Purple HeartChapter 12

An anxious man. He had been called to open up his heart, but he simply hated and belittled him. He looked down on others with a disinterested and benevolent attitude while expecting himself to get better.

He was extremely beautiful but awfully fussy. His status, family situation, and even his secondary sex being an alpha. There was nothing easy about any of it. 2Y6EFc

Niall absolutely needed this man’s heart. In fact, he needed his body more than his mind, but in order to be able to connect  their bodies together, he had to turn the key to his heart first.

Niall patiently met the Duke’s eyes. Calm eyes signaled back and forth for a long time. Tell me, please. I am curious. What do you want to know about me? Niall’s eyes were saying so endlessly.

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“When… I saw you naked.”

At long last, the Duke’s mouth opened again. Niall gleamed and smiled with joy. The Duke continued to speak slowly. XTrAkF

“Your nipples are strangely large for a man’s. Why is that?”

“Are you asking about my nipples?”

This was an unexpected question, but Niall answered without being flustered.

“Of course, that is because this is how the body of an omega is.”

“……”

The Duke showed no sign of understanding.

Could it be that he does not know? Niall was a little embarrassed but continued.

“It is… because I am an omega. Omegas have thick, big nipples for alphas to play with.” 1HRA5V

Male omegas had nice and thick nipples. They didn’t stand out like that of a woman’s, but they were definitely bigger than the average beta man. Moreover, even the color was reddish, akin to a ripe fruit. Not only the nipples but also the genitals. And the hole too. An omega’s body was designed to look good to an alpha, that is, to make an alpha get horny.

While working at Galen, Niall had several nicknames, one of which was ‘Well-dressed Niall’.

Galen was a port city adjacent to the sea, and men often threw off their tops in the hot summer when the sea breeze blew. In such a place, Niall wore an undershirt all by himself, and on top of that, he wore a doublet as well as a shirt.

The women praised Niall for his neatness, but in fact, Niall also wanted to throw off his top on hot days. qpnMiQ

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He would have certainly done so if his nipples had not been so pink and plump.

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Suddenly, Niall smelled a cool, cold scent. A scent that could never be smelled in this Northern castle. It was a cool and refreshing scent, like that of the sea. GIauvz

The Duke’s pheromones.

Niall noticed immediately. This was the unique scent of the Grand Duke of Shiralund.

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“Duke.”

Niall mustered up the courage to slide his hand under the Duke’s. Niall’s heart fluttered when he smelled the alpha’s pheromones. He wanted to move a little more boldly. 1NM3OW

This was when he tried to hold his hand in that state. The Duke brushed off Niall and rose from his chair. The gap in their gaze widened between the rising Duke and the kneeling Niall.

“Get out. You are so lowly that I can not even look at you.”

Oh……. Niall was worn out, feeling sorry for the shaken-off fingertips.

“I am not a lowly thing. Please call me by my name. Please call me Niall. My Duke.” 3FpMmc

Niall crawled on his knees. He fell again at the Duke’s feet and stroked his shoes. However, the Duke, suffering from mysophobia, flared up in anger as if he had been offended by something.

“How many times have you done this? Which other man’s feet have you fallen at, whispering lies that you love him?”

“This is my first time. I have never sold myself. To anyone else but the Duke. You are the first one. Only you…”

The air shook. Invisible hands shook the air as per the agitation of the young alpha. 1vbBcR

Only a bit of his finger was hanging in the gap of his heart, but the door was locked again. Niall’s finger caught in the gap between the door hurt. He knew he had to let go, but Niall held on a little longer.

“Come here!”

Then the Duke raised his voice.

“Come here!” VY1rP5

The splendid curtains were opened, and the majordomo appeared. The musician who was playing the heptachord also came out of nowhere. The Duke pointed his finger at Niall.

“Take away this lowly thing. And do not let him stand out until I call him again!”

The majordomo and the musician grabbed Niall’s shoulders. Niall obediently relaxed his body so that they could easily drag him out.

The back of the Duke could be seen through the gap between the door opening and closing again. Niall sighed, feeling sorry for the back that resolutely turned around as if not even the tip of a needle could not go through. The Duke’s latch was still too strong. 61OjtE

“Please go back to your room.”

