"I TOLD YOU NOT TO GO TO MY ROOM!"

Yoon Jeonghan can't breathe. He is gasping for air when the big grip from the alpha is getting too tight... on his neck. He never knew that his curiosity of someone might be in trouble, will get him in trouble. He never imagined an alpha who was very kind to him yesterday, currently looks at him in wrath and choking him as if he really wants the other to die.

It was all just because he stepped his foot in his room.

It's 3AM and Jeonghan can't sleep.

He is a light sleeper and sleeping in a new house, new environment usually makes it harder for him to get some sleep. But he isn't an insomniac, he will sleep eventually. But it's 3AM and he is still fully awake, so he walks out from his room to search for a drink.

Daniel's place in Korea is quite big. When you step in, a big television and sofa will welcome you. Besides the living room there is a hallway that will connect you to the two bedrooms in this apartment. The main bedroom, the bigger one, is for the owner of this apartment, of course. It is located in the right wing and the guest room, which Jeonghan is very glad to be allowed to live here for a while, is in the left wing. Main bedroom has its bathroom, but the guest room doesn't have it. So Jeonghan will take a shower in the tiny bathroom near the kitchen. The kitchen and its dining area are located in the right wing, near Daniel's room.

This apartment is nice and located in the heart of the city, but it is such a pity to have this kind of good apartment place, but located on the first floor. This apartment doesn't have a balcony. It will be great if it is placed on the higher floor so it can have the balcony and Jeonghan can have his own peace looking at the night sky of this busy city. But in the end, this isn't his place, he can't demand something he doesn't have.

When Jeonghan gets out from his room on the left wing and walks slowly towards the right wing (because his foot is still injured) to get some drink in the kitchen, he hears a loud noise from Daniel's room. It sounds like something is breaking there. Like a glass drop from the table, that kind of sound. Jeonghan tries to ignore it, but when he inhales the air surrounding him, it is the moment he can't ignore what is currently happening in that room.

Daniel's alpha scent is crazy.

It's so complicated, he can't even describe it well.

In his poor way of describing how complicated he smells, he can say it like this: he smells like a blend of a fruity and woody scent. There is a mix of apple, bergamot and rose, dry birch and jasmine on the surface, but somehow you can also smell musk, oakmoss and vanilla on its base. The fragrance combines an inviting fresh and citrus scent with a woody smell, the smells allure you to get more of it. That's scary, because it's... addicted.

And that addicting scent is showing Jeonghan how troubled his owner is right now. He smells like he is having a very depressed situation, nothing good comes out from it. Is he okay? Jeonghan is getting worried because Daniel is a good man, at least from what he showed him yesterday. It's a rare case for a person to help a total stranger out of trouble and allow him to live together with him. So Jeonghan feels like he needs to check up on that guy, he is also a bit curious of what is happening there.

Why Daniel, that very kind man, only gave him one term of living together.

Jeonghan can't enter his room.

Why?

Jeonghan is a man of curiosity, and that is his biggest mistake to get along with his master, the owner of this place.

He remembers what a man named Hong Jisoo told him no more than 12 hours ago.

"He is kind, but be careful. Don't get into his bad side."

It doesn't need 24 hours for Jeonghan to get into Daniel's bad side.

It will cost him something, but he gains something too.

He knows by now that Daniel can speak Korean.

He was so worried that he wouldn't be able to communicate well with this alpha because of the language barrier. That was his biggest worry since meeting this man. Because he needs to get closer, to know better about this man. But this worry is gone, it is changed with something else.

How to make this man stop choking and may be killing him right now!

The man in front of him is scary, his eyes show him a very terrifying and angry feeling. It feels like what he does right now is a form of self defense... against Jeonghan? God..

"Daniel, i c..an't breathe.. I'm so..rry..."

He pleads but it doesn't stop the alpha, his eyes are so dark, like he lost control over himself. Jeonghan is sure that he recognizes him, but something makes him think that Jeonghan is a dangerous person for him. Like a threat.

Jeonghan should not worry about the possibility of the alpha kicking him out from his apartment, he should worry whether he can get out from this apartment alive or not, judging how clouded the alpha in front of him right now.

He can't die, and he can't be kicked from this apartment.

He needs to do something.

Think, Yoon Jeonghan, think.

When he entered this room, he saw the man was struggling in his sleep. His guess was right, in his sleep he unintentionally nudged on a glass in the bedside table, but he didn't wake up. He looked like having difficulty breathing and sweating a lot. He kept blabbering in Korean asking someone to not leave him alone, that is the exact moment Jeonghan understood that he can speak Korean and faking his cluelessness over his mother's tongue all this time.

