Chapter 2
Grant gapes, his hand freezing on top of the lid.
"I want Nutella," he whines.
Kasen leans back in his chair and assesses Grant with his eyes.
"I don't mean the chocolate.
I mean the alpha.
You can't spend it with one."
Grant deflates even more at that, Nutella forgotten as he tries to understand what Kasen is thinking.
He doesn't know how to judge the sudden spicy tang in Kasen's scent.
"Why not?"
"Because it'll be a
real
heat and the risk in it to accidentally mate is too big for you," Kasen explains and turns back to the food on his plate.
Grant hates the finality in his tone as if he expects Grant to listen like an obedient omega and hates even more how his omega wants to do just that just so he can please Kasen.
Grant knows it's not that.
Kasen doesn't think of him that way but Kasen has a habit of deciding everything with without allowing the other party to oppose.
Especially when he is right.
They weren't always like this, only started befriending each other slowly, but after his parents visited once, worried about Grant living with an alpha, they instantly fell in love with Kasen.
Grant's mother made Kasen promise to keep an eye on Grant and take care of him which Kasen agreed to without hesitation.
Since then it has become normal for Kasen to take such care of Grant.
It's not fair though.
If Kasen is not going to let him spend his heat with someone else – though Kasen wouldn't say anything if Grant brought back someone, he would just mope – then Kasen should at least take full responsibility of Grant.
"Sorry I'm such a weak omega," Grant hisses and puts his chin in his hand.
"That's not what this is about," Kasen says with a side-glance at Grant but the omega ignores him.
"It's so unfair," Grant continues to rant, frowning at the Nutella on his toast.
"You stupid alphas get your rut only four to six times a year while we omegas have to go through heat each month.
EACH month.
Do you know how horrible that is?
And it only gets less after we find a mate, which is so bothersome to do when you are busy with uni and work.
But maybe that's what I should do." Grant gets up to get the jam from the cabinet as he rants on.
"I'm about to be twenty-four soon.
I want a mate anyway.
Maybe I should accept Harlan's offer for a date.
He's cute anyway.
I'll get less heats and have someone to help me through them and we can cuddle each- Wouw."
Grant stops his rant in the middle of the sentence when he turns around with the jam in his hand and finds Kasen standing right in front of him.
Kasen scowls at him for a second, takes the jam out of his hand and places it at the counter.
Grant lets him, too stunned by his sudden appearance and the notable change in his scent.
Kasen gathers Grant in his arms then, leaning down and pressing his nose right on Grant's scent gland.
Grant's breath stutters, eyes fluttering shut, and he gives in without a second thought.
Grant fists Kasen's shirt as the alpha scents him thoroughly, the effect of it instantaneous.
The uncomfortable feeling in Grant's gut disappears and he grows weak in his knees, Kasen having to press him closer so he doesn't fall to the ground.
Grant's omega makes pleased noises, some of which slip past Grant's lips.
It's easy to let the scent Grant so dearly wishes for always to remain on his body waft over him.
Grant's grip on Kasen tightens when the alpha removes his face from Grant's neck but he's appeased when Kasen just switches to the other side of his neck.
Kasen scenting him when he's in heat is a common occurrence, but never has Kasen scented him like this; cheek, nose and lips rubbing against Grant's skin and dousing him in his scent, has only ever rubbed their cheeks together, rubbed his cheek against Grant's wrist or given him clothes of himself.
Grant prefers this though.
Would any time of the day.
Kasen's nose slowly finds his way to Grant's cheek and temple until it rests against Grant's forehead and Grant knows it's time to let go now.
His omega whines but he loosens his grip on Kasen's shirt, not fully ready to let go yet.
Kasen's lips move against the heated skin of Grant's forehead when he asks, "You're going to uni later, right?"
Grant nods and finally opens his eyes.
He doesn't reciprocate Kasen's stare though, choosing to just let the alpha go wherever he's planning to while he tries to collect himself.
Supporting himself on the counter, Grant takes a few breaths and then seats himself on his chair.
He presses his fingers against his neck where he can still feel Kasen's lips and tries to chase the memory of the touch, hands becoming desperate at the thought of maybe never feeling Kasen's lips again.
The door to Kasen's room opens and Grant has only enough time to rip his hand away from his neck before a cloth is thrown on top of his head, blocking his view.
Grant is once again enveloped by Kasen's scent, only now noticing that Kasen threw his hoodie at Grant.
"Be careful!" Kasen exclaims before he leaves the apartment, leaving Grant behind confused.
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If Kasen thought that scenting Grant that morning was a good idea - and even if Grant was over the moon in that moment - it actually made the whole day harder for Grant.
Grant craves Kasen's presence and heat throughout the whole day, omega whiny and pouty over how they were left and rejected by
their
alpha.