Chapter 82 - Vol. 3: Noah To Haru - 82

Haru

I was still upset with Aiden and Mason when the knock came at the door.

“Haru?” It was Reo. “Can I come in?”

I sighed. “Yeah.”

I pulled myself up and sat, resting my back against the headboard of the bed as Reo opened the door and then walked into the room. He came to sit on the side of the bed and reached out to ruffle my hair.

“You okay?” When I didn’t answer him, he said, “Want to confide in your brother?”

I shook my head. “There’s nothing to confide.”

Reo chuckled. “It’s not nothing. You didn’t come down for dinner, and you’ve been withdrawn in the last two weeks. It is about Noah? And now Aiden?”

I cast my eyes downward. “I don’t want to talk about it.”

Reo sighed. “All right. I won’t force you to do anything you don’t want to, but please make up with Aiden, Noah, and Mason soon. They’re going through a lot of shit at the moment, and you being distant to them is not helping.”

I frowned. “What do you mean they’re going through shit? What happened?”

He chuckled. “You’ve been living with your brothers, but you don’t know what’s going on in their lives? That’s a bit selfish of you, Haru.”

I felt my face flushing hot. Reo was right. I had been keeping to myself, refusing to even acknowledge everyone else’s existence in this apartment. Even though I had been spending the nights with Aiden, I hardly talk to him. I had never thought to ask how his days went. I was his boyfriend and yet...

Shit.

“What happened?” I asked, my voice a bit shaky.

“You want to know, huh?”

I nodded. “Tell me.”

Reo said, “Aiden has been having trouble at work. He’s been losing a few of his clients and some very big deals, which means he has been losing some very big commissions this year.”

I swallowed hard. If Reo talked about big deals, that meant it was in the hundreds of thousands. Had Aiden been losing money in just these last two weeks? Was that why he had come home looking exhausted?

“On top of that, he worries about you, so that adds more stress on him,” Reo said.

I felt guilty, and my heart ached.

“Noah is very stressed at work. He’s a perfectionist, but lately, everything he does seems to go wrong, and his boss is having doubt in his ability.”

“You’ve seen him?” I asked.

Reo nodded. “I caught up with him a few times. He looked like shit, and he kept asking me about you. He worries about you, Haru. I don’t know what happened between you and Noah a few weeks back, but isn’t it about time you two make up? He needs to come home sooner or later.”

I said, “I’m not the one who ran away. It’s him, he ran away. If he wants to come back, he can come back any time he wants.”

Reo chuckled. “That’s true.”

“So, um, what happened to Mason?” I asked.

“Mason? He has trouble at the university. His professors think he’s cheating on his tests and, I don’t know, other shit. Apparently, I just found out at dinner tonight he was nearly hit by cars a few times. That’s some pretty scary shit.”

I felt my stomach knotting in dread. Shit, I didn’t even know Mason was having near accidents. What the heck was going on?

Reo said, “Just imagine if Aiden or Noah or Mason were to be hit by a car and they were seriously injured and... Do you think this fight you have with them is worth it?”

Reo hit the nail on the head right there, and I understood what he was getting at.

“I’ll apologize,” I said. “I can’t imagine what it’ll be like not having them in my life.”

Well, I admit I had been living without Noah in my life for the past two weeks, and despite his arrogant, shitty attitude toward me, I felt empty and just plain morbid. He was that other pillar in my life, and it didn’t feel right without him around.

Reo nodded. “Remember three months ago back in Japan? You announced to Uncle Jin you love everyone and never want to part from them? I never imagined things could go sour so soon after. It’s like what you said back then is all a hoax.”

I shook my head furiously. “No, it’s not a hoax. I was serious back then.” I sighed. “I do love them all, and it has been...lonely and painful these past two weeks. I want things to be the way they were before. I’ll straighten things out.”

Reo nodded. “Good decision.” He got up and sighed. “It looks like bad luck doesn’t just hit the others. It got me, too. You know my car just got stolen?”

I widened my eyes. “Seriously?”

He chuckled. “Yeah. I reported it, but I doubt I’ll ever see it again. It’s old and probably sold for parts already. Oh well, I’ll just have to save up and get another one.” He walked out the door then.

Alone, I worked on mustering the courage to go downstairs, and once I did, I marched into the living room. I was pleased to see both Aiden and Mason there.

