Chapter 78: The Secretary’s Shoulder

After Lucas went to the military academy at the age of thirteen, he made amazing achievements there that couldn’t be matched by his seniors. He even directly tackled the task of enlisting in the army and cleared customs at an SSS level, showing the Empire his strength as a 3S Alpha, and forcing Alton to accept this young lion cub.

Since then, Lucas had been staying at Alton’s side on the battlefield, and almost never returned to the capital. Of course, Lucas had no desire to return to that home.

Only — the second time he returned, it was because Alton was injured and needed to receive treatment in the capital.

Lucas and Zhou Mingkai, both of them young boys, hid beside the pillars of the capital elementary school gate, looking inside furtively.

The security guard saw the two of them, recognized the military school uniform on Zhou Mingkai’s body, and didn’t think anything of it.

“See?” Lucas pointed at the silver-haired kid who was being led out by a man.

Lucas thought, that silver hair is really easy to recognize.

“I see him.” Zhou Mingkai was so curious that he poked his head up and continued to observe. He really wanted to know what it took for someone like Lucas to come here on purpose to look like a pervert.

The little boy was led by his father, carrying a small school bag as he kept up in an unbalanced manner. He made intermittent and unskilled attempts to talk to his father and share what he had seen that day.

After returning to the capital, it took a long time for little Luo Ran to learn how to speak and live like other people with the help of his counselors. It was only that he still didn’t know much about the world, so when he went to middle school, the children started to rebel, and he was bullied when he started to stand out.

After all, his personality was strange, his hair was strange, and there was also the Viscount.

“Wow……” Zhou Mingkai opened his mouth wide and said, “Is that your child bride?”

“Bah!” Lucas smacked Zhou Mingkai’s head fiercely and said, “That’s my son!”

It was the little one he rescued from the cave.

Lucas stuck his chest out proudly.

The two of them climbed the wall, and those who didn’t know better would think that they were two bad students who had skipped class to go make trouble at a different school.

. . . . . . .

And when Lucas returned to the capital again, it was time for him to inherit Alton’s army and reputation, and officially become the Admiral of the Empire after Alton’s death.

The adjutants had been selected one by one, and only a secretary was missing.

But everyone said that with a character like Lucas’s, how could it be possible for there to be a secretary who followed him closely and communicated with him about everything?

“I said, I don’t need a secretary or any assistants!”

Lucas threw the document on the table, pa!, and said with impatient fury: “Get lost!”

The head of the department trembled when he was yelled at, and wanted to cry but had no tears. He said: “But Admiral……you really need a personal secretary to help with your official duties. We chose Betas with honest personalities and common backgrounds, so we promise they won’t cause you any trouble!”

The department head went for broke.

This time when they were filtering and selecting applicants, Shen Xiluo happened to come over and pick up a document, and said that if it was this person, the Admiral might accept them.

Thus, the department head took courage and, as if about to die, stuffed the file into Lucas’s hands.

“He’s really excellent! Really, truly suitable for you, Admiral!”

Job vacancies were too troublesome for the operation of the office.

And no one wanted to deal with Lucas at work every day, which was really too miserable.

Lucas was about to curse, when he caught a glimpse of silver hair from the corner of his eye.

Silver?

Lucas picked up the file and looked at it.

The department head stared at Lucas hopefully, rubbing his hands together anxiously.

Pa!

Lucas tossed the file away and said: “Whatever.”

“Yes!”

. . . . . . . . 

Early in the morning, sunlight shone through the wisteria flowers in the floor-to-ceiling office window.

“Wu……”

Luo Ran opened his eyes, feeling that the effect of the jacket and the bed was too potent. The pheromones were so strong that he had no dreams last night, and he was no longer in so much pain that he couldn’t sleep.

“Wake up, Ranran.”

There was a familiar and gentle voice, a little bit hoarse.

“En.”

“…….”

There seemed to be something wrong.

Luo Ran turned his head, and his eyes widened in shock.

“Admir—”

“Mmph.”

Lucas held Luo Ran’s face and kissed him.

The kiss was not deep, and only rubbed across his lips. Although less passionate, it was a little more charming.

“Admiral……” Luo Ran looked at Lucas who was lying on top of him, and his tone trembled a little.

He was, he was back.

“You…..why didn’t you tell me?” Luo Ran asked in a daze. “When?”

In fact, he had been notified, but Luo Ran was in a coma at the time.

Lucas smiled and said: “If I told you, I wouldn’t have known you were like this in private.”

