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"You're letting the omega carrying your seed run away?" Shen yu doesn't spare a glance at his son standing near the window, a cigar in his hands, puffing out smoke onto the glass window.

 

"So you knew?" Wenlang finally turns to his father, the older alpha scoffs lighting his own cigar.

 

"Of course you knew." Wenlang looks down at the man sitting on the wooden chair, eyes closed, smoke escaping his lips.

 

"Pathetic." His father remarks putting out the freshly lit cigar. Wenlang doesn't seem fazed, he was standing tall and confident, no longer scared of his father.

 

"Find him and bring him to me. He is carrying the shen family's heir." His father commands in his usual tone that wenlang has grew up listening to. He has always obeyed his father, has done each and everything his father commanded him. But that was ten years ago.

 

"Bring him to? What for?" Wenlang doesn't pay any attention to the irritated stare his father gives him as the alpha sits opposite to his father.

 

"Don't play with fire, son. All these years I have ignored your little mistakes. But not anymore. This time you made a big mess. Clean it up. The sooner, the better." Shen yu dismisses wenlang by his usual tone. Something he has always done, something that has always worked on the alpha. But not anymore.

 

"I will bring him back, but not to you." Wenlang emphasizes the words even though shen yu heard them clear enough.

 

"Quit your nonsense, wenlang. I need you to take control of this. You can't keep denying your fate. You belong here." Shen yu's voice was dominant, loud and clear. The older alpha watches as his son suddenly stands up, steps towards him and stops right before him.

 

"My fate? Who are you to decide my fate?" Wenlang laughs, such a devilish look on his face, the same as shen yu's.

 

"You know you belong here. There's no point in delaying what's written for you." Shen yu doesn't pay heed to the little show wenlang puts for him. Wenlang has always been rebellious, it wasn't something new.

 

"I don't belong anywhere that involves you, Father."

 

"You say such big things and then you come running back to me at the littlest inconvenience? You're not standing true to your words, son." Shen yu knew his son had a temper, he was a ticking time bomb. He lost control often, making mess everywhere he went, even now. But nonetheless he was still shen yu's son, sharing the same blood, the same DNA. Wenlang wasn't weak, he was far from weak. He knew his son's potential, never questioned it because he was the one who crafted shen wenlang to perfection. No flaws, no cracks.

 

"I didn't come to you for help. I came because I know how far you can go." Wenlang had earlier assumed that his father might have taken Gao tu captive so he rushed home, otherwise he would never put step in this hellhole.

 

"How far can I go?" Shen yu watches as the alpha's face falls, disgust filling his eyes.

 

Shen yu can go so far, too far. Wenlang knows how far his father could go.

 

"I am not here for your chitchat. I need men, 'my men', not yours. I will rightfully take what was always mine. Don't step in my way, if you do, I will forget that you're my father." Wenlang warns, his voice steady, pheromones in the air standing face to face with his father.

 

Wenlang had people here 'his people' the ones he handpicked ten years ago when he was still walking in his father's crafted path, but he left everything and everyone when he escaped so naturally his father took control. But now he needed them, more than anything in the world.

 

"Take what's yours, I don't need them anyways, your incompetent dogs."

 

"Also the omega you impregnated seems to be from a good background, no family, no history, clean like a knife. He can be a new addition to the family. And your unborn child, if it's an alpha, it can carry on our family heritage."

 

"Keep dreaming, old man. Once I find him, I am out of here." Wenlang clears with a scoff.

 

Shen yu watches as his son walks out, his steps resonating in the hall, loud and heavy. He smirks as he hears wenlang's growl coming from outside, he was claiming his men. Shen yu was aware of his son's capabilities, he could lead, rule and conquer just like him. Wenlang was messy but he was persistent. He never backed down.

 

Shen yu had been patient, too patient. Ten years, letting wenlang live however he wanted, tangled up in messes that sometimes shen yu cleared up without his knowledge. The alpha although rebellious, took up everything shen yu had planted in him.

 

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"You're going to kidnap him?"

 

"What choice do I have? He is going to leave the country tomorrow." Wenlang loosens his tie and lands on the sofa with a sigh. Today was too much.

 

"Is communicating never an option for you?" Hua yong watches as the alpha scoffs.

 

"Look who is talking."

 

"You went to your father?" Hua yong knows that scent, knows it too well.

 

"Yes. I needed some people to work for me."

 

"Mine weren't enough?" Hua yong has always helped wenlang in things like this. Although they had very successful conglomerate businesses thriving, sometimes some things had to be done the other away. So hua yong had his own ways of handling such stuff. But whatever he had was just for casual flings here and there nothing serious. But shen yu was the leader of the biggest criminal organisation in the continent, powerful and unbreakable.

 

"I don't need them to find Gao tu, I can find him on my own. I need them to protect Gao tu from my father. He has his eyes on him." Wenlang knows what his father was capable of. Once he sets his eyes on something, he gets it and this time it was Gao tu and his unborn child.

 

"Predictable." Hua yong nods. Even though he was an enigma, he could never stand against shen yu. Shen yu was too powerful. All those biological advantages hua yong had didn't work against shen yu. Shen yu had everything that could destroy hua yong, one of the many reason why he was always careful around wenlang.

 

"Anyways, Gao tu must be picked up by chang by now. I need to hear out." Wenlang runs his fingers through his hair, picks up his jacket and keys.

 

"Don't scare him too much. He is already scared enough." Hua yong watches as the alpha nods half heartedly.

 

"Wenlang." The alpha stops and faces the enigma, confusion on his face.

 

"What will you do with him?"

 

"Stop him from leaving, what else?"

 

Hua yong sighs, of course he expected too much from the alpha.

 

"You don't even love him." Hua yong remembers all those moments he witnessed Gao tu longing for wenlang. The omega really loved wenlang, and here the alpha was just clueless.

 

"You don't know me." Wenlang smirks.

 

"Be gentle with him, he is easily breakable." Hua yong doesn't mean it as a threat, it's a warning. Gao tu was too vulnerable, more than ever right now. A small nudge will break him and knowing wenlang's tactics, the alpha might really damage the omega beyond repair.

 

"I know how to handle him." Wenlang exits the door.

 

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"Where am I? Who are you?!" The omega screams when he finally regains his consciousness and realises his surroundings, a dark room with a few lights, two large bodied man standing at the door.

 

"Mr Gao, please calm down." There's another person here, a female alpha wearing what seems like a doctor's gown. Gao tu can't calm down, not when he is in an unfamiliar place with unfamiliar people.

 

"Let me go! "Gao tu almost bolts for the door before a wave of strong pheromones stop him. He coughs at the unfamiliar strong scent and falls back down on the bed.

 

"I am sorry I really didn't mean to use it on you. I just want to check on you..I won't hurt you or your baby." Her next words makes Gao tu's stomach drop. She knows about the baby? How? Not even Gao qing knows about the baby, how did this unfamiliar alpha suddenly know about it.

 

Gao tu was dominated by her pheromones, the alpha gently approached him, drew some blood, took his blood pressure and a few other things. She gave an injection which suddenly calmed him down. Gao tu felt relaxed, his muscles loosening, the unbearable pain he always lived with dissipated. Even the scents became bearable.

 

Then he heard a familiar voice, so familiar that suddenly his heart stopped. There he was, coming in, his sage scent filling the room. Shen wenlang.

 

Gao tu felt shivers in his body as the alpha walked all the way up to the bed.

 

"How's he?"

 

"His vitals are normal, blood pressure seems to be a bit high. I have given him a sedative, it will put him to sleep in an hour. I will come by tomorrow with the blood test results. Feed him something warm before he goes to sleep." The alpha packs up her things and walks out, Gao tu in that moment felt like calling out to her.

 

Wenlang signals the two alpha to lead her way out of the house.