They watched me silently as I came toward them. I licked my lips, suddenly nervous. Fuck, I felt like a kid who did something terrible and was now having to apologize.

I said, “I’m sorry for getting upset.”

Mason got up from his seat and approached me. Up close, he wrapped his arms around me and said softly, “You didn’t do anything wrong, Haru. I’m sorry for going overboard. Aiden and I shouldn’t have interfered with who you want to be friends with. We were just worried you’d get into the wrong crowd.”

I gazed at him and saw the sincerity in Mason’s eyes. “I know.” I chuckled. “Thanks.”

Mason smiled. “I’m not sure what you’re thanking me for, but no worries.” He leaned down and gave me a gentle kiss on the forehead, which made me blush. It had been so long since Mason kissed me like that, that brotherly, caring kiss. Wow! It felt nice, warm and comforting.

When he moved back, he said, “I have some assignments to catch up on. I’ll leave you two to it, then.”

I nodded, and then he was out the door, which made the atmosphere in the room become awkward in an instant. Of course, Aiden hadn’t spoken one word since I walked in a few moments earlier. He was just sitting there, with Aki snoozing on his lap.

“Aiden?” I said.

He finally gave me a smile, which made me sigh in relief.

“Come here,” he said, beckoning me to him.

I eagerly did and found myself sitting beside him, his powerful arm wrapped around me. He planted a kiss on my forehead.

“I’m sorry,” I said. “I won’t do that again, making a fuss for no reason.”

“And I won’t do that again, either, controlling who you can and can’t be friends with,” he said. “I’m sorry, Haru. I was out of line.”

I shook my head. “It’s because you’re worried about me, so it’s fine. I want you to worry about me.”

He chuckled. “And?”

“Dote on me,” I said. “All the usual stuff. It makes me happy.”

“But you haven’t been happy these past two weeks,” Aiden said. “I feel like we’re drifting apart.”

I shook my head again adamantly. “We’re not drifting apart, I swear. I’ve just been very selfish, just thinking about myself. I’m sorry, Aiden.”

“You’re like that because of what happened that day, with Noah,” he said.

I nodded. “I’ve been thinking about it a lot, and I think Noah... I think Noah is in love with me, Aiden, which is why he did what he did and...”

“So you realize he’s in love with you?” Aiden asked.

I nodded. “Yeah. Why?”

He chuckled. “You’re a bit dense, aren’t you?”

I pouted. “Thanks for the compliment,” I said sarcastically.

“What about you?” Aiden asked, his eyes on me. “How do you feel about him?”

I glanced away, feeling my cheeks flushing hot. “Do we have to have this conversation now?”

Aiden cupped my face, which drew my gaze to him. He said, “Yes. It’s important. You’ve been open and honest with me since we started dating, Haru, and I want that where this is concerned.”

I swallowed hard, realizing that he was right and that I had no choice but to tell him. We had been honest with each other since the commencement of us going into a serious relationship. I, too, would want to know if Aiden were to fall in love with another person apart from me.

My eyes downcast, I said, “What if I tell you that I... I do love him? Will you get upset? That means I’m cheating on you, right?”

I shut my eyes, suddenly wanting to run and hide. Fuck, but I didn’t want to hear what Aiden had to say.

I felt his lips on my forehead, kissing me gently, which surprised me.

Huh? I shifted my gaze to him and saw him smiling. He said, “Thank you for telling me how you feel.”

I felt tears in my eyes. I said, my voice weak, “Even if I love Noah, that doesn’t mean I love you any less, Aiden. I’ve loved you for the longest time, and I will always love you.” I raised up a little and wrapped my arms around him, hugging him tight, his face against my chest.

He wrapped his arms around me, too, and said, “I know that. It looks like Noah and I will have to share you after all.”

I moved back and asked, “Why would you have to share me with Noah? I’m with you always so...”

“Do you think Noah would come back and continue to live with us if he can’t have you officially as his?” Aiden asked logically.

I widened my eyes. “Oh.”

Aiden chuckled. “You are a bit dense, aren’t you?”

Twice. I had been told I was dense twice today.

Suddenly, my tummy growled, and Aiden burst out laughing.

“I am hungry,” I said.

It was a little while later when I was having my dinner of beef stew with mashed potatoes that I asked Aiden, “So, about Sean?”

“What about him?” Aiden asked, his eyes on me.

“I can still be friends with him, right?”

