My Dear Duke(BL)
Chapter 147: Love

Chapter 147: Love

Lucas bent close to get a clear vision and saw the somewhat familiar...

’Are those hickeys?!’

Lucas took a step back and gasped as he indeed thought they were going to give him...a clue to find out what’s wrong with Felix. Good thing he didn’t embarrass himself thinking they were some random marks...

Lucas left a sigh and was about to go and sit down to think what he was going to do when he suddenly heard a very low groan.

Lucas immediately turned back, his gaze focused on Felix who was on the bed.

’He is awake?’

Lucas rushed closer to see as he was sure he heard the sound. Felix still didn’t move so Lucas wanted to make sure it really came from Felix.

Lucas couldn’t deny he was suddenly very hopeful and very excited.

And...to make things more exciting, it turned out Felix was indeed awake!

"Hey! Don’t close your eyes again, Damn it!"

Lucas yelled, slapping Felix hard as he saw Felix closing his eyes again. The slap seemed to have worked as Felix wide opened his eyes, staring at Lucas with a steady glare.

"Get up!"

Lucas pulled Felix and he, seemingly confused, just got up.

But..his cheek stung though.

"Why did you slap me?"

"Why?! Damn you! You were sleeping like dead. You made sweetheart worry!"

"...What are you talking about?"

Felix asked and looked around, now rubbing his cheek. It hurts even more now.

"Haa...Let me just sit down first."

Lucas dragged a chair close and sat down, then staring at Felix’s face.

"I am not sorry for that slap, okay? At least it woke you up."

"...It hurts but I will let go of it. So...what happened?"

"Right. What happened? I should be the one to ask you that. Were you asleep all the time? Do you remember waking up from time to time when Asher woke you up?’

"...?"

Felix, looking confused, just watched Lucas who then left a groan trying to explain things further when the door to the room was suddenly opened.

"Asher! He is awake!"

It was Asher. Knowing he was stressed, Lucas immediately screamed and hearing him, Asher rushed, then again crying seeing the duke staring at him, now completely awake.

Asher wanted to jump at him and hug him but since sir Lucas was there, he thought he should behave himself and restrain from doing too much.

"Why are you crying? I am fine."

Felix said with a hesitant tone as he was taken aback seeing Asher cry. He wanted to pull Asher and embrace him, then comfort him. But since Lucas was there he also thought he would do it later. Lucas will be mad if he just ignores him since understanding what was the problem would be more important than anything to Lucas.

"Sit down Asher. You can do whatever you want with him. I don’t mind but I am too lazy to leave here and come back right now. So...pardon me."

Lucas said as if he understood what went through these two’s mind.

Asher immediately tried rejecting but in the end, he walked to the duke and sat next to him.

The duke and Asher then stared at each other, not knowing what to say.

"Mm...I am sorry for my mistake but please have your moment when I am not here so first...what do you remember?"

Lucas rubbed his forehead as he said and then questioned Felix.

"I don’t know...I was just asleep. I do remember opening my eyes to Asher, but...eventually I felt really heavy. That’s it. I don’t remember anything else."

"Is that so?..."

Lucas fell into deep thought and seeing him focused on his own thoughts, Felix turned to look at Asher, feeling guilty as he was faced with Asher’s eyes that were already watching him, filled with worry.

"Has this ever happened before?

Lucas asked and Felix turned to him, answering as he thought about it.

"No..."

"Haa...So, you were just feeling really really sleepy, was that it?"

"Yeah. Something like that."

"I don’t know what you would think but this is quite concerning. If that one time didn’t work you could be sleeping for a very long time...or maybe forever."

"...I really didn’t know what was wrong with me. It’s just very normal. I was feeling sleepy."

"Mm...I will look into cases to see if I can get a clue why something like this happened. So for now, I don’t have anything to give you. But I can give you some advice, Asher. If this happens again, the first time he is half awake, slap him hard."

Lucas said after turning to Asher.

"...Yeah, I’ll do that."

Asher mumbled.

"Don’t be gentle. Or else he’ll fall asleep again."

Lucas said again.

"U-understood."

"Mm."

After giving some more advice to Asher and asking him to not stress too much, Lucas left since he knew staying around was disturbing these two lovers.

Well, he wouldn’t blame Asher for crying and stressing because even he was quite startled seeing Felix like that. But...how could he say that?

’Everybody needs to stay strong no matter what’s happening around. That’s the way to be in a situation.’

Lucas said goodbye and left the room, leaving Asher and Felix in silence, staring at each other.

"Your...cheek is red."

Asher said in a low voice.

"Ah! Lucas slapped me."

"...I was scared. Why did you wake up?"

Asher asked in a shaky voice and Felix didn’t know how to answer that. Even he doesn’t know why he didn’t wake up...

He remembered opening his eyes as Asher looked at him a few times. But then, when he wanted to get up, he felt like he had not slept for days. He wanted to sleep more.

But at the same time, he didn’t want to because he had to get up and go to work. Asher was trying to wake him up too. He can’t be lazy. He needs to get up. But...he couldn’t force himself to wake up.

Felix had a blurry memory of what happened during those sleeps. He didn’t how many times or when but the only thing he knew was Asher tried waking him up and now he woke up when the pain of Lucas’s slap snapped him out of the daze.

Now, since even Lucas was confused as to what was wrong with him, Felix felt this was not a physical problem.

He wasn’t just sleepy. It was something else...

He just knew it.

But...he had no idea what it was.

’Haa...I feel weird today. My head hurts. I feel terrible.’

Felix frowned and rubbed his forehead complaining to himself.

Seeing this, Asher extended his hand and gently massaged his head. Then, it eventually led Felix to lay back on Asher’s lap and have a comfortable head massage as he felt heavy.

"Mm...please don’t close your eyes."

"...Okay."

Felix felt sad seeing Asher’s red eyes and him restlessly asking him not to close his eyes. Asher must have gotten scared...

He...hurt him, didn’t he?

Was Asher so sad? He had even cried...

’I love Asher so much...’

The sudden explosion of emotions made Felix think Asher was the best thing ever, every time, everywhere he would want, have and cherish...