The Overworked Beta and the Paranoid Alpha 84

Chapter 84: An Unknown Fire

After entering the room, Romeo sealed Wen En’s lips, and even went a step further, intending to push him onto the bed.

“Get off me,” Wen En pushed his shoulders and said.

“I guess Tara must be eavesdropping outside right now,” Romeo whispered. “We’d better be loud, so we can scare him away… Ow, ow! It hurts!”

“I said, get off me,” Wen En clenched his fists and said.

Romeo pursed his lips. He was not happy, but he gave in under the threat of Wen En’s fists.

“How could you do this!” but Romeo was still a little unwilling. He hugged Wen En’s firm, lean waist. Damn it, who could resist this?

“I just said you could rest here. I didn’t say you could do anything else,” Wen En glanced at him.

Despite saying so, Wen En did not slap his hand away this time.

Seeing this, Romeo, of course, took a mile and buried his head in Wen En’s shoulder, taking a deep breath.

At this time, Wen En was wearing a loose bathrobe provided by the hotel. The bathrobe had the hotel’s exclusive lavender-scented detergent smell, mixed with Wen En’s faint scent of clary sage and sea salt shower gel.

“What are you doing?” Wen En chuckled softly. “I don’t have any pheromones. You’re sniffing around like a puppy. You won’t smell anything.”

“Pheromones? What’s the use of that?” Romeo continued to nuzzle like a puppy. “You don’t need that to make me go crazy.”

“Haha, what a sweet-talking little bastard,” Wen En laughed and couldn’t help but curse him.

In the end, Wen En put his arms around Romeo’s neck and started to kiss him, nose to nose.

Until Romeo’s coconut-mixed-with-lemon Alpha pheromones, like a victor, left a mark on every part of his body.

Until the smell of lavender detergent and clary sage sea salt shower gel completely disappeared.

Wen En lay on the bed, with soft pillows under his lower back and knees. He stared at the crystal chandelier on the ceiling, which was not connected to the power. For a moment, his pupils were a little dazed.

“How was it?”

The man with a head of light golden hair and a pair of azure eyes was the source of all this evil.

And he still had the nerve to ask, “How was it?”

Wen En was annoyed just by looking at him. He really wanted to slap him in the face. He raised his hand, but in the end, he couldn’t bear to. His fingers gently rested on Romeo’s cheek.

“Why aren’t you answering me?” Romeo rubbed his palm and said in a low voice.

Wen En still didn’t answer him, but just touched Romeo’s left brown, thick eyebrow with his fingertips. Romeo subconsciously closed his left eye, and Wen En’s fingertips happened to stop on his closed left eyelid.

“I really want to,” Wen En suddenly said, “I really want to gouge out your eyes.”

Romeo’s other eye looked at him, his gaze filled with confusion.

“Gouge out your eyes and put them here,” Wen En said, withdrawing his hand and pointing to his lower right chest.

Romeo raised an eyebrow. He was about to ask, “Why?” but the words in his throat turned into, “That’s fine.”

“Really?” Wen En’s interest was piqued. “Aren’t you scared?”

“No, I’m not,” Romeo lowered his head, rubbed Wen En’s cheek, and said in a low voice, “That way, I can always be in your heart and watch you.”

“Pfft,” Wen En let out a low laugh.

“I’m serious,” seeing Wen En’s attitude, Romeo pouted with dissatisfaction and kissed Wen En a dozen times. “I’m not like Tara, a fraud who talks nonsense with his eyes open. I’m telling the truth.”

“Oh,” Wen En said. “So you also know he’s talking nonsense. I thought you really took it seriously.”

At the mention of this, Romeo became angry. “Even if it’s fake, I can’t accept him always pestering you!”

Although he knew that Tara had no sincerity, only hypocrisy and lies, he was relieved.

When he saw that Wen En’s attitude towards Tara was polite but distant and subtly annoyed, he was relieved again.

But what if it suddenly became real?!

At this thought, Romeo felt an unknown fire.

He absolutely could not allow such a thing to happen, absolutely! Not allowed!

He knew that the probability of this was infinitely close to zero, but even if there was only a faint spark, Romeo had to stomp it out completely.

