7 7. A Warning

'Max.'

Huh?

Is someone calling me?

'…ax!'

That voice sounds familiar. But who is that?

Mom?

Ah, my disapproving mother. She always used to grumble about how I never got a girlfriend or how I never tried to work it out with girls. But yet.

Yet still, she would always be there for me. Preparing meals for me, scolding me for my shortcomings.

And just simply getting mad at me.

Was that her? Do I get to meet her again?

'…ax! Adian!'

My eyes sprong open and I look around in shock, feeling like I suddenly shot back to a distorted reality. I take short huffing breaths, like I ran several miles in fear of something but then, my heart fell. I wasn't back in my apartment at all, seeing that the vintage furniture and white walls still surrounded me. I look at my right, and at the edge of the bed, Sir Dominic sits and he looks at me full of worry and eyes wrinkling slightly. I feel something on my right arm and when I look down, he was holding onto it.

'Relax.' He whispers and it has a strangely calming effect on me.

He seems to have arrived in his hurry, clad in his casual clothes. A loose pale blue khaki shirt with the ends tucked in brown dark stripes pants and a brown official coat lies resting on his left knee. I must have troubled him again.

I turn my vision away from him. The room is covered in natural yellow light from the sunset outside. The day is already at its end and the white canopy of the bed glistens in a yellow tinge. I look around and catch that the breakfast tray is still laid out at the table, untouched and my stomach suddenly is distinctly empty. I haven't eaten anything throughout the day.

My chest rises and falls rapidly, trying to regain my composure. What happened? I thought I was making out with No-name and his one finger was in me. And I was simply dying in ecstasy from that one horrible finger. Now I feel like I jumped over time and missed out on chunks of my memories. I feel so out of sorts that it seems to be getting to me as I feel a stinging heaviness at the back of my head and in my abdomen. And it's growing by the second. I turn my vision towards my left, on an expanse of an empty bed and I frown. I remember being with someone, that man on this bed.

But I see no man around me except Sir Dominic.

I look around, perhaps that my eyes have missed him. But no, nothing. No one. He disappeared. The questions in my keep growing and I lean my forehead on my palm with a tired breath. I close my eyes to recollect myself and then after, slowly I look at Sir Dominic with his serious expression. He was quite patient…with his patients. A short laugh rises out of me and he looks at me even more seriously.

I look away with guilt and notice, in front of me, several objects are lying near my bed that looked like medical instruments.

Did I get sick?

'What…' I clear my throat, 'What happened?'

He sighs, almost immediately. And I am amazed at how he sounds quite frustrated. Yeah yeah. I am also tired. I feel this exhaustion from deep down in my bones.

'You lost consciousness, sir. Maria called for me immediately.'

I frown, '…alone?'

'Pardon?'

'Was I alone?'

He looks at me questioningly, one brow slowly raising, and yet more slowly answers, 'Yes…'

'Really? No, I'm…' I pause and continue, 'I'm sure I was…'

I shut my mouth immediately. Shit, almost got me in trouble. What was that? If I had continued that sentence, I was basically confessing that I was with another man when my tall, dark husband was away from home, toiling in the sun to make money. Maybe not like that. Also maybe I frolicked around with the said man in my bed.

Which I did. Exactly.

Man, I am quickly realizing that I actually hate being married.

As if on cue, a quick image of Elian flashes through my head to solidify that theory and I quickly shake it off. The day is already a rollercoaster. I don't think I needed another accidental summoning of this possessor of dark evil aura.

'Is Elian not home yet?' I quickly change the subject so I don't come off as crazy

But I am sure I seem pretty much crazy already.

'I'm sure not. Not that I know of.'

I heave out a big sigh of relief and I don't know why I feel so relieved. I also don't know why but I felt strangely unnerved by that guy yesterday and now I am left with a heavy distaste at even the mere thought of meeting him again. In the same house.

'By any means,' Sir Dominic begins, clearly starting a new discussion and his tone sounds very practical. As though he is telling me to stop stalling and get on to business. I shift my butt on the bed guiltily. This is the second time he has been forced to come here and I have just been in this world for about 24 hours.

