Chapter 168
Zeno didn't realize he was staring, he couldn't get his eyes off the dangerous yet appealing man under the shade of the eagle's wing.
It was just them, alone again after one year. Zeno was tempted, tempted to speak to him, but it wasn't about Sebastian.
He was tempted to ask him about Ken; he missed the poor kid. Ken would be seven already, and Zeno didn't get to stay for Ken's sixth birthday; it was the month he had traveled out of the country, and it had been one year already, adding another year to Ken.
Zeno was dying to see him and how much he had grown.
But all that would only stay a wish in his head; he wished the boy well. He had a mother now, and he had a loving father; that was all he wished for Ken.
It was unfortunate Ken had an idiot as a Father; Zeno was so tempted to question the proud peacock why he was out here chilling while abandoning his family at home, but it was none of his business.
Zeno suddenly frowned, how was Sebastian here in Cassian's family home? Did he leave as Zeno thought after the meeting?
He realized he'd been staring at an unmoving man and decided to give himself a break. He had just taken a step back when he felt a hand behind him.
"Who - Oh, hey," Zeno sighed when he saw Cassian behind him.
"Out for a walk as usual?" Cassian's smooth voice asked.
Zeno slowly nodded, "Yeah... what are you doing out here?" He questioned.
Cassian slowly walked past Zeno, walking toward the eagle, "Nothing... just like you, out here thinking," He replied.
Zeno thought Cassian was going to greet Sebastian, but when he turned back again, Sebastian was nowhere to be found, he'd been distracted by Cassian and didn't catch Sebastian's departure.
Zeno chuckled at himself and massaged his temples; maybe he was starting to hallucinate now because he the fuck can one explain such a swift disappearance, even Batman would be shocked.
"I have gone to find you in your room, but you weren't there; I already knew this was your favorite place, so here I am," Cassian explained.
Zeno saw him now occupying the same bench Sebastian had occupied, but he didn't look so intimidating like Sebastian; he rather looked as gently as the wind and radiating as the moonlight. He sighed; this view was better, but the other was quite disturbing.
"Sorry about that but what did you want to tell me?" Zeno asked.
Cassian patted the space beside him, "Come sit and I'll tell you," He called softly.
Zeno shrugged and lowered himself under the duckling's bench. "I'm listening from over here, just say it,"
"Tomorrow morning, we'll be going to check out the resort location with Mr. Sebastian... I know you want to go home immediately the next morning, but we'll be quick I promise, just an in and out something. I'm not informing, I'm asking... please?" Cassian slowly tapped his feet on the soft grass floor.
Zeno almost rolled his eyes, was this how his life was starting to gently mingle with Sebastian's?
He took a deep breath, one step at a time; he could do this. Hopefully, Sebastian wasn't supposed to stay long on a business trip; he had a family to take care of and be present in their lives, especially the new baby.
"Sure, I can do that, as long as you get me home before twelve," Zeno replied.
"Deal," Cassian was happy and grateful to Zeno for agreeing to help him up to the length he was going.
He really wished that Zeno might have a change of heart and decide to date him for real.
***
The next morning, Zeno was sitting in Cassian's car as they drove out of the Leroy family home. Cassian was driving by himself that morning, he said he loved driving by the day but detested it at night.
Zeno was holding a file in his hand and flipping through it as he studied the type of partnership Cassian's family was engaging in with Sebastian and the British.
It wasn't something complex; it was just a straightforward business.
"Mr. Sebastian is quite an early bird; one of our men informed me when I had just woken that Mr. Sebastian was already at the resort waiting for us to arrive," Cassian said, pleased by Sebastian's good attributes.
Zeno hummed quietly, "It seems so," he replied.
No wonder he didn't see him that morning.
Again, it wasn't as if he was looking or searching; he just noted that he couldn't find the mysterious tall figure that always seemed to loom around the building, Luke, some haunting ghost.
"I wonder how Mr. Sebastian managed to engage his fiancée, a man cold and unfeeling lime himself, he must have loved the woman so much to propose," Cassian wanted to make a small, casual talk with Zeno but he didn't know that he had just ruined all of Zeno's day by bringing that topic up.
"Yeah... he must love her so much," Zeno replied and looked out of the window, his fists clenching, and throat slowly tightening.
Did Sebastian have to come back into life just when he thought he was healed?
He wondered how he was going to do when they arrived at the resort; speaking to Sebastian was inevitable at this point; he had to grow a ball and get his work done.
He would speak to Sebastian in the same way he'd spoken to all his clients; business was business, period.
***
Cassian drove his car into the resort, parking under a palm tree beside the building.
The beach was just a little distance away from them, and it would be a great place to relax in the evening.
"Mr. Sebastian sure knows luxury. Look how beautiful this place is," Cassian spoke as he turned off the car.
"Yeah, it's beautiful," Zeno replied, staring out toward the beach.
"Let's go," Cassian said and left the car.
Zeno took a deep breath before he opened the door and left the car.
He could do this.
He walked around and met Cassian, "Do you have an idea where Mr. Sebastian is?" He asked Cassian.
He wanted to hurry and go home.
He was suddenly craving his Nana's hugs.
"That's the building right there, it was a popular museum back in the days but it's been left abandoned and empty for years now, let's go, Mr. Sebastian will define in there," Cassian put his hand inside his brown pants and smiled at Zneo before walking in the direction of the old building.
Zeno sighed, "Here goes nothing," He muttered and followed Cassian behind.
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