Aiden nodded. “I said I won’t control who you can and can’t be friends with. As long as they aren’t stealing you away from me, you can be friends with anyone you want.”

I grinned. “Thanks. And by the way, Sean is straight. He told me he just broke up with his girlfriend.”

There, I thought, that’d put Aiden’s mind at ease.

“Did he now?” Aiden said. “Then I hope he’ll find himself a new girlfriend soon.”

I nodded. “Me, too. Sometimes, he sounds really lonely and sad.” I shrugged. “Maybe he’s still heartbroken?”

Aiden asked, “Do you feel sorry for him?”

I shrugged. “Yes and no. I don’t know him that well. We’ve just met, after all.”

He chuckled. “Yet, you nonchalantly go to his apartment?”

I didn’t have any answer to that and said, “Hey, you said I can be friends with anyone I want.”

He leaned in close and stroked my hair as I ate. He asked, “Just curious, why do you want to be friends with Sean?”

I shrugged. “I don’t know. He reminds me of you, Noah, and Mason.” I chuckled. “Isn’t that weird? Like he’s nice and caring, like you and Mason, and then he also likes to tease me like Noah.”

Aiden pulled back and then said, “All right, let’s stop talking about Sean.”

I grinned. I knew he was agitated that I put Sean in the same camp as him, Noah, and Mason, the people I loved. But of course, I wasn’t in love with Sean. He was a nice person to be around, to have as a friend.

To ease his worry and remind him again of how much I love him and how much he means to me, I leaned toward him and then planted a gentle kiss on his lips. When I moved back, I said, “You’re my number one.” Meaning he was at the top of the list of the people I loved.

He looked at me for a moment and then finally smiled. He said, his hand cupping my face, “You’re my number one, too.” He kissed me firmly on the lips. When he moved back, he continued. “By the way, you want to join me in a hot bath?” His eyes were dark, so I knew immediately what he had in mind.

I became hot instantly at the thought of passionate sex with Aiden. We hadn’t done it for two weeks, and I must admit I missed Aiden making love to me. I couldn’t believe I had slept in bed with him but we never made love that entire time. I must have been that out of it where Noah was concerned.

I nodded. “Okay.”

Aiden smiled broadly. “I’ll go and fill up the tub.” He leaned over and kissed me on the cheek this time. Then, with Aki in his arms, he left the room.

Alone, I quickly finished with my meal and then did the dishes. Once that was done, I switched off the light and then eagerly went into Aiden’s room.

“Aiden?” I called out.

“In here,” he said.

I went into the en suite and saw Aiden sitting on the side of the tub, adding lavender essential oil to the bathwater. It was nearly filled to the rim.

“Why don’t you brush your teeth and then shower first?” he suggested.

I nodded.

Since I had come to spent so many nights with Aiden, I had a spare toothbrush in his en suite, for convenience. After thoroughly flossing and brushing my teeth, I stripped myself naked and then hopped into the shower to clean myself. Aiden watched me, his eyes twinkling, while he brushed his own teeth.

When I was done, I turned off the shower and then, with my body dripping wet, got into the bathtub. The moment I sunk in, I sighed, a pleasant smile on my lips. While I was relaxing and enjoying the bath, Aiden stripped himself naked and then headed into the shower. A moment later, he moved into the tub, causing hot water to splash everywhere. I laughed, and he, too, joined me as he pulled me into his arms.

“This is nice,” he said.

I rested my head against his chest. I couldn’t believe he could still laugh when he was losing hundreds of thousands of dollars in commission from sales at work.

I said, “Will you be all right with work? Reo told me you lost clients and some big deals.”

Aiden tightened his arms around me. “It’s part of the job. You’ll lose some clients that aren’t happy with you, and you’ll lose some big deals. I have no problem dealing with those, but I can’t deal if I were to lose you, Haru. You’re important to me.”

I moved myself around in his arms so that I was facing him. “Me, too. You’re important to me, Aiden. I won’t be able to deal if I were to lose you.” I leaned in and then kissed him on the lips, gently and softly.

When I moved back, he said, “That was nice. I’ve missed this.”

I smiled. “Me, too.”

Aiden’s warm hands lightly caressed along the side of my body, teasing me, making me shiver deliciously.

“Then how about we do some intimate bonding?”

I cupped the side of his handsome face with my hand, a smile on my lips. “Yeah,” I said and leaned in again, claiming his lips as he wrapped his hand around my cock. As he stroked me down there, I plunged my tongue into his open, inviting mouth.

