SEBASTIAN ***Asher was still in my bed when I woke up, which was unusual cuz he'd disappear before I even wake up.But I was glad he was.I stared at his face while he slept. He was so gorgeous.His hair was scattered all over his face making it messy and sexy at the same time. I kissed his nose.He stirred a little and then his eyes opened slowly. The reflection of the early morning sun was on his face, it reflected on his eyes making them sparkle."What are you staring at?", he mumbled smiling "You", I said brushing the hair off his face."Oh shit it's morning already", he said attempting to get up.I pulled him back, "Stay", I said."Timothy could -"."I don't care, I want to spend my morning time with you", I said pulling him into my check.His body suddenly relaxed,"Okay", he said.I started stroking his hair and then his back."Why don't you have tattoos?", I asked."What?"."You're like the first hot guy I've ever seen without tatts", I said.He looked up at me smiling, "O
SEBASTIAN ***I went back to New York and from the very day, a lot of things changed.As usual, I moved straight from the airport to work and you won't believe who was in my office.My Dad.With my mother."Hi Dad", I said trying to act very causal."Both of you left the company for 5 days, I thought it was agreed to be three days only?", he asked."We couldn't come up with anything useful in the first meeting, so we had to stay back and re strategize sir", Timothy said."And you left the company in whose hands?", he asked."Anthony of course, who else?"."Anthony that was arrested last night?"."What?", Timothy and I asked in union."Why do the fuck do you think I'm here today?"."What did he do?", I asked."Allegedly handling drugs, thank God it didn't make it to the news, had to call in some favours"."So where's he now?", I asked."He's on his way, I don't understand you boys anymore. You have a meeting for three days and you spend five, the person you leave in charge is out wa
By the time we got to the hospital, they've already admitted him. My mom was in the Lobby crying. I ran to hold her."Mon relax, he's going to be fine".She didn't listen, she just kept on crying and we had to keep comforting her and after a while she stopped and stayed in my arms sobbing.The doctor came out some minutes later."Please I'd like to see you all in my office", The doctor said.We owned two hospitals. The one we built ourselves and the one we owned in wing in. The one my dad use to come for medications for was the other one.We went to his office."Mr Greenwood is stable, he just had a partial stroke but he'll be fine. But there's something we're discovering, something we never knew, we don't know if you knew about it", he said."What's that?", I asked."Mr Greenwood has Cancer, Leukemia to be very specific ".I looked at my mom, she had no shock on her face. Just sadness."Mom, did you hear that? he said Dad has Cancer ".She nodded slowly, "I already knew "."What?", I
SEBASTIAN ***The past 24 hours has been hell. I haven't left that hospital.They took Camille and the baby to the mortuary, he wanted her buried that same day but my mother refused saying she deserves a good befitting funeral.My mother passed out some hours later from shock and everything. It was just too much on her.My father is dying soon, she just lost her grandchild and the mother. It was too much on her.I asked that they keep her unconscious for a while longer because she needed to rest while we put things in order.Anthony was emotionally wrecked, he's blaming everyone for this happening. Her not having enough security on her, her not being brought in by the ambulance but the driver, he's in his worse mood and I can't even blame him, I'll loose my mind if my wife and child dies.They increased the reward for bringing Richards alive to $100,000.Any one who finds him and brings him alive will get 100k$Everything was just going so fast I didn't know how to handle it. I su
I don't know how long I stayed in the shower, but it was long enough for Asher to get worried and check up on me if I was okay. The realization was just hitting me, I'm the first born and I'm the one to start taking responsibilities, and if my Dad died, I'm fucken responsible for everything. No wonder Dad's stressing over everything. I'm not ready for any of that shit . I'm not at all. I got out of the bathroom and got dressed. I got out a while later and strolled downstairs. Asher was waiting for me downstairs. "I made breakfast, told the cook I'd handle it". "It's fine I'm not hungry, let's go". He shook his head, " You haven't eaten in more than 24 hours and I can't let you stay any longer, just eat something, please". I sighed and sat down, I ate a slice of pancake and then some bacon. I had zero appetite. I was just forcing myself to do this. I stood up, "Let's go", I said. He pulled me back and then hugged me. My body suddenly relaxed and I hugged him back. I needed
Immediately we got to the hospital, our doctor approached us."Mr Greenwood is awake", he said.Well that was fast."And he's asking that he be discharged immediately", he added.Anthony hissed and I sighed."This old man", Anthony mumbled. And we walked to his ward.He was yelling at the nurse to take the pipes out of him."That won't be necessary nurse, please excuse us", I said immediately I walked in.She bowed and then left. It was just I, the doctor and Anthony."Tell these people to discharge me, I'm fine and I got a company to run", he said trying to stand up "You're fine and you have Leukemia?", I asked. He stopped immediately."I've been fine for a long time, nothing's changing", he said."You stopped Chemo for two months, how the fuck do you think you're going to be fine???", Anthony asked already getting pissed.", This is why I didn't want any of you to know about this", I said sounding pissed."Why? cuz it'll bruise your ego? or what reduce your masculinity?", I asked s
