How to Have a Baby Secretly-Chapter 47

Still, before he arrived, Sunwoo thought he should wrap things up with Kim Tae-yeol and slowly head home. Sunwoo took a long gulp of his iced tea and stood up.

At that moment, Kim Tae-yeol arrived at the counter and was looking at the display case. There seemed to be more types of cakes than expected, and he was probably deciding which one to buy.

"This one, this one, this one, and this one."

Sunwoo walked up to him and pointed at the cakes with his finger. Kim Tae-yeol quickly turned his head and looked at Sunwoo.

"Can you eat all of this?"

"Yep. Please pack it."

Of course, he was buying it to eat it all; otherwise, why would he be picking it? Sunwoo nodded and handed over his card.

Whether or not Kim Tae-yeol looked at him in disbelief, Sunwoo took the card from the café owner and put it back in his wallet, waiting for the cakes to be packed.

"What's with the packing?"

"I should get going soon."

"What? Already? Hey, I haven’t finished talking yet."

Oh, right? Sunwoo dismissed it nonchalantly and received the cake from the smiling owner.

"It’s a free extra one."

Sunwoo’s eyes widened at the owner's words.

"Ah... Thank you."

"You always come alone and just drink iced tea, but our cakes are also delicious. Please don’t just drink iced tea in the future. Try ordering cakes as well."

Since he had come a few times because of the peach iced tea, it seemed like the owner remembered him. Sunwoo awkwardly smiled and thanked him, then left the café.

"What’s up, Choi Sunwoo? Looks like the café owner has an interest in you? Does he not know you’re an Omega? Well, I guess you do look like a Beta from the outside."

"It’s just because I'm a regular."

He still wasn’t quite used to talking about Omega or Beta traits. What bothered Sunwoo the most was how Kim Tae-yeol eyed him up and down while saying that.

"You look like a Beta too, you know?"

"Hey! Where do you see that? I’m obviously an Alpha!"

"What? You’re an Alpha?"

Sunwoo looked at Kim Tae-yeol with a genuinely surprised expression. Kim Tae-yeol scrunched his face up in frustration.

"What? You already knew I was an Alpha."

"I didn’t know. I don’t remember."

"Ah..."

Right. Sunwoo recalled. Kim Tae-yeol relaxed his face and nodded. Sunwoo stared at him with a disappointed expression, then suddenly remembered something Kim Tae-yeol had just said.

"You’re an Alpha?"

"Yeah. I may be recessive like you, but I’m still better than you."

With that, Kim Tae-yeol proudly puffed out his chest. He probably said that while releasing his pheromones, but unfortunately, Sunwoo couldn’t feel it. Actually, he could only feel Kang Jinwook’s pheromones, but he didn’t notice that either.

"By the way, were you talking about living with me or something?"

"Oh! Right! I was going to mention that!"

Persistent as always, it seemed his goal was indeed the house.

"Did you put the house up for sale? It's still there, right? Huh? Then can I stay there for a bit…?"

"It’s gone. I already sold it. I’m going to live in Jeju from now on."

"What? You’re moving there? Why? Are you really going to end things with Director Kang? What about the contract? Oh, did you say you didn’t know about that yet? But, is it possible?"

Kim Tae-yeol fired off a barrage of questions. Sunwoo briefly covered one ear before pulling it away. His ear was starting to feel sore.

"I still need to check the contract. As for living, I’m thinking of staying in Jeju for about a year. I’ll slowly sort things out with Kang Jinwook. So don’t overthink it."

"Ah..."

It seemed there was something Sunwoo didn’t know about, which was likely due to Kim Tae-yeol. But Sunwoo didn’t feel the need to ask. If he showed interest, Kim Tae-yeol might ask him to help solve it.

Although Sunwoo was generally kind, he wasn’t the type to be endlessly nice to anyone.

"I’m going."

Sunwoo started walking away, leaving Kim Tae-yeol, who still seemed to have something to say.

"Hey! Choi Sunwoo."

Kim Tae-yeol called out to him, but Sunwoo didn’t look back and just waved his hand. After walking for a little while, his phone in his hand vibrated. When he checked the screen, it was Kang Jinwook. He must have just arrived at the airport.

"Hello."

It’ll take about an hour.

Without asking where he was, Kang Jinwook immediately told him his arrival time. Sunwoo laughed in disbelief.

"Okay. I’ll be waiting."

Well, he’d be home by the time Kang Jinwook arrived, so it didn’t matter. He replied casually and was about to hang up, but Kang Jinwook spoke again.

