The drive back to Rickey's apartment felt like forever. I looked out the window watching the street lights. While Rickey hummed some of the songs that came through the speakers.
"Alexander is gonna have a big talk with me when I get home I'm sure. . ." I muttered quietly.
He stopped humming and looked over at me and took my hand into his as he pulled into the parking garage.
"Honestly, surprised he hasn't called. . . unless he's already upstairs. . ."
I hadn't thought about the fact that Jason and Alexander didn't technically know where I was at.
"Only one way to find out"
He turned off the car.
☾☾☾
"Dude you are literally everywhere" Jeff said hopping over onto the couch beside Rickey and I.
He shoved his phone in his face.
"Look how fucking cute you two are hiding and running away in the night"
He bursted with laughter.
Rickey and I weren't as amused as we looked at the video of us leaving the club with our faces mostly hidden.
"Okay I may have some regrets on how we did this. . ." I grumbled.
"Yeah this does look a little sketchy I will admit it, captions sure aren't helping" Rickey muttered back scrolling through.
'Is the Queen cheating on her husband? And is it with one or two men? Is Zadicus back in the picture? '
"Jarred call you yet?" Jeff asked.
We both shook our heads.
"You fuck him yet?"
Jeff frowned before snatching his phone.
"Yeah that's what I fucking thought you and I are both in the shit show"
I looked at Rickey.
"He's probably honestly dealing with Alexander- he may come across as upset but he has no reason to be mad at you- you saw it was me who said it in the video"
"Are we not going to address the real elephant in the room?" Jeff interrupted.
We both looked at him.
"You weren't the only guy mentioned in that article you ass, what about that Lord Zadicus fellow?"
"Oh trust me. . . that is not going to go well for me" I sighed leaning into Rickey.
"Why is that?" he asked looking confused.
"Rickey made the bold move to pay for our-my drinks at the bar, and he realized he was one of the few I umm, left alive I kind of shrugged that bit off, but he's going to find it real odd and quite the convenient thing that he was there tonight"
"Imagine being overlooked twice" Rickey tried to hide his laughter.
"Honestly, dude is supposed to be our fucking dad or whatever and he can't even keep the family together"
Me and Rickey made the same disgusted face at his analogy considering what that would make me.
"Okay maybe I shouldn't have said that. . ."
"Yeah that was pretty bad wording"
"I would like to say, she's more like the perfect version of us" Rickey pulled me in closer.
"Okay gross, I don't need you to rub it in my face that you want to fuck her"
My eyes widened and I moved around on Rickey lap and he tensed by my movements and gripped my hips a little tight making me sit still.
"I'm going to my room, don't cum on the couch k thanks"
Jeff got up and quickly grabbed his things and headed for the hall.
Rickey's mouth was suddenly on my neck sucking on it and gave it a good nip, but not hard enough to draw blood, but pretty damn near.
"Are you gonna grind on me like that again?" he whispered in my ear.
I felt a shiver down my spine as I felt his breath on my skin and I shook my head biting my lip.
"It's not my fault I was in your lap" I leaned my head back to look up at him.
"Oh yeah? I didn't realize being on my lap was such a temptation for you"
Honestly I just loved feeling him period, whether it was his face, his abs, his shoulders, his dick was just a bonus really. It all felt nice. I also just really wanted to let go of control for a while.
☾☾☾
After a good few minutes of Rickey telling me how sexy I was tonight from my outfit to the way I simply acted with him in public we ended up in his bedroom somehow having sex.
I mean I say somehow but I knew how, it wasn't really anything out of the ordinary at this point.
"Good girl" Rickey was panting as he finished inside me and he let go of my hair that he was pulling.
My back was still pressed against his chest as he kissed down my neck and I let out a soft moan.
"Anything for you" I responded feeling a smile pull on my lips as I pushed my hips back against him.
I heard a loud smack and my left ass cheek get a sting as Rickey smacked my ass with his now freed hand.
