“So, tell me what you know.” 

X fumbles his hands together. "I know that I have a birth canal thing, leading to the uterus and supposedly I can get pregnant. Alphas I guess have large…um you know…” 

Ashford knows this is going to a long process. She still can’t believe neither Aston nor Seok explained anything to him. 

“Alright, first tell me what you notice about your body.” 

X looks down, “I um guess…this X?” 

“Besides that.” 

“I’m tan?” 

“Besides that.” 

“My…legs?” 

“Ugh oh my fucking god…” she groans to herself. “Look at your hips.” 

X looks down at them. “What about them?” 

“They’re wide. You have wide pelvic bones in order for you to carry children. Omega’s also have bigger asses. That is just a plus for us Alphas.” 

“Ah, yeah I guess they’re wide…” 

Ashford continues. “So let’s start with Male Omegas. They can get pregnant by Male or Female Alpha’s. Betas’ in general can’t get them pregnant. Inside you, you do have a cannel that leads to a cervix, uterus and one ovary. They are where your X mark is on your lower stomach. When you ovulate, you will go into heat shortly after and produce a liquid substance that is like pheromone central, it helps your Alpha release more of his pheromones and with that, help you produce more so sex isn’t as painful and it’s easier on the Omega.” 

“Why do I have only one ovary?” 

“Due to the stress of heat cycles, male and female Omega’s only have one ovary that ovulates and that happens every other month. That’s when you’re going to be the most fertile. The only exception are Dominate Omegas, they’re fertile even without being in heat. My wife is a Dominate Omega. Well, we do have four kids so far, so heh it shows.” 

“So far?” X asks. 

Ashford sits back. “Yeah, Dominates are very family oriented in general and love having large families, she wants like two more.” She chuckles, “good thing I’m a Superior so I can deal with all those hellions.” 

X coyly thanks her. “This all makes more sense…Thank you, you seem very knowladable about Omegas, well and nicer to them as well."

“Well, I grew up with a lot of Omegas in my family so I’ve always appreciated them, my father always told me to be nice to them…help them out. Now, back to your earlier question about female Omega and Alpha and how I can get my wife pregnant without a dick.”

X blushes at Ashford’s bluntness. “Um yeah….I forgot I asked you about that..."

“It’s simple, female Omegas are just like male omegas in terms with internal second gender parts. Female Alphas are different from Beta females in regards they produce sperm and that sperm is mixed in their mucus membrane. Only Omega’s can become impregnated by a female or male Alpha’s sperm.”

X is flabbergasted. “Ah okay I see now….that’s interesting.” He sips from his bottled water.

“Yep, it just takes good fingering skills and bam! My wife is pregnant” she laughs as she moves her fingers around. 

X chokes on his water. 

“Ha! God you’re so green!” Ashford laughs. “Anyway that’s the lay down on second genders, if you have questions just ask. I still can't believe those idiots couldn't tell you this much." She stands to her feet. "In the meantime let’s get onto Seok’s ridiculous demand, enough of the dirty talk.” She jokingly winks at the red faced Omega. 

“Yeah, that sounds like a good idea, he does have a lot he wants me to do…” X smiles back at her.

Seok is in his dim lit office, smoke from his cigarettes fog up the room. He lies back into his chair and closes his eyes briefly. 

His eyes open.

"Strawberries." He suddenly says aloud. 

Jun Seo is on the other end of the room, organizing paperwork as he smoked. 

"What was that Director?" 

Seok bends over his desk for a cup of his regular drink. "Haaa, I forgot to pick something up." He adruptly gets up. "Jun, I need to get something to someone, I'm gonna take off early." 

Jun looks at his watch and gawks. "Seok, I mean Director, it's only three in the afternoon. There is still the work that needs to be done with those English bastards in North P.D." 

Seok grunts.

"This is something that's important that I need to get." 

Jun sighs and sets the paperwork down. "I can settle most of it today, Director. If it's something that important, it can't be helped." 

"Thanks Jun, I owe you." Seok sits up and rushes out of the room, coat in hand. Jun's cigarette falls to the floor. 

"Did he just fucking thank me?" He realizes the embers are burning to the floor and quickly stomps it out. "I hope he's not coming down with fever..." 

"And that's that." Ashford wipes her forehead. X is sweating. 

"That's...ha...a lot." X exclaims. He smiles with a sense of accomplishment. "At least we have it done. Thank you Ashford." 

"No problem." Ashford looks at her watch. "It's almost 3...want to go down and get coffee?" 

