"What an absurdity."

Choi Seungcheol or people always called him by his English name, Daniel , rolls his eyes toward the unwanted reaction from his colleague over the phone. He just told him a whole story about what happened to him on his way to the excavation site that seems so far away. Joshua or Hong Jisoo (his Korean name), his colleagues for more than three years already, seems unamused by the story.

"Someone suddenly appeared in front of your car in the middle of a deserted forest? Please check on his feet first, I'm so afraid that he isn't standing on the ground."

Seungcheol tries his best not to curse his omega colleague, but Jisoo is really getting on his nerves. "Be serious, Josh. He isn't a ghost or whatever, I'm certain he is our fellow human being. I accidentally hurt him, not too bad, but I need to take responsibility for the injuries on his feet."

"He can't walk?" Jisoo is asking again, this time he sounds more serious.

"He can, but he is limping because of me." Seungcheol takes a short gaze to the omega he just hit before, who is now laying on the patient bed in the ICU while the doctor seems to take an examination of his body and do something to reduce the pain and to heal him.

"Good to hear then. Now, what do you want me to do? Our activity today got canceled because of the rain and I will contact you again if tomorrow we're ready to get the job done, hope the sky helps us. You already brought him to the hospital and you can give him some compensation money for the accident, you said the injury isn't that life threatening. Then, you can drive him to his home and call it a day." Jisoo finally takes his breath after his long sentence, he sounds confused.

Seungcheol closes his eyes, feels frustrated. "Can you come here?"

"For?"

"On our way to this hospital, he seems restless about something." Seungcheol remembers the shout in the forest, he believes someone is chasing this omega and Seungcheol just doesn't want to get into their problem. But because this pretty omega was begging for his help, he didn't have a choice other than to take him into his car and bring him into the nearest hospital his google map could find. He was so afraid that he was already in the middle of the problem he didn't want to get into. Most of it, he didn't know who this omega was.

He wanted to ask about his name (even though he knew it might be someone named Yoon Jeonghan by how the shouter shouted his name before), about his address and such things, but the problem is....

"I didn't try to start a communication with him because I can't understand Korean."

He can't speak Korean.

"Damn, Dan... just say that you want me to become your translator to talk to him!"

Exactly.

"You need to pay me for this."

"No worries, just come here first, I will send you the address of this hospital."

With that Seungcheol cuts his call with Jisoo and walks carefully toward the doctor who seems done with his examination of the omega he just hit, Yoon Jeonghan .

"Is he okay, Doctor?" The doctor whose name he believes is Doctor Cha gets a little shocked by the way Seungcheol asked him a question in English. So, Seungcheol tries to elaborate more. "I can't speak Korean, sorry."

Thank God, the doctor seems to know how to communicate in English. "He is okay, no worry, he just sprained his left leg ankle. My subordinate will take care of that, but I'm afraid I need to ask this for you."

Somehow, Seungcheol knows the question even before the doctor asks him.

"Why is his body full of bruises?"

What are you doing to him?

That is his silent question Doctor Cha out of politeness doesn't ask him. The other reason why Seungcheol needs Jisoo here is because he is so afraid that people will mistakenly think him as the abuser for this omega. He is just afraid that someone from this hospital will try to call the police to arrest him because of something he didn't do.

"I don't know him, I just accidentally hit him before and injured his leg. I don't know about his other bruises." Seungcheol is being honest here but the doctor looks like he doesn't buy Seungcheol's words so he uses Seungcheol's inability to understand Korean to search the truth to the victim.

He asks something to the victim in Korean and Seungcheol releases his breath when he sees the victim, that beautiful omega with long hair, shakes his head. Doctor Cha nods in understanding and leaves them all at once, not asking anymore questions.

Seungcheol tries to smile at the omega, a reflected gesture to say thank you. What he doesn't expect is that the omega is smiling back at him. There is a gratitude on his smile that Seungcheol needs a minute to recover from the beauty behind it.

"Your name... Yoon Jeonghan ?" For the first time, Seungcheol tries to communicate with him.

The omega seems to understand him and nods a little. Seungcheol smiles.

"What a beautiful name."

Seungcheol's praise made the omega release his pheromone, he doesn't know if he intentionally does this or not. But when he is this close to him, he can examine his pheromone well.

