Trigger Warning: ntions of sexual assault & suicide attempts
Samuel lit a cigarette and laid his head lazily on Schneiders lap. The two of them were half-naked and were lying on the warehouse buildings platform in the east area of the Forbidden City, under a simple hut. It had beco the place for the two of them to have a tryst twice a week. Due to the remote location and the curfew at night, it was a very safe place.
Samuel spat out a smoke ring and suddenly laughed in a deep voice. I didnt expect that I would end up with the Chief Security Officer.
Schneiders eyes were looking at the pale moonlight shining through between the distinct clouds, with a cigarette burning between his fingers. It was Samuels. The blush due to lust had not yet faded from his cheeks, and he only had a thin shirt draped over his shoulders.
The city had entered sumr, so they didnt feel cold.
You wish that Ethan Eldridge was where Im currently sitting now? It was a question, but he spoke with a sure tone.
Samuel gave him a strange look and dryly sneered, Am I that obvious?
I could tell by how you gnash your teeth every ti you talk about the priest.
Samuel sighed with so chagrin and said, Dont talk nonsense. Also, Im not blind. I dont like dry Betas like Ethan. After speaking, he suddenly gave him a naughty smile and touched Schneider with his hand. Are you jealous?
Schneider swatted his hand and tugged at the shirt on his shoulders. Inwardly, he couldnt decipher what he was feeling.
You saw a shadow of Jas Moore through him, didnt you?
Samuel was stunned for a second. Then he sat up abruptly, turned, and stared at Schneider, asking, You investigated ?
Schneider calmly t the latters angry eyes. With a bit of provocation in his eyes, he admitted, Yes, I investigated you.
You Samuel glared at him for a mont, but he didnt know who should be blad for this matter. After he thought about it clearly, when he was chasing his ex-boyfriend, didnt he also search his information up on various social networking sites, look at the photos he posted, and secretly listen to the songs he wrote? When he thought about it this way, he still felt a strong contrast when the perpetually stern Chief Security Officer did this kind of thing.
He then had no choice but to smile and say, For the sake of you being such a fool, I wont make a fuss over it with you.
Did you enter the Forbidden City for that man? Schneider asked.
This question pierced the deepest wound in Samuels heart without warning like a sharp blade. He threw the cigarette in his hand away with a stiff smile. An awkward silence spread among the shadows cast by the surrounding plastic storage boxes.
He didnt continue speaking because Samuel already knew what the results of the investigation were.
Jas Moore was sowhat talented, but his talent was not enough to give him the capacity to act unreasonably. However, Jas was introverted, and he didnt know how to socialize with others. Although he was pretty, he was not in a top position in the entertainnt industry. He didnt like to be in the lilight, and he simply liked to play the piano and write music at ho. He didnt know how to make friends outside, so he didnt have many friends.
The first ti Samuel saw him was when he went to a bar to drink with so brothers who were fighting in the sa club. Samuel saw him sitting alone on the stage, playing the guitar and singing his own songs. He was wearing a pair of glasses, and his light brown hair gently blew across his forehead. He was wearing a simple, clean shirt, which was out of place among the noisy and beautiful environnt below. His brows drooped, and he carried a layer of indecisive lancholy. Even if no one really listened to his singing, he was very involved in his performance, as though he was dancing in an empty room.
Later, after he sang for a while and sat in the corner to rest, Samuel took the initiative to buy him a drink. His flattered expression was very lovely.
There were tons of young won around Samuel. Which Oga didnt like a man like him who was bursting with Alpha pheromones and looked like an idol? However, Samuel grew up living in a lie, and he was used to keeping a distance from everyone. Sotis, in order to pretend for the others around him, he would bring so Oga ho. Still, that type of insincere love made him feel defensive and empty, and he even felt lonely sotis.
However, everything changed after he t Jas. The Oga was probably the least proactive one he had ever seen. After leaving his contact information, he thought he would receive a ssage from him that evening, but he waited for a week and didnt get one. In the end, he went to the bar and finally t him again. When he invited him out to dinner, movies, and concerts, the other party sotis seed to be at a loss, but it was this rare simplicity that made Samuels heart itch.
It was no surprise that Jas fell in love with Samuel. Few single Oga could refuse him for a long ti. However, Samuel was fascinated by his clumsy way of showing his love. For example, when a delicious al was sent to Jas music club, the receptionist dismissed it as coming from an ordinary fan, so Samuel could only leave the al at the front desk with a red face. Or, when Jas wanted to prepare a birthday present for him and bought Samuel a pair of boxing gloves he had always wanted with the money he had saved, resulting in him being unable to pay the rent for next month. Every ti he saw the landlord, he would be scolded as they threatened to sue him in the Court of Ethics to reduce his moral value points. He had no choice but to stay at Samuels house for a few days, but he refused to let Samuel pay the rent for him. Instead, he ran to the bar all day long to sing. Fortunately, one of the songs he wrote was valued by a singer, and he earned two months worth of rent.
