My Marriage To A Mute Alpha

Xiang’s heat stopped for a while. They used that time to take a nap. Xiang cuddled into Suho’s embrace, being greedy for his warmth. Suho hugged him tightly and rested his head on Xiang’s. Both tired from their first experience took to sleep fast. Later, Xiang woke up first. He was staring into Suho’s face for a long time, not being able to take his eyes off him. He then gently started to play with his hair.

“What are you doing?” whispered Suho. Xiang suddenly flinched, due to shock.

“Sorry. Did I wake you up?”

“No, you didn’t. I woke up before that. I felt like someone was piercing me with a strong gaze.”

“It wasn’t my fault that you were beautiful. Anyone would stare at you like that if you have that kind of face.”

“Ok master! It was my fault,” said Suho and laughed. He grabbed Xiang and placed him on top of him.

“I told you that I would tell something after our first time, right?”

“Yes! Can you tell me now?”

“Wait a sec.,” said Suho. He then got out of bed to grab his coat. He grabbed a picture out of its pocket and showed it to Xiang.

“This is the Photo that I refused you to see that day. Can you recognize who they are?”

“Is it my childhood self with another boy?” asked Xiang, after being shocked.

“That another boy is me Xi.”

Xiang took the photo from Suho’s grip and looked at it carefully. The features of his face were visible on the face of the boy in the photo.

“But…how!”, “How is this even possible!”

“Remember that time when you got hit by a car when you were a child before your parents took you in?”

“Yes! But how did you..?”

“It seems that you forgot some parts of your memory due to that accident.”

“What?!”, “Did we have any relationship during my childhood”, “How could I forget that?”

“It seemed like you had the memory of the times you spent with your biological parents. Since you were already mentally affected by them, the accident served as a trigger to make you forget all the other memories including your happy ones. Since your current parents didn’t know about your past and the fact that you knew your identity, they didn’t know that you had amnesia for certain memories.”

“But…How did you know?”

“I was searching for you the whole time once I took over the company. I got to know that you had an accident when you were a child and that you were taken in by the Shi family later. I used my connections to get hold of your medical record and asked one of my friends, who was a doctor to study it. He told me that you might have had chances to experience amnesia for minor memories.”

“This is too much to take in. But what relationship did we have?”

“Do you remember the school that was near your house? You lived in two different houses when you were with your Biological parents. I am talking about the first one.”

“Was there one?”

“Yes. We met when I was a fourth-grader in that school. My mother was also alive at that time…”

*FLASHBACK*

(Suho’s classmate) “Yo! Are you coming to my house today!”

(Suho) “Sorry! Today’s my sister’s birthday! I’m going home today!”

“Ok! Meet you tomorrow!”

“Bye! Bye!” shouted Suho and continued walking happily along the road. Just then, a black car parked in front of him, blocking his way. Out came a tall man, in a black suit. It was none other than his butler.

“Young master. I have come to take you home,” he said, in a husky voice.

“Oh please! I asked mum’s permission to walk home alone today. I want to pick flowers for my sister.”

“I can take you to the flower shop young master!”

“I want to pick it by myself!”

“But master…”

Knowing that his butler won’t compromise, Suho made a deal with him.

“Let’s make a deal! You can stay here. I’ll walk around for a bit and try to pick some flowers. Just give me twenty minutes. I’ll go with you as agreed after that. What do you say?”

“Um…ok, that’s a deal”

“That’s what a man should do! Ok. I’ll go now!”

Little Suho ran as fast as a lightning. While he was wandering around, he came across a huge house with an exceptionally beautiful garden. It caught Suho’s eye immediately. He walked along the outer fencing of the house to see if he can find a way to get inside. Suddenly, he found a small boy crouching in the corner of a flower bush.

“Pst!…Pst! hello! Can you hear me!” whispered Suho. The boy turned his head here and there, to see who it was.

“Here!”

He finally noticed him. At first, he hesitated a bit. But then he walked towards him, slowly, step by step. With the fence between them, the only way of communication was through the holes of the fence.

“Wh…Who..are…you?” asked the boy shyly.

Suho excitedly said “My name is Suho! What is yours?”

Seeing the smile on his face, and the way he talked, the boy’s face immediately brightened up and said “M…My…name…is Xiang!”

“Hello Xiang! Is this your house?”

“Yes!”

“Can you help me with something? Today is my sister’s birthday! She loves flowers. The flowers in your garden look pretty! Can you pick some flowers for me so that I can give it to my sister?”

“Flowers?”

“Yes! Please!” begged Suho with his puppy eyes.

“Yo..ur…your sister li…likes flowers! Me too! I’ll pick them for you!” said Xiang in an excited voice.

“Really! Thanks!”

“Do you want pi…pink or bl… blue?”

“Can I have both!”

“Yes!”

Xiang slowly walked up to the flower bush and plucked the flowers one by one, gently. He then gave the flowers to him, one by one through the holes in the fence.

“They look soooo pretty! Thank you very much Xiang!”

“Ca… can you wait for a minute?”

