Trust

Ari's POV

Came the night, I and Toru headed to the venue. Still anxious for what is coming, I unconsciously rubbed my belly. He sees it then smiled at me, saying. "It finally sinked in huh?"

I pouted in embarrassment. "I-I'm just feeling funny in my tummy." I defended.

He chuckles. "Sure, sure! Now let's head in." He says, holding my waist firmly as he escorted me inside.

A waitress then lead us to the table reserved for both parties and there we saw our parents already talking. Closing in, Toru then let me sit in between him and his Mom, instead of sitting with my parents.

"Oh my, aren't you an ungrateful son! Look at you, sitting in between them, instead of sitting with us." My Mom exclaimed.

Thinking I was ready to defend myself, I attempted to talk but Toru squeezed my hand and shook his head as if saying that I don't need to explain myself.

My Dad let's out his iconic, devious laugh. "Oh come on, Darling! You should know by now that son of yours was a brat ever since he was born. Now look at him, looking like a scared puppy, hiding in shadow of his Alpha!" It says glaring at me.

"I beg your pardon Ma'am, Sir, but we aren't here to discuss your family matters. We're here to talk about the compensation we owe you." Toru replied in his calm but menacing voice.

My Mom flinched and Dad face goes awry. "Y-yeah sure, what about it?" Dad says.

"Well, upon discussing your demands to our son, he agreed to give you the company he put up." His Mom says.

"W-what?! How generous of you young man!" My Mom says beaming, obviously happy with what she heard.

"But, wasn't that too much?! All we asked is a share! Why would you give us a company?!" Dad asks.

Toru's Dad then smiled at him, all professionally. "You're thinking too much, Mr. Tsukiyama. That's just how our son wants to be with your son." It says, making my Dad raise his brows.

"You seem terribly concerned Mr. Tsukiyama, are perhaps scared on running a business on your own?" Toru butts in, his jaws tighten.

My Mom saved my Dad's ass and sassily replied. "There's no way my husband would feel like that. After all, we got tons of businesses and we are sure that you knew about them all." She ends with a sly smile and wink.

"Oh dear, of course we know! afterall isn't all..." His Mom paused before she leans in to continue. "Illegal?"

By this time, my parents are now all intimidated by his Family, but they maintained their straight faces and continued with the dinner meeting. Coming to an end, my finally parents agreed to take his company and in return they'll give us their permission to get married.

"Now we've come to an agreement, I would like to ask one more thing from your family, Ma'am, Sir." Toru says with a seemingly polite smile.

My Mom then happily smiled at him and asks. "What is it, young man?"

Toru stands up and smirks. "Please do us a favor and stay away from my Omega. Also, don't you dare to call him your son ever again because you guys are nowhere near to be a parent!" He says, carefully reaching for my shoulder to ask me to stand.

"A-are we leaving?" I asked the moment I obliged.

He nods, kissing my forehead. "I knew it was stressful for you to remain seated and hear those."

I then nod back before I politely bowed to both of our parents before he gently lead me out.

Going home all I can do is to sigh while I look at the side of the road we are passing by. I can say I'm a bit relieved now, but somehow I just couldn't stop thinking that he really went all out just to make my parents agree for us to be married.

Reaching our flat, we silently head in and by the moment we're in he just pulled me into a deep kiss, making me feel the surge of his emotions.

Calmed down by his scent and overwhelming warmth, I found myself reacting to his wants and felt it as a need to make it happen.

"I-I want to try being my own person, Toru." I muttered.

He nods and smiles. "Please do, babe. I would be one of the most happiest people, seeing you grow as the best man you can be." He replies, lifting me inside our room.

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The next day, the preparation of our wedding and the turn over of the company started. Toru was extremely busy because of this and here I am, still lying in bed because I can't get up because of my morning sickness.

Nobody knows about my pregnancy yet because he wants to announce it on our wedding day. Why? Because he thinks that I'll be more vulnerable prey to my family and he thinks that they might try to hurt me and our baby.

He told me that once the turn-over was done, he can stay home with me while we plan our wedding. Having nothing against it of course I agreed to what he wanted and stick to the things I can do.

Being alone in the house most of the time, I developed a new hobby which is baking. So when I'm bored I browse on the internet to see some recipes and make Toru eat them as a snack when he goes home. Sometimes he even asks me to bake more so he can give his parents, or he can bring it at work.

A month quickly passed by and the turn-over was finally done, but somehow it created a huge blow for Toru after my parents publicly announced the truth about this turn-over. The masses then just took their side and labeled him as an Attacker when we both know that wasn't the case.

Stressing out about this while we plan our wedding, Toru started to get cold and irritable most of the time, he even doesn't to talk to me that much, making me feel that I was the reason for all of this.

One time as we are talking with the Event Planner, I just suddenly felt emotional and started crying out of nowhere, muttering. "I'm sorry, it is all my fault."

Toru then get mad at me and started yelling at me while the Event Planner just looked at us utterly confused to what just happened. Still feeling bad, I told the Event Planner that we should just reschedule the meeting and sent her off.

Going back in, I didn't dared to say anything to him and just let him be, I just went to our room and cried again until I doze off to sleep. Waking up, I slowly peeked through the door to see where is he or what he is doing but he was not there so I went out of our room and went to the kitchen to whip something to eat. Thinking he will be back soon I set aside some cookies and put it in a container with a note on it then went back to our room to rest.

But came the next day, there was no sign that he came back for the night and I began to worry. I tried calling him through his phone but there was no answer even if I redialed it dozen of times so I tried calling his parents, both of them answered but none of them knows where he might be.