The majordomo helped Niall stand up and patted him on the shoulder as if comforting him. Niall nodded and smiled. The majordomo seemed worried that Niall might have been hurt, but Niall was fine. This was nothing compared to what he had been through in his life.

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What was worse than that… was that he couldn’t smell the Duke’s sea a little more.

Niall looked back once as he walked down the hallway pushed by the majordomo. cLqKrH

He was hoping for a little bit of that scent to remain.

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If things went on at this pace, he would be able to see the Duke four more times before spring arrives.

Thinking so, Niall smiled softly. He was neglected for four days after the first meeting, and after dinner together, six days had passed. kUx2a

Niall slipped a message to the majordomo to have a meal together, but this time, he was ignored. The days passed very slowly, and Niall had no more stripes to count on the floor anymore.

It was okay to fail the commission. Because there were things in the world that couldn’t be done no matter how hard you tried. Still, there was a big difference between failing after trying your best and failing without even trying.

More than anything, Niall was bored. He was forbidden to go to the stable, and practically to even step out of this little room.

If he wanted to go out, he could move only within the main castle. The majordomo was quite troubled when informing him of this. It was because if he went out of the main castle and encountered the Duke, it would have meant that he violated his order. fzgMSW

The main castle was large, but there were not many people. Perhaps the Duke disliked noise, so he brought in only the servants he needed, and they moved almost silently, he wondered what kind of training they had received. Even when Niall spoke to them, the only answers he could hear from them were ‘yes’ and ‘no’.

No matter how much Niall was called the best administrative assistant at the port, there was no way to get close to someone who refused to even talk. It was like being alone among ghosts.

“Then give me something I can do inside the castle.”

Niall was a diligent character. It wasn’t necessarily for the reason to pay off the debt, but he was originally the type who was constantly looking for work to do. That’s why he never got tired of having two or three jobs. zNhc9g

For such a Niall to be asked to lock himself in his room and rest was tantamount to torture. It wasn’t that he was taking a break of his own accord, but he was resting while carrying out a commission. Niall felt uncomfortable because it seemed like he was not fulfilling his duty.

When he asked for something to do, the majordomo seemed to be troubled for a while, but the next day, he brought some old farming tools. All of them were old and worn out. Niall sharpened the blade of the pitchfork and plow. The joint of the handle was broken so he repaired it by tying it with a cord.

When the work was finished sooner than expected, the majordomo was a little surprised and brought dozens of old farming tools, an iron anvil, broken candlesticks, and horseshoes. Among them were also weapons such as daggers.

“These too, please.” 5gYhs1

“All good, please keep giving me any work. I know how to do pretty much anything. I am also good at embroidery.”

The majordomo laughed, probably thinking of it as a joke, but Niall was serious. Niall was also quite good at embroidering and making clothes, which were considered activities exclusively for women.

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Another three days passed by doing the chores. When it was the eighth day after meeting the Duke, Niall got a little vexed. He wondered if the commission would really end up failing like this.

I need to find out a way to contact Gerard. NBn7WL

Gerard had said that he would visit Shiralund Castle once in the middle of his commission. However, in his current situation, it seemed that the day when he would be kicked out would come sooner than Gerard’s visit.

Niall fell asleep thinking that tomorrow he would have to ask the majordomo if he could send a letter to Gerard.

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There were times when he would suddenly wake up in the middle of the night. Nights when he couldn’t hear anything, but his eyes would suddenly open,  and he couldn’t fall asleep again. 6H2qhP

That was the case tonight. It was Niall who slept well without waking up except for a few incidents, but suddenly woke up and couldn’t sleep again due to the flow of pale young air.

What is it? Niall blinked his flickering eyes and tried to come to his senses. The air flowing through the dim moonlight was sensitive and blue. It was strange to say that the air is sensitive, but it really was.

It was when Niall tried to stand up, thinking it was weird. He sensed a refreshing and cool scent somewhere. Niall was rubbing his eyes and froze in an instant. His mind became clear as if water had been poured onto it.

He had only smelled it once, but he would never forget it. The Duke’s pheromones wafted through the room. 3dXik2

“Do not move.”