Finished putting away Daren, Ivan and his belongings. Axel left the inn to look for the two men. He was breathing heavily because he went up to the room they rented on the 5th floor using the stairs, as well as the way down.
"Where are the two of them?" he asked while looking around the hotel area. He then ran towards the direction Daren and Ivan had gone and after a few minutes, he finally found them.
Sitting relaxed inside a cafe while enjoying a drink and a piece of cake. Axel growled in annoyance, but he tried to stay calm and control his emotions. The Alpha man walked into the cafe and approached the two of them.
Daren and Ivan turned their heads, looking at the bodyguard who was so tall and big staring at them while folding his arms in front of his chest.
"Oh you've finally arrived, it's been so long," Daren commented without feeling guilty at all.
"Sorry Axel, we didn't mean to leave you. It's just that Daren said that he was a bit hungry and wanted to find some sweets to fill his stomach," Ivan said because Daren, who had pulled him earlier, said that he was hungry.
In fact, he had intended to leave Axel so that he could go alone without Alpha's very annoying supervision. However, Axel managed to control his emotions and just stood quietly near Daren.
Of course it caught the attention of many people, especially when they finally realized that Daren was there.
"Isn't that Daren?" asked one of the women in the cafe.
"Oh right, that's Daren! He's the one in the magazine!" replied her excited friend.
Some of them began to approach Daren for a photo, but the Omega was eager to refuse because he didn't want to be bothered or even mobbed.
"Daren, I want a picture with you!"
"Let us take a picture with you, Mr. Daren!" pleaded the girls and boys who idolized Daren after seeing him in several advertisements.
Axel, who saw Daren avoiding them and even shifting his seat to the wall, realized that his young master did not want to be disturbed. He immediately put up his body to protect Daren.
"Move aside, you are not allowed to take pictures with him," Axel ordered as he folded his arms across his chest.
"But we just want a quick picture! It won't take long!"
Some of them were Omegas as well as Alphas who made quite a strong pheromone collision, let alone those who kept insisting. It got to the point where one of the Alpha females released pheromones to attract Daren's attention.
Of course Daren gasped in shock, and felt like he was being terrorized.
Axel who saw that, growled in annoyance and glared at them with a sharp gaze while scaring them with his pheromones. He even grabbed the woman's collar and pulled her close.
"I told you he doesn't want to be disturbed, if you once again dare to do this. I will not hesitate to strangle you until your neck is broken, do you understand?" he said in such a cold tone.
"Y-yeah, f-forgive me..."
Instantly the atmosphere in the cafe became silent, followed by a terrible air that made the people who insisted on taking pictures finally chose to stay away because they didn't want to get into trouble with Axel.
Daren sighed while still covering his face. Without thinking, the bodyguard took off his jacket and placed it over Daren's head, covering the Omega's face from his fans.
"Let's get out of here." Axel shifted position, letting Daren pass after he forced the man to leave the cafe.
In the end, the three of them left and hid in a small alley. Daren held Axel's jacket that was still covering his head, he sighed because he didn't expect that he would be recognized by the crowd.
He knew that usually commercial actors wouldn't get much attention, they only acted in commercials for a few seconds. But it turned out that he had a lot of people who recognized him.
"I'm glad they recognize me like that, it's just... When they come crowding in like that... I..."
Daren instantly remembered his school days when the Alphas and Betas had bullied him, coming at him in groups that terrified him.
He could have accepted the photo request, but their crowded arrival at once worried him.
"I know it must have been a big blow to your mind, Daren. I can understand," Ivan said, patting his close friend on the shoulder.
Daren nodded his head and took off Axel's jacket. 'He even covered me with his jacket, does he realize I'm scared?'
The Omega sniffed the jacket that had the Alpha's pheromone scent. 'The pheromone smell is very strong.'
"But speaking of that, where's Axel?" Ivan looked around them but he didn't find the Alpha male.
"That's right, I haven't seen him since earlier. Where is he?" asked Daren in confusion as he realized that his bodyguard was not with him.
There were only the two of them in the place, until suddenly the jacket he was holding was taken by someone and when he turned his head, it turned out to be Axel.
"Where have you been? Why did you leave so suddenly?" the young master asked.
"To buy something useful for you," he replied and then put a hat on Daren's head, covering his face from the public. He also gave Daren fake glasses to wear. "You need them."
"You bought these for me?" he asked.
"No, I stole them." Axel took the glasses again and put them on Daren.
Daren snorted in annoyance when Axel answered like that, even though he was just asking. But he hadn't expected the Alpha to go out and buy him all that stuff so he wouldn't be recognized by anyone.
"Do the glasses feel cramped?"
"No, they fit perfectly," the Omega replied as he adjusted the glasses Axel had put on him.
Axel nodded in understanding and put on his jacket, breathing a sigh of relief when he saw that Daren looked comfortable in the hat and glasses.
'At least no one will recognize him in that little disguise,' he thought.
Ivan couldn't help but notice how much Axel cared for Daren even though they were just his bodyguard and master. But Axel looked a bit different from most bodyguards, usually a bodyguard would take his employer to a safe place.
But Axel gave Daren a hat and glasses so that he could continue to walk around at will without anyone recognizing him.
'This Alpha is... Different. What's his purpose exactly?'
"Thanks for that one, you immediately blocked them from me and then gave me your jacket," Daren said as he looked into his bodyguard Alpha's brown eyes.
"No need to thank me," Axel replied as he looked out of the alley, taking in their surroundings to see if there were any other threats.
He then turned to Daren and said.
"Protecting you is my job."