Chapter 207: Family meeting (zero focus)

Elias’s POV

I follow Noah as he walks up the stairs. There’s a spring in his steps. He smells happy. And he’s glowing. What is Taesan’s omega doing to my husband?

I look back to give him a warning glare, but I see Taesan gluing himself to the omega. Fucking loser. I return to eyeing Noah’s ass.

The taste of his sweetness during his heat is imprinted on my brain.

’Eyes off. We made him bleed last time’ my alpha growls in my head like he’s the sane one and I drop my eyes. This omega drives me wild just by walking. The put-together image I have patiently built for myself is crumbling before my eyes, and I’m not ashamed to accept my new status.

I’ve fallen.

"Are you staring at my butt?" Noah asks suddenly and I lift my eyes to his furious blue eyes.

"I can stare. It’s mine" I say flatly and he mutters an insult under his breath. His expression says he’s mad, but his scent keeps blossoming. He loves me. Noah loves me.

We arrive at the room, and I open the door for him to get in first. As Noah gets in, I shut it behind us and lock it. I don’t trust Kang Taesan.

My phone is on my table. I propped it up against an empty flower vase, leaving my family on the video call to look at the bed. I sit on the bed, and Noah settles next to me.

Without warning him, I pick him up, and place him on my lap where he belongs.

"Mom, can I come home tomorrow? I’m sick of these two" Kai complains and I raise an eyebrow. The young alpha is on the call in another room. "Your browser history includes how to practice Shabari. You shouldn’t speak" I say and he abruptly ends the call.

"Shabari?" Damien perks up. My older brother, as always, is naked from the chest up and is glistening with sweat.

"What is a Shabari?" my mom asks innocently and my dad smirks. Dad is still in another country, but I feel the lust sizzling between him and Mom. "Don’t ask about it, baby. I can come home and show you all night long" my dad says and I groan, pressing my face into Noah’s nape.

"What’s a Shabari?" Noah whispers for my ears only and my cock twitches. The thought of a tied-up Noah fills my mind. I clearly remember the time I had him tied with my belt...

"Are you two fucking right in front of the camera? Even I am not that crazy" Damien says with a click of his tongue and Silas heavily sighs.

"Shall we proceed with the meeting?" my dad’s righthand man asks, and Noah turns his attention to the screen. My fingers lazily trace his clothed skin. Dissatisfied with the cloth between us, I push my hand under his hoodie.

He looks at me with a frown as I splay my palm on his belly. Fuck. Is this a bump?

I look at him with my brows raised, and he looks right back at me like he’s yelling with his eyes for me to take my hand off.

Never.

This is my pup. My little one. My precious baby. I’m never taking my hand off.

"You’re...growing a bump, baby" I mutter against his neck, and he jabs me in the side with his elbow. "That’s a freaking ramyeon baby. I overate" he hisses.

"I don’t care. My baby is going to be touchable like this soon...very soon" I say to him and he sighs in the same way my mom sighs when he’s tired of my dad’s cheesy behavior. Look at me...I was sure I would never end up in love with someone like my parents are in love with each other.

"...the lady finally handed the footage to me, and I spotted Zane with a stranger" Silas’s voice brings me back to our current situation.

Noah perks up at the mention of that omega’s name and I hide my discontentment. I hate this. I hate how he loves too many people.

"I ran the stranger’s face through a face scanner and that didn’t work. I found no existing records of him, but I have sent the image to other clans in two other countries" Silas debriefs us and my dad nods hastily. Darius Deus doesn’t care about planning or the process; he cares about conquest...he is Conquest in the four horsemen.

"What other thing do we have currently?" mom asks in a serious tone.

"Zane didn’t look scared or coerced in the footage. He has made his choice to leave" Silas says while looking into the camera. I perceive he’s saying that to console Noah and Damien. It’s a thoughtful action. Thoughtful but irrelevant.

"My Apple is just...gone?" Damien asks softly.

"You’d be drinking, smoking, and fucking in the next club by tomorrow. You’ll survive" Kai says bitterly. I didn’t realize he was back on the call. He’s still sulking. Damien responds to Kai by giving him the middle finger and earning a warning glare from mom.

"And Ghost?" Mom asks.

"That cocky bastard, Taesan, is still in my way" I growl.

"Track the motherfucker and drag his ass here. Fuck. Why do we need Taesan and his bitter ass?" Damien says.

"I’m so glad Damien is not here with us. Taesan would have butchered us because of him" Noah muses out loud and Damien leans into the screen.

"I can take Taesan and fuck his ass up in five seconds" my older brother brags.

"I’d pay to see him pummel you to the ground" Kai deadpans and Mom sighs. "Shall we end this call?"

"No, no, let the boys be boys. Silas, am I right?" Dad says and takes a sip of the coffee that materialized out of nowhere. My family is weird. Yes...very weird.

"Have you forgotten I’m this clan’s enforcer? I fuck men up for a living" Damien continues to brag and I sigh.

"Taesan has a goddamn sword and at times wears an eyepatch" Kai says.

"Does anyone want the goddamn answer to Damien’s initial question?" I ask in irritation. Noah is starting to fall asleep. He’s slack against my body and he’s quiet.

"Okay, Doctor Brain, why can’t we get Ghost without Taesan’s involvement?" Damien asks sarcastically.

"Ghost is called Ghost for a reason. He’s unattainable. Which makes going through his younger brother, Seoha, the best way" I say and Damien groans.

"Then kidnap the omega and make him spill" he says, earning a dark laugh from my dad.

"Seoha is pregnant" Noah says protectively and Damien makes an ’and so’ expression.

"Oh my goddess, you’re sick" Noah mutters before turning around to straddle me. I smirk as he presses his nose into my neck. Thank you, Damien.

"I will get Ghost to work for us. It might take a few days, but I will" I say, and we go over a few business updates.

A new store has to be built in another state soon. A lousy new FBI agent is trying to expose one of our fronts for being a money-laundering front. We will file the old mart for bankruptcy and give him nothing to investigate while setting up another mart in a safer place.

Once the call ends, I place Noah on the bed, ignore Kai’s fuck you spam texts, and get out of the bed.

I stand outside the door of the room and fold my arms like a bodyguard. I find Taesan also standing down the hall. The man’s face is grim, and a gun is in his hand.

"What are you doing?" I ask.

"Guarding my omega from a psychopath like you. You?" he asks and I nod. "Same" I say through clenched teeth.

I hate him.

"They are going on a date tomorrow" he informs me and I growl jealously.

"They are not."

"I cannot say no to my Seoha, and I will not have him upset. He likes your mate" Taesan says and I eye him from head to toe. I can’t say no to Noah either. He’d bite my fucking ear off.

"What do we do then?" I ask.

"We go with them" the ex-mafia captain says flatly and I nod. Deal. We follow the omegas wherever they go...I trust Noah not to make it hell for me.