Suddenly, the atmosphere around them became sharply stiff.

Valentin didn’t notice at all that every couple dancing together abruptly stopped breathing or frowned and suddenly stepped back a few meters away from them in a bit of a commotion.

Valentin, not knowing anything, closed his eyes and took deeper breaths in order to not miss even a bit of it, feeling his senses gently melting from the strong and attractive pheromones.

‘Even the pheromones are perfect.’

Opening the eyes he had closed to block his vision and concentrate his sense of smell on the pheromones to savor them more deeply, Valentin thought of only that one thing.

However, the reality he opened his eyes to flowed in the opposite direction of his ideals.

“Was that an answer?”

He smiled mischievously at Valentin again as if the pheromones he emitted were the answer. And he showed a movement to naturally stop his body in time with the ending waltz.

‘Huh?’

As his dangerous yet playful smile naturally returned to an expressionless face, the pheromones were simultaneously retracted as well. Now, except for the pheromones that remained microscopically in the air around them, there were no pheromones newly emitted by him.

He had completely blocked it off.

“Then.”

He bowed his waist politely as if his action of showing his pheromones for a moment was a reason for parting, making a farewell gesture to his partner at the end of the dance.

The pheromones that were completely taken back, the naturally stopping movements, the atmosphere that seemed like he would bid farewell after finishing the dance greeting.

All his actions and expressions were going in the complete opposite direction of what Valentin wanted.

“It was a wonderful time together.”

The alpha was very polite.

After expressing his impression of the dance like that, Valentin quickly grabbed the hand that was trying to leave his body again.

“Wait a moment…!”

Don’t go…!

I met the most appealing alpha since entering this hall for the first time in my life! Although it was a short moment, we met, greeted, conversed, and even danced…!

Valentin had no time. And even if he had ample time, there was no guarantee that he could meet another more appealing alpha after parting with this person.

‘I absolutely can’t let him go.’

What enticing bait it is.

Valentin looked down at the hand he grabbed.

Unlike his own hand, it was a thick and strong hand like an iron anchor attached to a huge sailing ship. While gripping that hand harder with a subtle force, he carefully asked, raising his large eyes with long and dense platinum eyelashes from below.

“Would you like to go out for a moment to get some fresh air?”

It wasn’t an act knowing how to look attractive. It was just an action like an omega’s instinct to immediately appear attractive and catch this alpha.

So it was only natural that Valentin unknowingly slightly revealed the pheromones he had been completely locking up. A small amount of seductive pheromones that only the alpha in front of him could feel spread in the air. The sweet and dizzying scent of a dominant omega that no alpha could refuse enveloped and swayed around them.

There was an implicitly implied meaning to saying let’s go out together from the ballroom. Although it was Valentin’s first ball since becoming an adult and he was a novice regarding the subtle language of social circles, this was the one thing he knew for sure. It was because until just yesterday, his guardian held him and instructed him on what to be careful of at evening balls.

[Valentin, never follow an alpha who says let’s go out together from the ballroom.]

[Why?]

[It means to spend time in private.]

Dalton had a stern expression as if asking, ‘You know what that means, right?’

And when Dalton said that, it would have been out of concern that his always innocent-looking nephew would meekly follow a stern alpha out, but reality was the complete opposite.

Not knowing even in his dreams that the one clumsily seducing with those words would be his nephew, Dalton taught him strictly.

“Ahem.”

Hearing a fake cough, Valentin escaped his thoughts and returned to reality.

At those words Valentin threw, he looked at him with an expression as if he couldn’t understand something, then slowly tilted his head to the side and finally opened his mouth.

“Could you say that again?”

It was a question as if he couldn’t believe what he heard.

A moment of stillness and tension flowed simultaneously.

Valentin stroked his firm palm with white fingers, intertwined deeper between his thick fingers, and parted his bright red lips to speak.

A tongue redder than the lips slightly came out from inside the mouth, brushing the lower lip and spitting out words that couldn’t be refused.

“Come out with me.”

It was while looking straight into his two eyes.

*

“Ah…”

With a rough moan, the two wet lips parted for a moment, making a gap.

I can’t breathe.

Valentin was in the middle of pulling his much larger and heavier partner through the north gate to the Zinnia Garden in full bloom with spring flowers. Although puzzled, he didn’t stop or refuse and quietly followed where Valentin led, moving his long legs.

A small outer path leading towards where the 2nd Prince’s carriage was. Under the largest tree there, an alpha and omega were entangled. Although it wasn’t a place that looked blatantly exposed like an empty lot, it was a really wide open spot that anyone passing that path couldn’t miss seeing.

He raised his lowered eyes and looked closely at his face and eyes.

A slightly flushed, alpha-like attractive face like his own could be seen. The gray eyes under the deep brow bone were singing some boundary between desire and passion.

Valentin’s chest heaved as he sharply inhaled the air that was lacking from his sealed lips. Even though fresh night air was coming in through his mouth and nose, the excitement didn’t fade at all.

He roughly inhaled.

“Ah… Are you doing this on purpose?”

Valentin asked breathlessly, unable to control his excitement, clearly feeling the alpha’s sexual pheromones, which he had only slightly revealed in the hall earlier, filling and swaying around.

“What are you referring to?”

He asked, rubbing Valentin’s ear with his lips as if he couldn’t bear the parted lips for even a moment.

“These pheromones…”

A hazy sensation like smoke from burning pomelo passing over the sea was completely dominating his whole body.

Valentin unknowingly swam above that smoke.

Did he intentionally emit it more intensely? Or unknowingly?

Valentin inhaled more deeply, feeling that strong alpha pheromone. As if doing so would allow him to stuff it all inside him.

“Ah…!”

As a sound leaked out from his mouth, unable to endure the stimulation of the pheromones, he who had been rubbing Valentin suddenly stopped all movements, as if feeling something from the panting-like breathing.

He was like someone who froze in surprise at something.

‘What the…’

Not only the movements but also the alpha pheromones that had been pleasantly leaking completely stiffened. No new pheromones came out from him anymore.

‘Why is he suddenly like this?’

Valentin detached his head that had been pressed close at the sudden stiffening and stopping of everything and looked up at his face.

‘Did I make some mistake…’

Valentin also stiffened along with the other person’s stiffening.

It was his first time directly experiencing contact with sexual pheromones. It was possible he unknowingly made some mistake. Did I show too much that I was excited…?

“Is something wrong?”

He asked, slightly furrowing his brows while looking down at Valentin’s tilted head.

Wasn’t that the question I should be asking?

“Pardon? What is it?”

It was only natural for the alpha’s head to also tilt in the opposite direction at the puzzled question not understanding the reason.

Like that, a moment of stillness flowed.

Valentin became impatient as the alluring scent he could have was gradually disappearing into the air.

The scent that was like a drug I smelled for the first time. No, scent was not an accurate word.

The sexual pheromones he directly smelled for the first time, not simply emotional pheromones expressing feelings, were insufficient to be expressed as a scent. It wasn’t simply a sign telling a person’s mood and signals like the emotional pheromones genotypes ordinarily emitted.

Would his own sexual pheromones also be felt like that to an alpha?

The sexual pheromones of the alpha, no, the dominant alpha in front of his eyes, didn’t monotonously give Valentin some signal as a scent, but entered through his nasal cavity and skin to directly awaken excitement. Like a drug or aphrodisiac, it shook a person’s brain and mood, making them completely out of their right mind.

His whole body heated up and he felt impatient even though it wasn’t a heat cycle.

And pressing his nose and lips to the alpha’s neck, the closest source of that scent, he inhaled and opened his mouth.

“Your scent is truly dizzying…”