Chapter 224: I’d kneel for you
Taesan’s POV
What’s happening?
My inner victory dance dies as the omega bursts into tears. His tears stream out as if he had been hiding a fountain behind those brown eyes.
"Seoha-" I call his name softly, taking the towel off my head and sitting up. But instead of falling into my arms, he pushes my hand off.
’Grab him’ my alpha growls, afraid the omega would leave us again. I don’t. I don’t grab him.
"You tricked me! you’re so mean!" Seoha cries and I stare at him with disbelief. This was not on my list of expected reactions.
He’s supposed to find this annoying in a cute way or get mad at me. I expected everything but not...this.
My mate is sobbing like I killed a puppy and dumped the warm body on his dinner plate.
"Do you know how scared I was?" he yells at me.
Wow...he’s really, really mad. I try to speak but he pushes his small hand in my face and shoves me back into the bed.
Fuck.
This is not going how I like, I don’t like the way he’s yelling at me or the way he’s acting like he doesn’t want me anymore.
"I was so scared" he cried and I grab his arm to take over. I pull him into the bed, placing him on his back and leaving him under my body.
I clench my teeth to control my anger. I want to growl at him and tell him he’s mine but his teary face distracts me.
He’s not just mad. He’s sad. I made my mate sad.
"I’m sorry" I whisper.
"It’s not fair" he sobs, turning his face away from me as his cries rock his body. I don’t know what to do. I’m going to kill Jisu for encouraging this horrible plan.
My pregnant mate is crying nonstop, he’s not looking at me, he’s not saying anything loving to me.
"Baby" I hear myself whine, and I dip my head to nose at his scent gland. He doesn’t smell pleasant at all. How upset he is with me is very obvious.
Too obvious.
"I’m sorry, I just wanted you to come back home to me" I tell him but he keeps wailing like a banshee.
This is not attractive, and I have myself, and Jisu, to blame for this. I’m at a loss for comforting words. What does this generation like to hear? What can I do to cheer him up?
"Baby...can you please look at me?" I ask and he stubbornly shakes his head, refusing to look at me.
"You’re so mean" he says again, and I kiss his collar bone, moving lower to kiss the top of his chest.
"I know, I’m sorry" I murmur, leaving even softer kisses on him even though I want to bite him really hard.
I really want to punish him for walking out on me.
"I thought something bad happened, and that I’d never see you again"
"So you still wanted to see me?" I ask, lifting my head to look at his soft face while cupping his cheeks, and he wipes his tears off with the back of his hand.
My sweet boy looks so innocent, so soft, and so upset.
"I would never do that again, I promise. I just wanted you to come back home to me" I explain myself and he shakes his head.
"You could have come for me. I wanted you to come for me, I wanted you to-" he stops talking.
"Chase after you? little deer, you wanted me to chase you and beg you on my knees?" I ask in a low voice, and he doesn’t give me a response. He just continues to sniffle.
"Hmm? was that what you wanted from me?" I ask him, moving my hands from his face to his waist.
"I didn’t say that" he mumbles, still trying to hide his beautiful face away from me.
"You didn’t say it, but you want it. You want to see the alpha captain on his knees, groveling for you" I say and his cheeks slowly turn red.
"L-leave me alone, I’m going back to Junho hyung" he says with a weak attempt at pushing me off, and I hold him down.
Junho hyung? He calls Junho hyung, yet I get to be called ’Taesan’, why not hyung? Why not honey?
"Baby, look at me once" I whisper, and he doesn’t give me what I want till I get off him.
"You’re doing it again, you’re leaving me" he whines, sitting up to complain but stopping halfway when he finds me on my knees.
Both of them.
I have never willingly knelt for anyone in my life. I’ve only been forced to kneel to my grandfather, forced to kneel to beg Seoha’s grandmother for help, but I’ve never done it this willingly.
"Seoha" I say with all seriousness as his eyes grow comically wider and rounder.
"I am an idiot when it comes to you" I say, and all the words I’m supposed to say suddenly disappear.
’Come on Kang Taesan’ I scold myself.
I’ve given magnificent speeches to go along with murdering criminals. I’ve given jaw dropping speeches at award shows...but this one doe-eyed omega turns my brain into mush and I hate it.
"Fuck- I love you and I want you, a-and I don’t want you to go" I say in one breath, saying all of it under my breath.
"You shouldn’t prank people" Seoha says and I nod religiously, wrapping my arms around his waist and pressing my face into his soft stomach.
"Never again" I agree and he hiccups. "I’m sorry, my treasure" I say against his belly.
The omega runs his fingers through my hair and I sigh.
Fuck. I missed him. I really need to work on myself and become better.
"I’ll do better, baby...I’ll do my best" I promise and he keeps running his fingers through my hair. Soon, my eyes start to close at the feeling of his hands on me.
"I adore you" I murmur.
"Let’s go to sleep?" Seoha asks and I nod, getting up and climbing into the bed with him. He lets me hold him, but just before we sleep, he says something quietly.
"I haven’t forgiven you for pranking me"
"Hmm-hmm" I hum, holding his naked body even tighter.
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