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Harry was told what was expected from him. He was betrothed to the heir of the Tomlinson pack even before he was born. Surrounded and raised by biddable omegas, whose only purpose in life was to serve their alphas, he became on...
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"Hey, I wanted to talk to you about something." Harry was stuffing a few snacks inside his tiny backpack when Louis walked in. "Yeah, sure." Harry zipped the backpack close after putting three packets of gummy bears inside since Louis really loved munching on them whenever he was doing something unproductive (like not killing people).
"So, the lads think we have sorted our differences out, and like we are a proper couple now. So— uhm, y-you think you'd be up for pretending for a while whenever we are in front of them?" Louis was avoiding his gaze, eyes flitting behind him. Harry nodded with a shrug of his shoulders. "Yeah, it is fine with me."
"Sure?" Louis added, an eyebrow quirked.
"Yeah, we can act like a couple who's in the middle of a nasty fight." Harry answered softly because he was definitely not going to hold hands with a person who had the blood of another man on his hands (not a man, it probably was not the first time, he presumed). Louis looked confused, lost for words as he blinked vigorously. "Are you mad about the whole security thing? Because I can assure you that—"
"I am not mad, Louis." Harry interrupted softly, shuffling backward so he was a good distance away from the blue-eyed alpha. "Then what's the problem?" Louis pressed, eyes squinted in confusion. "The problem is that you k—" Harry clamped a hand on his mouth, eyes wide as he looked towards Louis to gauge his reaction but it seemed as if Louis had not caught on his slip-up.
"Is that I what?" Louis questioned, eyebrows pinched in a frown, and honestly, Harry felt like jumping off a cliff, because it was not fair. How could he look so beautiful, be so adorable, and at the same time perform inhumane deeds like this?
"I-Is that you— that you don't eat your veggies!" Yeah, Harry would like the ground to open up and swallow him whole. It did not even make sense, for crying out loud. Why would someone be mad at someone for not finishing their greens? "You are mad at me for not eating vegetables?" Louis had his face scrunched up, looking unconvinced.
Harry did not have time to respond as seconds later the sound of a horn honking filtered through the open windows of the kitchen. The green-eyed boy breathed out a general sigh of relief as Louis turned around to retrieve their baggage from the bottom step of the stairs. Talking to Louis was nerve-racking before but in a completely different sense, he was nervous to talk to him because he was an awkward fool who was head over heels for the alpha, but now? Right now, he was nervous to talk to a killer, even though the head over heels thing was still present, he did not think about what Louis would think of him or his appearance anymore, the only thing that mattered currently was to get away from him lest triggering Louis and feasibly getting killed on the outskirts of the land.
"Did you lock every door?" Louis asked once they were walking down the pebbled trail which led them towards the ivory gates of the property. The cottage that Louis owned was surrounded by a labyrinth of humid trees, and that was why Louis had constructed a white-picket fence around the circumference of the house, so the chances of any feral animals wandering inside would be less. The cottage had a vast front lawn, drapes of grass covering the dirty grounds. Harry was impressed by how clean Louis had kept the lawn and even the small back patio that Harry never had the chance to properly use.
