CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. ******Once his eyes opened they were greeted by intense darkness. At first, he didn't understand where he was as his head throbbed painfully almost making his eyes dizzy. He was confused and didn't know what was happening so he eventually gave up and fell back asleep. When he woke up again, his head felt somewhat better, and in no time memories started surging back in he remembered beating the hell out of Noah and then storming out of the house in search of Famous, he remembered waiting for a bus, he remembered been grabbed and forced into a car the rest was a blur. He tried to move but realized for the first time that he was tied up, both hands and legs joint tightly behind his back, he wriggled but it was of no use, he tried to scream for help but his mouth was sealed shut with a tape, the extreme darkness he saw was due to the fact that his head was shrouded with a bag. He tried to stay still and listen, to feel anything around him, his hands couldn't feel muc
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. ******“He's going to be alright in a few days, I will be returning on Wednesday to check on his progress, make sure he takes all his medications at the right time." Doctor Phil smelled at his pacing friend. "Relax, he's safe and sound." The man chuckled as he made his way towards the bedroom door. "The bad days are behind us, let's just wait for him to wake up!" Andrew smiled grandly at him and clapped him on the back of the shoulder. "Thank you," Phil whispered at the door with a huge grin on his face. Elijah laughed, the man wouldn't stop commenting on how great his hotel room looked. He had made sure to bring his doctor friend along whom he knew would never tell anyone about Adrian. The man was the only physician who took care of Jack whenever he took ill and Elijah didn't see any reason not to call the man up for this urgent matter as he never told anyone about him and Jack and again, he paid him good money too so Phil was more than willing to travel with him
CHAPTER: NINETEEN.******As his wispy unremembered dreams began to fade into nothingness and his mind returned to normalcy, Adrian felt Elijah's warmness pressed into him, holding him tightly to his chest, his muscle arm thrown over him as if he would never let go. He didn't want him to.Yesterday, was the happiest he's lived in all his life, well, at least so he thought until someone who seems not to want his happiness decided to ruin it.********Andrew had woken him up from sleep on that beautiful morning and had asked that he got into the bathroom, no questions asked and he obeyed. After he was finished in the bathroom and had returned to the familiar bedroom he's come to adore the past two weeks, he saw Andrew seated on the sofa and typing away on his phone.As Adrian made his way toward the bed, he saw Andrew take his eyes off the phone long enough to acknowledge his presence in the room before returning his focus to his phone. A loud gasp fell off Adrian's mouth when his ey
CHAPTER: TWENTY.********"I thought you both were going to fuck each other brains off out there!" Oliver laughed when he saw Andrew walking in with the reluctant Adrian behind."They would have if I didn't intervene." Andrew kissed Adrian's cheeks and the boy smirked. "Blow out your candles," Noah called to him and Adrian walked toward the beautiful cake. He soon blew the candles out and got the first slice. He was going to get Elijah to share his first piece with him when he saw Andrew and Noah on a staredown. The moment he caught them, Noah looked away shyly and walked in the other direction, while Andrew bounced a little on his toes like a schoolgirl. The smile that crept up Adrian's cheeks was one of those rare genuine smiles. The kind where you simply have to smile because to not smile would make you explode. He has never seen Andrew look so helpless in the two weeks he has come to know and love the man. He walked over to him and grabbed his elbow, pulling him close, and very
CHAPTER TWENTY ONE.*******The unrivaled way to rise each morning, should any have the option, is to find oneself in that clouded place where dreams and reality blend like watercolors, one into the next where it's several heart beats before we come to realize that the dream has ended and life began anew. We want to stay in that limbo for as long as we can, to let it revive and comfort us in a way our waking life never will. There is a small sense of loss that coats our mind for a while, a thin slick of oil on water, once the clouds are burned away by life, a benign sadness lingering just beyond recognition and evaporating to nothingness in a blink, leaving only a dim fading glimmer of memory behind. This state was where Elijah Wealthmoor had found himself as soon as his eyes peered open to great the beginning of a new dawn. His wife and father were on to something and deep inside, he could feel it and he knew whatever it is that was going on, would be something he wouldn't like. Som
CHAPTER TWENTY TWO.*********Elijah got his drift and broke their kiss so he could flip around and straddle Adrian's chest, his face still pointing at Adrian, his perfectly sculpted body now just centimeters from Adrian's hungry mouth. Elijah kissed him gently and deftly crawled from his position to stand firmly on the floor beside the bed. Adrian's brain was essentially a puddle somewhere near the back of his skull. He was surprised by the basic five senses that remained intact. Elijah observed his confusion on the bed, gazing up and down his prostrate position, seeming to commit the image to memory. His smile bordered on a smirk. He was definitely enjoying the power trip and Adrian's resulting inability to remain mostly human. Elijah sauntered towards the bathroom, he flicked on the light, and in a moment Adrian heard the metallic ping of the shower. Elijah drew the shower curtain back and stepped into the spray. "Now we are even." He pitched his tone so that Adrian heard him cl
CHAPTER: TWENTY-THREE.*******Sometimes in life, we get to that point when we desperately need that one wish. The one that would take it all away and make everything right again. We cling to the hope that somehow we will defeat and we will conquer even when the chances are too thin but for hope, we would dare another day.Elijah Wealthmoor sat in the limo with his best friend beside him as they rode from the airport down to headquarters. He has waited for this moment, but now, he dreads the outcome of it. Countless times in the private plane he had told Andrew he didn't want to continue with this journey anymore. Nova was a big enough problem in his life and now he has learned she had the support of his own father, the same man who had never deemed him worthy of anything. He worked so hard hoping that the man would one day approve and be proud of him but it never happened.The only time his father laughed with him was when Nova had announced her second pregnancy. Elijah couldn't unde
CHAPTER: TWENTY-FOUR.******Adrian had woken up at the sound of Oliver yelling out his name. He rolled over and peered his eyes open to have them staring into those of his friends. "What?" He whined, two days had passed since Elijah left and already it seemed like two years. Being with him for so long had made it almost impossible to stay without him. Elijah had spoken to him last night until he had fallen asleep and he was grateful for that. The man had also told him that Tony was out of the picture and won't be a bother anymore but he is yet to see his wife and father. "You have a visitor," Oliver told him.Adrian squinted his eyes. "Who?" He wasn't expecting anyone, he didn't know anyone, so who would visit him?"He said he was sent by Elijah and Andrew," Noah announced coming into the room with a mug of coffee in one hand. He handed it over to Adrian and the other smiled his gratitude as he took the mug and sipped from it. After his birthday, Elijah had asked if they wanted to