"Oh I'm well aware, but I didn't say you could move"
I bit down on my lip.
"You guys better be here, because we have to talk about toni-"
Jason's voice was loud as he walked through the door and I nearly scrambled away from Rickey covering myself up.
"Wow, well this isn't exactly what I was expecting" he admitted looking over to me and struggling to look back at Rickey.
Rickey hadn't moved or cared to grab anything to cover himself up, ironically I did and Jason had seen me naked obviously yet here I was.
"Yeah well I don't think we were either" Rickey huffed.
"Can you put something on?" Jason asked, but in reality it was more of a told.
"Can you knock?" Rickey was seemingly annoyed and I couldn't blame him he was being cockblocked in his own house.
"Can either of you pick up a phone?" Jason quipped.
I had then realized we had stripped our jackets off in the living room and that they must've had our phones in it because we never heard- or at least payed attention to them.
"We left the in the other room" Rickey got up not even grabbing the small blanket off the edge of the bed and walked over to his dresser and grabbed a pair of briefs putting them on.
"I don't mean to be that person, but we have a meeting in the morning and you're here in bed and then not answering phone calls, so yes I am a tad bit upset"
"Seems like someone's jealous."
Rickey chuckled and Jason glared at him.
"I could give a shit less about having sex right now, there's a time and that isn't now"
He really needed to relax, I mean Hell that's how I made it in this bed. . .
"I uh, can one of you hand me my shirt at least please?" I finally spoke.
Jason's eyes finally met with mine suddenly he had seemed so much calmer even though I'm sure this was a bit odd for the three of us- except maybe Rickey- he just seemed more annoyed than anything.
My shirt was tossed onto the bed and I pulled the shirt over my head.
"So what did you want to talk about?"
Jason gave me a "are you serious?" face.
But then he looked over to Rickey.
"Why were you even there dude? Like what the Hell"
"Well I was just doing my job, while Luna did hers, she had some drinks and I thought she had too many so I thought I'd take her home" Rickey shrugged.
"So we went out, well- you saw the video" I sat up in the bed keeping the sheets over my legs.
"I mean you know I'm all for this going public- but that way? Seriously right after you just met with Zadicus?"
"I mean. . . do we really care about their opinion on us, I mean by now they already have their opinion on you and I"
He sighed putting a hand over his face.
"I mean no- however I don't think we ever wanted it to be a negative headline"
I mean he had a point, I'm not sure what would sound good, but certainly cheating and secret weren't good.
"I was just as shocked as you" Rickey admitted.
"How is Alexander?" I asked wondering if I even wanted the answer.
"He was fine till he couldn't get ahold of you two- then he was freaked out"
"I mean he saw we got away. . ." I rolled my eyes.
"To be fair, I'm surprised they did some shit like that at a human club" Rickey had a fair point. I wasn't prepared for that situation at all.
"Honestly so am I, but I guess the opportunity of Zadicus was too much to miss"
Jason let out a frustrated sigh.
"Did anything else happen? Where was he when all this happened?"
I shrugged.
"I went and found Rickey, then we headed home"
He shook his head.
"Clearly there's a lot missing in this story for me because how did you two know you were there?"
Jason pressed.
I opened my mouth to speak but Rickey spoke instead.
"I saw her when I came up for a smoke, and I gave the bartender my card to pay for her drinks while they were talking- quickly left and she then asked the bartender where to find me after he left her then we went back up had another shot and I took her home"
Jason's eyes once more widened and his eyes seemed to almost start taking a inky color.
"You hit on her in front of him? Are you stupid?" Jason sneered.
Rickey rolled his eyes.
"It's not like I fucking said 'hey babe here drinks are on me' he just thinks I wanted to buy her drinks, you guys get bought drinks all the time when we're out"
I mean he wasn't wrong, it was pretty normal for people to come up to us a lot too.
"Don't you think now that's not going to look the same given that she sat there and announced to the world that you're her boyfriend?!" Jason suddenly was shouting and I groaned rubbing my hands on my face realizing I did fuck it up at that point.
