Vexing Mister Kwon

New Encounters

  Jihoon walks inside the drawing room only to see Lady Yoon pulling Jisoo into her embrace like she has not seen him for months, stressing about fixing his hair and clothes and Jihoon rolls his eyes and instead reaches toward Jeonghan to hold his hand, the other look at him with a soft smile shaking his head as if to say that it was alright and he was used to it by now but still it did not sit okay with Jihoon, the favoritism he could see in front of his eyes was making him feel sick. His own family was big but even between them their father always stressed when they were children to treat them all equally omega or alpha no matter what. It is not right to treat a child differently from the other, It does not make sense at all for Jihoon.

  He pulls on Jeonghan's hand toward Wonwoo who was standing awkwardly by himself to the side since Mingyu got roped into a conversation with both lord Kim and Yoon the minute he walked inside the room. Jihoon raises an eyebrow at him and Wonwoo just shrugs, he knew it probably did not escalate that bad if the other was still smiling and playing along and that loosened at least one of Jihoon's worries. Even though he had full trust in his twin, he still was worried about how long Wonwoo would handle what these people would throw at him, even if Jihoon insisted that Wonwoo was strong enough for it everyone had their breaking limit and Jihoon knew It would not be pretty the day it hits for his usually quiet brother.

  They move to the dinner table after that, Jihoon sticking in between Wonwoo and Jeonghan, Jisoo tries not to hold his gaze the whole time and Jihoon laughs internally at how embarrassed the other looked, a feat he had never seen on his confident self before today. It was quite amusing to see the other avoiding to even look at him.

  "So how was the promenade my dear, I sure hope you will see the Viscount again?" Jihoon flinches at the mention of the other but keeps his eyes on Jisoo who is fiddling with his fork not even bothering to raise his head and face his mother properly.

  "It was fine, he was nice and polite." Lady Yoon shares a look with her sister in worry then looks back at him.

  "And? Did he not ask you again to meet up or anything of the sort?" Mingyu snickers from the side and Jihoon raises an eyebrow overly confused, what could have happened?

  "Well, he did." Lady Yoon smiles so wide only to be interrupted by the other. "But I refused." The smile falls almost immediately and Jeonghan chokes on his food next to him.  

  "What did you say?" Lady Yoon asks voice dangerously high and Jihoon watches amused between the two trying to conceal the laugh to come out of his mouth.

  "The viscount was honest with me, that he does not look neither for love or happiness in his marriage, but that he just looks for a companion and I refused. He is in love, I can see it through his eyes, and I will not stand in the way of ruining someone's happiness no matter what his reasoning is." He raises his head with the last words and stares firmly at Jihoon and Jihoon smiles nodding softly at him, acknowledging the other's words, that he will not betray him as well in such a manner. Jihoon respects that.

  "HE IS A VISCOUNT, LOVE DOES NOT MATTER!" Lady Yoon stands up from her chair eyes turning slightly golden and Jihoon rolls his eyes, he can feel how weak her omega is, he can dominate her if he wants to but instead, he sits and watches, it is Jisoo's battle after all. And he has learned that some battles he can not involve himself in... Just some of them because Jihoon is a firm believer that people are dumb and if he does not move a limb his siblings will be lost all over the place.

  "Oh but it does matter Mother, I refuse to be someone's second choice. Do you not want me to be happy? Once upon a time maybe you chose such a future for yourself for a stupid title but I do not want it that way. I deserve to be happy." Lady Yoon splutters in place not knowing what to say and lord Yoon glares at her.