Kyungsoo felt used and hurt. He couldn’t understand how the closeness and the intimacy that they shared during the alpha’s rut had all vanished away. Everything made him feel like a fool for assuming, even for one second, that the king might have wanted something more with him, that he wanted to take another step in their relationship especially when he had kept their very respectful and mostly limited.

They could be close to friends, but Kyungsoo loathed the idea. He wanted them to be like the other mates. What hurt him the most was that he was the problem. He had no idea how to be as charming as the other court omegas. He never hated his smart mouth more in his life. All those omegas knew when to act cute or dumb, they knew how to have the alphas wrapped around their pretty fingers whereas he couldn’t even capture the attention of someone who was already married to him. He was utterly miserable. He tried to directly approach the alpha about the subject but he was always rejected in the politest way possible.

‘You cannot force somebody to love you’ he reminded himself. He had just received a letter from his father. In that letter, the old king had informed him that he will be visiting King Jongin’s kingdom in ten days and the date that it was signed was three days ago. He was almost there and they were not ready. His father couldn’t find out that they were not together like they should have been. He couldn’t know that they d