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The next morning Charlie was the first to get up, making breakfast while everyone else slept soundly. The majority of the group was passed out on the floor in their blanket nests while Babe lay sprawled out on the couch. The Enigma moved quietly as he loaded the rice cooker and chopped enough meat and vegetables to feed an army. He was about to start on the eggs when he heard footsteps and turned to see Babe standing in the doorway, rubbing at his eyes as he stretched.
“Hey. How did you sleep?” Charlie asked, crossing the room to wrap his arms around his mate.
“Good.” Babe said, leaning down to peck Charlie on the lips. “Do you need any help?”
Charlie smiled against the kiss but captured his alpha’s hands before they wandered too far down his sides. “Yes. Set the table for me?”
“Yes sir, my precious Enigma.”
Babe dropped a kiss on Charlie's forehead and moved to get the plates, completely missing his boyfriend’s stunned expression in the process. Admittedly he didn't do a very good job, haphazardly depositing the plates and dumping a fistful of utensils in the middle. The loud clatter startled Charlie and Babe, quite literally, jumped on the opportunity to pin the Enigma against the counter.
The Alpha craned his head to press his mouth to the Enigma’s once again. The kiss started chaste but quickly became heated as their lips parted. Charlie fumbled with the stove behind him, cutting the burners off as Babe lifted him up and sat him on the counter. Predictably, they got so lost in each other that neither of them heard the others waking up until someone cleared their throat.
Charlie pulled back to look over his boyfriend’s shoulder, expression turning sheepish when he realized the rest of the pack gathered in the kitchen and were now staring at them. Way had one brow raised, while North was snickering along with Sonic who, for some inexplicable reason, was trying to cover Kenta’s eyes. Jeff appeared the most unimpressed of them all, pointedly looking at the ceiling.
“Charlie, please tell me you still have your pants on?” Alan sighed.
Winner snorted at the Alpha’s reaction and Dean dropped to the floor, clutching his stomach as he began laughing his ass off. Mood thoroughly killed, Babe reluctantly let go of his mate and turned around.
“We didn’t have time to go that far.” He answered with a roll of his eyes.
“But hey! Breakfast is ready.” Charlie announced, clapping his hands to draw everyone’s attention.
He hopped off of the counter and moved to grab the prepared dishes. Jeff was quick to help him and by the time the door opened to admit Charlie’s parents, the group had sat down to eat. However, Kim and Chay did not come alone. The two adults that followed Charlie’s parents had the Enigma dropping his fork and practically sprinting across the room.
“Uncle Porsche! Uncle Kinn!” Charlie squealed, launching himself at the taller of the two. “You guys are home!”
A warm laugh escaped from both men as Charlie was held tightly by his uncle. “Little one, you should've known we’d rush back as soon as your mom called.”
“Porsche!” Chay whined at the same time Charlie let out a prolonged, “Mom!”
“So that's where he gets it from.” Jeff commented, eyes bright.
The sound of his voice had Kinn and Porsche turn their heads towards the group settled around the kitchen table. Their smiles faltered when they spotted Jeff. The young man’s dark eyes looked so much like Porsche’s own that they brought back a long buried grief of losing their youngest son at childbirth. As impossible as it was, looking at the Omega felt like seeing their past in the present.
“Little one, why don't you introduce your pack?” Porsche suggested, voice casual despite his desperation to know the young man’s name.
“Sure!” Charlie agreed, pulling his uncles over to the table. “Uncle Porsche, Uncle Kinn, I want you guys to meet my oldest friend. Jeff and I met at the Chen Foundation. I’ve actually been taking care of him since he was still in diapers.”
Jeff covered his face in embarrassment as he whined, “Phi!”
Way, Pete and Babe exchanged confused glances, while Kenta looked at Charlie in surprise. The four of them always knew Charlie and Jeff had grown up together in the Foundation but never realized how young the Omega had been upon arrival and exactly how much responsibility had been thrust on the Enigma’s shoulders.
Charlie’s father had a look of contemplation on his face, looking between Jeff and Kinn who seemed frozen. He turned to Pete, hoping the younger man had been smart enough to get the records of any and all children that had been in the ‘care’ of Tony Chen. When the Enigma looked up and made eye contact with him he knew he’d get an answer.
“Did you manage to get a hold of the files on the children?”
