Chapter 3: Temptation

The dinner was peaceful. No sound of the mouth chewing the food or spoon touching the plate. Well, for Liam it was the case but Davi decided to be the naughty child in the family and deliberately sipped the soup with a slurping sound.

His mouth chewing the food was smacking and anyone who can hear it will lose patience. However, this was what Davi wanted to achieve. He wanted Liam's help but he also wanted for Liam to stay as someone who hates him. 

When Liam heard about him marrying Niel, the alpha gave him disdainful eyes. He was so sure that Liam was looking down on him. 

“Are you sleeping after dinner?” he asked while his mouth was full and his hand was reaching for the fish steak. The sleeve of his shirt was almost touching the other food making Liam’s brows crease a little.

“Uncle Bert,” Liam called out and the butler came out of the kitchen hurriedly but gracefully.

“Yes, young master?”

“Tomorrow,” he glanced at Davi's, who was sitting on the end of the table then continued, “place his food here.” He pointed to the chair on his right before adding, “Also, he doesn’t want to be called madam. Call him young master from now on.”

“I will inform the others, young master.”

Davi who was sitting at the end of the table paused his chewing and swallowed hard at what he had heard. Liam was putting him beside him… why? He should be disgusted by his table manners by now!

This alpha!

“Davi,” Liam calls his name. His hands sliced the fish steak into bits and ate it before speaking.

His unhurried movements caused Davi to get anxious. He does not know what Liam will say but somehow, he was nervous! Each slow and precise slice of the fish steak feels like an eternity. 

“I will be working after dinner. Is there anything you need from me?” He wiped his lips after drinking a mouthful of water waiting for Davi to answer.

With his brain malfunctioning for a second, Davi did not respond, forgetting what his intention for asking was. Seeing that the other was silent, Liam took the initiative to say, “I will be in the study if you need me.”

He was done eating but he stayed sitting at the table. For once, Davi felt the pressure of being stared at. He hurriedly stuffs the remaining food in his mouth until he choked on it.

Coughing as he fumbles for water, his eyes shed tears and he still did not get the water he wanted until a hand gave it to him. I was just reborn for a week and now I almost died again!

“Eat slowly. No one will snatch your food here.” Davi finished the whole glass of water with much difficulty. Having the alpha stand next to him, he felt overwhelmed but not uncomfortable.

It was said that alphas can kill any omega by simply existing and he proved it to be real right now!

“T-thank you.”

He stood up and ran towards the stairs. It was not easy to change one’s character overnight. Originally, Davi was an aloof young man. He had no friends because he had been busy working just to send himself to school.

He had no confidence to present himself to people either because he felt that he was ugly and disgusting in appearance and status. He was afraid that people would judge him. While growing up, all he had in his mind was negativity, and graduating high school was the only positive thing he had thought of.

Sadly, even the only positive thing turned negative for him. Talking to Liam and acting all hyper for a short amount of time already exhausted his energy. 

It was fortunate that the security in the villa was top-notch that his father couldn't reach him otherwise, he might have seen his father daily even after he had sold him.

As a twenty-year-old young man, he wanted to experience normal things that his age group was enjoying, he wanted friends and he wanted to date but these were things that he was deprived of. 

He felt that he did not deserve it either. 

Now, he was married to a man he only had met for two days and one night. Though this man did not touch him, the feeling of existing and not existing in the huge mansion was even more depressing than facing his drunkard father. 

The feeling of being used, trampled on, and treated as invisible was greater than all his sufferings combined. His first love was a failure.

At least he knew what his father was thinking but with Niel, he does not know anything at all. He was often suffocated.

Liam's attitude was an added factor to that. The alpha had a scar on his eyebrow making one think that he was a gangster. That he could kill anyone blocking his way.

His serious composure when he met him the first time gave him a shiver and thought that this alpha will surely force himself on him. He was afraid and afraid on that first night he slept in the mansion after Liam took him away... afraid for Liam to enter his room… but no alpha entered the room.

He only received the silent treatment from him but Niel was different that time. 

The alpha gave him a sense of security. Gave him the respect and love he thought he deserved only to end up being fake.

This anxiousness and fear coupled with his other negative thoughts ate him slowly inside until he reached the point of giving up.

After washing up, Davi finds his way to Liam’s study. Unlike other rich families, The mansion was built with only two storeys. A huge house was too exhausting to walk through every day.

At the end of the corridor was the tightly closed door. It was just now that he realized he was sleeping near Liam's room all this time.

Knock knock

Summoning a lot of courage, he knocks on the door. “It’s me, can I come in?” speaking in an enthusiastic voice though deep within, he was nervous as hell.

“Come in.”