“Then what can you do? Kill him?” Wen En said with some amusement.

Romeo pursed his lips. He really couldn’t do anything to Tara, let alone something illegal like murder.

Moreover, in his subconscious, he felt that Tara’s words also had some truth to them at times.

Compared to him, Tara and Wen En were more like people from the same world. They had similar life experiences. If Tara’s mind was a little more normal, and Wen En was not so strong, Romeo felt that they would become good friends, and their relationship could even go a step further…

Then what would be left for him? The more Romeo thought about it, the more his heart ached, as if a blood clot was blocking his cardiovascular system.

He once again felt that the distance between him and Wen En was greater than he had imagined, even greater than the distance between Planet T27 and Capital Star.

So great that if Wen En took a step back, Romeo would never be able to find him again.

Seeing the indescribable sadness in those blue eyes, Wen En was stunned for a moment and said, “What’s wrong?”

Wen En thought that Romeo was just sad from being jealous of Tara. He didn’t expect that Romeo would actually care so much about this matter. He said:

“Let’s not talk about him, okay? Look at me. From now on, you just need to focus all your attention on me. You don’t need to care too much about what other people say or do.”

He kissed his lips, like a bee on a stamen. “Okay, Roy?”

Wen En, as if stroking a frightened puppy, stroked the stray hair on Romeo’s forehead while saying his nickname:

“You just need to love me. You don’t need to think about anything else,” Wen En kissed Romeo comfortingly.

To his surprise, this time, Romeo turned his head and dodged his kiss.

“Romeo?” Wen En looked at him with confusion.

“Why? Wen En, why me?”

Tears flowed uncontrollably from the corners of Romeo’s eyes and dripped onto the back of Wen En’s hand.

“Why did you choose me, Wen En? You clearly have better choices…”

“…”

“Did Tara say something to you?” Wen En clenched his fists and said, “I’m going to find him now.”

Wen En gritted his teeth, feeling an unknown fire.

He would definitely beat Tara until his nasal bone was broken, his brow bone was shattered, and his jaw was dislocated today.

“No, Wen En, it has nothing to do with Tara,” Romeo shook his head like a rattle drum. “I just don’t understand.”

He held his head. He suddenly felt a headache. The invisible confusion and bewilderment, mixed with his tears, made his head swell and feel uncomfortable.

He stretched out his hand tremblingly, his tearful eyes looking ahead with confusion—memories of his childhood, memories of his youth, played before his eyes like a stop-motion movie.

—The moment his father showed a disappointed look, his biological father showed a disgusted look, his adoptive father showed an indifferent look, and Peter screamed as he was burned by the fire, the movie in front of him began to skip frames.

Then, all their faces began to merge together, merging into one face.

Romeo stared with terror. He had never seen so many changing expressions on one face, with joy, passion, impulse, hatred…

Damn it, I want to throw up.

Romeo tried his best to suppress the nauseous impulse.

At the same time, he found with despair: all along, he had never forgotten the harm they had brought him.

He had just suppressed them deep in his heart, until Tara’s appearance had called them out.

He stared blankly ahead. He saw that the ever-changing face eventually turned into his father’s appearance. His father looked at him with a cold expression. At the same time, he saw the shadows of his biological father, his adoptive father, and Peter behind him.

“Do you think you can get rid of me?” his father sneered mockingly.

He approached, looking down at the small, 10-year-old Romeo who was cornered.

“Poor Romeo, I am you.”

“My past is your future.”

“Unless you die, you’ll never get rid of me in this lifetime.”

“Romeo? What’s wrong with you?” Wen En looked at Romeo anxiously. He reached out and waved his hand in front of Romeo, but Romeo did not respond.

He was just crying, his eyes wide open, his gaze unfocused, as if he were looking at something else.

Wen En’s gaze shifted to the floor lamp by the bedside.

The petal-shaped, retro floor lamp was flickering, as if there was a problem with the circuit.

He felt a chill on his neck, as if the cold wind from the central air conditioning was blowing on his neck. Wen En looked up again and sure enough, he found something was wrong.

