Chapter 34: Barging In
Baffled at his question, Stephan paused for a while, as if he didn’t expect Zenith to be directly asking about Kylian, among all the students in the academy. Even in the nurse’s room yesterday when he had heard both of them got into an argument again in the class, he was getting worried after all this if Zenith would actually permit Kylian to stay in the Academy anymore.
But finding Zenith curious about him instead was the least unexpected, yet still, Stephan tried to pretend nonchalant so that Kylian wouldn’t become his new target after all. "N-No, Master, we aren’t close at all. After he dropped me off at the nurse’s office yesterday, I thanked him and then asked him to leave. That’s all."
"Really?" The diabolical smirk curved wide on his lips when Zenith watched him lying blatantly with a nervous face, even though Stephan was sneaking nervous glances towards his bathroom. But without inquiring him further, Zenith rather commanded, "You shouldn’t be close to him either. You need to be careful not to provoke me again, or else I don’t know what I might do next."
Rather than a suggestion, his words served like a warning bell, as if Zenith was trying to draw a clear boundary between Stephan and Kylian. Even though his words made Stephan curious, but thinking it might be a bad timing to ask him about it, he rather answered, "Yes...I will keep it in mind, Master."
"Go away, be quick."
His cold overwhelming aura left Stephan a bit puzzled as he was quite skeptical about leaving Zenith in his room after putting up such a blatant lie, while Kylian was still in his shower. But pondering that Zenith might leave quickly after him, Stephan rushed towards the nurse’s office following his command.
However, as soon as Stephan left the hallway, Zenith locked his door from inside and wavered his gaze towards the closed bathroom door. His irked sneer looked much scary on his face when he murmured on his own, ’Not close at all, huh? What a fuckin’ liar... How would I ever fail to recognize Kylian’s pheromones all over this room?’
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After Kylian took off his shirt first, his eyes fell over all the marks that Zenith had left all over his upper body last night. His big chests were covered with red hickeys as if flowers were blooming over his porcelain white skin. His nipples were so swollen from the round bite marks that just a bare minimum graze of his shirt was making him wince in pain. Not only there, Zenith had left his bite marks around his neck skin, and also on his lower abdomen, especially around a specific area.
Not only his body but his lower lips were also a bit swollen as if Zenith had sucked onto them up to his heart’s content even after he had passed out first. Just the sight of his all-marked body in the mirror was making Kylian angry, but he couldn’t stop himself from getting flustered either.
All his life he had pushed himself so hard that he never had time to go out with any of the girls who had confessed to him in school. Some of them were very pretty omegas, and some were betas, but Kylian never found the urge to focus on dating, not until he had attained his goal.