Someone like you..

22. Jiyang comes to visit...

"Yubin-ge, how could you do this to me?", whined Jiyang trying to hold onto Yubin's hand as Zhan snickered at Yubin shaking Jiyang off as if he were a spider. "Yubin- ge if you mate with her, who will compliment me everyday?", Jiyang continued with a pitiful cry and Yubin jumped away as if Jiyang had cursed him. "Who complimented you? Zhan keep him away from me. Haoxuan look at him, how can you bear your mate flirting with someone else?", squeaked Yubin while the other Alpha just gave him a bored look. "My kitten isn't flirting with you. If he did, you would be a cold dead body by now." Zhan heard the words and looked over at Jiyang with his mouth hung open. "How do you live with this psychopath?", said a bewildered Zhan but Jiyang only made his way to his mate and curled up on his lap, kissing the said psychopath. "Why do you think? They are the same", grumbled Yubin beside them and Zhan cracked a smile. "You should be glad my Xuan is around, Zhan-Zhan. He will keep the enemies at bay. Won't you, baby?", said Jiyang lovingly and Xuan crushed his mate to his chest mumbling a muffled yes. Seeing the two love birds together was surely entertaining. They were so different from each other it was almost laughable but they made it work.

"Where is Wang Yibo today?",asked Jiyang curiously and Zhan curled his lips at the name. That man was a beast through and through. Zhan's poor back was almost broken in half because of Wang Yibo's jealousy. Him hugging Yubin in front of Wang Yibo had been a mistake. A mistake Zhan had to suffer for in the bed. They were in bed for almost the entire day!! Zhan didn't have the guts to look at himself in the mirror. With the amount of times Yibo had bit him, Zhan was sure he was covered in red and purple bruises. He also had a red mark on his lower lip because Yibo wasn't happy that Zhan had asked him to stop branding him. If Zhan saw Yibo today, Zhan might as well kick that perfect ass of his. He must have been flaunting his emotions on his face because Jiyang eyed him suspiciously. "Uh-oh! What did he do?", Jiyang asked sitting straighter and Xuan snorted out loud. "Your friend is stupid trying to irk a full blooded Alpha. He got Yibo angry and his ass paid the price of it." Xuan laughed at the end of his sentence and Zhan called him an "asshole" under his breath. "I heard that, Zhan", warned Xuan and Jiyang placed a hand on Xuan's lips to stop him for saying anything else. "I am happy that things are going well. If not for my mother, I would have been here on your first day. I would have kicked that Xinyan in the shins for being rude to you", said Jiyang with what he thought was an angry look on his face. Zhan, Yubin and Haoxuan, all three of them laughed at that. It was more of a face a kitten made begging for more fish. Jiyang was a lot of things but a fighter wasn't one of them. He hated violence and wouldn't even hurt a fly deliberately. Even during school and college it was Zhan and Zhuocheng who got into fights while Jiyang just squatted down on the floor with his head covered, singing whatever song he could remember blocking everyone out. So him hitting anyone was definitely a laughing matter. "I don't need you to hurt her for me. She was all bark anyway." Zhan reassured but he had to admit he was tempted to knock some sense into her. The woman was truly annoying. Since the episode yesterday, she was pestering Zhan for nothing and everything, calling him names and saying that Yibo would tire of him. Zhan had nothing but blank stares to give her and due to lack of a reaction, she was trying harder to irritate Zhan

"What's her deal, Xuan?", Zhan found himself asking. It appeared that she was interested in Yibo and wanted Zhan out of the picture but Zhan wasn't sure if Yibo felt the same for her. Though, it was worth noting that the woman acted all high and mighty as if Yibo would never hurt her. That kind of confidence didn't come out of nowhere. "Don't let her get to you. She is this way with everyone around Yibo", advised Haoxuan. "Well, Yibo still tolerates her, so something must be there. Were they together?", asked Zhan and Xuan burst out with a loud "God, no!"  "Why are you so surprised? The woman definitely likes him." Zhan was taken aback by Xuan's strange reaction as if the mere possibility of Yibo and Xinyan was blasphemy. "It's impossible. Yibo has never been in any sort of relationship with her and never will be. So, you don't have to worry." Xuan's responses were only making him more curious. "Why not? Come on, Xuan. Spill it. Why are you dancing around the issue?",cried Zhan but he wasn't prepared for the response that came from behind him. "She is XinYue's sister." Turning around, Zhan found Yibo walking towards them and Zhan mouth dried up at the sight. Clad in a full sleeved black t-shirt and jeans the guy was lethal. Zhan had been either on or under Yibo since he came to the Lan pack but he still was hungry for the man. "Who is XinYue?", he asked when he was done ogling Yibo and Xuan got up from his chair. "You guys talk, me and Jiyang need to test our new bed." With the weird statement and a gasping Jiyang, Haoxuan led Jiyang away and Yubin followed suit, giving him and Yibo privacy.

"They left us alone on purpose. Did I ask something wrong?", asked Zhan and Yibo kissed him on the lips, licking at the bite wound on Zhan's lower lip as if apologizing. "XinYue was my true mate." "Oh!" Zhan had thought of a lot of possibilities but Yibo's true mate hadn't come to mind. Zhan realised why Xinyan was so confident with her dynamic with Yibo. The guy would never hurt his true mate's sister now, would he? That made Xinyan quite powerful, in Zhan's opinion. Zhan was trying to tone down the uncomfortable feelings that were rearing their head up in his heart but he didn't say anything. "What are you thinking?",came Yibo's question and Zhan shook his head in a no." It's nothing. I am just surprised that's all." "Zhan, Ask me." Zhan raised his eyes to Yibo and found only mischief in those dark eyes. Zhan tried to keep it in but Yibo brushed his thumb over lips and said again, "You can ask me anything. Don't keep it in. Ask me, Zhan-Zhan." Zhan would never admit it out loud but his heart skipped a beat whenever Yibo called him by that name. He had been called Zhan-Zhan all his life but the way Yibo said it had his heart racing. It felt too soft...too intimate to Zhan. Giving into his curiousity he spoke. "Is Xinyan here because you see Xinyue in her?" Zhan almost bit his tongue for being so blunt but he really didn't have any other way to ask Yibo. Zhan wasn't a person who liked to beat around the bush. He waited for Yibo to answer but Yibo dipped his head and kissed the mark on Zhan's neck. "You don't have to tell me if you don't want to", he said softly but Yibo pinched his nose instead. "She is here because I promised her father that I will protect her. After Xinyue's death, her parents could not look at Xinyan the same way. She reminded them of their lost daughter so they left to travel around the world, leaving Xinyan under the protection of the Wangs." "How old was she?", Zhan enquired and Yibo simply said "Six." Seeing the displeasure on Zhan's face, Yibo's features softened. "Don't be angry. She had a better life here away from them. For a while, I also wondered how they could leave her behind but I know now that they did it because they loved her. Being with her parents would have broken Xinyan. They knew she would only be treated at XinYue's replacement." Xiao Zhan nodded his head and groaned aloud. "What happened?", asked Yibo with a frown and Zhan sat on Yibo's lap. "I can't even hate her now. She has such a sad story", he mumbled in Yibo's neck and Yibo laughed at him. "You think a person is hate worthy on basis of their life stories?", Yibo questioned teasingly and Zhan huffed at him. "No. I think they are hate worthy if they make fun of people, if they brand people unnecessarily or if they bite too much." "You must really hate me then",Yibo said with a smile and Zhan kissed him saying, "Not as much as I thought I would."