“Ya, sure” replied Suho with a huge smile on his face.

Xiang searched a small bag that he was having with him and took out a red ribbon. He then gave it to Suho saying “Yo…you can tie the flowers with this ri…ribbon and gi…give it to your sister!”

“That is so cool! Thank you for the ribbon!”

“Ha…Happy bir..birthday to your sister!”

“I will convey your wishes. Also! Can you wait here tomorrow at this time? I will give you a birthday cake!”

“Ca…Cake!”

“Yes! Can you wait?”

“Yes!”

“Ok! But I must leave now. I will see you tomorrow! Bye!” said Suho and waved his hand while he left. Xiang tried to look through the fence, but he couldn’t. But he felt happy that he had helped someone and that someone smiled at him for the first time. As promised, Suho came to meet Xiang the next day.

“Xiang! I brought cake!” whispered Suho.

“Tha…Thank you!”

“You know what! My sister’s favorite gift was the flowers that you presented!”

“Really!”

“yes!”

“Will you come tomorrow?”

“Yes! I will come every day! But why are you not coming outside?”

“My parents will beat me. I am not allowed to leave this garden,” said Xiang in a sad tone.

“You don’t have to worry! I will visit you every day.”

“Are you my friend now?”

“Of course! You are now my best friend!”

“Really!” said Xiang, with a smile, that was powerful enough to make the fourth-grader Suho’s heart to skip a beat.

And that is where it all started. Suho would come and meet Xiang whenever he had the time to. He gave him sweets and toys and anything that he could buy with his pocket money. He talked with Xiang for hours and hours. Suho’s talk and smile was enough to make Xiang forget all the hardsh.i.p.s he faced from the time he was born.

One day, when Suho’s school declared a holiday, Suho took the chance to visit Xiang. When he went there, Xiang was waiting for him. Xiang greeted him with a smile. But Suho didn’t. He noticed that Xiang’s face was bruised.

“Xiang! What happened to your face?!”

“Oh!..Th…Th…this! I fell. That’s why.”

“You are lying. Someone hit you. Right?’

“Please don’t tell anyone!”

“Who hit you?”

“My father.”

“Why?”

“Be…Be… Because I woke up late,” said Xiang while crying.

Suho patted Xiang’s head and pulled out bandages from his backpack. He then tried to stick it on Xiang’s head, by putting his hand through the fence. “You don’t worry! It will heal soon. When I get older, I will get you out of this house and make you my bride. I will feed you mountains and mountains of sweets!”

Xiang blushed hard when he said that. “Tha…Thank you! I will be waiting!”

“You have to wait. Don’t marry anyone else. You are mine!”

“Yes!” said Xiang and smiled. Suho also smiled along with him.

“You know Xiang! I brought a camera! Let’s take a picture!”. He took out his camera and said, “Smile please!”. *click*

“Look Xiang, you look so pretty!”

“You look pretty too!” said Xiang while laughing.

*Present*

“Thank god” said Xiang and laughed.

“About what?”

“I thought I was the one who proposed first. It seems that you are the first one!” said Xiang and laughed.

“Hey! Don’t you want to hear the rest of the story?”

“I do! What happened after that?”

“Well, later I got sick and I couldn’t come to meet you for a while. So I sent my butler to give you snacks and pass my messages to you. During that time, you told my butler that you were going to move and that we wouldn’t be able to meet anymore. So the next day, I came to meet you, but you had already moved away. I didn’t know anything about you, except that your name was Xiang, and that you had abusive parents. But I traced you back when I got older.”

“I think that I’m stupid to forget those memories. I want to know how little Suho talked and laughed!” said Xiang and hugged him. He then said, “But why did you refuse to marry me in the first place?”

“My family is not the same as it was before. Someone was being suspicious. I first doubted that it was my stepmom. I didn’t want you to get involved with her. That’s why I refused to marry you. I didn’t want you to get into this mess. But it seems that I was wrong. She isn’t the one. Someone is framing her to be suspicious, but all the things that are being done, are not done by her.”

“What! So she isn’t the one? We wronged her all this time!”

“Yes. We must go and meet her some time so that we can reveal our relationship to her. But I still have to act as a mute. That person must be keeping an eye on us. I am sorry for dragging you into this, but I have no intention of letting you go this time.”

“I’m happy you said that. I have no intention of letting you go too. I’ll stay by your side no matter what. Don’t worry. I have you. Nothing will happen to me.”

“Thank you for believing in me. By the way, I have another thing to say to you.”

“What is it?”

“What happened to you as a child wasn’t an accident, but it was an attempted murder. Your biological parents tried to kill you and later framed it as an accident.”

“Is that so?”

“Aren’t you surprised?”

“What is there to be surprised about.”, “When I was hit by the car, I saw that my biological dad was the one who was driving it. I knew that they tried to kill me. My existence was not on paper. When they tried to abandon me, they wanted to get rid of the physical me also. It hurt a lot. I don’t care anymore. I have you and my parents and relatives. I’m happy with my life right now. I don’t want to think about those things.”