 

"Why are you doing this?" There's a sob, a meek one, barely audible. Gao tu can't understand anything right now. Why was he here? And where is this place? Who are thes people?

 

"Why am I doing this? Is that really the matter right now? The real matter is, why did you hide all this from me?" Wenlang knew he was crossing the line. He was forgetting all those warnings from hua yong.

 

"I....." Gao tu went silent, only his weak sobs filled the room.

 

"You hide the fact that you're an omega for ten years. Why did you do that?" Wenlang tried to sound as gentle as possible.

 

"What other choice did I have?" Gao tu bitterly said, choking on a sob. Tears streaming down his face.

 

"What did you achieve by doing all that? Beating yourself up to this point. I am not worth all your efforts, you know." Wenlang looks away from the crying omega. His voice suddenly losing all the power and dominance.

 

Wenlang knew he was twisted, short tempered and lacked empathy. He knew he had flaws, so many that he was beyond the fixing state. He lived with all his shortcomings, never tried to fix anything. He changed a little because of Gao tu. The omega taught him compassion, gave him peace of mind and security.

 

"That night was a mistake. I wasn't sober, neither you." Wenlang still believed they were drunk that night, he was, not Gao tu.

 

"If it was just a mistake, why am I here?" Gao tu feels his voice give up by now. His body was too tired to speak, too tired to be awake.

 

"Because you're pregnant with my child." The words felt like venom, filling gau tu's veins, suffocating him.

 

"You can't run away with my child like this, Gao tu." Suddenly the gentleness disappears, wenlang's short-lived softness vanishes.

 

"Didn't you tell me to abort it? So why do you want it now?" Gao tu feels the wenlang's scent turn sour.

 

"I said I would've have it aborted if it was conceived without my consent."

 

"This child 'was' conceived without your consent." Gao tu hates putting it that way, his child was a blessing not just a drunken mistake.

 

"Not exactly. I was lured by your scent, not some random omega's. My heart knew it was you, just my brain didn't. So this child isn't just my drunken mistake." Wenlang words everything precisely the way Gao tu yearned to hear.

 

Gao tu was somehow a little relieved. Atleast wenlang wasn't trying to get rid of the child.

 

"So what do you want from me?" Gao tu dreads for the worst to come. He had earlier expected something of the sort like handing his child over to the alpha.

 

"For you to become my mate and marry me."

 

Gao tu's entire world flips. The words that he had long swallowed, his body went stiff like a statue.

 

"What?"

 

"Yes. You're pregnant with my child, I have to take responsibility." Wenlang was so blunt, as everything was so simple.

 

"You can take responsibility without marrying me too. And I am not asking you to take responsibility. I can raise this child on my own." Gao tu fights his body which was shutting down by now.

 

"I know you can take responsibility of this child. But you can't protect him without me, Gao tu." Wenlang now faces him, eyes firm and gentle. This was new. Something in those eyes told a different story. Wenlang was scared of something. Gao tu could figure out that much.

 

Gao tu couldn't keep up the conversation as his body gave up. He was enveloped by a deep slumber. The last thing he felt was wenlang tucking him in and turning off the lights.

 

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Gao tu wakes up to a maid bringing him a fresh set of clothes telling him to freshen up for breakfast. He still couldn't figure out where he was. Unexpectedly, he was given his phone back. Even though he had his phone he didn't know who to call. No one can take him out of here, not even the police. So all he did was text his sister who still believed that Gao tu was in his apartment.

 

The omega showered, dressed up in the new clothes which strangely already scented like him and followed the maid who led him to the table. It was filled with different types of food, more than Gao tu can ever finish. The omega was hungry so he didn't shy away and ate his fill.

 

Then the alpha appeared, in his same work suit, on a call that Gao tu recognised was the new investor. The alpha sat down near the omega and started his breakfast.

 

"What's my schedule today?" The sudden question makes the omega almost jump out of his seat. Wenlang just gives him a certain look and resumes his breakfast.

 

"You have three meetings today, two in the morning and one in the afternoon. Also you have a sight visit at the guangshu construction sight for our new building. In the evening, Ms yang has invited you for dinner." Gao tu like a robot narrates his schedule which he had memorized the week before. He still remembered everything.

 

"Cancel the dinner."

 

Wenlang was acting the same, as if he didn't just kidnap Gao tu.

 

"Doctor shu will come today during noon, accompany her to the hospital for your ultrasound." Wenlang suddenly looks up at the omega who just sat still, a little confused.

 

"Why are you keeping me here?" Gao tu can't help but ask the serious question. Why was he here? Didn't wenlang already stop him from leaving? Wasn't that the whole point?

 

"For your safety. You have to spend your entire pregnancy here."

 

"I don't wanna be here." Gao tu really didn't like this place. It was so dark and big, too big.

 

"Then you wanna stay in your box apartment? I am not doing this because I want to. I have my reasons. Anyways I am getting late. I come back by evening." Wenlang leaves almost abruptly leaving the omega with so many questions.

 

Gao tu had so many questions. What was wenlang scared of? Why did he need protection?

 

His train of thoughts was interrupted by the same maid from this morning, an old lady with a soft smile. She carefully took all the plates to the kitchen sink. The she appeared with a fresh glass of milk and urged the omega to drink it. Gao tu drank every drop of it, feeling warmth in the old lady's presence. She was an omega who had the soft scent of Jasmine.

 

"What place is this?" Gao tu aks after a lot of deliberation.

 

"This a bungalow in the outskirts of Jiang hu. This is where little master lived before moving to the city." She answered, her voice soft like a melody.

 

Little master? Did she know wenlang since he was a child?

 

"Ms shu will be here in an hour, please get ready for your hospital visit. I will pick out some clothes for you." She excuses herself and walks back inside.

 

Gao tu half heartedly watches the little pond that was in the backyard, few fish in it. He felt so lost. So many unanswered questions. So many riddles he couldn't solve.

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"Your condition has improved since the last time I saw you. Your alpha finally came back to his senses?" The doctor starts writing down the new medications for Gao tu. Earlier today when Ms shu came to get him, he insisted on going to his regular doctor who knew all about his medical history. After taking permission from wenlang, she took him to the hospital.

 

Gao tu nervously just smiles at the doctor. Shu was sitting right beside him, taking notes in her diary, she didn't seem to care about the personal things only cared about Gao tu's Medical history.

 

"Your pheromone levels are still high but I believe they will get better soon." The doctor hands Gao tu the prescription.

 

It was almost magical how in just one day, Gao tu got so much better. It was almost impossible to get better so soon unless his alpha permanently marked him which wasn't the case for Gao tu. Wenlang didn't even touch him, he just comforted Gao tu a little with his pheromones. So what was really curing Gao tu so fast?

 

Then the omega remembers the injection from the previous day, that injection immediately made him feel better, took away his years long of pain in seconds and soothed that prickly hot sensation in his skin.

 

"What did you give me yesterday?" The omega asks after a lot of thinking, watching as the alpha clears her throat with a cough, eyes fixed on the road ahead.

 

"It was a sedative." She can feel Gao tu's piercing gaze boring holes through her body. The omega wasn't that dumb. He knew what a sedative was and what it could do. What she gave him yesterday wasn't a sedative.

 

"Ok! It was a new artificial pheromone injection developed by shen wenlang's father's pharmaceutical company. It's not released in the market yet."

 

"Artificial pheromones?" Gao tu can now understand why his body got better so fast.

 

"Not exactly artificial in your case. It was made with wenlang's pheromones just for you. We had to use this method since you know.....you don't want to be intimate with him." She barely whispered the last part. Gao tu suddenly looks away.

 

Wenlang used such a method just because Gao tu didn't want his touch. Knowing the alpha for ten years, Gao tu knew wenlang always had his way, never compromising for anybody so why did he do it for Gao tu? He could've just forced it on gao tu, right?

