WORTHY TO BE MINE

Arc 5 - Yes?

My head is still ringing as I woke up. I sat up rubbing my eyes to focus when suddenly a movement on my right caught me off-guard.

"You're awake?" the blond guy said with papers on his hand. "You okay?"

"Yeah. What happened" I said confused.

"You fainted in the parking lot. I apologize for what happened. It's entirely my fault for using my voice like that without knowing that an omega is among us."

"How did..."

"Here." he pointed at the papers " And eventually, here." he pointed at his nose. "Drink up. There's nothing in there aside from orange juice." He then smiled. That's cute. Wait... what?

I grabbed the glass and cheered up a bit from the sweet drink.

"So...what is it you want to talk about? And may I as, where am I?" I asked.

"You're in my home here in the city and I have only a couple of question and a request for you. Would that be okay?" He said calmly placing the documents and clasping his hands as if he was - afraid?

"Okay... shoot." I said curtly.

"First, four years ago, did you come here at the city by any chance?"

"Hmmm... yeah it was before my accident happened. Mom was insisting to have Dad drive here to a store somewhere along the park. Dad wasn't happy of it though but still went. They tagged me along. Why? I don't remember."

"Okay." He said as if contemplating. "Second, did you happen to meet someone there at the park? By the fountain?"

"Yeah, actually my parents said they will be long inside the store so I requested them to drop me off at the park. The fountain? Is there a fountain there?..." I paused for what felt like a minute remembering that cold water from my fingertips, then a warm hand and a blond long hair that doesn't seem from a woman judging from the frame of his shoulders by the light. "Yeah, I met someone wtih a long blond hair. He has a very nice warm hand actually. Maybe that's because I played a little with the water from that fountain." I smiled from the memory.

I looked up from the glass and caught him burying his face on his hand. "Hey, Sir. What's wrong?" I reached out to him but stopped midway as I saw my hand nearing his shoulder.

Still his face on his hands, he said longingly, "Last one, this maybe a little offensive and a bit dangerous but I reassure you that I am restrained by medicine. Can you release your pheromone and touch my hand?"

"Um... but..." I hesitated. Who is the right mind, and an alpha at that, to have an omega release his scent and be touched?

"I promise." He said sincerely and eyes that yearns to be touched and loved. I don't know what kind of power the universe had in me but I want to have his hand around mine and comfort him.

I reached both my hand out to his hand and ended up kneeling before him. His hand on my face. As much as I want to control my scent to not let it out too much, my instinct overpowered my will and blurted it all out as if knowing that this alpha will not ever harm me. His scent seeped and entangled through my own. It was a woody-after the rainfall musk with a tint of lavender and that's entirely uniquely his. It was dizzying. It was so fluffy that I could tangle my hand on it. It was as if... as if...

"Elphias, will you be my mate?"

"What? But... but..."

"I know that we only just met but really, four years ago, we already met each other and I was looking for you all this time. I only left you that time by the fountain for a moment to buy refreshments but when I returned, you were gone. I didn't even know your full name then. I only remembered your scent and your eyes that sparkled with joy. I didn't know what happened to you after that. I desperately looked everywhere for you. I used every connection I have but it's no use." He said with eyes sparkling with tears and longing in his voice. " I may not be worthy of you right now but please... you're my everything."

As I listened to him, it's as if my heart was squeezed tight. I felt his sincerity, his longing, his pain and love for me but then reason's holding me back. I only knew this man today and I knew nothing of him. It's so sudden. I now realized that it was him that I met four years ago and then after that... aaaah my head... it's as if some giant was pounding on it... aaargh!

"Aaargh! My head! It hurts! It hurts!" Darkness claimed my consciousness.

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