Kiss Me if You Can-Chapter 9Vol. 2

Laura furrowed her brows and thought.

Chase had been looking for Josh often recently. When he called him to the trailer, he wouldn't come out for hours, and when he asked Josh what was going on, he always gave a vague answer. Laura could only guess.

It must have something to do with the weak.

The last time he was inspected, Steward had left Josh and Chase alone. Judging from the fact that he kept it a secret from his secretary, it was clear that something serious was being discussed. What was certain was that Chase hadn't skipped his medication since then, and he had been doing well for a while without any major problems. But this happened.

Nothing much will happen… … ?

Laura stared at the closed door with a serious face.

Thump.

The sound of the door closing was unusually loud. Josh, who was the last to enter, closed the door and turned his head to see the back of Steward turning the desk. He soon sat down in the chair and checked the materials. Chase sat down in the consulting chair, and Josh stood next to him. The quiet silence made him tense. When he glanced down at Chase, he saw that he just looked at Steward with a blank face. After confirming that his complexion was somewhat pale, but otherwise not much different from usual, Josh turned his gaze to Steward.

For a while, only the sound of clicking the mouse echoed between them. Chase sat in the consulting chair and waited silently for the results. Steward, who seemed to be looking at the screen and pressing various buttons, eventually became quiet. The serious expression on his face, his chin still clenched, and his gaze on the monitor for a while made him feel somewhat ominous.

“Hmm.”

Steward finally coughed as if he was about to say something, but he didn’t speak right away. He placed his hands clasped together on the desk and glanced at the monitor before turning to Chase.

“What should I say about this… … . It’s difficult.”

The way he even let out a sigh was unusual. What on earth was he trying to say? Steward, who had been thinking for a moment as if choosing his words, finally opened his mouth.

“Did you take all the medicine? Chase.”

“Of course, I didn’t miss any.”

Chase nodded without hesitation at the question. He had checked the remaining medicine, so it wasn’t a lie. Steward knew it too. He leaned back in his chair and rubbed his forehead.

“This is the first time this has happened… … . I’ll have to look for cases, but I can’t find anything for now.”

Josh was secretly annoyed by his constant hesitation. Fearing that he might press him, Stewart clenched and unclenched his fists several times before finally speaking as if he had made up his mind.

“You’re not controlling your pheromones at all, are you, Chase? Didn’t you know?”

Josh paused at those words and looked down at Chase.

You didn’t intentionally spill the pheromones, but you just couldn’t control them?

Chase’s face remained expressionless and unchanging at the silent question. This time, he paused and answered.

“… … I was going to tell you when you had your regular checkup. It’s not like it’s completely impossible, it just happens sometimes.”

“Has this happened before?”

Chase was silent for a moment at Stewart’s question and then nodded.

“Sometimes.”

Josh had no idea until now. No, Chase must have been the only one who knew. Even Steward couldn’t hide his surprise.

“It wasn’t because you stopped taking the medication on your own. Then why didn’t you tell me until now?”

Steward muttered as if talking to himself and then asked.

“… … It was really rare.”

Chase answered in a low voice and soon shut his mouth. However, Josh seemed to know what he said next without even hearing it. Thinking back to Chase’s past, it didn’t require much deduction. He tried to die often, and his future life wasn’t important at all. Rather, he just endured each day, hoping for the end to come quickly. Until he met Josh and fell in love.

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“Sometimes, there are people who live without thinking about the future.”

Steward said, looking at Chase’s face for a while. Chase regretted the past and even stopped taking the medication on his own, but it didn’t work. Steward added, still not taking his eyes off him.

“If you’re not going to die right away, you shouldn’t do that. … … The past is bound to catch you by the ankle.”

He suddenly smiled bitterly after saying something meaningful. Josh was puzzled by his self-deprecating expression, which he had never seen before. However, now was not the time to be curious about him. Josh’s attention immediately shifted to Chase, and Stewart also changed the subject.

