I promise

Marcy was just about giving up and joining the others at the dining table, dreading the fact that she had to reveal the disgraceful truth. She truly didn't know where her nephew was.

She however, almost toppled to the ground on seeing Daniel shuffling downstairs, Naomi just behind him.

"Good morning". Daniel said while Naomi echoed his words. They walked off to the kitchen, Naomi almost jogging to keep up with Daniel's long angry strides.

Marcy blinked several times. If it weren't for the fact that she had been trying to reach them all morning, she wouldn't have believed that these two were missing since last night.

She heard Ciara calling out to her for something. A strong battle began on who to go after but after Stacey called out to her as well, she reluctantly went to the dining room to face the angry Alpha's.

The kitchen was quiet, the other Omegas having gone home to their families only to return by evening to repare dinner and for the Alpha's naming ceremony.

Naomi piled his pancakes on a plate and began running the syrup over his pancakes.

Daniel was silently boiling in rage. He had never been slapped in his life!!! Never!!! Not by his aunt or his late father or his nanny, Naomi. And the first time he gets hit and it's by Dora because she misunderstood a simple scene of him leaving a room with an Omega with disheveled clothes in the morning when everyone believed he was absent in the mansion.

Besides..even if she had assumed he had slept with an Omega, why does it rile her up so much. What's her business if he decides to sleep with everyone in Dark Risers's pack. It's not like they were engaged or mated or anything. Why did she have to slap him. How dare she?!

If it was one thing he had learnt from his aunt, it was never laying a finger on a woman no matter who and no matter what she had done.

But Daniel knew his restraint was coming to an end, and one day and he might as well just strangle one to death.

His angry thoughts were however put on hold and his fiercely narrowed eyes relaxed and softened, a glow to his sparkling blue eyes when he noticed the way Naomi had spread out his syrup on his pancakes.

The way her hands moved over them, sprinkling the thick caramel liquid over the pancakes, it reminded him of …

FLASKBACK

"No ..do it like this". Daniel pestered in his babish voice, his adorable huge eyes twinkling as he grabbed the jug from the Omega's hand to pour the syrup over his pancakes which were piled up on his plate.

The Omega was irritated with how he leaned over the chair spilling syrup all over the ground in a bid to pour them over his pancakes.

She swiped it away from him and the boy toppled over the chair and fell to the ground.

The Alpha was out for work and even if he was around, he barely had time for his son and wouldn't notice If someone had actually kidnapped Daniel unless he was kicked away from his office right outside to the opening. So it was not surprising that the cries of Daniel only resounded in the kitchen while the maid glared at him with so much hate.

"Oh..how I hate you!! Do you think it's easy cleaning up after every mess you make in this house and now look!! Look at the mess you've made on the ground. You are not having a single morsel of food until everything's been wiped off the ground. Here!! Have this". She threw the sobbing boy a towel and it landed on the mass of shiny black curls on his head.

"Nana!!". The boy suddenly yelled, dropping the towel and running to a skinny looking girl who just walked in with a basket of dirty laundry.

Naomi froze on seeing his tears and didn't hesitate to drop everything and let him into her embrace. Her lips parted in surprise as the older maid walked over, intending to grab the boy.

The young girl used her body as a human shield, hiding the boy behind her.

"Stay away from this. This boy have to be taught a lesson. He thinks he can do whatever he likes because he's the Alpha's son. I'll show him how to be more careful and useful next time. Out of the way!!".

Naomi spread her arms wide, restricting the cruel woman from touching him.

"He's just a child Tasha. Do you expect him to know what he did wrong. He's barely four years!!".

"The others were right. You're suddenly playing the role of his mother just to gain favor from the Alpha. You're just a little girl. You can't stop me from punishing him".

Naomi ignored her words but didn't let the woman go close to the boy.

"I'll clean it up myself".

The woman sneered.

"I'm in charge of lunch later this afternoon. I'll make sure you don't taste a morsel till evening. Maybe next time, you'd mind your business". With that, the woman sauntered away.