"Okay well in my defense I didn't know we'd be swarmed let alone she'd fucking say that"
"Jason it's stupid to be upset with him, I mean I can kind of see your point, but really the big problem was me here- in some ways I guess we both made some somewhat mistakes but it's out now so"
"Somewhat unrelated- but can you like stop walking in on us? You're cutting it real close" Rickey said through gritted teeth sounding annoyed.
"Sorry, I was on the phone with Alexander not paying attention if I were to be honest" Jason shrugged.
"So I take it we're all heading back to our house?" I asked.
Jason nodded and Rickey let out a groan before grabbing a overnight bag.
"Jarred's gonna kick my ass"
"Ow fuck!" a loud voice suddenly shouted from the other room.
Wait was that Jarred?
"Is that who I-" Jason asked looking at me confused.
I shrugged.
"Clearly I wouldn't know"
It was quiet after that and Rickey tossed me my black jeans and I quickly shimmied into them as Jason made his way down the hall and I scurried to follow him.
"Are you kidding me? I thought you said you had work to do, you're fucking coming home too" Jason griped once he opened Jeff's door.
"God damnit I didn't think you or Alexander would show up here!"
A pillow was thrown at Jason's face as Jarred yelled at him.
I peaked my head into the doorway looking at a shirtless Jarred and Jeff.
Oh.
"I know you aren't going to start talking" he glared at me and I held up my hands in defense.
"He walked in on us too, he's on a roll today apparently"
Jeff started laughing.
"Guess we know who's got blue balls outta all of of us"
Jarred rolled his eyes throwing the other pillow into Jeff's face before getting up grabbing his shirt.
"Shut up babe" he said flatly.
"I hate both of your asses sometimes"
Rickey's voice came from behind Jason and I as he looked into Jeff's room with an annoyed look.
"Saves me from meeting up with you later though" he tossed a wad of cash into the room towards Jarred and he quickly caught it.
"Nice, alright well lets get out of here then. . ."
"So you're just gonna leave me here?!" Jeff shouted and I laughed a little to myself as I walked out into the hallway towards the door.
"I'll be back after things are settled alright?" Jarred grumbled and I heard him shut the door and follow behind us.
I grabbed Rickey and I's jacket on our way out of the apartment.
☾☾☾
"Honestly, I'm just surprised it was you Luna who shouted that" Alexander shook his head.
Jason had been right, when we arrived home Alexander had everyone gathered in his office ironically everyone but him looked pretty calm.
"I mean I'm surprised by myself honestly, it kind of just happened" I finally spoke.
"Alexander lets be honest it was going to be a surprise no matter how they did it" Joshua defended me.
"I agree with Joshua, and I know that's really damn rare but come on" Matthew walked over to stand beside Joshua.
"Is that how you all feel?" Alexander asked looking over the room.
Most people just shrugged and gave a slight smile.
"The fact that he isn't here, and he didn't run after her again makes me think he doesn't give a shit" Joshua pointed out.
"Cool, so I'm not worth shit?" Rickey snapped.
"Trust me that's better in a way- but I don't know, Luna do you have any calls from him or anything?"
I shook my head.
"How does he get a pass? Seriously?" Jason was rightfully upset.
He and I have been on guard since day one, Rickey just walked in and he didn't seem to fluster at all.
"I really don't know, I don't trust it that's for sure"
"Honestly, I feel like I have my head on the chopping block more than yours. . ." Jarred grumbled shifting his the leather chair as he sat in the corner.
Rickey gave him a confused look.
"Need I remind you how I fucking got here? And who I'm fucking?"
Rickey's eyes were quickly consumed by an inky black.
"I swear to god if he fucking gets hurt because of you!" Rickey marched towards him and Joshua stepped in the way.
"Relax, listen I can see his point- but somewhat probably just his ptsd talking- no offence it didn't work the first time though so I doubt he'd try it again anyway"
Joshua reminded them.