 

"Anyways this drug is a top secret, not yet released in the world. So I would appreciate that you keep it a secret, even from wenlang." She sounded somewhat troubled. Of course she wasn't supposed to reveal such a thing, but she did.

 

"I won't tell anyone." Gao tu promises, he wasn't trying to get her in trouble, she has been kind to him, kind enough to take him to his desired hospital even though wenlang strictly instructed her to take him to heci hospital and she has been considerate of the omega.

 

The ride to the bungalow was short. Gao tu was surprised that nobody stopped him from knowing the way out of the bungalow. Wenlang wasn't keeping him captive after all.

 

The omega quietly follows the old omega lady inside the house after shu drops him off at the house and leaves again. He silently eats his lunch, showers again and takes a nap.

 

This was too peaceful, like a fever dream. The softness of the mattress lulls him to sleep so fast. He feels this tingling sensation all throughout his body, something warm and pleasant. Observing it clearly now, it was wenlang's room. Everything smelt like him.

 

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"Did I wake you up?" Wenlang smiles at the omega who just woke up. When he sensed the alpha's presence, he immediately sat up pulling the comforter over his body.

 

"It's time for dinner." Wenlang says and gets up to leave.

 

Just when Gao tu was about to stop the alpha, there's a ring. Wenlang swiftly takes out his phone and puts it to his ear.

 

"I will be there by midnight." Wenlang's forehead wrinkles in a sudden state of worry, his scent turning a bit sour, he sounded tensed.

 

Midnight?

 

"Hua yong, I can't clean up your mess anymore. And you know better than anyone not to mess with him." The familiar name rings bells inside Gao tu's head. Hua yong?

 

With an irritated hum wenlang cuts the call. The alpha sheds his coat and tie, running his fingers through his hair, messing it up. And Gao tu just watches, his eyes following every move of the alpha, he hates to admit but Gao tu feels it in his veins, the want, the yearning as he watches the alpha take off his coat revealing his toned body, unbuttoning his shirt and yanking off his tie.

 

Gao tu snaps back to reality when wenlang slams his belt on the desk. The omega hurriedly gets up and grabs his phone and walks out to the dining room.

 

"You can join office from next week. Keep your pregnancy a secret for now."

 

Gao tu suddenly pauses. He can go back?

 

Before Gao tu ask anything further, someone interrupts them, a guard who practically ran inside.

 

"Boss! Please look at this." He hands the alpha a tablet showing a video. Wenlang's eyes narrows as he takes in the image.

 

"What's the situation now?" He asks pausing the video, immediately taking out an unfamiliar phone and scrolling through the contact list.

 

"Master Yu has taken control of the situation but he was......" He pauses.

 

"And what?!" Suddenly wenlang's voice grows deep and demanding. The guard flinches bowing down.

 

"He was shot." He completes.

 

"What?!"

 

"Yes. Master Yu was shot in the shoulder. He is currently in the Shen hospital." The guard finishes.

 

"Shit!" There's urgency in his voice, the alpha abruptly gets up.

 

"Take me there." The alpha tosses his car key to the guard, the guard runs to the garage to take out his car.

 

Gao to silently watches as wenlang dials a certain number and curses when his call isn't answered.

 

"Aunt yumi, I will head out now. Make sure he takes his pills." He says in a haste, putting on his leather jacket in a hurry. The alpha fixes his belt, something shiny caught Gao tu's eye. When he looks at it closer,it was a gun. The omega's eyes widens. A gun? Wenlang has a gun? Why?

 

Wenlang spares a glance at the omega and then heads out.

 

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"How can you get shot?" Wenlang taps his heels annoyingly on the floor. Shen yu utters a chuckle.

 

"The fuck are you laughing for? Is this a laughing matter?" Wenlang really can't understand this man.

 

"You say you hate me and show up here just after hearing I have been shot? I am an s class alpha, son. I won't go down so easily." Shen yu was right, he was tough, tougher than he looked. Even though he was 57 years old, he didn't look that old. He had a well built body, maybe even better than wenlang's. He was tall and sturdy.

 

"It's not you I am worried about." Wenlang looks away from his father's accusing eyes. Indeed if his father were to actually die, everything will crash. Their empire that controlled the entire country will come crashing down.

 

"So who was it?"

 

"Who else can it be?" Shen yu takes out the iv drip from his arm and gets up from the bed, his guards immediately coming to him.

 

"You really have a death wish?" Wenlang watches as his father prepares to leave. He was an impatient man after all. Shen yu doesn't respond. The alpha picks up his belongings and walks out. Wenlang walks behind him, something he has always hated, being behind his father.

 

"You brought your omega back?" Wenlang pauses momentarily before following again. Of course his father knew, what did he not know?

 

"Stay away from him." He warns, pheromone sipping out. His father gives him a death stare and almost immediately wenlang swallows everything up. His father might be a mobster but he was a righteous man, following rules and regulations. A hospital wasn't a place for argument.

 

"How long will you keep him away from me?" Wenlang knows that's a mockery. His father knows wenlang can't keep Gao tu away from him forever. For now his father was tamed and busy in a different matter, but once that's clear, he will reach Gao tu and destroy everything.

 

"Come back home and bring that omega with you. Our home is safe." Shen yu turns back, locking eyes with his son.

 

"I can keep him safe on my own." Wenlang challenges. Unexpectedly shen yu laughs, a sarcastic one making wenlang's blood boil.

 

Even now with that paralyzed shoulder, his father looked powerful, untouchable. Even though wenlang was as tall as his father, in moments like this he felt small and insignificant.

 

"This didn't just happen out of nowhere. Everyone knows by now, how incompetent my son is. Of course they will try their luck."

 

It was true. Their empire lacks a heir and yu was getting old. People always kept trying, now they were hopeful because the shen's had an defected heir. It was nothing unheard of.

 

"Don't make me the bad guy, wenlang. Come back before It's too late." Shen yu wasn't bargaining anymore. This was the final warning. He had enough of wenlang's tantrums, it was time to get his son back in the way.

 

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"So you're going back?" Hua yong calmly asks, watching as the alpha paced back and forth.

 

"I don't have a choice." Wenlang sighs. This was happening at such a bad time.

 

"It was always inevitable, you just kept postponing it." Hua yong's comment doesn't help wenlang at all. The enigma didn't really care.

 

"Besides your father has no other children to support him. You're the lone wolf for him."

 

"If he didn't discard all those omegas he slept with, I would probably have about a hundred siblings." Wenlang feels disgusted saying that. His father was an active alpha, in his prime when wenlang wasn't even ten years old, he saw his father bringing back omegas all the time, mysteriously they always disappeared the next morning.

 

Hua yong chuckles.

 

"What about Mr Gao?"

 

"I have to take him with me." Wenlang really didn't want the omega to face all that. Not like this, not when he was the most vulnerable.

 

"The 'defected heir' is going to make a comeback, huh?" Hua yong's sarcastic tone annoys the alpha but he doesn't say anything.

 

Defected heir? Wenlang won't lie, he has been a failure. He has never met those expectations everyone had from the only son of shen yu. He has always avoided that position. The position his father prepared him for. To be the leader of the shens.

 

"It's in your blood, you know." Hua yong stands beside the alpha, handing him a drink.

 

"Blood?" Wenlang looks down at the drink in his hand.

 

"And you hate your father, not what he does." That fact felt like a knife to his heart. Hua yong was right. He hated his father, not that empire, not that authority and power. Wenlang was just as power hungry as his father.

 

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"Welcome home, my son." Wenlang didn't expect such a grand welcome. All their men were lined up in troops bowing low, rifles blowing in the air. What the fuck was happening?

 

Gao tu was scared by the sudden sound of the guns going off, he runs and hides behind wenlang.

