New World with Four Husbands

Chapter 430: I like her

"I like you." Alhai repeated, a little louder this time.

Zaque, Heiren, and Quizen simultaneously stood up from their seats and stared at their friend with wide eyes.

"Alhai?!" Quizen exclaimed, his jaw slacking.

"I like you." Alhai mumbled and pressed his face further into Coco’s palms, ignoring their outburst and reaction. "I had this feeling for a while now.. It was the reason why I kissed you.. Which is still wrong of me, but I hope it will clear any question in your mind."

The tone Alhai used was calm and composed, a big difference to the passion-filled tone he was using earlier.

Confessing to Coco gave him a refreshing feeling, the restricting hold on his heart was now replaced with a calming flutter that made him able to breathe more freely compared to the past couple of days.

"I know that you don’t see me as someone capable of liking you.. But I do like you." Alhai continued, shifting his face towards Coco’s hand to press a kiss on her palm.

The feeling of his soft lips on the rough pad of her skin made Coco flinch, and just then, she realized what was happening.

Alhai.. Likes.. Me.. He confessed.. That he likes me..

The words played on repeat in her head, her mind trying their damnedest to wrap the idea of Alhai liking her, but it was incredibly difficult.

Not to mention, the look in Alhai’s eyes—

That’s the look of someone who was looking at the person they like.. Coco finished her thought, her heart beating so fast that she felt like her organ would burst out of her ribcage at any given moment.

"You were really amazing taking care of Zaque, Heiren, me, and Quizen.." Alhai mumbled, his voice muffled due to his lips pressed against her palm.

"You’re harassing her, Alhai!" Zaque hissed, his footsteps thumping lightly on the floor as he marched his way towards his wife and his friend who had been busy kissing their wife’s hand.

"You’re always working even though I was so mean and rude to you." Alhai continued pressing his lips on her skin, not bothering to respond to Zaque.

Coco felt like her breath got taken away just by observing the way Alhai left trails of butterfly kisses on her hand, like he was worshipping her limb with his whole life— like she had hung the sun and moon for him.

His gaze felt so intense that she could feel her knees growing weaker as the seconds passed by.

Finally, Zaque reached their spots and his hand immediately shot out to grab Alhai’s collar, yanking him back from Coco’s hands unceremoniously.

Heiren rushed towards Coco and grabbed her by the waist as soon as Alhai had let go of her.

Quizen marched his way to Alhai and Zaque, his own hand shooting out to grab Alhai’s chair and drag it away from Coco’s space, his eyes squinted into a nasty glare.

"Are you okay, Coco—" Heiren asked, but he stopped when he saw Coco’s face.

The third husband was speaking so quietly that they didn’t hear anything he said, but they were sure that he said something outrageous due to the shock evident on Coco’s face.

However..

Coco’s face is flushed and if he looked closely, he would be able to see steam coming out of her head.

She was so red that he can almost compare the color of her face to Zaque’s single hair strand— warm to the eyes and beautiful, but why would she have this kind of reaction if Alhai said something awful?

Quizen heard the sudden pause in Heiren’s words so he looked up to see what happened.

His eyes went wide at the sight of Coco’s flushed face, glistening emerald eyes, and parted lips— a look that incredibly heightened her beauty.

"You!" Quizen whisked his head back to Alhai, hissing. "What did you say to Coco?!"

The silver haired mediator didn’t answer his friend right away and kept his eyes on Coco, appreciating her reaction to his confession.

From her reaction alone, he knew that she has a little interest towards him and might even consider him as a man that may capture her heart so he felt delighted at the fact that he made Coco flustered.

Once he was done basking at the sight of Coco’s red face, he turned to Quizen and flashed him a triumphant smile.

"What are you smirking for?" The blue haired mediator asked, his grip on Alhai’s chair tightening as he stopped himself with the best of his ability to not strangle his friend.

"I confessed to her." The third husband hummed, causing everyone to freeze.

"You.. You mean that you like her?" Heiren asked to clarify because there’s a possibility that Alhai is like Coco who isn’t afraid to voice her liking towards someone because she sees them as good people.

"Yeah." Alhai affirmed, his eyes shifting away from Heiren to look at Coco instead. "I told her how much I like her—"

However, Zaque stopped him from speaking further by grabbing him by the collar of his shirt, a look of disbelief and anger crossing the red haired mediator’s feature.

"Just what do you get from playing with Coco’s head?" Zaque growled, bringing Alhai close to his face.

"Is it fun to see her worrying about you? Is it fun to see her almost crying her heart out because she felt bad for you? And what did you do in return? Make fun of her by saying you like her?"

Zaque felt so mad at his friend.

Alhai had been nothing, but an asshole towards Coco for as long as he remembers so Alhai confessing stirred a different emotion inside him.

Coco snapped out of her daze when she heard Zaque and couldn’t help, but feel hurt.

Alhai scoffed and glared at the mediator. "Do I look like I’m making fun of her? If I wanted to, I would have done it in a different way so beat it, Zaque."