Runaway Guide (逃婚指南 - ABO)

Chapter 36 - Help

When Randy saw the ring, it was as if he had seen a ghost. His expression was one of complete shock.

Craig glanced at his face and said, “Do you recognize it?”

Randy came back to himself and asked in a rush, “This ring, where did you get it?”

Craig said: “Fifteen years ago, on the eighteenth of November, the 500th anniversary of the founding of Ellen Academy, I was at a hotel in the Andromeda Galaxy. I suddenly came across...um...I spent a night with an omega in heat. When he left...he accidentally left behind this ring…”

The general hadn’t finished speaking when Randy interrupted him in surprise: “The alpha that night was you?”

“...It was.”

Only the four walls around them and the two men in bed had witnessed the events of that night. Since Craig had the ring, and could even tell him the exact date and place of that event, there was no doubt that the alpha from that night was precisely the general standing in front of him.

Standing about 188 cm tall, speaking in a serious manner, he seemed to fit the memory he had of that man.

Randy hadn’t expected that the alpha he had been searching for for so long would actually turn out to be the captain of the Royal Guard. No wonder he couldn’t find any clues after looking for such a long time; he was looking in the wrong place to begin with. Randy had been investigating the officers of the Star Corps, but he had forgotten that that year, Queen Anna returned to Ellen Academy to celebrate its 500th anniversary. The Royal Guard had also been at Andromeda Galaxy, and they also had alpha officers within their ranks.

Taking a deep breath, Randy finally asked: “This matter of accidentally coming upon an omega in heat, you haven’t told anyone about it, right?”

“Of course not.” Having spoken to this point, Craig couldn’t help feeling a bit strange at heart. No one in the world but the two of them knew what happened that night, and Craig didn’t want to share that secret with anyone. That was also his first time marking an omega.

“Exactly who are you?” Craig frowned and asked, “You stayed behind to live in the Empire, so, how to say...could it be that you’re a spy sent by the Federation?”

Randy asked with an expression of astonishment, “Do you think I seem like a spy from the Federation? Is there a spy who’d be stupid enough to give birth to a son?”

Craig: “...”

Struck dumb by a single sentence, Craig coughed and shut his mouth, and didn’t say anything else.

Randy gave the general in front of him a sidelong glance. He didn’t really have a good impression of this alpha. He’d always felt that other than knowing how to talk, this guy was no different from a walking statue. That day, when Craig sent Xi Wei back, Randy hid close by to observe out of vigilance. He didn’t think that Craig’s reaction would be so quick as to immediately turn and catch him. The scene of that general subduing him, without the slightest trace of lenience, was still vivid in his mind. He never would have thought he would be the alpha who marked him years ago.

The alpha then was so young and green, not even knowing how to embrace an omega, and requiring Randy to personally guide him. Ten years had passed. The man in front of him had matured, and his voice had become deep and rich, so even when Randy happened to meet him, he didn’t recognize him.

Craig found that the other had been taking the measure of him, and couldn’t help but awkwardly rub his nose.

Under his serious gaze, he felt strange, as if a kitten’s claws were scratching gently at his heart. At that moment, the memory of this omega embracing and kissing him flashed again in his mind. The tips of his ears couldn’t help but feel hot.