 

"Welcome back, master wenlang." The alphas say in unison. Wenlang cringed at their perfect harmony as if they were a choir. His father always like to be dramatic.

 

"What the hell is all this?" He walks ahead with Gao tu trailing behind like a scared cat.

 

"Everyone had to know their master is back." Shen yu glances at the omega who was still hiding behind wenlang.

 

"Welcome to shen empire." His father aims at Gao tu. The omega panicks not knowing what to do. All he does is give the man a bow. Gao tu didn't know about wenlang's father, all he knew was that wenlang had a bad relationship with his father, so what was happening right now?

 

"Aunt yumi, take him upstairs to my room." Wenlang instructs the old omega. Gao tu almost instantly follows her, too scared to stay between the two alpha who looked like they were ready to kill each other.

 

"Remember that this is temporary. Don't get too happy." Wenlang walks past his father who just smirks.

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"I am leaving if you don't tell me right now just what the hell is happening here? You can't keep me locked up here, shen zong. I will call the police if I have to. I need answers! I can't wait any longer in this unfamiliar place." The outburst wasn't unexpected, it was reasonable. Gao tu had been here for three days now, locked up inside the room.

 

"Calm down, Gao tu." Wenlang can feel the omega get even more stressed at his nonchalant response. The alpha had been away for a whole day. He had just returned and was immediately bombarded with questions.

 

"I can't calm down!" Gao tu screams. His frustration was crossing limits. There was no way Gao tu could stay calm in this situation.

 

"I am sorry." Gao tu doesn't push off the hands that slowly enveloped him into a hug, instead he melts down in the alpha's warm embrace. He hadn't realised it but he was crying. The alpha's warmth provides him comfort. But then he smells it, the blood.

 

"Why do you smell like blood?" When Gao tu pulls away, his hand feels wet. It was blood.

 

Wenlang takes off his jacket, underneath his white collared shirt was stained in blood right by his bicep. There was a cut, oozing out blood.

 

"Wenlang! How did this happen?!"

 

"It's a small cut, nothing to worry about." Wenlang tries to dismiss it. But the omega can't let it go, soon enough wenlang was pulled to the couch, the omega tended to his wound, cleaning it and putting a bandage.

 

"Gao tu, you know 'the shens', right? The underground head of the country's military and illegal smugglers of the drug world." The description makes even wenlang feel disappointed.

 

The omega pauses momentarily. His mouth went dry, eyes static and heart beating faster. The shens. Who wouldn't know the shens? They were the actual power of this country. The criminal organisation that everyone feared.

 

Shen wenlang. Shen.

 

"I am the son of the leader of 'the shens' Shen Yu." Wenlang breathes out, eyes fixing on gao tu's watching as the omega becomes speechless.

 

What?! Shen wenlang was the heir of that devilish empire? Gao tu had never expected that, not in the last ten years, not even once. Because shen was a common surname, many had that surname. Shen wenlang according to him was among that many people.

 

"My father is Shen Yu." Wenlang adds.

 

"And the reason why you're here is because I am a target of our rivals. If anyone finds out that you're carrying my child, they won't spare you."

 

"But........what about HS?" Gao tu was so confused. Wasn't wenlang the chairman and founder of HS? He has been working for the company for ten years? So what changed now?

 

"HS is my own creation, my father has nothing to do with. For ten years I have been running away from this empire, but now I can't anymore." Wenlang sounds defeated.

 

"The defected heir? It was you?" Everyone in the country knew that the shen empire heir had ran away, the reason was unknown but many assumed it was because of fear, after all an empire like shens needed an able heir.

 

"Yes." Wenlang feels like laughing, defected heir?

 

"Until the baby arrives, you have to stay here. This is the safest place in the country." Wenlang reassures the omega.

 

Gao tu's curiosity was satisfied now, but questions still roamed in his head. But he wasn't ready to ask those. Since they were back in wenlang's home, did that mean wenlang was back in the shen empire?

 

"About the office, it's better that you don't go." Wenlang knew Gao tu was looking forward to going back to office but situations had changed now, it wasn't safe anymore. The omega subconsciously nods.

 

"I am going to wash up. Go ahead and sleep." Wenlang smiles at the omega, Gao tu just nods and watches as the alpha leaves his room.

 

It was still strange to see the alpha so matured and dependable. Just a few months ago, wenlang was shooting insults after insults on gao tu for having that 'omega stench' and now suddenly he had no problem with Gao tu being an omega.

 

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"How's your stay here? All okay?" The sudden voice makes the omega almost jump. He quickly recovers his composure and turns back. Shen Yu, the most feared man stood right in front of him. The alpha was extremely good looking, tall and powerful. Only then Gao tu realised how similar wenlang was with his father.

 

"Yes. Everything is fine!" Gao tu could feel his legs get stoic, heart beating so fast. Damn he was scared as fuck.

 

"Glad to hear that. I am Shen Yu, wenlang's father." The introduction wasn't even necessary. Everyone knew who he was. Most didn't want to be face to face with him for this introduction but Gao tu's luck was cursed as always.

 

"I am Gao tu, Mr shen's chief secretary." Gao tu had no other form of introduction. All his life, he has been a secretary for wenlang.

 

"You're not just a secretary anymore, child. You're a part of our family. You're carrying our heir." That was more of an order rather than an offer.

 

"Thanks to you wenlang has finally came back to his senses." Shen Yu chuckles seeing the omega cowering his head low, not uttering a single word.

 

"I hope you two are discussing about the marriage."

 

Marriage? Who? Gao tu and wenlang?

 

"Anyways enjoy your time here. If you need anything just tell yumi." Shen Yu dismisses himself and walks away. Only then the omega could finally take a breathe.

 

What did Gao tu get himself into?

 

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"Select a wedding date. I need to make arrangements for your wedding." Shen Yu tells the alpha who had just entered his office and plopped down on the couch.

 

"What wedding?" Wenlang sarcastically asks, lighting a cigar.

 

"Who else, you and that omega." The older alpha watches as his son scoffs puffing out smoke.

 

"I am not marrying him."

 

"What do you mean not marrying him? He is pregnant with your child." Shen Yu was slowly getting irritated by wenlang's behaviour.

 

"So? He will give birth and I will let him go for good. He doesn't need to live in that hellhole."

 

"When did you become so lenient? I have never taught you to be lenient."

 

Wenlang ignores his father's words.

 

"This was found in the factory site." The alpha tosses a certain jade pendant on his father's table not caring if the blood soaked pendant dirtied his father's table. Shen Yu picks it up, examining it.

 

"This is the third time we have found something like this. First the hairpin, then the ring and now this. Someone is doing it intentionally. Leaving these traces for us." Wenlang gets to business.

 

In the past two months, their factory sites have been under attack by someone unknown.

 

Shen Yu without a word tosses the pendant into the trash can making wenlang raise his brows. Why was his father so relaxed about the whole thing? The attacks that has happened aren't light matters. They have suffered significant losses.

 

"You have to marry that omega." Wenlang hears as he walks out of the office.

 

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"How many months?" The omega glances at the direction of the voice only to find a middle aged male omega smiling at him. Today was his fourth month pregnancy check up. Shu had gone to register them so he sat alone on the bench right outside the maternity ward.

 

"Four months." Gao tu smiles back at the omega. When he observes the male further, he realises how beautiful he was, a bright face, plump lips, long hair braided and his scent was so soft and comforting. He was the definition of a perfect omega.

 

"You came here alone? Where's your alpha?" Gao tu breaks his long stare, a little embarrassed.

 

"I came here with a friend." Gao tu doesn't answer the other question.

 

"Alphas of this generation don't know how to be gentlemen." The older omega comments making Gao tu chuckle.

 

"Do you know the gender?"

