Heartbreak hotel

Chapter 2

It took almost half an hour for everyone to gather at his house. Who cooked and who held dinner rotated daily, and today it was Alex and Nathaniel’s turn to cook, and they were also hosting today. Everyone had scattered around the living room, and while it was a decent size, having so many people inside made it seem all the smaller, and it made him feel claustrophobic, so he and Silas had sat near the sliding doors, which they had left open. Hence, the air from outside comes in.

“Wendy?” Luca asked, a frown on his face as he stared at his daughter. She looked up, some spaghetti dangling out of her mouth as she tilted her head. Ace, her brother, scowled as he caught sight of her.

“You eat like a pig,” he muttered. “Can you not eat normally?”

Wendy was about to say something, but Luca stopped her. “Please, swallow your food before you say something.”

She rolled her eyes, dramatically swallowing and going as far as to open her empty mouth to show her father before she turned to glare daggers at Ace, sitting with Gabriel, Eli’s son and Isaac, Gabe’s boyfriend, Silver Isaiah’s twin brother, and another of Luca’s children.

“I thought you had overtime,” Dai said, frowning as he stared at Sebastian. “You had the Daniel case to work on, along with the Henderson, Mohammed, Kobayashi and others?”

Sebastian scowled as he stabbed his meatball. “I did. Romeo locked my account before he left. I will get access to it tomorrow.”

Lucky snorted as he eyed his brother. “That sounds like something he would do.” Ash grinned as he stuck his thumbs up.

“What was he expecting? Working overtime thirteen days in a row, I’d like to sleep with my husband.”

She scrunched her face in distaste as a noise of disgust escaped her mouth. “God, I hope you mean sleep and not f**k. We don’t need to hear about your s*x life.”

Ash locked eyes with his daughter and wagged his eyebrows. “I mean fuck.”

She made a noise of disgust. “You’re a terrible person.”

“Bubbles loves me.”

“He has no choice but to love you. He married you,” she deadpanned, looking at her father in annoyance.

“And I remind him every night.”

“Oh,” Alex said, groaning. “Can you not in front of my child?”

“Bailey doesn’t even know what’s going on,” Ash said, waving his hand.

At the mention of his name, Bailey looked up from his phone. “Huh?”

Ash looked at Alex, the word ‘See?’ written on his face.

“I don’t care,” Alex snapped. “I don’t need any kids hearing about your s*x life.”

“I hear yours,” Julian muttered in annoyance as he wrapped his spaghetti around his fork. “The walls are thin, keep it down, Alex.” Silas snorted as Thea let out a laugh.

“Your kid is horrible,” Alex said, a scowl on his face as he threw a pillow at Julian, which Silas caught before it even hit him. He scowled at Alex as he dropped the pillow.

“Sorry, I’m late,” Erza said as she walked in, her hair done in a ponytail. Her heels clicked on the floor as she slipped from her red blazer. She found her wife in the pile and smiled as Megan moved over a little, and Erza took a seat, kissing her. “The meeting ran late.”

“You didn’t miss much,” Megan replied, smiling at her.

“What are we talking about?” she asked, taking her wife’s spoon and feeding herself a meatball.

“s*x lives,” Isaiah deadpanned, a scowl on his face. “More specifically, Uncle Alex and Uncle Nathan’s. And Uncle Ash and Uncle Sebastian's.”

Erza raised an eyebrow as she looked at the four men in question. “And why the f**k are we talking about your s*x lives in the middle of dinner?”

Sebastian scowled at his sister. “Don’t even start.”

“I’m just saying it’s not an appropriate dinner topic.”

“Oh, and how you killed four people with one of your knives?” Ash asked, scowling at his sister-in-law.

“It was a good kill. And the kids already know!”

“Well, they know we fuck.”

“We know, but we don’t want to hear it,” Wendy added as she looked up from her book.

“Or see it,” Julian added, shivers running down his spine as he had once been unfortunate enough to walk in on Ashton and Sebastian doing the deed.

“Oh, for the last time, we thought you were at school. You should have been at school,” Ash replied, furrowing his eyebrows.

“You should have been at work!” he replied.

“Bubbles didn’t want to do it at work,” Ash muttered.

“Can you not?” Gabriel said. “None of us want to hear about you f*****g. Or anyone f*****g. Can’t we talk about normal things?”

“Like what?” Eli asked, eyeing his son.

“I don’t know,” he said, throwing his hands in the air. “Like how your day went, or what you did?”

“I killed-”

“Don’t even start, Aunt Erza,” Gabriel interrupted, frowning at her.

“But you wanted to know how my day was,” she whined.

“Someone else, Uncle Luca, you’re the most sensible adult. You speak,” Gabriel said, pointing at Luca.

Luca, who had been put on the spot, looked around and rubbed the back of his neck. “I caught the car thief.”

Julian couldn’t help the smile on his face. He had a family. He had a loud and obnoxious family, but they were his. They had kept him, and they were friendly, and he had even been able to meet Silas again. This was perfect. He was happy. And he wouldn’t change a thing.

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