“Not all of them.” Pete answered. “Tony guarded his secrets well. The only reason I managed to get a hold of the files for Charlie, Jeff, Babe, Way, Kenta and myself was because Charlie stole them when he took Jeff and ran in the middle of the night.”
Charlie scoffed and turned to Kenta who suddenly found his plate to be the most interesting thing in the room. “P’Pete still doesn’t know that you are the reason I had those files? Really?”
“It never came up.” Kenta muttered, biting his lip. “And you came back for me, so I didn’t see the point in telling him anyways.”
“You know, that’s not the first time we’ve heard about Charlie being the reason you escaped Tony’s clutches alive.” North said, looking at the Omega curiously. “How did he get you out of there?”
Kenta looked like he wanted the floor to swallow him as everyone’s attention zeroed in on him. His eyes darted furtively at Charlie who moved to lean against the counter with his arms crossed. The Enigma looked around at his pack and then at Kenta and, with a heavy sigh, decided to cut his packmate some slack and explain Kenta’s story himself.
“Five years ago, Kenta found out that Tony had murdered his biological parents, Carmina and Arthee Chen. Arthee was Tony’s older brother and inherited the Company after their father’s passing. Tony hated being cut out of the succession and planned to get rid of his brother’s entire family by staging a car accident. But his plan failed. Kenta survived the crash and Tony had no choice but to take him in as his only living relative.” Charlie told them. “Then, about a month after Kenta discovered the truth, I told him I was going to take Jeff and leave. I begged him to come with us but he wasn't ready yet. He did help us, though. I told him I needed all of our documents and the night we fled, Kenta provided them to me. Along with his own and those who had escaped before us.”
“After Tony found out the files were gone, he lost it. Beat me senseless, locked me in a dark closet for weeks and nearly starved me to death.” Kenta continued quietly, never looking up from his plate. “I think that's when I first realized why he’d kept me alive after my parents died. All of my inheritance was tied up in trust funds and inaccessible to Tony as they had made sure only I had access to the accounts. He tried to bribe me into signing authorization forms by offering me food if I cooperated. But I continued to refuse, knowing what would happen to me if I gave him what he wanted.”
As Kenta’s voice faded, Charlie picked the story back up. “Two months after Jeff and I made our escape, I got a call from Kenta. He needed help and I was the only one he trusted to get him out safely. I made sure Jeff understood that he needed to stay hidden in the apartment before I left that night to go help Kenta. I found him hiding outside the mansion, gave him the keys to my crappy, second hand car and told him to run and not look back.”
Charlie left the kitchen, suddenly remembering that he had left a USB drive that contained Jeff’s file in Babe’s room three years earlier. He went to get it from Babe’s room, leaving Kenta to finish the story.
“Twenty of Tony’s guards died that night, with seventeen of the children escaping and their files disappeared as well. Charlie arrived back at the apartment the next day, looking like he had gone to war. He had seventeen files on him and Pete contacted us later that night to inform Charlie that the seventeen children had arrived safely to his home. He just needed their files and he would start the process of locating family members.”
“I picked up the files that night and started the process but many of them had to be sent out of the country as I found that their families had sold them to Tony. I had many trusted friends at that point that were willing to take the children and every last one of them are star students and successful in life.” Pete finished and Chay smacked Charlie on the back of his head, hard, when he heard that.
“Ow mom! I just got my memory back! Be gentle!” Charlie whined, handing a USB drive over to his father. “That contains Jeff’s file. I had it digitized so he couldn’t access it without snooping through my things.”
“No wonder I couldn’t find it!” Jeff exclaimed, throwing his hands up in exasperation.
That is definitely Porsche’s kid. Kim thought, ducking his head to hide his smile as he accepted the laptop from his son.
The singer moved to sit down on the couch, Chay sitting next to him as their brothers sat on the chair across from them. Kim inserted the drive into the computer and almost immediately a ‘This file is secured. Please enter the password’ message popped up. “Char, come put in the password.”
Charlie took the laptop and typed in a forty-five character password that he had set before he even knew the family he belonged to. Back then it was something so secure that no one would have been able to guess it related to him in some way. Once the file was opened, he handed the laptop back to his father and went back to sit on Babe’s lap. He could and would ignore proper etiquette while his pack was with him.
Babe wrapped his arm around Charlie’s waist, nuzzling softly against his throat as Charlie watched his father’s dark brown eyes turn stormy grey. He knew what his father was reading and he knew finding out that your son was still alive after being kidnapped was nothing compared to finding out that the nephew you had grieved for when they died at birth was actually still alive.