Lucas pointed to the jacket he was holding, and then at the bed beneath them.

Luo Ran’s face immediately flushed red.

“I……”

“You what?” Lucas raised an eyebrow and said: “You secretly love me so, so, so much, right?”

“Don’t you really like my pheromones?”

Lucas leaned over and hugged Luo Ran, letting him nestle into him, encircling this person with his jacket and arms. He said: “Do you like them or not?”

There was a strong smell of tobacco at the tip of his nose. It was an earthy scent.

Luo Ran wrapped his arms around Lucas’s waist and said nothing.

Lucas chuckled.

“Ranran.”

“En?”

“Did you miss me these few days?”

Luo Ran paused and said: “Admiral, you know I missed you very much.”

“Tsk…..” Lucas put his head on Luo Ran’s shoulder. “I know.”

The two simply embraced each other without speaking.

After a while, Luo Ran spoke: “Admiral, is the battle on Luobing over?”

“No, it’s only ended temporarily. Mu Yuan can hold on for the time being.” Lucas said: “I’ll be leaving after a while.”

Luo Ran frowned and said: “Admiral, I’m really okay. No matter what happens, I can take care of myself. You don’t have to…..”

Lucas interrupted: “I came back to have a look and decided to take you with me.”

“Ah…..?”

Lucas said: “Would you like to go to the front lines with me? It may be more dangerous, but I want to be selfish for a while. I promise to do my best to protect you.”

He didn’t feel anything before, but now that their relationship was confirmed, Lucas was very uncomfortable without Luo Ran by his side, and it was difficult for him to settle down.

There were naturally no distractions on the battlefield, but off the battlefield, he was always concerned.

He didn’t want to be separated.

But he didn’t want to use video, and most of the time he didn’t have time for video.

He wanted to hug Luo Ran to sleep.

Luo Ran stared blankly at Lucas.

After a moment’s pause, Luo Ran said: “Then let me be selfish for a while too.”

They couldn’t go on like this forever.

It might be bearable if they were Betas, but they were an Alpha and an Omega, both sensitive 3S’s, and Lucas spent most of the year on the battlefield. It was a precarious state.

Going to the battlefield with Lucas was the best solution.

Lucas was a little happy, kissing and biting Luo Ran messily from the start.

The water in the office had gone cold overnight. Lucas got up and said: “I’ll pour warm water for you to take medicine.”

“Okay.”

Lucas went out, and bumped into the captain of the investigation team.

Lucas stopped the captain and said with a raised eyebrow: “I’m back now, and no longer on the battlefield. I don’t need to concentrate so fully anymore, so you can tell me everything, right?”

The captain paused, then said: “Yes.”

Not daring to say anything, the captain directly handed the document in his hand to Lucas.

Lucas took it.

Luo Ran seemed to have sensed something, and also noticed the gradually disordered pheromones in the air, so he walked out of the office wearing Lucas’s jacket. 

“Admiral…..”

Lucas held the file, saying nothing.

After a moment, Lucas said expressionlessly: “We’re going to Cyril’s manor.”

Luo Ran paused, then put on his shoes and followed.

. . . . . . . 

Cyril’s manor could be considered the most luxurious in the Aldor family, at least a little better than the main house.

Knowing that Lucas had taken a small team to Cyril’s manor, the marshal and his wife hurried over.

“What’s wrong? What’s wrong?” The marshal’s wife clutched Luo Ran anxiously.

Although Lucas hated his brother, he wouldn’t lead troops to barge in like this. After all, no matter how reckless Lucas was, he would also consider the direction of the future Aldor patriarch, and would not do anything to draw the ridicule of outsiders.

Luo Ran lowered his eyes and said nothing.

Lucas directly kicked open the gate, and the people he brought suppressed the manor guards.

“You…..what are you doing?”

Cyril went downstairs, and was shocked to see the battle in front of him.

Lucas strode forward, grabbed Cyril by the collar, and bam, smashed him against the wall.

Cyril’s head was instantly bloodied. The blood flowed down his forehead, and Lucas’s strength was clear in the way the other’s face went completely dazed.

“Lucas…..!” The marshal’s wife’s voice changed. This was her flesh and blood, after all, and she stepped forward to put a stop to this.

Then the team brought by Lucas immediately came forward and held her back from the left and right.

“One hundred and eighty five.” Lucas panted heavily. “One hundred, eighty-five.”

Cyril stared blankly at Lucas, still somewhat mystified.