"Do you two need to be put in time out or something?" Jason grumbled.
"No, this fucker needs to realize he decided to get involved in all this, if you're so damn worried about him then you wouldn't have went for such a big fucking fish" Jarred snapped.
Rickey moved closer and Joshua grabbed him and Jarred stood up and Matthew quickly flashed beside him grabbing his shoulder.
"Can you chill on the damn testosterones seriously" I said moving in on them both.
Rickey looked over his shoulder at me his eyes softening.
Jarred shrugged Matthew's hand off.
"Fuck off, wouldn't be the first time we've beat the shit out of each other"
"Yes, and that's exactly why I said to cut it the fuck out" I snapped.
"At this rate, he won't need to do anything if you two kill each other" Alexander sighed.
He wasn't wrong.
"What were you two doing the past few hours anyway? I called you several times"
"Well they apparently decided to leave their phones in a different room while deciding to go make love in the other room" Jason muttered.
"Something like that" Rickey grumbled walking back over to me.
I glared at Rickey.
"I'm all for distractions normally but I really think this wasn't the time" Alexander interjected.
"I think our best option is to keep everyone here for the night, there's a meeting tomorrow anyway so I'm sure if he'll show up it'll be then" Joshua offered.
"He is coming. . ." I said quietly.
"Perfect, then it's settled."
Alexander clapped his hands together.
"Thank you Joshua"
"Umm and what about my brother?" Rickey asked.
"I'll get him" Jarred stood up straighter making his way to the door.
"I'll go with him" Joshua added.
But right before they were about to walk out Jarred had flashed into front of Rickey and punching him square in the face.
"That's for fucking assuming I don't give a shit about him"
My eyes widened. Seriously?
Rickey got a wicked grin on his face wiping the blood off his mouth before turning around trying to swing back at him but Joshua caught his arm.
"Alright Jarred, you had your fun lets go get him" Joshua sounded agitated.
Rickey yanked his arm away.
"Real nice" I said looking at Rickey.
"I don't know why you're acting like I threw the first punch"
He walked over to me with a pout.
"He even made me bleed"
I rolled my eyes taking his face into my hands grazing over the cut that was already healing.
"I think you'll be okay"
He leaned in for a kiss and I pulled my face back putting my finger on his lips.
"Don't even."
"Well, I think it's safe to say we won't be singing coom-bye-ah tonight in the living room" Jason laughed.
"Lets just go watch some movies or something" I shook my head.
☾☾☾
Everyone was sat down around the table and Zadicus cleared his throat drawing attention.
"So, I'll be the one to address the elephant in the room"
He pushed over a stack of papers towards me.
"We're not skipping this are we?"
I looked down and saw the prints outs of the photos from lastnight.
Oh boy.
I thought to myself.
He crossed his arms and Jason and I looked at each other.
"Well you're in this too so. . ." I dragged.
"We know that's not the thing here."
I gritted my teeth.
"So I have a boyfriend, Jason knows"
I shrugged pushing the papers away.
"I thought you and I were just meeting there?" He asked.
He didn't seem upset which shocked me and kind of disturbed me to be honest, but he just seemed rather curious.
"We were- I was just as shocked as you"
I didn't expect him to take it so well I know we had talked about a lot of things lastnight that made it seem like he was over things but still. . .
"So how long?"
"I uh- a few months"
His eyes didn't even widen.
"So . . . will there be four of you then?" Adriana asked in a small voice.
Zadicus shook his head.
"No, there's no need"
"Anything else?" Jason asked folding his hands in front of him on the table looking around the room.
Everyone shook their heads.
"Honestly, I think the three of us really only need to meet today, you all can leave"
Zadicus spoke.
Everyone nodded picking up their stuff.
"You seem pretty surprised" he looked at me.
Well yeah.
"Well you know. . ."
"I'm not gonna kill him" he chuckled.
I could only wince in response.
"I'm sure you can understand why she wouldn't trust that right?" Jason put his one hand on my thigh trying to comfort me rubbing it softly.