"Let me make some for you, that's the least I can do for all the help you've done." 

"Sure thing." 

Ashford and X locate back into the kitchen area.

X makes her a cup of coffee. “Ashford...thanks for teaching me all this, I’m sure you didn’t sign up for this…but still I appreciate it. Do you like it black or?" 

"Black is fine." She grabs the cup. “Ditch the Ashford shit, you can call me Mae. Some call me Ash like my wife. It’s your preference.” She takes the coffee that X had made her. “And it’s fine teaching you this, it reminds me when I first met my wife, I had to teach her things like this, but even still to this day I take on most of it” Ashford laughs. “Seok’s note is spot on in regards that Oliana sucks at these types of things.” 

X chuckles a bit. “Alright, I'll call you Ash.” He makes himself a cup of coffee as well. 

She smiles at X. "So there are a couple hours before that bastard gets home. Are you hungry? Let’s order, what do you like? A couple of Seok's men can go grab it.” 

X conteplates for a moment. “I don’t really know, so far I’ve liked fruits and tofu. The sight of meat doesn’t look good to me at all…” 

“Do you like American dishes? How about cheese pizza.” 

“Pizza, I don’t think I ever tried that before…” he says trying to remember if he’s ever really ate pizza before. 

“I’ll order pizza then.” She nods her head and takes out her phone to place an order. “I’ll have the men go pick some up. Puleon Dosi has a huge mixture of Englishmen and Koreans so there’s a lot of crossover foods.” 

X strokes his chin. “Oh…I guess I never really thought about the people here.” 

“Guessing by your skin tone and light hair, you’re probably from one of the main islands. Oliana is an Oceanic Islander, another reason why I want you two to meet. I guess that's why I'm so soft on you, heh." 

X sets his cup of coffee down hard. “Wait, you think I came from of the Haneul Islands?” 

She shrugs, “Only from your looks I’m guessing. I’m surprised those stupid men never told you that either, maybe they didn’t want to give your hopes up about your origins if it turns out its not that.” 

“I hope it’s not…” X mumbles.

Ashford looks up from her phone and notices X’s distressed look. I wonder why Seok or Aston never mentioned this before to him…unless finding his place could lead to him… 

“I’ll have them get you a tofu dish in case the pizza is too greasy for you.”

40 Minutes Later.

Someone knocks three times on the door. 

Ashford gets up, looks through the peephole, and opens the door. X is in view in the kitchen drinking more water. 

A man in a grey suit appears, pizza in hand and a small plastic bag. The man is wearing the same type of suit X had seen when Seok drove him out yesterday.

“You can put it on the island counter.” Ashford instructs. The man walks in quietly and places the food where Ashford told him to. “Thanks Gene.” She says. 

Gene is stopped at the island, he is staring at X who is on the opposite end of the island. X is staring back with a worried look. "Um..hi?" He whispers. 

Ashford turns around and sees Gene just standing there. “Gene, that’s it. You can leave. C’mon.” 

Gene doesn’t reply. 

Ashford glares. “Gene.” She approaches him and puts her hand on his shoulder. “Gene!” 

The man pushes Ashford back with all his strength. 

“What the fuck Gene!?” She looks up at X who has a terrified expression on his face. What the fuck is going on? 

Gene is breathing deeply, his teeth showing, veins in on the side of his head pulsating. He looks like a complete animal. 

In an instant he reaches for X. He grabs the Omega from across the island counter and brings him closer to his face. His water bottle falls to the ground, the water splashing out onto the floor.

“Ngh!” X winces from the sudden force. The man’s hand grabs X’s jaw and squeezes. 

THUNK! 

Gene slams X’s face and body on the counter, exposing the nape of his neck. The food previously set on the island, fall to the ground as well. X struggles to get up but the man’s force is too powerful. He rips X’s shirt down the middle of his back with no effort at all, he ripped it like paper. He can feel this man’s fingers glide on his spine. 

X hears a loud cracking noise and a large thump of something heavy. It takes him a minute to realize the man isn’t on him anymore. He slowly looks up to see Ash standing over the man, her eyes were not green anymore, they were a bright yellow, almost glowing. Her fist were clenched together and trembling in anger. 

X cannot utter a word. 

“Gene.” She kicks the man over onto his back. “Go now.” Ashford kicks the man until he finally decides to stand up. He looks at X with the same intense gaze, his breaths still quick and shallow. 

“No.” He replied. His eyes seem vacant, distant, and filled with a lustful desire. “I need it. I need it!”

