Chapter 78 - 3.18 Unstable
"No." Lu Yizhou started, his voice hoarse. He pulled Oliver’s arm down and received a violent struggle. In the end, he resorted to bringing the omega into his arms, firmly caging him in the cocoon of his strong arms. "No, listen to me—"
"No, let me go! I want to go back!" Oliver pushed, clawed and thrashed around, tears trickling down his face. "I don’t want to see you!"
"Oliver!"
Oliver hissed and bared his teeth in anger and in a spur of the moment, bit down on Lu Yizhou’s arm to vent his grievance. His bite was hard and unrelenting, instantly drawing blood. Nevertheless, the pang of rust and metal in his mouth stunned him and he froze, barely registering the thing he had done.
Lu Yizhou’s brows didn’t even twitch. Using his arms and wings, he wrapped Oliver in an embrace that he couldn’t escape from and caressed his hair softly. "Calm down. It’s okay, just bite as hard as you want. I’m sorry to make you cry. Listen to me, hmm?"
Warm tears slid down to Oliver’s mouth and he gave a soft whimper. Why...why was he still so kind and gentle? Oliver couldn’t fathom what was in the Alpha’s mind and it made him anxious. He was scared that it was only him who loved; scared that everything was just a product of his own imagination and from the start, Altair had never felt the same. However, he couldn’t go against the Alpha’s gentle tone no matter how hard he wanted to bolt from this place. The soft massages on his scalp made his body relax but he loosened his teeth albeit his mouth still stayed there as a form of punishment.
The stretch of silence felt especially long as Oliver waited for the Alpha to speak. He grew tense again but sensing that, Lu Yizhou bent down to press a fleeting kiss on his temple, so soft and gentle that Oliver’s breath hitched and his eyes became hot again. "First and foremost, you’re not a task to be fulfilled. Not for me." It did start with a mission but Lu Yizhou didn’t know when everything began to change. He did everything because he wanted to, not because he was told. He nuzzled his chin on the crown of the Omega’s head and heaved a helpless sigh. "For me... you are more real than anything."
Oliver smelled the sincerity in the Alpha’s scent. Tears pooled in his eyes and he finally let go of the bite. Guilt arose in his heart at the bloody, circular teeth mark and he carefully licked it, gentle and affectionate.
"It’s just..." Lu Yizhou sighed. "I don’t know. I am not a person with many feelings to begin with and Oliver you...you made me feel things I thought were beyond what I could possess."