He had a bad dream, he needed to wake up, and Jeonghan called his name.

His real name.

The name that shouldn't be known by so many people and yet.. he knows it.

Choi Seungcheol.

The real name of this alpha.

Should he call it one more time?

This is a gambling situation, what if he will get angrier if he calls his name? But.. there is something inside him that makes him want to just say the name. Maybe it will help him to get out of this situation.

"Seungcheol-ah..."

And the strangulation stops.

The clouds in his eyes start to unravel.

Daniel, no, his name is Seungcheol, looks at him. He is finally able to tell himself that Jeonghan is no harm to him. He is just a random omega he saved yesterday who was very unashamed to ask him a place to live for awhile. That he is currently in his room is a total mistake and he doesn't have any ill-intention.

"Seungcheol-ah, I'm sorry."

Seungcheol is trembling on his feet and almost falling if Jeonghan doesn't catch his hands first. He looks so shaken by someone calling him by his real name. When Jeonghan looks into his dark's eyes, he can see a big amount of sadness there. He looks like he wants to cry.

A moment he looks like a serial killer who wants to choke his prey to death.

A moment later he looks like a sad puppy and all of this because someone..

Call his name.

"How do you know my name?" He asks in Korean, no more pretending to not understand it in front of the omega.

Jeonghan thinks for a moment and smiles a little bit, he tries to give his nicest smile so the alpha won't turn into a serial killer again. He needs to convince this guy that he knows his name by accident and all he can think about is...

"You keep calling your name in your sleep."

"Get out."

Huh? Did Jeonghan press the wrong button again?

"GET OUT OF MY ROOM!"

And that moment, Jeonghan runs out from Seungcheol's room and forgets that his feet is still hurt. He needs to get out of that room or the clouds will come to blind the alpha again and he will kill anyone who steps his foot into his bedroom.

***

Choi Seungcheol.

People called him by his English name, Daniel.

He is a very handsome alpha. That was Jeonghan's first impression on him when he got out of his expensive car and looked out for Jeonghan who was sitting on the dirty road while touching his foot that was injured.

His face isn't like a regular Korean man, but there is no denying in his handsomeness, he has dark hair, pointed nose, and deep dark eyes. He is taller than Jeonghan but not too much. He has this aura of a very masculine and strong alpha. He looks like a fighter (he can be a model too with that kind of face), Jeonghan was shocked to know that his occupation is an archaeologist. Not a very suitable job for his image.

He is not easy to read because Jeonghan is sure that his beauty affects him in some way but he doesn't get crazy about it. He is more like wanting to hide his infatuation with the omega's beauty. Interesting. Being a slut in front of him, won't work. It will make him uncomfortable, because he is a man that really respects boundaries.

How to make him cross the boundaries, Jeonghan really wants to know it.

His scent, that complicated scent.

Jeonghan likes it.

When he talks, he sounds so nice and polite, despite the struggle of understanding his English. Jeonghan likes it too.

Then, he showed Jeonghan that he is a very kind man who wants to help the others that seek help from him. Even though he was hesitant at the beginning, of course he could feel that way, a random stranger asked for a home to live in. But he still helped Jeonghan in the end.

If Yoon Jeonghan isn't who he is, he thinks he wants to pursue this man.

But no man can be that perfect. Jeonghan touches his neck, that is still throbbing in pain and takes a deep breath. That perfect man almost killed him because he entered his room.

Just because of that.

What was happening in his life?

What kind of trauma he had until he was that terrified and angry but also sad to see someone... seeing him sleeping in his room?

If Yoon Jeonghan isn't who he is, he should run away from this apartment.

He isn't sure what will greet him tomorrow, the angel and demon like alpha can come to him and choke him to death again or kick him out from this place, he can do anything the omega can't predict and to be very honest, it is scary. But he is who he is, so he can't run away from that alpha named Choi Seungcheol.

Because he needs to live here.

So he needs to think how to reconcile with that man, and...

How to be on his good side again.

That makes Jeonghan can't sleep all night long.

When the morning comes, it still rains hard as last night, he immediately goes to the kitchen. With his limping feet he doesn't really care (he was hurting a lot in his life, this kind of pain is nothing), he tries to cook a breakfast for the owner of this place. It is his job and he doesn't want to fail it. He doesn't know the alpha's taste in food so he makes a simple ramyun with vegetables that he can find in his refrigerator.

It's ready fifteen minutes later.

When he is confused how to wake Seungcheol before the noodles get bloated, the alpha shows himself in front of him. The air is very thick and Jeonghan feels awkward because he doesn't know how to call him.

Choi Seungcheol?

Or Daniel?

Maybe Daniel is safer.

