6. My Outing!
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FINALLY, AFTER ALL THESE YEARS, Byron finally decided to tell Oscar about his feelings for him. No matter how hard he wanted to deny emotions, it still surfaced.
Their union was a sham for all he cared, and it was a ruckus to get his Alpha title from his father. However, it is different now. He had developed feelings for Oscar. It is their fifth anniversary today, and he planned a surprise for him.
Walking with a bouquet of flowers in one hand and a bottle of champagne in the other, he bravely greeted his pack members as he passed them by. For all they knew, their Alpha was a loving husband, but of course, that wasn’t the real case. That was only a part of his ploy.
In the first few weeks of being mated to Oscar, his insides would tumble upside down whenever they kissed in public. They were more like roommates inside their house than a couple. He did all those things for his position in the pack.
Who would have thought that the wind would change? He couldn’t even tell when exactly he fell for his mate. At first, he thought he was getting sick because his heart just wouldn’t stop pounding, making him feel very uneasy whenever Oscar was around. It took him a very long time to plan out this confession. Thus, he couldn’t just hope for things to work well.
"Happy fifth anniversary, love..." he practised his script while heading to the garden. Knowing Oscar, he was more than sure that his mate would behave if they were in public and not at home.
He stepped into the pergola and gave the venue a quick once-over. There were candles lit on every corner of the place, and the decorations he ordered seemed all set. Satisfied, he smiled and thought, ‘I did a masterpiece...’
"Alpha, the food is ready. Do we serve it now?" a pack member came to him.
Looking at the boy, who was trembling in fear just by his presence, he c****d his head and said, "Oscar’s not here yet. Is he already on his way?"
"Not yet, Alpha. I will fetch him right away." The boy hurriedly went out of the pergola and rushed back to the village on the west side of their land.
After seeing the boy go, Byron went back to expecting the details of the garden and thinking of how perfect that place was for the celebration of their union.
"Union." It had a ring to it.
"By the end of the day, you will officially be mine, Oscar, both in the eyes of my pack and the Moon Goddess. I will adore every inch of you and show you how much I love you," he promised with a smile.
Byron wasn’t really the type of person who smiled a lot. Placing the bouquet and champagne on the table, he fixed his tux.
It was a few moments later when the boy returned. He was catching his breath as he approached the pergola. "Alpha, Oscar is missing. He is not in your house. I asked around, and no one had seen him."
"What?!" was all Byron ended up saying before he marched out of that place and started screaming in his mind link, "Guards, seal the whole place! Make sure that no one can get in and out of here. Activate the steel fence."
He decided to invest in the security of his pack a few years back. The metal fence was the first thing that he had spent money on. It was a retractable barrier that could rise from the ground in one minute. It was an enormous project, and it was kept a secret. Only the border patrols and the high-ranking members knew about how that cage-like structure was buried around the pack land’s perimeter. Oscar wouldn’t be able to go away as that fence would block all the exits.
Furious, Byron took out his phone and dialled a number. It rang twice before someone answered.
"Dylan, I need you to look for someone. I will send you a picture after this call," he ordered.
"Copy that, Alpha Byron," the man named Dylan replied.
After ending the call, he immediately sent the photo of Oscar to Dylan. That photo was taken from a surveillance camera. It was a candid shot of Oscar smiling. He saved a copy of it on his phone.
"I will find you, love," he muttered. Then, glancing at the garden one last time, he sighed and went back to the pack house.
He shifted to his wolf form, uncaring if his tux got ripped.
"Owooo!" he howled with longing.
He rushed back to the village after that, dodging every boulder and garden in his path. The pathway was the easiest route, but he did not want to alarm his pack members. The matter at hand was between him and Oscar. It would stay that way as much as possible.
"Please be at the pack borders, love." His mind was a mess. There were a few pack members who asked him for something, but he just passed them by. His focus was on Oscar.
Standing in front of their house, which was just beside the pack house, he sniffed the ground to trace his mate.
"Alpha, I found him!" It was then that Dylan came.
Byron nodded his head and rushed inside his house to change. A few minutes later, he walked back to the pack house where Dylan waited for him.
"Where is he?" he asked with urgency in his voice.
"He just passed North Carolina and is traversing Interstate 95 in your car."
Byron felt his blood rise to his head. How could Oscar leave him even before he could right his wrong? His world had shattered.
"Alpha, what do we do next?" Dylan asked.
It snapped him back to reality. He had a pack to run and a lover to chase. "Continue to monitor his whereabouts and send me the details every hour. Get Preston and tell him to prepare my chopper. I need to find Oscar and bring him back home to us."
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