Chapter 51: Chapter 51
"How was your nap?" Alois asked pleasantly, still crouched.
Cecil felt the bottom of his stomach fall out, something was very, very wrong.
"Interrupted by you." He tried to be irritable but his voice wasn’t playing along.
Alois pushed his hair away from his forehead, some wet strands sticking to his glistening skin. "Just when I was about to join you too."
"You didn’t take a shower?" Cecil tried to ask innocently and failed. freewebnovel.cσ๓
"I did."
Cecil spluttered. "W-What?"
"Why are you so shocked? Expecting my hair to fall out?"
Cecil spluttered harder, unable to say a word to defend himself and unable to move when Alois got on the bed. "W-What are you talking about?" He blustered.
"See what happens the first time I let you go unsupervised?" Alois tsked, not sounding the least bit upset.
Because he wasn’t. He had been expecting Cecil to catch onto his ruse earlier so he wasn’t surprised when the Alpha simply refused to cooperate again. What he didn’t expect though was for Cecil to set up a trap for himself and walk right into it.
He could tell right from the moment that he walked into their shared dorm room that Cecil had been awake, he could also tell from when he got into the bathroom that his toiletries had been tampered with.
Fortunately, he had spares and was also skilled at stealth so it was easy to clean up and dress up in total silence.
It was entertaining to watch the furrows on Cecil’s brows and the nuances of his facial expressions as he tried to predict what Alois was doing by simply listening.
"You need to learn to cover your tracks better." He offered helpfully, pushing Cecil down to the bed, following him.
Alois hoped that Cecil would take the bait and keep trying, it was essential for him to keep falling deeper into his rabbit hole.
True panic danced in Cecil’s eyes as Alois trapped him down on the bed. "I still don’t know what you’re talking about." He bluffed terribly, crossing his arms.
Alois’ dark green eyes lit up at this. "Want to try my shampoo then?"
Cecil cringed, despite himself. "How did you find out?" He asked seriously.
He had already resigned himself to whatever punishment Alois would decide on and was already looking to the next time he would be able to get back at Alois.
He needed to learn to cover his tracks well like Alois said; if Alois couldn’t prove it, then Cecil didn’t do it.
Alois decided to be a sport and throw him some rope. "It was simple, you’re a terrible actor..."
Cecil had been listening intently only to be startled when Alois’ fingers started creeping under his dress shirt. "What do you think you’re doing?"
Alois lifted his hands in surrender, "Merely deciding on what your punishment should be."
Cecil hmphed. "Whatever is fine as long as it doesn’t involve the paddle." He said, still troubled by the threat of the paddle.
An evil light glowed in Alois’ eyes. "Don’t turn it down without giving it a try."
Horror coalesced on Cecil’s face. "You have a paddle?!"
"You sound awfully interested in it."
"I’m not, I’m not." He quickly refuted like he expected Alois to pull it out of thin air.
This pulled genuine laughter from Alois, Cecil’s expression souring at his happiness.
"Well, what is it going to be? I don’t enjoy the suspense." He said darkly.
Alois hung his head lower so that their faces were only inches apart. His hands supported him off the bed, his knees on either side of Alois, trapping him.
"A kiss." Alois said nonchalantly.
Cecil had only been keeping an ear out for spanking with a paddle so he had a delayed reaction to Alois’ words.
His eyes narrowed. "That’s not a punishment." He countered.
"Well, do you want it?" Alois asked, a corner of his lip lifting in an invisible smirk.
Disdain dripped from Cecil’s words. "Of course not."
"Then it certainly counts as a punishment." Alois argued easily.
Cecil opened his mouth and closed it a few times, unable to find the words to counter Alois’ stupid argument.
"Would you rather the paddle then?"
Cecil didn’t give a response, because he knew that if he disagreed, it would be him ultimately agreeing to Alois’ ridiculous proposition.
Why was he so hung up on kissing Cecil? They were both Alphas.
His turbulent thoughts were crystal clear in his dark liquid brown eyes, he bit the inside of his cheek as he thought it over.
Cecil looked up at Alois and without thinking his gaze dropped to his lips. He also found himself wondering what it would be like to kiss the other Alpha.
"So you’ve decided then." Alois cupped his face and leaned in.
Cecil gasped in shock, not expecting Alois to make a move right away. "Wai... hmpf!"
-*-
"Do you think Cecil will mind if we come to pick him up for dinner?" Perry mumbled as they walked up the hallways that led to Cecil’s dorm room.
"Doesn’t matter because it’s too bloody late to change our mind now." Leeson answered, unbothered.
Perry was the one to knock, anxiousness clearly written on his face.
Inside the dorm room, Cecil’s eyes widened, panic bleeding into his dark eyes as he tried to push Alois off him. He hadn’t been an active participant but he was resigned to his fate when Alois joined their lips together.
What he didn’t expect was for Alois to take his hands and pin his wrists above his head, stealing the moment when Cecil opened his mouth to complain to deepen the kiss, leaning his head to the side for better access.
Perry frowned when he didn’t get a response. "Perhaps, he’s not in?"
"Or he’s taking a nap." Leeson said.
Perry mused over this. "We shouldn’t bother him then?" ƒree𝑤ebnσvel.com
"Or he could be sick." Leeson instigated.
Perry remembered that Cecil seemed to be coming down with something the day before and his fears took root, immediately knocking again, more frantically this time.
Cecil finally broke free of the kiss, desperately panting as he tried to catch his breath, tears gathering at the corners of his eyes.
Alois glanced at the racket happening behind the door, daggers shooting from his eyes as he got up to check on who was trying to mow down the door.