Unscented Trajectory - Chapter 49 - 49

His body suddenly leaned to one side, and the man who was holding Yihyeon’s wrist let out a shriek and loosened his grip.

“Ah-!”

The moment he clearly felt the pain as if his wrist was being broken by the black sword that was slashed without mercy, his temple was hit by the attack that followed immediately. The assailant, who lost focus, lost his consciousness and fell to the floor.

The owner of the alpha scent, which he hadn’t felt in a long time, let out an angry voice from inside the helmet.

How dare…”

A huge scent of alpha enveloped him. The amount of pheromone was so terrifying that even Joohyuk was startled.

Yihyeon felt a chill in his body and calmly touched the man’s chest. A normal alpha would be fine, but for Yihyeon, the dominant pheromone was too dangerous to even compare to Joohyuk.

The man who recognized Yihyeon’s signal controlled his pheromone at once. He looked at Yihyeon from the helmet and spoke so softly that only he could hear.

“All the evidence has been passed. Leave the rest to me and go back.”

His husky, low voice contained unwavering loyalty. Loyalty towards his owner saying that he can rest as he will take care of the rest.

But Yihyeon could not do as he said. The man did not know how much Joohyuk had begun to obsess over him. Although his interest may not lie in Kwon Yihyeon himself, from how Joohyuk was like now, he would not let go things just with the fact that his bodyguard was gone.

The moment Yihyeon tried to reject him in a small voice, his hand was grabbed from behind and was pulled out from the man’s arms forcibly. The moment he was held in someone else’s arms, a distinctly different scent from the alpha pheromone from a while ago wrapped around him.

Joohyuk, who had beaten down all the assassins, held Yihyeon in his arms and stared at the man. His scent spread out wildly, as if he would bite the man at any moment.

“Don’t touch him.”

Just like Joohyuk’s aggressive pheromone, the man’s alpha pheromone also started to fluctuate.

Then the man flinched for an instant and calmed his pheromone. He took his gaze away from Yihyeon, who looked at him as if to restrain him.

The man raised his hand toward the guards. The men on the motorcycle who recognized the signal turned around and left.

As soon as the men on the motorcycle left the scene, sirens were heard from all directions. Police and an ambulance arrived after receiving a report from the people nearby.

Only then did Joohyuk, who was relieved, take Yihyeon out of his arms and look at him.

“Are you okay? If you are hurt anywhere, tell me now.”

“… I am fine.”

Joohyuk was noticeably relieved at Yihyeon’s words and his shoulders drooped.

Yihyeon saw the blood flowing from Joohyuk’s head and stretched out his hand towards it. He tried to wipe it with his hands, but just before he touched it, he stopped and put his hand down. Hesitating, Yihyeon turned his gaze and took out a handkerchief from his jacket pocket and held it out.

“Why did you defend me?”

“Is this an important question?”

Joohyuk, who took the handkerchief, grabbed Yihyeon’s chin and turned it sideways. With the handkerchief he offered to wipe his blood, he wiped off the dirt from the bottom of his temple.

“I should have protected you, but if you defend…”

Joohyuk smirked.

“I know. Why did I defend you?”

Joohyuk lowered the handkerchief and met Yihyeon’s gaze. Their eyes fluttered slightly as if they were matching each other.

“Why did I defend you, Kwon Yihyeon?”

He dared to question, but for some reason it seemed that he already knew the answer.

* * *

Bang-!

He smashed his cell phone down on the steering wheel of the car.

“Useless things! Fuck! Nothing’s working!”

Lee Sihoon, who had been swearing, answered the phone as soon as his cell phone rang.

“What!”

– That, Vice President, now… I think you should see it.

“What do you want me to see?!”

-The Vice President’s story is coming out on TV.

“… What?!”

He thought he was going to die of a headache at the sound of his subordinate’s troubled voice, but he turned on the TV in the car. He thought there was nothing to talk about yet, so what was you

“… Why are you so intent on killing Executive Director Lee Joohyuk? Even if you have different blood, are you not brothers?”

