Chapter 173
At the entrance to the little courtyard by the building, warm clear water streamed endlessly from the hose.
Ye Nanxun sat on a stone bench nearby, lifting his feet to rinse the fine sand from them.
Having spent so much time indoors and in laboratories with little exposure to sunlight, his two slender, delicate feet looked so white beneath the sun that they almost reflected light.
Ye Nanxun closed his eyes and took a gentle breath. There was a faint scent of roses in the air, along with the tap-tap of shoes stepping across the floor in the wind.
Before he even saw him, he heard the alpha stepping over the garden's stone path—and caught Yan Beiyou's pheromones.
Ye Nanxun opened his eyes, and the person he had just been thinking of appeared before him as if by magic.
"Are you done with your business?" Ye Nanxun turned off the faucet.
"I'm done." Squatting halfway in front of the omega, Yan Beiyou held one of Ye Nanxun's dripping wet feet in one hand. "Were you waiting because you were hungry?"
Shaking his head, Ye Nanxun reached out and brushed aside a few loose strands of hair by the alpha's ear. "I'm not hungry. I didn't get up until almost noon."
"Lazy little thing." Yan Beiyou chuckled softly, then took the dry towel hanging nearby and wiped the droplets from Ye Nanxun's feet.
A trace of embarrassed annoyance flashed across Ye Nanxun's face as he lightly stepped on the alpha's palm. "You can't blame me. Yesterday... I drank too much. That's what a hangover does."
By drank too much, he meant he had drunk one glass of red wine that was not juice-flavored.
Yan Beiyou's thumb brushed over the pale blue veins on the top of Ye Nanxun's foot,