Page 85 of Primal Bonds 1
Oh, I knew they had sex and stuff, and Aka was happy with Chase. I was happy for Aka, too, that he could move on and heal from the trauma of his past, enough for him to enjoy sex with Chase because I knew he had been through some horrible clients, men who beat him during sex. He’d come back to the dorm with bruises and cuts, and it’d piss me and Kuro off. But now, we were finally free from that, and I felt a sense of relief in me.
Kuro.We just needed to find him, and then everything would reallyreallybe good. I’d reallyreallyfeel relief then.
“I’m going to get more food,” Lan said, and I chuckled, thinking I’d eat some more, too.
I moved away from Adam and got up, and that was when I felt the world spinning around me.
Huh? Wait? Why all of a sudden?
I tensed, and then I felt myself falling, my legs weak.
“Shiro!” Adam shouted, and I blacked out.
When I came to, I was lying on the sofa with Adam sitting on the side close to me and Chase kneeling on the floor, examining me.
“What happened?” I asked, working on getting up.
Chase said, “Don’t move. It looks like you have a fever.”
“Are you all right, Shiro?” Aka asked. “You scared me when you just fainted.”
I fainted, huh? How embarrassing.
Lan and Aka were looking at me with concern, and I said, “I’m okay. I’m just tired.”
Nolan said, “It looks like you over exhausted yourself, Shiro. Be a good boy and rest.”
Adam said, “Come on, I’m taking you upstairs.”
“Upstairs?” I asked. Didn’t he mean home?
Before I knew it, he scooped me up in his arms and carried me to the door. Behind us, Chase said, “Don’t forget to give him some aspirin, Adam. It’ll help with the fever.”
“Got it,” Adam said, and we were out the door.
In the elevator, I noted Adam pushed the button for floor number sixty, the top one, and I asked, “Aren’t we going back to the penthouse?”
“It’s too much hassle,” he said. “We’ll stay here for the night.”
“You booked us a room?” I asked.
“There’s no need,” he said. “The Sullivan own the hotel. I have a penthouse here.”
“Oh…” I expressed. I see. Then because it felt a bit awkward to be in his arms for this long, I asked, “Um, Adam? You can put me down now. I think I’ll be fine.”
He raised a brow at me as if to rebuke my statement. “Youthinkyou’ll be fine?”
Or not.
The elevator door dinged open again, and Adam carried me out. Moments later, after he had keyed in the passcode, the door opened and we entered a foyer of the penthouse. In the living room, Adam put me down onthe sofa and then disappeared into the kitchen, I presumed to find me the aspirin.
Alone, I looked around the place, noting how luxurious and classy it was, though it was slightly smaller than the other penthouse we were currently living in. There was even a huge veranda outside across the double sliding door of the living room where it had a great view of the city.
Adam returned, and he had with him a glass of water and some pills. He said, “Take these and then get in the shower. After that, it’s bedtime for you.”
I wanted to chuckle. He made me feel like a little kid, but of course, I wasn’t about to argue. Over the course of living with him, I came to understand Adam was a firm man. Once he made a decision, he wouldn’t change it unless there were obvious flaws or better ways of doing things. It was best not to argue with him unless you had a good reason to, with concrete data to sway his opinion. I’ve learned that to sway Adam, I had to be soft, and gently and slowly introduce what I wanted to him, although I must admit there wasn’t much that I wanted from him. He seemed to always give me what my heart desired even before I realized it, like dispatching a private team to search for Kuro in the other territories for example.
I took the pills, and afterward, Adam led me to a luxurious bedroom with a king-sized bed and a wonderful view of the city.