“Charlie, are you absolutely sure about the information in this file?” Kimhant looked up at the Enigma who nodded solemnly.
“Everything in the file is the same as when I stole it from Tony Chen.” Charlie confirmed. “Not a single thing has been changed. The only thing I added was a DNA test comparing my DNA to Jeff’s.”
At that, Jeff looked at Charlie, eyes wide at the implication. Alan personally looked terrified at the prospect of being the son-in-law to the heads of the Thai Mafia but was handling himself rather well. Porsche was maintaining his composure rather well, a calming hand on his mate’s shoulder. While Kinn could react badly to this news, he needed to keep calm until they had answers, preferably from the doctor that tended to Kinn during the birth.
“Do you think Tony knew of the blood relation between you and Jeff?” Way asked, looking at Charlie with concern. “Could that have been the reason he had you take care of Jeff despite you being a young pup as well?”
“I’ve read the entire file.” Charlie admitted, running a hand through his hair. “Tony definitely knew of the blood relation. I’ve looked at old news articles from that time. My kidnapping was well publicized, a huge reward for information or my safe return. The pregnancy announcement was also splashed across every news outlet available while it was also made clear that the new pup would in no way be a replacement when it came to me.”
Meanwhile, Charlie’s father had read more of the file and with a growl, he quickly deposited the laptop onto the couch before he chose to fling it across the room. He got to his feet and stormed towards the staircase, pulling his phone from his pocket as he went. Charlie quickly grabbed the laptop before his uncles could get it, knowing that Uncle Kinn was very bad at restraining himself from flinging things across the room. And Charlie desperately needed the laptop for work.
“There’s something in there that you don’t want us to see, isn’t there?” Porsche asked, and Charlie shook his head.
“No. I just need my laptop for work and while my father showed incredible restraint not throwing it across the room, I know Uncle Kinn won’t be able to exercise the same restraint.”
Porsche snorted and Kinn rolled his eyes, knowing that his nephew was absolutely correct but he would never admit it. Chay stood up, placed his hands on his hips and glared at his son until the Enigma let out a sigh and turned it so his mom could read the screen.
“THAT FUCKING BASTARD!” Chay screamed, reading what his mate had read moments ago. “KIMHANT THEERAPANYKUN THAT DOCTOR BETTER BE DEAD OR YOUR ASS IS SLEEPING ON THE COUCH AGAIN!”
“I’M WORKING ON IT LOVE!” Kimhant yelled back and Charlie rubbed a hand down his face before looking over at Jeff.
“Do you see now why I swore to you that Tony would never get your location? That I would rather die than risk your safety?”
“Dramatic much?” Jeff muttered, shrinking in his seat when Charlie glared at him. “Alright, I get it. You were protecting me and I’ve always been grateful for that. Now put away the ‘I am disappointed in you’ glare please?”
“I thought that look was only meant for Babe.” North whispered to Sonic who shushed him.
Babe looked up at Charlie and immediately let out a low whine, that only the Enigma could hear. The Alpha wanted his mate’s attention and was determined to get it. Charlie looked over at him, smiling when Babe shifted in his seat before gesturing towards the front door with his head. Babe nodded and Charlie made sure to inform his mother that he was going outside before disappearing out the front door. He smiled when his mate followed him less than a minute later.
“Big, can you keep everyone away from Babe’s car?” Charlie asked, wrapping an arm around Babe’s waist.
“Alone time, Khun Charlie?” Big smirked before continuing. “You got it. I’d advise moving the vehicle though. You know your mother won’t be stopped by anyone.”
Charlie smirked and held up Babe’s keys causing the bodyguard to snicker before shooing them away. The car was moved halfway down the street, to a private parking area belonging to Babe. He had purchased the area in the last year and it actually came in handy. Charlie parked the car under a shade tree and took the chance to straddle Babe in the passenger seat, while the Alpha was distracted.
The Enigma pulled Babe close and into a deep kiss, at the same time reaching for the lever that would drop the seat back. He could already feel the hardness of Babe’s cock through the fabric of their jeans and Charlie absently thought about going to grab some of his belongings before the end of the day. Babe let out a moan and Charlie smirked as he moved his lips to the Alpha’s throat.
