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"How can you possibly get hurt even after being a s-class alpha?" Hua yong presses the cotton swab hard on the alpha's forehead, eliciting a hiss from him and a deadly side eye. Obviously hua yong didn't care about him at all.
"I am a s-class alpha, not a god that can predict the fall of a slab from the sky." Wenlang snaps at the enigma.
Earlier today, wenlang was out to supervise a construction project of x holdings and HS when suddenly a cement slab fell from the top right on the alpha. Fortunately wenlang saw it before it hit him, but even so the broken shards grazed his skin making a few cuts.
"Be thankful that I saved your clueless little alpha." Wenlang smirks remembering how shaoyou was clueless today at the construction site. Shaoyou had gone there to meet the president of x holdings, he had planned to track him down without notice. But he was disappointed to see wenlang there in place of the president.
"He could've saved himself. Don't take credit for such a small thing." Hua yong's sarcastic tone agitated the alpha more. He pushed the hand away from his forehead.
"Mr shen......" Gao tu stands at the door, huffing a little which meant he had practically ran there.
"Are you okay?" Gao tu doesn't even glance at the enigma leaning over wenlang in a somewhat scandalous manner. Gao tu was concerned for wenlang.
"I am fine. Just a few cuts. Nothing serious." Wenlang pulls down his collar a little showing a few more cuts there. Hua yong takes the swab and drags it down the alpha's bare chest making wenlang groan abruptly.
Gao tu's stomach dropped at the scene......from anger. Just seeing the omega tending to wenlang's wounds made him burn in rage.
It has been a month now, hua yong's intrusion in their lives, Gao tu's life. The orchid scented delicate omega had made his place in wenlang's life sooner than Gao tu expected. A bit too soon. The omega was capable, Gao tu had come to that bitter conclusion. From Sheng shaoyou to shen wenlang, hua yong had everyone wrapped around his fingers.
Although Gao tu had concealed his omega identity for years now, his instincts couldn't lie. He was threatened by this omega's capacities. Hua yong was cunning, strategic and beautiful. Beautiful. Gao tu couldn't stand that.
A perfect omega everyone yearned for, a perfect scent, delicate features, soft voice and above all a sweet nature that Gao tu couldn't tell if it was fake or real.
Hua yong was stealing Gao tu's position. The position that he had managed to grasp over the last ten years and hua yong was stealing it too easily.
"Let me do that." There was a momentary pause, hua yong's movement halted and he was pushed away by the omega. Gao tu had snatched the cotton swab from his hand too.
Gao tu couldn't stop himself, not when his position was threatened. He didn't care if it came out as aggressive. Not right now. His instincts overpowered any other emotion.
The enigma doesn't put up a fight, instead he nods and walks away. Gao tu tends to the cuts now, a feeling of triumph engulfing him.
Wenlang doesn't protest either, he lets his secretary clean the cuts and apply ointment.
"Please have this, Mr shen. I cooked it myself. It's still warm." The orchid scented omega pours a bowl of soup from his flask that he had brought from home. He places the bowl on wenlang's desk.
Wenlang couldn't care less, he reaches for the bowl but before that-
"Can you please tell me what ingredients you used, Mr hua?" The tone of the omega was stern.
"Ah.......Lotus roots, beef, coriander, oyster sauce and basil." Hua yong lists the ingredients.
"Mr shen is allergic to basil. He can't have this." Gao tu pushed the bowl away from wenlang.
"Oh..I am sorry. I didn't know." Hua yong's innocent act almost makes the alpha laugh but he stops himself.
"It's okay. I will order something for him from the cafeteria. You should get back to your work, Mr hua." The authorative tone of the omega slightly makes the engima a bit confused because Gao tu has never acted that way before.
But nonetheless hua yong nods and walks out of the office with the bowl of untouched soup that had grown cold now.
Gao tu wordlessly closes the first aid box, throws away the used stuff and places it back on the counter.
"I will bring your lunch in a few minutes."
"Why are you bringing my lunch? You're my secretary, Gao tu not my personal assistant. I have appointed hua yong for things like that." Wenlang was honestly a little confused. Gao tu has been his secretary for years, he has never acted like this.
"Mr hua is new here, he doesn't know everything properly yet. Let me take care of the lunch today." The decision was firm. Gao tu bows and then leaves.
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"Mr Gao? I am supposed to accompany Mr shen today." Hua yong hadn't expected to be picked up by Gao tu in the car. Today was supposed to be just him and wenlang at the banquet. So why was Gao tu here?
"Get inside, Mr hua. We are getting late." Gao tu doesn't respond to the question.
"I am not going to be at the party. Mr shen forgot a pendrive at the office today, I am just here to give him the pendrive."
"Oh....I must've dropped that earlier today. I am sorry for the trouble. I will surely hand it over to Mr shen." Hua yong's smile was preposterous.
"Since I am already here, I would like to hand it over to him myself." That was a declaration from the omega to the other. It meant hua yong should know his place. He was just a personal assistant, new at work.
There was a itching silence in the car. The way to the venue was short but the ride felt long.
"Why are you here?" Wenlang asked as he spotted the two of them exiting the car together.
"You forgot this at the office." Gao tu handed him the pendrive. Today wenlang was supposed to inaugurate the event as today marked the day of HS and x holdings joining together for an upcoming project.
Today was actually just an act for Sheng shaoyou, hua yong had planned to make the alpha jealous by sticking to wenlang's side all night. But the plan seems to be changing now with Gao tu here.
"My job is done here. I will take my leave." Gao tu said and turned on his heels to walk to the car. But his heart was screaming at him to not leave, not when that orchid scented bitch was hogging on wenlang as if he were in heat.
Gao tu could never talk bad about someone, not even in his mind. But today he can't bear to see them together, arm in arm like a perfect couple.
"Gao tu, since you're here already, let's go inside." Wenlang had called him back, momentarily letting go off hua yong.
"But....... wouldn't that bother you two?" Gao tu deliberately glanced at hua yong, watching as the omega grew a bit annoyed.
"Why would it bother anyone? Let's go inside." Wenlang doesn't even look back at hua yong. The alpha walks inside with Gao tu by his side, clueless of the enigma's annoyed face.
As hua yong had started to walk in, Gao tu turns back, locking eyes with him.
"Hurry up, hua yong." Gao tu takes wenlang's coat from the enigma, whispering the words slowly to hua yong. Gao tu had dropped the formalities, quite unlikely of him.
When he turns back, there is an obvious smirk on his face.
Hua yong curses under his breathe, tonight might not go as he planned after all. All because hua yong threatened an omega.