"Dan-"

"Seungcheol."

Huh?

The alpha looks sharp into his eyes. No smiles on his face like yesterday, he looks as cold as ice. Ugh. This is gonna be hard work to get into his good side again, but first, how to make him not to kick him out.

"You already know my name, just call me that when we are alone, and-"

DING DONG

The sentence is cut by a loud ring from the front door. Seungcheol rolls his eyes and walks toward the door. Hong Jisoo is shown in the kitchen area three minutes later.

"Wow! You cooked! Can you cook for me too, Jeonghan-ssi? I will be talking about job with Dan. Can you deliver the food to Dan's working room?"

Jeonghan tries to smile. He is used to it, whatever situation is happening, smiles first. "Of course, Jisoo-ssi!" The long haired man looks to Seungcheol for a brief moment, he can see the alpha is stiffen to see interaction between Jisoo and Jeonghan, as if he is afraid that Jeonghan will tell the latter two big secrets Choi Seungcheol tried so hard to keep all this time.

Jeonghan smiles again and moves his attention to the fellow omega. "Jisoo-ssi, can you ask Daniel what he wants for his drink? Is he drinking coffee? I see a coffee machine there, I can make some drinks for you two."

Jisoo shakes his head. "He is troubling us with his limited language capability, yeah?"

He understands it, Hong Jisoo, just please say no more.

Jeonghan only smiles to respond, then Jisoo asks the same question to Seungcheol in English.

"He said, he wants milk."

Milk?

Jeonghan doesn't expect that.

Seungcheol takes his vegetable ramyun in front of him, saying something to Jisoo in English, then moves out from the kitchen area to his working room, if Jeonghan can guess.

"Wow, what a foul mood in the morning. Just the same with the weather. Sometimes he is really hard to handle, you have to get used to it. By the way, he wants me to convey this to you. Next time, please don't cook ramyun with vegetables. He prefers meat... a lot of it."

Next time...

Jeonghan really wants to scream in happiness.

He hasn't gotten kicked yet.

God bless him.

Another fifteen minutes, Jeonghan walks slowly with his injured feet toward Seungcheol's office room. A tray of food and drinks in his hand. He stops his movement in front of the door. Now he is afraid to enter a new room in this place. He is afraid the cloud is coming to blind the owner of this place again.

But he hears Jisoo's voice from the inside.

"Dan can smell your scent from inside, why are you stopping in front of the door? You can come in."

Daniel can tell this by himself, not using Jisoo as a moderator, but yeah, Jeonghan will play his game.

Jeonghan puts Jisoo's ramyun and a glass of water in front of the omega, and a glass of milk in front of Seungcheol. He looks up for a while to the alpha and notices he looks so closely to him. His gaze.. it brings the omega a shiver.

He gets out of that room as fast as possible.

Especially after he notices that Seungcheol's mood is getting worse than before.

Today, he must not make another scene.

Jeonghan tells himself.

While Jisoo and Seungcheol discuss something in the alpha's working room, Jeonghan takes time to wash himself. He still uses his yesterday's clothes and feels so dirty even though he already took his bath yesterday. He has no clean clothes with him.

When he walks toward his bedroom again, he is surprised to see a pile of clean clothes in front of his door. Some of it smells like Seungcheol because it's his, and the rest, especially the underwear, are new. Did Seungcheol buy it with the help of Hong Jisoo?

He is so kind.

Jeonghan makes a touched face towards the pile of clothes.

He brings his towel and a set of new clothes to the bathroom near the kitchen area. He takes a shower for a while there. He gets out from the bathroom after thirty minutes and finds Choi Seungcheol is waiting for him in the kitchen bar while drinking his damn milk Jeonghan made before.

He looks for the omega and seems distracted a little bit with his wet hair and his exposed neck.

"I want to talk."

So, Jisoo has left?

Jeonghan walks in thin ice right now, he must have acted accordingly. He takes a place in front of the alpha in the kitchen bar.

"Yes?"

"Ugh, your scent is so distracting."

Oh, so... he was distracted by my pheromone?

"I can use a scent blocker, if it bothers you."

Seungcheol shakes his head. "No, let it be."

What the fuck do you want then?

Jeonghan starts to feel irritated.

No, no. He is your master.

Behave, Yoon Jeonghan, behave.

"Weather forecaster said that this country will keep raining hard for several days or maybe weeks ahead." He starts to talk again with his nice voice. Ugh what's wrong with his voice? Why is it so nice to hear?

And... Wow, we are suddenly talking about the weather.

Jeonghan doesn't understand where this conversation is going to.

"You want me to do something about it?" Jeonghan carefully asks something that sounds funny even to his own ear.

