Hate to Love It

Chapter 2: Ten Minutes Late

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This is for dokterkim, who unwittingly saved this story from being forgotten in Wattpad. I write for people like you.

Chapter Two

Chairman Meow was not in the mood.

It's been almost an hour that Magnus had been trying to pacify the feline who went from zero to 100 when the clock hit 6:30.

"Chairman, please, by the Angel, not the Ming vase," Magnus pleaded when the cat licked his paw as if for effect before putting it behind the vase that costs millions.

Magnus held his breath.

He was about to calculate the time and distance he had, trying to see if he could catch the vase before it kissed the floor when a familiar ping from his phone rang throughout the suddenly quiet loft.

The feline cocked his head and jumped off from his perch, leaving the vase unharmed.

The Omega released the breath he was holding in relief.

He fished his phone from his pocket and read the message from Seb, the Alpha he met through Bonded.

Well, it was not only Seb but there were dozens of Omegas, Betas and Alphas who showed interest to his profile despite his cat photo.

Magnus grinned.

"Are we still on for tonight?" Seb's message read.

"Yes." A quick peek at the clock showed that it was an hour and thirty minutes til their agreed meeting time."Don't worry. Ill be there at eight."

Seb was the very first person he swiped right with in the app. He was a great conversationalist, had ripped washboard abs, dirty blond hair and an easygoing smile that had Magnus sending a quick chat.

In Bonded, Omegas, Betas and Alphas are given 24 hours to respond to whoever chatted first before a connection is established.

If the other party failed to reply, the connection will dissolve.

They had been going back and forth from any topics really until the topic of family came and cemented Magnus' decision to meet the Alpha in person.

"Do you like kids, Magnus?" Seb chatted out of the blue, after a lull in their chat.

His fingers paused from typing another message to an interested female Beta and he felt his heart skipped.

Finally.

"Yes. I don't really have a golden childhood but I worked hard with only one goal in mind, for my son or daughter to not experience the hardships that came from my being an Omega," he replied, full of emotions.

"I, myself, don't understand why there's no equal opportunities between Omegas and Betas compared to us Alphas. I mean, aren't we all human?" Seb said.

For a whole week, Magnus and the Alpha were engaged in the topics about family which the Omega enjoyed much to the chagrin of Raphael, his other bestfriend and self-proclaimed bodyguard.

"Let me do a background check on him first before you go frolicking down the sunset with this Alpha," Raphael suggested when he shared that he was going to meet Seb personally.

"Raph, I can take care of myself," Magnus rolled his eyes.

"I know. You trained under the great master Mitsui Maheda and one hell of a black belter. But we don't really know this guy. You just met him in an app, which in my opinion, is suspicious and dangerous," the Beta said while pointedly looking at him while he was signing paperworks in his study.