Our tongues stroked and caressed one another, intertwining and dancing an intimate tango, our warm breaths mixed in a heady, erotic passion. When I moved back, my head was dazed and my breathing was heavy, my heart pounding hard and furious inside my chest.

Aiden shifted me up as he, too, moved his head down until his lips met my nipple where he took it into his mouth, kissing the little bud and then licking and sucking at it. I squirmed as waves of pleasure ran through me. When he turned his attention to the other one, I eagerly encouraged him, my hands wrapped around the back of his head. I was in heaven, basking in the bliss as Aiden ravished me to his heart’s content.

“Fuck, you’re just adorable,” he said a moment later, looking at me, his eyes dark with passion.

“Fuck, you’re just sexy,” I said in response, smiling.

He chuckled. “Right, up with you,” he said as he shifted me again.

I found myself balancing on the top edge of the tub, my body out of the nice hot water, my legs spread out, and my hard dick in the air. Aiden had himself between my legs, and I shuddered just watching his gorgeous face moving in and taking my cock into his mouth. He sucked, teased, and licked me like my dick was a fucking delicious popsicle, and all the while, his eyes never left mine.

His dark gaze and the hot way he went at me was enough to make me come in his mouth, and I did, my body shuddering like crazy as ecstasy rushed through me in waves.

Aiden swallowed my nectar, and I never thought anything could be sexier. I used to dislike it when he drank my stuff, but damn, now I found it hot.

“Let me do it, too,” I begged, wanting to put his cock inside my mouth and go all out at him.

“All right,” he said, looking quite eager.

He stood, splashing water everywhere as he did so. Still sitting on the top edge of the tub, I admired his ripped, hunky body before me. Fuck, but he was hot and just so damn sexy.

I eagerly reached out and grabbed for his rock-hard cock in both my hands and began to stroke it, marveling at the shape and size.

Aiden chuckled and said, “You’re a doctor or what? Stop looking at my dick like that.”

My gaze on him, I said, “I’m just checking it out like you did with mine whenever we make love.”

“That’s because yours is cute,” he said.

“Same goes for yours,” I said. “I mean yours is sexy.”

He smiled darkly, probably pleased with my compliment.

My gaze glued hotly to his, I opened my mouth wide and took him in. Aiden groaned deep in his throat, and I knew I made him feel good, which pleased me. I drew back and then licked the tip with my tongue while I stroked the length of the shaft with my hands.

I went at it for a while, just teasing him until he had enough and hastily moved back. I was quite disappointed that he didn’t come inside my mouth. Damn, but he was good at holding back, unlike me. Maybe I could do that, too, through experience.

“If you’re expecting me to come that easily, you’re mistaken,” he said, chuckling. “I’ll be coming inside your cute little butthole, thank you very much.” He hoisted me up from my position and then made me kneel on the base of the bathtub, the hot water once again enveloping me lovingly.

It felt damn nice to be in the water, and even better when Aiden hugged me from behind, kissing my neck and then more of that along my back while his fingers caressed my asshole, teasing me, getting me ready for his hot, welcoming invasion.

I groaned, just enjoying the feeling of being lovingly caressed and teased back there. Fuck, I felt so good and blissed.

“I’m putting it in,” Aiden said a moment later, his voice dark and resonant near my ear.

“Mm-hmm.” I responded, nodding my head at the same time. I waited in anticipation, and then I purred and shuddered in pleasure the moment I felt Aiden’s hard cock inside me.

Oh, fuck! Oh, God! It felt so fucking good. My body was buzzing with the sex sensations and my head was in a daze.

“You’re so hot around me, Haru,” Aiden said. “It feels really good inside you.”

I felt Aiden hugging me tight, his lips on the side of my neck. Then he started moving, thrusting into me slowly at first, and then more forceful and faster, as if he couldn’t control himself.

“Haru. Haru. Haru.” He kept chanting my name as he fucked me.

I groaned. I loved having Aiden’s cock deep inside me, loved the way he was fucking me. “Aiden...” I sang out his name the faster he thrust into me.

My body was moving along with his furious rhythm, pounding into me wildly and passionately, and then he bit me, sucking at my flesh at the same time he came deep inside me. I came, too, my nectar spurting out into the water.

I was still squirming from the aftermath of being fucked so awesomely when Aiden lifted me up in his arms, princess style.