it to stop. For the first time in his life, Ilya was able to pour out all of his desires with no regard for the other person.

It was only after Ryu Jin finally fainted from exhaustion that Ilya unleashed his own cum on Ryu Jin’s belly and pushed himself back. He remembered looking out the window in the middle of their lovemaking and seeing a pitch-black sky.
Haaah. He let out a long sigh, amazed at himself. Even if he was reacting to the Omega’s pheromones, he had never lost it like that before. He had never had sex like an animal before, pouncing on a man like he was going to devour him without a moment’s thought.

8

While Ryu Jin slept like a dead man, Ilya stood at the window with vodka in his glass watching the morning sun slowly light up the sky. He peered over. His gaze traveled to Ryu Jin, and then he looked away.

The image of Ryu Jin screaming out in pleasure with Ilya still inside of him made his blood run cold. He had judged the Omega as nothing more than a wild animal in heat, but he was no different, and that realization made his mouth turn sour.

The only thing that kept him from cumming inside Ryu Jin was his last vestige of sanity. The last thing he wanted was to see his own flesh and blood inside of him.

Of course, having sex during the heat cycle wouldn’t always result in pregnancy. It was the most fertile time for conception, but it was still only a fifty-fifty chance. But not even a fifty percent chance was unacceptable.

Tap-tap. There was a light knock on the door.

“It’s Andrei”.

Only after confirming who it was did Ilya give him permission to enter. Andrei opened the door, glanced at the bed for a moment, and then came to stand in front of Ilya without saying a word.

“I’m so glad nothing too serious happened.”

One corner of Ilya’s mouth curled upward at his remark.

“No, nothing serious happened…….It’s not a big deal.”

He just used his hostage as a sex object. Well, when he thought about it like that, it wasn’t that big of a deal.

“His heat cycle seems to have calmed down.”

Said Andei as he turned to look at Ryu Jin, who was lying naked, fast asleep on his stomach. Ilya stood in front of Ryu Jin, blocking his view.

“Should I call the doctor?”

“For what?”

Instead of answering him, Andrei gestured toward Ryu Jin. If we are going to continue to hold the Omega here, it is only right that he gets checked out properly and prescribed a suppressant. There was no way Ilya would not already know this without being told.

But Ilya didn’t answer right away. His emerald eyes narrowed as he thought over the question.

“There’s no need.”

His answer came as a complete surprise.

“Boss, what if this happens again?”

“You’re worrying yourself over nothing, there’s no guarantee he’ll even be alive by his next heat cycle.”

“Ah..…..”

Andrei lowered his head, unable to say anything more, and retreated. He left Ilya’s room, but he didn’t immediately walk away, instead, he stood for a while watching the door.

This was weird! Both Ryu Jin and the boss were a little perplexing. Ryu Jin’s pheromones were far more intense than that of a typical Omega. Even Betas who weren’t normally affected like an Alpha were dominated by his pheromones the moment they got close to him. The idea of anyone in the organization touching a hostage who had been brought there on Ilya’s orders, and was even being tested by him was unthinkable to the average member.

Their loyalty to Ilya was stronger than in any other organization, and even if they were lured away by his pheromones, they still violated his orders. That’s why the men who were shot didn’t complain. They knew without explanation that their Boss had deliberately fired at them to stop them. They were grateful that he had stopped them, and they were relieved that they hadn’t been cast out.

His pheromones were enough to rock the gang, but the Boss hadn’t bothered to bring the Doctor in. He even brought Ryu Jin back to his room. The Boss didn’t need to embrace him in order to quell his heat cycle. The Boss Andrei knew would have rather locked Ryu Jin up somewhere inaccessible and left him there until the heat cycle was over.

Perhaps…….Andrei stifled a groan at the prospect.

Ilya was an Alpha, so it was possible that he was reacting to an Omega’s pheromones. He was a Boss who didn’t react to most Omega pheromones but those pheromones from yesterday were beyond expectations.

He shook his head. There was no point in overthinking it. Whoever the Boss was sleeping with was none of his business. The same could be said for Ryu Jin’s unique pheromones. If the Boss condoned it, then so did Andrei. That was their rule.

More time passed after Andrei’s departure. Breakfast time had long since passed, but Ilya hadn’t moved from his room. It wasn’t because he was sleeping, he hadn’t slept all that well last night, but he was perfectly capable of functioning without sleep for a day or so.