It has a creamy almond with sparks of floral. It i s mild and very sweet. The almond is the standout note in the fragrance, but you will pick up the floral hints from the undistinguished notes within the fragrance. But this kind of scent also reminds him of several fruits like rich pomegranate and arctic berries. And a deep, rich take on velvet petals.

If he can name how the seduction smells like, he will explain it with this scent.

"Your name.. Who?" He asks Seungcheol a question when the alpha is out of his mind and tries to swim more into this omega's pheromone. This is very dangerous, it's a rare thing for an omega to make him lose focus like this.

"S.. Daniel."

Almost.

Seungcheol almost says his real name.

To a stranger on top of it.

Even Jisoo doesn't know his Korean name. His parents already changed his name so long ago. His ID card, passport, his birth certificate, everything about him is under the name of Daniel now. Choi Seungcheol is already buried deep in the ground. No one calls him that name again, except for... himself .

Everyone should forget that name, but not him.

Only him who can call himself, Choi Seungcheol.

Yoon Jeonghan nods his head, he looks like he wants to ask something again but he doesn't and Seungcheol already likes this person. He knows how to not cross the boundaries with unneeded questions.

"Can I know your home address? I will take you there after we're finished here." Seungcheol asks again, he has so many questions for this man, especially what was he doing in the middle of the forest, who was the man who shouted his name before, and what about his bruises. But he really doesn't like to ask a question because usually questions will lead people to trouble. He better doesn't know anything that isn't his to care about.

It's not like he can communicate well with this person too. Not until Jisoo comes, at least.

Yoon Jeonghan looks like he doesn't understand the previous long sentence spoken in another language and Seungcheol understands it.

So, the bulky man uses his hand, with both of his hands he makes a gesture of home and the man in front of him chuckles at the sight.

"Home, where?"

He expects the omega to tell him about his address but nope, his guess is wrong. This beautiful man in front of him just shakes his head.

What does that mean?

He doesn't have a home?

"Home..." He shakes his head again. "Your home.... okay?"

Huh?

"Pay."

It takes a whole ten minutes for Choi Seungcheol to understand that Yoon Jeonghan doesn't have a home and he asks if he could live for a while in Seungcheol's home and he will pay for it. The alpha still doesn't know how he will pay it, but that's what he was trying to tell him in his very limited English capability.

This man must be joking.

Seungcheol is the man that really respects boundaries. He can't easily bring someone to his most private place. But the person in front of him looks very desperate. He really begs him with his eyes since he can't use his mouth to do it.

Seungcheol contemplates for a long time.

This isn't wise since he doesn't know this guy very well, and what about the person who was chasing him in the forest? Does his bruises come from that man? If that's the case, this person really needs someone to help him. And as if it's a God's game, he was the one who was chosen to help this guy.

Choi Seungcheol may regret this later when the trouble knocks on his door that was caused by his decision today but he just can't abandon those eyes who are begging him for his help.

It's not like he will live with him forever, Seungcheol is only living in this country for 3 months maximum. In three months, he can share his spacious apartment with this stranger whose legs can't walk properly because of him. Sure, he can do that.

He searches for his phone and sends a message to one of his most reliable person after Jeon Wonwoo.

To: Joshua

Don't go to the hospital, go to my place instead.

***

It is a rare sight for Hong Jisoo to see his colleague slash friend to be with an omega in his place, him not included . Daniel doesn't see him as an omega at all, Jisoo is more like his personal assistant. Four years he knew Daniel, almost four times he witnessed the time the strong and handsome alpha went into rut. Even when he was in that condition, he never spent his rut with an omega in his place.

Talking about Daniel's rut, there was so much preparation for him before he was going into the rut, and most of it Jisoo was the one who helped him to search for suitable omega , the place, the medications, damn, so many things to be prepared. Sometimes, Jisoo wonders if he is Daniel's colleague and friend or his nanny. He will tell this story for another time.

This time, he needs to become a translator for that damned alpha.

He sits on the middle of the sofa, looking exactly like an arbitrator.

"Hello. My name is Hong Jisoo, but you can call me Joshua or Josh. I'm basically this stupid alpha friend but he never really wants to name me as his friend, he keeps calling me as his work colleague. But it's okay. I'm here to help him communicate with you. He can't speak Korean." Jisoo tries to open the conversation with the fellow omega first. He looks so beautiful, and Jisoo is envying his beautiful long hair but his body is covered with old bruises and makes him look... pitiful .

Daniel glares at him, as if he can understand him. Maybe the mocking tone makes him understand.