Ashford punches him in the stomach before he can take one step back to X. “Nah uh. I gave you a chance to run Gene.” He tries to punch back at Ashford but she grabs a hold of his hair and slams him into the wooden floor. She repeatedly smashes his face into the floor until she notices the blood streaming down from his nose and mouth. She stand up straight and realizes X had been watching the whole time. A look of terror is painted on his face. 

Oh fuck. X doesn’t know anything about Seok’s company…fuck! I just fucked this guys face up in front of him….

Silent tears fall down X’s cheeks as he clenches his shirt up from falling. His lips and body trembling. 

“W…What is going on?” He looks up at Ash, his cyan eyes are glistened and giving out tears. His lip was cut from the impact, scratch marks glazed his jawline. 

“X.” Ashford’s eyes begin to dim down to her normal shade of green. 

“Is he…dead?” 

She grabs the whiskey bottle and drinks straight from it. 

“No. Just unconscious.” She lies the bottle down and grabs a cigarette. “I’m not in the position to say anything, but Seok and I work in a business that deals with others like this. He has a lot of control and power within Puleon Dosi. Do you catch my drift?” 

X slowly nods his head. 

“This is how Seok can protect you.” She lights up her cigarette. "This is how he's been protecting you." She takes a look on X’s face. “Let’s get you cleaned up and bandaged.” 

X looks the other way. “I’ll be fine….I just….why did that guy do that?….Did I do something wrong?” He wipes the remaining tears from his face. “He looked…possessed.” 

Ash looks back at Gene. 

This must be what Seok had encountered with Greyson. He was completely normal until he got to the island counter where X was at. This is bad….I had a lingering doubt about this Omega but now…. 

“Gene most likely smelt your pheromones. Nothings definitive yet though.” Ash takes a long drag. 

“But…I just only started my meds…I um I can’t produce them so how can—“

“Like I said, nothing’s definitive yet. However, that is what Alpha’s look like and do when they can’t control themselves when they smell another Omega’s pheromones.” Ashford looks back at X and the cigarette from her mouth drops out. 

“What?” He asks. 

“You’re face…it’s gone….I mean the cut and scratches.” Ash steps up to X to see if she is really seeing this. “Seok and you are telling the truth aren’t you?” 

X can only nod. 

“Fuck…” She grazes her hair with her hand. “This is…really something.”

A deep voice echoes from behind. 

“Yeah I fucking agree this is really something.” 

X and Ash flinch and see Seok by the entrance holding a plastic bag, his eyes glowing orange. He sees a disheveled X with his shirt ripped and reddened eyes. Seok stomps in and looks down at the man unconscious on the ground. He glares at Ashford.

“What the fuck did you do?” 

Ashford glares right back. “I did not nothing you fucker. Gene here went all fucking crazy and attacked X. I took him out.” 

Seok rushes past Ashford and to X. 

X can’t look him in the eyes. Seok gently asks. “Are you okay X? Did he touch you anywhere?” 

X bites his lips. “He ripped the shirt you got me…I’m sorry….” 

Seok places the plastic bag he came in with on the island. He then takes his black trench coat off and wraps it around him. Ashford squints her eyes at Seok's affectionate behavior. This is what Aston had been noticing. 

“You don’t need to apologize. Go to your room and change clothes. Give us a few minutes.” 

X looks at Ash and mouths, “Sorry” before heading off to his room. 

Seok waits to hear X’s door close. 

“Tell me what the fuck happened you God damn moron!” His voice explodes with anger.

Ashford’s eyes turn bright yellow with rage. “You did not just call me a motherfucking moron you fuck up!" She clenches Seok's shirt. "All I did was have one of the men get food. I protected him like you wanted." 

"You caused him to be put in danger first." He grabs her hands and smacks them away. "I told you about Greyson you idiot!" 

"Oh well excuse me! Sorry if I didn't take every fucking word as truth!" She strides past Seok and takes the whiskey to drink. "It just seemed too make believe..." 

"I told you I wasn't making this shit up." Seok lights up a cigarette. "Get that fucker out of here. Hold him in our East end office, tie him up. I'm gonna ask him some questions later." 

Ashford's eyes dim back a bit. She sternly tells Seok, "You may want to talk to X about all this Seok. He's confused and scared right now." She slams the whiskey bottle down. She grabs a hold of Gene's collared shirt of his suit and begins effortlessly dragging him. 

"Ashford, come back tomorrow as well." He says without looking back at her. 

"I'll take that as an apology." She slams the door on her way out. 

Chapter 08.2 | See is Believing

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