Chapter 49: The Family Meeting
Doha held Song-rik’s hand as he looked around to see if there were any threats. Then he sneaked a kiss on Song-rik’s lips as quickly as a flash of light.
"Huh?" Even Song-rik was confused what happened.
But he slightly blushed and smiled when he saw Doha grinning.
"Hello, hyung," Doha leaned closed to Song-rik and almost whispered. "Should I just abduct you and run away?"
Song-rik awkwardly smiled while shaking his head.
He then slowly whispered.
"I wouldn’t recommend it. There are guards all around the estate."
Doha paused for a bit.
Was that... a threat?
But looking at Song-rik all giddy and excited, it surely wasn’t one. Song-rik was dressed pretty lightly in a loose thin long coat with his pajamas.
He looked right at home there while Doha was frozen stiff.
He looks so cute.
Doha concluded at the end of all the nervous spiral thoughts.
"Come with me," Song-rik pulled the hand he was holding and waved at Secretary Cha to stand back.
"Grandfather hates formalities," Song-rik began his long explanation on the way to the house living room where the ’family meeting’ had occurred.
"He won’t outright scold you or anything. He’s a very sweet man. And my grandmother is a very soft and caring lady. My parents.... they’re a bit protective of me but I’m sure they’ll love you. Ah! There’s also my uncle and aunt and my younger cousin. But they’re are all lenient and very excited to meet you."
Doha was constantly doubting the validity of Song-rik’s statements. And he was right to do so as he found out a few minutes later.
Song-rik opened the living room door and suddenly, a wave of chilling cold wind hit like a knife on Doha’s face.
This is a... family meeting....right?
Doha looked inside the room and saw the warmest smiles he had ever seen slapped on a person’s face.
On the central sofa, sat an elderly couple, likely to be Song-rik’s grandparents and two couples sat on either side. The left one were a bit older and seemed like Song-rik’s parents. On the right, Jang Taejun sat with his wife who looked very pregnant.
A teenager was sitting further away near a gaming console.
"Say hello everyone, this is my boyfriend, Yeon Doha," Song-rik kept holding Doha’s hand and presented him in front of his family like a child showing off a full marks test paper in front of his family.
Doha bowed and almost shouted. But his voice cracked and a girlish voice escaped him.
"Hello~~~"
"...."
"...."
The room was filled with absolute silence.
And Doha was mortified. He was blushing so hard that he refused to look up at the faces of his boyfriend’s family.
What a damn sucking first impression!!! I should just see myself out!!!
A hypothetical tear fell from Doha’s eyes as the grandfather coughed and said.
"You can raise your head now, boy."
Doha looked up and the head of the family seemed fairly impressed.
To think he would bow until we allow him to stand straight.... Such fine manners....ahem!!
The grandmother could practically see the grandfather’s thoughts written on his face.
Doha stood straight and saw the family still smiling brightly. His heart was relieved a little until...
"Hyung! Come help me clear this level!!" Jang Woobin yoinked Song-rik right in front of Doha’s eyes and took him to the gaming console side of the room.
It was plenty far away that surely no sound would go there.
Doha couldn’t even peep even when he clearly saw Woobin give his father a thumbs up.
"Oh my, Woobin likes his hyung very much," the aunt said, mockingly. "I hope you don’t mind Song-rik stepping away for a bit."
I saw your son giving you ’mission complete’ signals, mam!!!
Doha politely nodded as his legs became noodles. And he noticed another thing.
All the warm smiles were gone and now Doha knew where the chilly wind from the beginning came from. All six of the family elders now stared at Doha with absolute scrutiny in their eyes.
They looked like eagles ready for Doha to make one mistake and then... bam!!! Prey is dead.
"Sit down, boy," the grandfather ordered, again slightly impressed at the manners of Doha, never knowing he just forgot to sit down.
"Yes, sir." Doha immediately sat on a wooden stool that seemed to be placed there especially for him.
"So, how did you and our ba... Song-rik meet?" The father’s question came first.
"Oh, hyung and I met at the bar where I work part time during the evening," Doha recalled, a little comfortable on the stool. It was pretty soft for a stool.
"He was drinking my sweetened shots and got too drunk. Turns out he went into heat. I couldn’t bring myself to just leave him there but I was an alpha myself... so it was kind of a hard decision. Anyways, I locked him onto my apartment with the keys and waited for him to calm down."
"..."
"And then he came up with that stupid contract and couldn’t control his pheromones.... It was really just a series of coincidences that made us meet. Hyung is so... beautiful and lovable that I couldn’t stop myself from..."
Doha paused. No one was speaking. But they were sure listening. Their faces looked like as if they had seen a ghost.
"You..." The pregnant aunt muttered. "You brought him over to your apartment... while he was in heat?"
"He likely did that to protect Baby from any bastard alphas." The mother summarised.
"How come he never told us any of it?" Taejun wiped a tear away from his eyes as he dramatically leaned on his wife.
"Are we that unreliable?" The father muttered looking dejected.
Doha sat there, quite dumbfounded.
Did he... not tell his family about his first heat? But he told them about his boyfriend?!? What kind of logic is that?!
Doha flipped his head towards Song-rik, but that clumsy omega was too busy clearing a game level for his cousin that he had virtually forgotten that he was introducing his boyfriend to his family.
Doha sighed collectively along with the rest of the Jang family.
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