Free Web NovelChapter 153: We do...nothing.
Seoha’s POV
I can’t move...not with the devastating sight in front of me right now.
My eyes remain wide as I watch my alpha kneel and cry at his daughter’s bedside.
I don’t know what to do, I don’t know what happened to him, but the way his broad shoulders are shaking with the force of his silent cry scares me. ƒгeeweɓn૦vel.com
He doesn’t get up, and the longer he stays here, the more worried I become.
What happened to him? Is this what I dreamt about?
The tiger that threatened to swallow the world up but ended up needing comfort, is that what is happening right now?
I move forward before I can talk myself out of it, I place my hand on his shoulder, and the alpha looks up at me.
His alpha eyes are now gone, instead of red, they are the dark brown I am familiar with.
They are brown and so sad that I can’t help but whine at him in sadness.
"Are you alright?" I ask quietly, not wanting to wake or alarm Minjae.
He shakes his head in response, and I pull him up as best as I can, body shaking from the weight of his muscular body.
Taesan lets me drag him out into the living area.
The alpha follows me easily, and when I make him sit on the couch, he complies, staring blankly into space.
"Hold on" I whisper carefully and rush to the bathroom to get a wet towel for him.
When I return, his sword is on the floor, his shoulders are slumped and his head down.
He looks like a terrifying captain in these clothes, but he is just Kang Taesan right now, simple and hurt.
I kneel in front of him and he slowly looks up, eyes taking my face in as I wipe the blood off his face.
The way the blood looks, it seems like he had bitten someone hard enough to make them bleed.
My hands shake as multiple scenarios come to mind.
’Alpha is safe’ my omega says and I release a breath I didn’t even know I was holding, then I push myself up on my knee, tilting his head to see if he has any injuries.
Luckily the alpha doesn’t seem to be hurt, so I let out a sigh of relief, and I drop the blood stained towel next to the sword on the floor.
"You’re okay?" I ask, and without waiting for his agreement, I hug him, needing to know what’s going on in his head.
"Open the link for me, please alpha" I say when he goes stiff in my arms.
The alpha shakes his head, disagreeing with me and I whimper quietly, worried about him even more than I already am.
"Please" I plead.
"I’m not ready to let you feel it yet, I don’t want to hurt you" he says and I pull away from the hug to look in his face.
His face is red but blank, and his eyes show signs of the amount of tears he has cried.
"Yes...don’t hurt me" I say quietly.
"Don’t hurt me, but please let me hurt with you" I add and as the alpha makes a whimpering noise, I press my forehead to his.
"You promised to let me into your world, I want it all...everything" I whisper and he reaches up to hold the back of my neck.
His grip is strong, but it doesn’t hurt, it feels like he’s trying to check if I’m real or not.
He doesn’t respond to anything I say, I just feel the bond opening, and I feel a rush of emotions that makes my heart ache.
My chest clenches from the mix of emotions, and I crease my brow as if it would ease the pain up.
It feels like raw betrayal, like anger, hot and burning, but none of it matches the suffocating pain I feel.
"Taesan" I whisper his name, throat closing up as I feel tears form in my eyes.
What could have happened to make him feel this way?
"Taesan" I say his name again and he shakes his head, shoulders shaking again as he fights back tears.
"What happened? Who hurt you?" I ask, feeling tears stream down my cheek without my own permission.
It hurts too much.
"He said...Sooin isn’t mine" he says and I freeze as the dam breaks.
I start to cry in the way I know he’s supposed to cry, the way he needs to cry.
What? Sooin is not his? That’s impossible...that’s a lie...
"Don’t cry" he says, wiping the tears away with the pad of his thumbs, but I can’t help it.
Mates only feel a bit of their mate’s emotions, and if what I’m feeling is just a bit, then Taesan is wordlessly dying.
"Don’t cry" he says again, leaning forward to press a kiss to my lips, and open for him.
The alpha lifts me from the floor into his lap, and I sit there, straddling him as the pain chokes me.
"Baby..." he whispers and kisses me again, soft and slow like he’s telling me how he feels through the kiss.
I hold on to him like my life depends on it, and maybe it does, maybe his happiness is mine too.
Taesan breaks the kiss and rests his nose against my scent gland. fгee𝑤ebɳoveɭ.cøm
"I can’t believe our first kiss in a while is...this" he says in that deep voice and presses a kiss to my neck.
His words are telling a joke, but his voice is mourning, and his arms are tense around my body.
"Taesan, what do we do?" I ask him and he sighs against my neck, sending heated air across my skin.
"What do we do?" he repeats my question and I nod.
"Nothing" he says.
"Nothing?"
"Nothing" he repeats himself and I lift his head to look into his eyes.
"Sooin...Sooin remains my world, and anyone that tries to take that from me will face my sword" he says and drops his head to my shoulder.
Oh captain...