 

"Not yet." Gao tu feels himself lighten up as he talks with the omega. The gentle pheromones somehow feel familiar, as if he has known this person.

 

"What are you hoping for? An alpha?" The question was typical. Everyone hoped for an alpha baby, after all alphas were the superior among everyone.

 

"Anything is fine as long as they are healthy." Gao tu looks down at his belly. He didn't care what his baby was going to be.

 

"Hm......" The other hums and watches as Gao tu smiles subconsciously.

 

"I hope you have a good and easy pregnancy. Mine was a disaster." He adds.

 

"How so?" Gao tu kind of regrets asking such a personal question, but it was okay, right? Since it the omega who brought it up.

 

"I was in labor for thirteen hours because my baby wasn't ready to come out. I lost blood, a lot of it. And my alpha was away for business so I had to give birth alone." The older omega's smile suddenly vanished. There was something heavy in his voice, like a lingering pain.

 

"I gave birth to an alpha son."

 

"How old is your son now?" Gao tu wanted to lighten up the mood.

 

"He is going to be thirty this September." The omega smiles again.

 

September? Wenlang's birthday was in September. And he was going to be thirty. What a coincidence.......right?

 

"Ah look at the time! I have to get going." The older says glancing at his watch.

 

"Take this. It's for a happy and healthy pregnancy." Gao tu was handed a jade pendant, emerald crescent moon shaped pendant. Before the omega could say no, the other was already out of his sight.

 

Gao tu looks at the pendant, it was beautiful, so he decides to keep it.

 

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"Sorry about today. My father is an asshole. Next time you don't have to follow his orders." Wenlang places his jacket on the couch, undoes his belt that carried his gun and puts it down on the table.

 

"Why does he want us to get married?" Today Shen Yu had a personal tailor come and take Gao tu's measurements for a wedding suit, then he was told to choose a wedding venue from a wedding catalogue. The omega out of fear chose something random.

 

"He wants me to get married and takeover the shen empire officially." Wenlang sighs stretching his arms, feeling the tiredness sipping on. Today was yet another tough day. First at the company and then the work at his father's factory. The alpha was extremely overworked.

 

Officially? That meant announcing to the world that the shen empire s heir was getting married and Gao tu's identify being revealed to the world and wenlang's too. The alpha has remained out of the limelight for ten years and even before that the world didn't know him. He escaped before his father could present him as their heir.

 

"Will you do it?" Gao tu didn't know why his heart felt heavy.

 

"I don't know." The answer was vague, unclear and disappointing.

 

It was inevitable right? Wenlang had to take that path. The path he once escaped from, temporarily. In the end it came to his feet by itself and now he has no choice.

 

"Do you want to?" As if Gao tu could read wenlang's mind, the exact question that lived permanently in wenlang's head. Does he want to?

 

"I........" Wenlang sighs.

 

"For ten years I have avoided that path, doing everything just to remain out of it. I have worked hard for HS to succeed, and it finally has after so long. I belong there now. Don't I?" Was it even a question? Gao tu can't tell.

 

"But I was born for this, wasn't I? I was crafted for this path by my father since I was a child. I don't remember much from my childhood other than this, you know. Handling cases, finances, fighting, handling guns and killing." The last word was barely above a whisper, wenlang didn't even want to say it, but he did.

 

"But I escaped, didn't I?" When wenlang meets Gao tu's eyes, the omega finds grief and sorrow in those eyes, the eyes which were always powerful.

 

"You are the chairman of HS." Gao tu's words makes wenlang smile suddenly. Gao tu was right. HS was his, his own creation. That was who he was.

 

"Why did you keep yourself hidden from me, Gao tu?" Wenlang's sudden question makes the omega halt. He breaks the eye contact, fingers fiddling with the hem of his sweater.

 

"You hate omegas. And I am an omega." Gao tu could hear those insults wenlang threw at him before.

 

"I don't hate you, Gao tu. I can't hate you."

 

"And I wasn't drunk that night." Gao tu said it, the thing bothering him all this time, he finally said it. It had to said. He can't keep it any longer. Wenlang has to know.

 

"What?"

 

"I wasn't drunk that night. You were drunk. I knew it was you, but I was in heat so I couldn't push you away." Gao tu meets the alpha's eyes.

 

"I let you touch me, wenlang. I wanted you to touch me, hold me for once. I did all that intentionally." Gao tu could feel his tears building up. The alpha was silent.

 

"But why would you?" What a dumb question. Wenlang was really that clueless.

 

"Because I love you, shen zong." Gao tu feels his heart thump so loud and hard, as if it will break free from his ribcage any moment.

 

The alpha feels a sudden heat rise in his body, urgent and overwhelming. Gao tu loved him?

 

"And I know you don't love me." Gao tu adds feeling his tears flow now.

 

"You don't know that, Gao tu." The omega's breath hitched.

 

"You remember when you made up that lie about having an omega partner?" Wenlang feels his fingers shake a little. His heart felt heavy.

 

Gao tu remained silent.

 

"Three years ago you made up that lie." Was it that long ago? Gao tu honestly doesn't really remember. That lie was made up keep wenlang out of his life. To mask his omega identity further.

 

"Three years ago I realised I loved you. I wanted you to be mine. Before I could even realise my feelings better, you were already gone from my grasp."

 

What? Wenlang loved him too? Three years ago??

 

"You started being distant. You always took announced leaves for that omega. You said you found your life partner. So I decided to drop all those feelings I had for you. I thought I could move on from that, I didn't. Everytime you mentioned that omega, my blood boiled. You always came with that scent. I know now that it was your scent but back then I believed it was the omega's. I couldn't contain my jealousy so I took it out on you." Wenlang recalls all those memories, when he had just started realising those feelings he had for the beta. He hadn't come to the conclusion of love because before he could, Gao tu announced about his omega.

 

"I assumed whatever we had was over."

 

Wenlang pauses, his breathe heavy and burdened. He had never planned to confess like this, not in a situation like this. But the universe is not in his favor, it never is. Wenlang wants to say something more, but if he does it will get harder. So stops himself, he has to. Anything more bind Gao tu back to his mess. He can't let that happen. Gao tu can't be involved with him anymore.

 

Gao tu didn't know how to respond. What was he supposed to say? What was he supposed to believe? Wenlang had feelings for him three years ago? So what about now? What did wenlang have for him now?

 

"I am sorry Gao tu for everything I have said and done and also for getting you in this mess. I promise you'll go back to your normal life soon. Just give me some time." Wenlang didn't know how much that promise means right now because he himself wasn't sure when that would happen.

 

"I won't give up our child." Gao tu had to make that clear. Everything that is happening right now was leading to a dreadful future, Gao tu had to know for sure that he would have his child with him.

 

"You won't have to. I will take you out of here with our child" wenlang reassures. He means it. He will set them free. They were the innocents in his story, they deserve to live a free life.

 

"What about you?" Gao tu could feel the alpha loose the smile almost instantly.

 

"I have an empire to carry on my back." Wenlang chuckles.

 

The alpha doesn't say anything more. He simply excuses himself and disappears into the darkness of the hallway. Gao tu just silently watches him leaving. He didn't stop him, he doesn't know how to stop him. Even though his heart ached to call him back, his body betrays him. So many things still remained unanswered.

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"You let them go?" Shen yu's eyes are dark, he looked disappointed, in fact he was. Wenlang doesn't say a word, he just stands in front of the man towering him.

 

"They didn't know anything about the mysterious attacker. They were just decoys to waste our time." Wenlang could feel his voice get sloppy and low, as if he was scared......again. He was scared indeed. The alpha felt like he went back in time, ten years ago when he stood like still under his father's dark shadow at this exact place.

 

"So? Why did you spare them?" Shen Yu wasn't satisfied with that half ass answer. Wenlang knew his father already knew the answer, he just wanted wenlang to accept it.