He sat in a chair across from the bed and watched Ryu Jin sleep soundly. He tossed and turned in his sleep and then groaned in discomfort. He figured that he wouldn’t wake up until later in the day, but that’s not what happened.

“If you are awake, get up. How long are you going to lay in someone else’s bed?”

He couldn’t just sit there and watch like that, so he woke him up on purpose. Ryu Jin stirred at the sound of Ilya’s voice and looked around bleary-eyed to check whether Ilya was awake already. He lifted his hands and clapped his cheek with a loud smacking sound before looking toward Ilya with his now-focused eyes.

“Good morning.”

As expected, there was no trace of nervousness or shame. Ilya laughed in spite of himself as he watched him stretch his body out, as though he were refreshed.

“I thought you had only lost your reason, but you seem to have lost your memory as well,”

Ilya muttered, and Ryu Jin made a face and slid off the bed. As the blanket slid off his body, his naked body was exposed in plain view, but he didn’t even attempt to hide it. Of course, after everything that transpired between them last night, it would be more laughable to be embarrassed now.

“You look refreshed,”

Ilya said, and Ryu Jin smiled with a pleasant expression as though he agreed.

“Yeah, thanks to you.”

“…….”

“Thank you.”

Ilya didn’t know how to respond to his words of gratitude. It was so different from the way other Omegas reacted after they had sex with someone they didn’t want to have sex with during their estrus.

“I didn’t intend to be indebted to you, but…….it couldn’t be helped. Just think of it like getting bitten by a random dog and forget about it. It’s not like you lost anything.”

Ryu Jin was the one who demeaned himself by comparing himself to a dog, yet it was Ilya who was feeling demeaned. Although he was the one who committed the act, he felt like he was the one who had been exploited.

“I’m sorry, but I need to use the washroom, my body is……a mess.”

Ryu Jin looked down at his body and made a face. He was being literal. The remnants of his and Ilya’s ejaculations last night were now an unsightly coating that had dried to his body.

“What if I said I couldn’t forget?”

Ryu Jin stopped in his tracks as he was about to enter the bathroom. Ilya could see his body stiffen, but he didn’t turn around so he couldn’t see his expression.

“Well, for a Mafia Boss who only had a fuck that one time, I don’t know why…….”

“That’s all? Are you describing sex with me as just that?”

Ryu Jin’s throat constricted as he swallowed dryly. But when he turned around, surprisingly, he was smiling.

“No, I’m telling the Boss, that sex with me is just that, just sex.”

Ryu shrugged it off. The more nonchalant he appeared, the more Ilya felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end. Offensive. Rude. It was unacceptable that he was being disregarded by that little brat.

“What if I said no?”

“What?”

His dark eyes widened as though he didn’t understand, as though he’d been told something that he couldn’t believe. Ilay kind of liked this.

“I’m warning you now if you try to seduce any of my men during your next heat cycle, I’ll cut off your dick, and the dick of the guy you fucked.”

The smile completely vanished from Ryu Jin’s face. He bit his lower lip and let out a long sigh.

“I’m sorry, but I need you to get me some inhibitors.”

“I refuse.”

“Why……!?”

Ryu Jin was about to argue, but Ilya just glared at him, his mouth set in a straight line as though to remind him of his situation.

The hostility that had been absent on the day he’d kidnapped him finally showed on Ilya’s face.

“You want me to endure a heat cycle by myself? That’s a pretty cruel thing to do if you ask me.”

Ilya’s mouth curved up in mockery.

“I do a lot of cruel things. Perhaps you’ve been underestimating me.”

“My being in heat doesn’t hurt you, does it?”

Ryu Jin’s tone turned sour. He couldn’t keep the smile on his face any longer, and as his composure crumbled, Ilya felt an inexplicable pleasure.

“You must have forgotten what you were like yesterday. You must have realized that your pheromones are not normal.”

There were subordinates who were overcome by his pheromones merely because he’d opened the door for them, and when he reminded him of that, Ryu Jin’s jaw clenched tightly together.

“If I can’t work during the entirety of my heat cycle, you’ll lose all the money you’ve invested in me, and you know how much a day, or even a few hours, can cost.”

“Of course.”

He understood, having seen it firsthand with cryptocurrency investments, which moved faster and were more liquid than stocks.

“I never said you could let things go because of a heat cycle.”

“Hah.”

