Brian slowly landed his bottom on the huge leather armchair, draped by solid gold around it with a piece of gem on top of its head. He glanced up to Addie in front of him who gave away a small chuckle, watching as he steadied himself on the throne. The throne room was empty now. A few guards would occasionally passed by but from the overrated look on this room, they can tell that it was only used for formal event or just for display.

“My king,” Addie bowed gracefully once Brian crossed his leg on the chair.

“You, come here.” He crooked a finger towards her, motioning for her to step further.

“Me, your majesty?” she gasped playfully.

“Yes you.”

She laughed a little and moved forward until she stopped right in front of him. He looked up to her face and swiftly grabbed her waist, making her fall on his lap with her hands wrapped around his neck. Her giggle echoed through the empty room but he immediately silenced her with a kiss.

“Can’t believe I’m making out with the king.”

Brian smirked and ran his tongue across her upper lip before he kissed it softly. “Addie, thank you for saving me once again.”

“Hey, you saved me remember?”

“Yeah but if it wasn’t for you I would have been dead by now.”

“No, Brian. If it wasn’t for you, the bullet will go straight to me.”

He laughed softly and planted a kiss on her cheek. “Alright, alright. We both saved each other.”

Then he took her lips again, deeper this time. He sighed into her mouth, completely forgotten that they were dirty as hell from the entire kidnapping situation and he was sitting in the king’s throne.

“Ehemm.” A voice suddenly interrupted with a cough making them flinched and drew apart quickly. A guard dressed as immaculate as ever, with both arms behind his back stood straight before them.

“Your Highness. May I show you your room?”

Brian and Addie exchanged looks and blushed. It was as if the guard was telling them to get a room. However they followed the guy until they reached to a hallway led to the balcony viewing the whole Cerician island and right in front of them; a great big white door with floral decoration engraved on it.

“This is the guest room. You will be staying here for now until the coronation day. May I remind you that in two hours you have a meeting with the Prime Minister of Netherlands and it will be held in the king’s office, Your Highness.”

“Uh, say that again? Me, meeting the Prime Minister? For what?”

“It’s just the monthly routine that the king does, Your Highness. Don’t worry, the king’s secretary will be there to assist you.”

Brian nodded and looked down to the floor. Never in a million years he would imagine being someone as important as this.

“And, you, milady. May I show you your room?” the guard addressed to Addie politely. She glanced at him and Brian in turns.

“Um, nevermind. She can stay with me. She’s my girlfriend.”

How fluttered her stomach felt, Addie can’t even begin to explain when Brian admitted that she’s his girlfriend in front of a stranger. Her face flushed in red as Brian wrapped his arm around her.

“Very well then. Have a good day.”

The guard bowed curtly and turned his heels away from them. Addie swung open the door and gasped quite loudly. The whole room was at least as big as her whole apartment, maybe a little bigger, with a four poster king sized bed in the middle, draped with silk fabric and lace hung all over it. The windows were stretched from the ceiling to the floor and the view displayed a far sight of the beach. There was a bathroom adjoined in the room and Addie couldn’t help but running towards it.

Brian smiled watching her immersed herself in the luxury of the room and suddenly remembered a few things his grandfather told him at the hospital before.

“Brian, half of Cericia island is yours, and half of it belonged to the people. I only gave the fortune to the firstborn son and you deserved it. But if you refused the throne I’m afraid it will be your brother’s fortune. I like you, son. I can feel that you can be a great king but I also understand if you don’t want to.”

Brian pursed his lips and stared at his grandfather blankly. Suddenly an idea came through his head.

“I have an idea. Why don’t Brent and I, we both become the king?”

The king frowned at him. “What are you implying?”

“We both run the kingdom, I can take care of the people part, and Brent can take care of the business.”

“Two kings in one kingdom? I’ve never heard of that tradition.”

“Well, isn’t it perfect to start a new one?”

