By Zephyria 
Looking back now, I don’t know why I was so out of my mind, but in fact, up until the second or third repetition, I was a naive, no, a stupid Omega who was devoted to Kyle.
Even if it wasn’t the high-level skinship I now share with the Crown Prince, Kyle and I had a stable relationship with a promised future, so it wasn’t the first time I had another Alpha’s Pheromone on me. The Count and his wife didn’t object much to the fact that they could tie up an outstanding talent coveted by other families with a betrothal, so regardless of whether there was a formal engagement ceremony or not, everyone in the mansion treated Kyle as my Alpha and me as Kyle’s Omega.
There were many times when Kyle and I were almost embracing in front of Andrew, whispering sweet nothings. But no matter how often Andrew saw Kyle and me together, and no matter how often he smelled Kyle’s Pheromone subtly emanating from my body, he would only show a slight annoyance, not the pain he was showing now.
That’s probably because Kyle, no matter how annoying he was, was a vassal who could be blown away with a single word from him at any time.
It’s ridiculous. He was so fine when it seemed like I was in his grasp, but as soon as the Alpha next to me changed from a mere vassal to the Crown Prince, who was of higher status than him, he became so tormented.
Although I was registered in the main family, if you actually look at the blood ties, the Hamilton Count family and I were already more than eight cousins apart. I was almost a commoner, from a distant branch of a distant branch.
In this world where marriages within the fourth cousin range are frequent to protect bloodlines and inherited wealth, there was actually no obstacle to Andrew Hamilton and Noah Hamilton being together. Especially after the real ‘Noah’ returned.
So, from my point of view, the fact that he was so tormented because he just liked me, and that his tormented heart was clumsily expressed and made him act out, is such a poor and inadequate reason.
If only that damn Andrew Hamilton had been a little less cowardly in his heart, or a little more honest. Maybe he and I would be facing a very different scene right now.
“…”
His shocked, pale face also looks fake. His trembling eyes, and the hands he’s clenched into fists, too.
I wanted to taunt him, asking if he was going to strangle me again if things went wrong, but I held back. There’s no point in getting angry at someone who doesn’t even remember.
I felt like I would only feel worse if I rested here any longer. I jumped up and walked past the first son, who was standing there in a daze. I would have really done that if it weren’t for the familiar scent that brushed past my nose as I passed him.
“What is it?”
“Noah.”
“What is it? This Pheromone?”
“…”
It was a faint scent that I couldn’t even feel when I was standing at a reasonable distance, but I could definitely feel it as I brushed past him close enough to bump shoulders.
“Explain it to me in a way that I can understand.”
From Andrew Hamilton. There was a strong scent of wild roses.
“It’s your specialty, isn’t it? Playing with your glib tongue.”
It was my Pheromone.
I didn’t want to guess, but my head turned on its own. The effects of the Pheromone shower I received from the Crown Prince were still clear. Probably for the next few days, no Alpha or Omega will be able to smell my Pheromone. But the fact that my Pheromone remains on him like that means that he had something with my Pheromone on it very thickly, for at least a few hours.
“Don’t tell me… no, right?”
“Let, let me explain, this is… well…”
“That’s enough. Don’t answer.”
Immediate revulsion and disgust surged to the top of my head in an instant. It’s absolutely impossible for someone else’s Pheromone to transfer just by holding an ordinary object for a short time.
“…Disgusting.”
The Crown Prince’s words, that the Young Count had come and replaced the clothes he was wearing, which were soaked with my bodily fluids, with new clothes, flashed vividly in my mind.
“I don’t care if you burn it or shove it in a pile of garbage. Just throw it away right now.”
“…”
“I trust you know what object I’m talking about. I’ll go in first.”
This time, I walked straight past Andrew Hamilton. Without stopping, straight ahead. His shaken expression, as if he had been hurt, didn’t feel satisfying at all.
Without giving him a chance to look back. Without allowing him a chance to make excuses. Noah Hamilton walked past him. I don’t know exactly when it started. Whenever Andrew faced his brother, whom he hated enough to tear apart and loved even more than that, his mind became completely clouded. His thought circuits didn’t work properly. His limbs often felt heavy, as if they were weighed down, and his fingertips were often numb.