There was annoyance in Ryu Jin’s eyes, as though he really didn’t know what to do. Ilya rose from his chair and stepped in front of Ryu Jin. He stopped a step in front of him and leaned his upper body toward him. The distance between their faces shrank to a mere inch, but Ryu Jin didn’t flinch. He kept his eyes locked with Ilya’s, who was now nose to nose.

“It’s hard to believe you’re the same person as last night. You were so much more tolerable when you were in heat.”

He reached out and grabbed Ryu Jin’s chin, who jerked it away with a clatter. Ilya found that it was fun to be a thorn in his side now.

“You’re not getting a break until you pay me back, but rest assured that doesn’t mean you’re just going to have to endure your heat cycles.”

Ilya grabbed Ryu Jin’s arms and pulled him closer. As their lips drew closer together, Ilya could see Ryu Jin’s brow furrow. He stopped with the distance of a slip of paper between them.

“I’ll handle your irritating sexual urges.”

He whispered, then grabbed the back of his head and pulled Ryu Jin to him, pressing their lips together. Unlike last night, Ryu Jin pressed his lips together trying to keep his mouth shut. Ilya groaned and thrust his tongue forward causing a gap to open he found his tongue and sucked hard. Ryu Jin whimpered in pain, it felt like his tongue was being ripped out by the root.

“You’d better not mess around with that lustful body of yours, for everyone’s well-being.”

His lips parted slightly as he spoke. When Rye Jin pulled back to catch his breath he saw Ilya smirk and Ryu Jin raised his arm to push him away. Ilya grabbed Ryu Jin’s wrist and squeezed it, Ryu Jin swallowed down a whimper.

“You think you’re safe because you have to use that hand to make money for me?”

Ilya snapped as he shoved Ryu Jin away.

“Wash yourself up and come out here. I’ll have someone bring you a meal when you return.”

After saying everything he had to say, Ilya left the room without looking back. Left alone, Ryu Jin sank to the floor, his legs finally giving out.

Fuck…….He was so twisted and entangled. As he thought back on last night, that bastard was definitely an Alpha. No, even if it wasn’t for last night, he’d already surmised it. Whenever he came close, there was a sweet scent that came from him that he couldn’t detect from anyone else. It was the first time that he’d ever smelled an Alpha’s pheromones, so he was nervous, but it was clear that it was his scent that triggered his heat cycle which came on faster than usual.

“Ah, this is dangerous. This was not the plan.”

He crouched down and wrapped his hands around his head. He liked having sex. He didn’t usually take inhibitors. He figured he would just grab any guy he liked and let his urges run wild.

But things were different when it came to Ilya……he was with an Alpha.

9

The day before, they had a guard to escort him to and from the dining room for his meals, but today he was fed in Ilya’s room. Moreover, he was so uncomfortable in Ilya’s room that he couldn’t tell if the food was going into his mouth or his nose. In fact, the owner of the room had left earlier and was nowhere to be seen.

Click. When he heard the door opening, he turned around to see if it was Ilya, but it was just the guy who brought him the food. He had just come to clear away the empty dishes.

“Where’s your Boss? How long am I supposed to stay here?”

Ryu Jin asked him, but he didn’t answer. English is supposed to be the world’s bridge language, so why is it so rare to find someone who understands it in this place?

“You know Andrei, right? Andrei. Is he here too?”

It was frustrating not being able to communicate. The man kept talking in his language, but Ryu Jin couldn’t understand what he was saying. He rebuked himself for not learning Russian as a second language. However, he never expected to be abducted and brought to Russia in his life!

When Ryu Jin tried to grab hold of the man and gesture with his hands in an attempt to communicate, he freaked out and scurried out of the room.

“What the hell,” said Ryu Jin, ” treating people like they have the plague.”

He sniffed around his body to see if he could smell anything, but he couldn’t. Not surprising, since he’d showered before the meal. So why didn’t the man let him come near him?

As he racked his brain, he remembered hearing a gunshot yesterday when he was in the middle of making out with the men guarding the front of his room. At the time, he was in heat and didn’t realize exactly what was going on, but now that he thought about it, he must have shot one of his men with a gun.

Wow! He shot him just because he had sex with him. He’s not messing around, he’s a real mafioso.

Ryu Jin shuddered at this newfound realization. He didn’t see a body so he didn’t kill anyone, but he must have shot them to make them stop having sex. That must be why the other subordinates were running from him, terrified of being shot by the Boss if they even approached him.