“The test results show that none of the numbers are correct. It’s fortunate that you didn’t die immediately. All the side effects of the medications you’ve been taking came back… … . What should I do?”

His appearance, tapping his fingers on the desk, was more serious than ever. Stewart also looked gloomy, as if there was no other way. Josh raised his hand and grabbed Chase’s shoulder. It wasn’t because he felt like he was going to collapse, but to give Chase strength.

It’s okay.

He opened his mouth, thinking to himself.

I’ll be by your side, it’s okay.

“They say that if you engrave a mark, the pheromones will stabilize, so isn’t that the way to do it?”

“Oh?” Steward blinked.

“This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, is there an omega who can make it easy for you? Maybe a partner?”

Josh paused for a moment before answering, as she shamelessly asked, clearly ignoring the question even though she clearly had already noticed.

“I’ll give it up.”

Steward’s expression froze. Josh spoke again, emphasizing his words.

“I’m that partner, an omega.”

“Oh… ….”

Steward muttered to himself, letting out an exclamation that he couldn’t understand.

“I thought you were a beta.”

It was something he had heard countless times since his awakening. He had suspected their relationship, but he didn’t seem to think Josh was an omega.

“Sometimes you buy Omega and get it engraved, you’re lucky.”

Steward made that excuse, but Josh ignored him and continued.

“Then is it okay? If I leave the mark and the pheromones stabilize.”

Chase looked up at him. Josh felt his gaze and lowered his gaze, and the complicated emotions came into view. Josh lightly patted the hand that was holding his shoulder and looked at Steward again. Steward smiled as their eyes met. Just as he was about to be reassured, he opened his mouth.

“No.”

“… … .”

For a moment, Josh looked down at Steward with a blank expression. Before he could ask why, Steward continued.

“We can’t just use any method without knowing what side effects will occur. It could be like blocking poison with poison. Besides, there have never been cases where pheromones became unstable due to drugs. Well, there wasn’t even an extreme alpha who took this much medicine for this long… … . As you already know, there are rare cases where the mark doesn’t get engraved, right? If it fails, we don’t know what the outcome will be, so we can’t take risks.”

“Then… … .”

Stewart smiled bitterly at Josh who asked hesitantly.

“Let’s try other methods first, and let’s use those last.”

Josh held back the urge to grab Chase by the collar and yell at him, so he ended up tightening his grip on Chase’s shoulder. He realized this after Chase patted Josh’s hand on his shoulder a couple of times.

When Josh lowered his gaze, Chase looked at Stewart and opened his mouth.

“Is there a way?”

“Well, we have experimental results on the side effects and treatment of the medicine.”

He looked at the screen as if checking, clicked a few times, and then turned the monitor towards Josh and Chase. Josh froze when he saw the letters filling the screen. He opened his mouth, but it was a few seconds before he spoke.

“… … No way, this is all.”

“That’s right.”

Steward nodded.

“All of these are the medications Chase took.”

Josh was once again at a loss for words. Chase didn’t say anything either, and only a heavy silence continued in the examination room.

*@Punhap*

Josh made the bombshell announcement after the group returned to the set. Chase, who had gone straight into the trailer, left behind him and Josh gathered the members in the midst of the chaos by saying that he had something to say.

“What’s going on?”

“What is it?”

Josh took a deep breath and opened his mouth to face his colleagues who were simultaneously curious and anxious.

“I think I should leave the team for a while.”

“Leave? Why?”

Isaac shouted in surprise as soon as he heard the words. Seth, who was usually calm, also widened his eyes, and Henry’s mouth also dropped open. Mark spoke a beat later.

“No way, Josh. You’re going to move to another place… … .”

“Oh, that’s not it. I’m not thinking about moving to another company, Mark.”

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Mark finally let out a sigh of relief at Josh’s immediate denial. Henry silently took out his cell phone, wrote ‘eliminated’ next to Mark’s name on the note, and put it back. Mark asked again, leaving him behind.

