Chapter 25 - Car Crush

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The next day.

Daniel woke up late from staying up late last night waiting for the firework display and watching fire dance and hula dance. Laotian woke up earlier and prepare everything for Daniel when he wakes up. It's already 9 am so Laotian carefully wake up Daniel. He didn't like the Omega skipping breakfast especially when Daniel already missed lunch yesterday. David would have scolded him if he knew, thankfully he didn't.

" hmmm, " shifting from his position as he slowly lifts his lashes.

" let's eat breakfast. " Laotian spoke. Daniel blinks his eyes before nodding and sitting up with the help of the Alpha. Daniel slightly pauses feeling a slight sharp pain at his lower abdomen, he's been feeling this a lot lately. He remembered the gynecologist said it was normal since he's having abdominal stretching. The muscles that supported his uterus were expanding for the baby so Daniel didn't mind it and continued to stand.

"I had room service." Daniel walked to the bathroom while Laotian saying this.

"Hmm okay, I'll just wash my face." Daniel enters the bathroom and went straight to the toilet to relieve himself then to the sink wash his face and mouth. When he finished, he finds out Laotian was at the doorway waiting for him.

"Good morning." Laotian smiled kissing Daniel on the forehead. Daniel routinely lifted his chin later comes next was Laotian leaning down to give his wife a peck on the lips then Daniel hummed his good morning. After that short session, they walked to the table where their food was prepared. For some reason, Daniel was feeling exhausted. So very silently the couple ate their breakfast while occasionally feeding each other, it was their routine to do so now.

"Are you tired?" Laotian asked. They had finished eating breakfast and currently taking a shower together. Laotian noticed Daniel was constantly yawning, so the Alpha was worried.

"hmmm. Staying up late wasn't a very good idea." Daniel giggled as he rubs the soap on Laotian's chest.

" Next time, I won't let you sleep late even if you beg me. "

" But the show was so good. I also wanted to see the fireworks. " Daniel argued.

" I can arrange a fire and hula dance for you and fireworks display anytime but not past 10 pm. "

" I don't want that. Just let it pass this one time, okay? " Daniel smile rinsing off the soap off their body. Laotian didn't say anymore and just help the Omega clean his body. When they were finished, they dried off and wore something comfortable because they were going on a road trip.

Since it was hot outside, Laotian put on a lot of sunscreens on the Omega's body before they finally left. Both were only wearing men's shorts, a T-shirt and sunglasses but Daniel's were maternity shorts and an oversized T-shirt. Before leaving, Daniel invited David but because David had somewhere he wanted to go, only Laotian and Daniel were going.

As the couple drives off the hotel, two cars silently left following them. One left a minute after the couple while the other left 15 minutes after not worrying that he won't be able to catch up since he installed a tracking device in his eldest brother's car and to the man he saw yesterday. After witnessing what the man did last night, Tian Zi knew the man was up to no good. Back in their country, no one would dare scheme against his older brother but now that he's out of the country, someone actually dared to do it.

Looking at two red dots on his phone, although the man's car didn't seem like it's following, his destination was exactly the same as his older brother's.

Meanwhile, Daniel was looking at the beautiful buildings in the city as he thought of eating ice cream. He had scanned on the internet a few days ago and discovered that there is an ice-cream shop in the city that sells really good ice-cream so he wanted to try it.

" Laotian, I read on the internet there is this really good ice-cream shop in the city and I think it's around this area." Daniel excitedly scanned his phone and showed it to Laotian.

" hmmm okay, I know the place. " Laotian nodded and continued driving. Actually, Laotian had studied the city 2 days ago and already had places in his mind where he could bring Daniel to eat or sightsee. After looking at the picture and address he immediately remembered that he had noted this place when he was looking for places so he knew where it was already.

