The Omega Is Pregnant-Chapter 97

After a very romantic confession, what the two of them did wasn’t exchanging sweet words under the night sky or having an unforgettable meal in a fancy place...

They just passed out and slept like logs.

Admiring a beautiful night view or having an elegant dinner—those kinds of plans were only possible when you weren’t utterly exhausted. Because he had been rushing around with Blessing inside him, Tae-seo felt a sudden wave of fatigue and, in the end, came home in Kang Se-heon’s arms.

“If I’d known it’d be like this, I should’ve just stayed in and rested instead of running around all morning.”

When Tae-seo mumbled in a voice thick with drowsiness, Kang Se-heon stroked his cheek and gently rubbed his ear.

“If you had, I would've tried even harder to get you out of the house. Since your mother said she'd help, you would've ended up there no matter what.”

Kang Se-heon had fully intended for Tae-seo to see the video in that spot. Ideally, at a moment when he wouldn’t expect it. He had asked Kim Mi-kyung for help—under the excuse of needing Tae-seo to be brought there for another reason.

...He hadn’t expected Kang In-hyuk to tag along, but all things considered, it hadn’t turned out badly.

“Is that so?”

Tae-seo’s voice grew even weaker than before. His eyelids, heavy with sleep, blinked slowly.

“Still... it’s a bit of a shame.”

If he could’ve spent a little more meaningful time with Se-heon, it might’ve been the perfect day. But moving around while pregnant didn’t gradually build up strain—it all hit at once. As if it were his fault for not noticing it sooner, the fatigue came crashing down, and Tae-seo closed his dimming eyes.

“As long as I’m with you, nothing else matters.”

Maybe those words were comforting, because a faint smile appeared on Tae-seo’s lips as he began to drift off. With that soft smile, Tae-seo fell asleep wrapped in Kang Se-heon’s pheromones like a blanket.

Kang Se-heon quietly looked down at Tae-seo’s face. His eyes were shut tight, unmoving, and his lips were slightly parted. Even when Se-heon lightly tapped his cheek, Tae-seo gave no reaction, already deep in sleep.

“Tae-seo.”

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Kang Se-heon called his partner’s name.

“Just focus on Blessing.”

I’ll handle everything else.

****

“Father, please.”

Han Mi-sun’s voice rose as Chairman Kang Hak-jung set down the newspaper he had been reading. When he removed his reading glasses, the sound of his sigh suppressed her pleading tone.

“Just this once, please help him. It’s not like we’re talking about some stranger—it’s your second son.”

“You’re asking me to cover his losses?”

“There haven’t been any losses yet.”

“Then what exactly do you want me to help with? Are you asking me to push the phones he made at Wonha?”

When Chairman Kang Hak-jung asked so bluntly, Kang Soo-hak, who had remained silent, twisted his face. Lately, his endeavors had been doing reasonably well, and the tension on his brow had started to ease—but now the wrinkles returned in full force.

Han Mi-sun stepped up in his place.

“That’s just a tool to support his business. Please, just open up a few sales channels from other affiliates. If you’d only do that—”

“That won’t happen.”

Chairman Kang Hak-jung’s dry voice cut off Han Mi-sun’s rising plea.

“Father.”

“That business was doomed from the start. You forced it through, and this is what it’s come to.”

“What do you mean, from the start? He was just trying to do well. And we haven’t seen the final results yet—it could still turn around—”

“How do you expect to reverse something that was nonsense from the moment of contract?”

His flat voice pressed down on Han Mi-sun’s stubborn insistence. Realizing what he meant, she pressed her lips tightly together to keep her emotions from spilling out. Chairman Kang Hak-jung knew.

He knew that the contract stated if they failed to reach a certain sales threshold, Kang Soo-hak would bear all the losses.

The mood that had, until now, been one-sidedly driven by Han Mi-sun suddenly flipped.

“I’ve never been able to cast Soo-hak aside. I’ve always believed it was my fault he wasn’t capable. I thought even if he had no business sense, he might not fail entirely if those around him helped.”

That was what Chairman Kang Hak-jung had once said to Kang Se-heon. That he had gone easy on his second son because he was the younger one—and now the consequences of that leniency had returned to him.

“Soo-hak failed. And he lost to his cousin, no less—what more is there to say?”

At Chairman Kang Hak-jung’s blunt assessment, Han Mi-sun’s eyes burned with words she dared not say.

Isn’t it your fault that only one of them turned out well? Kang Se-heon is the golden child of your precious firstborn, after all... So many excuses flooded her mind, but before she could speak, Chairman Kang Hak-jung cut her off again.

“I found it hard to let go of what I had clung to. But you went ahead and cut it off for me. Well done.”

She had expected him to say that, since she’d done her best all this time, he just couldn’t help her this once. But she had guessed completely wrong. Flustered, Han Mi-sun called out to him.

“What do you mean... Father?”

Sensing the ominous air thickening around them, Kang Soo-hak half-rose from his seat. Chairman Kang Hak-jung looked between their uneasy eyes and gave his decree.

