Chapter 22 - PALPITATIONS

After they left, Lucius this time opened the door at the front seat of the car and said lightly: "Let's go. I'll send you back."

Julien stood up on his heels. Though his eyes were hanging down: "I can..."

He was decisively cut off before he could finish: "I'll send you back."

Lucius's tone allowed for absolutely no refusal.

The car gradually drove away. Waiting for a crossroads, Lucius accidentally glimpsed omega's mobile phone and noticed he'd had the GPS open, saying: "I know the way."

Julien raised his head: "It is important to find out where we are."

Lucius noticed from the corner of his eye, Julien's seemingly incessant posture of shrinking himself into a shell to avoid him. He saw his seriousness and shook his head with a faint smile.

Lucius suddenly felt a desire to tease the omega. He wanted to see even more rich expression on the youth's face and this kind of impulse was really unfamiliar to him. Lucius turned a car into a side street and stopped it to look at the boy. Julien turned his head and gazed at the alpha with vigilance, like a hedgehog who was puffing up its spines, as if he was an extremely dangerous being.

Lucius raised an eyebrow. He didn't think that the omega would have this tough side to him. It was much stronger than he had expected. This avoiding him in a fright attitude made Lucius not happy.

Lucius smiled friendly, the expression in his eyes profound: "I think you and we have got something to talk about."

Julien recalled last night, face turning indignant, and his features morphed through all sorts of embarrassed expressions. He felt extremely complicated.

Julien coughed twice: "About what?"

Lucius's eyes fell on omega's slightly red ears. He then quietly said: "Fine. Just take it as nothing had happened last night."

There was no discontent in his expression or voice. There was even a bit of warmth in his eyes as he gazed downwards.

Julien felt a little giddy. Under Lucius's gaze both his legs went soft. His mind was still clear, so he felt the change in his body all the more clearly.

Thump, thump, thump—

His heart was pounding and he took out the medicine from his pockets.

Was he overreacting something that was imaginary?

Julien glanced up and found himself locked in the dark gaze of who's sitting next to him, staring at him intently.

Heart failure.

Lucius's gaze was unwavering and intense and fixed on the suppressants in Julien's hands.

Julien shaked his head to gather his wits. His heart was pounding a frantic tattoo and for some reason he was blushing furiously.

Julien leaned back, trying to pull apart the distance between two people, but Lucius pressed his shoulder, letting him couldn't move. Julien whispered, because that was all he could manage: "Do you have idea what you are doing?"

There was a ghost of a gentle smile on his lips and his eyes were alight with humor, as if he was enjoying some private joke: "Have I ever released my pheromones in front of you?"

Julien muttered, his voice was soft and wavering: "Please. I want to go back."

Lucius's voice was low and dark eyes were concentrating hard on omega: "Anything else?"

Quickly, with trembling fingers, Julien took his medicine as the other retreated. He dared not look at him: "There is no need."

Lucius turned to drive: "Good."

Julien anxiously watched as the car drove to his villa residence.

After Lucius stopped at the entrance of Julien's home, he turned around and caught sight of his indescribable expression, thus he asked: "What's now with your expression?"

Julien turned to leave, then paused. He intermittently whispered: "Don't tell Ioan about this accident. He is a worrywart."

Lucius raised an eyebrow, amused, yet nodded: "Okay. Until next weekend Julien."

Lucius tongue caressed his name and Julien's heart once again was frantic. He could hardly breathe. Hurriedly, he got out of the car.

He didn't know that right before the event, there were a couple who were bored and taking a video of themselves and their camera recorded the whole scene where Julien grabbed the person from under the wheel. This video was posted by the couple on Weibo. In an instant, it was forwarded by thousands and not long after it advanced into the hot search.

[Silly Pumpkin: Isn't that famous and rich omega? Julien, right? He is so brave!]

[Royal Amma: +56 It's him! Do you guys realize that when Julien and the kid in his arms rolled over, he still covered the little boy's eyes?! Is he afraid that the child will be frightened? How considerate ah, still taking care of the boy in such a dangerous situation!]

[A Buddhist Guy: What the fuck, I'm freaking out just from watching. This car suddenly traversed over. I haven't reacted and this person had rushed up there!]

[Little Fatty: I'm crying! It's too beautiful when they both hugged and comforted each other!]

This video spread at an incredible speed and Ioan already knew about this event.