 

"They are not our target. I had no reason to get rid of them." There it was, the actual reason. Kindness. Wenlang couldn't kill them because his heart softened.

 

"Shen wenlang. I have ignored everything you have done till now. But this is......... you're crossing the line, son." The same devilish voice that used to taunt him ten years ago, that still haunted him in his dreams, wenlang went completely stiff.

 

"They tried to mess with us. That's enough reason to get rid of them." Shen Yu had no remorse of his actions. For thirty years he has killed without a heart. He has regretted nothing. For him to witness his son going easy and soft was a big disappointment and a failure. He had failed to make his son the demon he always wanted. The monster that he himself was, wenlang didn't inherit that from him.

 

"They were injured bad enough, some of them lost a few limbs. They can't hold a gun again." Wenlang tries with whatever courage he had to make the situation better. He knew his father won't be convinced. Shen Yu demanded the head of that mysterious attacker, and the blood of the people who supported that daring fox. But here his own son was showing mercy, disregarding everything Yu had taught him.

 

"Shen wenlang, who gave you the permission to decide their fate?" Shen yu's voice dripped venom, so powerful and dominant. The room was silent, so silent that even the wind felt loud. Wenlang had his head cowered low in front of his father, the guards remained still like statues.

 

"Bring me the whip." Their was momentary silence as the words left his mouth but soon enough the guard hurriedly handed him the thing he wanted.

 

Wenlang's body felt like jelly, he couldn't move, not even lift his finger. He was trapped. The memories flashed in his mind like a movie, all those times that his father whipped him, to the point he stopped breathing sometimes. Was that going to happen again? After ten years? Didn't wenlang escape from it? So why was he back again in the same situation unable to lift a finger.

 

"You need a reminder, wenlang." The alpha launches the metallic whip on the table, a loud sound booms in the silent night.

 

Wenlang feels his body betray him. He couldn't move.

 

The whip lands on his leg, tearing the fabric of his trousers, blood splashing out immediately but the alpha didn't scream or struggle. It was like he was completely frozen.

 

"Stop it!" The sudden scream snaps shen yu out of his rage. Wenlang's body regains movement and he turns to the voice. And there he was, Gao tu standing at the door.

 

They watched as the omega runs inside and crashes on the alpha's chest. Gao tu snaps wenlang back to reality. He pulls away, wenlang could see tears in his eyes.

 

Without a word, Gao tu drags the alpha out of the room holding his hand. Gao tu doesn't even look back at shen yu who still stood there with the whip in his hand.

 

As the pair disappears into the darkness, shen yu comes back to reality. The alpha laughs suddenly making the guards hold onto their breathes. He drops the whip and grabs a cigar.

 

"It's like you never left, Yi." The alpha mutters unde his breath, smirking as he puffs out the smoke into the window panel, fogging it.

 

Shen Yu caught a glimpse of someone in Gao tu today, the way the omega dragged wenlang out. So confident but still scared.

 

_____

 

"Gao tu, that's enough. I am fine." Wenlang tells the omega who was still wrapping up the bandage on his leg.

 

"You're not fine!" Gao tu let's out a sob making wenlang smile suddenly.

 

"Why did you let him hit you?" Gao tu saw the smile disappear and something else fills the alpha's eyes.......fear.

 

"I don't know. My body froze. I couldn't do anything." Wenlang felt defeated, once again. He had thought that he had escaped from shen Yu but in reality he was still stuck here.

 

Gao tu doesn't say anything further. He softly taps up the bandage and closes the medicine box.

 

The image of Gao tu flashed in wenlang's mind again, the way the omega just burst inside the room and dragged him out. He was scared but still managed to save wenlang from his father's rage.

 

"Thank you."

 

Gao tu doesn't respond. Earlier Gao tu was scared as fuck but when he heard that sound, his heart panicked. The thought of wenlang getting hurt made him restless.

Gao tu doesn't stop the alpha when he walks out of the room, the comfortable silence remained in the room along with the alpha's pheromones. This was usual now, wenlang would come to his room in the morning before leaving and right after coming back to leave his pheromones for Gao tu.

 

But today Gao tu really doesn't want the alpha to leave. Today wenlang needs Gao tu. The alpha was melting away like a candle under his father's rule again. Even after the ten years worth of preparation, he still fumbled in front of his father. The nightmare wasn't over it.

 

"Gao tu?" Wenlang turns back as he felt an arm on his back, it was Gao tu with his head low, fingers now gripping the fabric of wenlang's shirt not willing to let go.

 

"Stay here tonight." The words are low but firm. This was an offer that wenlang can't refuse. So the alpha just nods and follows the omega inside.

 

Wenlang takes a pillow and a blanket and proceeds to the couch.

 

"Sleep on the bed." Gao tu waits for a response but the alpha just remained still, a bit taken aback by the sudden offer. The alpha barely nods and walks to the bed. Gao tu wordlessly takes his side on the bed and pulls up the blanket.

 

Wenlang puts out the lights and lets the comfort of the bed lull him to sleep. The night was windy, but still peaceful. The warmth of the bed and Gao tu's calm scent instantly puts wenlang to sleep, the alpha falls into a deep slumber, away from his burdens and away from the monster that always haunted his nights.

 

_____

 

"I will send a few omegas for your rut." Shen Yu doesn't even glance at his son, they hadn't seen each other since that night. His father was unfazed, the same devilish intentions remained. Not a hint of worry or regret could be seen.

 

"I don't need them. I will take inhibitors." Wenlang dismisses the offer.

 

"An s-class alpha shouldn't rely on inhibitors. Don't fight against your instincts. Or........use that omega you brought home. He is only five months pregnant, he can help you." Yu finally averts his eyes at his son who seemed outraged at the casual mention of Gao tu like that.

 

"I will take care of my own rut." Wenlang closes the topic, the alpha was honestly disgusted at the words of his father. Shen Yu had always been like this, thinking low of omegas even betas. For him omegas were just tools to satisfy his instincts. Nothing more nothing less.

 

Shen Yu doesn't pay heed at the defensive tone of his son.

 

"Any leads on that fox?"

"This" Yu slides an envelope to wenlang. The alpha questioningly opens it and finds a small letter. He reads the words out loud "12th September, 8.30 pm *********warehouse" there was a small signature that wenlang couldn't recognise. Something about that handwriting was familiar, as if he has seen it before.

 

12th September? Wenlang's birthday. Coincidence?

 

"When did you find this?"

 

"Last week." Yu doesn't miss the way wenlang's eyes widen but he ignores it anyway. "And you have been sitting here waiting for the day?" Wenlang knew his father wasn't slow, he must be planning something.

 

"What else can I do?" Yu wasn't worried at all.

 

"You're gonna show up at that place?"

 

"How can I say no to such a challenge? Isn't it thrilling?" Shen Yu smirks ignoring the obvious side eye from his son. Wenlang wasn't impressed by the lack of seriousness from his father.

 

"Don't we need to prepare? We barely have two weeks."

 

"We don't. I will handle it." His father dismisses him, not wanting to discuss any longer. That confused wenlang. Wasn't he here to take care of his particular matter? So why was his father just letting it slip from his hands?

 

______

 

"Where is wenlang?!" That was the fifth time Gao tu had asked the guards. They just stood there cowering their head slow, guns in their hands, not moving a muscle.

 

"God damn it!" Gao tu was so frustrated. It has been a whole entire day since he saw wenlang, the alpha didn't return last night. It was almost midnight now and there was still no sign of the alpha. Gao tu was getting restless. The lack of information was pushing him to the edge.

 

Suddenly the omega stops pacing back and forth in the hallway, he walks to the dining table, grabs a knife and points it to his wrist making the guard's look at him in horror.