“He’s hard to be close to.”

He shrugged and walked back to the bed and stretched out. It would be hard to get to know anyone here, even if yesterday hadn’t happened. Those people would never treat him like a person instead of a hostage.

“I’m bored.”

The words rolled out without him thinking. He wished he could use a computer, but instead, he was stuck in Ilya’s room today. He knew his room was a prison, but the thought of being in someone else’s room, the Boss of this organization no less, made him feel like he was lying on a bed of thorns.

“I think I’ll try to hack it.”

After showering, he got out and looked around the room a bit, and when he saw the remote control, he pressed it, and the wall cracked open to reveal a large monitor. It was probably connected to the central control room…….he looked around to see if there were any surveillance cameras in the room, but there were none. Even the mafia doesn’t put surveillance cameras in the Boss’s private bedroom.

As the Boss, he should be better equipped to guard against danger. Either way, this was the only room that didn’t have surveillance, which meant that no one knew how nasty he and Ilya had been last night.

“Ilya…….”

A low groan escaped his throat as he recalled calling out his name over and over again in his delirium. It was only possible because he was not in his right mind.

“I’ll take care of your sexual urges.”

Ha. Kill me, already! It was like he could hear Ilya’s voice echoing in his ears. Was sex with him really that satisfying?

Even if it had been, a Mob Boss would have plenty of other people to have sex with, so why him?

It was truly frustrating, the diagnosis of Omega pheromones changed his life forever. He thought he would dominate in life according to everyone’s expectations, but everything was shattered in an instant. He thought he had given up, but apparently, there was still some lingering hunger.

Ahhhh. He wrapped himself with the blanket and struggled soundlessly. ‘It’s just a little heat cycle……it’s no big deal, just like it always is’. Maybe he wouldn’t even make it to the next heat cycle.

“You’re up to all sorts of things here alone.”

The sound of Ilya’s voice made him jump up. He looked up to see Ilya staring down at him, frowning as he removed his suit jacket. He hadn’t made a sound when he came in so he had no idea when he arrived.

“Who gave you permission to make such a mess of my bed?”

“Oh. I didn’t know that I wasn’t supposed to mess it up since it was already, after rolling around in it last night.”

Ryu Jin replied brightly and then slid down the bed. He wanted to be let out of this room. They want him to make money, so why were they keeping him there all day?!

“Can’t you please include at least one person who speaks English among the guards?”

Ilya raised one eyebrow at the confident demand.

“It’s frustrating not being able to communicate, and I might need to get in touch with you in a hurry while I’m working.”

As if expecting something like that, he pulled a small object out of his jacket and tossed it onto the bed. Ryu Jin looked down and realized it was a cell phone about half the size of his palm. It was branded with a logo he’d never seen before, and he wondered if it was a real phone or a toy.

“There are only two numbers you can call, one for Andrei and one for me.”

“What if I use this to call someone else for help?”

“Try it.”

He gestured to the phone. Ryu Jin squinted, grabbed the phone, turned it on, and dialed his cell phone in South Korea. He didn’t expect anyone to answer, however, it didn’t even connect. When he turned around to see what was going on, Ilya raised the corners of his mouth.

“It’s a self-developed phone. It only connects to two numbers.”

Oh, no wonder he tossed it to Ryu Jin with ease. Still, it was better to have it than not, so he took it.

“I’ve supplied you with a computer and internet if you need it, but you’d better not do anything stupid if you want to live another day. Remember, we’re watching everything you do on your computer.”

“That’s no surprise.”

Eek. Before he realized what he was saying, he responded sarcastically. As if on cue, Ilya shot him a cold stare, and Ryu Jin smiled feebly.

“I won’t, I’m not going to do anything stupid. I mean it.”

Ryu Jin raised his hands in surrender. He truly wasn’t going to go online or use the cell phone to call someone for help. He had no one to turn to.

“Please let me go back to my room, I need to get to work so I can pay you back.”

“When I’m sure your estrus is over.”

“It’s obvious, just look……ugh!”

In an instant, he was right in front of him, grabbing his chin and lifting it. Ilya’s cool fingers touched his skin as his sweet scent poured over Ryu Jin, who held his breath.

Why……Even after all the sex he had given him last night, his arousal still hadn’t subsided. Normally his heat cycle would last about three days, however, with a full night’s worth of sex, it would subside within a day. So why was it that he was getting dizzy from his sweet scent again now?