" I wonder if it tastes as good as they say. "

" well, we're about to find out. " Laotian pull up when they finally arrived at the ice-cream shop. Extremely excited Daniel almost immediately got out of the car not even waiting for Laotian. The Alpha just watched the Omega who's happily walking inside the ice-cream shop. After parking the car, Laotian found Daniel already ordering his matcha flavored ice-cream and coffee-flavored for him.

" Hmmm, Laotian! This tastes so good. So creamy and the matcha is so delicious. " Daniel couldn't stop m.o.a.ning as he eats his ice-cream. Although all ice-cream for Laotian tasted the same, he nodded his head in agreement with the Omega.

" It is indeed delicious. " Laotian stroke Daniel's hair. Seeing how the Omega was so happy about the ice-cream, he was already thinking to open a branch back home so whenever he wanted to eat it, they could go there to eat together or have a little chat like what's currently happening.

" Laotian I want to eat more. " Daniel pouted looking at his almost empty ice-cream bowl.

" No. I can't eat more. I'll get fat. " Daniel pulled Laotian when the Alpha was about to stand to order more. When Daniel stopped him, he raised his eyebrow and looked at his wife.

" You are so thin so gaining a little bit is a good thing. " Laotian told Daniel. If the Omega's stomach wasn't bigger than normal pregnant male Omega, people would have thought he just has a big stomach. If it wasn't for David organizing Daniel's food and nutrition intake, Daniel might have become a malnourished pregnant man and affect the baby with it. Daniel was making Laotian constantly worry about his health.

" But I already gained so much. If I gain more, I don't know if I could lose weight after giving birth. " Daniel pouted again pulling Laotian to sit. In reality, Daniel was not that thin but in Laotian's eyes, he was. Daniel doesn't know to what degree in Laotian's perspective could he see or call a person normal and fat. When Daniel wasn't pregnant, he weighed 120 lbs and had a normal BMI so he wasn't thin at all.

" Why are you worried about that? " Laotian frown and look at Daniel seriously. Daniel chewed on his lips and mumbled.

" Just... Because.., I-I'm not worried that you might not like me anymore because I know you would still like me but when the time comes and people know about me I don't want you criticized because you have a fat wife... J-Just go along with me on this Laotian and besides I bet we still have a lot of restaurants to go to, yeah? " Daniel tilted his head to the side explaining to Laotian while caressing the Alpha's arms as if calming him down. He used his cooing voice and continued to caress the Alpha's arm until he dotingly nodded okay.

" Hmmm okay. " Laotian replied helplessly. Laotian doesn't care about public opinion but if Daniel cared about it, he would help him in every way he could as long as it wasn't too much that it would harm Daniel himself for it.

" Okay finish your ice-cream then let's go to the next destination. " Daniel said excitedly as he finishes his ice-cream. After the couple was done, they left the shop and drove to their next destination. They went to numerous places, Restaurants, Museums, Parks, Markets, Malls, Beaches that aren't far away from the city, etc. Daniel had a lot of fun today and he was glad he got to spend this wonderful day with Laotian, he realized how excellent his husband's time management skills are that they manage to go to several places in just one day.

It was almost 8 pm, and they just came from a park from a higher area of the city that allows visitors to view the city from the top. While waiting in the car, Daniel was busy sketching on his sketchpad. Laotian was out taking their take out food from the restaurant they had eaten during lunch. Daniel sketched Laotian's back while holding hands with a person, the other person was Daniel. Even though the drawing was only the back, a person could already feel the emotions of the couple in the drawing.

Daniel had just finished his sketch, he was satisfied with it. He caresses the drawing gently and smiled before he looked outside the window and he saw Laotian not far away holding their take out food. He frowned when Laotian suddenly drop the paper bags and rush towards his direction with a horrified expression.

Before Daniel could figure something out, he heard a loud crashing sound that directly hit the car he was in. Everything went in slow motion as Daniel hit his head on the glass window. The only image that runs into Daniel's mind was Laotian's expression as the darkness swallowed his consciousness.