"Ahh.. you can speak Korean? Thank God." He opens his mouth and looks so glad that Jisoo is here. "My name is Yoon Jeonghan."

"Ok, Jeonghan-ssi. Please tell me why we are in this situation?"

Jeonghan takes a deep breath and looks straight to Daniel. "I really need to explain everything, you must be confused why I was in the middle of the forest when someone chased me. Why do I need your help to get me out of that forest and why am I begging you to live here for a moment."

Uh-oh.

Daniel didn't tell Jisoo anything about the man who chased this Yoon Jeonghan guy.

This is getting interesting for Jisoo.

"I'm a prostitute."

...

......?!

WHAT?

Both Jisoo and Daniel's jaws dropped from the information. Jisoo, again, doesn't understand why his friend understands that sentence but his shocking face is all the same with Jisoo's face right now.

"You know that kind of beautiful omega that sells himself to get money from rich alpha? That's me. I sell myself to get money." Never in his life, Jisoo met someone as blunt as this person. He believes Daniel is the same. He looks so confused and shocked even though maybe he doesn't fully understand what this stranger omega he brought to his house talks about.

"But one of my last customers got so obsessed with me, he brought me into the forest because he wanted to do it with me in an open space. The money was good so I agreed but he really abused me, the old bruises haven't healed yet, so it hurts. I was so scared. Because he is into BDSM things... the bruises in my body came from-"

"Ok, stop. Is it okay for you to tell us about this? Oh man, we don't want to know the details." Jisoo stops him.

"I'm totally okay with that. Long short story, I was running away from him in that damned forest but I got lost. It got scarier especially after the rain, so when he accidentally hit me, I was so glad that I cried for help."

"And he already helped you to get out of that forest, even brought you to the hospital." Jisoo talks again and this time his voice is getting serious. "Now why are you here?"

At a first glance, he thought Yoon Jeonghan would be the quiet and pitiful omega. It's all ruined since "I'm a prostitute." came out from his mouth all of sudden, without any filter. Now Jisoo can't see him in the same light, he is crazier than he thought he would be. Jisoo thinks Daniel is thinking the same way.

"Dan, wait a minute, yeah? I will translate everything he said to you after he finished his story. This is crazy, you brought a crazy person!" Jisoo talks to Dan's direction and Dan just sighs at the slight information from Jisoo.

"I don't have a place to get back. Because if I get back to my home, that obsessed alpha will wait for me there. He is really obsessed with me. Sometimes I see him waiting in front of my house. That's so creepy. Because your handsome alpha has already helped me once, I want to ask if he can help me twice. That's why I asked your friend if I could live here for a while. I will pay." Yoon Jeonghan puts his hands together, and he pleads to Dan. "Please?"

Jisoo translates everything to his friend without any detail skipped. And Daniel looks like he doesn't get shocked anymore. His shocked phase has already passed. Now he looks like debating something, Jisoo can read his mind. He smiles when he can read Daniel like an open book.

He wants to help this omega.

Not only because he is a good person to begin with but because this alpha friend of his is intrigued by this beautiful omega with dark eyes and beautiful long hair.

Yoon Jeonghan is really his type.

He is always asking for omegas that have long hair, fair skin, and a beautiful face for his rut. Maybe he doesn't realize it, but Jisoo knows the reason why this omega can step his foot in this house, it is all because of Daniel's kindness and this alpha infatuation to him.

Right now, he is debating the risk he will get to let this omega come into his life and how many boundaries he will set for this person who is exactly like his ideal type. Daniel still doesn't want to get into any relationship and he will make sure that this omega won't come into his way.

"Josh, ask him, with what he will pay? How much will he pay?"

Right?

Daniel is totally interested.

Yoon Jeonghan looks at Jisoo, an eager wait is his exact expression. Jisoo tells him the exact question in Korean.

"I can pay with money, but I'm not rich, I can only pay you 200.000 KRW per month. I can clean and cook, I will do that for you. As long as you let me live here for at least two months. I really don't want to step out of my feet from this place. I will stay here as long as I can until that crazy man is totally over with me." Jeonghan pleads again with his eyes.

When Jisoo translates his words to Daniel, he speaks again. "I also can pay you with my body. You can use me in every way you like, I'm really good at it. Just..."

Daniel laughs when he hears that, once again, as if he can understand that. Jisoo is confused.

