Blood and Strawberries (Omega!Yoon Bum x Alpha! Oh Sangwoo) (Killing Stalking)

Chapter One

"You're always such a disappointment to us, Bum!" Min Ah Sung glowered at her small, timid looking son. "It was bad enough that you presented as a pathetic omega, and now we find out about your...condition. I prayed that the therapist was wrong, but it's true isn't it? You're crazy, seeing things that aren't even there. Well, the pills the therapist prescribed should stop your weak mind from crumbling further..." Ah Sung reached up a delicate manicured hand and smacked Bum hard across his face, her lips twitching into the ghost of a smile as she surveyed the red hand print she had left on his pale skin. Her wedding ring had cut into Bum's lip, making it bleed a little. Bum's natural scent of strawberries was mixed with a sour scent all of a sudden. "Ugh, you stink of fear. What sort of coward is scared of his own mother? When all I'm trying to do is make you be tougher. It's not like I enjoy seeing you suffer, darling," Ah Sung hid a soft giggle behind her hand before composing herself again. "Tonight, we have a special guest coming to dinner. Kim Dongyu, the heir of the Red Group company who your father wants to enter into an energy contract with. That contract is worth millions of won so it's vital that you treat Dongyu with the utmost respect and care. Is that understood?"

"Yes, mother," Bum replied quietly, slipping into a sad reflective mood as he met her cold stare. When his mother gave orders, he knew it was best to just obey her without any questions or hesitance. He did not understand why his own mother despised him so much, when all he wanted was for his family to love him as much as he loved them. His father was polite but distant, and often stern, but he was never unkind to Bum. His younger sister Min Ji-Eun was spoiled by their parents, and showered with tender care and affection. Bum did not understand why he was the odd one out in their family. He felt like his mother's hatred of him ran deeper than him being an omega. Although Bum could see he had some of his father's features he had none of his mother's features. He was the only one in the family with grey eyes. He had tried to be rational and explain it away, not everyone looked like their parents after all but he still sometimes had the disturbing idea that his mother was not really his mother. He pictured a kind, smiling face with dark brown wavy hair and grey eyes just like his own. However, it could not be possible. His parents had been married for over 24 years, and Bum was only 19 so it meant that he would have born from an affair. He would not really be a true Min, if his mother was a mistress and not a legal wife.

"Then what are you waiting for? Go and get ready," Ah Sung snapped, crossing her arms. "Don't stand there like a brain dead fool, darling."

Bum rushed off to his room and changed into a smart blue shirt and dark grey slacks, before going into his en-suite bathroom. He brushed his unruly inky black hair out and washed his face before spraying himself with a high quality scent blocker. Bum's scents were too easy for others to read, and he did not want to do anything to give Dongyu a bad impression of him. However, Bum found it hard to make people like him when his own mother did not really enjoy being around him. He was insecure and too needy, thought of as weird by other students all throughout his private boarding school years. He had no friends, but he did have hope he would find a mate who could accept all his flaws and love him. A mate his family would be proud to call their son-in-law.

"Min Bum, where are you, darling? Come down to the front hall!" His mother's voice calling to him was, to the unknowing ears of strangers, laced with sweetness but it was just a façade. She was already annoyed at him, he could tell and he could not keep her waiting so he raced to the front hall. The scent of cinnamon and honey mingled with a faint scent he could only register as iron but made him think of blood overpowered him. He froze in place in front of a tall, broad shouldered man who was the most handsome Alpha Bum had ever set his eyes on. . The man had deep, dark eyes and interesting two toned hair, the undercut dark and the top a sandy blonde colour.