After hearing those words from Kim Taehyun, Jiang Li couldn't even bring himself to enter his lecture hall.
He turned and ran.
The Alpha's voice followed after him like smoke curling through his mind, impossible to escape no matter how fast he moved.
It couldn't be true.
There had to be some explanation.
Maybe Shen Yu was some rare kind of Alpha capable of suppressing his pheromones completely. Maybe that was why no one else could smell them.
But then…
Why could Jiang Li?
The scent of whiskey and rosewood had always affected him too strongly to be ordinary. Every reaction his body had given him whenever he inhaled that scent felt identical to what omegas described when speaking about pheromones.
It had to be pheromones.
It had to.
Yet by the time Jiang Li reached Shen Yu's penthouse building, breathless and trembling slightly from running, another voice crept mercilessly into his thoughts.
But how would you know?
The cruel whisper settled heavily inside him.