"Well you're still alive so" Zadicus pointed out.
And he wasn't wrong- either of them actually.
"Do you honestly think I should bother when the guy just sleeps around? Do I really have to worry?"
I didn't like that everyone had some bad opinion about him.
Zadicus looked at me.
"I'm sorry, but if we're going to be honest with each other" and he even looked somewhat apologetic.
"Have you gone over things with him?" he continued looking over to Jason.
He nodded.
"Strangely enough he just found out about the whole Crimson thing. . . so either he's really playing dumb or he doesn't give a shit about the throne."
Zadicus shook his head.
"I had someone make a file on him- I don't think he cares about anything if I were to continue to be honest, guess she really took from the bottom of the barrel"
"Excuse you, he treats me well thank you and does everyone have some sort of file on him but me?!"
I mean really come on, no wonder why he was so uncomfortable sometimes.
"I'm shocked you don't-"
"Correction she does, she's just the only one who hasn't read it" Alexander noted.
I glared at him and he gave me a small apologetic look.
"Well, regardless as long as we don't have to be bothered about a nuisance in that sense then"
"Can you not talk about him like that?" I snapped at Zadicus.
"What? Would you rather me talk to him instead?"
God no, please stay far away.
"Judging by your face, no" he pressed his lips together.
"So clearly this wasn't at all planned, or at least not the way you normally plan things. . . . should I be worried for my well being?" he raised an eyebrow at me.
"What? Afraid I'll rip out another organ? I'm fine, I just- well honestly I was just really thrown off guard and I couldn't think of an excuse or a lie"
He winced.
"Just as you had your worries I have had mine, trying to fix those things however. . ." he tapped his pen on the table.
"You being so polite and casual is quite unsettling alone" Jason admitted.
"Zadicus grinned over at him.
"Well I'm sure almost anything involving me would make you uncomfortable Jason, but believe me I am here to behave."
Jason's lips were pressed together so tight it almost looked like he was biting down on his tongue.
"So who should talk to the press about this?" Alexander asked trying to break the tension.
Zadicus sighed.
"It's tough to say really, I don't deal with it often but there are four parties involved which makes it tricky. . . from what I read before this they really just want to know who she's with and that's it, if that's the case I suppose just the two-three of them could make a statement."
He corrected himself.
I was really hoping this wouldn't be the case, I already played with this situation and luck too much.
"I'm not going to pry into the details- I just needed to know there weren't any changes in things were running without my consent." He shrugged.
"Without your consent?" I snorted.
"Yes, believe it or not if you recall you do still have me hold some power and a big change would require that we vote."
Christ I forgot about that. . . It was so long ago and since I never saw or heard from him until recently I forgot that Alexander used to go over with him the information and got his stamp of approval, Alexander never mentioned him declining anything I did so I forgot he was even a part of it.
"You're right"
"I let you run things because I know you have a good head on your shoulders- I will even admit so does Jason in that respect"
Jason's eyes widened like he couldn't believe the man that he had absolute hatred for- and equally shared complimented him instead.
"Don't look at me like that, you two were young and you didn't manage to run things into the ground, it's impressive if I were to be honest"
I was starting to feel overwhelmed with his compliments and I was started to feel even more uncomfrotable.
"We;; they have a great team to help them if I do say so myself" Alexander again trying to be the peacemaker.
"So I have seen; well I'm going to go home- if you run into any issues with the statement give me a call" he got up grabbing the papers off the table before flashing out the room.
"I think I would rather have him kill me then ever compliment me again"
Jason choked out.
"I don't think I have ever seen you two so uncomfortable" Alexander admitted.
"I- I really don't understand what's with him lately, you know lastnight he apologized and seemed to regret what he did? The way he threatened you also?"
They both looked at me like I was on fire or something.
"Are we talking about the same man here?"
I shook my head.
"I really have no idea what's going on, he just blamed it on age- somewhat our connection but more or less he's tired and old"
"You think he's dying?" Jason sounded almost too cheerful.