Even in those dull senses and perceptions. Noah Hamilton was damn lovable.
‘Come here, Noah. Good boy.’
‘Haa, Adrian…’
Even while he was in the arms of another Alpha, showing off a coquettishness and charm that he couldn’t even dare to dream of.
It was hard to even steal a glimpse of the sweet honeymoon that Noah Hamilton and the Crown Prince were having beyond the tightly closed door. Only when he pressed his ear close to the door could he barely hear a faint moan.
Watching a dreamlike fantasy from one step behind was much more painful than not even daring to dream of it. The strong scent of roses and the dim scent of the forest, leaking out through the crack in the door and occasionally wetting his feet, were also more harmonious than he had expected, which was just regrettable.
‘Ah, I’m sorry, haa, ugh, no, don’t hit my butt, ugh, I don’t want to be hit, I don’t want to be hit, Your Highness, Adrian, haa…’
Nevertheless.
‘Your Highness, you smell good, hmm, you smell good…’
He always guarded that tightly closed door whenever the Crown Prince visited the Count’s residence. He kept everyone, even the servants who were far from being Alphas or Omegas, from even approaching the area.
Affection: -17%
The Crown Prince thought of it as the Young Count’s excessive loyalty, and Andrew’s dear brother had no idea that his older brother was guarding the front himself.
He was taking even that much greed because his brother didn’t know. Andrew sometimes opened that door and indulged in a daydream of walking into the ecstatic room.
Still, he thought he was quite lucky this time.
The relationship that started in the middle of the day ended much sooner than when it started late at night, and he was able to deliver the refreshments and the Crown Prince’s change of clothes that he had prepared in advance to suit his brother’s taste, and he was also able to get an unexpected gift.
He hadn’t smelled Noah Hamilton’s Pheromone so strongly since the Day of Blessing. It wasn’t just leaving a faint trace as if to tease him, but the wet fabric, with the Omega’s instinct that he couldn’t suppress, was too much of a gift to soothe his painful love that he couldn’t even control himself.
Andrew tried to ignore the Crown Prince’s Pheromone that remained with it and just cherished it all night long.
Affection: -6%
Really, just cherished it.
Like a clumsy boy in love.
He just fell asleep with his arms full of clothes, with an excited heart.
Affection: -14%
‘…Disgusting.’
Affection: -21%
The emotion revealed on his white face was clear contempt. His brother was hating him very intensely. Without even trying to hide it.
“I see. No matter what I do, to you, I’ll just look disgusting.”
Behind the back of an Omega who was walking away, Andrew Hamilton’s inner thoughts, which Noah Hamilton had not yet confirmed, were drawing a chaotic graph that went up and down.
And finally.
“Then I don’t need to hesitate any longer.”
Affection: 0%
Finally, it was back to square one.
The wind that brushed past his face was just refreshing. Opening the window of the carriage and feeling the wind was something he could never get tired of. Especially when the Crown Prince, who was sitting right next to him with a pile of official documents that made his head throb just by looking at them, was even more so.
Exactly nine days after the Crown Prince visited the mansion, I was finally able to start my journey to the Grand Duke Graham’s territory.
“Are you getting motion sickness? I heard it’s your first time traveling long distances.”
The Crown Prince, seeing me hanging on the window with a perfectly fine face and grinning, asked as if he was curious. I couldn’t very well tell him that it was much more comfortable than a prison transport cart, and that I wasn’t a death row inmate chained up and unable to move, so how could I get motion sickness in a luxurious carriage with not a single spoke missing, so I just smiled brightly.
It was a little over a week’s journey to the Grand Duke Graham’s territory by carriage. The Crown Prince was planning to accompany me by carriage to the entrance of the Grand Duke’s territory, and then use a warp stone to move to the Imperial Palace at once. And on the appointed date, he would arrive at the entrance of the Grand Duke’s territory again using the warp stone, and then join me there and return to the capital.