“Siblings? No way.”

“He and I are not like brothers. He’s just an obstacle in my way.”

“Ever since I was little, that bastard kept blocking my way. While pretending he’s not our father, he only ever considered that bastard and raised and pruned him. Even when he was mentally ill like an idiot, he tried to save that hopeless bastard… He never even glanced at me when I was sick.”

The voice on the news was definitely his.

“Ha… what’s this…”

His voice was recorded, and two male and female anchors were reporting the news with certainty that it was his. He also didn’t like the headline [Solo /Chaebol Half Brother’s Dark Fight] that appeared below it.

Both hands holding the handle trembled. Just a little while ago, he got a call that his double ledger had been exposed. So, when he got a call that the Shinwoo Hotel was seized and searched, what should he do this time? Half-brother’s fight?

“What is it…”

It was all messed up. Even if it exploded, could it explode at the same time like this?

In the raid and search for corruption, even the recording contained the contents of an attempt to kill ‘Executive Director Lee Joohyuk’. But more than anything else, public moral criticism was the most serious problem.

Come to think of it, he definitely remembers when they had this conversation.

“Ha… no way…”

A smirk escaped Sihoon’s lips.

He was told to catch Kwon Yihyeon, but instead he was caught. Because of the conversation with Kwon Yihyeon.

‘First of all, let’s go abroad. If I go abroad, I can buy time for maintenance. As soon as possible before the departure ban is struck…’

Sihoon picked up his cell phone and called someone. Meanwhile, on TV, there was talk of a golf course incident where Lee Joohyuk was almost killed.

Suddenly, another title appeared below it.

[Emergency/ Executive Director Lee Joohyuk, death threat again]

Thanks to the successive explosions, there would be a lot of uproar. Sihoon was in a hurry. If the investigation was properly conducted up to this death threat, there would be no other place to escape.

‘I’ll somehow manage to get Kwon Yihyeon from abroad…’

Kwon Yihyeon was the key to all these. Soon, Yoon Jaehee would be able to cover the current situation as much as possible. He believed so.

As he was thinking about it, his phone rang again. he checked the phone to see if they were from his fucking subordinates, and it was Lee Haejun.

– Hyung, where are you?

“I am going there now. Are you ready?”

-Sure. You just need to come. I followed all the other procedures.

Haejun said, followed by his characteristic laughter. Thanks to this, his stomach, which was only boiling like a furnace, got better.

‘Yeah, I still have Haejun. He also wanted to bring Joohyuk down, so we can plan it abroad together.’

With that in mind, he pressed the accelerator harder.

Sihoon, who got off at the airport in a hurry, looked at Haejun who was waiting at the entrace, and was filled with excitement.

“Haejun, let’s go quickly.”

“You’ve worked hard, hyung.”

“Hu… no, what hard work? Let’s go to America and talk.”

While hugging Haejun’s shoulders, Sihoon stepped into the airport. Then Haejun grabbed the arm that was wrapped around his shoulder and lowered it.

“But I don’t think I suffered that much.”

“What?”

Seeing Sihoon tilting his head, Haejun shrugged his shoulders and walked one step ahead.

“Hyung has had a harder time than me, really.”

Haejun turned and smiled brightly at Sihoon.

“You’re going to be dragged around a lot in the future.”

“What are you talking about?”

Sihoon looked at him curiously, and at that time, men in black suits were gathering around him. Only then did Sihoon realize the situation and his face suddenly darkened.

“Hey, what… ?!”

The men who came close to Sihoon put handcuffs on his wrists.

“Mr. Lee Sihoon, you are under arrest on charges of raising money for slush funds and trying to kill a relative.”

“No, that’s absurd! Hey! Lee Haejun, what is this?!”

It was Haejun who led him to the airport saying he had prepared in advance so that he could escape abroad. As he said, the situation was not favorable and he could be banned from leaving the country if he stayed in Korea. But Haejun, who prepared the route, sold him out to the police.