Jas wrote songs for him and sat by the window sill on their anniversary, playing the guitar and singing to him. At that ti, Samuel suddenly felt that he could trust Jas and told him his real gender.
At first, Jas was shocked, and his expression caused Samuel to only have one thought: Its over.
He would spread the matter around, sell the information to the newspaper, and then hell be arrested by the Court of Ethics to identify his real gender.
However, in the next mont, Jas hugged him and said, Its been hard for you to pretend for so many years, hasnt it?
Yes, Jas quickly accepted his real gender. He even offered to keep their relationship secret to reduce the attention they might attract. This seemingly weak Oga always shocked him.
The following days they spent together were very happy. They dated, lived together, quarreled, made up, and adopted a yellow-colored puppy together, just like a typical couple. They sprayed many alpha camouflaging inhibitors on each other during their estruses. They tried to take care of their partner like a real Alpha, and as Ogas, they understood their partners needs better.
Then, in the midst of their happiness ca a haze.
Jas told him one day that an executive director of Cyrus, a famous entertainnt company, was interested in so of his works and was going to sign a contract with him. The director had heard his works in a nightclub and liked them very much, so he scheduled ti to have an interview with him.
Samuel felt a little uneasy at that ti and always thought he was way too lucky. However, after seeing Jas so excited and happy, he didnt have the heart to pop his bubble. He simply celebrated and took him to their favorite steakhouse.
Later, Jas successfully signed the contract. Every day, he was bursting with energy as he took the song that he was most proud of to the company early in the morning and ca back later and later in the evening. He often ntioned the director and said how much he was taken care of by the other party. For the first ti, soone understood his work in this way. If he said too much, Samuel would get jealous and take Jas to bed to remind him who his partner was. Jas joked that he was a jealous man. He said that many Ogas were more attractive than him in the company, so that person would not like him.
However, Samuel always felt uneasy. He began to fly his aircraft to pick up Jas every day, regardless of whether he was photographed by those paparazzi robots.
He thought that it would be fine, as long as Jas was happy.
Then, an accident occurred at the year-end party that year. Jas didnt go ho all night, and Samuel couldnt get in touch with his capsule. The connection kept informing him that Jas capsule was closed. Samuel comforted himself that maybe he and his friends went out for a celebration, so he flew to the hotel where they had held the party. However, the hotel staff told him that the reception had ended a long ti ago.
He then asked angrily if the executive director had opened a room at the hotel. The other party said that everyone had left and no one was there.
Could it be that they changed venues to celebrate? Could Jas be ho by now? He rushed ho and saw the empty room.
He flew around the space station like a headless fly, stopping to search in front of every open nightclub. However, there was nothing. In the wee hours of the morning, he finally returned ho, exhausted, and was ready to report it to the police.
Just then, Jas ca back. As soon as Samuel opened the door, Jas fell into his arms and fainted.
Samuel was shocked. The big purple bite marks on Jas neck made his whole body go cold. His most cherished lovers clothes were in a ss. His suit was wrinkled, his shirt buttons were almost all torn off, and his clothes could not cover his thin chest filled with bruises. His wrists were covered in marks from being bound and so deep wounds. The blood stuck to his white skin, forming a piercing sight.
Holding Jas in his arms, Samuel couldnt believe that he did not protect the person in his arms and let such a terrible thing happen.
Jas fainted for a short ti. When he woke up, he began to cry silently. Samuel wanted to hold him, but he shrunk into a corner, trembling, and Samuel cried as he asked if it was alright to touch him.
Samuels heart was broken. He watched the Oga crying helplessly in the corner before he limped to the bathroom, rubbing his skin until it was red and bleeding and looking at him as though he had lost his soul. He didnt eat or drink, and he hid in the bedroom every day, depressed. Even Samuels touch would cause his whole body to tremble. Fear had diffused in his blue irises as though it was imprinted and could never be erased.
Therefore, the hatred in Samuels heart quickly took root and grew thorns that could cover the skies. He must make the man who hurt Jas pay.
However, he knew that the retribution would not co from the Court of Ethics because Cyrus had too many personal connections. Of course, he had people planted in the Court of Ethics. Otherwise, how could the artists in his company have gotten out of trouble previously? He needed to do it himself.
He didnt commit the act rashly, and he carefully crafted a plan. But one thing was for sure. He didnt intend to keep the executive director alive from the beginning. He bought electric saws, drills, ropes, cauldrons, corrosive chemicals, and other things and stored them in three temporary rented remote apartnts. He rented out an entire floor of an apartnt, spread plastic cloth and sound insulating boards on the floor of the selected rooms, and sealed the doors and windows. Then, he sent a ssage to the man through Jas capsule.
