Dinner starts silently. Everyone seems to be in a state of awkwardness. If not for Aito offering to cook, Sorahiko and Sakura would have settled down to sleep on the sofa without eating dinner. Neither of them seemed eager to forage through Misa’s kitchen for ingredients. Aito cooks a simple but delicious meal of rice and chicken with vegetables, and they all eat at Misa’s unnecessarily long dining table. It is so awkward. Contrary to Sorahiko’s expectations, Aito sits in one of the side chairs instead of sitting at the head of the table. Sakura sits two seats away from him, while Sorahiko sits right across from her. It kind of feels like they are deliberately sitting as far as they can from him. “You’ve met Rei, haven’t you?”. Aito asks suddenly, breaking the terse silence. Sorahiko chokes on his rice— he had not expected the alpha to speak, talk less of asking about Rei. But in hindsight, he should have expected it. There are no other alphas here, meaning t
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