But Kael couldn't say anything. His mouth remained shut of words as he swallowed hard, trying to accept the fact that his luck was bad as he wasn't dead or in another world, but rather in the same one, haggled between three people he had to keep from discovering he was an Omega.
"I…" Kael started, his eyes trailing around the people in the room. Before he could even refocus on Caius, someone else came into view.
Leonhardt's sister.
She smiled as she walked toward him and, once she stood before him, placed her hands on his shoulders, she said, "Are you okay? Someone told me they saw you being carried to the clinic and that you looked like you were dying, so I got my friends to come with me and greet you…"
"Ah… I see…" Kael said, glancing over the people in the room again. His mind finally registered that they weren't that many—just five plus Caius.
"Thank you… I'm okay," he added, turning back to Caius. He needed to talk to him ASAP, in case he ran his mouth and exposed that Kael was an Omega.
Kael sighed, glanced at Nyssa, then at the room, and pressed his lips together before asking, almost in a whisper, "Since you've seen that I'm okay, can you excuse us? I want to tell him something important…"
Nyssa kept looking at Kael as though she hadn't heard him or maybe she didn't. Kael wasn't sure, so he focused his eyes on her and asked again.
"I said, since you've seen me, you can leave. I want to undress," he said more clearly this time, rephrasing it so it wouldn't sound like he wanted to share some secretive, potentially intimate thing with a Beta. Especially since he was already known for kissing Alphas, people might think he was moving on to Betas too. He had to clarify. He scratched his sweaty hands as he coughed lightly. In shame.
Nyssa seemed to catch that correctly. She smiled brightly, turned to her friends, spoke briefly, and they all waved before leaving. Then it was just Caius and Kael.
The clinic had covers that could section off the room, and Kael stretched out his hand to draw one, but Caius reached out and held his hand.
"I'll do it," he said softly. Kael nodded and watched him pull the cover into place.
Then Kael faced Caius, only to be caught off guard by his mischievous grin. He scratched his head, furrowing his brows as he asked, already uneasy. He was already dealing with an obsessive Alpha breathing down his neck, someone who believed firmly that he was an Omega. He couldn't handle any more surprises, especially not ones that started with a grin.
"Not really… Just surprised you went to the extent of pushing Nyssa out and even closing the curtains just to talk to me. What's wrong?" Caius asked.
"Ah…" Kael swallowed hard. Actually , Cuaius shouldn't feel important because nothing he was saying was adding up in Kael's head. He was still trying to find a good way to bottle up his words and explain everything.
He just needed to tell him how much his life depended on the disguise and how it could literally fall apart if Caius sabotaged it. Kael's palms were sweaty, his heart was racing, and he tried to calm himself, but then Caius opened his mouth again.
"Is it because you're mad popular among the students?"
"Huh?" Kael's face scrunched in confusion. He wasn't sure what the Beta was getting at. "What do you mean?"
Caius smirked. "I mean, you guys kissed. And when you met me, you got so scared, like a cat, that you choked on your air. So, what's wrong?"
'He knows I kissed a guy!!!' Kael squealed internally, eyes locked on Caius, trying to read his body language. But Caius seemed normal—no weird tension, just casual behavior.
'And he's not too bothered or shocked…Don't tell me… he doesn't know about my lie?' Kael mused, his head tightening in shock.
He stared at Caius and asked, "I'm an Omega, right?"
"Yes…" Caius said, trailing off, clearly unsure why Kael asked or what he was getting at.
'He doesn't know anything!'
A wave of relief hit Kael. The heaviness in his chest lifted, the fuzz in his head cleared, his sweaty hands relaxed, and he no longer worried about how to deliver the speech.
He stood up from the clinic bed, his shirt soaked from the overwhelming heat that had been tormenting him for hours. Caius looked up and said, "You still haven't answered me… and where are you going?"
Kael sighed, placed a hand on his shoulder as he moved past him. "I need to take a cold shower and sleep. Then get ready for my next class."
"Oh… You're coming to the evening behavioral class?" Caius asked.
"Huh…" Kael muttered.
'Behavioral class…what the fuck is that even?! Why the fuck did I tell him I'm going to class this evening? Shooting myself in the foot!' Kael panicked, forehead furrowing.
But then he calmed down, 'I shouldn't worry about these small matters. If I don't show up, then he should assume I stabbed it. Right?'
Caius, who had been sitting, watched Kael's expression crumple again. He abruptly stood, grabbed a bottle of water from the adjacent bed, and brought it toward Kael. But Kael, too shaken up and unsteady on his feet, collided with him, and they both went crashing down, Kael landing on the bed first, Caius falling right on top of him.
Silence filled the room. Heavy breathing echoed.
"Fuck!" Kael cursed. "You're fucking heavy! Trying to crush me under your fucking stupid weight weight!!"
Kael was now sandwiched beneath Caius, his face fuming and his bones aching. Caius scrambled off after regaining his balance, and Kael followed, his face flushed with frustration.
He spread his arms wide, and he was soaked.
'Now I have no absolute choice than to actually go cool my head off at the dorm...why have I got such a bad luck!'
Kael hissed and walked towards the door, not looking back at Caius, nor saying a word to him.
But Caius had other plans up his sleeve.
"For an Omega, you were also incredibly heavy, not as light as you look."
"What the fuck… What am I supposed to do now? Be happy?" Kael shouted, without looking back. He was too good in a bad mood to worry about what comes out of his mouth or worry about how it affects him. He spun from the room afterwards.
Caius stood there, watching him go. "I did say that to get a reaction from him… then again, calling an Omega heavy isn't necessarily nice…"