Yu jin's POV
I decided to keep the baby, but I needed advice on what to do, so I went for another pregnancy test first hoping the results will be negative. But when it came out positive, The first thing the doctor said when I told him I was pregnant for a human was… well, he blinked. Twice. Then looked like he wanted to laugh, cry, and throw up all at once.
"You… got pregnant for a human?" he asked, voice calm but his eyes wide .
"Yes," I said, like that explained everything.
He leaned back in his chair and rubbed his temples. "That's… not impossible," he said finally. "But…" His pause was long enough to make me suspicious. "…You'll need Alpha pheromones for the pregnancy to stabilize, you know that right? As an omega."
I stared at him. "Excuse me?"
He waved a hand. "You're an Omega. It's normal. But without an Alpha scent… your body is under stress. It's dangerous for you and the baby. Can't… can't rely on human pheromones. They're insufficient."
I felt my stomach twist, partly from nausea, partly from disbelief. "So… what? I need a magical Alpha to hug me or something?" I asked, sarcasm doing the heavy lifting because I didn't want to start crying yet.
He gave me a flat look. "You could try supplementary Alpha scent."
"Supplementary Alpha scent," I repeated slowly, letting the words sink in. "Right. Great. Where exactly do I find one of those?"
He shrugged. "It's not difficult, the only problem is your baby's chances of survival are minimized but you'll be in less pain."
My baby has become my life, That was an understatement. Difficult? Life in my hometown had been nothing but difficult for years, but I didn't realize it would get harder while I was pregnant.
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I had to go back. There was no other choice. I couldn't work in the city anymore, not with constant vomiting, exhaustion, and panic over a CEO who apparently didn't even care. Going back to my parents' place felt like admitting defeat, but at least it was safe. At least I could figure out how to survive.
And survive I did, in the worst possible way. People in my hometown loved to gossip. "Look at Yu Jin, he went to the city to make it big and came back a single pregnant dad," they said. They laughed. The kind that makes your stomach hurt and your face hot. Every time I walked past the store, someone would whisper or snicker.
It was… fun. Not.
That's when Woo Min came back into my life. My childhood best friend. He'd stayed in town, mostly quiet, mostly unobtrusive, but he had this way of showing up exactly when you needed him. And apparently, I needed him a lot. Woo min was doing a lot better for himself, making some good money.
He didn't ask questions. Didn't judge me. Just stayed close. Offered his Alpha scent to stabilize the pregnancy when the doctor said it was critical. Artificial scents were dangerous but for natural alpha scents, even if the involved wasn't the baby's dad it wasn't so bad" I was embarrassed, not gonna lie. My best friend, almost two decades of memories, helping me out in… that way. But he didn't hesitate.
I realized then why people called him dependable. Because he didn't just talk about helping, he showed up. Every time. Always. And while the town laughed at me, Woo Min stayed.
***
Pregnancy wasn't easy. Vomiting, mood swings, exhaustion, nightmares, back pain all of it. And then there were the days when I thought I was going to die. Literally. Every visit to the doctor reminded me how fragile things were. I almost lost the baby once, and I had to stay in bed for weeks. Woo Min refused to leave my side, my mother too, she slept on the floor, cooked, cleaned, and Woo min carried me to the doctor, made sure I didn't collapse in public. I couldn't tell him how grateful I was. I just… let him do it.
Finally, the day came. The labor. The birth. I screamed. I cried. I cursed. I begged. I almost gave up. My back felt like it was gonna split open and my stomach? Worse, when my water finally broke, I was rushed for surgery and finally, through it all, I held my baby in my arms for the first time and realized that I had survived. I had made it. And the baby–Seo Min Rin is what I named him, Woo min who was by me the whole time needed his name in it, my tiny little human had survived too. Woo Min stood nearby, calm but tense, and when it was over he just nodded holding my hand tightly.
Two years passed. Two years of sleepless nights, small victories, and teaching my kid how to walk and talk. And then, one evening, I heard a name I wasn't supposed to: Park Min. The CEO. One of the biggest conglomerates in the country. And suddenly, all that anger, all that frustration, all the nights I lay awake wishing I could punch him in the face, came back.
I swore then that I wouldn't let him get away with ignoring me, with rejecting me, with pretending nothing happened. I studied and I prepared for three whole years, I made sure I could walk into X Conglomerate not as a nobody but as someone who could finally take my revenge.
I never told anyone about Park Min. Not Woo Min. Not my mom. No one. They knew I had gone through hell to survive, but they didn't know the full story or who the baby daddy was. And they didn't need to. My mother helped me with the baby, kept him safe, loved him like no one else could, and I knew that no matter what, I had a foundation, a base, a family I could rely on and Woo min? No one did the father role better, most of his girlfriend's, boyfriend's and ex's hated me, well figures.
And now, finally, I was ready. Ready to leave my small hometown behind, and walk into the city with one goal: make Park Min pay.
I didn't know how it would go. I didn't know if he'd remember. I didn't know if he'd even care. But I knew one thing: I wasn't the same Yu Jin who had stood in his office, stomach twisting, hands sweating, begging to be seen. I was a daddy, a survivor, and someone who had finally learned how to make people regret underestimating him.
And as I packed my back I looked at my son half asleep in this little house, he deserved everything his father had, the company, the good life he was entitle
d to it and I was going to make sure It happened.