“Charlie.” Babe groaned, thrusting his hips up to grind against his mate’s clothed groin.
“Patience my little Alpha. Papa will take good care of you.” Charlie whispers as he removes both of their jeans.
Babe reaches for the center console where the lube is and Charlie smirks as he takes the bottle from him before slicking his cock up. Charlie rearranged Babe’s legs so that they were over his hips and the Alpha let out a groan as the Enigma thrust into his body.
Each thrust had Babe moaning and begging for more, knowing that Charlie's cock was inside of him again. He tilted his head back as the Enigma began to kiss along his throat and down to his nipples. As Charlie took care of him, thrusting hard and fast Babe could feel the Enigma's knot forming and catching on his rim.
“Papa, mama wants it so bad.” Babe whined, tilting his head and baring his scent gland.
“What does Mama want?” Charlie asked, looking down at the Alpha as he continued fucking him, his knot catching more.
“Your mark on my throat and your knot in my hole.” Babe murmured, tangling a hand in the younger man's hair and tugging his head down to his scent gland.
Two more hip bruising thrusts followed Babe’s words and as Charlie’s knot swelled locking them together, the Alpha let out a cry of pleasure as sharp teeth sank into his throat. Babe came hard from the feeling of Charlie's teeth in his skin and the way the Enigma's cum kept spurting deep into his ass.
“Mama, make sure you clean yourself up really well. We don't want any accidental pregnancies.” Charlie said, after pulling his mouth from Babe’s throat.
“If I get pregnant, I wouldn't consider it an accident, Papa. I want it.” Babe said, nuzzling his face into Charlie's throat.
“Papa wants Mama to mark him too.” Charlie murmured and Babe smiled before sinking his teeth into the Enigma’s scent gland.
A moan left his throat when another wave of cum left Charlie's cock, spilling deep into Babe's body. They spent several minutes just tangled up in each other before Charlie's phone started buzzing. He pulled his phone out and placed the device on speaker before greeting the person.
“Yes, mom?” Charlie asked, rolling his hips to tease Babe.
“Get your ass back to this house, young man.” Chay snapped.
“Give me five minutes to get us both cleaned up and we’ll be back. I promise.”
“You better. We’re initiating another heir lockdown when you two get back.”
“What? Why?” Charlie asked, as he and Babe shimmied into their jeans.
“To ensure that you and Jeff are secure while the rest of us go and handle some business.” Charlie heard Porsche's voice say.
Charlie went to protest but Babe placed a hand on his chest and shook his head to stop him. The team will want to celebrate us marking each other. Babe mouthed when Charlie looked at him.
“Alright. We’re coming back now.” Charlie said, sliding back into the driver's seat and turning the engine back on. “I’d ask about ordering takeout before the lockdown is initiated but I can already tell the answer is going to be ‘no’.”
“Takeout has already been ordered. It will be here before your mother, uncles and I leave.” Kimhant said, as Charlie parked the car in front of Babe's house again.
“Okay. We’re coming inside.” Charlie hung up and the two of them headed inside the house.
Chay looked up and the Omega’s eyes immediately locked onto the fresh mating bite on Charlie’s throat. A smile crossed his lips as he nodded at the Enigma before turning his attention back to Kim who was explaining to Porsche and Kinn what they were going to do. The rest of the pack were getting ready to watch a movie as they waited for the food to arrive.
The moment Big brought the food into the house to the pack, the elder Theerapanyakun’s left the house as the rest of them dug into the food. Charlie was sitting on the couch, Babe on the floor in front of him leaning against the Enigma’s legs. The group was focused on the movie on the TV, having completely missed the fact that two of their members had fresh mating bites.
North set up the next movie as everyone went to the bathroom, got blankets and then Sonic grabbed a bunch of snacks that he dumped on the coffee table. Alan came back from the bathroom and went to sit down when his eyes landed on Babe’s throat. Jeff froze behind him as Way looked over at the two men.
“About damn time!” Way crowed happily, throwing himself on his friend and hugging him tightly.
Babe hugged Way back as the rest of the pack piled on Charlie, happiness filling the whole pack. The Alpha looked up at his Enigma, joy clear in his eyes as they all celebrated. None of them had ever thought that Babe would have the chance to get mated to the love of his life. And before the past couple of days, Babe had given up on it as well. But now that Charlie was home he saw a life and future with the Enigma that had claimed his heart. One that wouldn’t be taken away from him again.