“A total of one hundred and eighty-five people died in the Border Ravine, including Admiral Alton!” 

Lucas’s eyes were red, his chest heaving violently.

“A total of one hundred and eighty-five people, understand?!”

There were many Imperial soldiers, and this number was actually not much to the royal family or the council, who had never been on the battlefield. It was only a number, not to mention it wasn’t four digits or even two hundred.

But for Lucas, every one of them had a name. They were all comrades-in-arms. They were all people.

Only now did Cyril understand, and his face went pale.

“You piece of shit! That was your uncle!” Lucas wasn’t good with words, and even though his mind was a mess right now, he didn’t know how to rebuke him.

He just couldn’t understand.

He couldn’t understand it at all.

Why?

How could someone who was clearly a citizen of the Empire and a member of the Aldor family do something like tipping off the enemy?

What was the reason?

Why would he do this?

Lucas kicked Cyril and pushed him to the ground. “You are a citizen of the Empire! You’re not a star pirate!”

He really couldn’t understand why Cyril would do this.

“You are the eldest son of the Aldor family! Your surname is Aldor and you grew up in the capital!”

“Are you a star pirate?! No, you are clearly the descendant of a military family!”

Lucas shouted: “Even an Aldor dog knows not to bite its master!”

Lucas’s voice seemed to penetrate the roof, and his Alpha pheromones made everyone in the hall almost breathless.

Lucas’s uncontrollable fury and emotion filled his pheromones with aggression, and even Luo Ran felt that his breathing was shaky, as if there was something pressing down on his shoulders.

For every word Lucas spoke, he kicked Cyril, who was lying on the ground, gasping for breath and spitting up blood. His kneecaps were deformed, and he was crying out in pain.

The marshal’s wife and the marshal naturally tried to stop it.

“What is the problem, speak clearly!”

“Your brother is going to die!”

Lu Cheng, who had followed along, played the personal communicator on the spot.

The marshal and his wife were stunned at once.

The marshal’s wife froze in place, and then began to tremble.

Her fingertips shook.

The marshal turned his back, and no one could see his expression.

“One hundred and eighty-five!” Lucas gripped Cyril’s head and hit it continuously against the floor.

“Those one hundred and eighty-five people were soldiers, including your uncle, who was protecting you cowering, scheming bastards!”

“Why should they protect you and die for you?!”

Lucas was short-tempered, but never so out of control.

“Mom, Mom……help me, cough……help me……” Cyril struggled, reaching out a hand to the marshal and his wife.

The marshal’s wife knelt down and covered her tearful face.

After a moment, the marshal said: “As of today, Cyril will be removed from the Aldor family. He is no longer an Aldor.”

His back was facing everyone, so there was no way to know what his expression looked like, but his voice was as cold as ever.

“Mom…..Mom……” Cyril’s face was pale, and he was in disbelief.

The marshal’s wife shook her head with her face covered, crying so hard that she couldn’t breathe. 

Wrong, it was all wrong.

“Help……me……” Cyril had wounds all over his body, and his blood was all over the tiles.

“What are you afraid of, you won’t die.” Lucas panted. “You won’t die in your lifetime.”

Death was too easy.

There were so many tortures in this world, and Cyril was an Alpha with spiritual power. It was better to keep him alive.

“You……!” Cyril’s eyes widened in disbelief. “D-dead people…..can’t……be reborn. There’s no m-meaning……in torturing me……it’s just for……yourself……”

“Just for myself.” Lucas said with reddened eyes: “What kind of person do you think I am?”

“Cough……”

Cyril was taken away. In the future, his case would be heard in court.

That was why the marshall had announced his expulsion, so that it was Cyril who would be humiliated, and not the Aldor family.

The marshall’s wife couldn’t bear it anymore. She fainted, and was taken away by the marshall.

Lu Cheng tactfully led everyone away.

Only Lucas and Luo Ran remained in the hall.

Luo Ran stepped forward at once and hugged Lucas.

Lucas buried his head in Luo Ran’s shoulder and didn’t speak.

Luo Ran gently stroked the back of Lucas’s head.

Still silent, Lucas leaned against him.

Luo Ran released his own pheromones, gently dispelling the chaotic tobacco scent in the air.

“Ranran.”

Lucas’s voice was hoarse.

“En, Admiral.” Luo Ran hugged Lucas and said: “Admiral, listen to me.”

“It’s not your fault. It’s really not your fault.”

“En.” Lucas put his arms around Luo Ran’s back.