Naomi didn't say another word and only fell to her knees, hugging the boy close to him while he sobbed, wondering what the woman would do to him if Naomi wasn't around. Maybe he'd receive a few rough pinches on the cheek or his food ratio could be halfed like other times?

"Nana promise me you won't leave me alone. Everyone's so mean to me and very scary".

"I won't ever leave you Danny. I promise". She softly said, hugging him tighter with closed eyes.

After a while, she sent him off and grabbed a towel to clean up the mess. Daniel didn't leave as she wanted him to and only stood at the door, food trembling in hand as he watched her clean up the mess he made.

When Naomi was done, she was prepared to leave when she saw Daniel still standing there.

"What are you still doing here Danny. You've not even touched your food. You won't like it if it's cold".

"I want us to eat together Nana". The boy suddenly ordered when she was about carrying the basket of clothes which was twice her size since she was too skinny for her age.

Naomi froze and was about to decline to the order when her stomach growled in the silence of the kitchen indicating how long Tasha had kept her hungry.

"See …even your tummy says you should eat".

"Tummies can't talk". She almost rolled her eyes.

"But you said if my tummy growls, it's saying it wants to me to eat".

Naomi was suddenly speechless when he used her own words against her. She couldn't force him to eat alone. He'd definitely not eat and if he gets sick from skipping breakfast, it'd be her fault.

Reluctantly but gratefully, she joined him to eat, taking care to let him eat to his fill before eating the remains after. He had noticed that but didn't press the issue further. The fact that she still ate, meant a lot to him.

END OF FLASHBACK

He could imagine his inner conscience sighing while holding the bridge of his nose.

Why can't he just let go of the fact that Naomi had died, leaving him alone in this cruel world without caring If he'd feel lost without her, without caring to stick to her promise of never leaving him.

She was the reason he was sent away, yet he was still looking forward to seeing again before his father had broke the news to him.

"Here". Naomi suddenly said, snapping him out of his thoughts. "Do you need blue berries or…,".

"It's fine". He stiffly said, taking the plate.

"Don't you want her as the side piece though". Kelvin suddenly said. You could imagine him waggling his eyebrows as he noted.

Daniel rolled his eyes and couldn't help but picture Naomi on the bed with syrup sprawled over her naked body just like he liked it on his pancakes.

The thought of licking every inch of her, ardoning and worshipping every part of her body till she pleaded for him to take her there was…

"Shut up". He suddenly yelled at Kelvin when his imagination began to run wild and it was all his doing in the first place.

Kelvin retreated to the back of his mind with a chuckle while Naomi jumped on hearing him yell.

"What?". She wasn't sure she heard him well. Who was he talking to?

"Nothing". He replied, annoyed.

"Okay..um..". He gaze moved to the mark on his cheek. "Do you want an ice bag for that".

Her exquisite eyes dug into his very soul and he was left shocked by her words and the genuine care in her eyes.

"No I'm...Okay. It's just a little bruise". He murmured, not used to young women caring about him. Women were tools of pleasure. How could she possibly care about some stupid swell on his cheek.

He didn't wait for her to say anything else before leaving the kitchen, the scent of chocolate liqueur and citrus driving him crazy.

If he could just have one night with her, rest assured that he had gotten a taste of the mysterious Omega who wouldn't even reveal herself to him, he'd reject her as his mate before moving on to more beautiful women to flex on his bed.

Like that blonde haired beauty he was almost close to f**king at the club before Naomi walked in on them making out and killed his turn on with her scent.

It was a total fail though. At least he starts school next week (If Marcy doesn't kill him by then) and he'd probably see her again and they could sneak out to more places very often. Yeah….

He finally arrived at the dining and once he did, he made a beeline for his seat which was once his father's seat, the largest chair with exclusive intricate carvings on them at the head of the table.

Everyone paused their conversations to stare at him, almost like they were staring at a ghost. The whole room was silent but for the faint sounds of the wild youngersters lounging in the garden just outside.