The duke, Felix, was restless since he had to deal with this body too. This time he had no excuses so he could only destroy the body. Even if the news of Count's missing spread all around the empire, he was sure no one would be sad and try to find him. He was such a jerk so no one would wish for him to come back.
But before she could kill the third count, he must do something to stop her. What could he do?
Lock her up? That sounded stupid. But he couldn't be more easygoing on her when she had already killed two people.
Before he could think more, his body's illness started to act up.
When he felt it was getting hot he knew it was time for another mess. He locked himself in the room, sitting on the ground trying his best to stay calm.
Ever since he was 15, he had to experience these weird feelings every night from the 15th to the 20th of every month. At that time, he didn't know how such an illness that would only come up in a certain period of every month existed. But somehow, he experienced such a thing and still failed to find a cure.
When his body started to feel hot, it was slightly different from having a normal fever. The weirdest thing was he got an uncontrollable sexual desire during this period with that body heat, his thoughts getting violent and uncontrollable to even himself.
When he was 20, his friend who was also his doctor, Lucas, who tried to find a cure, recommended having sex with someone to relieve that desire and see if it could calm him down. But things appeared to be dangerous when he couldn't control himself and ended up almost killing that woman that day. Still, he couldn't find any comfort and only felt disgusted.
Ever since then, until now, during all these 3 years, he never let anyone come closer to him during that period. He would lock himself up and bear with that pain in his body as he doesn't even try to relieve himself.
More than an illness, he used to suspect these weird body reactions were because someone poisoned him. It was as if he had consumed an aphrodisiac. It's like he was getting a mating season like animals did.
It was not natural, was it?
The first time he felt comfort was when that scent reached his nose buds. At that moment, he felt his body aching until that scent came to him.
He had never felt comfortable with anything when he was suffering during that period. So his hopes rose in an instant when something could actually make his pain go away even though his lower body was still uncomfortable. That's okay. Even the slightest help meant a lot to him.
When he locked him in his arms, he inhaled all that goodness, finally falling asleep despite the discomfort. It was the first time. He believed he could get rid of this weird illness pretty soon with just that scent.
He had been keeping his illness a secret from Anne for a long time. However, now he was expecting that maybe she knew about it since she seemed to have found out a lot of things about his past.
He didn't want Anne to see him like that. Like an animal unable to control his desires, attacking himself to calm himself down so the pain would make him forget his shameful desires.
He wanted to hide it from Anne. He didn't want Anne to feel disgusted about him. She was his world. The only person he had left was her so he must protect her at all costs.
"Duke, I am Asher. I..."
Asher was already standing in front of the door for a while panicking about what questions would come to him this time.
After finally gathering his courage to knock on the door, he waited until the duke would come and open the door for him, his mind restless wishing he would not get in any more trouble.
"Why are you so late?!"
The duke angrily jumped up at him, locking him up in his arms. Just like that day, he buried his face in his neck, inhaling the comforting scent.
"Why do you smell so good?"
The duke said as his face was still buried in his neck, not wanting to move away. Asher just stayed frozen wishing he would not get crushed by those strong arms. It was pretty scary to feel that he couldn't even move.
"Asher...Does this really come from you? What's so special about you?"
He raised his head, looking at Asher, trying to figure out an answer. Neither Asher had an answer. What is so special about him? He was simply cursed.
That day, Asher found out what was really weird about him. He thought being an omega was just a curse that would make you have a mole in your eye, have a unique scent coming from you, and get pregnant.
But little did he know they were not the only reason why they were called a cursed race.
That was the day he realised that truth.
Unlike other days, Asher felt dizzy staying so close to him. Well, that was not a surprise thinking how tight the duke was holding him. But it didn't take long for him to notice something was wrong.
His body was heating up. He felt the duke's body was already hot. He knew that from the very first time, he knew the duke was having some disease. Did it perhaps spread to him? Why was he also feeling weird?
This time he felt his body also getting hot, getting dizzy, as if he was having a high fever. His head throbbed, his body trembled and his legs slowly went weak, which ended up him leaning onto the duke.
The duke didn't really notice the temperature rising in the other one's body. He was also suffering a lot. However, when he felt Asher was putting all his body weight on him, he thought Asher was playing some trick but only to see him all red, trembling and gritting his teeth.
"Hey! Are you okay?"
The duke quickly let go of him despite the comfort leaving his body. However, to his surprise, Asher looked at him with shock as he ran to him, sticking his whole body to him.
Which was definitely weird!
Asher never behaved like that.
Especially, he would never dare to.
"I feel weird."
Asher really didn't want to say that. It just came out of that sickness he was feeling inside. The duke's touches and body temperature gave him a weird excitement.
And that's where both of them went crazy.
"The fuck! What is this?!"
The duke was startled realising the scent...the calm scent, suddenly getting intense!
It was worse than how he felt during his ill period. It was really strong and would make him go mad.
It's the same feeling. But most especially, it was coming from Asher. The calm scent had become an aphrodisiac to him.
His ignored desires were aroused again when Asher was clinging to him as if begging to do the unacceptable to him.
The duke was suddenly furious.
'He must have to do something with my sickness! The scent coming from me gives me the same feeling I get in my sick period!
He is here to rebel!'