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His Sworn Enemy; His Deepest Desire Eight
WilliamsI made my way to Tristan’s office, my emotions tangled into an indecipherable knot. On one hand, the rare warmth of my father’s praise still lingered from our earlier conversation—a kind of validation I hadn’t realized I craved. Hearing his genuine pride in my supposed achievement felt like a balm, soothing wounds I didn’t know existed. But on the other hand, unease clawed at the edges of my mind.Tristan Richmond wasn’t the kind of man to hand out favors without strings attached. If he’d done something as monumental as securing the Terra Corporation deal and crediting me for it, there had to be an angle, a hidden trap that would serve his amusement or his agenda. And I couldn’t shake the feeling that walking into his office might be stepping right into it.As I approached the front desk, Tristan’s secretary, Alexa, looked up from her sleek computer. Everything about her screamed precision, from her perfectly polished nails to the sharpness in her gaze."Good morning, Mr. Brac
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WilliamsAdrian was a familiar face I’d seen around Terra Corporation a handful of times, was kneeling uncomfortably close to Tristan. His flushed face and clumsy movements gave away what had just transpired.“Oh shit” Adrian blurted, scrambling to his feet as he noticed me. His trembling hands fumbled to wipe the unmistakable traces of Tristan’s fluids off his mouth with the sleeve of his shirt.Tristan, on the other hand, sat perched at the edge of his desk. His pants were unzipped, and though I couldn’t quite see clearly, the sight of his exposed cock was undeniable. He moved quickly, his fingers deftly zipping up his fly as his expression shifted from shock to irritation when his gaze locked on me.I stood rooted to the spot, my brain struggling to process what I had just walked into. The scene felt surreal, like some grotesque fever dream I couldn’t wake up from. Everything I’d been planning to confront Tristan about evaporated from my mind, leaving only the stark reality of what
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TristanSeveral days had passed since the most embarrassing moment of my entire life. I have done everything humanly possible to push it out of my mind, but the memory of William walking in on Adrian sucking my dick still lingered, very vivid and also very uncomfortable. But strangely, neither Adrian nor William had said not even one word about it. No rumors and no awkward encounters also no confrontations. It was as if nothing had even happened at all , and honestly, I was grateful for that. The last thing I want is a rumor spreading about a junior male staff member giving me a blow job. It’s quite sad he couldn't finish up tho, all thanks to Mr Bad Timing Bracknoff.Although, the unease wouldn’t completely let go of my mind. Trusting people with secrets or in this case, scandals, especially the kind that could change how others saw you, was never something I was a big fan of. But in this case, I clearly have no choice. I’m just gonna have to trust that Willians is truly gonna stick t
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The office has been a whirlpool of activity , louder and definitely more frantic than usual as the project deadline draws closer. These days, it always feels like there is always something new to do every second and something else to correct or adjust every minute. But what weighed on me the most wasn’t even the workload, it was none other than Tristan. Somehow, despite my best efforts to keep things professional and keep some moderate gaps between us, we somehow end up side by side in meetings, or sometimes coincidentally walking the same hallways and then discussing ideas and strategies as if the awkwardness between us wasn’t enough.The thick atmosphere lingered un-ignored. Tristan’s a cool guy, his well polished exterior had some specks of dirt that only I seemed to notice. His quick glances during meetings, the way he tightened his grip on his pen when Adrian and I laughed over a shared joke, it all spoke volumes. At Least it did to me. And Adrian? Adrian was a wildcard in all
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The workload didn’t seem to get lighter as the days passed. The deadlines drew nearer and nearer with every passing minute of every hour, as the stakes seemed higher, and the never ending back-and-forth coordination wore me out. Still, even in-between chaos , Adrian and I had grown closer. We had this special way of working together and a manner of communication unique to us both, that made the stress a bit more tolerable. He had a way of encouraging me anytime I felt overwhelmed as I did the same for him too, and with each passing hour we worked together, I found myself leaning on him more than usual.As if we didn’t have a lot on our hands already. We were tasked with planning an impromptu get-together party for Terra Corporation and the other affiliated companies working on the joint project at hand. And it wasn’t just gonna be any party, it had to be impressive enough to foster camaraderie while subtly showcasing Terra’s exceptional organizational skills.I was extremely exasper
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William The fallout from the party lingered for days, but fortunately not too much attention was drawn to us as I had imagined. The unease, fueled by Tristan's behavior,was in the air like a dark cloud. All the plans Adrian and I had made prior to the event all turned wishful thinking despite our efforts. At least we deserved to lay back and unwind just for one evening in a very long time. Instead, the evening had been swallowed up by Tristan’s selfish attitude, his ever piercing remarks, and the cold glances he kept throwing in our direction. It seemed that his disdain for the growing bond between Adrian and I had reached new heights I couldn’t possibly imagine. I feel like at this point, I should have been very well used to Tristan’s rubbish and his ability to disrupt even the most peaceful moments. But something about his behavior at the party unsettled me. Part of me wanted to simply brush it off and chalk it up to him being his usual unpleasant self, but another part couldn
