“Don’t tell me you don’t remember. You bit me during your heat,” Nylune said. “I think you might have accidentally claimed me. This looks like a claiming mark, right?”
Adew’s eyes narrowed on the mark.
“You look like you’re freaking out inside,” Nylune said, taking in his shellshocked face. “This is not what you signed up for. I know. It complicates things.”
“It does,” Adew said.
Was that disdain in his voice? Nylune couldn’t tell, but his heart clenched anyway. He should have known that this would end up in disaster. It was a bad idea from the beginning.
“Don’t worry. It doesn’t mean anything,” Nylune said.
Adew stared at him, saying nothing. His silence should have brought him peace, but only served to confirm his words. The claiming mark meant nothing. They awkwardly waited for his knot to subside. As soon as it subsided, Nylune rushed out of the room, picking up his clothes as he went. He got to his room and made his way to the washroom. He quickly got cleaned up, erasing every second he spent with Adew from his body. If only he could erase it from his mind. He still felt his touch and the taste of his kisses.
Why did he kiss him like that? Nylune touched his lips.
He stared at himself in the mirror, his eyes landing on the mark on his neck.
What was he going to do?
He had to stop this before it got too complicated.
Chapter 12
Adew
“It doesn’t mean anything,”he’d said.The omega’s words didn’t sit well with Adew. He’d mulled them over all day, all night and the next morning. He should be happy that Nylune thought his accidental claiming meant nothing. But he didn’t feel that way. As a matter of fact, he hated the fact that he’d said that. Although, he’d said the same thing when he commanded him to call him alpha, he hated it when Nylune said it. Adew touched his chest, feeling weird inside.
“This is some strange shit, Calla,” he said to his okie as they walked around Nylune’s garden. He’d been amazed to walk out of the backdoor into the backyard to find a haven of flowers, shrubs and vegetables. It was gorgeous and meticulously taken care off. Calla sniffed around, exploring. He seemed to be happy surrounded by a myriad of scents. No wonder he’d been drawn to the omega’s yard. Or was it the omega who’d called to him? At this point, Adew didn’t know. He was drawn to him too, in his own strange way. Drawn to the sweet submission he gave him. And the way he revelled in his aggressive side. He’d had to hide that side of him with Urim. He never knew how good it felt to unleash it and just be.
It was wrong, because he felt like he was using Nylune to feel like the alpha he once was. With him in his arms, he felt like he could do anything. He was that capable alpha again. He wasn’t broken. His body felt healthy too. He was the drug he never knew he needed, which was strange because he’d decided not to share his burden with anyone. He was going to fix himself first before he dragged another soul into his life. But with Nylune, it didn’t feel like that. It didn’t feel like he was burdening him. He felt alive when he was with him.
“Definitely some strange shit,” he said. Calla lifted his head from the flowers he’d been investigating and sniffed the air. He swished his tail, his ears perking up. He jumped the flowerbed and bounded up the stairs into the house, leaving him alone.
He shook his head, disgusted with Calla’s behaviour because he felt the same way. He wanted to go to see Nylune. The last time he’d seen him was when he walked out of the guest room yesterday afternoon, after mind-numbing sex. He’d stayed away all day, and then, when night came along, heard him go through his fourth heat. It was the worst thing he’d ever heard. And he couldn’t do anything about it. He had to listen to Nylune’s whimpering cries and tortured moans. It took everything in him not to go to him.
If he didn’t want his help, he wasn’t going to force it on him. And to an extent he understood his need to keep some distance between them. He should do the same. This was only an experiment.
Adew turned and walked into the house. He heard Nylune moving around in the cooking station, talking to Calla.
“No. I told you. No jumping around. Relax,” Nylune said. Adew got closer to see what he was doing. Calla sat patiently in front of him, waiting for the meat on the plate he held. “Good,” Nylune placed the plate in front of him. And Calla pounced on it.
“Are you trying to tame my okie too?” Adew asked as he walked in. Nylune flinched and turned towards him. Adew hated that he reacted to him like that. He was suddenly skittish, which was so different from the omega he’d initially met or the one who was in his bed. “Sorry, I didn’t mean to startle you.”
“No. It’s fine,” Nylune said turning away from him. “I’m sorry for feeding him. I thought he was hungry. I should have asked you.”
“He wouldn’t have eaten if he didn’t need to,” Adew said, walking to the counter. “I was joking about you taming him. I think that’s a lost cause. You have him wrapped around your finger. He already likes you. He wouldn’t eat food from you otherwise. Okies are very suspicious of strangers.”
“He likes me. Why?” Nylune asked, stunned.
Adew shrugged. “Beats me. They choose their pack, and he chose you.”
Nylune blushed and then looked away. An awkward silence ensued between them. Adew’s eyes landed on his neck. He couldn’t see the claiming mark from where he stood, but he knew it was there. His insides tightened as he thought about what the mark meant.
Nylune belonged to him.
He’d stopped himself from thinking about that fact yesterday.
“Are you hungry?”