Chapter 99: Finality
Kenny
Nikolai might have a lot of energy for his age. He might be a brainiac and a really smart person outside education, but Nikolai wasn’t a restless child. It was easy for him to fall asleep, which was why he had no trouble falling asleep with the lights off. infact, it was what he preferred. He didn’t even need to be read to in order to fall asleep, he only loved listening to me read to him just because he considered it a bonding moment.
However, after that episode which I knew left him with a little trauma, he had become restless. It was harder for him to fall asleep, and of course I didn’t let Rory know about this because he was only gonna worry his head off.
Since Niko could already differentiate scents’ meanings, he was very right to have asked me to keep it away from Rory. Since that particular episode yesterday, it was like something shifted inside of him and had left him restless ever since. On a normal day, my scent would have been enough to get him settled and relaxed, but this time it wasn’t working. Rory’s scent only made Niko feel guilty, unlike mine because he believed I understood him better.
I knew that had hurt Rory a little, not because Niko trusted me more than his father in this situation, but because Rory didn’t feel enough for his son for the first time. That was a pretty normal emotion to feel, which was why I asked Niko to go give him a hug after I got through to him yesterday whereby he blocked everyone out.
At the hospital today, after it was confirmed that he was an enigma, a lot of things instantly made sense. The little guess I had ended up becoming right, and now I understood why my scent wasn’t feeling enough for him, because what he actually needs is his father, an enigma.
Jason appeared in my mind almost immediately and I felt a scowl slowly forming across my face.
Was that aashole an enigma?
Thinking about it right now would make the weird reaction I had towards him to make a lot more sense. Not because it was weird for me to feel a little submissive to alphas, but because that was someone I hated, and the two situations he had had me trapped against a wall, or the ground, both moments weren’t a moment a sane person was supposed to feel anything aside from anger. I didn’t bother telling Rory about the reaction I had on my second close encounter with Jason, the one where we had both fallen after I shoved him, which prompted him to roll around and trap me underneath his body on the ground– because I had felt too disgusted with myself to do that, and also extremely confused because I had thought that first time was a fluke, but after it happened again, I was at a complete loss of what to do or think.