 

"Please calm down." One tells him but Gao tu had enough of being calm. He needed to know where wenlang was. He pushes the knife harder, drawing blood that drips on the floor.

 

"Gao tu! Please stop it." Yumi pleads trying to reach the omega but Gao tu didn't listen.

 

"Tell me right now, where is he?!" That was a warning.

 

"Master wenlang is in the underground floor. He is in rut." Finally the words spilled from the guard. Gao tu drops the knife, his heart finally calms down. Yumi is right at his side, tearing her apron and wrapping it on his wrist.

 

"Take me there." He doesn't request, he orders.

 

"We can't. Master wenlang strictly told us to keep you away from him during his rut." Gao tu glares at the guard, ready to pull another stunt.

 

"I won't repeat myself. Take me to wenlang. Right now!" The omega's voice was demanding, almost matching wenlang's. Yumi watches as the guard lead the omega to the elevator. She doesn't stop him, she can't. The passion of love can't be stopped by the ordinary likes of her.

 

..

 

"Why are you here?" Wenlang's voice was barely above a whisper, low and husky. Gao tu could feel the powerful pheromones invading his veins making his knees wobble.

 

"Get out!" Wenlang looks away from the omega. He can't afford to lose control. Not now. Not after what he has accomplished in the last five months.

 

"You'd rather spend you rut with these omegas than to have me here?" There's pain in Gao tu's voice. The omega glances at the three omegas standing beside the bed barely standing due to wenlang's pheromones. They were still perfectly dressed so nothing has happened yet.

 

"I didn't call them. My father sent them here. I don't need anyone here. I can handle this on my own." Wenlang can't even stand anymore. He signals his guard to take the other omegas out of the room.

 

"Leave, Gao tu." Wenlang used his alpha voice, ordering the omega to leave the room. He could see Gao tu's inner omega obey, but something still keeps him there, fixed to his spot.

 

Then the omega walks to him, slow but steady until he stands right in front of wenlang. The alpha looks away, he could feel his body betray him again, he craves to just take the omega right then and there. Gao tu looked so alluring, so ripe and plum from the pregnancy.

 

It takes everything in wenlang to resist his urges. But Gao tu doesn't help the situation. The omega cups the alpha's face in his hands making him look directly into his eyes. Wenlang feels trapped in those black orbs. Gao tu's palms were warm. Before wenlang could melt into that warmth, Gao tu's scent invades his nostrils, so delicious and sweet.

 

"I love you, shen zong. Do you love me?" There wasn't a hint of hesitation in those eyes. There was urgency for an answer.

 

"I do..........I love you." Wenlang finally confesses, his heart thumps loud, louder than anything in the room that he was sure that Gao tu could feel it too.

 

Without a word, the omega crashes their lips together into a hungry kiss. They were desperate. The blood in their veins burnt from passion. The moment was captivated by lust and passion.

 

Wenlang's body relaxed, the stabbing heat slowly dissipated as he took in the heavenly scent of the omega. His hands now ran free, grabbing Gao tu's thin waist pulling him in making their bodies rub against each other. A new kind of heat grew in his body. Wenlang felt his instincts go wild, uncontrollable.

 

Gao tu panted, the kiss was stealing his breathe, literally. His whole body went limp in the alpha's strong arms cradling him. The want was bigger than the need. Gao tu wanted wenlang to devour him.

 

Soon the clothes were gone, Gao tu doesn't even realise when they reach the bed.

 

Wenlang tugs at the band of his underwear, messy fingers working on his chest and his teeth on the side of his neck searching for the desired spot.

 

This was real. So real. It was happening. Not like last time, hurried and forgettable. This time was serious and true. Wenlang even though driven by his rut was still gentle and caring.

 

Gao tu was soon naked under the alpha, breath heavy and fast, heart practically jumping out of his chest. He felt hot, so hot and nothing that could tame it other than wenlang.

 

The alpha was no different, driven by his rut, his alpha went wild, untamed. The alpha just wanted to claim the omega right then. He was hungry, so hungry.

 

Gao tu pulls the alpha down, not wanting to part for even a minute. The need was getting stronger. He needed the alpha to ruin him.

 

Wenlang doesn't waste any time. In a few swift moments, he is deep inside the omega's slicked embrace, groaning at the delicious sensation enveloping his girth. So warm and wet. Gao tu's eyes roll back.

 

"Take it, Gao tu!" Wenlang thursts rough and hard not letting the omega breathe. His wolf was set free. Nothing else mattered right now. He has Gao tu, that's all that mattered.

 

"Yes! Alpha!" The omega was loud and demanding throughout their eventful night.

 

When wenlang looks down at his stomach, it had a slight bump, the sight boosted his desires, his omega was carrying their child. He felt proud at the fact.

 

Gao tu was crying tears of pure satisfaction, screaming and scratching wenlang's naked back. The alpha was so good, giving it to him the way Gao tu craved.

 

"Mark me." The sudden words halts the alpha.

 

"Are you sure?" Wenlang comes back to his senses. Gao tu was asking for a lot, more than he could handle. That mark wouldn't just make him wenlang's mate, but also declare to the world his relationship with the shen empire.

 

"Yes. I don't want anything else. Just you and our baby." Gao tu makes it clear. He doesn't care about anything else right now. He needed wenlang, not just now but in his life.

 

Wenlang can't say no to such words. The alpha dives into the omega's neck, digging his canines into the skin. Gao tu screams. They both feel it, the power of that bond deep in their veins. They were one now. Nothing could separate them.

 

The alpha knots the omega unknowingly, the omega hisses suddenly. Both know what it was and they embraced it.

 

"You're mine. Forever." Wenlang mumbles into the omega's ear, a smirk on his face.

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"who are you?" He realises that his voice comes out a little rough and airy, his throat was dry and aching. Slowly he could see clearly, it was dim and unfamiliar. A small bulb hovered above his head, barely providing any light, at the corner some sort of a broken statue stood with the face towards the wall. As far as Gao tu's blurry vision could guide him, it was empty, only that statue and himself tied to a chair.

 

"Ah, you're awake. You must be thirsty, here have some water first." He recognised that voice, he definitely did. But when he looked towards the man, his eyes were blinded with the sudden brightness. He blinked a few times to get rid of the blur in his eyes.

 

"You?" That's him, the omega he met at the hospital, the one who gave him that jade pendant. But what is he doing here?

 

"Don't speak, you will hurt your throat." He comes almost running to gao tu, urging him to drink the water. Gao tu's hands were tied, so the man helped him drink.

 

"Why am I here? Where is this place?" By now Gao tu was well aware that this was in fact an abduction. His hands and feet were tied to restrict movement, but something strange also caught his attention, he wasn't tied with rigid ropes or metals, instead something soft, as if that was intentional so that he doesn't bruise.

 

"I am sorry, for now I cannot answer your questions. But you will know everything soon." There it was, that softness in his voice just like the first time they met. The man leaned down, pushed back a few strands of Gao tu's hair that were obstructing his vision. Gao tu finally saw his face, and for a moment he was taken aback by that smile that resided on the omega's face. Such a beautiful smile.

 

"What do you mean?" The omega stepped back, then he took out Gao tu's glasses and gently placed them on him.

 

"You're curious, aren't you? But now is not the time. Be patient." Again, that smile. Gao tu couldn't understand whether he was creeped out of relieved. A small part of him was indeed relieved since it was clear that the man didn't want to harm him or his child. But the whole situation itself was eerie.

 

"You have a slight cut on your wrist, Shu will treat it for you."

 

Shu? Oh so she was the mole. Gao tu was lost in his train of thoughts that he didn't even realise when the restraints on his limbs were gone.

 

"Thinking of running away?" Suddenly the words reached him and only then he realised. But his mind wasn't there. Could he run away? Most probably not. He was smart enough to know that. Someone who managed to abduct him even when he had the most tight security around him, has to be very competent. There was no way running away was possible.

