Daren's disappearance in the bathroom and the presence of only one shoe, made Axel gasp in shock and feel confused about the whereabouts of his Omega who was suddenly no longer visible.
"Daren? Daren!" he called out, trying to search the carriage.
As he searched the coffee-making room that was still in the hallway, a hand suddenly wrapped around his waist.
"You're freaking out, huh? Ahahaha..." laughed a man whose voice she recognized.
Of course he was the man he had been looking for. He looked back and found Daren who was smiling mischievously at his panicking boyfriend.
"Turns out you can still fall into my trap~" Daren teased which was immediately rewarded with a hard jab on his forehead.
"Ouch! That hurts!" he protested in annoyance while rubbing her forehead.
"I was looking for you because you suddenly disappeared, and you're playing around like this?" Axel scolded Daren for playing around with him at an inopportune time.
He was really worried that Daren had been kidnapped by the organization's men who were after him, but it turned out that Daren was just playing a prank.
"Umn... You've been so serious, so I wanted to break the ice for a while," Daren replied and put on one shoe.
"You still had time to say that, huh?" asked the Alpha as he squinted his eyes, looking at Daren sharply.
"Sorry..."
He let out a rough breath, relieved that Daren was okay. He thought he'd have to search the entire hallway for him to find him, but he had shown up on his own.
"Then we'd better get back to our seats, we'll be there soon," he said and tugged on the Omega's hand to come with him.
They sat back down and Daren leaned back in his chair as he looked out the window. Slowly he felt drowsy and fell asleep while leaning into the arm of Axel who was sitting next to him.
He looked over, seeing the blond man sleeping soundly.
"I told him I'd be there in a minute. But he just fell asleep," he muttered.
However, Axel felt that it was better for Daren to sleep than for him to think about the mysterious people who kept following them.
But at the end, he fell asleep himself until the announcement that their train had arrived at their destination, North Zondalia.
"Axel... Axel wake up, we've arrived," Daren said waking him up.
Axel reflexively woke up because he was woken up by Daren, he did not expect that he would fall asleep. But luckily nothing happened.
"Alright, you go out first. I'll get our stuff," he replied letting Daren go out of his seat then he grabbed both of their bags and followed the Omega out of the train.
He intended to get a taxi back to the Wyne family mansion. But Daren told him there was no need to look for a taxi, as someone was coming to pick them up.
"Someone? Who?" he asked curiously.
"He should be here already..." Daren looked around and found the person who had come to pick them up. "Ivan!" he called out.
Hearing the name mentioned, Axel immediately frowned and turned to Daren waving his hand. The brown-haired Beta male walked over to them.
"Why did he have to come pick us up?" Axel asked.
"Ivan offered to pick us up. I don't know how he found out that we were temporarily vacationing in that place, but he said he wanted to pick us up and take us back to the mansion," he explained.
The big man growled in annoyance when he found out why Daren hadn't told him earlier and only said it now. But Daren had no idea that Axel wouldn't like it.
"I just thought instead of taking too long to find a taxi, I'd let Ivan pick us up."
"Daren!" Ivan hugged his best friend with a happy face, as if he hadn't seen each other in a long time. "You went on vacation without me again."
Ivan pouted at Daren which made him chuckle.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to do that. It's just that I happened to be filming in that place, because during the filming I was only staying in one house, I thought it would be better if I could walk around because I happened to be there," he explained to the Beta.
Seeing Ivan's attitude, who immediately approached Daren just like that, made Axel feel fed up. Especially after all the things the Beta had done to Daren during the time he had known them.
"Then let's go, how about we go to my apartment? I also just got back from Dormania a few days ago. I brought the country's specialty coffee," he said inviting Daren and Axel to his apartment.
"Oh... Coffee from Dormania? I hear it's very delicious and fragrant. It's known as the country of the mafia, so the coffee must be consumed by the mafia," said Daren.
They got into Ivan's car and left the station. During the trip, Ivan invited Daren to chat while he drove while Axel sat in the back seat.
"So did you guys have fun during your date there?" Ivan asked suddenly, much to Daren's surprise.
"H-huh?! We're not dating! We were just on a vacation and of course Axel was there because he's my bodyguard, so it's not like we were..."
"Ahahaha... I'm just kidding, you're freaking out. Just like back in school, when you kept watching our senior and I asked you about it," the man laughed at Daren's panicked reaction and flushed face.
Daren closed his eyes in shame, asking Ivan not to remember that. Unbeknownst to Daren, what Ivan had asked was something he'd done on purpose.
The man glanced at Axel through the rearview mirror in the center of the car, looking at the Alpha in the back seat, as if he still suspected his relationship with Daren.
They finally arrived at Ivan's apartment. Right on the 24th floor, they entered his unit and sat down in the living room.
"I'll make coffee for you, you two just rest here," Ivan said and went to the kitchen.
"I want to go straight home," Axel muttered.
"It'll only take a minute, you like coffee anyway, right?" Daren said and stood up from his seat.
"Where are you going?" his bodyguard asked as he watched the blond man walk away.
"To Ivan's room for a moment, I want to put away the little present I bought for him."
Daren then quietly entered his high school friend's room. He was used to going in and out of Ivan's room without asking his permission first, just as Ivan went in and out of Daren's room.
As he was about to put the gift he'd bought on Ivan's table, he noticed another cell phone that Daren knew didn't belong to his best friend.
But Daren felt familiar with the phone, he felt like he had seen it several times before.
"Whose phone is this?" he asked and picked up the phone.
Unfortunately, when he pressed the on and off button, the phone didn't turn on at all. Daren became even more curious about the cell phone in his hand.
He flipped the phone over and on the case was a unique star-themed decoration with the initials N.O on the end.
"N.O?"