humanitys_cutest
Summary: Changmin is stuck in an elevator with a mate he's angry at.
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"Changmin, wait! Just listen for a second!"
Changmin doesn't want to listen. He stomps away, furious and shaking and hating himself for hoping for something different.
He pulls open the door of Yunho's office so violently it slams against the wall behind him. Yunho's beta secretary jumps and stares at him, as do the lingering alpha and beta men Yunho had been doing business with.
They're all looking at him disapprovingly, although they're obviously trying to hide it. Omegas don't act like Changmin, they're not supposed to act like Changmin is acting right now, but he's not just any omega. He's Yunho's omega, and there are advantages that come with being mated to the man who seems to own half of Korea.
There are disadvantages too, hence the reason Changmin is stomping away from his alpha right now.
He hears Yunho following him after a moment, a little ways behind him, but he keeps walking away, because if he doesn't he'll just embarrass his alpha in front of his business partners. Changmin may be angry with him right now, but not so much that he would shame the man. He did love him, after all, even if he has yet to say the words to him.
They've only been mated for a couple months, which is much too little time to confess his undying love in Changmin's opinion, but he has a feeling his mate knows.
He stops in front of the elevators and presses the down button violently. He'd rather not have to use the elevator, but he isn't about to walk down 20 flights of stairs. He's angry, not dumb.
The doors open, and Changmin steps inside. Before they can close and Changmin can be far away from his mate, Yunho sticks his hand in and comes in after him. Yunho doesn't look at him, and Changmin stares at the doors.
The doors close with the both of them inside, a silence that rarely descends between the two of them thickening the air.
Yunho doesn't attempt to speak to him, which could be good and bad. Changmin takes a cautious sniff, trying not to be obvious about it, and scents the air. There's the smell that's purely Yunho, the spicy musk of alpha along with Yunho's own scent of lightning storms on a hot summer day. But underneath that is the scent of Yunho's irritation and quiet anger.
His dumb omega brain clamors for attention at that, demanding he appease his alpha, wrap around him and bare his throat in submission but he ignores it, because he thinks he has a good reason to be angry.
There's another event Yunho won't be attending with him. Another day he'll have to show up alone while his best friends have their alphas by their sides. He knows Yunho is busy, but is wanting him to spend a night out with him asking for too much? Just one night?
Siwon is as rich and busy as Yunho is, but when Kyuhyun wants him to go to an event, Siwon always makes time.
Why did he get stuck with a workaholic who never seems to have time for him for a mate?
The air in the elevator changes, giving off the scent of Changmin's melancholy. He knows Yunho can scent it, and sure enough a second later he can see him shifting restlessly out of the corner of his eyes. His alpha brain must be screaming at him as Changmin's omega is. He knows the alpha in Yunho is telling him to comfort Changmin, and the longer Yunho doesn't comply the more upset Changmin becomes.
A sudden jarring startles them both, and Changmin's hands fly out to grip the rails against the walls of the elevator. The lights flicker on and off a few times, before going out completely. A quiet whimper escapes Changmin before he can stop it, his hands tightening on the railing.