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William I didn’t wanna know what the hell had gotten into Tristan, but after that crap he just pulled today. That truly was the height of it, I decided I was gonna go and stick whatever the hell is bugging him up his ass. From impossible tasks, to cold shoulders and now this. I don’t care if he is the CEO or whatever. I’m done dealing with what it was that’s been bugging him so much. I strongly made up my mind that I was gonna confront him, no matter how ugly things went . As I stood outside his glass-walled office, I could see him staring at his computer with his expression seemingly neutral. I clenched myn first so hard, I could almost feel my nails piercing me. My heart pounded to the rhythms of anxiety. But the annoyance and frustrations I felt were at its peak. I took a step and then another closer to the door and barged in after a knock without waiting for a response. He looked up at me a bit shocked, but then he seemed to ease his nerves when he saw it was me. Like I was n
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William"What the ?"The words came pouring out of my mouth before I knew it, my entire being with disbelief as I stared at Tristan, while still trying to process what he’d just said. My heart raced, my thoughts were a mess. Did he really just? No. This had to be some kind of sick joke. A cruel, twisted joke that only a sociopath likeTristan could think was funny."Are you insane? What the actual fuck? What the?" I asked, my voice trembled. I felt a rush of emotions through my head, and I let it out before I started having any second thoughts. "I have always known you’re a sadistic bitch, but this?" I gestured wildly between the two of us. "This is way too low, even for you."Tristan didn’t utter not even one word. Or rather, he couldn’t. There was something about the way he sounded, about the way he looked at me. It feels so genuine and a bit warm at the same time. For a moment I saw a part of Tristan that seemed vulnerable and humane. And I wanted to believe maybe there was a speck
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His Sworn Enemy; His Deepest Desire EPILOGUE
My breath misted out in front of me as I moved, booted heels clopping against the cold interlocked streets of Paris. It was beautiful this time of year, and impossibly cold, too. I shivered slightly against the cold wind that blew again, hugging my tan trench coat around myself even tighter.I thought I heard someone—something familiar, and turned around, my breaths exhaling into the air with a cold imprecise clarity that frosted the air just in front of me. A picturesque view met my eyes.Pale-faced, fast-speaking French people who moved about, twisting and bowing their heads, nodding in conversation, shivering in the cold and folding their arms and stuffing them in their armpits, others cuddling and pretending they were in some cinematic effect, the tall hazy outline of the Eiffel tower in the background and the occasional honk of a car.I exhaled again and brought my gloved hands to my lips.“They don’t talk about how cold it is in Paris,” a voice said behind
His Sworn Enemy; His Deepest Desire Eighty-Five
I had thought so many times about what it would be like to meet my father again—to confront him about his homophobia and how many things I wanted to say. I had thought about apologizing, for my insensitive remarks and how I had hurt both him and Gran, and I had thought more recently about how he had been the person that Caleb had called… he had been the one to save me.My words choked in my throat, saliva and a thousand unsaid things bulging.“Dad—”“Shh,” he shook his head and stepped back. He motioned for me to come inside. I was shivering. I couldn’t tell if Tristan was right behind me or if I was walking alone. I just knew that I had to follow my father right now, and in we went, past the grand foyer and the waiting room, and then we were in the expansive hall where everyone was standing around in, their eyes swiveling to fix on me the minute I stepped in.Once again, I felt my throat clam up with emotion and the one thing I wanted to do was sink into the floor.There, the person
His Sworn Enemy; His Deepest Desire Eighty-Four
My head felt like a miniature sun was going off in it, imploding, exploding… way too loud and bright. All I could think of was the sound of meat crunching down a staircase and the sharp, clean break of bone… the strong metal scent of blood, and Tristan’s voice drilling into my ears as he crushed my bones in a hug.“You’re going to be alright, William. It’s alright. You’re going to be alright…”My eyes couldn’t leave the sight on the floor, Caleb on the floor, head bashed in terribly and bleeding, a woman that looked familiar to me, in cuffs, crying, “Caleb! Caleb, no!”Adam stepped into view, cutting off my vision.“Tristan,” he rushed to slip an arm under his boss. “You’re hurt?”“I’m fine,” Tristan brushed him away. He was still trying to keep me straight and hold me up. “William’s hurt bad. Can you get paramedic? Damn it, Adam, I’m fine. I’ll survive. It’s just a shoulder wound. Get the medics.”I zoned everything out. The million swarming cop cars and the cacophony of their wailin
His Sworn Enemy; His Deepest Desire Eighty-Three