"You aren't into BDSM, right? Just please don't do that... it hurts."

Daniel is still laughing. His eyes are totally fixed at Yoon Jeonghan. The bluntness makes him get more interesting in Daniel's eyes.

"Josh, tell him. I'm not gonna do anything to his body."

This time Jisoo is the one who wants to ask back. "Really? You look interested in him. Maybe this time, I don't need to search for an omega for your next rut."

Daniel shakes his head. "I don't want to spend my rut with someone i know, you know it."

Yeah, Jisoo knows it so well.

"Tell him, I will only live here for three months. I can share this place with him that long, he can go whenever he wants, he doesn't need to pay, just please clean and cook for me. I'm too lazy to do that. He can also use my clothes to cover his pheromone, I'm afraid that his obsessed customer will track his scent. I'm okay with that. But one thing he must do.." Daniel sounds more serious.

"Don't go to my bedroom. Don't ever touch that."

Daniel and his boundaries.

Jisoo nods his head and Daniel leaves the omegas around him to go to his room.

Jisoo tells Jeonghan everything that Daniel asks him to tell.

"Daniel is a good person, he is kind as long as you don't trespass his boundaries. Just act like what he wants you to be."

"A servant?"

Jisoo laughs. "A servant."

Jeonghan finally rests his back on the sofa. "It's okay. As long as I can live here, that door and this place's security will protect me from my crazy customer. I need time to heal my wounds and injured leg before I go back to my old life. It's such a pity that I can't communicate well with him, I really want to have a proper conversation with my master . He looks like an angel that heaven sent to help a sinner like me."

Jisoo looks down on his hand and smiles bitterly. "Dan isn't an angel."

"Huh?"

"But he isn't a demon either. He is in between."

"What do you mean?"

Jisoo moves closer and touches Jeonghan's shoulder. "He is kind, but be careful. Don't get into his bad side."

***

It's always hard to trust a stranger.

Choi Seungcheol grows up learning about it. That's why it's hard for him to help others without contemplating a lot. But the way Yoon Jeonghan just blurts out who he is in front of strangers surprises him in a very intriguing way. It's a rare sight to see someone just nonchalantly saying that he sells his body for money. He looks like it's not a big deal for him. He likes him right away, as a human, he likes people who know who he is and doesn't really care what others think about him.

And people like him usually will respect what it calls boundaries. He won't try something unnecessary. That's why Seungheol agreed to help him.

Sharing a place to live isn't an unfamiliar thing for him. He did this before with Jeon Wonwoo. And his roommate's life with him was awesome. Before, he thought he shared a place to live with an alpha because he couldn't smell Wonwoo's omega pheromone and that man never really declared his second gender. Right now, an omega lives under the same roof with him. He never did that. But living together with an alpha or an omega shouldn't be that different isn't it? We are all human beings after all.

Maybe this time, he will also have some fun with sharing a place to live with someone else.

Seungcheol drinks his before-sleep milk and places the empty glasses on his bedside table. He is so ready to sleep. It doesn't take long for him to go into the dreamland.

Ah... it's the same airport again.

We are here again.

"Seungcheol-ah, please don't be a naughty kid and listen well to auntie and uncle."

"Where will you go, mother?"

"Somewhere over the clouds and rainbows."

"Will we meet again?"

Mother doesn't answer, neither does father. They walk away. No matter how hard I scream, they can't listen to me. They are far, far away. I can't reach them anymore.

"Mother."

"Mother, mother why are you leaving me alone?"

"Father, I don't want this. I want to go to where you are."

"Mother, father...."

Then everything is falling.

And his sleeping body feels like falling from a very high place. With no end.

CLANGGGGGGG

He hears the sound of something broken, but it can't stop him from falling. He keeps falling, he can't see the end of it.

Until someone calls his name.

"CHOI SEUNGCHEOL!!!"

He opens his eyes and sees another person who has eyes as dark as the night sky and a beauty as graceful as the morning sun looks at him with a terrified expression. The scent, the velvet petals, greets him.

It's the omega.

Yoon Jeonghan.

"Daniel." He looks so shocked with what he sees in Seungcheol's face and... eyes.

"You can speak Korean."

And you are in my room.

To be continued

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Chapter 1 is finally here!!! I officially start this story. what do you think about this chapter? is it interesting enough? I cant wait to wait for chapter two, but it's pretty late here. So see you next chapter! Hope you like this chapter~