Chapter 55: Alphas in rut are scary
The word came out low, harsh—like it had been scraped from the back of Yoon Seoyul’s throat. His voice sounded strained, as if he was barely holding himself back. Cheon Areum didn’t move. Instead, he raised a hand to his nose, trying to muffle the scent. That thick, syrupy vanilla had only intensified, turning suffocating. But he still stepped forward.
"Were you expecting someone else?"
"Leave, Areum."
Yoon Seoyul said more firmly this time. Cheon Areum calmly placed the mega pack on the table in front of the couch. Yoon Seoyul didn’t look at him anymore. His hand was now pressed over his eyes, shielding his face from view, jaw clenched as if in pain. From this angle, he looked less like the composed Alpha he always was and more like he was struggling.
"Are you in a rut?"
"......."
"Who are you going to spend it with?"
He wasn’t probing, he was just genuinely curious. Who could be the person Yoon Seoyul had decided to spend his rut with? It couldn’t really be Lee Nari, could it? Sure, she was the female lead in the story. The dazzling heroine. The one fate supposedly tied him to. But this—sharing his rut—on the very day they met? That felt too fast. Unless he had misjudged the amount of potential that connected them together as the male lead and the female lead.
"Can’t you at least tell me?"