Noel's POV
After my heat ended, Alastair asked me to meet him at our usual meeting spot. I didn't know if I could meet him or not. I felt I didn't have the face to meet him in person.
For a week while I was feeling the pain in my body due to my heat, he kept contacting me, as if his voice was guiding me to release the desire within me.
And it was quite embarrassing when I thought about it afterward. But when the pain came, I couldn't think clearly and accepted everything he said at the time.
But since I had promised to meet him, that day I changed my clothes to leave the mention and meet him.
As soon as I stepped out of my room, I saw Regis walking toward me. I didn't know how to find an excuse to leave, especially since I had just finished my heat.
"Are you feeling better? Does your heat still hurt?" he asked me.
"No. It doesn't hurt anymore because it ended last night."
It felt so awkward talking to him, even though he was my own older brother. The last time we talked like that was the night I came home from hanging out with Alastair. We had argued then, and after that, he didn't visit my room during my heat.
He seems to avoid my room every time I get my heat. As a family member, he shouldn't be affected by my pheromones. But why does Regis seem to avoid me every time I'm in that phase?
Only the Beta servants end up helping me, because of course the Betas aren't affected by pheromones.
After hearing my answer, Regis took a step closer to me. As if to make sure my pheromones weren't as strong as yesterday.
"That's good. That means you can go to campus again tomorrow. So where are you going now?" he asked.
Of course he would ask before I had a chance to say anything. Seeing that I was carrying my skateboard, he must have already realized that.
"I just want to go out for a bit. I've been stuck in my room for a week, so now I want to go out and get some fresh air. Can you not stop me from going?" I asked him.
I could see his expression harden, as if he was making a difficult decision just to let me go out for a little while. But in the end, he allowed me to go and told me to be back before lunchtime.
"Alright, but I can't promise anything."
I walked right past him without looking back. The longer I talked to him, the more suspicious he would become that I might suddenly go out.
Using my skateboard, I glided toward the spot where Alastair and I usually met, and it turned out he was already waiting there.
He was leaning against his SUV, wearing a black T-shirt and a dark blue blazer. He was so tall and looked so strong, and for some reason, I couldn't stop thinking about him lately.
Was it because I had been listening to him on the phone for the past few days?
It was strange, I had never felt this way before, but just seeing him in person was enough to make me happy?
Getting off my skateboard, without saying a word, he walked straight up to me and hugged me. I was a little surprised, my body stiffened when he suddenly hugged me so tightly.
"Finally I can see you again. I feel so relieved that you're okay," he said to me.
His large body seemed to relax as he hugged me like this. I could smell his strong, masculine pheromones, truly dominant Alpha.
And slowly, I also felt so relaxed in his warm embrace. What was happening to me? I had never felt this way before with anyone. I even disliked it when other people touched me.
"Of course I'm fine. I just went through my heat, I'm not coming back from the battlefield." My laughter tried to lighten the mood.
He released his embrace from me, holding both my shoulders while staring into my eyes as if he truly missed my presence. What was wrong with him? Why was he staring at me with those eyes?
"I know that. It's just that thinking about you feeling pain every time your heat cycle comes, I can't stop thinking about you. You must be suffering in your room and I can't do anything to help you," he said to me with a slightly softened gaze, his voice still heavy and worried.
I explained to him that I was fine now, that I was even wearing a suppressant patch on the back of my neck. Pheromones usually come out from the back of the neck, which is why many Omegas use suppressant patches to cover or suppress their sweet pheromones.
We then left the side of the road and headed to a small villa with a beautiful view.
"Is this your villa? I didn't know a guard's salary could be so high that they could afford a villa like this," I asked him.
"It's not mine. This place belongs to my boss, and he rarely comes here. We can use it as a place where we can talk freely without anyone seeing us," Alastair replied.
His answer sometimes still makes me feel suspicious. Especially since he drives his boss's SUV every day. Is his boss really that nice that he lets one of his guards have easy access to an expensive car, and now even an expensive villa?
Is he really just a guard in his mafia group, or does he actually have a more important role than just a guard?
But I deliberately didn't ask any further questions, because I didn't think it would do me any good to know. I had no intention of seeking his attention, even if he was a big boss. I just wanted to be close to him, to satisfy my desire to be near this Alpha.
Ridiculous, but yeah.
"Come on in. I've prepared something for you inside. I'm sure you'll like it," he said again, inviting me to enter.
"Prepared something for me? What is it?"
He didn't answer my question and just smiled. "You'll find out when we're inside."
I got out of the car and followed him into the villa. From the outside, it looked ordinary, but inside, it was incredibly luxurious. If this villa really belonged to his boss, then his boss must be extremely wealthy to afford such classic furniture.
"It seems like your boss is a lover of classic themes with very expensive taste like this. I've seen it on TV, even a set of sofas like this can cost hundreds of millions," I said while sitting on the living room sofa in the villa.
"You're right. He loves classic things like this, and you could say his taste is indeed expensive. He can spend hundreds of millions, even billions of dollars, just to satisfy his desires in this villa," he replied, explaining to me.
"I can see that." I lay down on the large sofa. It felt more comfortable than the sofa in the mansion.
Because it was so comfortable, I closed my eyes for a moment to enjoy the quiet atmosphere of the villa. Sometimes the mansion sounded a bit noisy because of the many servants and Regis's men wandering around.
But in this villa, the atmosphere was cool and calm.
I don't know how long I had my eyes closed, but suddenly Alastair woke me up.
"Hey, wake up, how long are you going to sleep? I've prepared a surprise for you, but you seem to prefer the sofa to the surprise I gave you," he said in a soft voice, which surprised me because I didn't expect him to speak like that.
His hand gently stroked my head, slowly waking me up and helping me sit up. "Sorry... So what surprise do you have?"
He stood up from the edge of the sofa and asked me to close my eyes.
"Close your eyes, but don't fall asleep again this time," he said with a laugh.
I laughed too when I heard him, then closed my eyes and followed him as he led me along.
Finally, we stopped and he allowed me to open my eyes.
"Now open your eyes."