Chapter 24
Zeno was sitting on his bed as Jasper made a call with the boss at a corner.
He suddenly heard a ping sound coming from his backpack and remembered that he had turned on his phone just before entering the house.
It's been three days since he had used his phone. He opened his backpack and took out his phone just to see notifications of messages from some unknown numbers.
He quickly tapped open the first one and frowned deeply.
UNKNOWN 1: Hope you loved your surprise? 😉
He furrowed his brows, trying to think about who the message could be from, but he couldn't come up with anyone; no one had surprised him since the death of his parents.
He went ahead to read the rest, maybe he'll get a clue after reading them.
UNKNOWN 2: Hope you got Flo's message; if the surprise doesn't work, maybe this will; click below to open 👇.
Zeno immediately understood where the two messages had come from. What did they want from him?
He reluctantly clicked the image below, and anger boiled inside him as he stared at his Nana's picture as she lay weakly on the hospital bed.
"Mother fuckers," He muttered.
He fumed as he thought about the proud look on Meyer's face when he sent the picture. His hatred for every Orion member and everyone associated with them reached its maximum.
At that moment, if he saw anyone from that family, he would just shoot them without batting an eye and face the damn consequences later.
He angrily opened the remaining two messages but was surprised to see the names written under the messages.
One was from Nicholas, asking about his wounds and how he was; the other one was from Thomas, asking him why he doesn't come to fight anymore.
He sighed and threw the phone on the bed but quickly picked it up when remembered what Cody had shown him yesterday. He wanted to see how the camera on the baseball cap saved the recordings on the phone.
He opened his gallery and clicked on videos.
"No way! No, no, no," Zeno exclaimed.
He helplessly stared at the recently saved video recording of him undressing in the bathroom, he didn't even let the video show when he was fully undressed, his thumb moved faster than a car crashing down a hill with failed breaks as he immediately selected the video, and deleted it before anyone else could see it.
He sighed in relief and ran his fingers through his hair, his heart calming down a bit as he deleted the video.
What if he hadn't checked it at all, and when it was time for them to transfer the recorded file, he would have just cluelessly sent Sebastian a video of him naked under the shower?
He cringed as he thought about how the whole thing would have played out, it'd have just made everything worse between them.
"Hey, you okay?" Jasper finished his call and walked over to Zeno, sitting beside him on the bed.
"Uh... Yeah, I thought I saw something but I've figured it out," Zeno said, scratching the side of his knee.
"Okay, I'm here if you need anything, Zeno. Anything," Jasper enunciated the last word, slowly rubbing his hand up and down Zeno's thigh.
Zeno stared down at his Lap and saw Jasper's hand inching closer and closer to his center; Curiosity got the better of him; he initially wanted to move Jasper's hand away, but he decided against it. He wanted to check if Jasper could make him feel those weird feelings he felt each time Sebastian touched him.
Jasper saw that Zeno didn't stop him, he got more courage from the silence and slowly moved his hand up, just stopping inches away from his cock.
"Zeno," Jasper called Zeno so he could look him in the eyes and be sure that he was giving his consent.
"Yes," Zeno slowly looked away from Jasper's exploring hands.
So far, he felt nothing, but he knew with Sebastian, it didn't have to take this long to start something burning within him.
Well, this answered his questions, he was as straight as a meter rule, and his reaction to Sebastian's touch might just be a fragment of his imagination.
"Are you sure?" Jasper asked, looking into Zeno's eyes.
Zeno felt bad when he saw the vulnerability in Jasper's eyes. Jasper sure felt something, while he just sat there, trying to use his feelings for his selfish findings.
"I-"
"Hey, Zeno, open up," Cody's voice sounded from behind their door, saving Zeno from having to explain why he wasn't going to go ahead with whatever they were doing.
"Ah, sure, coming," Zeno quickly stood up, secretly releasing the breath he'd been holding.
Jasper just sat there, imagining what could have happened if Cody and Ida didn't interrupt them. His courage got stronger from the way Zeno behaved just now; he believed there might be hope for him.
"Hey," Cody said in his normal cheerful vibe as he entered Zeno's room.
Zeno noticed that Ida was extra gloomy than his normal gloominess. He felt something off with them but had absolutely no idea what it might be.