Brian smiled to himself, wondering whether his brother was ready to be a king and pondered if he, himself too was responsible enough for it. He glanced around and noticed that Addie wasn’t with him.

“Addie?” he called.

“In here!” She answered from inside the bathroom. He paced towards there, and the first thing he saw was her body bending over a jacuzzi tub and running the water from the golden tap. She stood straight and turned to him.

“How cool is this, Brian? A fucking jacuzzi!”

He smiled and drew a few steps closer. Addie was still mumbling excitedly about the mirrors around the bathroom when he finally cupped her face with both hands and took her lips gently. He didn’t ask for her access yet, he’d rather let his tongue lingered around her lips before he tugged it with his teeth and received a full granted access from her. Her hands rose to his chest as he pulled her waist closer to his body, deepening the kiss.

He parted at once, catching his breath. “We have two hours. Arms up.”

He ordered and she obeyed. He pulled her shirt upwards until it was completely removed from her body, leaving her only in her lacy bra. Brian caught her lips again while his tattooed fingers began unclasping her bra. As soon as she was exposed on her upper torso, he glided down along with his mouth onto the scar on her stomach. He kissed it repeatedly with both hands kneading her breasts. He parted and looked up to her, his eyes filled with lust and love.

“You’re so beautiful, Addie.”

She smiled and went down to kiss him and they both stood up straight again. He trailed kisses down her neck while she fumbled with his belt buckle and unzipped his pants. Soon they were removed from all clothing and he led her into the jacuzzi with their fingers entangled around each other.

He settled her back on the jacuzzi wall and they already felt the streaming jet water rumbling from underneath, with their kiss never broken.

“Too hot?” Brian asked and she chuckled.

“The water or you?”

He laughed and bit the sweet spot on her neck only to cause her moaning his name aloud. His right hand pumping his own member as his lips found her erect nipple. Addie noticed that he needed attention too so she landed her hands on his chest and pushed him back softly.

“The water’s okay, but you’re just too hot for me.” she stated while crawling on top of him, finding his smirking lips first. Brian settled down in the water as he watched Addie took his member in her hands and started pumping for him. He grunted when she took him fully in her mouth.

“Woah, Addie. Gently.”

Slowly her head bobbed up and down, sucking and grazing her teeth along the way, making him rolled his eyes to the back of his head in a complete bliss. He felt the friction coming but then he stopped her.

“Stop, baby. I don’t want to end it just yet.”

Addie pulled away and wiped her mouth before he dipped in the water and spread her legs apart. “Now let me take care of you.”

She gasped and bit her lip as she felt the tip of his tongue touched her there underwater. He slid his tongue in and out skillfully that she wondered how the hell did he breathe?

“Oh God, Brian..fuck..”

She bucked her hips in the same rhythm as he penetrated his tongue inside her and at times he would rise on the surface to gasp for air.

“How..do…you breathe…oh!”

Brian went up and smirked, catching her lips in sloppy kisses. “Do you remember how long I’ve held my breath underwater, when we were at my backyard?”

Addie blinked at him in surprise. “So, that has always been your talent?”

“One of my best besides these fingers.” He held up his MARLBORO tattooed fingers and wiggled them, making her laugh. He ran those talented fingers in her wet locks and caressed her cheeks with them, making droplets of water fell onto her chest.

They stared into each other’s eyes for the longest time, both trying to confide their feelings after all that happened in their complicated relationship.

“I love you, Brian.”

She finally said those words after months and weeks of fighting with herself. His lips broke into a slow wide grin as he kissed her deeply, his hand snaked behind her neck, pulling her closer.

“I love you too, Addie.”

---

She checked her perfect appearance in the mirror once again and felt satisfied at once. Her white strapless gown draped across her white skin, with laces of floral designs heavily studded on the bottom part, letting them dragged against the floor. Her golden blonde hair was up in a loose curl as her makeup was a perfect with the flowers she held in her hands. In just mere hours, she would be Mrs Haner, the woman that can conquer the infamous Brian Haner Jr’s life and all of his fortune.