 

"No" Gao tu was surprised at himself, for being so calm. Yes he was scared but somehow he wasn't panicking. Something about this place was strangely comforting and this mysterious omega ignited a sense of familiarity.

 

"Hm. That's good. I don't want to drag you back again, you know. Especially since you're pregnant." He chimed.

 

"Follow me." The omega said and began walking away. Gao tu quickly followed. The omega led him to what seemed like a hallway, very similar to wenlang's father's mansion. But the colours were contrasting, instead of gloomy grey walls, here the walls were pastel and nude. The furniture was expensive, the layout was professionally done and it smelled like home.

 

"Have your dinner first." There was a freshly laid out plate of food on the dining table, not just one, three plates were set on the table. The omega had already taken his seat and picked up his chopsticks.

 

Gao tu soon followed. For a moment he just looked at the food wondering if it was poisoned. But someone who bothered to tie him up in softness wouldn't poision him, right?

 

"Excuse me." There she was, Shu. The alpha pulled back a chair for herself and sat down silently.

 

"Gao tu? Why aren't you eating, hun? Is something not to your liking? Perhaps an allergy?" The omega noticed that Gao tu hadn't touched his plate.

 

"No!" Gao tu quickly responded, rushing to pick up the chopsticks. He was really lost now. Just what was happening? Is this even an abduction? Why was he being treated like he was a family member?

 

The dinner was surprisingly peaceful. The food was delicious and ambience was homely. Yet Gao tu felt that poke in his bones, something wasn't right here.

 

"Does wenlang know?" Shu pauses, looking up at the omega she shook her head. "So, what is happening here?"

 

"I can't tell you." Gao tu had expected that. Of course she couldn't.

 

"You know what's going to happen when he finds out right?" Gao tu watches as her face tightens, she was indeed scared.

 

"I know. But I will be gone before that." She whispers softly. Before Gao tu could question what she means, she stands up and walks away.

 

"He has taken his pills." Shu informs the omega who had been leaning against the balcony door with a cigarette. He quickly discards it and closes the door so as to keep the smoke out.

 

"Did you leave the note?"

 

"Yes, on his desk, as you ordered." Shu answered earning a nod from the omega.

 

"The time has come. Only a few hours from now." He smiled again, his eyes glancing at the big wallclock that showed the time, 9:47 PM.

 

"Everything is ready?" He asked, this time a bit serious. Shu nodded.

 

"12 September." Gao tu almost immediately turned his head towards them. Wenlang's birthday?

 

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"I don't give a damn about your pride! I am going to bring him back at any cost." Wenlang's voice shakes the whole place. His pheromones ran wild, untamed. Shen Yu momentarily glanced at his son who seemed like he was going to wreck the entire world before he focused back on the note.

 

'********** 009
I will be waiting, darling.'

 

"You will make a fool of yourself." He said, not bothering to address the loud growl his son aimed at him.

 

"Let's get going." He said and entered the car. Wenlang cursed out loud and followed his father's car. Without his father's order, none of their men would move even a muscle. So in the end it was just him and his father and a few guards that left.

 

Wenlang couldn't understand his father. The man was too relaxed about the whole thing but wenlang can't be, not when Gao tu has been kidnapped. Earlier today, Gao tu had left for his usual monthly check up with the doctor accompanied by shu, but that was eight hours ago, he was supposed to return in two hours but it was almost midnight and there was no news of the omega.

 

This was definitely that mysterious person who had planted that note on shen yu's desk with a certain address. Everything about this thing was strange and full of mystery. But one thing wenlang has noticed by now is that the leads left by 'the fox' were very calculative. So this was definitely the doing of a veteran, not a newbie nor their previous enemies who always rather prefered a direct approach.

 

Wenlang had kept himself away from his father's business for 18 years,but that didn't mean that he didn't mean that news didn't reach him. Everything that happened within the organisation always reached him. So as fas as he knows, this was a totally new person.

 

"What are you doing?" Wenlang almost snaps at his father again, but when he looks back at the man who stood rigid on his feet, eyes so dangerously fixed on wenlang. The alpha stopped naturally.

 

"I need to find him. Don't get in my way." Wenlang warned, gathering enough guts to defy his father, this time there was no hesitation. Gao tu was in danger, there was no room for hesitation.

 

"You think marching into the enemy's territory like a fool would magically make your omega appear?" Wenlang hated how correct his father was, he doesn't miss the way shen yu shrugs disappointed.

 

"You are the one to talk, huh? It was you who refused to bring men. You didn't even bother to pick up a gun at the very least. I have had enough of your tactics."

 

Shen Yu doesn't respond.

 

Suddenly there was a scent creeping out, a very familiar one that made shen yu halt, senses heightened.

 

The place they were at was an abandoned factory site, it was dirty, unused and filled with broken slabs of concrete, huge metal rods and bricks. There was barely any light.

 

"12:00, right on time." Wenlang froze. His head turned immediately, eyes widened.

 

"Mom?"

 

The omega's eyes landed on the clueless alpha, a smile appeared briefly.

 

"Still underestimating your enemies?" The omega's eyes shifted to shen yu who stood silently, an unreadable expression on his face. Wenlang looked between the two, his brain barely grasped the fact that his mother was right in front of his eyes, alive.

 

"Enemy?" Shen Yu let's out, voice almost mocking. "You call yourself my enemy now?"

 

"Still so confident, aren't you?" The omega walks up to the alpha. "Mr shen, you shouldn't look down upon your enemies." The omega's fingers come up to caress yu's cheek, his warm touch lingering, scent tantalising. But soon he steps back with a smirk.

 

"What's the meaning of this? How are you.....alive?" Wenlang felt like his world slipped entirely. Just what the hell was happening? Why was his mother here? And why was he alive? Wasn't he dead? He saw it himself, his mother's bloodied body in that jail. So how was he here?

 

"You didn't tell him, yu?" Shen Yu remained stoic, eyes focused on the omega. Wenlang's eyes darted to his father. So his father knew?

 

"What do you want?" Shen yu's voice was low but firm. His eyes darkened, scent grew stronger and almost instinctively the omega wanted to give in. The mark on his scent gland burned telling him to submit, but his pride stopped him, keeping him straight on his feet.

 

"What do I want?" He slurred walking away slowly.

 

"I want your life, Yu."

 

The omega stood still, pointing the gun at the alpha who didn't even faze at the slightest.

 

Wenlang didn't know what to do. What was he supposed to do? The alpha was in a dilemma.

 

"You erased me, didn't you? You thought I would sit still, grow old and die? Did you forget who I am?" The omega's eyes were dark, not the littlest of emotion, just rage, years worth of rage.

 

"Did I ever know who you are, Yi?" Shen Yu took a step ahead, slowly he walked towards the omega until the tip of the gun touched his chest.

 

"Pull the trigger." He held the gun, pushing it further into his chest urging the omega to shoot.

 

Yi smirked wider, fingers on the trigger, just an inch away from actually shooting.

 

"Mom!" That was wenlang. Yi's eyes turned to him on instinct. That plea sounded the same, like 18 years ago, when wenlang had witnessed yi shoot yu's mistress. His heart ached a little watching as his son once again witnessed such a scene with those eyes that held so much pain and suffering.

 

"Always soft for him, huh?" Shen Yu chuckled bitterly, but he didn't let go of the gun.

 

"Shouldn't you be happy that your son cares about you?" Yi turned back to him, the same smirk on his lips. Shen Yu briefly glanced at his son, who really looked terrified.

 

"I suppose I should. But that's the thing about blood, Yi. It always comes back, no matter what. Just like you should up today craving my blood." Shen Yu let go of the gun and stepped back a few steps.

 

"You shouldn't take your eyes off your enemy, darling."

 

*Shoot*