Chapter 367: Is it too hard to say?
I didn’t hesitate to decline. The least I wanted was more distraction when I didn’t even know what I was going to do there.
"But why not?" He asked,
"Because you’ll distract me."
"I won’t though," Seo-Jun said, but even if he looked like he was being honest, I couldn’t rule out the kind of guy he was.
"And why wouldn’t you take the chance to disturb me, when you don’t on a daily basis?" I asked him, folding my arms and he folded his arms as well.
"Well, for one, I’m a professional and know the importance of taking exercises serious. I won’t go and distract a person who earnestly wants to exercise just because it seems fun." He retorted and I gave it a thought. "Come on, Jo-Pil. I can help you so just trust me."
"You said you’re... A professional?"
He nodded and I looked away, thinking deeply.
If he goes by what he says then he won’t end up distracting me. If I can take my exercises serious and have him correct my posture, I think it’s worth the try.
"Alright," I said and his face lit up. "But know that if you do anything misleading during the exercise, I won’t trust you to help me a second time. Do you get it?"
He quickly nodded.
"I’ll do my best, Jo-Pil. Let’s both work hard."
He was oddly cheerful for a guy like him. Hm, it seems his character was slowly changing. I mean, it’s not too bad but why do I think of Min-Cheol when he does things like this?
Anyway, forget it. He’s probably just very cherry right now because he got what he wanted at no expense.
"Jo-Pil," Seo-Jun asked, his face suddenly turning serious and I wondered what it was that he wanted to ask me.
Yeah, it seemed pretty serious so I focused on him.
"There was a question you wanted to ask before." He said. "I don’t want you to forget and it keeps weighing on my mind because it felt like it was something important. Will you ask it now?"
I paused for a moment, my heart pulsing and my pores sweaty. I mean, it wasn’t a big deal but if he makes it out to be this important, I can’t help but get nervous before I actually ask him about it.
I already asked Jin-Yeok and my goal was to find out what each of my masters feel about me being a tool for them at the start. I want to know if they regret it.
Not about if they regret buying me as a slave, because Seo-Jun had already made it known that buying me as a slave was his best decision since it helped in many ways.
But then, I didn’t ask him the other question.
I felt a lump in my throat as I parted my lips open to speak, but ended up closing them them to swallow down that gulp.
Seo-Jun watched my reaction and asked,
"Is it too hard to say?"
But I shook my head.
It wasn’t hard. I was just making it out to be a big deal for no reason.
"No, it... It’s not." I said. "Seo-Jun," I called and then lifted my gaze to meet his eyes.
"Yes, Jo-Pil?"
"What I wanted to ask is... What was your reaction when you saw me at the auction that day? I mean, what were you thinking?" My heart was pounding. "I heard that there were other Omegas that were good for breeding but neither of you picked one before me. So, why... Why me? Why did you pick me?"
The question was a bit heavy on my throat and dying to hear his response, my heart thumped like crazy.
This was the right thing, right?
I wasn’t asking for too much. And he was willing to answer me before so he would answer sincerely now as well, right?
"Honestly, Jo-Pil," I raised my head, looking forward to it with my blood boiling in anticipation. "I don’t know."
My body froze and the adrenaline rushing through as I anticipated his answer became calm.
"What?"
"I don’t know what I was thinking that day." He shrugged his shoulders. "From what I heard, I wasn’t the only one invited that day. We were all invited to a slave auction and I usually don’t attend those because my preference in a partner was the willing type, and not the type that is forced."
’Preference was a willing type?’ I thought, suspiciously. But I was sure he had fun messing with me and forcing me to do things I didn’t want to do in my past life. Well, if I hear him out more, I might know why.
"I only went there because I heard there were Omegas with Hugh breeding rate. I needed an heir soon since talks of me actually being infertile, ahem," his face lightly flushed in embarrassment. "...were spreading around. I was very sexually active and yet I didn’t even have a child anywhere."
Hm, I understand that well.
"So, I decided to just get an Omega for myself and knock em up." He looked even more awkward. Maybe it was because this was a topic that had to do with me.
He looked at me and found me eagerly listening. He clenched his jaw because he knew he had to be honest with me. Yet... His honesty felt so wrong to him.
That’s none of my business though. I just want to hear the end of it.
"Anyway, I didn’t expect to see the other guys there as well." He said, brushing his hair back by coming his fingers through. He looked sexy. Ahem. "It looked like they all had the same reason for being there, but strangely, despite the amount of rare Omegas that came forth, none of us bid. I don’t know what the others were doing but I felt bored."
"Why? Was there something wrong with the Omegas that they brought?" I asked but he shook his head.
"No, they were fine. They were pretty too, but not as pretty as you, Jo-Pil." He said, and cleared his throat. Look at this guy, trying to cheer me up even when he was confessing like this. "Anyway, nobody made a bit until the last product... I mean, person came. Sorry."
He began to sweat and for some reason, I laughed.
He was anxious that he just called me a product.
Well, if it was like this then I already had my answer to the question I hadn’t asked yet.
"At that moment, I... I don’t know what happened but I..."
"You what? You can’t keep cutting yourself short, Seo-Jun finish your statement."
"Right, at that moment when I laid my eyes on you and your miserable state, I... I got hard."
I blinked my eyes. He got what?