XXI

**Please listen to this song 'You said you'd grow old with me.'

**Haru**
Yuki invited me to his farewell party that would be hosting later tonight. All of Yuki's friends that were close were invited but I felt no need to go, it would be painful for me. If that it wasn't for Takato, I would be home reading books to kill the bad feeling eating my stomach.

"Asami let's go." I said and opened her room but she was lying down in bed in her pajamas, her mind traveling to who knows where.

"Asami?"

"I'm exhausted so I want to stay. Also I'm not really close with that omega, so my presence there adds no value."

"Then I'll stay with you in case something happens."

"No! You are going to that party even though you don't want to. This will be the last time you'll see your son before they leave early tomorrow morning." Asami held my hand when I sat by her side and I sighed.

"You know you really confuse me." I complained and she grinned at me then kissed my cheeks.

"I confuse myself too. Just give my greetings and gifts, I'm going to bed." I smiled at her before placing a chaste kiss on her forehead and the baby then headed to the occasion.


"Papa!" Takato shouted as he jumped into my hands before I threw him up in the air and then carried him inside.

The café was closed down and decorated with banners, balloons and assorted food. It was simple but colourful, something you could use for a small children birthday except there was no silly hats or horns or toys. Just a few new faces and people I recognized.

I dropped the gifts on the table where the other gifts were before making my way over to Yuki who was talking with that alpha that I saw him kissing. He looked happy, better than usual and I was happy that he was happy.

"Mama, papa is here." Takato said in excitement as Yuki faced me before I gave a small smile and dropped my son.

"Congratulations on the move away Yuki." I watched as he shivered to my voice but he composed himself before that alpha held his hand.

I saw the ring in his finger and from the design, it was no ordinary ring before it was made with real stones, giving it originality. Yuki was waiting for my reaction and was surprised when I stretched my hands towards his fiance.

"I'm Haru, Haru Aizawa. You?" I asked with a smile before he accepted my hand.

"Kirito. Kirito Masamune." He responded and I pulled back while I mentally searched him.

He was a businessman that was never in the open, no public picture on him, just facts and rumors about him that I knew and from so far I've known...he was too clean for my liking. No rumor that paired him to any scandal except his personality being unfit to be a CEO but I had a feeling he just used that to make moving around easy because he was really intelligent.

"Excuse me, I have to make sure the kids don't hurt themselves." Yuki said as he excused because he was clearly uncomfortable being smothered by the pheromones we were releasing.

"So I finally get to meet you in person, Haru Aizawa." His voice was smooth but it blended well with the hostility making me more that he wasn't a simple man.

"Likewise though I'm not so sure now. What's your plan towards Yuki? Why Yuki of all omega?" I asked matching his hostility with protectiveness and curiosity.

"Why does that matter to you? It's not my fault that he dumped you for me, after all, you did the same thing to him years ago." He confessed as he pointed at my chest, a stoic expression on my face before he smirked.

I watched as his expression softened, his eyes travelling to Yuki who was smiling at the kids that came to tell Takato bye.

"Yuki is one of the most beautiful people I've ever met. He may look like he understands everything but his still a child that is looking for a place that accepts him, a place where he and his son, your son, can be loved and accepted. When I hear about you from him, I get jealous on how he smiles but then I watched him cry because of you. I thought you were the one but clearly I was wrong about you. That's why, I want to make him happy and staying here isn't going to help him." I understood everything he said, I knew how Yuki felt but I never handled the situation properly. Talking with Kirito, I was glad that he was the one bringing Yuki out of the dark.

"I definitely don't like the tension here." We heard a soft voice, grabbing our attention to a smaller female alpha who looked like Shino except with no facial expression.

"I'm Hinata Tomoki, Yuki and Shino's elder sister." She confirmed before dragging both our ears hard and knocking our heads together. "Don't go fighting there are omegas here too."

"That really hurt Hina-chan." Kirito said as he rubbed his forehead along with I before she nodded and walked away.

The party was a blast, the games were interesting especially for the kids who passed out early. Over-excitement was not really good for sugar rushed kids. I also got to see Kana's kid and husband and her two girls looked nothing like her at all except the same button nose. It was also funny how all the girls were crying about Yuki leaving except Kaoru, the new manager, smiled at such memory, taking pictures and videos.

"Haru please wait." Yuki called my name, preventing me from escaping to my car after successfully sneaking away.

I stood and waited for him as he panted before he faced me. His hair grew longer over the few weeks that his bangs were starting to cover his eyes. He pulled his hair back and tied it before he hugged me.

"Thank you." He said softly, closing his eyes as he gripped me harder.

"For what?"

"For coming, for being a great dad to Takato. I know that its been recent you met him and I'm sorry but thank you for not taking him away from me and for loving him sincerely. For loving me sincerely." He whispered softly but I heard it clearly and I felt the message he was trying to send across. He was telling me goodbye.

"Well I better be getting home, it's already late." I said and laughed awkwardly as Yuki pulled away from me, letting the cold air hit me.

"Yeah, I guess so. Uhm...goodbye." He said awkwardly as he shyly waved at me before I entered the car and drove away, Yuki slowly disappearing from the mirror I used to watch him.


I got home pretty late, checking the time as I counted how many hours Yuki and Takato had in Japan. In less than three hours, they'll be out of the borders away from me forever.

I entered the living where I saw Asami speaking with a lady before she kept quiet. I stared at them in confusion, walking to Asami and placing a chaste kiss on her cheeks.

"Isn't it a little too early to be having guests? You shouldn't stress the baby." I said with my eyes still studying the lady.

I watched as Asami stood up and brought me to sit beside her before she handed me some papers and a pen.

"Sign it." She demanded, her eyes looking at my hands.