All my negative thoughts then just came flooding into my brain making things worse and before I knew it, I was already down on my knees, crying ang pitying myself for believing that I am all better now.

The next thing I knew, I found myself bleeding and I passed out in sight of blood trickling down my legs. "I'm sorry, this is all my fault." The words I muttered before falling down to floor completely.

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Toru's POV

Contemplating on how I acted towards Ari in front of the event manager, I decided to cool off myself and stayed the night in a hotel, drinking all night. Of course, I don't want to alarm Mom and Dad about this so I didn't dared to tell them about what happened, it was until the next day and my parents called me to ask where am I because Ari called them to ask where am I.

Finally realizing that I messed up, I quickly checked out and hurried home, but the view when I went home is far from a wake up call, it was a nightmare I couldn't grasp on.

Ari was lying down on the floor, soaked with blood but I don't know where it's coming from so to be safe, I didn't touched him and just called an ambulance.

The rescue team then arrived and checked him, saying. "Head trauma and possible miscarriage, is he a pregnant Omega?" The lady asks me.

I nod. "H-he's 1 1/2 month pregnant."

"Are you his Alpha?" It asked again.

"Y-yes I am." I replied once more.

She then nod at me and said. "We'll be bringing him to the hospital but we have to rule out this incident as a possible attack, we need you to cooperate."

I just nod as I follow them to the ambulance. Still on the daze by the thought of losing our child right before we can even announce it, it just pierces my heart.

Arriving at the emergency room, Ari was immediately taken to the operating room and I was left with the police questioning me. Proving my innocence to them, one of the police commented. "Argh! These Omegas are really trouble! How can they just put all Alphas a bad guy when they all they know is to spread their legs!"

Triggered, I quickly pulled his collar and said. "I dare you to say that again, Mr. Officer."

The other policeman then tried to stop me but my grip was too tight. "W-what are you even getting mad for?! I-I'm just telling the truth! I-It's their fault that Alphas like us have bad reputation!" The policeman I am holding continued to run his mouth.

Letting him go as I throwed him to a wall. "Wrong, it is because you Alphas like you that Omegas couldn't live in peace! It is because heartless people like you that they have to live with such hardships and fear for the future!" I reprimanded him.

The other policeman then threatened to sue me for disrespecting the other officer but I quickly dodge it with the law that has an equal offense where an Alpha badmouthing an Omega. Getting my point, the two of them finally left me alone.

That is only when I called my parents to tell them what happened, worried, the both of them hurried to the hospital and confronted me about.

"Where is he?" Mom asks.

"Still in the operating room." I replied coldly.

Dad then sits beside me and said. "Taking a break when you feel overwhelmed is okay, but not to tell your partner know what is happening or where you are is clearly a sign of disrespect so Ari who had been through a lot, plus pregnant, probably just overthinks it all and just break down."

Guilty as charged, I just can't help but to look down and blame myself. "I just thought that I can handle the issue with his family, alone without dragging him down, but now it's all messed up."

Mom sighs. "Toru, there's no use to blame yourself now, let's just hope that he's okay and maybe your child as well."

Nodding, I just waited for the doctor with them. "The patient is now out of danger but we need to observe him for sometime so he'll be remaining in the ICU."

"W-what about the child?" I asked, my voice cracked.

The doctor shook its head to say that the baby was gone, just answering it with a nod, it left again to transfer Ari to the ICU.

"It's getting late, son. We need to head out, we'll be sure to drop by again tomorrow and bring you some clothes." Dad says.

"Stay strong, baby. He needs you more than anything now." Mom added as she pulled me into a tight hug.

Watching them leave, I stood up and took a peek into the glass of Ari's room. Frustrating as it is, I just realized how I failed miserably in making him happy. "Do I even have the right to keep you by my side even after all these?" I asked myself.

Then I saw an old guy passing by and stops right beside me. "Who is he?" He asks.

"M-my mate, sir." I replied.

He smiles. "Isn't it wonderful to have a mate?" He asks again.

"Honestly, I don't even know if he's still be willing to be my mate." I sadly answered.

The old guy pats my back and said. "It takes two people to tango, young man. It will not work if one wants to do things alone."

Leaving me with that saying, I then finally realized what is it that I have to do and that is to make things right instead of moping around.

The next day, as my Mom offered to look over Ari, I talked with a legal counselor and asked of there is way I can do to clean my name out of the controversies his parents put me through.

The counselor then told me that since they targeted the mass to spread the news, it will be good to counter it with a public statement as well. "It will also be nice if it is sincere and and genuine so you have to think it through before coming up with an actual statement." It added.

Hearing those advice I came back to the hospital with renewed optimism, so by the moment I replaced Mom, I was down making a public statement.

After 3 days, I finally released the statement and post it online. It was a mix of a public apology and an explanation to what really happened and of course, it gained mixed reactions from the mass, but I couldn't care less since all I want is ease my mind just before Ari wakes up, but it took him 2 1/2 more weeks to wake up.

Luckily, despite of having a head trauma and a risky surgery there appears no complications and he was cleared after 3 more days.

Going back home, Ari started to be careful around me again, seemingly building a wall around himself, making it harder for me to come close, but it doesn't stopped the planning of our marriage so it went through even he's obviously not that passionate about it.

Now married, I tried to earn back his trust even little by little but with his gigantic walls, it is getting impossible for me to get through, making me feel that we're just married for convenience.