My body felt like I’d been run over by a train. Everything hurt, and when I tried to grimace, the pain was worse.“Arggh,” I groaned in an attempt to stifle the pain. My face was instantly lit up by a scarring network of white-hot firing pain all over. Slowly, I brought my hand to my face. My nose was horribly disfigured and blood had crusted all over, making crunching noises as I tried to move my mouth.I spat something to the white floor, turning it a bloody mess. It seemed so surreal. I was here in this contained place with all of the white lights and sterile looking white floors, and everything bathed in white, and I was the one thing that was broken and bleeding.I touched a loose tooth in my mouth with my tongue. Caleb hadn’t even bothered to administer any anesthetics. No pain-killers, no meds, nothing.I looked up and there he was, staring bloodily at me. At the very least, I had done some serious damage to his face, too. His eye was still bruised and when he cocked a crooked
His Sworn Enemy; His Deepest Desire Eighty-Two
TRISTAN“What’s going to happen now?” Eric asked, his eyes puffy. He’d been rubbing his eyes with the heels of his palms and groaning into his palms until a few seconds ago. He looked utterly disheveled. How a man could become so reduced in a manner of moments, simply because the one he loved had been taken away…I understood it. But I didn’t want to allow myself to go down that path. All I could do right now was see how I could get to William. And Caleb. FAST.I couldn’t say that I knew much of my brother—I’d abandoned almost every single thing that tied me so that I could focus on running the company. Losing my father had not been easy—but if there was one thing I knew about Caleb, it was that he needed help. He was much too unstable to left alone by himself for too long.I was sad, and broken, but I was angry and that was good. Right now, I channeled that anger into a small stream that had me flexing my wrist in small movements. I was not going to lose focus of what needed to be d
His Sworn Enemy; His Deepest Desire Eighty-One
TRISTAN“Damnit.”I echoed, not for the umpteenth time that day. My thoughts were fixed solely on William. I still could not believe what had happened. All I could remember was the look on his face and how confused he had looked about everything, and the anger that I felt.To think that he’d taken that picture of me…I groaned and rubbed my hands over my face again. I could still feel the weight of Adelstein’s hand on my shoulder, patting me as he led me away from William.“It’s alright, my boy.” He’d said. “You did the right thing.”But it didn’t feel like the right thing at all. Not when I knew that William was being carted away to the police station where I knew that he would definitely spend some time sitting in that cell before bail could be made. If nothing else happened to him, then he would forever bear the guilt on his face, just how I betrayed him.No, I reprimanded myself. It had to be done.I was the CEO of Terra corporations. I was the man who made all of the difficult an
His Sworn Enemy; His Deepest Desire Eighty
“You look good—” Caleb said one day as he watched me eat. “—Better.”I frowned at him. At this point in time, I figured that I had been locked up here for at least five days. There was still no way for me to tell the time, and the white bulb was always turned on here, even when I slept. But I had been eating whatever Caleb brought, devouring it ravenously, and after some time, he no longer hit me. Only stopped and watched me eat.He was doing it right now.I said nothing. Ignoring him was the only way I could keep out the madness from encroaching and devouring my mind. So I ate in silence.“That’s chicken biryani and some lamb curry,” he pointed out rather stupidly. I already knew what I was eating. Did he think I lived at the bottom of a well? I just wasn’t especially fond of Indian cuisine because they were rather spicy. Now, seeing as I had no choice, I ate every single morsel of the well-seasoned food, taking my time and hoping that he would leave me alone.
His Sworn Enemy; His Deepest Desire Seventy-Nine
I didn’t know how much time had passed but I was tired and sitting at the foot of the bed by the time that Caleb came back to the small white room.“Wakey wakey,” he said as he poked his head up from the opening in the floor. He looked at me and frowned. Then he sighed and came fully into the room. The door shut behind him with an almost metallic sound.“William, you poor baby.” He made to touch me, but I shoved his hands away, breathing fire from my flaring nostrils. He looked at me with something akin to pity, then looked at the tray still on the bed, the untouched bowl of soup there.“You’re not doing either of us any favors by not eating, William.”I continued staring at him.“You have to eat something sometime. You think I want to be looking at you all stick-thin and undesirable? You’ve got to eat something. At the very least. Maybe you don’t want soup. Maybe you can tell me what you want to eat.”He drew closer, eyes shining, “If I remember correctly, you’ve never said no to a f
His Sworn Enemy; His Deepest Desire Seventy-Eight
I tumbled through unconsciousness.It was so different from sleeping. This time, it felt more real, more potent, more… I don’t know what else I could have used to describe it except for the fact that it felt like swimming in a black and oily soup.I couldn’t make heads or tails of where I was or where I was moving.Caleb had hit me. Or something had. I don’t know. But I could remember the distinct feeling of something hard making contact with the back of my head. It was a miracle I was alive—I knew I was alive because twice, I had floated in and out of consciousness, and the two times, I could barely open my eyes, but noise filtered into my hearing.I felt my body moving. Breath rushed into my lungs and the pain had bloomed at the back of my head each time I woke, burning red behind my eyes.I closed my eyes again, finally summoning enough strength to scrunch my eyes open. Blearily, I tried to look around and almost lost consciousness again from the pain that flooded my senses.“Fuuuc
