A Tick

A Tick

The meeting room was filled with people representing their important positions in the mafia. They took their turns to revise their progress in whatever their duties were in front of the king.

Some wanting to impress King with their actual task completion and some just using flattery.

Those who were appreciated were on cloud nine.

The huge club which held the meeting came under the zone of the king’s headquarters. The place was lit with elites and rich people dancing and drinking like no tomorrow. They were served with drinks of a special kind and were entertained by many dancers and strippers.

In contrast to the main club, the meeting room on the upper floor was quiet and calm. Several dangerous men were sitting in a circle around the table to pool in their searches and work.

Discussions about reports on various businesses, their management and new projects were exchanged between those men.

It was all systematic yet so chaotic

Finally, the time came when King placed a red file on the table and leaned back on his fancy swivel chair. He placed a cigarette stick between his lips, before Charlton could ignite it, Kangsu rushed to do the favour.

“let me king “ he muttered with a wide smile. King didn’t say anything and took a long drag from his cigarette. Once Kangsu reached back on his chair, the room went quiet.

King’s eyes fell over Kangsu’s frame as he observed the man with something burning behind his orbs. The old man squirmed under King’s gaze once he noticed the crime lord’s stare fixed on his face.

He smiled sheepishly.

Something was not sitting right in that meeting and that was the reason Kangsu was scared to attend this event.

King, on the other hand, smirked internally when he made the old pumpkin squirm. He exhaled sharply and decided to start his inquiry when the door of the meeting room got banged loudly as if whoever was outside wanted to break it down.

Charlton curled his fingers around his pistol and King glanced at the door while the others went alert right on their places.

The door creaked open slightly and a lovely little head peeked inside.

“Excuse Muah!....” were the first words echoed in the silent room. All eyes were fixed on the door and on that cute intruder.

King’s eyes widened and a smile appeared on Kangsu's face as soon as he saw Mago at the door. His wide smile wasn’t hidden and King didn’t like the look of it.

“what is he doing here?” King hissed towards Charlton and the man looked between King and Mago dumbfounded.

They had left the boy at the manor against all the protests Mago had displayed. He wasn’t allowed in such meetings and King made that clear once and for all. But here he was, standing at the entrance of the meeting room reserved for only selected people.

“Can I join pleasey…..” Mago fluttered his eyelashes and asked for permission from no one in particular.

King glared at the younger and Kangsu smiled wider.

“of course, you can join your tiny majesty. It will be an honour for us if you grace this room with your presence” There he was again, starting with his flattery.

Kangsu doesn’t know any bounds.

Mago smiled sweetly, with his button nose scrunching cutely and eyes crinkling, as he entered the room making every head turn in his direction including King. The crime lord clenched his jaw seeing Mago in his long cotton midnight blue shirt with baggy pants that belonged to King and his duck slippers which the boy adored.

He wasn’t the only one to stare at Mago, all others were also racking their eyes over that beautiful boy making the king madder.

“would you like to sit here----..” Kangsu tried to offer his seat but got rudely interrupted by the one and only king.

“come here!” King ordered loudly and all of them flinched at his harsh tone. Mago obeyed with hesitant steps. He was scared alright but he knew the king wouldn’t hurt him in any sense.

The boy reached King and without any word climbed up on his lap. King secured his arms around Mago in a possessive manner. Only after his show of claim that the people inside the room avert their gaze except for Kangsu.

“How did you get here? Did you sneak out of the manor without my permission?” King whispered growling lowly as he gripped on Mago’s jaw. He held Mago with gentle strength but his eyes were telling a different story.

The boy gulped and pushed at the king’s hand.

A snicker escaped Kangsu’s lips and surprisingly Mago turned to glare at him.

“I didn’t. Lucca brought me here” he informed circling his hands around King’s neck to support his body when he wanted to move.

What?

Lucca is here?

King glanced at Charlton and the man hurriedly fetched his phone from the desk behind him. Sure enough, the device was silently chiming with the abundance of notifications. Several of them were usual hourly reports but few of them included Lucca and Mago’s arrival at the headquarters.

Hesitantly, Charlton made eye contact with King although he wasn’t at any fault since he was in a meeting and wasn’t supposed to use his phone. Besides, everything was checked thoroughly and was under control but the way King glared at him told him he was fucked.