Under the flickering light of the lamp, three strange, human-shaped shadows appeared on the ceiling.

Wen En: …

Wen En stared at the three shadows with a blank expression.

He was a firm atheist, a materialist warrior, and never believed in ghosts and gods.

He observed his surroundings and saw where the physical and biological source of the three shadows was.

—The lower half of the three shadows had an umbilical cord-like thing, which was connected to the shadow behind Romeo.

Wen En was silent again.

What the hell is this, pretending to be a ghost?

To end this not-so-ghostly farce, Wen En had to go to the bedside, press the switch for the ceiling light, and plan to turn on the top light.

He pressed the switch, but the top light did not light up as he had expected. Instead, the floor lamp on the side went out, plunging the room into a darkness where he couldn’t see his own fingers.

But the darkness was not silent.

Wen En could clearly hear many rustling, different sounds. There was the sound of high heels hitting the floor, the sound of rodents crawling over wooden furniture, and the faint, high-frequency chirping of bats or some other nocturnal animals.

A cold wind blew by Wen En’s ear. Wen En also heard the sound of the wind blowing the window, making a creaking sound. The sound was like it was mocking him for being seemingly stubborn, but in fact, being played by an unknown creature.

“Playing tricks!” Wen En roared angrily.

An unknown fire made him quite annoyed. He punched the side, but he didn’t hit anything. Instead, the rustling sounds became more frequent.

The closed floor lamp suddenly turned on to its maximum brightness, and then turned off again in less than a second, followed by repeated on and off.

Wen En looked up and looked at the three shadows again.

The three shadows were all in strange poses. The poses were too abstract, and Wen En could only guess what they were by imagination.

The shadow on the left, Wen En guessed from his twisted spine, was twisting his butt. Of course, the butt was facing Wen En.

The shadow in the middle was easier to guess. He was giving Wen En a very uncivilized middle finger.

The shadow on the right was ten times stranger than the shadow on the left. He was lifting one foot, and the sole of his foot was even above his head.

Wen En: ??? what? What is that?

But Wen En could roughly guess what they meant. They just wanted to mock Wen En with these poses.

Huh?? Do they really think these brain-dead poses are very mocking?

Wen En felt that it was inexplicable, but these things were so abstract that the unknown fire in Wen En’s heart was extinguished.

A memory that had been sealed deep in his brain for many years was recalled by Wen En with these three things that were either human or ghost.

It was a few years ago.

The audience in front of the screen all knew that Wen En had a subculture enthusiast sister.

This sister was not only an exotic pet enthusiast, raising dozens of spiders and lizards at home, but also a goth culture and horror folklore enthusiast. Her cabinet was filled with hundreds of horror cult films, and her desk was always filled with some strange-shaped toys.

The exotic pets and toys were fine. Wen En’s parents couldn’t be bothered with them. But the cult films were a big problem. After all, Wen En’s sister was still a minor teenager. Not to mention that watching too much of this stuff would affect her worldview, but at least it would definitely affect her psychological or mental state.

So they took away all the cult films that Wen En’s sister had collected and replaced them all with a cartoon called “Friendship and Dream Magic: The Story of the Rainbow Horse.”

Wen En’s sister was furious. But she was just a child and couldn’t deal with her parents. She had no intention of giving up her love for horror films, so she had to go to her friend’s house every weekend to watch them secretly.

That weekend, Wen Yuan, who was Wen En’s sister, watched a horror film called “Alien Soul” at her friend’s house. The film was exceptionally exciting. After watching it, the two of them felt that they wanted more. In pursuit of excitement, Wen Yuan’s friend made a proposal:

“How about we try the seance in the film?”

“Okay, okay,” Wen Yuan quickly agreed.

After the ceremony, the two children found that nothing had happened, which was a little boring. Seeing that it was getting late, Wen Yuan had to say goodbye to her friend and go home.

That day, Wen En was also at home with his family. Wen En clearly remembered that Wen Yuan had not shown any abnormalities after she came home.