“Then what happened? Why all of a sudden?”

“The test results were bad?”

Isaac shook his head at Seth’s question.

“No, C’s test results have nothing to do with Josh. … … Does it have anything to do with him?”

When Isaac asked belatedly, half-heartedly, Josh nodded bitterly.

“I’m an omega, so he said it would be better for me to stay away for a while.”

“What?”

“What are you talking about, that!”

“How did you know you were an omega? Wasn’t that our secret? Who are you, you spy! I’ll kill you for stealing information!”

“Calm down, Henry.”

Everyone was in disbelief and screamed. Seth, who had been trying to comfort Henry, who was getting angry, turned his attention to Josh.

“I don’t understand, Josh.”

Seth continued.

“What does it matter that you’re an omega? How did you know that? … … Does it have anything to do with you going into C’s clinic alone?”

As expected, Seth was quick-witted. Feeling the eyes focused on him, Josh let out a short sigh.

“I was the one who confessed to Laura that I’m an omega.”

Everyone’s eyes widened at Josh’s confession. Josh explained the situation dryly.

“I had no choice but to tell you. The reason C had a seizure just now was because of an imbalance in her pheromones. The cause was probably an overdose of medication… … . She needs to stabilize it, but the omega pheromones are interfering with it. They keep stimulating her.”

“You take the medication, right? And you barely have any scent.”

Josh paused for a moment at Seth’s comment. However, no one noticed his reaction. Josh soon answered as if nothing had happened.

“It would be difficult if I got stimulated by C and suddenly got a heat cycle. I couldn’t keep taking the medicine, and if I got a heat and smelled, it would be dangerous for C.”

Half of it was true. The bigger problem was whether Chase could quietly watch Josh lingering in front of him. There was a way to hide the fact that he was an omega and have him assigned to a place far away from Chase, but there was no way to know how Chase would react if he happened to talk to someone or see someone suspicious. Furthermore, if the pheromones poured out regardless of Chase’s will, Josh would definitely get excited. His earmarks would react before his reason. Then Josh would release the pheromones regardless of his will, and that would definitely have fatal consequences for Chase.

“Then what about the other omegas? There are omegas among the staff on set.”

Josh answered Isaac’s point.

“Laura talked to the director about that, and we decided to exclude the staff while C was filming. Fortunately, there were only a few scenes left, so I heard that it was possible.”

After finishing filming in a hurry, Chase was admitted to the hospital to receive full-scale treatment. He had taken so many pills, and now he had to pour out more pills to take away the effects of the medicine. Just thinking about it made me sad, but I couldn’t even watch him from the side. Josh was the most dangerous person to Chase right now.

“Do you really need to remove you? You said there wasn’t much filming left anyway.”

“A bodyguard’s duty is to protect his client’s body. If something happens, you can’t just watch from afar.”

I thought it was a pretty convincing answer, but Seth still looked unconvinced. Josh pretended not to know and changed the subject to Mark.

“So, for now, I’ve decided to remove myself from the security detail. I’m the only omega in the entire security team… … .”

Mark let out a complicated sigh as he saw Josh trailing off bitterly. It was nice that Josh hadn’t even thought about changing jobs, but it wasn’t good to be excluded from work like this. When he was thinking about what to do in the future, Seth suddenly pointed out.

“But what’s strange is, you have a mark, right? You might be stimulated by other alphas’ pheromones and have a heat cycle. That doesn’t make sense?”

Everyone looked at Josh with surprised faces as if to say, “Oh, right.” At that moment, Josh felt the urge to hit Seth and knock him out, then confine him somewhere.

You’re so quick-witted, Seth.

Josh barely managed to suppress his teeth from gritting, and answered as nonchalantly as possible.

“I haven’t reacted to your pheromones up until now, right? They’re different because they’re the pheromones of the extreme alphas.”

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Everyone trailed off. They didn’t know much about extreme alphas. Josh also knew almost nothing before he got involved with Chase. All he knew was that their eye colors were different and that pheromones accumulated in their brains caused problems.