'It seems you fainted because of your diet. Mostly. I have learned from Maria that you haven't eaten properly for the last few days, none at all today.' His look was reprimanding and I felt like a 5-year old all over again, 'There are significant signs of malnutrition…among others. Please look after your diet properly. you're clearly eating for two now.'

He gives me a pointed look and reaches over, slipping off a mercury thermometer that is stuck between my armpit. Gosh, I didn't even realize it was there, and looking down at myself, I also realize that I am completely naked from top-up except for the blanket that covers only my lower part.

This is uncomfortable.

'Temperature is normal.' Sir Dominic mumbles under his breath, scribbling in the same tattered note that he brought yesterday, he looks up at me suddenly, 'How do you feel at the moment?'

Before I can even answer, his slim hand grab my lower jaw and raises my head. He looks at my neck, examining it curiously and the hair all over my body stands up.

I'm suddenly aware of all the marks over Adian's body. From yesterday and today's event.

Suddenly a sharp pain grows from inside of me and I topple over the front, clutching my stomach. I try to hold it in and act like it was only a mere illusion but it hits again, this time it is surely harder.

'Arghh.' I groan loudly, unable to hold it at the intensity of the pain hitting me from inside my body.

Shit, what is this?

Something wrong with my food?

'Adian.' Sir Dominic grabs me but I continue to groan as the pain showed no signs of subsiding.

Instead, it increases, by small levels that hurt on astonishing levels.

'Adian, relax.'

I feel him press something against my nose, a sweet-smelling cloth. And my body eases naturally, the pain slowly but surely subsiding. My shoulder falls, relaxing from the tension and my body cools down.

Then, my mind begins to clear like magic is spreading throughout my blood and it has made all the pain disappear.

I sigh for the nth time but I mean it this time.

'Thank you.' I whisper, almost inaudible and my voice is choked with emotion.

He smiles, satisfaction prancing around his face.

'Nothing at all. Just my job. Don't worry too much.'

I nod at him awkwardly and we both fall into this moment of silence. He doesn't speak up because he doesn't see the need to and I...just can't hold a conversation going.

Without any words, he continues what he was doing earlier, diagnosing my body. He turns his attention back to my neck, tracing on the skin which is most definitely bruised. I feel myself reddening up again at the thought of the hickeys that splayed over me. He presses his fingers on my collar bone and I wince loudly, feeling a sharp gush of pain from the area.

But Sir Dominic shows no reaction to it, swiftly turning his attention over to my arms and running along with the colored branching of my nerves underneath

I look for words to fill in this silence and remember that he was saying something before the pain hit.

'Is…that all?' I ventured slowly, and then brightening up with realization, I add, 'Oh yes, I threw today morning. It was quite bad.'

He only hums and goes on with his examination of every corner of my body, lifting my arms and then bending me down front to examine my back. After everything is complete, he sits back and scribbles on his note. Again.

I clear my throat and he looks up at me, as though he just realized that I was waiting for an answer,

'Oh.' He sets his small charcoal pencil down, 'You're pregnant so it is quite normal to have morning sickness.'

Oh. So it was morning sickness. It didn't even occur to me that it might be that. I nod thoughtfully, hand on my chin. How many more of this?

'I see.'

I look up at him nervously, and I absently played with the blanket covering my body,

'Elian doesn't seem to know of the pregnancy.'

'Yes.' He glances up at my eyes briefly, 'You asked me not to do so.'

I raise my eyebrows in surprise,

'I did?'

'Yes. Before your bad fall. You said you wanted to surprise him'

I scoff as soon as the words came out of his mouth.

Lies.

Adian probably knew how to lie his way away. And he also knew that he had to hide this from Elian. He might even have been quite scared of Elian.

That, I'm pretty sure of.

'Ah yes, and that reminds me.'

His face darkens with seriousness as he speaks and my body involuntarily sits upright in attention, getting a gist of the atmosphere,

'I'd refrain from having intercourse with different partners during the pregnancy period if I were you.'