“Since when, damn it! Since when did you stick to that bastard?! Huh?!”

Sihoon struggled and shouted. It was a pity that the police officers were holding him tight, otherwise he would have run into Haejun and bit his ear off.

Haejun waved his hand at Sihoon, showing his friendly smile as usual.

“In the first place, I was never with hyung.”

“What?! Hey! Lee Haejun! You bastard-!”

“Aww, it’s noisy, so take him away. It’s too inconvenient for other people.”

As Haejun said that, the police quickly dragged Sihoon away. Even then, Sihoon was busy struggling on the road.

The smile on Haejun’s face, who had seen him off with a smile, quickly disappeared. He sighed and picked up his phone. A TV news program was appearing in it, and again, there was a recorded transcript of the conversation between Lee Sihoon and Kwon Yihyeon.

‘Did you see it? Did you see… I’m worried.’

More than anything else, he was worried about Yihyeon.

With the release of the recording, Joohyuk’s conviction that he would be Sihoon’s partner was completely crushed.

So who is Kwon Yihyeon?

How much more will Joohyuk be confused by that?

He just hoped Joohyuk didn’t threaten Yihyeon. Since he was an idiot who didn’t even know his own heart, he can’t help but hope he doesn’t dig his own grave.

‘I’d rather it be clear who Kwon Yihyeon is.’

Because he wanted to know too.

* * *

Returning home at the same time, Joohyuk was watching the news on his laptop, as Lee Haejun feared.

“Lee Joohyuk, why didn’t you just let him die?”

“… Why are you so intent on killing Executive Director Lee Joohyuk? Even if you have different blood, are you not brothers?”

However, there was no change in Joohyuk’s expression. As if he knew that Lee Sihoon and Kwon Yihyeon were not together.

Joohyuk, who brushed his bangs aside with one hand, turned his gaze away from the news screen and looked at the side of the laptop. There was an SD card that was handed over by the detective from whom he requested the case, just a few hours before.

Joohyuk heard the news right after he had already seen all the contents of the SD card.

“Kwon Yihyeon…”

As soon as he said the name, his face reflexively contorted.

Joohyuk jumped up from his seat and picked up several documents that had been turned over in the corner of the desk. Just like that, he immediately left the study and stood in front of Yihyeon’s room.

He flinched as he tried to turn the doorknob and stopped. The hand that touched the handle and the hand that held the paper firmly trembled like crazy.

It wasn’t just the hand. Even the heart in his chest was trembling like a convulsion, and he wanted to hit it with his fists telling it to stop.

It felt like he was standing in front of an iron door that wouldn’t open. As if anxious, his breathing became a little short, and his contorted face contained complex emotions that could not be summed up in one word.

After a few minutes of staring at the pitiful floor with his deeply sunken eyes, the expression disappeared and he opened the door.

* * *

There was always a chair in the corner of Yihyeon’s large room that was given to him by Joohyuk. It was the shady place with the least sunlight from both windows, and it was similar to his original room, which had a cramped and lonely vibe.

But it was always the same at night. The interior lights of the night, if different by day, always illuminated the same place. It might be better to say that the darkness that was hanging during the day was all over the room.

And Yihyeon sat in that chair today and was immersed in deep thought.

“Are you okay? If you are hurt anywhere, tell me now.”

Joohyuk’s genuinely worried voice was still resonating in his ear.

“I know. Why did I defend you?”

It sounded self-deprecating, but it sounded comfortable.

“Why did I defend you, Kwon Yihyeon?”

An unfamiliar voice. Still, his voice was clear.

‘Why do you keep wavering?’

Yihyeon could not stand it, and with one hand on his forehead, his face distorted.

‘Why do you keep wavering…’

He felt sorry for himself

An idiot who didn’t have an answer.

‘It’s all over now. What I’m going to do is… It’s over.’