What about dinner?

"You told me to wait without eating."

You haven’t eaten anything?

Sunwoo glanced down at the cake box in his hand.

"Uh, just... something."

He ate the cake, but not a full meal, so he vaguely avoided the question. He thought the call might end now, but Kang Jinwook showed no sign of ending it.

There was a faint noise on the other end of the phone—an announcement, voices, the honking of cars.

Sunwoo also felt like ending the call, but didn’t want to, so he kept walking toward home. The sun hadn’t set yet, but it seemed like the wind had gotten cooler, probably because it was getting close to evening.

"Hey."

After listening to Kang Jinwook moving quietly for a while, Sunwoo spoke first.

Yes, go ahead.

Kang Jinwook answered as if he had been waiting for it.

"Well... I found out by accident, but you were supposed to meet me when I graduated middle school, right?"

...

There was no response from the phone. Sunwoo pulled the phone from his ear and looked at the screen. The call hadn’t been disconnected.

"Why did you want to meet?"

He had hoped Kang Jinwook would speak first, but since he didn’t, Sunwoo had no choice but to ask. There were many other things he wanted to ask, but for some reason, at that moment, this was the question that was the most pressing.

What important thing had Kang Jinwook wanted to tell him by contacting him first?

I’ll tell you when I get there.

After a brief pause, Kang Jinwook responded.

"Okay."

Sunwoo nodded casually. He was curious, but it wasn’t something he needed to know right this second.

The conversation didn’t end until Sunwoo was almost home. Even when Kang Jinwook got into the car and was on his way to Sunwoo’s place, the call was still going on.

They both acted as though they didn’t know the call was still connected, and the call only ended when Kang Jinwook arrived at Sunwoo’s front yard.

"What’s that?"

Sunwoo, who had been waiting in the yard, asked when he heard Kang Jinwook had arrived and saw the bundle in his hand.

It looked like a lunchbox, and Sunwoo wondered if it was.

"I asked Butler Baek to prepare a lunch."

"Ah..."

Sunwoo had guessed that it wasn’t anything too surprising, but seeing the real lunchbox was more than he expected.

"Thanks. For bringing it all the way here."

But instead of asking why he brought it, Sunwoo expressed his gratitude. Kang Jinwook quietly stared at Sunwoo, then walked to the table where they had lunch earlier.

"Uh, no. Let’s go inside."

Sunwoo hurriedly called out to Kang Jinwook. At that moment, Kang Jinwook, who had just set the bundle down on the table, furrowed his brows.

Sunwoo hadn’t noticed it earlier, but now he could faintly smell the unfamiliar Alpha pheromone from him.

"Huh?"

Sunwoo widened his eyes in surprise. The deep, fresh scent, like the air from a forest, was unmistakably Kang Jinwook’s pheromone.

Now? At this moment? Why all of a sudden?

"It’s unpleasant."

Hearing Kang Jinwook’s voice, Sunwoo quickly changed his expression.

"Huh? What’s wrong?"

"Nothing."

When Sunwoo asked feigning ignorance, Kang Jinwook shrugged it off as though it wasn’t a big deal. The faint traces of another Alpha’s pheromones, which had been lingering, disappeared entirely.

Wherever it came from, Sunwoo, being a Beta, hadn’t noticed it anyway. Kang Jinwook had no intention of explaining it.

"Let’s eat here. It’s nice and cool since the sun has set."

Kang Jinwook glanced around as he spoke. Sunwoo nodded in agreement and walked toward the table. Meanwhile, Kang Jinwook unwrapped the bundle and spread out the contents.

"Wow, why so much?"

The colorful and beautifully arranged food was neatly placed in containers. Everything was something Sunwoo had enjoyed eating at Kang Jinwook’s house before.

"Is this enough?"

Without realizing it, Sunwoo nodded as he sat at the table. Then, he suddenly looked up at Kang Jinwook.

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"Thank you, I’ll eat well."

Although it was Butler Baek who had prepared it, it was Kang Jinwook who had asked him to do so. So, Sunwoo thought he should thank him.

Kang Jinwook’s lips briefly curled into a smile, but it was so fleeting that neither Sunwoo nor Kang Jinwook himself noticed.

Sunwoo sat down and eagerly began eating. The food, better in both quantity and quality than what he had prepared himself, naturally increased his appetite.

Kang Jinwook watched Sunwoo and, while observing, would occasionally push the dishes that Sunwoo was reaching for a bit closer to him.

By now, the sky had turned a beautiful shade of purple, and the first evening star was twinkling in the western sky.