“You look like you want something.”

He was right. His touch had sent a dizzyingly powerful wave of heat through Ryu Jin’s body. Ping. His vision blurred, and his breath hitched in hot gasps.

He wanted him…….his backside was aching with desire for him.

He didn’t bother trying to resist these obscene desires. It would only cause him agony if he tried to hold on to his senses and resist.

He raised his hand and grabbed Ilya’s wrist which held his chin upward. He tilted his head down and ran his tongue over the tip of his finger, and felt it quiver. Using his other hand, he squeezed the bulge in the center of his pants. Ilya let out a sharp gasp and grabbed Ryu Jin’s hand.

“What are you doing?”

“You said you’d take care of this for me.”

“…….”

His emerald eyes stared at him with dissatisfaction, but that was probably a blessing in disguise at this point.

“Here……it’s tingling.”

Ryu Jin reached behind himself to rub his hand between his butt cheeks, but Ilya grabbed his hand and stopped him from doing as he pleased.

“You managed to hold back while I was gone.”

He hadn’t held back, he had been just fine. His current arousal was caused by Ilya’s proximity. However, he didn’t bother to explain. He just wanted Ilya inside of him, pounding away at him like an animal.

Never with an Alpha. Relations with them were dangerous.

Even that bit of rationality was gone. All that remained was the unrelenting heat.

“Aah, hurry up…….”

He threw his arms around Ilya’s neck and clung to him, rubbing his face against his. Ilya wrapped one hand around Ryu Jin’s waist and pulled him close, then slipped his hand inside his pants. Just the touch of his round bottom was enough to make him gasp.

What the hell was this? This sweet scent that came only from this man was sending his already crazed body into a downward spiral.

Ilya pulled Ryu Jin’s pants down and slid his finger between his butt cheeks. He barely touched his entrance yet his hole was already writhing, welcoming his finger.

“I can’t believe you’re already so wet before I even put it in…….”

Even the sound of him clicking his tongue sent shivers down his spine.

“Put it in me, quickly…….”

He lifted his legs on his own and wrapped them around Ilya’s waist, squeezing him tightly.

“Tell me what my name is.”

He wondered why he kept trying to make him acknowledge his presence since yesterday. It was like he had some kind of weird idiosyncrasy.

“Ilya…….”

Ryu Jin called his name in a sweet, sultry voice. As though he had been waiting for this, a finger dug deep inside him, probing right into the spot he’d already identified the night before, sending a shiver down his spine.

“Ahhhh……there, that’s good, ahhh!”

Squelch, squelch, obscene noises from going in and out, filled the room.

“Ryu Jin.”

“No, no…….”

Ryu Jin shook his head. He was responding to his voice, but his mind was already so far gone that he barely registered what he was saying.

“No?”

“Jin…….My name is Jin…….”

‘First name Ryu, last name Jin‘. He whispered as he raised his head to look into his emerald eyes. His lips parted, and the tongue that greeted him was captured and swept against Ryu Jin’s tongue. The sensation of their tongues brushing against each other was intoxicating. Every inch of his body seemed to be an erogenous zone, every single part that he touched was screaming for his attention.

Slowly, his body was pushed further back, and when the backs of his thighs hit the bed he fell backward. Flop. By the time he landed on the bed, his pants had already been pulled off and were lying on the floor.

Zip. The sound of Ilya unzipping his own pants was distinctly audible. Ryu Jin raised his upper body a bit to check on him. His mouth went dry as he pushed his pants down to his thighs and placed a condom on his monstrous, crimson cock.

His nether region, which already remembered his member, quivered.

“Stop begging for it. I’m going to fuck you until you can’t take it anymore.”

Ilya pulled his thighs apart and shoved his cock into the narrow opening without any foreplay. Ahh……! Jin threw his head back and moaned at the sudden surge of pressure. All that he could focus on was the hazy sensation of ecstasy as his mind went blank, his body shook, and his vision blurred.

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Anonymous says:

October 14, 2023 at 5:07 am

Hi translator! Just letting you know that this is difficult to read for mobile version as the text is too large. Desktop view is also quite big. Esp for images. Hope this helps! Thanks for translating & looking forward to more releases 😊

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  October 14, 2023 at 1:09 pm
  
  Thankyou so much for letting me know, I really appreciate it! I’ve made adjustments, please let me know if it still looks bad.
  
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