"May I remind you, that we too would die then?"
His mouth twisted into a face I couldn't quite read.
"That may be true. .. I guess that would be kind of bad. ."
"Sometimes you both are just as equally twisted"
Alexander chuckled.
"We learned from the best" I shrugged.
☾☾☾
"You really punched my brother in the face?! do you guys really need to fight like that?" Jeff and Jarred decided to join us in the living room before we met with Sasha.
Jeff and Rickey hadn't spoke since we left their apartment last night and apparently Jarred left out the reason as to why.
"Yeah well if the asshole wasn't being protected I would've hit him back" Rickey grumbled wrapping his arm around me as he pulled me more in the middle of him and Jason on the couch.
Jarred and Jeff were on the other couch across from us snuggled together.
I felt the couch shift and Jason's voice behind me as Sasha walked in her heels click on the floor,
"Behave yourselves" he muttered to Rickey and he just scoffed in response.
"I heard that" Jarred snapped.
"Thank you for letting me talk to you all about this today your majesty" she bowed her head.
"Well hey there beautiful, didn't know you'd be the one doing this" Rickey said with a smile.
I rolled my eyes as she blushed a bright red.
"Well, considering she was the only one who didn't show up the other night, seemed only fair" I was curious as to why so I figured I'd bait an answer.
"Well. . . given last time I thought I shouldn't unless you called on me- and you did so here I am of course"
"Well we're glad you're here" Jason said smiling.
She sat down in the chair next to the couch Jarred and Jeff were on and she looked over at them.
"Did you want to do it in this room with them or?"
I shrugged.
"Doesn't matter to us"
"What's wrong Sasha you don't want a repeat of the last time you and I were in a room together?" Jarred grinned and I scolded him.
He sleeps with everyone and Jeff cleared his throat and Jarred blinked and smiled at Jeff.
"Kidding of course"
Sasha was even redder as she fumbled with her recorder.
"Well, umm really the only thing I was going to ask is how big did you wanna go with this?" she eventually straightened herself out looking over to us.
I looked at Rickey then Jason.
"I mean. . . I'm with her, he knows- him and I are on good terms about it- she's still in love and married to him is there much else to say?" Rickey asked.
"Well, I'm not sure how much they explained to you, but really whatever they- umm the three of you? says goes so I'm just here to do whatever. . ."
"On clarification, he holds no position in the throne, but you can ask him whatever questions he chooses to answer otherwise" Jason explained.
She nodded then looked at me.
"They are indeed both correct. . . if you want to add the bit of how we met it was at the ball, other than that it seems like there weren't really any pressing questions unless you have more knowledge of that of course"
"From my investigating they were trying to see if you two were still together- and if not were you with one of them- when Alexander reached out he said that Zadicus left this to you both?"
I nodded.
"He did, though he did say if I needed anything or you did to feel free to ask"
Sasha knew almost as well as anyone not to pry into his head so I doubted she wanted to ask anything about him. No one with two braincells would want to.
"Do you know who even tipped them off? I was surprised they even did such a move in a human place like that. . ." I continued.
"Some girl who was behind you in line to get in said she saw you- she wasn't going to say anything but then she saw Zadicus and well"
"I hate people. . ." Rickey muttered putting his chin on my shoulder.
I felt Jason lightly hit Rickey on the shoulder behind my with his arm around me and I felt a low growl against my shoulder.
"Well, least I know it wasn't Zadicus I guess. . . would have been nice if they were a tad earlier and they crowded him instead." Jason added.
Sasha shrugged.
"Half of the job for us is trying to make it in time, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose"
"Yeah well, the turtle always wins" Jason pointed out.
"Yeah, but weirdly the bird gets the worm" Rickey commented.
"Yeah that is pretty weird. . ." I admitted.
Sasha giggled to herself covering her mouth.
"You three really do work well together don't you?"
"That we do" I shifted my head to kiss them both on the cheek and they smiled.
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