Chapter 50 - BAD DAY

Ioan didn't expect that Julien's friend could be so cute. 

Two hours later, Ioan turned on the computer and found that he had received a new mail. The sender was one of his friends working in the security company, it should be the result of what he was asked to investigate after Etienne left. He clicked to open the mail and earnestly read the information.

Etienne Emond, 23 years old, from a B city, from an ordinary family, is about to graduate from A University of music, majoring in piano. 

Ioan was quite satisfied when he read that omega was not in a relationship.

Could it be that he is being overly interested in his brother's friend? 

During a lunch break, Lucius picked up the phone. It was a business call, but when they finished discussing and negotiating the list of property that Ioan has to sell, out of the blue his friends mentioned that he wants to bring a person to his company and be a secret backer. 

Lucius knew Ioan for some time and that kind of thing was completely not his style. 

What was even more surprising for Lucius was that that person turned out to be his boyfriend's best friend that they already signed and were waiting for him to graduate to start officially work with. It was Julien's wish. So Lucius very quickly realized that Ioan was doing that without his brother's knowledge. A smile stretched across Lucius's face but just as fast disappeared when he looked at his watch. 

At the same moment, Ioan shivered, he suddenly felt deep malice from the universe. He rubbed down the goosebumps on his arms, took a book and sat by the window to read to brush off this weird feeling. 

Despite the passage of time, Ioan was unable to focus, he time and time again thought back to today's morning. Only when omega's embarrassed face appeared in his mind, he was unable to bear it any longer and threw away the book. 

Ioan flung open the door and walked at a rapid pace toward his car, it didn't take him a lot of time to storm into the club. As he went in, he immediately strode toward the scene. 

Ioan cast his gaze to look over, but then he instantly fixed his eyes on the sight. Etienne sat beside the piano with his hands gently put on the piano's keys with a smile in his eyes. 

Ioan's face revealed a slight soothing expression as if the existence of omega made him feel at ease. Hiding in the corner and leaning against the wall, he quietly watched omega play the piano. Etienne's eyes were half-closed and his tranquil. His body moved gently with the music. 

Watching and listening Ioan finally relaxed, sat on the sofa, ordered some liquor to his table, but through this whole time his gaze was always focused on the person on the stage. 

Etienne had time to change clothes and now he wore long white pants and a black shirt. Though he dressed in such plain and simple clothing, it gave people a kind of elegant and noble temperament. He had a delicate built but not weak body. His legs were long and slender and his demeanor was stable and steady. It made Ioan unable to move his eyes. 

The last melody Etienne played at the end of the work was completely different. The peaceful and blissful became more disoriented and sorrowful. He was singing, but it was so quiet that even a person standing next to him wouldn't be able to hear it. 

Etienne sang in a hushed tone: 

An excellent person like me should have a brilliant life 

How come after over twenty years I'm still struggling like others 

A smart person like me has parted from the simplicity 

How come I devoted my love in return for scars all over 

A confused person like me, a seeker like me 

An unsuccessful person like me how many of them have you seen

A messy person like me never like to pretend to be composed 

How come sometimes while I heard some old song 

I would get lost in thoughts suddenly

A coward like me would like to keep everything low-key 

How come I ever thought of risking myself for someone 

A lonely person like me, a foolish person like me 

A person like me who is unwilling to stay ordinary 

How many of them are there in the world 

A weird person like me will anyone care about

Ioan also couldn't hear anything but looking straight at Etienne's face, he could lip-read some worlds. Nevertheless, he was still annoyed by not being close enough to know exactly about what omega was singing. 

In the next moment, Etienne stood up, bowed and left the stage. 

As headed to the cloakroom to change his clothes, one of the club visitors stumbled and sprayed down his shirt with red wine. 

The man that bumped into him was tall and handsome alpha. He unexpectedly put his arm around Etienne's shoulder and apologized: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to. Could... could you forgive me? I'll do anything to make it up to you, I swear!" 

Etienne instantly pushed aside his arm and squeezed out a sentence with difficulty: "That's not necessary." 

With that said, he straightened his back then bypassed the alpha and went into the toilet to try to save his shirt. But as Etienne was walking out in a large stride, the alpha's eyes flashed with some evil light. 

Once Etienne changed clothes, he got into the washroom and promptly approached the sink to clean the red stain before it didn't dry up. It was hard to find the correct and comfortable position of tap between the 'hella hot' and 'freezing to death', so he opted on 'almost burning your skin' as his hands started to brush the material with the remains of the club's soap.

Etienne didn't even want to count failures that happened to him today. He knew that some days of his life were particularly unlucky, but he already had a bad day last week and thought that maybe fate would spare him till next month. But it looked that the short boy wasn't in the favor.

And he thought that his life was slowly moving onto the right tracks: "This day can't get any worse…"

It felt like someone heard him and decided to prove him wrong because as soon as those words left his dry lips, the doors to the bathroom swung open and someone walked inside: "I was searching for you to compensate." 

The alpha who said that groaned wickedly and theatrically and headed off in this direction.

This day couldn't get any worse and yet here he was!