CHAPTER 3: THE LOSS

BDSM…

Asven eyes widened at all the materials placed around Neisha's room. Everything should have been used for foreplay and other things he doesn't want to think about. He shook his head and walked toward a table he could see. He put the tray on it and searched for Neisha.

"Miss?" He called.

"Ah, I'm in the shower. You can leave now." Neisha answered him.

"Okay."

Asven got out as fast as he could but he accidentally bumped into someone who was standing outside the room.

"Ah, pig. We've met again." Syaga, the bear-man chuckled.

"Sir." Asven stood straight and stiff.

Neisha had told him that Syaga would supervise his exercise. So, he should be his teacher now.

"Seems like we're going to bond from now on. Tomorrow, come here at five in the morning. Don't be late. Or you don't want to know what I'll do to someone who didn't listen to my order." Syaga pat his shoulder and pushed him away.

He entered Neisha's room and closed it. Asven finally could pants. He had been holding his breath when Syaga patted his shoulder. The strength on the pat almost forced him to kneel. He didn't know what Syaga's species was but he could sense Syaga was an Alpha. That made him weak and overwhelmed.

Can I really survive here?

He had a negative thought about it now. However, his weak mind quickly reinforces itself again after remembering his sick mother. He quickly left the 'pleasure house' which he had called it silently and walked toward his home.

The rental house was not far. It was just outside the red-light district. He didn't come here to look for a job because he thought he could find it in a normal district first.

Yeah, the red-light district gives him a bad vibe. He was forced to go there when there was no more place to ask for a job. When he reached his home, he saw his mother was inside and resting on a bed. The rental house was small and only had one bed and a small kitchen. There's no table or chairs.

"Mother, I'm home! I got a job!" He told her happily.

"My god! Really?" Her mother was relieved to hear it.

She smiled at him happily before she turned worried.

"Is the job safe?" She asked.

Asven nodded. He had to lie, of course. He grabbed her hand gently.

"Our life will be better after this, mother… Look! I have free reign to cook for us and I made your favourite food."

"Asven, you, you really cook this? Or did you steal it?" Her mother felt disbelief.

"What? Mother, you know I would never do that bad thing. Trust me. My job needed me only to cook for them. Well, I was appointed as a pastry chef."

"Pastry?! That was your favourite thing to make when you still-..." She didn't finish her sentences.

The past has been forgotten by her but it still stays around. After all, there were still sweet memories with her son there.

Asven quickly hugged her. "Mother, you don't have to remember anything from there."

"Silly, boy. Of course, mother knows that… Come on, let's eat."

Asven nodded. They have good days ahead of them but Asven's mother's health was getting worse each day. With the money he has from his job, Asven sends her to the hospital for treatment.

"Asven, you've learned the basics now but your strength is still too weak to compare with other people. I thought you eat meat every day. Although you no longer look fat, you look thin! This is more horrible than the cute chubby one before!" Neisha criticises him.

Asven rolled his eyes at her. It's been almost a year since he started working in the brothel and was trained by Syaga. He no longer looks fat but a lean man. His height was about 1.8 metres with slightly long hair reaching his shoulder.

He looks attractive but not that much compared with Syaga who was rugged with all muscles. He really wants his abs to have six or eight packs like Syaga but that seems impossible. It must be because of his Omega physical constitution.

Now, listening to Neisha's dissatisfaction with his physic once again made him think about what exactly she wanted from him. He can't change his physic. He's an Omega!

"My lady, thank you for your compliment but I don't want to get fat anymore. It restricts my movement." He gave her a dry statement.

"Hmph! Whatever. Now, where's my cake you promise to make?" Neisha looked around the kitchen.

"My lady, did you forget that I said it will finish in twenty more minutes? It's still in the oven!" He pointed to the baking oven with the heat still glowing inside.

Neisha pouts. "It's still not ready yet?"

"You've been asking it from minute to minute. Now, come one. Go have fun watching your porn while munching on the pastries I made just now."

Asven, who was taller than her, turned her body around and then pushed her to the same room he always went in where Neisha was interested in studying other people's intimate positions.

"Wait, I want cupcakes!" She told him with sparkling eyes that were also pleading at the same time.

He wondered why she didn't get fat from all the sweets he made.

"Okay, I'll make it right away. Now, stay here, my lady. Don't come out, okay…?"

Neisha shooed him away when she saw a new couple was mating in front of her. She starts to get engrossed with a serious expression. Asven eyes twitched. He once caught her training arrogance male multiple times with her BDSM torture, err, not torture but pleasure, which made his body shudder in fear.

How can they like such things?!

In his home world, there was nothing like that. Everyone just goes for it for satisfaction, not doing any foreplay with their partner first. It was like their reason to mate was to conquer but not care at all for their partner. As long as their partner was pregnant then everything was fine. If not, they would continue aggressively until it happened. It was a cold feeling he got from seeing those mating pairs.

Sometimes Asven feared anyone coming at him because he was an Omega. He was prejudiced against same-gender mating pairs because it looks horrible and wondered how it can work between them. He really didn't want to be targeted and that's why he always ensured he had his inhibitors on him.

What is the inhibitor for?