Killing soone was actually very simple, especially when the difference in money and status was eliminated and only the most primitive physical strength was used to fight. Samuels physique was like that of a soldier trained from a young age, and most Alphas in the world were not his opponent. He beat the man black and blue, then tied him to a chair and cut off the beasts evil organs. He listened to his howling, how he promised to give him money, again and again, apologized and begged for forgiveness in tears, and crawled humbly under his feet. However, it wasnt enough. He still hated the man. He trembled with pain at the thought of Jas eyes that had lost their glow.
He forced the man to tell him how he drugged Jas wine, how he took him out of the hotel into another hotel in the na of sending him ho, how he tied Jas up and abused him with brutal thods. This was not the first ti the executive had done this. In the company, many artists without background had been bullied by him, but there was no room for them to appeal. He had their contracts in his hands, and no one could afford the expensive penalty. He could hide those poor lambs who resisted him from the lilight at will, so that they couldnt earn a cent for several years in a row and finally had to crawl back to beg him.
Samuel couldnt listen anymore, and he cut the throat of the once powerful man with a knife.
Later, everything in his mory was very vague. He calmly dismbered the corpse, broke up the bones, put them into a special pot in batches, and then used corrosive agents to lt the corpse into a pool of greasy, viscous substances. Then, he poured them into the sewer. In order to not harm the pipes, he even put the corpse liquid in a bucket and later drove the aircraft to deal with it elsewhere.
It was ti-consuming, but that didnt matter. He has asked for leave from the club and said he was going back to his hotown to see his sick father. To make it seem realistic, he even bought a ticket to the Sixth Space Station. He took the opportunity to slip away after boarding to ensure that the airline kept his boarding record.
He washed the plastic cloth and floor with bleach, carefully took off his gloves and raincoat, and burned them in the pot with the plastic cloth. Before he left, he checked all the places and made sure they were cleaned.
He poured the corpse liquid into a septic tank in the slums. When he accomplished everything, he felt very relaxed.
Yes, he didnt have half the regret or fear of killing people. He just felt very happy.
However, he was caught. Obviously, the pervert had videotaped his invasion of Jas, so the police suspected Jas and arrested him. Samuel had been negligent during the process of the corpse disposal, and soone in the apartnt found that the water pipe had been blocked. As a result, a pelvic bone was found inside. The DNA test confird it belonged to the missing executive director. It was Jas who had last got in touch with the deceased before the accident, so it was almost certain they would convict Jas.
Therefore, to get rid of the suspicion on Jas, Samuel turned himself in.
After being convicted, he saw his heartbroken father sitting in the gallery and silently crying and saw the despair and fear in Jas eyes, without any joy at being avenged. Samuel finally had a trace of doubt in his heart, and he questioned whether his decision was correct.
However, on the other hand, he thought it was worthwhile to exchange his brilliant life for a happy revenge. He even thought it was a noble sacrifice.
A month later, Jas established a relationship with another Alpha.
Samuel knew that he shouldnt bla Jas because he was on the verge of ntal collapse at that ti. He had been arrested, taken in for interrogation, and was forced to watch the video of his most painful night. He was already suffering from severe depression. Samuel was supposed to take care of him and comfort him, but he entered the Forbidden City just like that. Jas would never see him again in his life, and Samuel had left him alone in the dark.
There was another person who was willing to take care of Jas. He should be at ease, right? But why was he so incredibly angry? So angry that he wanted todestroy everything?
In fact, as soon as he entered the Forbidden City, he had already lost his Jas, right? Why did he feel that it was so real when he entered?
Up until now, the na Jas had beco an ache he did not want to ntion. No matter how he imagined it, he had no way to modify the ending in which he was dood to lose him.
Now, all of a sudden, the past has been placed right in front of him. He was in tears before he knew it.
It had been three years, but just a na could still make him feel so much pain.
A broad and slightly rough hand carried a bit of pity as it gently wiped away his tears. Schneider took off his formal and solemn disguise, and the expression in his eyes lted into warmth.
Hes having a good ti now. He goes to see a psychologist regularly and is recovering well. His partner is a doctor and is very kind to him. They have a child, Schneider whispered, Your sacrifice for him was worth it.
Schneider didnt tell Samuel that Jas had cut his wrist in an attempt to commit suicide after he entered the city, and he had t the doctor after he was sent to the hospital. He felt that it wasnt necessary.
Hearing these words, Samuel didnt know why but he couldnt help but fall onto Schneiders shoulder and burst into tears.
For the first ti in three years, he straightforwardly cried.
It turned out that he had been waiting for soone to tell him such a sentence.
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