“I was trying to get a shot of some creepy old politician rumored to be picking up some high school girls and spotted you. I recognized Fenellere from the photos from Officer Curtis. He’s been trying to bring him down for ages, he’s been getting on my case about doing stakeout work for him,” Ronn said then snorted in derision. “There’s big money in that scoop but nothing if you can’t get a damn picture.” The editor spoke up when Aian didn’t reply as the raven head was still staring blankly at the photos, his mind racing. “I thought you said you weren’t investigating him when you turned down that tip off,” the editor commented, confusion in his voice. Aian finally looked up to him, his eyes wide, the color draining from his face. “I-I’m not- I just....” Enji picked out a photo where Kalvin clearly had an arm around Aian’s waist and gave a low whistle, eyebrows shooting up. “I never took you to be t

Aian waved off his guards and bounced up the steps to Brent’s apartment. He knocked on the door to announce his presence before just letting himself in and slipping his shoes off. A yell indicated that his friends must be in the lounge. As he made his way further inside, he discovered his two best friends on the couch. Sam lay spread across the couch with his head in Brent’s lap, arm thrown across his face, hiding it. “Hey guys! What’s up?” “Hey, Yanyan, Sam’s having an existential crisis,” Brent said with an exasperated smile. “Really? Why?” Brent laughed and poked his platonic twin flame on the shoulder. Sam groaned but otherwise didn’t respond. Aian took a seat on the floor in front of the couch and looked at Brent curiously. “So, what’s going on?” “I was kind of hoping you might have some advice for our poor confused friend here and I thought that a game nigh

Kalvin was fuming. Caleb had reported the incident between his twin flame and the police officer a few hours ago and he still couldn’t calm the anger surging through his veins. Aian had burned off his frustrations over the whole thing and was already tucked up at the penthouse for an afternoon nap. Unfortunately, Kalvin was held up at the office and unable to join his little lover. Even Aian finally treating the penthouse as a second home couldn’t lift his mood up. Even worse was that none of his contacts within the police could confirm if something was about to happen. He knew Officer Curtis and the man wouldn’t confront Aian unless they were about to make a move. Nevi was still on the loose as well. A heavy foreboding feeling sat in his gut. Aian had a last minute stakeout planned for tonight, having only just confirmed the location that morning. The warehouse l

A few moments earlier… It was a little unsettling having such a large escort. Aian had somehow gotten used to three people tailing him at all times but to suddenly double it? Six people felt like way too many. They were approaching the warehouses on foot and slowly, different people peeled off to take up their positions. Three maintained at the look out locations outside while three escorted Aian in to the building. The third guard accompanying the photographer inside disappeared off to the other side of the warehouse, leaving Aian with Caleb and a guard called Shawn to make their way to the unused second story walkway that ran along the warehouse walls. Shawn was one of Kalvin’s guards who had been originally assigned to his security team before they changed. He remembered the not quite a litany that the man had told him a little earlier. “Mr

The rest of the trip to wherever they were going was quiet. Nevi seemed lost in his own thoughts so Aian used the time to gauge his injuries. His right arm was handcuffed to the seat belt and other than some tenderness, it appeared to be okay. His left arm wasn’t so fortunate, though. It was clearly broken, part of his arm hanging limp at an unnatural angle. The break was in his forearm, a bit before his elbow. He must have landed on that arm during his fall. It hurt like hell. The pain radiated out from the break and seemed to crawl up his arm. Every bump in the road speared new pain through him in an agonizing jolt that had his eyes watering and he bit his lip to stop from crying out loud. Not the time to be a wuss about things now. Aian was dizzy and could barely feel the rest of his body. He wondered if he had hit his head during the fall too. He must have, surely. Especially considering he blacked out