ASHER * * The past couple of weeks have been... terrible, that's the word. Things haven't been going the way they should. It's been toxic heat, anger, sadness, depression, everything. Sebastian is struggling, you know he is cuz he's been drinking, he hasn't been going to work, he's been talking about working from home but we all know he's not. He barely talks to me.... to anyone in general and I understand that he's struggling and it's worse that I can't even help. My entire personal life has been on hold, couldn't ask Timothy about his mother cuz he's basically the one running the company now. Sebastian asked me to go to the office and get some papers from Timothy that he had to sign, on my way out I saw Veronica. "Hey, how's everything going?", she asked sounding surprisingly concerned. "It's terrible obviously", I said trying to walk away but she stopped me. "I'm not talking about them I'm talking about you ". "What are you saying?". "Asher your mom died, I was a terrib
ASHER **Veronica has been blasting my phone with non stop calls and text messages. You know at this point I would almost think she's working for Richards and she's trying to have me assassinated, cuz that has to be the only reasonable explanation why she's tormenting me like that. I finally agreed to meet her at her house, though I didn't tell Sebastian cuz I knew he wasn't so comfortable with me being with her, but I told Larry that if I'm not back in 2 hours, she's probably killed me.Larry and I had become good friends, ever since my Mom passed away. We have a lot in common; like no family.I knocked on Veronica's door and some seconds later she came to open it. She was wearing a black lingerie and a black matching robe.The fuck?"Come in" she said ushering me inside.I did, then I went to sit at the edge of the couch and brought out my gun."What's that for?", she asked."I don't know, incase you try to murder me or something"."Why the fuck would I want to - you know what ne
ASHER**The ray of sunshine woke me up to the most beautiful view in the world. Sebastian sleeping in my arms - naked.I smiled and kissed his forehead.I got out of the bed slowly and went to brush my teeth and shower.When I got out he was awake."Good morning handsome", I said.He smiled and I kissed him on his lips."You taste so good, what's that?", he asked sleepily."Uhm... mouth wash?", i said in an obvious tone.He stretched out and then rolled to the other side of the bed."I'm tired",he mumbled."C'mon, our tour guide is gonna be here soon", I said."I don't want to get out of bed", he cried like a three year old."C'mon now Mr Greenwood, don't be a lazy baby"."You know I fucken hate it when you call me Mr Greenwood, it feels so ughhhhh"."Well I'll keep calling you that if you don't get out of bed and get a shower ", I said.He stretched his hands."Carry me"."What?"."Pleaaseeeeeee"."Okay okay fine", I said reluctantly and carried him bridal style.He clung to me li
"What?"."It was a harmless kiss I promise... and I didn't kiss him, he kissed me and -""WHAT?!"."I'm sorry I'm only telling you this now and it's like... terrible timing, I know I'm sorry, I really am, but I promise like... it meant nothing to me okay? we were just hanging out and I felt like he was starting to reconnect with old feelings so I told myself it would be the last time we'd meet and I went to meet him to tell him that I was in a relationship with you and that he shouldn't get any ideas that all of this was just platonic.We started talking.. I don't know what happened but he kissed me... I kinda snapped back to reality and then I told him about you and that I was in love with you and -""Why didn't you tell me like... months ago?"."I'm sorry, I just didn't think it was gonna be anything, I'm just telling you now because I'm beginning to see how horrible it's looking like now... I'm sorry Asher".He raked his hair."Do you find him attractive? I mean it's fine if you w
I had to put on my fake smile."Hi", I said."Fancy seeing you here", he said shaking me."Yeah I just came for a short vacation, work stress is killing me, you?"."I'm actually here for a friend's wedding, it's tomorrow", he said."That's nice.... uhm this is my Boyfriend Asher, Asher this is El Fuego".Yeah I saw Asher's face when I mentioned his name. The cute thing about Asher was that he doesn't know how to hide his facial expressions."Oh .... wow, this is... THE Asher, pleasure to meet you", Fuego said .Asher just gave a fake friendly smile and nodded."So ... what are you guys doing today?", he asked ."Nothing in particular, we just planned on staying home and enjoying the weather.", I said."Well, you can join us, we're going sight seeing", he said..I looked at Asher, of course he wasn't interested in going sight seeing with me and my ex"."We would love to, but maybe some other time", i said."Alright then, we'll see you around", he said and then we waved each other a goo
