Danger Zone

"Who are you?"

She knows that she should've asked this question a long time ago. But she can't get herself to ask the latter because she has been wanting to see her little Aster for such a long time. 

But here she is right now, having the courage to ask and let this young man in front of her knows that she knew who he is even before he wakes up from his slumber.

"My name is Vladymyrrh Santoro."

Hearing that surname, she wants to strangle him with a rope but she also knows that this child doesn't have to do with anything that happened to her family in the past.

She looks at him just like a mother who would look at her child with great pride and joy plastered on her face. 

She is happy that even in her last moment on Earth, she can see someone that has the same face as her little Aster and would spend the time with her even if it is just for pretend.

She wants to thank him and tell him the way back to the city but she wants to be with him more. She wants to see if he still pretend as Aster even after he finds out that she knew all along.

She wants to know if this young man in front of her will still care for her after finding out her side of story. She wants to know. 

But continuing with this lie will just give her grave injustice. This child might suffer more even after she died, hence, she decides to suck up more courage and produces an answer for him.

"I know."

She waits for the young man to get angry with her. But he only stares at her with a smile on his face. She doesn't quite understand his reaction but she knows that it is not negative or positive.

"I've always been knew that you are not my little Aster. Ever since I find out from the hospital after some medical tests that they did on you, I knew that you are not my little Aster. 

But something in me keeps on telling me to pretend, don't give any other choice but to succumb and take care of me. And I am deeply sorry for forcing you to this kind of situation."

She hates it. She hates admitting that she is wrong but she knows that this young man will also hate her if he finds out from other people. She gives him a sad smile, a way of sympathy for the damage that she had done.

But Daime is too caring for this situation that she puts him in. Rather than being mad at her and thrashes her around, spitting venomous words at her action, the latter only smile at her and sits at the top of the flatted rock.

"I've always been knew that you will soon finds out that I am not your little nephew. It has been days when I start to figure out some tricks to hide my own personality but truth to be told, I am having a hard time acting like your nephew."

Daime sighs as he chuckles, remembering the time when the old lady is sleeping and he is awake. She was snoring after traveling for nine hours from her home to the hospital and Daime was just laying there, not moving.

He was looking at her for some moment before getting a notebook from the drawer of his nightstand and wrote every personality that Primo has. From being in rage out of nothing to not caring about people's feelings. 

Daime listed out everything and tried to act just like Primo but changing his personality from a softhearted man into a cold blooded man was not an easy task. 

He then sighs and just do it out of whim, not caring if the old lady will soon catch him and put him in custody for pretending as her nephew because she finds him weird and he kind of had a changed of heart.

"Your nephew, who goes by the name Primo now, is the hardest person to act out. He is cold and his words are venomous. He spits out the words that he has in mind and he doesn't care about other people's feelings.

Well, except for Aiden."

The old lady is shocked to know that her real little Aster is changing because of a man. The name Aiden is stuck in her mind and would want to know more about him and his personality.

She has been with Aster and has seen him playing around people and breaking girl's hearts but she has never knew that he can change like what is this man is saying right now.

"Maybe right now, you are thinking that it is impossible for him to change but yeah, he is a changed man. Dedicating himself to make Aiden happy by keeping every bad deeds he did in the past. 

I think he is also taking rehabilitation on anger management issues but that is still a rumor. The point is, he is trying to make Aiden feel that he is having the best time of his life. 

It is something that I can't do and probably will not have a chance to do."

The old lady looks at him as he sighs as if he doesn't have any chance to do what he is supposed to do. She smiles and walks towards him as she pats his back and rubs circles on it. 

"It just pisses me off because I thought I can surpass the love that he has for him and will make him my bride. But maybe we are not meant for each other. Maybe I am the only one loving him.

I mean, I can't force Aiden to love me when he clearly doesn't. Forcing him will only make me the villain of their own love story."

Daime stops for a moment as he takes a deep breath before continuing what he has been keeping for the past few months of living with Aiden in Switzerland. 

Meeting Aiden is the greatest gift that Daime has ever received. But in every gift that he had received, this is by far is the hurtful one. 

"I can still remember what my mom told me about loving a person. She said that, 'Love flows naturally. It shouldn't be forced and it shouldn't be cursed. Nothing is more painful that seeing the love of your life hating you or suffering because of you.'

We live in a completely different world. Fight for this love that I have for him might not be enough if he, himself, has already given up before the war even began."

Daime suddenly bursts into tears upon finishing his statement. He has been missing Aiden for the past couple of weeks he is in Russia. 

At first, his main purpose of going in Russia is to search for Primo's family history, to understand where he is coming from and where will he be going. 

Something that he wants to see if whether he can be like Primo to make Aiden fall for him or choose to be the loser that he is right now.

But upon doing this pretend experiment of his, Daime comes to a conclusion that pretending as someone that he is not will only makes his mind crazy. 

He looks at the old lady with teary eyes as he wipes those tears away and calms himself down. The old lady hugs him like a good mother as Daime thinks of happy thoughts. 

Unfortunately, his mind is filled with sad memories that he shares with Aiden. Those little to no memories that he wished to be able to filled up when he gets back.

But he knows that it will not be worth the fight since Aiden had already chooses his mate. He finds out about this after he asked the military down the mountains if they can fix his broken phone.

Once it is fixed, the first notification he got from the cellphone tower down the mountains is the news about the Santoro and Matautia wedding that will be held next month. 

He feels his chest becomes heavier as his tears falls tremendously from his eyes. He shakes his head and turns to the old lady once again.

"Should I give up on him or pursue him once again? But that will be stupid since he is already mated."

Daime can only sigh and curse under his breath. The old lady shakes her head and whispers something to him. Something he will not forget until he comes back to Switzerland and rightfully claim Aiden as his mate.

"If the Omega inside of him hates the Alpha who bites him, they are still not mated. The bite marks are there, but the Omega will not let the other Alpha mate him if he know that he is not the right for him.

It will be their biggest struggle in the future."