Oh, Lord!!!

“where is he?” King asked directing his question to both Mago and Charlton. The older of them both checked his security camera quickly and Mago yawned adorably before answering.

“he is downstairs. They wouldn’t let him up here” the boy informed as he leaned forward to pick an intriguing-looking paperweight from the table.

Mago gets curious easily.

“call that stupid and tell him to take this boy home” King ordered while making Mago slide off his lap but the boy gripped on his shirt tightly.

“no, please. I don’t wanna go home.” He pleaded with his eyes wide and mouth pouty.

King ignored him.

“please. I will not disturb you I promise…..please….please” Mago chanted while playing with King’s collar button and King rubbed at his temple in frustration.

“okay fine. But behave” he warned and Mago nodded excitedly.

The crime lord sighed tiredly and then readjusted the boy over his lap before he turned his face towards the abandoned meeting.

“where were we?” he asked boringly making Mago giggle.

Kangsu raised his hand childishly.

“get started with your findings about those notorious groups.” King glared and the old pumpkin started to rant while presenting his not-so-impressive progress. The presentation went on for a while, all of the men hearing Kangsu with seriously uninterested looks on their faces.

He really had nothing valuable enough on him.

“weren’t you supposed to find out about the man who tried to poison King?” one of the men pointed out, tired of the old man’s babbles, and the others nodded their heads in agreement.

Kangsu narrowed his eyes at the man who questioned. He felt his underarms getting sweaty as he nervously composed himself just like he practiced.

The man must have hated his guts.

King didn’t interrupt and watched Kangsu closely, his one hand caressing Mago’s thick thighs while the other had the burning stick.

Kangsu gulped before laughing loudly.

“oh yes!!! Yes……how can I forget that.” He said laughing madly.

King smirked at his hidden panic.

“Oh, King! how do I tell the tale of my searching for those rebels who are eating our empire's roots? How do I explain the dilemma I faced when going to every length to find about the killer who poisoned your birthday cake” Kangsu sang, putting on a show.

“you wouldn’t believe me King” he claimed and rubbed his forehead as if thinking of those harsh times made his headache trigger.

“try me” Kangsu squeezed his eyes shut when he couldn’t find a way out of it before he looked up at King and the boy sitting on his lap.

“well…..to start with the nights I have spent awake to prepare a perfect trap for the rebel group. My efforts went futile King……they are so active and smart. It makes me wonder what power mind Is behind them. But I didn’t give up…….I refused to give up……..” Kangsu started and went on and on about how hard he worked to do his job.

The position he held was very strong, he could use resources to find whatever he wanted but his stupid brain didn’t let him beyond his greed.

The old man flew his hands dramatically, doing hand gestures and whatnot while he weaved his spontaneous adventures only so he could get away with his inefficiency.

Kangsu explained that pretty much embarrassed himself in front of others and when his puffery went overboard and people around him started to take notice as they hid their smiles is then he stopped his acting.

King was nonchalant all his rant. He was very much bored with what Kangsu just did. Once the man stopped his nonsense, King clicked his tongue in irritation.

Fifteen minutes were wasted on this old rag.

Mago didn’t control his scoff though. He grinned and scoffed together to make himself noticed and Kangsu did notice when his eyes followed the noise the boy created.

“May I know why you are hiding that pretty smile of yours my tiny majesty? We would like to know too if you can consider us” he started and Mago smiled openly now.

“oh……uh….I don’t wanna disturb” the boy said acting shy as he looked at King for a second.

“you can never be a disturbance, pretty baby. Right king?” Kangsu looked at the king as well. The crime lord smiled at his boy and pecked his forehead before picking up his wine glass from the table.

“of course………….you can say anything you want baby” King allowed and Mago smiled again before facing Kangsu who was waiting for him to speak.

“It’s nothing really big,…….but I just wanted to warn my boyfriend from a tick like you” Mago smiled widely now seeing the smile on Kangsu’s face faltering.

Charlton coughed at King’s side and King closed his eyes for a mere second, only to compose himself.

“What?” Kangsu asked without a smile.

“A tick like you” Mago announced again.

“What?” Kangsu asked again with a warning lurking behind his words.

“A tick like you” Mago emphasized every word and Kangsu travelled his eyes to the crime lord.

