Best Friends

Luke

In our years as friends and business partners, Qatar was one place that I kept sacred to me. Sophia was the first person that broke that rule, and it was only a matter of time before I did the same for Maddox. I hoped he didn’t have hard feelings about it, but if he had, he didn’t show any emotion either way.

“Mate,” Maddox said as the car moved past the main gate and up toward the palace. “You’ve been holding back on me.”

“I have?” I asked.

He shoved my arm. “This is a palace! Like, a real palace.”

“I am a king,” I said, chuckling.

“I have a pretty wild imagination, but nothing that could have created this in my mind. I’m blown away. Thank god I have a seatbelt on.”

“I’m glad you like it,” I said.

“Like it? I think I’m going to move in. It looks like you have plenty of room.”

“That, I do,” I said. Growing up in the palace, it was easy enough to hide from my parents. That was until the servants were employed to find me. They outnumbered my family by a lot, so I could never hide f