He shut the door and walked into his room. Cody went to join Jasper on his bed, leaving Ida alone on Jasper's bed.
'Weird.' Zeno thought.
They were always together bickering, what's happening now?
"Where's the paper?" Ida asked straightforwardly.
"Give me a second," Zeno went to the wardrobe where he hung his clothes and retrieved the paper from the pocket of his jeans.
"What could be in there? Poor Julia, what has she been put through?" Cody asked curiously.
Ida glanced at Cody as he heard the concern in his voice for Julia's. He clenched his fists beside him.
He didn't understand Cody at all, he's been left confused after their time together in the bathroom. He was shocked to see Cody switch back to his normal self immediately after they were done fucking, his brain was trying to grasp if he had imagined the whole thing.
And since then, Cody has been trying his best to avoid him. This was why he chose to keep his feelings to himself, he was officially losing his friend.
"Let's find out," Zeno said and unfolded the paper.
"Wow," Zeno said as he stared at the paper.
"Tell us already!" Cody said impatiently.
Zeno sighed and read from the paper, "It says; help me! He's a devil, but he's not the real mastermind."
Zeno finished and turned the paper towards his friends so they could see for themselves.
"I knew it," Ida said, deep in thought.
"So, how are we going to help her? We can't just take her and leave," Cody said, scratching the side of his head in confusion.
"We have three more days to find out everything about Glen, we have to be efficient," Jasper said, his hands tapping his lap.
"Right now, we don't have any evidence to use against him, we can't just act on a baseless finding. She might just be a worker who hates her boss and just wants to badmouth him, or she might need our help as she clearly stated," Ida said.
He felt Cody glare at him when he said Julia might not be genuine in her request for help.
"Don't be heartless, Ida, didn't you see her?" Cody sounded offended.
"Calm down, Cody, he said, if. But if I'm to give my opinion, I'll say she's being hundred percent honest. I captured her face with my camera. She tried but failed to use makeup to hide the discoloration from her face, but I still saw that. At least, that could be our first evidence," Zeno explained.
They all thought about it for a moment before nodding to Zeno's reasoning.
"Then, we just need to find a loophole," Ida said.
"Pfft," Cody scoffed, "Loophole? That maniac doesn't have one, he's kept everything and everyone away from each other," Cody shook his head.
"Don't conclude yet; no one can be that one hundred percent meticulous," Jasper replied.
"I hope so. Can't you see, we were hired as bodyguards, but here we are, locked up in some room while he locked himself up in a Rapunzel castle," Cody rolled his eyes.
"Calm down everyone. Maybe when we meet his sons, they might be the weak links we're looking for," Zeno said.
"Fine," Cody shrugged.
"Alright then," Jasper nodded.
Ida just sat there silently, thinking about a lot of things at the same time, Cody being one of them.
Mysterious silence reigned between them, each lost in his thoughts.
Ring! Ring!
The telephone beside Zeno's bedside table rang, invading the silence in the room.
Zeno walked over and picked up the phone.
"Hello?" Zeno said as he placed the phone on speaker so everyone would hear the message.
"The young masters are back, come out, now," The line beeped immediately after Lucia finished talking, indicating the end of the call.
"Ugh, I want to beat her so bad," Cody clenched his fists and punched the space before him, wishing Lucia was standing there to receive the punch.
"Come on, let's go, angry bird," Zeno patted Cody's shoulder before walking away.
They walked through the passageway and into the living room, just to find Mr. Glen already sitting on his brown sofa with a glass of wine in his hand.
Zeno glanced around but could not find any other person in the living room with Mr. Glen.
Was Lucia messing with them?
He was about to ask him about his children when he heard footsteps coming down the stairs.
He turned at stared in that direction. He first saw their legs as they slowly walked down, and then their waist and chest, but once he saw their faces, he couldn't believe it, he thought his eyes were deceiving him.
It had to be deceiving him!
"Ah, here are my boys, come sit with me," Mr. Glen patted the space beside him on the sofa.
Zeno felt speechless as the guys walked past him without sparing him a glance as they went and sat down beside their father.
"Everyone, these are my sons, Thomas and Jeremiah," Mr. Glen introduced.
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