A smirk appeared across her lips, and flashed back in her reflection. That suicide attempt was not going in vain because it got Brian to finally agree in marrying her. And she was assured by her inside man that she wouldn’t get caught poisoning her assassin. She was tempted to laugh but when Val came in with River in her hand, she held it back, biting her lips.

“Hey, you’re ready? Wow, you look beautiful.”

“Aww thanks Val. So do you.”

They hugged and she spun Valary around in her dark green-colored bridesmaid’s dress. Val was her maid of honor so she had an extra special design on her dress. Everything in this wedding was designated by the world renown people; her dress was from Vera Wang, the bridesmaid dressed were designed by Armani Couture, her shoes were from Jimmy Choo and the wedding planner was the best in town that she could get.

And she paid it all using Brian’s money.

Valary can’t help but felt a little tinge in her heart, as she saw that her twin sister hasn’t changed a bit. But it was a once in a lifetime event so why the hell not.

“Has Brian arrived yet?” Michelle asked, breaking the idle thoughts in Valary’s head.

“I dunno. Might be.”

Suddenly Lacey and Gena came through the room, quite panicking. Both Valary and Michelle turned their heads to them. They were dressed in the bridesmaid dark green dresses too.

“Chelle! Brian is not here yet. We’ve been looking everywhere, his house, the studio, everywhere. No sign of him!”

“WHAT?! WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!” Michelle raged, slamming her bouquet of carnation on the floor making the petals shattered and flew.

“We..we..tried to call him. Johnny and I..but..it went straight to his voicemail.”

“THIS IS FUCKING UNBELIEVABLE. I DON’T CARE WHAT YOU DO, JUST FUCKING FIND HIM!”

Lacey and Gena looked taken aback by the sudden rampage from Michelle. They hadn’t seen her this way before. She was always the calm and collected, even when she found out that Brian was cheating on her countless times before. But nevertheless, they went away from the room to look for their significant other.

“Don’t you think you’ve gone too far, Chelle? It’s not their fault!”

“Val, don’t even start. Or I might just strangle you to death.”

---

He breathed into my neck, making me giggled and squirmed underneath the silky sheets. My mind was still fighting about whether I should tell him about Michelle or not. How is he going to take it? But the way he handled me making me easily forget about everything.

“Maybe we should stay here forever.” He started again, his voice drowning as he mumbled on my skin. We’d just spent an hour making love in the tub and dragged the romance onto this bed and now he won’t get up from pinning me down with his naked body.

I ran my fingers on the tattoos on his arm as he planted small kisses on my upper breasts. He looked weary but I couldn’t believe how he kept up his stamina after all that chaotic scene we experienced earlier.

“We can’t just run from the real world, Brian.”

He tilted his head up, resting his stubbly chin on my chest. “Why not?”

“You of all people, belonged to the world. You have your friends and your fans. You can’t just ditch them.”

He let out a deep sigh before a knock on the door appeared. “Who is it?” he hailed.

“Your suit, your Highness.”

“My what?” he whispered to me.

“Your suit, Brian. They want you to wear a suit.”

Yeah of course. He will be meeting the Prime minister of Netherlands for fuck’s sake. You can’t possibly be expecting him to wear his cutoff tshirt revealing his tattoos can you?

Brian pulled away from me and quickly put on his boxers and tshirt before heading towards the big door. He conversed with the guard for a bit before returning back to me, his hand holding a pair of black suit with white crisp linen shirt.

“Wow, fancy.”

“Shit, and to think that today is actually my wedding day.” He joked but my face accidentally fell. Not because I felt jealous or anything, it was because I really think I should tell him about Michelle.

“Brian,”

“Don’t worry baby. I don’t want to marry her anyway. It’s just a pity that I felt for her. As a friend.”

“No, Brian listen.” I took his hand and brought him closer on the bed. “I’m glad you’re not marring her anymore. She’s actually…a criminal.”