“Leave the country.”

****

While Kang Soo-hak and Han Mi-sun were meeting with Chairman Kang Hak-jung, Kang In-hyuk was also entering the family estate to meet someone. When the household staff mentioned that his parents were there, he barely paid attention. His parents meeting with his grandfather wasn’t anything unusual.

What mattered more was the person who had summoned him—and what they wanted to say. Kang In-hyuk quickened his pace.

He slid open the door and, after a brief glance around the room, called out to the figure looking out the window.

“You didn’t call me here just because you missed your cousin, right?”

At Kang In-hyuk’s voice, Kang Se-heon turned around.

“You’re here.”

Perched on the edge of the desk, Kang Se-heon looked at In-hyuk. His gaze was noticeably softer than the stern face he always wore at work. It had been so long that it almost felt unfamiliar. Scratching the back of his head, In-hyuk shifted the subject.

“Still, why’d you call me here, of all places? Feeling nostalgic all of a sudden?”

The place Kang Se-heon had summoned him to was Chairman Kang Hak-jung’s hanok. As In-hyuk walked along the wall, he glanced around the room. A bed perfectly suited for a growing teenager, a bookshelf packed with reference books and test prep materials, and books on business management. Even the tidy desk still carried a lived-in feeling.

“It’s really been a while since I was here.”

This was the room where Kang Se-heon used to stay.

“I think I came here a lot when we were kids...”

"Yeah. You used to come in and bother me a lot when I was studying.”

When Kang Se-heon nodded, the desk under him groaned in protest at the weight. The desk he had once used without issue now struggled to hold up his grown body.

“So it’s not like you called me here just to reminisce.”

Kang In-hyuk finally let his long-held wariness show. From the moment he stepped into the room, he felt as if something was tugging at the crown of his head. Before he could fully grasp what that strange sensation was, he tried to figure out what Kang Se-heon wanted.

“I thought seeing you here would make my voice a little softer. It’s also a place where you might understand me better.”

As Kang Se-heon stood, the desk stopped making those unpleasant noises and fell silent.

“We got along pretty well when we were kids, didn’t we? Back then, we weren’t thinking about how we’d end up carving this company into pieces.”

Kang Se-heon crossed the room and stood directly in front of In-hyuk.

“You had your own path. I had mine. We both made our own space and lived just fine.”

And it was true. Kang In-hyuk had always known Se-heon was exceptionally capable. He never thought he could surpass him easily.

But that didn’t matter. {N•o•v•e•l•i•g•h•t} Like Se-heon said, they each had their own territory. At the very least, In-hyuk had understood the boundaries of his own, and within them, he was confident he could succeed.

“But there’s one person who overlaps both of our territories, isn’t there? He was your friend at first. And when he presented, he was nearly set to be your fiancé. I’m talking about Tae-seo.”

As he listened, In-hyuk finally understood what had been tugging at the crown of his head all along.

“Now that Tae-seo is entirely in my domain, if you still can’t accept it, things between us will only fracture further.”

Kang Se-heon gave In-hyuk a pat on the shoulder.

“I figured I should let you know—since you don’t seem to realize—that the restraint I’ve shown by never touching your territory might not hold much longer.”

It didn’t sound like there were two equal territories—it sounded like Kang Se-heon had allowed In-hyuk a piece of his own. And at that, a crooked smile finally crept across In-hyuk’s lips.

Why had he never thought that maybe Se-heon had simply let him be all this time?

“Why don’t you disappear from my sight for a while, before I end up taking everything from you? What excuse should we use?”

Study abroad?

Kang In-hyuk let out a disbelieving laugh.

It wasn’t enough that Tae-seo had completely rejected him—now he was being forced out of the country altogether.

This was the price of failing to hold onto Yoon Tae-seo, who had once looked only at him.

Yoon Tae-seo... did you know it would come to this?

****

Blinking slowly as he came awake, Tae-seo looked around. He sat up in the same bed he'd fallen asleep in, but something had changed.

The lover who had held him close, who had wrapped him in pheromones as he slept, was gone.

Was he cooking in the kitchen? Or reading on the sofa? But for some reason, it didn’t feel like Se-heon was anywhere in the house.

Just the fact that someone who should be there wasn’t made the space feel strangely empty. Tae-seo slid off the bed, moving slowly.

Even the pants dragging on the floor weren’t his—but whether he noticed or not, his only focus was on getting out of the room.

He opened the door and checked the living room, then the kitchen. That same hollow feeling lingered in the air.

There had been plenty of times he woke up and Se-heon wasn’t there. Sometimes he left early for work. Sometimes he stepped out briefly.

When that happened, Tae-seo would just call and ask, “Where are you?” and that was that.

But this time, something felt off. Unease itched under his skin, and just as he was wondering why—his eyes flew wide open.

Something unfamiliar stirred inside his body.

“I think I just...”

As Tae-seo’s hand moved toward his belly, a mechanical chime sounded and the front door opened.