(BL) Hunting The Field Guide novel Chapter 438

Chapter 438: The third day after everyone arrived on the front lines

The third day after everyone had left for the front lines wasn’t as hard as the first day. Kellen planned to keep the rotation that he had for the first class, focusing on Charlie and his newly awakened determination to become the best. His second class came back the second day as if they had the keys to the palace and overwhelmed him with questions.

It was good, and a nice way to keep his mind focused.

Rhys was also a good distraction, and Kellen had enjoyed their cuddling time on the couch once both of them had gotten home the past two days. Rhys was comforting him, not forcing Kellen into anything more intimate than a few kisses here and there.

Kellen was the one who was making things more intimate, and he could tell how much Rhys liked that. Touches over clothes, grabbing him just to hear that little hitch in Rhys’ voice. Kellen was sure a new side of him had awakened, and it was probably to Rhys’ detriment.

He was also very sure that Rhys didn’t view it that way. Rhys seemed very happy with how everything was unfolding, and enjoyed making sure that Kellen knew that he was safe and comforted. Rhys had his hands full, but that didn’t mean that he stopped showing Kellen during the day that he cared for him.

It started on the third day. Rhys would send little gifts to him, mostly food, throughout the day from one of the cafeteria people. Kellen knew that they did deliveries, but this was the first time that Rhys had used them like this. Kellen only knew that they were responsible for stocking the apartments with ingredients, but when someone came knocking at the A Class gym to be let in with a huge platter of fruits cut in the shapes of hearts, Kellen could already feel his face warming.

He could feel how everyone had whipped to stare at him, except Charlie. He had been focusing on his exercise that Kellen had given him. The timer went off as one of the Espers got up and headed over to the door, letting the worker in. Everyone was staring at them, before glancing at Kellen and he made sure to write on his clipboard how many of the exercises that Charlie had done while the worker scanned the room before their eyes landed on Kellen.

They lit up with a smile, and made their way towards Kellen. The platter was twice the size of the worker. There was no way that they weren’t at least an F Class something, and if they weren’t, Kellen hoped they were making good money for this kind of labour. He didn’t have anything on him to tip them with.

"Kellen? What’s the next exercise?" Charlie asked and Kellen cleared his throat.

"Right. Sorry Charlie. Uh, wait a sec, alright?" Kellen suggested and Charlie was confused by that. He had been focused, working on a machine that blocked his view of the front doors since he had his back to them. He turned, looking over his stiff shoulders and Kellen heard him gasp.

"What’s that?" He asked, curiosity and glee filling his voice. "Is that...a platter of some kind?" He asked. A few of the Espers were working out closer to Kellen and Charlie, even if Kellen selected a machine far away from everyone.

They would gravitate towards them. Kellen was fairly certain it was because of the aura that Charlie had. He probably felt soothing just to be around even if the Espers didn’t know what Class he was. Kellen was a little worried about this behaviour, but he didn’t know how to bring it up without making it even more obvious that there was something special about Charlie.

The Espers who were around them and were watching everything that was happening around them chuckled, some even snorting at Charlie’s words.

"It is, little Guide." One of them said and Charlie frowned, glancing at them before he turned his attention back to the approaching person and platter.

Kellen swallowed.

"Delivery for Mr. Woods?" They said cheerfully, knowing who they were going to. Hearing them say the words just solidified that it was for him and Kellen didn’t know what to do as they came to a stop. The Esper who had let them in followed behind, clearly wanting to witness this whole interaction.

"That’s me." Kellen said a little gruffly and they chuckled.

"Oh, I know that." They said, smiling. "Where would you like me to put this down? I had very clear instructions to stay and make sure that you ate ’most of it instead of giving it away’." They said and Kellen felt his face warm. Of course that was the instructions.

There were only three people that Kellen thought would give that instruction, and two of them didn’t know that they could do deliveries from the cafeteria, so the list was actually just one person long.

"Who...who gave you that instruction?" Kellen asked, knowing that everyone was listening in. They smiled.

"Your boyfriend." He said and Kellen felt his face heat. No one had referred to him as such really, and it had a great impact on him. Rhys was his boyfriend. That was true. They weren’t just pairs, weren’t just partners who had a good compatibility score.

It was literally a few seconds after that that his phone vibrated and he was almost spiteful enough to ignore it, but he couldn’t. He put his fork down, Charlie not quite done with his most recent set and picked up his phone. _{fгeewebnovёl.com}

If you had courted me with food, we would have started dating a lot sooner