# Chapter 50
After leaving Aria’s house, Asher headed straight for the villa. His body was filled with heat as if his heart was burning, making it unbearable to breathe. He had thought he wasn’t feeling well, but it seemed like his heat was about to begin.
“A heat on a day like this…”
Asher curled his body as he exhaled a seething breath. Perhaps because the carriage was moving, pain shot through his skull as if it were splitting each time his body shook. With the sensation of a piercing headache, Asher coughed dryly and quickly took out the medicine he had kept in his pocket and emptied it into his mouth.
“Haah…”
Though he had taken the recovery medicine, his body ached as if internally wounded since Jan’s incident. As pain washed over him to the point where it wouldn’t be strange if he collapsed, Asher bit the tender flesh inside his mouth. But there was only a metallic taste filling his mouth while his vision continued to blur.
“Just a little longer…”
Asher gripped the handle attached to the carriage, urging himself to endure. Of all days, a heat now. Thinking that there couldn’t be anything worse than this, Asher waited only for his arrival at the villa. He worried what he would do if someone was there, but fortunately, there was no one at the entrance to the villa.
“Young Master! Are you alright?”
As soon as the carriage arrived, Toms approached and supported Asher. But Asher’s condition was more serious than expected. His entire body was wet as if he had been caught in the rain, and he was burning hot like someone with a fever. With a sympathetic face, Toms supported Asher and approached the villa entrance.
“…I’ll go by myself from here.”
Fortunately or not, not even the servants who maintained the villa were visible inside. Toms gazed at the villa with worried eyes in response to Asher’s words and asked him.
“Will you be alright?”
“…Yes. Please do as I instructed with my father.”
“…Yes, understood.”
Toms briefly withheld his words at the sight of the uneasy-looking Asher, but soon released the arm he was supporting and left. Only then did Asher exhale a pained breath and open the door of the villa.
“Hnngh…!”
As soon as he opened it, Asher covered his mouth at the alpha pheromones he sensed. The concentration, unimaginably thick, was stickier and more potent than any pheromone Asher had ever smelled. It was such a massive amount of pheromones that just smelling it made him feel hot.
“Why is… Luke’s pheromone…!”
Finally, Asher couldn’t endure and collapsed in front of the doorway. Alpha pheromones searching for an omega. At the concentration of pheromones typically seen only during mating season, Asher felt his thighs trembling.
Why? According to what he knew, Luke’s rut period was supposed to be at the end of January. The chances of a dominant’s rut, known for its accuracy, being off were slim. However, Asher had heard from Aria that if someone had suppressed high concentrations of hormones for a long time, their cycle could change. Asher suddenly recalled what he had said.
-I’ll spend it at the villa as I always have. If anything happens, you can relay it through Saint.
-This is the key to the villa I frequently stay at.
Only then did Asher realize that he had entered a beast’s lair.
“Why didn’t I think of that, why was I so careless…”
Asher found himself pathetic. But thinking it wasn’t too late yet, just as Asher was about to grab the doorknob, he sensed someone approaching him.
With each neat sound of footsteps, Asher felt his heart grow cold. Even without turning around, he could tell by the scent of pheromones that it was Luke. Asher’s Adam’s apple bobbed with tension as he tightly gripped the hem of his pants.
“…A beta?”
Luke’s voice was deeper than usual. To be precise, it was a voice that felt threatening, like a growling beast, but Asher slowly turned around and looked up at him.
“…I didn’t know Your Highness was here.”
Asher gazed at Luke with a troubled face. Looking closely, his attire was much more disheveled than usual, and his eyes were empty as if he had lost his reason. It was an emotionless appearance, like that of a doll.
“Who are you?”
“Pardon?”
Asher widened his eyes in surprise and then gasped at the enormous amount of pheromones. It was a massive amount of pheromones that seemed to threaten him while also expressing sexual desire. Eventually, Asher felt his lower body grow heavy and simultaneously become wet.
“Hnng…!”
It was a sensation he had never felt before, having been born male. Along with the unbelievable sensation, fear washed over Asher. Afraid that he might really cause an incident, he tried to flee, but Luke bent down and placed his nose at the end of Asher’s neck and smelled.
“You don’t emit any scent even after receiving my pheromones.”
Staring at him who had completely lost his reason, Asher suddenly realized that he didn’t recognize Asher in heat.
If it was true that he had lost his scent, and if that was why he couldn’t smell his pheromones in his irrational state and couldn’t recognize him. This was Asher’s chance. Asher quickly tried to get up and grab the doorknob. The last bit of his reason urged him not to be drawn in by him, and he exerted strength, but unlike his reason, his body was already invaded by him and wouldn’t move at all.
“You’re quite brave to enter my territory.”
His blood-red eyes looking down at him flickered menacingly. It was so frightening that Asher tried to get up again, but his legs trembled like a newborn fawn and had no strength. In frustration, Asher pinched his thigh hard, trying to hold onto his fading consciousness.
Luke’s red lips curved smoothly as he carefully observed Asher’s actions. It was a chilling expression like a predator before its prey. Thinking he would die if caught, Asher hurriedly turned his body, but his pheromones gradually enveloped him from the ankles, coiling around his body like a serpent.
“Nngh…”
Asher’s moan was drowned by the sound of rain coming through the door that hadn’t fully closed. As if displeased by that, Luke completely closed the door, blocking the path through which Asher could escape. Then he firmly grabbed Asher’s white, straight neck and bit his ear.
“Ah, it hurts… Hngh!”
It was an action the rational Luke would never do. He seemed to omit any further words as he pulled on Asher’s outer clothing. As a result, the buttons on his shirt were helplessly torn off and rolled on the floor, and he sank his teeth into Asher’s partially exposed shoulder. Like someone with a new tooth feeling itchy, he sank his teeth into Asher’s body, creating red bruises.
“Pl-please…”
Despite Asher’s plea, Luke’s hands did not stop. He traced Asher’s prominent spine with his hand, lightly grabbed the back of his head, and tilted it backward.
“Ahhhh…”
Luke brought his lips to Asher’s Adam’s apple protruding between his neck. Then he gently nibbled on the tender skin with the tip of his teeth and slid down. That sensation was so vivid that Asher felt his vision gradually fading despite having taken the suppressant.
“Your Highness… please!”
With no strength left to endure, Asher tried to tell him to come to his senses, but Luke had long lost his mind. The emotion transmitted through his skin was solely desire, just that one. Asher finally lost consciousness with his hands violating him.
Asher’s half-removed clothes were completely stripped by Luke’s hands. Those garments were used to wrap Asher’s wrists, and the ends were hung on the doorknob to prevent Asher from escaping.
“Hm…”
Luke’s eyes gleamed coldly as he looked at Asher’s body standing in an awkward posture. His face, illuminated each time lightning struck, looked eerily like a beast.
“N-not there…!”
Luke’s muscular arm wrapped around Asher’s waist and firmly gripped his trembling slender thighs. Then, feeling warm liquid at his fingertips, his eyes flashed sharply, and he furrowed his brow.
“An omega?”
Having thought he was a beta due to the lack of scent, Luke’s lips twisted crookedly at the unexpected encounter with an omega. It was a completely different appearance from the composed Luke from before.
“Interesting.”
With a chilling expression, he licked the liquid on his fingertips with the tip of his tongue. Then, taking off his outer clothing, he lowered his head between Asher’s spread thighs.
Wherever his lips touched, the room was filled only with the sound of sucking on skin, and Asher’s moans were completely drowned out by that sound.
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
