Insu was sitting on the floor, back leaning against the wall, knees bent and brushing his hand over the side of his neck; His scent gland.
It was another thing he learned. Not by Ryung cause somehow the doctor had forgotten to mention it, but by Duho. He told him that they all had this gland in the left side of their necks where it met the shoulder and also two tiny ones just above their canines. And that when an alpha bites the omega on his or her neck, their scent gets mixed with the latter’s by the very canines that help transfer the alpha’s scent.
Looking to the side, he saw Duho reading a book on the couch while munching on an apple. Insu was bored. He was bored, confused and so so sick of the luxurious room he was being held at. The goddamn place didn’t even have the tiniest window to let him see the sunrise and sunset like he always did. He sighed deeply and let his head hang low as his hand fell to his side on the cold floor.
“I hate myself for giving in to my curiosity.” He said under his breath, not meaning for his company to hear it.
On the other side of the room, Duho slowly closed his book after noticing that and got up from the couch, wrapping his robe around himself tighter as he made his way toward the other.
“Want me to ask the prince for a day out? We can ask him to let us go to the gardens a bit.” He said softly, knowing how on the edge of breaking Insu was, before ruffling his long pink hair to get his attention as he crouched down on the floor in front of him.
The younger boy didn’t react to his hair getting messy at all, he just kept his head low as it was.
“Like his majesty would actually go on and listen to any of your requests!” There was a quiet snort, perhaps because he just didn’t have the will to speak his sarcasm any louder than a whisper.
Duho smiled, feeling so sad inside that this had to happen to an omega that was living free from all of this somewhere out there, and lifted the other’s face with his index finger under the round chin.
“Today is my last day here. My punishment will be up and I can leave this room. He won’t be mad at me anymore so I can ask him a favor.”
“A favor!” Insu chuckled bitterly and bit hard on his bottom lip, looking to the side. “Didn’t you say you can wander around the castle freely now that you have his son? Why do you need to ask for a favor to go into the gardens?” He was upset again. But Duho didn’t know the reason. He usually didn’t get his mindset unless the other explained it to him.
“Oh I can!” He said smiling brightly, remembering how happy he was the first time the prince told him he can go anywhere as long as it was inside the walls of the castle and he’d be back before sunset to his room. “The favor will be for you.” He kept the big smile on his face to reassure the younger.
Something in Insu’s eyes changed. His big eyes widened to be even bigger as his lips parted and he just stared at him for a couple of seconds. Next thing he knew, he was getting squished in the tight embrace of the taller.
“Insu!” He laughed out loud, tapping on the slim shoulder cos he simply couldn’t breathe with how tightly he was being hugged.
“I don’t like him, Duho. He puts weird thoughts in my head.” The long-haired boy said before releasing him and leaning back, but he kept his hands on Duho’s shoulders. “He said not to be worried about you. That you or other omegas won’t care about me.” There were tears in his eyes as he said that. “But you’re so kind, just look at you!” The pads of the younger’s fingertips brushed against his cheek, making him emotional due to the pure affection as well.
“And he’s wrong. He’s wrong about everything. They all are.” The plump lips were trembling and a tear or two rolled down on his face. That was the younger’s cue to let go of him and wipe his tears away violently, making the skin of his face red with the force he used.
Swallowing his own tears because he couldn’t remember when the last time was that someone stroked over his skin and looked at him with so much passion that Insu just did, he crawled closer and hugged the boy’s head to his chest after getting up on his knees.
“He has his reasons for saying that.” He inhaled deeply and tried to push the painful memory out of his head. “He’s just… he’s just an alpha, Insu. The things he does are what he’s been taught. Same with how we were taught to submit unconditionally.”
“Why are you defending him?!” The younger nearly shouted as he pulled away and got up, walking a few steps to the side to put distance between them. “He was taught to be an asshole and you were taught to be a slave? What kind of mindset is that? Are you a sheep? Don’t you have a brain? No matter what kind of fucked-up society you grow up in, you should always have your own thoughts and beliefs, Duho. Your excuse is not acceptable. Not at all.” The taller said, looking down at him with his body and voice firm with no trace of the previous trembles. “Do you know what Stockholm syndrome is? It’s exactly what you’re doing. Feeling things and defending him although he has taken your child from you for a whole fucking month.”
Insu just couldn’t get it. It pissed him off beyond he thought possible to hear the older omega defend that dominant fuck. Or all the alphas for that matter, while degrading the omegas as well with his nonsense. His outburst could’ve continued for longer if the wooden doors to the room hadn’t opened a second after the last word he had shouted.
“Why are you throwing a tantrum again?” The low calm voice of the prince pierced through his ears as his strong scent filled the room.
Taking a deep breath on instinct and closing his eyes for a couple of seconds, Insu turned on his heels fast and walked right up to the black-haired man, standing face to face with him and hovering over him a bit due to his height advantage.
“ I wanna go out, I’m suffocating and I need fresh air. And I want a room that has windows. Big ones, so I can at least watch the sun rise and set while being imprisoned here for no reason at all.” He didn’t even blink saying all of that in a stern tone.
Namil kept the eye contact with him throughout his speech nonchalantly before simply ignoring the fuck out of him and, after circling around him, walking toward the omega that was still sitting on the floor on his knees, watching them with big terrified eyes.
The long-haired omega’s voice was echoing through the hallway, but due to the thick walls, Namil couldn’t make out the words he was saying. Upon his arrival, the omega dared to walk up to him, stand tall in front of him, demanding to go out and to be moved into a room with windows. Big ones, as he said.
The latter was talking to him with a look he had never seen on any omega before. In his years of life, no one had dared to stand up to him, not even alphas and people of royal blood, and here this one was. Perhaps it was Insu’s intoxicating scent that Namil didn’t want to mix with the smell of blood that stopped him from beating the shit out of him right there and then.
Spotting Duho on the far end of the room, he paid no mind to the long-haired omega as he walked toward his bonded one.
“Come on, Duho. Hyo’s walking with the king in the garden.” He stretched his hand toward the other, bending down a bit.
The omega looked into his eyes for a few seconds with an unreadable expression before, ever so slowly, lifting his arm and sliding his small hand into Namil’s palm.
With one swift move, he lifted him up to his feet and let go of his hand right after. The reason why he had offered his hand in the first place was to show the other he wasn’t upset or otherwise, with the state he found the younger in, he would break down again. Scared of getting hit or worse.
Walking toward the door with Duho following behind him, he stopped when they were out of the room, looking from the side of his eyes at the tall boy.
“What are you waiting for? Didn’t you say you wanted to go out?”
Comments (0)
See all