"It makes me can't go to the excavation site and do my job, and it will also make my visit to this country prolonged, which is why I hate it so much."

Jeonghan wants to ask why.

Why does this man seem to hate this country so much until he doesn't want to speak the language even though he can speak it and doesn't want to use his Korean name and rather be called as... Daniel?

Daniel doesn't really suit him.

Choi Seungcheol is better.

And of course, it's not the right time to ask it.

Not when they aren't close enough.

"That will make me stay at home a lot, so we need to set our boundaries right because I still want to help you and share this place with you." Jeonghan feels his heart skip a beat when Seungcheol says those words with him, still with no smile on his face and with his sharp gaze. He shouldn't feel this way though.

There are so many why in his head, but only this way he is brave enough to ask directly to the handsome alpha.

"Thank you so much, but after what I did yesterday, why do you still want to keep me here?"

A very harmful question, but Jeonghan is curious about what Choi Seungcheol is thinking about. This angel and demon like human being.

Seungcheol only looks at him in silence, not answering the question yet. His eyes scan Jeonghan from his hair, his face, and his body. He stops for a long time on his exposed neck. Not gonna lie, Jeonghan feels his cheek is getting hot just from the alpha's gaze. A very handsome and interesting alpha, openly scanning him when Jeonghan still doesn't know how to act in front of him. It's the first time.

Jeonghan always knows what he should do. But this time, he is humbly saying that he is still clueless.

If this alpha who is now taking another sip of that fucking milk is his regular customer, they are already on the bed, for sure. Jeonghan will use his seducing card for that kind of alpha.

But Choi Seungcheol is really hard to guess.

"The warm and sweetness of your milk is right for my taste."

Right? This alpha is indeed... weird.

And he is talking about "the milk" Jeonghan prepared for him before, right? Why this sounds... ah forget it.

The way he gazes at the omega, Yoon Jeonghan is Yoon Jeonghan, he has so many experiences with alpha. But his deep gaze under that black hair bang and a handsome face, and his complicated but alluring scent make Jeonghan feel something in his stomach. Damn it.

"Oh."

He smirks and this is the first time he shows Jeonghan some emotion and not a resting bitch face today.

"I won't say sorry for what happened yesterday, I definitely told you not to go to my room and yet you violated it on your first night in my place."

I just feel worried (and curious) about you. But however, Jeonghan thought he was at fault too.

"I won't go to your room again."

"Good, I don't want to lose control again just because I saw someone in my room." This is only Jeonghan's assumption but he can see that Seungcheol is challenging him to ask him why so bad. His eyes, especially. Jeonghan can see a challenge there.

He will know why, but not this way.

He is Yoon Jeonghan, he will have his way of knowing this alpha deepest secret that will explain why this man is having a double personality and why this man is hiding his real identity.

Everything about Choi Seungcheol, he needs to know it.

Because it is his mission right now.

Three hours later after doing his job of being Choi Seungcheol's personal servant and house cleaner, Jeonghan goes to his room and searches for his phone that he hid under the bed. He unlocks the phone with his fingerprints and his eyes to sees a message from someone there. Someone familiar.

From: Tiger

How was it? Another easy task for you?

Jeonghan smirks.

To: Tiger

Finally you gave me an interesting and challenging opponent

It was all planned before, to show up in front of Seungcheol's car in the middle of nowhere. To get slightly injured by his car. To make Jeonghan's body full of bruises to make a little sympathy from the alpha. It was all their plan to make Jeonghan, the prettiest omega in his Company, to get into Choi Seungcheol's life.

Did Jeonghan also lie about him being a prostitute? In that case, Jeonghan also doesn't know the answer because he usually uses his body to achieve his goal. Was that making him a prostitute? He doesn't want to think much about it.

Because right now, he is entering his most difficult mission he has ever had.

Jeonghan has three months, and within that period, he must know everything about Choi Seungcheol.

His secret.

His past.

And the information that was needed by the people who gave him this task.

That information, only Choi Seungcheol who knows it.

And unfortunately, it is something he will keep by himself to the graveyard.

To be continued

Next in Interlocked

Chapter 3 : The Old Roommate

"Where will you go?" Jeonghan wonders why Choi Seungcheol feels so restless today.

"I need to visit the hospital, my old roommate was rushed there, there must be something wrong with his pregnancy."

Old roommate.

Jeonghan smirks when Seungcheol turns around.

Maybe this is the way that was given to him to know more about Choi Seungcheol.

His old roommate must know so much about him and from the look on the alpha face and his restless mood, Seungcheol is definitely having some affection for him.

Seungcheol's old roommate.

Who could it be?