“did you hear him King…..what is he saying?” he asked bewildered and angry.

“ I said a tick like you……are you fucking deaf or what?” Mago stated with an expression close to annoyed.

“King….” Kangsu addressed his boss trying to focus his attention on his boyfriend.

“you have prepared this story right fucking here and you want us to believe it?” Mago started before King could do anything.

Kangsu’s face hardened at the tone of Mago.

“your story is a fucking poop bag. All in there is bullshit” Mago straightened himself to talk freely and the king held him just in case he doesn’t slip.

The people around watched Mago with wide eyes and some of them smiled, mostly because Kangsu deserved such hearing.

“you think you will play a skit here of your pity story with so many loops and flaws and it will be swiped under the rug just like that?” Mago pointed calmly.

Kangsu seethed in anger, his face turning red.

“you cannot talk to me like that!” Kangsu roared and Charlton took a step ahead near Mago.

“oh, I fucking can. It’s you who can’t be talking to me like that.” Mago retorted but more calmly than Kangsu.

“and who do you think you are…….huh? just a pretty baby that’s it” Kangsu accused.

“I am King’s boyfriend. I am fucking royalty you dumb shit” Mago boasted and the people around them wanted to hoot and applause but they couldn’t.

Damn!!!

“but I really don’t know who you are, I have no fucking idea where you exist.” The younger insulted Kangsu only to add fuel to his anger.

Then his eyes lit up with realization.

“Maybe you are the one who poisoned King’s birthday cake to kill him” Mago blurted out, accusing, and the room went silent all of a sudden.

The men in the room gasped at the unexpected accusation and looked between them interestingly.

Kangsu trembled in anger.

“enough!!!!......enough boy. You dare question my loyalty?” Kangsu glared at the younger and Mago scoffed in return.

“I dare you…..I triple back flipping dare dare you. What are you gonna do about it huh?” Mago stood on his knees on the king’s lap to level his head with Kangsu while the king held his waist quickly.

The boy was getting angry now.

“you steal from King, you lack in your duties, you are inefficient, you are a fucking coward, you are the fucking snake mooching off my king’s wealth!” Mago finally yelled and, although King felt a little jolt of excitement hearing Mago say that, it was time for King to interrupt.

The crime lord stood up while holding Mago in his arms, who was ready to throw hands, and glanced at Charlton.

“call him up” he ordered and Charlton dialled a number. After a while Lucca entered the room with a knock and quickly looked down on the ground when King glared at him.

It was all because of him.

“take him home… now” King gritted his teeth and Lucca bowed before forcing Mago towards the door.

“Nooooo…..I wanna stay” Mago whined to no avail, king wasn’t going to listen to him anymore.

“That’s right king, that’s how he should be treated after the way he talked to me” Kangsu muttered loud enough for others to listen.

Mago turned to look at him along with Lucca.

“What did you say?” he asked, small nose flaring with anger, not because of what Kangsu said but because he was escorted out.

“you are a bed warmer and could be a pretty little housewife but that’s all. I will suggest you keep your nose out of mafia business” Kangsu smirked not noticing how the room was quiet of any voice.

Almost everyone glared at him, King's features turning dark and Charlton’s morphed in pure rage.

The people around him looked at Kangsu like he was crazy, digging his own grave with the way he talked to the king’s boyfriend.

Mago snorted in return. The boy bit his bottom lip and looked down for a second before meeting eyes with Kangsu.

And then it all happened in a second….

“fuck you, you fucking asshole!!!!” Mago screamed as he chucked the paper weight still in hand towards Kangsu. The fancy marble weight flew across the room and smashed into the wall right behind Kangsu while the man ducked down.

If he didn’t…….well.

Lucca pushed Mago towards the door but the boy wanted to fight now, so without any further ado, Lucca hoisted screaming Mago over his shoulder and left the room quickly, leaving the people inside shocked.

A sigh left one of the men’s mouths after seeing such drama.

“you saw how he talked to me, King? you saw how he behaved? You should leash this baby boy……if I--..” Kangsu started to ramble as he straightened his coat jacket.

“Who is Wren Christopher Kangsu?” King asked taking his seat back, his gaze fixed on Kangsu.

The old man paled on his spot

Toodles...........q(≧▽≦q)