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“What did you think about when you sent me your hoodie?”
Jisung’s answer is easy.
“This.”
Minho exhales sharply, twining around the phone line stretched between them. “Sung, you’re killing me.” He can hear the sound of sheets rustling, a hand brushing over clothing. Jisung's heart is jammed into his throat. He almost chokes on it.
“Minho-yah,” he whimpers, “please.”
It’s enough. Jisung tips the scales from what they’ve always been into whatever this is.
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In which Jisung goes away for a year abroad to study music and misses Minho like home.
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09 Jul 2026
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“We are all animals, dressed up in our finery. Hoping the silk and brocade and the manners will keep our primal instincts at bay. That somehow it will leash the beast inside us. Don't you feel it?”
The Duke had been awakening the beast inside of him since they met. The hot, almost angry surge of desire inside him. To press close to Minho's body, to feel his hands and lips upon him. The beat of it pulsed within him, hot and heady.
The salty smell of humid skin and something else lying below. If he pulled off Minho's cravat would he be able to smell him? The real him. The scent of the alpha beast that lived inside his handsome body. Under the silk and skin.
His unpresented nose was too weak to pick up such things, but if he pressed close? As close as their clothes and flesh would allow. If he placed his nose right on the warm spot between the Duke's neck and shoulder, would he be able to smell it then? Perhaps using his tongue could help. If he could taste it–
Or: Unpresented Jisung returns to town for the summer and goes into a snap presentation heat at a public ball, while dancing with Duke Minho Lee.
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08 Jul 2026
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He has been good. He even hoped, at some point, that he could be someone to Minho, someone important; that more than being just an union, they could be a unit: strong and happy together. That if he had to give up on love, he could at least aspire to friendship. That he could be enough. That if he was patient enough, beautiful enough, smart enough, he would eventually earn more than a passing glance, a polite smile and a few words here and there. Jisung’s stupid heart had even fluttered, once upon a time. Evidently, he had been alone in that want so he let that dream go, resigned himself to this reality.
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driven by spite over an arranged marriage that he doesn't want, Jisung decides to enter the very selective omega auction, thinking that his fiancé won't care. he has no idea the years of secrets he will unravel.
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07 Jul 2026
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And then comes Jisung.
The final moment, tonight's centerpiece. A calculated reveal.
His first public appearance after presenting, the second son beta no one paid attention to, now revealed to be a diamond in the rough.
Minho doesn't think when he offers Jisung his leather-gloved hand. And Jisung takes it without hesitation, the touch light, for balance and form, but Minho feels the warmth as if it were skin on skin, searing through the leather like flame.
The noise surrounding them rises as soon as Jisung appears, all attention focusing on him.
He's luminous.
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07 Jul 2026
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“With this ritual, you will be freed of the confines of your mortal body,” the elder said. “To the gods, we shall offer the physical remains. To the heavens, we shall offer your soul.”
And to me? Jisung thought drily. What shall I be offered except a miserable death?
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The night after an eclipse, Jisung is sacrificed to the god of war.
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06 Jul 2026