It was two words. Two words but the authority in that voice while spitting those words made Davi tremble. It was not because of fright but it was due to the alpha’s high dominance. If Davi were to smell Liam’s pheromone, he was so sure that it would make his limbs weak.

Thinking about it, Davi never had the chance to know the smell of this alpha, nor the smell of his husband. It must be a unique smell fitted for a high-grade alpha.

Without taking any courtesy, Davi pushed open the door which created a loud creaking sound. In his hand was a folder that he held so well, afraid that it will crease if he grips harder.

“Oh. Still working?” He was asking one thing but his eyes were observing another thing. He was checking whether the alpha was in a good mood.

Liam was wearing gold-framed glasses which highlighted his tall nose but covered his blue-flaming eyes. Sitting in the leather chair did not lower his fierce and authoritative aura but it gave a sense of docility. However, it was the kind of docility that one wouldn’t dare to mess with, “What do you need?”

Being an introvert all his life and having no real experience being in the same room with a not-so-tamed alpha, Davi’s brain failed to work for a second. It was one thing to be in a close room with Liam and it was another thing to be inside with him and inhale the scent of the pheromone lingering in the room.

The rich smell of grass after the rain overwhelms him. So, this is his pheromone scent?

Pinching his thigh secretly, Davi returned some of his senses and gave Liam the folder in his hand, “I will apply for work!” he said cheerfully with his almost misty eyes.

Hearing what he said, Liam looked at him, what he saw made him purse his lips and clenched his hands tightly. Davi’s face down to his neck was so red that he almost looked like someone who sunbathed.

His eyes were watery but the omega in front of him was feigning bravery and still waiting for him to accept the folder.

“Ta-take it. I’m applying… f-for work.” The cheerfulness a while ago was now replaced with stuttering. “I- I don’t feel well… I will leave it h-here.” He put the folder on the table and took a step backward.

However, his limbs were too weak and he ended up wobbling. His head was dizzy and his body began to feel hot. He was thirsty and he wanted something to scratch his body. He wanted the scent to envelop him some more but he also wanted to flee.

He was afraid of this feeling. The feeling he had never felt before.

He was an omega and he experienced a heat cycle but this was nowhere to have a heat cycle. It was still early; he still had a month before it arrived.

Losing strength, Davi fell but the expected pain did not come instead there were firm arms that caught him. Those firm arms carried him to the sofa like a prince saved by his loyal knight. The scent became stronger and his nose chased after it.

This was what he was afraid of. Driven by instinct, driven by lust… he doesn’t want it.

His nose touches a soft skin where the scent was higher. His arms clutched onto the source of the scent and like a koala, he never let go no matter how much the source made an effort to settle him. “Mmmm…” he whined and whimpered; he wanted those scents… he didn't want those scents…

His mind and heart fought a no-victor battle.

Irritated by the hand that gets in the way, Davi bit those soft skin as hard as he could until a fishy taste entered his throat. The owner of the skin groaned, obviously impatient and almost cut off from his sanity.

The omega was not content and licked the bitten flesh like a cat curing a wound.

It has been a while now since another scent lingered in the room, courting the fresh scent of grass after the rain, teasing it, seducing it into blending with it. The scent of orange was sweet, it was seductive… it was a scent that fit most to the original scent in the room.

“Davi,” Liam’s voice was hoarse, and it was evident how he was forcing himself not to take advantage of the ripe omega in his arms. His throat had been bobbing up and down for an abnormal amount but no matter how much effort he took to stay away from Davi, he couldn't.

He was imprisoned by four limbs and got bitten over and over from his neck and to his shoulder.

If someone can be identified as a saint of endurance… it must be him.

“Twice… twice Davi, the third time this will happen, I can’t promise you… your safety.”

Having no choice, Liam sat up with much effort while holding Davi in his arms. He was intending to walk towards the cabinet full of inhibitors. With heavy breath and nose full of Davi’s scent, Liam’s hand holding the omega gripped tighter.

A low growl can be heard from him when the omega licks him or bites him. This Davi in his arms was so different from the normal Davi he knew.

Or was it really different?

There was also that night when he first saw this side of the omega. The contrast was so far that strangers might think it was two different people. That was before, now he was facing the same situation again.

Walking towards the cabinet was a fierce battle of endurance and lust, and opening the cabinet was a battle between strength and lust! One more minute and Liam will lose his sanity. The concentrated smell of orange danced around him and Davi’s constant whimpers added to the seduction.

The omega wanted to be served but Liam knew this was not what Davi wanted. 

With his hard-earned inhibitor, Liam injects himself and Davi but before he could carry the omega out of the study, his lips were caught with a violent bite and was pushed down on the sofa. 

The author has something to say:

My son Davi is wild! and I love him for it BUT DO IT AFTER DIVORCE, OKAY?!

Liam: *secretly hastens the divorce* I AGREE!