However, even if he already knew a lot about the extreme alphas, this case would be different. Even Steward, who had more information than anyone else, couldn’t readily come up with a solution.

In the end, he was saying that even if he said anything, he wouldn’t find much of a mistake.

As expected, they all had complicated expressions and lowered their heads, taking Josh’s words at face value. Except for Isaac.

“Didn’t C’s brother pour pheromones on you before? In the hallway.”

Josh immediately added Isaac to the list of people to be knocked unconscious and locked up.

Why do these guys remember so much?

Before Josh could say anything, Henry blinked first in surprise.

“That crazy guy? When?”

Isaac continued, frowning as if recalling his memories.

“When you came to the mansion before, saying you were taking me to a party. When I went to report, you said you were doing that. The hallway was filled with the scent of pheromones, making me dizzy. Now that I think about it, did that kid notice that Josh was an omega? How did he know? Even we, who have been together for years, had no idea.”

“I just assumed.”

Josh quickly racked his brain and forced himself to come up with an excuse.

“That was around the time the heat came, so I took more medication than usual. Otherwise, I would have reacted. Anyway, this was Mr. Steward’s recommendation. Laura and C followed that. They’re employees, so if they tell you to do something, you have to do it. No matter how much we try to argue, you’ll just have to tell them to leave because you’re an omega.”

The conversation continued somewhat nervously. The impatience was evident in his tone, but the members misunderstood.

“That’s true.”

“I’m sorry, it’s not something you should be questioning.”

“It’s unfair, but there’s nothing I can do.”

Isaac apologized after Mark nodded, and Henry also muttered in a weak voice.

“Then what happens to you? If you completely leave work, are you saying you’ll go on vacation?”

Even the quick-witted Seth asked, changing the subject. Josh felt a little relieved, having barely gotten over the crisis.

“I was told to wait for now. So, Mark, I’m sorry to everyone, but can you take a vacation? I told you to leave the set, but there might be a sudden call, right? Waiting for you means that. So I can’t terminate the contract and take on another job… … .”

“Oh, I get what you mean. That’s what I have to do. There’s no other way.”

Mark nodded readily. It was fortunate that Josh didn’t seem particularly offended or resentful about being left out of work. Rather, Josh seemed to be apologetic to the members for being the only one who had to take an unintentional vacation.

“I’m sorry I’m the only one who’s left when everyone else is working.”

Seth shook his head.

“It’s not your fault. The client was the one who told me to leave.”

“Is it common to protect an extremely alpha? Don’t worry about it.”

“Hey, buy me a drink later.”

Henry followed Isaac and patted Josh on the arm. Josh exchanged apologies and thanks and prepared to leave the set. After packing up his small luggage and saying his final goodbyes, he headed to Chase’s trailer. He thought he could at least say hello from afar before leaving, but was immediately blocked by Laura.

“I’m sorry, but you can’t, Josh.”

She continued with a nervous expression.

“Chase is in danger right now… … . I got a pheromone injection. I’ll probably be unconscious for a day or two. During that time, Mr. Steward warned the omegas not to come near me… … .”

As she said, there were a lot of bodyguards around. I thought I wouldn’t be able to meet them since they were prohibited from approaching. However, when I realized that I couldn’t even greet them from afar, my heart became bitter. Josh smiled as if nothing had happened and spoke.

“I was going to thank you for everything… … Then there’s nothing I can do. Please tell Laura instead. Thank you too.”

“I’ll call you again as soon as Mr. Miller gets better, Josh. Don’t be too upset.”

Laura smiled awkwardly as she said that. There was still a hint of doubt on her face.

Josh is an omega, really?

And.

Josh pretended not to know and turned around and walked away. It wasn’t that far to where he parked his car. While walking, I greeted people passing by and exchanged simple words, but when I actually got into the car, I had no recollection of what I said or who I met.