Until at night, Wen En’s mother cut some fruit and called Wen Yuan’s name in the kitchen. She did not come down and did not respond. Wen En had to go and call her down to eat fruit. As a result, he found that Wen Yuan had not closed her room door, which was strange. It was a well-known fact that teenagers’ room doors were always tightly closed. Since Wen Yuan had not closed her door, Wen En’s intuition told him that there was a problem. The moment he pushed open the door, he saw Wen Yuan sitting on the bed, in a situation very similar to Romeo’s just now.

Unfortunately, Wen En’s heart was bigger at that time, and he didn’t think much of it. He directly walked up, grabbed Wen Yuan’s hand, and dragged her from the bed to the kitchen.

Uh, it seems that Wen Yuan was fine later. Anyway, Wen En saw that she ate a lot of fruit.

But this memory also brought Wen En a new idea, which was to solve the problem from the source.

So, he shifted his gaze from the three abstract ghost shadows on the ceiling to Romeo’s face, who was crying and glaring on the side.

“I’m sorry,” Wen En said, and raised his right hand.

He slapped Romeo hard on the right cheek.

He didn’t slap the left cheek. One was the golden left cheek principle, and the other was that it was more convenient to slap the right cheek with the right hand.

With this slap, Romeo flew from the bed to the floor.

Then, all the lights in the room flashed violently. Wen En narrowed his eyes. The flashing lights made his eyes uncomfortable. In this flashing light, he finally found the tracks of the three human-shaped shadows.

The three shadows had long since lost their arrogant and abstract shapes. They were curled up in a corner, like three stray kittens, huddled together and trembling.

But Wen En did not have the same sympathy for them as he did for stray cats. He pointed at the three shadows, then raised his thumb and made a beheading gesture across his neck.

The three shadows let out a scream like a rodent and quickly disappeared without a trace.

The moment they disappeared, all the lights in the room lit up as usual.

That’s right. Wen En thought with a blank expression. If these three things had stayed here without knowing what was good for them, he had already thought of how to deal with them. He hadn’t expected these three things to slip away much faster than he had imagined.

After dealing with the three, Wen En suddenly remembered that Romeo was still on the floor… Oops!

“Roy, are you okay?” Wen En quickly got out of bed, walked to Romeo’s side, and helped him up.

Romeo clutched his red cheek. There were still tears on his face, but his eyes were clear. He looked at Wen En with confusion. “What happened just now?”

My face hurts, and my head hurts too.

“Well…”

Wen En touched the bridge of his nose, a little guilty. He couldn’t just say, “You were possessed just now, and I performed a physical exorcism on you,” right? It felt strange, and a little fake.

He hadn’t figured out how to tell Romeo yet when he saw two streams of red blood flow from Romeo’s nostrils to his chin.

Wen En: …

Oops, I think I didn’t control my strength…

“My hand was cramping just now, and I accidentally hurt you,” Wen En had to force himself to lie. “Let’s find a medical device to help you reduce the swelling and stop the bleeding.”

Romeo: ????

Something doesn’t seem right.

But his face was indeed numb with pain. He had to nod and follow Wen En out of the room.

Outside the door, Tara was still in a psychological struggle.

One was that Wen En was not what he had imagined, and the other was that Romeo was also not what he had imagined.

Tara frantically scratched his head. His scalp was about to be scratched raw, and a pile of his hair was on the floor.

Maybe I should just forget it… I feel like Wen En and I might not be a good match…

While Tara was still struggling in his heart, the door of Wen En’s room suddenly opened, startling him.

He stared at the door and saw Wen En and Romeo walk out.

His gaze was fixed on Romeo’s swollen right cheek and bleeding nose.

No way… this, isn’t this a little too intense…

Is Wen En that fierce? Or, or does he have some special fetish…

Oh My God… Tara gasped, not daring to think about it…

“Oh, you’re not resting yet, Mr. Tara,” Wen En saw him, his expression no different from usual. “I have something to ask you in a bit. Can you…”

“No need,” Tara said, and quickly ran to his room, slamming the door shut with a bang. The speed and force were so great that Wen En even heard the sound of the lock, as if Tara were escaping from something terrifying.

Wen En was dissatisfied, “I haven’t finished speaking yet. This is too rude, isn’t it?”