He knew that Joohyuk was seeing someone else through him, but he couldn’t stay by his side forever. In a few days, the contract period would be over, so he would erase his traces one by one…

As he thought about it, something seemed to come up inside hm. It felt like something he had been struggling with until now was shaking at the thought that he had to completely disappear from Joohyuk’s side.

‘Wake up. Now he has nothing to do with me.’

He repeated the same thing over and over again. He was the one who didn’t care, so it was time to erase him.

It was memorized like a spell, but it didn’t seem to have any effect. The rumbling of the depths began to gradually come in a big wave.

Then, suddenly the door swung open. Yihyeon was startled and looked up, and Joohyuk was standing there with no expression on his face.

“What are you so surprised about?”

After closing the door, Joohyuk came closer. As soon as Yihyeon got up from his seat, Joohyuk grabbed his arm and threw him onto the bed. The bed shook, and before Yihyeon could stand up right away, some papers flew over him.

“You’ve been cheating me all this time.”

At Joohyuk’s words, Yihyeon’s eyes widened. He picked up the nearest document.

“… !”

Inside, there was a picture of his sister Sehyeon entering someone’s room. His teeth clenched at the familiar appearance of the hallway.

In the photo, the room Sehyeon entered was the hotel in Busan where the business party was held, and that was also Lee Sihoon’s room.

“I knew that Yoon Jaehee was very interested in the stake in the Shinwoo Group. She showed interest in particular since about a year ago, but at the time, she was an investor in a promising company, so I thought it was worth it. In fact, as of today’s standards, Yoon Jaehee holds a significant stake in the Shinwoo Group.”

Joohyuk’s cold eyes fell on Yihyeon. He gathered the documents and looked at them, one by one, as calmly as possible. But he couldn’t help the trembling in his eyes.

“Perhaps she colluded with Lee Sihoon to make a deal. If you drive me away, the successor of the Shinwoo group will of course be Lee Sihoon, so if that happens, he will be promised an additional stake…”

“No, no. Something like that…”

“Then?”

Joohyuk, who looked at his bewildered face without blinking an eye, narrowed his eyes.

“Is it all a misunderstanding that you were from MYS and that Yoon Jaehee had a significant stake in MYS and came in and out like her own house?”

At Joohyuk’s question, Yihyeon kept his mouth shut. His eyes were still shaking, but his mouth didn’t seem to open at all.

“Whether you were in the real MYS or not, you must have been partnering with Yoon Jaehee. No, not partners, were you lovers?”

Joohyuk picked up a piece of paper and waved it in front of Yihyeon’s surprised eyes. The document contained a scene where Yihyeon was hugging Sehyun inside MYS.

“This…”

He had to make an excuse. He had to say she wasn’t a lover, nor was it a conspiracy, or anything like that. But he didn’t know what to say.

He couldn’t even tell that Yoon Jaehee was actually his real sister. She has been collecting shares in each company as ‘Yoon Jaehee’ while hiding her identity so far, and for the safety of her and her family, she has kept information about relatives strictly secret. If it was revealed that he was Yoon Jaehee’s younger brother, he would be holding her by the ankle.

He didn’t know that Sehyeon and MYS would be found out in such a short time, but at first glance, it seemed that he didn’t know much about her. If so, he would have to avoid that question with something plausible.

“It’s not like that…”

“If you destroy Lee Sihoon, will I be next? After throwing him in, were you planning to target me?”

“No. It’s not like that.”

Yihyeon quickly shook his head.

“I only met her briefly when I was at MYS…!”

“By the way, was that girl an Alpha?”

When he mentioned ‘alpha’, Yihyeon’s mouth stopped. Joohyuk handed out a piece of paper he had been holding in his hand until then to Yihyeon.

It was a prescription from the hospital where Yihyeon had previously been treated for stomach cramps. It didn’t look any different from the prescription he received at the time, but there was an important difference. The section for name was left blank, and the trait was a different kind.

Yihyeon’s face, who had received the real prescription at the time of the treatment, turned pale in an instant.

“Are you an Omega?”