Brian stunned in his seat and blinked at me. After a few baffled moments he suddenly let out a laugh. What is so funny about that?

“A criminal? Michelle? What did she do? Stepped on a roach or something?”

I rolled my eyes. Brian clearly doesn’t know of what she’s capable of.

“Come on Addie, if you’re really that jealous, I’m flattered but there’s no need to call her a criminal.”

Fuck, he doesn’t believe me!

“Brian, she really is a criminal. She tried to kill us. Both of us.”

He stopped laughing and looked sternly at me. “You mean all of this shit, all this throne crap was all planned by her? She kidnapped us here? And she’s probably here with us?”

“Um, no, that’s not what I-”

“Then what, Addie?” he burst. I was stunned, my head completely blank of what to say next. He threw the suit on the bed and landed both of his hand on his hips. His eyes, gazing sharp at me as though he wanted to eat me.

“I know I’ve been so indecisive with you and I’m sorry for that, really. But Michelle used to be my best friend. I already feel guilty for ditching her and causing her to kill herself but, a criminal, Addie? Give me a fucking break!”

I took a deep breath. A long, long deep breath.

“Brian, I need you to carefully listen and don’t freak out. That night when she gave you the letter, I saw her on the security cam at your house. I was working on the prison assassination case after that and I saw the very same figure on the prison cam on the same date. What is she doing there? I mean, does she have any relative in prison?”

Brian rubbed his face and it was turning into red. I know he was angry. And this time around he didn’t even want to be near me. His feet forfeited as he shook his head in denial.

“How do you know it was her? Do you have a clear view?”

“Yes.”

“No. This is just bullshit, Addie. If you want someone to blame, blame me! What did she ever do to you?”

I was starting to get annoyed by the fact that I can easily cry whenever I’m with him. What’s wrong with my cycle of emotion nowadays? And right now I’m crying because the one guy I love doesn’t believe me.

“I’m gonna take a shower. And go be a king. When I come back, I don’t want to hear any of this shit again, you got me?”

I wiped the tears on my cheeks and stared at him. He was still waiting for my answer but I refused to nod. I needed to tell him the truth and now I had no proof! Damn it. When he saw that nothing came out of my mouth, he just stormed to the bathroom and seconds later I heard the water running. Yep. That was my cue. He doesn’t want me there when he comes back from the meeting. I get it.

I thanked God that I didn’t have any suitcases with me so I just dressed myself properly and went out of the room. As soon as I opened the door, there was a guard standing in front of it, but his back was facing me.

“Excuse me.”

He turned. “Yes, my lady?” Gosh, are all Cerician people this polite or what?

“Um, I just wanted to ask if I can use a phone?”

“You certainly may. It’s downstairs.” Then I saw he pressed the button on his earpiece and spoke something in Dutch. After a few nods, he looked back at me. “You will be escorted in just a minute.”

“Thank you.”

I walked along the hallway, admiring the paintings on the wall when moments later I saw Brian came out from the room, wearing his suit and his hair slicked back revealing his forehead. My God he looked hot. But he also looked angry and disappointed. He threw a glance at me once, his emotions were dead, and I felt my heart sank. The guard insisted him to walk on and I turned away. I can’t watch his back leaving me with this hanging situation between us. I mean, does he have feelings for Michelle? Why would he be angry at me?

“Baby, I’m sorry. I don’t mean to raise my voice at you. It’s okay, I believe you.”

He wrapped his arms around my waist and started kissing my neck. I turned around in his circle of arms and quickly found his brown eyes staring me down.

“I love you Brian.”

“Um, miss?

My eyes bolted open. The first thing I saw was a painting in front of me. I glanced to my side. Shit, Brian wasn’t there. I was daydreaming? So that means he was still angry at me!

“Miss..?”

The voice called again. I spun around and flinched too see a guard was standing behind me, with his curtly bow and his immaculate uniform.

“Yeah?”

“You wanted to use the phone?”

“Oh, yes.”

“Follow me then.”

Notes

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