Claim your fate

chapter 7

Felix was giving Hyunjin the silent treatment. Okay, so maybe not. But he was avoiding the alpha, and it was bugging Hyunjin. All of the progress he thought that they had made was wasted. Which sucked, because he really, truly liked Felix. He'd known the omega for a week and he was already so attached, so not talking to the boy on a daily basis was hard.

But, he figured that Felix needed his own time to think about things. Or at least, that's what he told himself. He kept telling himself that Felix was actually torn up about the whole thing and that's why he was avoiding Hyunjin, but until they learned how to properly communicate with each other, he had to believe Felix when the boy said that he was fine with Hyunjin mating Karina.

Felix might be okay with it, but he wasn't.

Hyunjin had two days to mate with Karina, and he wasn't sure that he would be able to. So far, he had just gotten over not gagging when being in the same room as her. Her perfume was overwhelming and it mingled with the scent of too much hairspray. Hyunjin hated it when omegas wore artificial scents. It messed with his nose and confused his alpha. He also hated her laugh. It was loud and sounded fake. It wasn't like Felix's laugh, which was music to his ears.

His mother and Suho knew that he was struggling to mate her, but they encouraged him to give her a chance. At their suggestion, he invited her over to his cabin and suggested that she make dinner. At the opportunity to impress him, she jumped right in and began to cook, chopping and simmering and cooking. Hyunjin was concerned that Felix would throw a fit at the disarray that was his kitchen.

The food she made was bland and tasteless, yet she yammered on as if she was a world-class culinary master. She wasn't, and Hyunjin was so close to telling her that, but she couldn't stop talking about how good of an omega she was and how great her food was, and that she would make Hyunjin so happy.

It was annoying and he had to put a stop to it. He waited until she started complimenting his outfit before snapping, "Sucking up to an alpha is a little desperate, don't you think?"

She wore a stunned expression. She opened her mouth to speak. Hyunjin tried not to focus on how her ridiculous red lipstick was smeared on one side and was gooey in the corners of her lips. "I'm sorry?" she asked.

"I said, sucking up to an alpha is desperate." He said louder.

She batted her eyelashes. She had a mascara clump in the corner and Hyunjin looked away. "I'm not sucking up to an alpha. I'm sucking up to my alpha."

Hyunjin almost gagged. "I'm not your alpha." The fact that she had even addressed him as such made his stomach turn with nausea. She opened her mouth to say something, but someone walked through the front door. Hyunjin could tell by the fresh and warm scent that was now overpowering Karina's stench that it was Felix. The scent covered him like a blanket and made his alpha want to curl up and sleep. The scent also made him want to pop his knot right away.

He saw from the dining room that Felix was flipping through a magazine he was carrying, and he had a little brown bag in his hands. He was bundled up in one of Hyunjin's sweaters (Hyunjin almost died right there) and a scarf. His cheeks and the tip of his nose were pink.

"Excuse me," Karina honked from the table. Felix glanced up at her before returning to the magazine. He toed off his shoes and sat down on the armchair. Hyunjin bit his lip to stop from laughing at Felix's disrespect for the other omega. Karina cleared her throat. "Excuse me." She said louder.

Felix sighed and set the magazine down in his lap. He turned his head towards Karina. "What?"

"You're interrupting something." She rolled her head towards Hyunjin and smirked. Felix looked at the table with raised eyebrows.