"What is it?"

"Divorce papers. I want a divorce." She deadpanned making me drop both the paper and the pen. I studied her and noticed she looked guilty because she was biting her nails hard.

"Why?"

"Because I can't continue doing this. I can't continue lying to you and myself that everything is going to be alright because it's not. I made a mistake and I have to correct it." I was confused by her abrupt confession before she dropped another paper in my hand.

"Could you excuse me and my wife." I requested from the stranger who nodded and walked out of the room quietly. "Lying what the fuck do you mean?"

"Haru, I never meant to lie to you but I'm not pregnant. Never was and never will be if I'm married to you. I'm also not in love with you because I too have a fated bond out there and I found her and I love her."

I was shocked. I felt like I had been dumped a bucket of cold water fresh from the south pole and it made me feel like a fool. Asami was never pregnant, I was getting divorced, Yuki and Takato was leaving and I was taking the bullet. Hard.

"Why did you lie to me? What did you gain from everything?" She kept silent as she played with her thumbs before looking into my eyes.

"I've known you for a very longtime and just as Akio is a brother to you, your a brother to me. Protecting you was always my responsibility since I cared about you. Before the reunion, your mother called me, said she had something to discuss with me. That was how I was aware of Yuki."

"She said Yuki was a bad omen that came to her years ago to beg for money, lying that he was pregnant with your child. She showed me his pictures and said that he was back and she was disappointed when she heard you were going around town with a gold digging omega so I asked her how I could help and she told that I needed to split you and Yuki apart. So I did it." She paused as she breathed in and exhaled then squeezed her chest tight.

"But...when I confronted Yuki the first time, he seemed too innocent, too calm to be anything your mother said he was. I ignored facts because even innocent looking people are dangerous and kept to my thoughts but then I saw the DNA test and realized that your mother lied to me and when you confirmed it by telling me the truth, I felt more guilty. I was going to help you get Yuki back but then you told me that Yuki moved on and I kept on blaming myself over and over again. And then I met her...my fated pair."

"I met her the day I tried to convince Yuki to stay behind so I could clear things between you two but Yuki had made up his mind. He was determined to follow it so I met Kirito Masamune, the alpha Yuki is leaving with." My mind flashed to what Kirito said as the party.

*I thought you were the one but clearly I was wrong about you. That's why, I want to make him happy and staying here isn't going to help him.

"Kirito is a very reasonable man and he said that it was Yuki and your affair but if I really wanted to be free, I should do what I think is right and that's exactly what I am doing. I'm setting us free; you free. So take this one sign and decide what you think is right. It's your life and I'll be with you every step of the way." She said as she picked the pen and paper and placed the pen in my hand.

*If I signed this paper, I would be free but the question was...would my soul be free? Yuki was gone and that was the main point. I don't know how I was feeling, I was confused, angry, hurt, sad, unstable and relieved and it kept on delaying my decision. If I signed this paper, it wasn't going to bring back Yuki, it wasn't going to heal the broken hearts, the foolish acts that were committed.

I was about to tear the paper in frustration, when I felt something in my pocket. Startled at first, I brought out what was inside and saw a tiny audio recorder and a note.

*I don't like you neither do I know you very much but this was my parting gift for you in case you ever found it tough to make a choice. Yours hatefully, Kirito.

I played the audio, waiting for the recording to start as Asami kept quiet.

*"Tell me what you sincerely feel about your ex-lover? I'm rather curious so I can know how much more I need to be better." I heard Yuki laugh as he sighed and the sound of someone sitting was heard.

*"Haru well, his very awkward because of what happened between us years ago. He can be insensitive at times, expression, serious and stubborn plus a sucker when it comes to someone he cares about but...that's why I love him. No one is perfect in the world that's what I discovered being with him, in high school Haru was always this perfect alpha everyone wanted but I saw what others couldn't see. He was so imperfect that the only thing perfect about him was that he knew he wasn't perfect and he accepted it that way, all he ever wanted was for someone to see his mistakes and see him as a normal person not his perfection and worship him like a god."

*"Haru is sweet, a romantic, his funny when his not trying to be funny, his witty, confident, bold and most of all he loves me not because I'm an omega or his fated bond but because I'm Yuki Tomoki and he loves Takato too. He may have hurt me so much even in the past but he never stopped trying, he never stopped begging, he never gave up till he felt like he needed to be forgiven and for that I'm thankful. If only we had met in different circumstances, then I'd be bold enough to tell him what I was feeling now."

*"What are you feeling Yuki?"

*"That I never regret falling in love with him, never have, never will and that I'm so glad he gave me Takato, he gave me someone to love too. And if I was to be reborn a thousand times, I'd choose to be with him a thousand times." I heard the pain, the joy, the tears and the love in his voice that I too started crying but as I cried I smiled because I was happy.

*"I'm sorry for saying this in front of you, I must look like an idiot." Yuki said before he sniffed and then footsteps.

*"No. In fact, I thought that was beautiful." Kirito said before the recording ended.

I looked to Asami who also was crying as she covered her mouth. I smiled as I signed the papers that already had Asami's signature before I dropped the papers. I took off the ring on my finger and placed it on top of the papers.

"I can't say that I'm happy with what you did but I can't despise you because I've known you longest. If that beta is really your fated bond then I wish you two to be happy because..." I looked into her eyes and smiled. "I know what it feels like to hurt and be hurt."

I started to run but Asami stood up quickly. "Where are you going?" She asked before I looked back and smile.

"I'm going to go and get back my family." I responded and then took the first car key I could find.

**I actually feel great about this book. What I have been waiting for has finally happened but the question is...Will Yuki Tomoki accept Haru Aizawa?**