Oh damn God.

What is the flippering flubber?

I felt my entire body slowly heat up at the remark, from top to bottom. I need to hide.

Or disappear.

But it's strange, I didn't actually sleep with No-name who has disappeared in thin air while I was out.

And I don't think I would sleep with him ever again

'I will warn you, that you will be experiencing some pheromone dissonance from it as result.'

'Huh? Pheromone Dissonance?'

'Yes, it'll set in soon as an after-effect of your little adventure.'

Why does everyone keep going with their dialogues? Hello, an amnesiac is right here?

'What's that?'

'There is a certain wavelength of pheromones among Alphas and omegas. And these wavelengths come in a collision to create a harmony between two individuals; an Alpha and an omega. But Adian, you are pregnant with an Alpha's child.'

'Yes?'

'That means you already have two wavelengths of pheromones in you. I hope I am not confusing you. When you spend too much time in a pheromone-infused space with another Alpha, your body will be affected by the different types of pheromones entering your body.'

'So I cannot sleep with random alphas?'

Sir Dominic smiles ambiguously,

'Absolutely not.'

'And this pheromone dissolute thing is going to happen because I...hung out with a different alpha from this baby's father.'

'Yes, something like that.'

Another sharp sting hits right in my lower abdomen and I bend over in pain, my groaning muffled in the blanket. Sir Dominic rubs his warm hand over the bent shape of my back, and I feel warm inside as well. Like I have still got a companion in this harsh world.

Some more groans come out of my mouth as the pain continues to grip my abdomen. Is this going to harm the baby?

I don't know what to feel.

I randomly woke up one day, in this unfamiliar word. I was just thrown into it and I didn't ever, ever stop to think of my situation.

Do I want to be married? Do I want this baby?

Why do I have to live with it just because I just woke up with them in my hands?

I groan a little more and Sir Dominic lays me down flat on the bed, and a sense of relief washes over me.

Maybe in the very back of my mind, I knew I didn't want to throw it this way. I wanted to continue living and discovering life. Even if it's someone else's life, filled with mistakes and the mess they created.

I wanted to walk through, discover many things like that wonderful world-shattering orgasm I just had. And I wanted to think that this is all mine.

I smile peacefully and close my eyes. Maybe I have lost myself. And my Identity. But I could start over, do it all over again but in a better way. This is me, Max Foster. And my power.

I hear a distant knock on the door and a clicking of its doorknob immediately after.

'Oh, Sir Dominic' Maria whispers but it is too loud to be a whisper,

I don't open my eyes but I sense that Sir Dominic signaling something back at Maria.

'How good to hear. Right on time, Lord Elian has come back from his daily routines too.'

My smile drops instantly.

That's right.

There's that issue still.

The father of my child has escaped and left.

'A different Alpha.'

...

So that man was not the lover.

And Adian doesn't have a good relationship with his own husband.

The pain starts to hit again and I groan under my breath.

'Shit.'

I creep my eyes open and see Sir Dominic turn his attention back at me in a hurry. He must have heard my pained moans. He presses the sweet-smelling cloth against my nose, but the effect of it is much lesser now. The pain doesn't go away.

'Maria! Call Elian!'

My eyes widen in horror. No.

I reach over and struggle to grab Sir Dominic and I barely managed to, despite my shaking hands,

'No.' I gasp loudly, 'Don't.'

'But Sir. You must have your Alpha near you to stabilization.'

'No.' I shake my head fervently but then bend over to let out a moan of pain at the needles of stings surfacing in my stomach.

'But–'

I whip my head up, sweat balls forming on my forehead and I glare,

'Fuxk that.' I growl, 'I said, do NOT call Elian.'

I feel tears form at the corners of my eyes. God, this was extremely painful.

Maybe, just maybe,

It is a guy from a one-night stand.

Or hey, is it the butler from before?

Is it any one of the Butlers in this house?

Then a familiar voice pierces through my ears and I realize I'm in deep trouble,

'What's wrong?'