✽ this is a sidestory to Chasing the Elusive. It takes place after the last chapter, detailing Chanyeol's side of the story. I guess you don't have to read CTE to understand this tho, since Chanyeol and Baekhyun will mention the past events of that story, but you should read it anyway, since I poured blood sweat and tears over CTE :P

✽ this is a short story! i hope to post it soon! ^^ and it'll be angsty (since chanyeol is trying to learn how to move on), but it'll have a happy ending, promise!

✽ and yes, this is an alpha/beta/omega story, in case you didn't read the prequel and didn't realize. and both Chanyeol and Baekhyun are from the Noble families, aka they're rich and privileged kids hahaha.

✽ gorgeous poster by Jelly Bubble, thank you so much! ♥

It's become the hot topic of conversation for the idle employees in his office. They are made up of the Noble children, with too much time on their hands and too little work they have to sort through. Their division is privileged, Baekhyun knows. Some people are just born in a more blessed life.

Some people are born in an even more superior life than the blessed, like if you're the son of a Park, one of the Central Noble Families, and you just transferred here, holding the Executive Lead position instantly.

"He's such a young and talented alpha," Baekhyun's heard a beta said once, during lunch break. "He might seem flighty, but I heard he's very smart! Graduated top of his year!"

"Not to mention he's so tall! And handsome," an omega sighs dreamily.

"You might want to be careful," the beta warns. "Isn't he embroiled in that scandal with the Kims?"

"The Kims?"

"You know, Kim Jongin and his mate? They both disappeared three months ago... And I heard Chanyeol was the cause!"

"I've heard of it, but... Chanyeol doesn't look like a mate-stealer, does he?" the omega scrambles, worried.

"Well, you never know what they're like inside—" The conversation continues, but Baekhyun isn't listening anymore.

After all, they don't know anything. Just empty words.

But Baekhyun—he knows.

Baekhyun's been watching Chanyeol, quietly, like a fool, since that year in high school.

Baekhyun knows Chanyeol.

Even if the other boy might not know him back.