It was to control the Omega heating period. Asven doesn't have it yet because he was still underage. But… When he hit his twenty-one birthday, he might go into the first heat that may attract anyone to mate with him. For that reason alone, and after he had money, he bought lots of inhibitors and perfumes to hide his heat later. The inhibitor was just a small capsule, the size of a ladybug, that can be eaten.

He had three more years before he got his first heat. The reason he carried it with him was that he might be able to help certain beings with the same physical constitution as him. Bringing along wasn't that difficult.

Asven got out of the leisure room and left Neisha inside. He had gotten closer to her since he made the pastries. Now, he needs to make another set of cupcakes she likes.

"I'm amazed that you got her under your control. Other people who have been killed by now." Ambrios said with a smirk.

And another friend he made there.

"Well, isn't there a saying, if you want someone to like you, you must fill their tummy first? I just did that." Asven shrugged.

"Tsk! Don't talk to me like an old lady." Ambrios grimaced.

Suddenly, a ringing tone sounded around them. Asven quickly reaches for his pants pocket and clasps an earpiece communication device. He put it on his right ear.

"Yes?"

Ambrios stares at him. He wondered who called and immediately had a bad feeling after seeing Asven's cheerful expression turn worse. Unbeknownst to the latter, a few drops of tears had slid down his cheek. His hand that was on his right ear along with his whole body was trembling. He slowly lowered down his hand.

"Sir? Sir, do you hear me? We need you to confirm your mother's identification again. Please come to the AMA hospital at once."

The voice that should be a nurse, was talking to Asven, but Asven could not hear anything anymore. The news brought by the nurse has shocked him into a stupor. Ambrios heard her sentence because he had opened his high hearing ability. He quickly took over the earpiece and asked her something. He finally knows the reason.

"Asven, I'll send you there. Come on!" Ambrios grabs Asven's hand and pulls him to walk.

'What a poor child…'

He thought quietly with sadness. He went to knock on Neisha's leisure room first.

"What happened?" Neisha asked Ambrios with concerned eyes.

She had opened the door because she could recognize Asven and other workers' way of knocking before. She felt strange for Ambrios to come to her and open it immediately. Then, she was shocked to see Asven's eyes looked empty and tears still flowing from his eyes.

"Her mother…" Ambrios didn't say more when he realised she understood it.

"Let's go!" Neisha had walked fast toward the exit door.

Ambrios follows after her while pulling Asven with him since the latter could not move on his own. Syaga happened to stand by the flying car and he just started smoking when he saw the three of them. He threw his cigarette away and started the car without inquiring anything yet. When they all were inside…

"Where to?" He asked.

"AMA Hospital."

"Got it!"

Syaga drove the car at his highest speed. He doesn't need anyone to tell him what happened because he could guess it from Asven's sorrowful expression. All of them already know Asven's mother's health was getting worse. Unbeknownst to Asven, they have tried to help him by funding the best medical treatment for her. However, it's like fate still wants her to leave the mortal realm and so, the day finally arrived.

When Asven arrived in her mother's ward, his feet felt so heavy to take a step inside. He would usually see her through the open door with her lips smiling at him cheerfully. But, today the door was closed. To get in, he must push it himself.

Neisha, who got a hold of his left hand, felt the coldness of it. She could understand his feelings because she lost her mother too but it was when she was younger. Now, she was close to a hundred years old, she doesn't feel that much anymore. Yet, still feel a little sad for Asven.

"Go in, Asven. We're here if you need us." She told him softly.

Asven took a deep breath. He snapped out of his daze when he was in the car when he realised the three of them were with him. He had cried his heart out in the car while being hugged by Ambrios and patted by Neisha on his back. Now, he still has tears left in his eyes. With encouragement from his friends, Asven went inside alone.

"Mother…"

Asven's eyes couldn't move when he saw a white cloth cover her mother's face. He walked toward her step by step slowly, before he stumbled because of his weakened legs. He kneeled on the cold floor and stared at her body with so much pain in his heart. He knew this day would come but not this fast. He couldn't accept this.

Yesterday, her mother still looked healthy and energised. How can she end like this?!

He doesn't believe it! No!

"Mother… Mother… Why did you… Leave me now…? I… I…" He called her in grief.

He's going to be alone from now on. How can he survive without her?

She was his strength and the light in his life. He felt his heart slowly getting bleak from her loss. The days ahead without her feels so much worse than living. He stops thinking when his thoughts want him to leave with her too. In other words, kill himself. But, he remembered his promise to her yesterday.

"Asven, I don't know how long I can live…" She told him suddenly.

"Mother, please don't say that! I don't like it. You'll get better!" He replied with a frown.

He was stripping away the apple skin when her mother said it.

"Haha, silly boy. Death will come to anyone when the time is up. Promise me that if I'm gone someday, you must live on, okay?"

"No, I don't want to hear it!" He looked away like a tantrum kid.

"Promise…?" She told him gently.

He glanced at her. It was bad to not agree but he can't disappoint her.

"Urgh… Fine… But, you have to live with me until I'm fifty years old and married… And, and give you lots of grandchildren." He relented in the end but made her mother promise him next.

Her mother giggled at his silly request but still promised him. Who would have thought the next day she would leave him.

"Mother… It's not fair… You made a promise… You've promised…"

He cupped his face and cried out again. This time his wail sounded loudly even his friends outside trembled in sadness for him.