Chapter 72.1

Did he hear it wrong?

He imagined it in so much detail that he thought he heard a hallucination. When Adam doubted his ears, Hae-won added softly, blushing, “It has nothing to do with the heat.”

Hae-won barely raised her upper body and almost hung on Adam’s arm.

“Even if it’s not a heat, I want to be hugged by Adam.”

Adam was caught in a strange mood. This is because Hae-won’s desperate appearance seemed more like pleading than provocation or temptation.

‘It’s not rut.’

Adam looked at Haewon with narrowed eyes.

Come to think of it, Haewon when her heat burst was like a peach overflowing with juice just by him pressing against her lightly. A peach that makes his mouth water and hungry just by looking at soon as he takes a bite, the terrible sweetness would spread and paralyze his tongue.

But Haewon was a little different now.

She looks appetizing on the outside, but there is no sweet smell from her. If he had to say it, it was a model fruit. No, it was like a picture in a frame.

“Are you sick? You don’t look very well.” Adam calmly pushed Hae-won’s hand away. Hae-won suddenly wrapped Adam’s arm tightly when she thought she was falling. Adam’s right arm was buried between her breastbone. It may not be what Hae-won intended, but it was a dizzying touch enough to make any man fall over.

But Adam wasn’t excited. It was a strange thing. In the past, he would have had an erection right away as soon as he felt the soft touch.

“Haewon.”

“……what?” Hae-won answered Adam’s lower-than-usual voice.

It was only after seeing Hae-won’s face, who was intimidated like a scolded child, that Adam realized why he was not excited about the situation.

Hae-won was in pain. As if she would crumble just by touching her.

He pushed Haewon to the point where he usually thought it was excessive, but he had no hobby of hugging a patient.

‘I’m going to let you rest.’

The protective instinct to take care of Hae-won, who is sick.

It was Alpha’s instinct to protect his female.

“Not today. Let’s do it next time.”

“………why?” Hae-won frowned as if she was unconvinced. Adam didn’t understand her reaction either.

First of all, it was recognizable at a glance that Haewon was not having a heat, but very sick. But why is she asking for intimacy so much, even when it’s not a heat? Did it hurt so much that she can’t even control her body?

“I want to do it. No, I have to.”

Hae-won was rambling like a person chased by something, and suddenly reached out her arms and grabbed Adam’s belt. At that moment, Adam stiffened like a beast with a caught neck.

“?”

Adam decided to leave her alone for a while. Even when she was sober, she couldn’t have taken off the belt she had been unfastening.

“Hm…” As expected, Hae-won’s hand kept slipping. In the end, Hae-won looked up at Adam with tearful eyes.

“Hae-won, you’re very strange today. Aren’t you going to tell me why you’re doing this?” Adam tilted his head and asked.

Haewon lowered his head.

‘The fact that I left you and imprinted with another alpha…’

She can’t talk. She couldn’t have done it.

Just a while ago, she rationalized that she could find the alpha and cut off the imprint. But the moment she faced Adam, Hae-won felt so dirty, disgusting, and terrible about herself.

Just because she is keeping it a secret from Adam or just because she solves the problem alone, doesn’t change the fact that she’s connected to someone else.

It’s as good as betraying Adam.

She promised him she would stay with him. She fell in love with him. Not only did she hide the fact that she was an omega, but she was also imprinted with an alpha who she didn’t even know. She only chose things that hurt him. She had nothing to say even if she was despised by Adam.

Her determination to live only for this man for the rest of her life was shattered in front of her.

She knows. Even that was a poor act of showing it. However, she was sincere in her affection for Adam.

Hae-won clung to Adam as if denying this reality. She wanted to cover herself with Adam’s pheromone even though she knew it was meaningless.

She wanted to shake off the existence of the alpha.

“………why do you keep saying no? There has to be a reason. It’s not like that. We – ”

Hae-won answered with sporadic sentences.

Her voice trembled faintly as she was filled with sorrow. Hae-won paused to grab Adam’s arm. If she gets rejected one more time, her heart won’t stand it.

Hae-won begged Adam with her eyes instead of clinging to him. She continued, with only Adam fully in her wet eyes.

“I want Adam.”

You, no one else. It didn’t matter if Adam wasn’t Alpha. It didn’t matter if she couldn’t mate with him for the rest of course.

Adam was the only mate for Haewon.