Sold To The Alphas I Hate-Chapter 301: Cooking Trap

Eira’s POV

"...I heard from Alice she made tasty cookies," Rafe’s voice caught my attention. "But I never got to eat them."

Cookies?

It reminded me that I indeed loved baking back then.

"Eira, I want to eat cookies you made," Rafe declared. "Even these bastards, Lucian and Jason, have tasted them. Why should Roman, Kael, and I be left out?"

I felt lost. I hadn’t done it in a long time. I wondered if I could even operate a single thing inside that lavish kitchen.

"You two ate what she cooked?" Roman asked Lucian and Jason.

Both of them hummed.

"Damn!" Roman cursed and looked at me. "I want to try as well," then looked at Kael. "Don’t you want to?"

What the hell. Why, first thing in the morning, were these people trying to test my cooking skills? I was sure I would make a mess out of it.

I looked at my hands. They trembled at the thought of it. It felt like I had forgotten how to cook.

In the past six years, I hadn’t cooked or even held cooking utensils in my hands. I hadn’t even seen a kitchen, not even in my dreams, and now all of a sudden this demand.

"I have forgotten it," I told them. "I am not sure I can even do it."

"That’s not a big deal. You can learn again," Rafe said stubbornly. "Lucian, Jason, and Roman will teach you. All I know is I want to eat at least something cooked by you."

I glared at Rafe. Why the stubbornness?

"Even Kael and I want to," Roman said. "Raven, do you want mommy to bake cookies for you?"

Raven, who was sitting next to Kael with a tablet in his hands, quickly nodded as he looked at us.

I inhaled deeply. "Alright. I will try to remember the recipe of the cookies I used to bake. Give me some time."

Rafe stepped toward me, cupped my face in his hands, and pecked my lips even before I could understand what was happening. "Good girl." Then he let me go.

What the—

Lucian turned to me and patted my head. "You can do it," and returned to the kitchen.

What? Wasn’t he on my side and just said I didn’t need to work?

Roman came before me. "All the best," and left as well.

I looked at Jason, and he said, "Don’t worry, I will help you," then resumed his work.

Then I looked at Kael and Raven. Both of them offered me encouraging nods.

I felt confused.

Why did it all feel like some kind of setup, a trap I had just fallen into?

Was it? Or was I just mistaken?

While having breakfast together, my gazes would wander over everyone, trying to figure out my confusion.

But all of them acted normal as if they did nothing.

After the breakfast, Roman was ready to leave for the office.

"Again today?" I asked.

Previously he used to be home as well, doing his work from here, but these days he preferred to go the office.

He hummed, "One of us have to be there in the office. Kael is needed in home, so I have to."

I felt like I hadn’t been paying attention to him after that night. Or I didn’t get to have enough time with him. He was always away.

Is it because he thinks I am Kael’s mate and carrying his child, so he preferred to stay away from me?

"I might be late tonight," he informed, "Don’t wait for me and just go to sleep."

He doesn’t want me to wait for him? That night he liked it when I did. I want to wait for him to make sure he was back, that he ate. But...

Why am I feeling bad? Maybe this pregnancy is making me overthink.

"Take care," he pecked on my forehead and turned to leave.

He didn’t kiss me on the lips like usual?

It troubled me as I watched him leave. Suddenly my breathe turned shallow.

I am not feeling good. Something is not feeling good. I don’t want him to leave.

"Already missing him?" I heard Rafe whisper to me.

I shook my head and turned to go to my place. It wasn’t about missing him, but something strange. Or Just this pregnancy was crazy.

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Kael’s POV

As Roman left, I followed him out with the excuse of handing him over a file he left.

"You should complete the bond with her instead of finding office excuse of staying away from her," I told him.

The bond which is left incomplete troubles the male, and it should be completed soon. She had me as her mate already so she didn’t feel the desperation and pain caused by incomplete bond.

He let out a sigh and looked at me, "What should I tell her that I can’t bear with it and let’s mate now?"

"Maybe just go ahead with it when you two are together," I suggested, "It won’t harm a baby."

It hurt me to say to him as it was my mate I was asking him to mate with, but my brother was in a pain as well. And sooner or later they had to do it.

"Soon she will realised you are intentionally staying away from her and it will hurt her," I added.

"I know," he said, "I want to complete our bond as well, but you see she is going through something new everyday. She is still trying to process her current situation with her pregnancy, with us and she is careful towards the child inside her. I don’t want to come out as someone who doesn’t understand her feelings and just want to get rid of my own troubles. Let her take some time. I will be fine until then."

As he put it this way, I didn’t insist. He was right. At this moment, Eira was careful with baby inside her, that last night she didn’t want me to mate with her despite being so desperate for it. Becasuse she was worried about our baby.

Roman sat in his car, and looked at me, "Kael."

"Hmm?"

"The best thing ever happened in my life was to have you," he said to me. "For all the pain I had suffered, you were a repayment from gods."

As cringe it sounded me to hear from him, I frowned, "Just get going."

He smiled and turned the car.