SEBASTIAN **Work has been crazy recently. I'm going to work by 6 am and coming home by 2 am. Most times I just sleep at work.We had to create a small room right next to my office with two beds, a closet and a bathroom for Timothy and I, cuz recently we've been working from the office.Now I low-key get why my Dad was so paranoid about getting a good CEO to take over, this company required a lot of work.After one month of stressing each and everyone of my employees, We finally hit our monthly target.I had to double everyone's salary for the month, I was definitely the one to reward someone when they've done well.I decided I was going on a two weeks vacation with the love of my life. And you know the universe wanted that too because that also happened to be the same period he was on his break."Asher just pick one country, it's not a big deal"."I genuinely have nothing in my head right now, honestly, they're just so many places I've wanted to go but .. there's nothing in my head
I gave Timothy and Sebastian a run down of everything that happened, in details. But it got dark and twisted when I got to Nona's part. Sebastian said he was gonna convince her to talk but Timothy reminded him that she's very religious, and blood oaths aren't to be broken.So we had to figure it all out on our own. I gave them my own piece of advice; We drop all of this and move on with our lives whether or not we get to live in a lie or not. Nona already mentioned we stay out of it, that It was more complicated than we imagined and we should stay out of it. Honestly I didn't want to get involved in it anymore. I'm getting my life on track, I've got a degree to a prestigious college, I'm dating the best man to exist in the universe, I'm slowly finding comfort and healing from my past trauma's and no longer feel pain from my mother's death. I don't want to go back there again. And that's what I told both of them. And we all agreed to not talk about it again and let everything die.
ASHER * * Sebastian mother was the nicest woman I had ever met and for a second, I legit forgot that I was here to find out about things. She couldn't stop talking about me and how much she loves that I was able to make Sebastian comfortable and bold enough to face his ruthless father and come out. She talked about her marriage with her husband and how cruel he was and apart from the money, one of the biggest reasons she chose to stay was because of her kids. She reminded me so Much about my own mother. Her's was mental abuse while my mother's was Physical. I genuinely felt so bad for her. Infact I was convinced that the real monster here if there was any was Belinda because this woman was too kind to be involved in anything shady. It was until Belinda came that I snapped out of everything and realized why I was really here. "What is he doing here?", Belinda asked not so pleased to see me. "I came into town and so I invited him for Lunch", she said nicely. Belinda rolled he
"What? no , look I already closed that chapter of my life already, I'm genuinely not interested in finding any lost sibling of mine"."I know Asher, it took you a while to move on from the whole thing but right now we need your help, things are far more complicated than it's looking", Timothy said."What's happening?", he asked.Timothy looked at me, I looked at him."We think somehow... one of us might be adopted from Graceville".Asher looked taken aback, "What?"."There's just way too many evidences, but then so many loopholes we can't just connect the dots"."Wait I'm confused, when do you mean one of you are from Graceville?"."There's a secret birth certificate of Sebastian, we managed to scan it properly and it had Graceville as the address. And I the picture of Sebastian's birth, my mom was there, but she wasn't pregnant, which is odd because.... I was born two months after him".Asher stared at both of us, startled."When did you guys... when did you start all these? when did
Before I came back to New York, I paid a short visit back to my mother's house to meet Nona.She was surprised to see me."Can you explain more on what you told me that day? about replacing my letters with more valuable informations"."Oh, it's just pictures of you and Timothy, I found them when they were renovation the house some months ago in the garage, didn't want it to be thrown away so I decided to keep them, for memory", she said calmly.But this wasn't the answer I was looking for, and deep down I felt like she knew the answers to everything,but she wasn't going to tell me."Is there... anything you wish to let me know?", I asked."Only that I wish the best for you", she said and then returned back to her daily activities.I left home more than confused, everything seemed to be crashing in my head.My relationship with Timothy was on a loose thread, the only thing that's keeping him around Is the company.We barely talk to each other unless it had something to do with work, de
SEBASTIAN * * * I genuinely didn't even know when or how we got back, but I woke up in Asher's arms. We had a pretty long night, I think we both got drunk and had a karaoke night, good thing it was just the two of us there. Whenever I was with him, I felt free, I didn't feel like I had to act perfect and pretend... my inner child always come alive when I am with him. "What time is it?", he asked rubbing his eyes sounding so sleepy and hungover. I looked at my watch. "Almost 10 am", I said. He sprung out of the bed, "Are for for real? fuck I have a class in like 40 minutes", he said grabbing his phone. He held his mouth, "28 missed calls from Eric?". I sat up. "Why is he calling you that much?". "We were supposed to go to the Superbowl last night remember? I Just ghosted him, Damn", he said calling him back. I rolled my eyes and laid back on the bed. "Hey.... I'm so sorry... Rea really sorry about last night, something very important came up ... yes it was very importa